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Hoddy

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  1. Kids Play Centres. Everytime I take my little girl to play, I actively engage with her by going on the slides, climb the frames and generally ensure she's safe or not causing any mischief. Always, always there are little kids on their lonesome crying out for attention and if you give them any they will follow you like the plague. Now Its not the kids fault that their parents would rather sit gossiping or reading a paper with a brew than pay their child any attention. You then have the paid child minders who bring their herd of work (3 or more kids) and let them run riot whilst they play on their phones, these lazy bitches get paid about 40 per child and sit on their arses doing fuck all, If I was one of the childs parents and realised how little these bitches did I would fuck them off pronto.

     

    Couldn't have said it better myself. I follow my kid around too, basically for the same reason you've just said: to make sure he doesn't do anything he's not supposed to. So after every time my kid goes for a toy or a slide another child's playing with - and I warn him that's not really his - he then looks at me and wonders why no-one's telling off the child who's then stealing toys and slides off him. Because it's not my child, I don't want to say anything. But to see the look my kid gives me when this happens, it breaks my fucking heart. And the parents/carers/life-givers are absolutely nowhere to be seen. One of these days if it happens again I'm probably gonna go postal and end up pile-driving one of the fuckers. All because the parents see playcentres as some sort of communal babysitting service. I honestly don't believe some people deserve to be parents.

  2. She's becomes a prostitute and comes to buy fags from the fat fella who watches Marlo's stash in season 4 too.

     

    That's Richard Price's daughter (he's a novellist who also wrote a few episodes, and also appeared in Season 2 as the guy running DeAngelo's book sessions).

     

    Something else I've noticed whilst going through the 5 series. How Rawls' career progresses nearly every season.

     

    1 - he's working as a Major in Homicide

    2 - he's become Colonel

    3 - Deputy Ops by the time the season begins

    4 - Deputy Ops, but making a play for Commissioner

    5 - he's Acting Commissioner for a time, then State Superindendent by the time the series ends.

     

    Rawls - "As ruthless a fuck as there is in the department"

  3. I reckon about 10% of the people who watch and play football understand most of the laws.

     

    I played against a player in our 5aside Powerleague the other week who - and I shit you not - thought a direct free-kick meant you HAD to shoot on goal. The goon.

     

    The worst thing was he was a decent player too. Just an absolute braindead.

  4. Loads of rumours from Meltzer that a lot of midcarders are still pissed and may be planning something that the WWE aren't aware of.

     

    How he knows yet the WWE don't, I do not know but he is reliable.

     

    Or, this is a great work.

     

    Without knowing anything about the rumours, I would say 'work'.

     

    Still, part of me hopes - for the sake of the business - it's true. WWE needs a massive kick up the arse right now.

     

    Until they change the way 'Creative' works though, it won't happen. It's been a slippery slope ever since Stephanie McMahon was put in charge.

  5. "You take the piss out of Jolson again, and I will remove your iPod from its tiny nano sheath and push it up your cock! And then I'll plug some speakers up your arse and put it on shuffle with my fucking fist! And every time I hear something that I don't like, which will be every time that something comes on, I will skip to the next track by crushing YOUR balls!"

     

    This was absolute fucking genius.

  6. Is it right the series wasn't going to feature the president originally, just his staff? But Sheen was too good to be a bit-part?

     

    When Sorkin first conceived of it, it was going to focus on the President's staff - with Josh and Sam the main characters (who, speaking of which, were originally cast the other way round. Can you imagine?). At this point, the audience were always just going to miss seeing the President, or only catch the back of his head. But it was decided - rightly, in my opinion - that this would be too hokey.

     

    So they looked around for a President, and I believe, funnily enough, that Alan Alda was one of those considered, until they cast Martin Sheen. The plan at this point was that the President would only feature in 20% of the episodes. Not sure whether this means of each episode, or just 20% of the series (as Stockard Channing does as First Lady). But then, as you allude to, Sheen just came in and blew the roof off the White House, and they knew - probably from his opening line ("I am the Lord our God...") - that he just had to be in the main cast.

