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The Fist and the Furious
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Cannae believe that neither John Butler or Gary McVie have rated much of a mention here. McVie was outstandingly bad
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I am slightly worried by just how keen some folks are to see the end of what has become something of a North Bank institution. I'll be a nonentity again if it goes, as opposed to "the bearded guy hanging around the baldy loony who shouts at empty seats".
On the other hand the £40 here and £10 pledged in work amount to a handsome dividend for a few minutes work. What to do ?
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What's this I'm hearing about a change of image and a charity shaving for SMISA?
Could be all change in the Bajan house after my forthcoming midseason break ? Think I could definitely raise 40 or maybe even 50p for SMISA/blackandwhitearmy.com if it was to go.
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Just for the record SID, Dan Petic and I are not the same chap (although he does have a point to a certain extent).
Dan, whatever you might think of Bill Lees' personal opinions he is a pretty fair mod (along with the other chaps) when it comes to that. The one with the "ma baw" attitude is your baldy webmaster.
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3. Nice beard Bajansaint, very trendy
Aye Sid, you'll not hear that in Paisley but when I go somewhere hip and trendy, like Erskine or Pollok I hear it all the time. You know it makes sense.
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Nope, but 'Panic' by the Smiths is a decent tune.
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Nah - that's Withnail & I - according to one rather aggressive contributor on here now and again.
Isn't that the point ? You've a subjective view of it which is that you don't like it. A few other people have another equally subjective view of it which is that they do like it. You never will understand why this is the case, and although it is possible to analyse objectively the elements that make Shawshank a pretty good film, it's also possible to do the same for those elements which arguably make it a bad film. Thus it is with all forms of art. Better just to accept it and move on.
P.S. There's sometimes a load to be said for steaming sentimental rubbish.
Glad to see some acceptance of Withnail & I finally permeating your posts. Better late than never.
AND I AM NOT UFCKING AGGRESSIVE YOU PIRCK
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Elegaic
nebulous
innate
Whoops, sorry. Thought it was the best words used by Bill Lees in a patronising manner. My apologies.
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Since it's slighty pointless to argue about whether one person's subjective point of view about a piece of art is more valid than another's, I suggest we draw this to a close, Mr. Bajan Saint, flattered as I am to have provoked you into featuring me on your signature.
Be flattered if you wish Mr Lees. I will point out that the last subject of my signature was Collin Samuel. If being compared to him is flattering you need to have a long hard think about the direction your life is taking
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If we're mentioning poor footie sayings, then the worst of all at the moment is "he'll be disappointed with that". Not appropriate when Greg Shields has just scored the own goal of a lifetime Sandy!!
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I was - about you missing it. And it looks like you've done it again.
Christ. I didn't realise you were actually making a point for anyone to miss behind all the ridiculous bluster and typical pedantry
"The elegiac tone of the picture overall is superb". What planet are you actually on ? You missed your vocation writing for the TLS I think. Or perhaps not.
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And it's not intended to be "big or clever" - talk about missing the point.........
In true Bill Lees style pedantry, who was talking about missing the point ?
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Yes, it has cult status, which means there will always be detractors who consider it "vastly over-rated", but that particular criticism is almost meaningless, in my view.
"Battleship Potemkin ? Vastly over-rated...."
I would argue that saying something is "vastly overrated" is not a criticism of the film itself. Rather, it is a criticism of a generation of students and would-be fops who find the idea of Richard E Grant getting pissed in the country extremely funny.
Simply using the word "c**t" in a film is neither big nor clever and frankly, it is about the level ofa 14 year old. THAT, Bill is a criticism.
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Some more gems :
"Monty, you terrible c**t !"
Hmmm. Piece of genius right enough. Typically crap line from the most overrated film of all time. Could've been written by a wee guy called Ricky from the Barras.
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Ian Brown was an absolute shambles supporting the Manics at the SECC. His cover of Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal/Billy Jean (which was it ?) was one of the worst covers I have ever heard.
Best for me:
Blur - Mile End stadium, 1995
Hothouse Flowers - Barrowland, 1991
U2 - Parkhead, Christ knows what year
Kevin McDermott Orchestra - 1990
Manics - SECC, last year
Other than the Manics, I reckon the years are a bit hazy.
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1. Of course I was thinking about you darling
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I'm not too sure what point the bigot was trying to make but I was a big FGH fan in the 80's and also enjoy some Pet Shop Boys and Erasure. And David Gray's cover of Marc Almonds Say Hello Wave Goodbye was excellent.
Sid, I am never sure what point that bigoted knob is trying to make - he seems also to have some kind of hang up against homosexual or camp artistes. That is simply unacceptable - where would we be without some of those guys ? That bloke is just a bigoted homophobe.
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Not being funny, but do you have any American connections? Just your defence of it is untypically vigourous for you man, and yer normally ice cool on here.
TL, no US connections at all - just think the average American punter is not as stereotypically thick and vapid as we cynical Brits like to think. And, like SN1F, I just thin the anthem is uplifting - but the Superbowl one was pish - in keeping with the game itself...
TL - thanks for the ice cool shout - might consider changing my name...
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The Scar Strangled Banner is the most pompous and arrogant piece of tosh ever to be committed to the ear drums. Land of the free, is it? Home of the brave? Yeah, it's free as long as you say what everyone else wants and you don't upset the status quo. As for home of the brave well it was before all the white blokes turned up and slaughtered them. America the Beautiful? Who says the Yanks don't get irony?
What a f**king surprise. Someone with typically anti-American bias hates the Star Spangled Banner. Land of the free - what do you expect - "Land of the extra large sweatshirt and double cheeseburger". Of course not - every national anthem has something included to lift the populace up. If this means that the native Americans don't like it, then tough shit. Sung by 50,000 New Yorkers, it is a hair raising spiritual experience - I have been involved in nothing like this and that includes Scotland at 2 World Cups and countless other sportinge events.
I don't know if there is an easier target than the American national anthem, but there probably is not. Still a suggestion that the American people do not get irony is pretty original. Well done. Never heard that before.
Might be tough to sing but it will lift its people up like nothing else. Trust me, I know.
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1. Is it not about time they brought Fernandez on for Larsson ?
2. That new contract has fair calmed Martin O'Neill down.
3. I've nothing but absolute respect for Maurice Johnston.
4. Great outfit Div.
5. Can I buy a trenchcoat just like yours TL ?
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I honestly think the Star Spangled Banner is a cracking anthem - interms of rousing your own punters it is magnificent. When sung by a group (choir or something it is superb). Only problem is that we generally get to see Mariah/Whitney/some other screamer murdering it. No doubt that will happen at the Superbowl this weekend.
Apparently the version sung by Meadow Soprano in New York last month was excellent. She's no screamer...except when she is with me
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SID, the Manics were quite rightly mentioned earlier. Why no mention of the Kevin McDermott Orchestra ? ;) ;)
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I take it you're going to post that pish on any open thread buddygreat ? Nice one.
