sayjann

The Road

 

A post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means possible.

 

 

Not sure about this one. Well made I suppose but fairly depressing throughout.

Hangover 2.

i knew this was set in Thailand and borrowed it from my visiting American cousin.

i knew it would be a purile American film aimed at American teenagers and i was not disappointed.

did'nt really find it funny but it had a couple of scenes which made me chuckle.

it did'nt really seem to show much of how Thailand looks apart from the few shots of Bangkok and Phang-Nga.

Indeed.

Who needs to act when you look like that?

The Road Home.......Chinese film from 1999/2000.

such a sad story but finally uplifting in the end.

reminds me a little of the adventures of Coss as the protaganists in his story and the film never manage to get together for a long time.

and i cry everytime i watch it,such a sad and then happy film.

A young lady in the maternity ward just prior to labour is asked by the midwife if she would like her husband to be present at the birth.

 

"I afraid I don't have a husband" she replied "O.K. Do you have a boyfriend?" asks the Midwife.

 

"No, no boyfriend either."

 

"Do you have a partner then?"

 

"No, I`m not attached, I'll be having my baby on my own."

 

After the birth the midwife again speaks to the young woman.

 

"You have a healthy bouncing baby girl, but I must warn you before you see her that the baby is black."

 

"Well," replies the girl, "I was very down on my luck, with no money and nowhere to live, and so I accepted a job in a porn film. The lead man was black."

 

"Oh, I`m very sorry," says the midwife, "that’s really none of my business and I'm sorry that I have to ask you these awkward questions but I must also tell you that the baby has blonde hair."

 

"Well yes," the girl again replies, "you see the co-star in the movie was this Swedish guy."

 

"Oh, I`m sorry," the midwife repeats, "that’s really none of my business either and I hate to pry further but your baby also has slanted Eyes."

 

"Yes," continues the girl, "there was a little Chinese man also in the movie, I really had no choice."

 

At this, the midwife again apologizes, collects the baby and presents her to the girl, who immediately proceeds to give the baby a slap on the butt.

 

The baby starts crying and the mother exclaims, "Thank god for that!"

 

"What do you mean?" says the midwife, shocked.

 

"Well," says the girl extremely relieved, "I had this horrible feeling that she was going to bark".

not a joke by myself just a true story about my ex-wife.

she was a midwife and helped delivered at about the time Rock Hudson died.

the grandmothers fave actor of all time was Rock Hudson and the babies mother decided to call the baby Rock.

my ex and others finally persuaded the mother not to call the baby Rock.

after all her surname was SALMON......

I am actually, just not with them!

too young for you?......

tou hoping for a 3some next time you get back to Scotland?

I used to spend a week in Thurso every summer when I was younger and fished for trout in Caithness's many lochs with my uncle.

 

Love the coastline from Thurso to Cape Wrath, especially when the Pentland Firth is a bit wild.

i remember driving from John 'o' Groats to Cape Wrath,well as near as you can get.

wonderful scenary and one of those roads you don't see another car/person for a long time.

i love the drive through Glencoe but the best road has to be from Edinburgh to Inverness....A9?

i always enjoyed cruising up the road at m leisure and met some interesting people.

i remember once seeing what i presumed was an RAF harrier flying around and kind of stalking me,coming up behind me and just following me and then peeling off.

i assumed the plane was on a training mission and practising locking onto a target.

certainly unnerved me for a while and i had to pull off the road.

but now i look back and find it rather funny.

went to Scotland for a week with my uncle and his american friend who beforehand had never seen the sea.

we hired a car and just drove all over the place but the american absolutely loved Plockton and the surroundin area.

i like Plockton and have spent many happy days there.

Loved this picture of Ben A'an that was posted on the BBC (Scotland page).

 

 

Ben A'an is one of the most popular amongst Scotland's smaller hills. Often known as the mountain in miniature, its position at the heart of the Trossachs makes it a truly wonderful viewpoint.

i loved my trips to Scotland in the 90'.

based in Edinburgh and would spend time travelling the country.

i used to normally miss the trossachs as i was normally headed northwards to my favourite places.

but i have a vague memory of spending time on a boat trip along Loch(lake) Katrine?.

i'm sure you will correct mr if i am wrong....

but i've always preferred the highlands and the scenary which i loved.

i liked the west coast the best and have many happy memories of places like Plockton and the Isle of Skye.

but the Orkney Islands were way above my league.

what a fantastic place to visit.

Reminds me of this old chestnut, apologies if it has been posted before.

 

At the end of the tax year, the Tax Office sent an inspector to audit the books of a Synagogue.

 

While he was checking the books he turned to the Rabbi and said, ‘I notice you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with the candle drippings?’

 

‘Good question,’ noted the Rabbi. ‘We save them up and send them back to the candle makers, and every now and then they send us a free box of candles.’

 

‘Oh,’ replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer.

 

But on he went, in his obnoxious way: ‘What about all these bread-wafer purchases? What do you do with the crumbs?’

