Detournement

The SNP raised £600,000 saying it would be ring fenced for an independence campaign. Then they only had £90,000 and can explain where the ring fenced money was spent.

They also have a compulsion to steal women's suitcases from airports.

You see a man go on TV who has 3 legitimate kids and 2 b*****ds. He says the world is over populated. You see a man go on TV who travels by helicopter and private jet. He says the world needs to reduce carbon emissions. You come to conclusion that they don't believe they are superior to anyone else. You bend over too fast and your one brain cell falls out your nose.

We obviously don't what it will cost but it would obviously be cheaper to make it a common utility rather than a private commodity. If it was private then it would be a monopoly on a scale never seen before.

It depends. If the technology is world wide and China (sensibly) decides that the state bearing the cost of a resource that is essentially infinite is the most efficient course of action then other countries will have to do the same. It's like water in Scotland. There's so much of it compared to what we need that there is no point metering it.

Maori males have life expectancy 8 years shorter than white males in New Zealand. I'm sure the WEF manager there will maintain the gap, snout or no snout.

That makes more sense. I was thinking the Saudi who requested her must have been a kinky b*****d.

China and the Gulf Nations agree a partnership then a few days later Washington DC claims they have effectively invented unlimited energy. Great timing.

GIven that they have all been hookers for nearly a decade and must practice a lot I don't see how it can be down to that. It's being a bottle merchant rather than what position they played as a teenager.

He's taking the heat onto himself so that the stuff about William having twins with Rose Hanbury doesn't get too much traction.

@carpetmonster What's this from?

Half Moon Street (1986) At the height of her fame after Aliens Sigourney Weaver decided to make a weird film where she plays an International Relations PHD working at a Middle East think tank in London who decides to become a high class escort to rich Arabs and Brits because she's a bit skint. She has multiple scenes where she's naked with the guy who played Porkpie in Desmonds. She bangs a young Vincent Lindon. The main plot line involves her falling for her client Michael Caine, playing the least posh peer in British history until MIchelle Mone appeared on the scene. There is a plot line about negotiating peace between Israel and the Arab nations which doesn't make much sense and must have been butchered in the editing room to avoid offending anyone so most of the film is Sigourney cheerfully brassing it including a scene where she is being photographed riding an exercise bike topless. I watched it because some I follow pointed out that Kubrick references it a couple of times in Eyes Wide Shut presumably because it's very overt about shadowy elites and prostitution. When I was googling about the movie I discovered that Sigourney met the king of Saudi Arabia at the White House the year before this was made. Because the Saudi delegation are all male Ronald Reagan's staff invited Sigourney, Rita Moreno (Carla from Cheers) and Linda Gray (Sue Ellen from Dallas) to make up the numbers. Trump was obviously there as well. She looks so comfortable here. The Pope Of Greenwich Village (1984) Mickey Rourke is an aspiring restaurant manager in Little Italy who has pulled 20/10 aerobics teacher Daryl Hannah but gets dragged down by his idiot cousin played by Eric Roberts. There's lots of good gritty 80s NYC stuff and there's a focus on the Italian culture in that part of the city that wouldn't exist for too long after the film was made. Daryl Hannah obviously represents gentrification and is counter balanced by some of the ugliest men to ever appear on film representing the real NYC. There is the guy who played Baron Harroken in Lynch's Dune, the guy who played the racist cop from Blade Runner and Burt Young who played Paulie in the Rocky movies and Bobby's Da in Sopranos. I also spotted Carmine and Phil from Sopranos. It's a good watch where the comedy and drama both hit the mark. Daryl Hannah or idiot cousin? What would you do? Decision To Leave (2022) A Korean cop gets involved with a Chinese woman whose husband's death he is investigating. Amazing acting, design and cinematography but the plot fell a bit short but maybe there might be a few things I didn't pick up properly. It's inspired by Vertigo but the lead actor doesn't have the same creepy vibe as Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo who was a stone cold pervert whereas the main character here probably just needs a holiday. It's strange to say that every scene seemed brilliant but it added up to less than the sum of it's parts.

As Todd said they have all switched to doing deliveries of parcels and takeaways. The costs are lower and it's far less hassle than having to deal with passengers especially at night.

Aye you wouldn't want to watch anything interesting.

Aye you get the impression watching it that the shoot was so intense that they tapped into some of the insanity of the conquistador era. I like it when historical films and novels try to create a pre modern mentality rather than the characters feeling like they are contemporary people wearing old time clothes. The opening scene coming over the mountain is an all time great. Without much dialogue you get so much about the slavery, racism and how alien the Europeans are.

Rambo is miles away from playing for Scotland again. I wanted to see the ruck on the goal line after Hoyland's tackle because it looked like the Sarries player was offside when he made the tackle but surprise, surprise no replay. The counter ruck after the drop out was a joke and probably rattled Edinburgh.

Itoje just ran into the back of Ritchie off the ball crashing him in Vellacot. The ref ignored it and the w****r commentators are giggling about Maro.

Only if you want to make Martin Scorsese greet. I've been loving the World Cup but i'm looking forward to getting back into some serious film watching during the upcoming freezing miserable months.

Crosbie needs to be involved with Scotland.

A great start from Edinburgh.

@coprolite That's true but none of that was due to the 70s/80s state it was down to the demands of workers post WW2. Just the same way that the NHS has heehaw to do with Cameron/May/Johnson/Sunak. There is a straight line from Thatcher to where we are today.

I had to Google him yesterday. 100 games for Sale then signed for Worcester before they went burst. Then up here to cover Darge and Gordon's injuries. I see that Darcy could be struggling to make the 6N which is baws.

On Eddie Jones... At the time I thought there was no way Marcus Smith chose to end the NZ game at 25-25 without instruction from the sideline. Danny Care has said doesn't 'think' it was his decision. I bet Eddie would play to the death now if he had another chance.

Was the back row not Mann plus Ryan Wilson and the ex Sale guy?

When I was in the gym the other day I heard a guy complaining he couldn't get an appointment at Ross Hall because they are taking too many NHS patients. We are through the looking glass. Wes's plan is classic neoliberalism. They don't want to create a real marketplace for private health care. It'll be like the trains and energy companies where profits are private, losses are covered by the state and the government can intervene to make sure that public anger never gets too out of hand.