     

    On a related note, I'm almost certain that CCH Pounder - Claudette in The Shield - was originally cast as CJ. Until Alison Janney auditioned and they changed their minds.

  7. You can tell how bog average Hansen has become, because you could Quantum Leap into his life and nobody would have a fucking clue.

     

     

    "Lionel Messi is a phenomenal player".

     

    "Two banks of four".

     

    Job done, give me my wages.

     

    There was a comment back in the first game of the tournament, which alerted me to just how cliched and lazy Hansen has become.

     

    Dixon was trying to make a valid tactical analysis of how Poland had allowed 10-man Greece to get back into a game in which they should have been dead and buried. It was an interesting point, the type of which you don't often see on, well, any coverage in this country.

     

    Then Hansen butted in with the platitudes, "Goals, sendings off, drama, great game. What more could you want?"

     

    How about some fucking analysis - you know - the type which people like us are actually paying for.

     

    It really hits home just how shite and monotonous the supposed 'analysis' is of English football when you watch pundits in other sports, such as tennis. Former players giving proper tactical analysis, offering an insight into both the physical and psychological trappings of the game. Football coverage in this country reflects its national side. Banal, unimaginative tabloid pish.

  8. 'The West Wing' was an odd one in that it actually went against the zeitgeist towards the end of Sorkin's run. The first two seasons were extraordinary television, quite light and positive in tone, but then 9/11 hit and no-one wanted to watch a show about a president with MS and quite localised issues. If you go back and watch the 3rd series - during which the attacks take place - you can actually see the change in tone take place. The jovial music of the pilot is gone, and the issues are much more serious and global. It was still a great show mind, but nowhere near on the level of Sorkin's first two series.

     

    Then it fell off a cliff when he left at the end of Series 4. 5 was an abomination and, though it rebounded somewhat in Series 6 and 7 - mainly due to the infusion of the new election candidate characters - it still fucked up a lot of the characters Sorkin had spent 4 seasons carefully crafting.

  9. his speech about team work is fucking boss, think its in the 9/11 special

     

    one of my faves if not my fave

     

    It's not the 9/11 special (which was unusually awful by the way), but it was fucking ace.

     

    I also agree with Stu about them messing up his character the last two seasons. He's not the only one either; a lot of older characters got thrown off-kilter by the way they were written in Seasons 6 and 7.

  10. Agree with those who've said the film is better than the TV series. The first series is decent, but nothing more than that in my opinion. There are times it's very good, but other times it's not much more than The OC with a bit of American football (which becomes even more rare as the series progresses). The adults are the best thing in it, and Connie Britton is hot. But it's not go-out-of-your-way-to-watch TV.

     

    Like I said, the film is better (as good as Kyle Chandler is as the series' coach, Billy Bob Thornton rules the film), and the original novel - from which both film and TV drama evolved - is even more interesting.

  11. That stadium shot is bonkers, stopped it and watched the whole scene again, I was blown away

     

    I know. I'm not usually one to salivate over directorial aspects of films, but that whole sequence is amazing. From the monologue before it all the way through and all over the stadium. Ace.

  12. He's obviously got some sort of agenda when it comes to Terry (similar to the fawning, nauseous one he used to have with Lampard). I read Samuel quite a bit and, while there are times he's a good writer with some salient points, he's also one of the most blinkered, biased, agenda-driven cunts out there. Going back to his work on The Times, I remember him defending Terry the day after the Moscow Champions League final, when it was obvious to most that he'd spat on Tevez and called him an 'Argie c*nt'. Any quick Google search on 'Martin Samuel and John Terry' would show the number of defensive articles he's written on the blimp-headed motherfucker.

     

    He's also a hypocritical cunt too. I remember him writing a negative piece on Liverpool fans' hasty judgement of Roy Hodgson, around the same he was using his newspaper column to lambast Avram Grant's time at West Ham (Samuel's a West Ham fan you see). Obviously ok for him to do it, but not us.

