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Brandy and Cigars MkII

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    #542
    stupidusername
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    pfft n00b.


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    #543
    D'Agger
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    stupidusername wrote: »
    pfft n00b.
    Quality > Quantity :pac:


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    #544
    ToxicPaddy
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    stupidusername wrote: »
    pfft n00b.

    yes I have a life.. sorry about that.. :pac:


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    #545
    ToxicPaddy
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    PaulieC wrote: »
    Quality > Quantity :pac:

    Why thank you Paulie.. :D


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    #546
    stupidusername
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    PaulieC wrote: »
    Quality > Quantity :pac:

    you'd have to be a stalker to know the quality of mine. :cool:
    ToxicPaddy wrote: »
    yes I have a life.. sorry about that.. :pac:

    some home truths right there.


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    #547
    D'Agger
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    ToxicPaddy wrote: »
    Why thank you Paulie.. :D
    If I overtake you on post count I'll take SUN's side :D


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    #548
    ToxicPaddy
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    stupidusername wrote: »
    some home truths right there.

    For you? Yes, sorry to be so brutal about it, but they say you have to be cruel to be kind.. :p


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    #549
    stupidusername
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    ToxicPaddy wrote: »
    For you? Yes, sorry to be so brutal about it, but they say you have to be cruel to be kind.. :p

    too cruel tp


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    #550
    ToxicPaddy
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    stupidusername wrote: »
    too cruel tp

    I'm sorry, we will have to get you away from that keyboard and out into the big bad world to show you around. Dont be afraid, we dont bite unless you want us too :pac:


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    #551
    KyussBishop
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    parker kent wrote: »
    Reading Mark Kermode's new book, some good stuff. There was an extract in The Observer on Sunday if anybody wants to read why blockbusters don't have to be braindead pieces of crap.
    Ah yea spotted that myself, article was quite an interesting read all right. On a similar topic, stumbled across and downl....'got' this documentary to watch later, which seems like it may be interesting:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/


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    #552
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    ToxicPaddy wrote: »
    This is true, but unfortunately these days investors and film studios don't and won't invest in anything unless its a big budget kick ass all action flick which will break box office records.

    Nobody wants to make a film because its a good film which will tell a good story. Like almost everything it touches, money has ruined that industry too

    Shame really!! :(

    That's the basis of a lot of the book. Obviously I know it is common sense and something a lot of people will know, but his point is that whilst investors and studios are interested in one type of movie, it doesn't mean that it has to be that way.
    Every time I complain that a blockbuster movie is directorially dumb, or insultingly scripted, or crappily acted, or artistically barren, I get a torrent of emails from alleged mainstream-movie lovers complaining that I (as a snotty critic) am applying highbrow criteria that cannot and should not be applied to good old undemanding blockbuster entertainment. I am not alone in this; every critic worth their salt has been lectured about their distance from the demands of "popular cinema", or has been told that their views are somehow elitist and out of touch (and if you haven't been told this then you are not a critic, you are a "showbiz correspondent"). This has become the shrieking refrain of 21st-century film (anti)culture – the idea that critics are just too clever for their own good, have seen too many movies to know what the average punter wants, and are therefore sorely unqualified to pass judgment on the popcorn fodder that "real" cinema-goers demand from the movies.

    This is baloney – and worse, it is pernicious baloney peddled by people who are only interested in money and don't give a damn about cinema. The problem with movies today is not that "real" cinema-goers love garbage while critics only like poncy foreign language arthouse fare. The problem is that we've all learned to tolerate a level of overpaid, institutionalised corporate dreadfulness that no one actually likes but everyone meekly accepts because we've all been told that blockbuster movies have to be stupid to survive. Being intelligent will cause them to become unpopular. Duh! The more money you spend, the dumb and dumberer you have to be. You know the drill: no one went broke underestimating the public intelligence. That's just how it is, OK?

    Well, actually, no. You want proof? OK. Exhibit A: Inception.

    Inception is an artistically ambitious and intellectually challenging thriller from writer/director Christopher Nolan, who made his name with the temporally dislocated low- budget "arthouse" puzzler Memento. Nolan unfashionably imagines that his audience are sentient beings, and treats them as such regardless of budget. Memento cost $5m, had no stars or special effects, aimed high nonetheless, expected its audience to keep up, and reaped over $25m in the US alone. Inception cost $160m, had huge stars and blinding special effects, aimed high nonetheless, expected its audience to keep up, and took around $800m worldwide. See a connection here?

    Nolan earned the right to make a movie as intelligent and expensive as Inception by grossing Warner Bros close to $1.5bn with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, both of which can best be described as arthouse movies posing as massive franchise blockbusters. I remember being genuinely stunned by the level of invention at work in Batman Begins, and burbling to Radio 5 Live listeners that it was "far, far smarter than any of us had the right to expect from a movie which cost that much". But why shouldn't it be smart? Why shouldn't we expect movies that "cost that much" to be worth it?
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/28/mark-kermode-multiplex-blockbuster/print


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    #553
    Otis Driftwood
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    Craig Bellamy going back to Liverpool.Jesus thats brilliant,another knacker is just what they need.:pac:


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    #554
    Panthro
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    Otis Driftwood wrote: »
    Craig Bellamy going back to Liverpool.Jesus thats brilliant,another knacker is just what they need.:pac:

    That's a very Sneijdy thing to say Otis!!!