 

‘Ah, yes,’ replied the Rabbi, realising that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. ‘We collect them and send them back to the manufacturers, and every now and then they send us a free box of bread-wafers.’

 

‘I see,’ replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all Rabbi. ‘Well, Rabbi,’ he went on, ‘what do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?’

 

‘Here, too, we do not waste,’ answered the Rabbi.

 

‘What we do is save all the foreskins and send them to the Tax Office, and about once a year they send us a complete dick.’

once again i like it.....

will have to tell that joke within earshot of a jewish fella who i know and is the original dick.

An elderly Scottish Jew has decided to take it a little easier and take up golf. So he puts his name down at the local club.

 

After a week he receives a message that his application has been turned down. So he goes down to the club to enquire why.

 

Secretary: You are aware that this is a Scottish golf club?

 

Scot: Aye but I am as Scottish as you are Jock.

 

Secretary: This means that on formal occasions we wear kilts.

 

Scot: Aye, so do I.

 

Secretary: You are aware that we wear nothing under our kilts?

 

Scot: Aye, neither do I.

 

Secretary: But you are a Jew?

 

Scot: Aye, I be that.

 

Secretary: So you are circumcised?

 

Scot: Aye, I be that too.

 

Secretary: I am terribly sorry, but the members just would not feel comfortable with that.

 

Scot: Ach, away with ya man. I know that you have to be a Protestant to march with the Orangemen. And I know that you have to be a Catholic to become a Knight of Saint Columbus. But this is the first time I heard that you have to be a complete prick to join a golf club.

as the thai's say...........i like....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i021HwxAyfw&feature=share

good link flash....

reminds of the restaurant in londons chinatown.

'lee ho fuks' is the name and name-dropped in the late,great warren zevons song 'werewolves of london'.

have a photo of myself and friends in front of it somewhere....

Sorry, wrong movie... she's still worth a look though.

not a film but a musical.

read a comic book version of les miserables before i was a teenager and i read the book at a young age.

i was entranced by the book and class it among 2 of the best novels written.

i have seen the stage show many times and never fail to cry at the story and the songs sung.

went to london this week and saw it again and was spellbound as usual.

watched a tv programme about the show last night and just sat on my bed with tears in my eyes as they told the story............brilliant.

Agreed, in the looks department they are definitely a class above the average Scots lass.

This explains the large number of cheerful Scotsmen to be found in places like Pattaya and Angeles city.

agreed,i've definately seen worse.....

sorry mr.munchmaster if the truth hurts

No not a myth. The Hawes Inn, dating from the 17th century, features in Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kidnapped.

had a feeling it was R.L.Stevenson and i seem to remember much memrobilia in the pub.

i liked it there and a nice place for a pint in the evening..

Sayjann, the Forth Bridge is the rail bridge whereas the one you drive over is called the Forth Road Bridge (which may have to be replaced).

 

The Queensferry Inn you refer to is I suspect The Hawes Inn which is the furthest away white building in the picture below. Had a few pints in there myself.

 

yes i know the rail bridge is the FORTH bridge,but you know what i mean about my comments.

the pub i'm thinking of is probably the one you posted the photo of but i've never seen it from that view and it was normally dark when we got there.

it's many years since i've been there but i have a vague memory of it being associated to a scottish writer.

maybe RLS? and some of the writers most famous works were partly written there?.

or maybe a myth?.

The Forth Bridge (rail bridge) is my favourite structure in the world but every time I've been home for the past ten years it's been covered in scaffolding and protective sheeting, like this

 

 

thus making taking pics of it fairly pointless, but now it's all over it will look like this again

 

 

so I'll be paying it a visit in the summer.

 

 

Forth Bridge painting completed

 

 

The painting of the Forth Bridge has finally been completed and the structure is now scaffold-free for the first time in a decade.

 

The repair and repainting project to paint the rail bridge took 10 years and cost £130m.

 

It has been claimed it will not now need another paint job for at least 25 years. New techniques and products have been are behind the project's success.

 

A 400-strong team applied a triple layer of new glass flake epoxy paint.

 

It creates a chemical bond to provide a virtually impenetrable layer to protect the bridge's steel work from the weather.

 

The project, delivered by Network Rail and main contractor Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering, involved encasing the bridge in up to 4,000 tonnes of scaffolding, painting over 230,000sqm of steel and all 6.5 million rivets in the structure.

 

Over the life of the project more than 1,500 people worked on the structure, with up to 400 people a day on the bridge at the height of the refurbishment works.

 

A 400-strong team applied a triple layer of new glass flake epoxy paint David Simpson, Network Rail route managing director for Scotland, said: "The completion of this refurbishment will safeguard the future of one of the country's most famous landmarks.

 

 

"Repainting the bridge has long been considered one of the world's never-ending tasks, and the refurbishment programme we have just completed has been one of the biggest engineering challenges Network Rail has faced.

 

"Our staff and contractors can take real pride in their achievements on this project, not least in the fact that through their efforts this amazing structure will remain free of major maintenance work for at least two decades."

 

The bridge, which was built between 1883 and 1890, is 1.5 miles long.

