Poll: Thatcher; Old Nick or St Peter ?

[ASC1951]

How should we honour her? Let’s privatise her funeral. Put it out to competitive tender and accept the cheapest bid. It’s what she would have wanted.”
Director Ken Loach On The Death Of Margaret Thatcher

Nail. Head.

As in "If someone put a nail through Ken Loach's head, it would be the first new thing in there for 40 years". And he has been an irrelevance for the last 20 of them.

 

[Haitch]

And he [Ken Loach] has been an irrelevance for the last 20 of them.

Go and watch The Angels' Share, the best feel-good film to come out last year.

 

[Chris S]

Excerpt form a Department for Work and Pensions letter to the Thatcher household
"... we regret to inform you that due to recent events you now have too many bedrooms."

 

[yello]

As in "If someone put a nail through Ken Loach's head, it would be the first new thing in there for 40 years". And he has been an irrelevance for the last 20 of them.

Harsh. Admittedly, he has favourite themes but personally I don't think non mainstream = irrelevant.

 

[ASC1951]

Harsh. Admittedly, [Ken Loach] has favourite themes but personally I don't think non mainstream = irrelevant.

I'm a devoted watcher of non-mainstream films. But I go to the cinema to be entertained, puzzled, mystified, surprised or moved. I don't go there to be repeatedly whacked over the head by a didact who is using the same cudgel that he has had all his adult life.

 

[Haitch]

I'm a devoted watcher of non-mainstream films. But I go to the cinema to be entertained, puzzled, mystified, surprised or moved. I don't go there to be repeatedly whacked over the head by a didact who is using the same cudgel that he has had all his adult life.

Then go and watch The Angels' Share, the best feel-good film to come out last year

 

[numbnuts]

Having lived through the Thatcher years and I find this very distasteful.

 

[yello]

Having lived through the Thatcher years and I find this very distasteful.

What's distasteful? I'm none the wiser! 'Having lived through the Thatcher years' is the start of a sentence that could end with pledging love or hate!

 

[yello]

Btw, fair point ASC1951. One can feel brow beaten by repetition.

 

[Haitch]

Btw, fair point ASC1951. One can feel brow beaten by repetition.

Sorry.

 

[yello]

Sorry.

Why?

 

[Haitch]

Why?

Repetition (and probably deviation) of

Go and watch The Angels' Share, the best feel-good film to come out last year

Your turn, no hesitation now.

 

[yello]

I'll come back to you on that one.... in just a minute

 

[ASC1951]

Then go and watch The Angels' Share, the best feel-good film to come out last year

I decided I would rather gnaw my own feet off. And the best film in that category by a long way was Les Intouchables
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/?ref_=sr_1

 

[Haitch]

I decided I would rather gnaw my own feet off. And the best film in that category by a long way was Les Intouchables
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/?ref_=sr_1

Nah, runs out of steam 30 minutes in. Besides was released the year before. Amour was better. Once you've got your pins bandaged, hobble off to see Angels' Share and you'll skip home as happy as a puppy licking an ice cream.