    (papa ya witty pup!:D)


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    #555
    ToxicPaddy
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    morning all, how is everyone and this slightly chilly and overcast but dry morning?? :)


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    #556
    stupidusername
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    hi tp. readying myself for a day of proper work. it being the first of the month means invoicing.


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    #557
    Hyperbullet
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    ToxicPaddy wrote: »
    morning all, how is everyone and this slightly chilly and overcast but dry morning?? :)

    Lovely down here this morning, just had a savage breakfast of bacon and eggs and catching up on all the transfers from lastnight. Work soon but I'm in a good mood for once! Yourself?


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    #558
    Captain Havoc
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    ToxicPaddy wrote: »
    morning all, how is everyone and this slightly chilly and overcast but dry morning?? :)

    It's my day off, woop, woop.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



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    #559
    ToxicPaddy
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    stupidusername wrote: »
    hi tp. readying myself for a day of proper work. it being the first of the month means invoicing.

    Oh that sounds like its gonna be a fun day.. ahh well, its nearly the weekend so that has to be some sort of consolation.. Hows the new MP3 player going? :)
    Hyperbullet wrote:
    Lovely down here this morning, just had a savage breakfast of bacon and eggs and catching up on all the transfers from lastnight. Work soon but I'm in a good mood for once! Yourself?

    Ohhhh nice.. cant beat an aul full irish brekkie!! Lots of ketchup required.. :p Ahh sure I'm grand, have a team night out tonight at the doggies, so a will have a = few scoops and a bite to eat. Should be a good night :)

    Captain Havoc wrote:
    It's my day off, woop, woop.

    Lucky git..


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    #560
    stupidusername
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    ToxicPaddy wrote: »
    Oh that sounds like its gonna be a fun day.. ahh well, its nearly the weekend so that has to be some sort of consolation.. Hows the new MP3 player going? :)

    Ohhhh nice.. cant beat an aul full irish brekkie!! Lots of ketchup required.. :p Ahh sure I'm grand, have a team night out tonight at the doggies, so a will have a = few scoops and a bite to eat. Should be a good night :)

    yeah the week is going quickly enough. haven't tried the mp3 player yet. might do at the weekend.

    it's so long since i had a fry up. might treat myself...


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    #561
    Hyperbullet
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    stupidusername wrote: »
    it's so long since i had a fry up. might treat myself...

    Actually there's a question for ye Dublin residents, where's a good place for a fry up in the city?


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    #562
    stupidusername
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    Hyperbullet wrote: »
    Actually there's a question for ye Dublin residents, where's a good place for a fry up in the city?

    ****, i've no idea. if it was limerick i'd know where to go... but i've never eaten out in dublin.


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    #563
    Maguined
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    Hyperbullet wrote: »
    Actually there's a question for ye Dublin residents, where's a good place for a fry up in the city?

    Oslo Bar in Connolly train station does an epic full fry and Chef Martin is a really cool guy to boot.


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    #564
    Hyperbullet
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    stupidusername wrote: »
    but i've never eaten out in dublin.

    Neither have I, though I've been single most of the times I've been to Dublin :pac:
    Maguined wrote: »
    Oslo Bar in Connolly train station does an epic full fry and Chef Martin is a really cool guy to boot.

    Must give that a go next time I venture up!


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    #565
    stupidusername
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    Maguined wrote: »
    Oslo Bar in Connolly train station does an epic full fry and Chef Martin is a really cool guy to boot.

    ooh might give it a go so, thanks mags
    Hyperbullet wrote: »
    Neither have I, though I've been single most of the times I've been to Dublin :pac:

    single people eat too ya know :p


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    #566
    D'Agger
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    Captain Havoc wrote: »
    It's my day off, woop, woop.
    Wánker :(

    That's also for suggesting Liverpool have a squad full of nomadic tribesmen a.k.a. "Knackers" as you so delicately put it Otis!! :)


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    #567
    Dravokivich
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    Hyperbullet wrote: »
    Actually there's a question for ye Dublin residents, where's a good place for a fry up in the city?

    hmmm used to prefer going to An Poitin Stil out in Rathcoole or The Johnstown Inn out in Johnstown, but haven't been to either in years.

    Been to Joels a lot and consider it to be a bit over hyped as a resturant. Would only recommend going there if you didn't feel like cooking your dinner.


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    #568
    D'Agger
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    God I'd love a fry now :( slept in this morning so missed breakfast


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    #569
    stupidusername
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    maybe i should try cooking my own. ugh. too much bother.


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    #570
    D'Agger
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    stupidusername wrote: »
    maybe i should try cooking my own. ugh. too much bother.
    Cooking your own fry? Sure you're at work....we're talking about the present SUN I need one NOW!

    In other news I love Fearne Cotton - cracking looking woman and good DJ to boot - listening to her on BBC Radio 1 atm :)


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    #571
    Maguined
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    Cooking your own fry is always good the only problem is you can't cook for one person, you need to be cooking for at least two otherwise its just too much gluttony.


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