thaibeachlovers

About flippin' time. If it's good enough for a man to travel half way around the world to invade Britain in a leaky boat, than it's good enough for the lazy IN Britain to get off the couch and go find a job.

Don't members of the criminal fraternity favour hoodies? Can we expect a rash of such messages on their hoodies in the future? Will the messaging work? I hope the Met will arrest anyone that commits a crime, regardless of the criminal's ethnicity or any messages they may write on them.

Since when was that an excuse for paying criminals to illegally enter a country? If they want to have a better life they do what I did, get qualifications for a job that needs immigrants the legal way. I spent many years gaining the qualifications that the Saudis needed to employ me legally. I didn't pay gangsters to put me on a leaky boat to Saudi, despite having nothing they needed to employ me, and then expecting a better life to be dropped in my lap.

Bunch of numpties, IMO. Anyone with half a brain cell knows that the battle against illegal immigrants can only be won if they know they won't be able to stay in the desirable country. As long as they think they have a chance they will pay criminals to get them to the desired destination. Australia stopped the boats by not allowing any to stay in Australia. Trump had been winning with his stay in Mexico policy and the wall would have completed the job. If they couldn't cross the border likely they would have stayed home or gone elsewhere. The present fiasco is entirely of Biden's making, IMO

That has to be a classic, even for you. He never ran because the Dems sabotaged him, knife in the back and all that, and who did they do it for, why that woman, who lost to Trump of all people. Any half decent candidate would likely have outvoted Trump two to one after his pussy tape fiasco. I was astonished that he won despite that. I underestimated how much US citizens loath Washington and the elites.

Are the Dems just super slow when it comes to making political court cases, or are they so desperate that they'll clutch at any straw in hopes of it being the one to bring the Donald down. What a pack of dozy numptys.

I see the propaganda machine is working overtime. Clear as mud to me. It's just as likely that it's revenge attacks by Putin for the drone strikes on Russian soil.

It could all stop tomorrow if Zelensky called it quits, and called up Putin to arrange negotations. How many more Ukrainians have to die because he wanted to fight the bear. Would Zelensky have agreed to fight a real bear twice his size with a gun that had no bullets and half a knife?

The poster that you quoted seems to have a very simplistic view of Zionism. There is a bit more to it than just wanting a homeland. I'm sure that it's possible to agree that israel should exist within the 1948 borders without wanting to ethnically cleanse the original inhabitants.

Isn't it so funny, haha, that the US seems to have forgotten all about that law. Perhaps someone told Biden about it but he "forgot".

Gee, Mr Putin should take lessons from netanyahu as how to avoid sanctions then. Does it involve writing a polite letter to whom it may concern saying sorry for breaking all those international laws , and he'll do better in future?

Do tell us how they adhere to international law when it's blindingly obvious that they don't.

Is israel going to have to repay the US taxpayer for their help, or is it a "gift" to a nation that has been claimed to be wealthy in it's own right? I believe the US made the UK pay back the money it was given by the US in WW2. The 1% thank the US taxpayer for helping out with the petty cash. Those missiles for israel ain't cheap.

The tv series ran longer than the actual war! If one watches series 1 it was far more cruel in it's humour, like the movie, than in later series when it became much more "gentle" Getting rid of Hot Lip's squeeze was just the start of making it a kinder series. After he went there wasn't anyone left to hate.

For a moment I thought Wendy was Sally field. I was a great fan of Field in Gidget, but I thought the nun series was daft. Again, a petite woman.

No offense taken. I like em petite, and I guess I was always destined to marry a Thai woman that barely came up to my shoulder.

They made much of the fact that Barry Lyndon was lit only by candles. Other than that I remember nothing of it. I certainly remember Dr Strangelove. Who could ever forget Slim Pickens riding the bomb that would destroy the world, waving his hat as he descended to oblivion. Of course, the movie that made Kubrick was 2001. To this day I do not understand what the <deleted> he was thinking when he made the journey through time or whatever it was at the end. Perhaps he just liked the pretty patterns. The rest of the movie was memorable, but none as memorable as the opening scene set to Strauss's 'Sunrise' theme.

Nah. The wild Bunch made Peckinpah and was the best one he made. I kept expecting a repeat of it in his after movies but they always left me disappointed.

I guess we vary in our liking of women then. She left me indifferent, but Wendy Padbury ( one of Dr Who's assistants back when the series was made in black and white ) really stirred my hormones.

I don't know how many films I have watched that I have afterwards read a critic's opinion of and wondered what the <deleted> they were on about. I think they just like to justify their jobs by writing a load of cobblers about movies. The one I quoted fits that category. Perhaps people that rarely see movies see things in them that I was oblivious to, but most movies are just entertainment for me, not some great social event. I have seen a great many movies in my life, and only ever saw one so bad that I had to walk out of it ( badly made, not about bad things ). Out of Africa won loads of Oscars, but I thought it very average.

You are. The Wild Bunch was art, while Straw Dogs was just another movie- well made, but nothing special. I did like the part when someone ( I presume Hoffman ) dropped the big trap on the bad guy's head ( Oliver Reed's I hope ). It's always great when a bad guy gets what s/he deserves, and it's only in movies that that happens. Sadly, some woke person decided to remove the slow motion bullets erupting in an explosion of blood from The Wild Bunch DVD, which rendered it just another western, though really well made, if a trifle long. However, the ballet of death at the end will never be equaled, IMO. It was longer when I saw it first, but after removing the slow motion part it wasn't very long at all.

I doubt any of the "young" even know what Straw Dogs refers to. Apparently they like Barbie movies. In any event the stuff they watch like Iron Man and Guardians of the Galaxy is just rubbish with great special effects. I've sat through enough of them to know. In the end they became so <deleted> I didn't bother any more. Superman vs Batman 5555555555555 LOL. You never watched any torture porn like "Saw" or "I want to spit on your grave" then. Of course actors would do it if they needed the money, but audiences are too soft and woke now, so I doubt any producer would allow it.

When the present is <deleted> and the future will be worse, there is nowhere else to take refuge but in the past.

It wasn't mindless, and she deserved it. I guess no one that has not served would understand it, but it's part a reaction to a war lover, and part reaction to a bully, and partly to a realisation that war is insane and the only way to beat it is by becoming hardened to the insanity. War does produce great humour, The goon show was created by people that served in the insanity. Perhaps there is no real humour in media today because so few of us now have lived through a real war. If not for the laugh track would we know where to laugh?

This was the original, and mistaken, interpretation by many when the film was first released. I didn't realise that woke existed even back then. Bit sad. I didn't even think that scene was a big deal. Yet, they could care less about the violence and tragedies of real life around them. So very, very true. Where are the demonstrations supporting the people of Burma against their fascist military? Nowhere to be seen. Sudan? Not happening. Tibet? Likewise. Hong Kong. No, nothing at all. The sheeple only care about what they are instructed to care about by their "influencers" ( what a truly vile word that has become ).