 

The track is about 150ft (45m) above the water level and the bridge reaches 330ft (100m) at the tops of the towers.

 

The steel structure contains more than 6.5 million rivets.

i like the forth bridge.

have driven over it many times and crossed on the train bridge a couple of times.

i've always liked the scenary around the firth of forth and have spent a few balmy nights out in the queensferry inn?.

Every young person should hear this story. Older folks can really be such inspirations to our youth!

thanks julian....i

Kansas City Bomber...

I missed this, I used to do serious rollerskating for a while as well.

Not a bad movie with Raquel Welch in her prime.

plan 9 from outer space..

claimed to be the worst film ever released and while i think it's up there,it is so wonderful.

ed wood was a genius is my eyes.

totally off his head in his film making days/personnal life but his films are great viewing for cringe value.

the tim burton/johnny depp film is so wonderful as well.

Not really a film but I just downloaded the HBO series "Game of Thrones".

Sort of a "Lord Of The Rings" with tits and bums... and very nice tits and bums at that.

I've got the first four books they were based on as well in eBook format but I'll read them later so as not to spoil the film.

bought the series on DVD while in LOS.

got it more for my mum as we have to pay for it in the UK.

watched the 1st 2 episodes and found it confusing,too many characters and i just lost track of the story.

Watched the original Star Wars trilogy last week. The first one is 34 years old and still a great watch.

 

bought the whole series of films in thailand recently.

know the original films from years ago but decided to see the whole series from begging to end.

bummer as the the 2nd film stops with 10 minutes to go..........

but found out the end of the film on the web.

but will watch the entire series from where i left off and hopefully enjoy after many decades.

 

just watched 'dirty harry'.

very dated but a great film.

the 2 monologues of 'this is a magnum 44,the most powerful handgun in the world/have i fired 5 or 6 shots/do you feel lucky punk' is iconic.

just seen this news.

when i was growing up he seemed to be on tv all the time.

certainly a colourful character and led an interesting life.

despite his tv persona he raised many millions of £ for charity with his fundraising and was well received by many people of note.

at my age now i would not be keen on watching him but as a child he was fun.

 

RIP sir Jimmy.....

flamboyant as ever is our Jim.

his coffin will be laid on the bar in his favourite hostelry so that people can pay their respects.

followed by a funeral procession to his burial site.

and he will be buried upright with him facing the sea which he loved......

what he wished and a lovely send-off....

@ Steve - Ali used to go on about how "I hate my white blood. It is the blood of rapists." In fact, Ali's great grandfather was a poor Irish immigrant who settled in Kentucky a few years after the Civil War and MARRIED a freed slave. Ali was light skinned because he was 1/8th Irish. Nobody had raped anybody. That was pure BS. Also, he used to spout the Nation of Islam nonsense about Allah creating black people, and an evil scientist named Yacoob creating white folks, who would rule for 2,000 years - after which they would be destroyed. I remember older white folks ranting and raving about Ali, wishing every calamity you can think of on him. I can see black kids thinking he was cool, but he certainly pissed off the older generations.

never a boxing fan,but i grew up admiring his generation in the ring.

i remember as a 13/14 y.o. some of the highlights of my year was going to watch the big fights at a rich persons house.

they had a swimming pool and after a big meal we all sat down to watch the fights.

i remember the fights against Ali with fading memory but a great day out.

the house where we watched the fights had a mynah bird which would replicate the doorbell/telephone at various times but i remember it would imitate the ring of the ringside bell during the fights.

great memories.

Just watched White Elephant starring Kevin Bacon .

 

This movie is set in Bangkok ..a few shots outside Dollhouse and the entrance to Soi Cowboy early on in the movie....fast paced and lots of action ..

watched 'air america'last night.

i know a whimsical film featuring 2 of the bigger stars of the day(mel gibson and robert downey jr.) and i imagine people from that era will slag it off as crap and totally unrealistic.

but who knows if things shown in the film are sorta true?.

i treat it as a fun film to watch and just enjoy the fantasy,

little scenes of ladies dancing and a few language phrases i understood.

just a good way to spend a couple of hours and not think too much.

A gay 15 y.o. boy is bullied and is beaten up by a kid at school. The bully got a 3 day suspension. The mom wants criminarl assault charges brought up. Look at the video and decide if its typical HS bullying and a 3 day suspension is adequate or is it assault?

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/video-shows-bully-attacking-15-old-gay-student-184016355.html

it's assault and seems planned.

3 day suspension?,i'd string the barstard up......

i wonder if the police were called in or wether it was dealt in-house?

anyone who treated a relative of mine like that would soon be taught a lesson outside the law and then let the law prove anything without video evidence............

Jimmy Savile has now left this planet My link

just seen this news.

when i was growing up he seemed to be on tv all the time.

certainly a colourful character and led an interesting life.

despite his tv persona he raised many millions of £ for charity with his fundraising and was well received by many people of note.

at my age now i would not be keen on watching him but as a child he was fun.

RIP sir Jimmy.....