  13. If somebody more able than me can find it, there's a passage in Graham Poll's autobiography that suggests Terry was worried that he'd sent him off during that game for something more than just gobbing off. He visited Poll's dressing room after the game to clarify why he'd been sent off. The implication was that he was worried it was for racist abuse.

  14. Just been watching this on DVD; is there anyone who thinks this isn't the best out of the four series? I'd be very surprised if so. For me, this one had it all: the characters were fully-formed, the actors were all in their perfect roles (even Rik Mayall's Flashheart is fucking ace), each episode is top-notch, and the similes are as funny as anything in British comedy history.

     

    Anyone else agree?

  15. They love the fact he is a winner, but the character of the man, even most diehard mancs would acknowledge leaves a lot to be desired.

     

    I have two Manc-supporting mates. Admittedly both are fair-minded football fans, however:

     

    Both think he's an awesome manager (don't think that's in dispute anyway)

    1 admits he's a cunt

    The other will never forgive him for speaking out against some fans in their protests to the Glazers

  16. I watched the first few but found I was essentially watching a programme without and tension as I knew what was coming, although I believe the eventual murderer is different! I will go back to it though.

     

    This is exactly how I felt. The fact so many scenes were framed (and soundtracked) the same as the original completely took me out of the drama.

     

    In fact, you know what it reminded me of? Does anyone remember, in the 'Scream 2', there was a film based on the first 'Scream' - stab I think it was called... this reminded me of that.

  17. ''You're Shit Ahhhhh'' when a lower league team plays in the FA Cup 1st Round when a keeper takes a Goalkick on one of those games the godawful Mark Bright is a co-commentator on.

     

    You got there before me mate. It just screams small-time.

  18. If people didn't buy it they they would change their ways or it wouldn't exist. I think I hit a nerve with some of the dead heads who obviously read it.

     

    But papers are doing this purely because people AREN'T buying as many newspapers these days. Which shows the less papers people buy, the more nefarious 'journalists' are becoming to secure bigger stories. Which runs contrary to the argument above.

     

    People will - rightly or wrongly (but basically wrongly) - always buy tabloids, purely out of habit for many. Just cos it's something they do. Whether we like it or not, and personally I don't, it's disingenuous to blame an individual for people hacking into a dead girl's phone. Do you think the reader really wanted the paper to do this? Really?

  19. Couldn't help but notice this bit:

     

     

    In 2000, a United fan had the first ticker banner made up which he displayed on the Stretford End before turning his back on the club in 2005 following the Glazer takeover - and taking his banner with him.

     

    Soon after, Stretford End Flags was formed to create eye-catching banners and crowd mosaic displays at Old Trafford.

     

    So, 'soon after' 2005, when we were all over TV - and Europe - with flags and banners of our own, they set up a fucking group to create eye-catching banners?

     

    Maybe I'm paranoid, but this looks like a 'that looks cool, let's copy what they're doing' job to me.

  20. I love it, even if it does go a bit schmaltzy now and again. I was gutted they canned it when they did. They'd finally found their post-Sorkin feet and managed to renew the whole show before promptly calling it quits.

     

    I agree they found their feet Paul, but they only did this in my opinion because of the election, and the new characters that brought with it. The show was floundering badly before this, going for bigger and bigger storylines (i.e. the Palestine-Israel summit) in favour of the nuanced plots Sorkin seemed able to wring out (i.e. an episode on the census). They also did a lot of damage to long-term characters: Donna and C.J. turned into heartless non-feeling dullards; Toby went from a grizzled pessimist with a heart to just plain depressing; and the way they treated the Bartlett-Leo relationship around the time of that Gaza-themed summit was nowhere near consistent with how Sorkin had portrayed them.

     

    The election - and with it Santos and Vinick - brought a new zest to the show after a pretty poor Season 5 and start to Season 6. However, I can't help but feel it would have started sucking once the new president (in case someone on this thread doesn't know) got inaugurated and the show started focusing solely on the White House again. It was the right time to go, in my opinion.

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