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    The Last Film You Saw....

    in Film & Television

    Posted

    Watched the Sunshine DVD last night, not bad.

     

    Is that the Danny Boyle one with Cillian Murphy? I thought it was fantastic, a highly underrated film in my opinion.

     

    Yes that's it.

    Did not receive the praise it should have.

    Now what I think is a superb film is Dust Devil - old film - 1993 - but the uncut version really is worth watching.

    A bit graphic in parts but not needlessly gratuitous.

    Known as a cult movie but underated I feel.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Devil_%281993_film%29

    Just watching it now.

    Best Of Youtube

    in The Internets Finest Hour

    Posted

    Our three intrepid characters go on a time travelling adventure after their fridge is struck by lightening and turns into a time machine. Cow, Pirate and Cyclist first find themselves in Cleopatra's bathroom before slaying a dragon with St. George. Once again Cravendale saves the day!

     

    Wonderful stuff.

    Manx Nationalism Is Worrying

    in General Chat

    Posted

    work is itself demeaning when you have to rent yourself. To have to rent yourself to do menial work and therefore have your survival and productive life rest on not using your mind is about as lacking in self respect as you get. Not that people have a choice but to take up such work. Others as you mention no doubt recognise the lack of value and meaningfulness in such work and understandably cop out. Can't say I blame them. Either way you being stupid, just depends on whether you choose to do nothing and be stupid or work hard at being stupid.

     

    Menial tasks have to be undertaken in society. But for people to spend most of their working day, day in day out to just sustain their lives is a waste of life.

    There is of course always the option of actually doing something as opposed to talking about it. Lead by example, destroy the system etc

    Manx Nationalism Is Worrying

    in General Chat

    Posted

    To change the Isle of Man so that long standing ties are almost completely severed would indeed be revolutionary. However there is no doubt that our relationship to the UK is changing in a way which would appear to be very unfair, indeed brutal from the island's point of view. A 25% reduction of income could be catastrophic. The ending of the reciprocal health agreement will be very distressing to individuals who are less well off and those with serious medical conditions as well as to the population at large living on this island and those who wish to visit us for whatever reason. The effect on what some see as an alternative to the finance sector i.e. the tourist industry could be ruinous.

     

    The main point I would wish to make is that the young people who are passionate about the island and who want to see it standing more on its three legs do need to be cherished and should be aware of all the arguments so that their enthusiasm

    and efforts will be for the good of our people whom I regard as all the residents not just a small sector with vested interests.

     

    Let them talk to a wide assortment of people and then they can make their minds up on what is possible as we stand at the cross roads of where we should go for justice, fairness and the general well being of our small island nation.

     

    The simple fact is that the IOM was trousering money it wasn't actually earning.

    Were the government not aware of that?

    I suspect they were and they knew it was an imbalance in their favour.

     

    The health agreement seems to be a reaction to overcharging elsewhere.

    All simple business decisions based on the figures.

     

    The tourist industry will never be what it once was and as a cogent alternative to the FS is a non starter now.

     

    What is apparent now and should have been understood for a good few years is that the present set up is a bloated leech that has grown on the backs of the good times and ruled by self interest. Pockets have been well and truly lined and money frittered away on grandiose projects and ego trips.

     

    As for young people, usually ignored and then patronised occasionally.

    Yes good luck to the 'novus ordo' but meaningful practical proposals are needed not empty rhetoric.

    When that happens, I'm sure many will support them in clearing away the dross.

     

    It needs doing.

    Manx Nationalism Is Worrying

    in General Chat

    Posted

    On the subject of the UK government, I do feel that our wise leaders ( using both words wryly ) here should firmly do away with any notion that a change to a Conservative government will result in a second halcyon golden age.

    It won't

    Given the IMF, OECD etc view on offshore finance, if the UK goes out to scupper the Island's international position as it has scuppered our domestic relationship with it then the Island will be in for a major economic shock which will wreck its future.

    Agreed. Finance is, by virtue of recent events, a global concern to be met with unified global regulation. The days of the small loose cannon is coming to an end. If not an end, a cul de sac.

     

    Kersal as regards your concerns, whilst I do understand your points and they are valid, the 'nationalist' movement - mec vannin and their fellow bandwagon travellers are unlikely to be ever in a position to do anything.

    Painting slogans and making speeches yes, competently running the island in the 21st century no.

     

    I just hope you and your fellow professionals will realise that, alarming though it may seem to many, it's not likely to be a major issue here.

     

    Of greater concern should be the way the present bunch are 'governing'.

    I say governing - a better description might be clutching/clinging wide eyed and impotently to the tiller as the good ship IOM is tossed around on the sea of world events.

     

    There may well be merit in CHs suggestion re Scotland.

    China's Politics And Stuff

    in International News

    Posted

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle6969061.ece

     

    China executes more people than the rest of the world combined. The exact number of those put to death each year is a state secret, but there is no doubt that the authorities regard capital punishment as an important deterrent.

     

    more than 100 executions are carried out every month. Amnesty International said that 1,718 people were executed in 2008 — almost certainly a partial figure since many cases are never publicly reported.

     

    At present 68 crimes carry the death penalty in China, including killing a panda, tax fraud, rape, smuggling and corruption.

     

    "there is no doubt that the authorities regard capital punishment as an important deterrent"

     

    And to my mind, an important tool of repression.

    China's Politics And Stuff

    in International News

    Posted

    China is once again showing its repressive side.

    Once again?

    Tibet since the 1950 invasion.

    And of course Tiananmen.

    To name but two instances in a long catalogue of repression

     

    Still there's always a place for people who don't care who they do business with as long as there's possible profit.

     

    http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Sam-Barks-i...form.5715449.jp

     

    The 19-year-old was joined by Chief Minister Tony Brown MHK, Trade and Industry Minister David Cretney MHK and director of the Isle of Man Ship Registry Dick Welsh, who also met with Chinese government officials and business leaders during the visit.

     

    I expect human rights was top of the agenda.

     

    Giving them the Olympic Games lost any chance of making them change their ways.

    What was the excuse, some crap about helping democracy?

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-oly...na-democracy.do

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