Under siege
We are surrounded by old bill.
There is an arms fair going on at ExCeL next week and the police are out in such numbers as I have never seen before.
The dock contains warships and no doubt more instruments of death will be delivered over the weekend ready to be traded to people who the west will invade in a few years and get the chance to try them out.
I am very annoyed that this kind of thing is going on in my patch and am flying a peace flag as protest.
Some coppers who were outside our flat shouted up, all innocent like, questions about who lives here. I deflected their queries, especially when one asked what number flat we were! Aren't they supposed to be looking out for terrorists and not bothering law-abiders such as myself?
It is interesting that the arms fair is the only thing not publicised on ExCel's website.
Wanna know what is going on? click here.
Wanna know what is really going on? click here
The Aristocrats
If you are a fan of comedians, rather than of their comedy, you might enjoy this film. It is basically a documentary, fast-paced clips of (mostly american) comedians talking about the joke they tell when the audience has gone home.
It has been passed down through the ages from the Vaudeville era and can be summerised thus: A man walks into an agent's office and says, have I got an act for you. The agent says, tell me about it. The man proceeds to describe the most scatalogical, incestuous, rancid and vile act carried out by a family on stage. Rape, faeces, bestiality etc etc. Whatever sick things the comedian can come up with.
The agent looks horrified and says, my god I've never heard of such an act! What is it called? And the man, with a little ta-daa! in his voice says, The Aristocrats!
The film disects the 'joke' through the comedians' expericences and some funny, some unfunny, tellings of the joke, and pretty much concludes the humour is in the performance rather than in the joke itself.
And because it is an 'in joke' among comedians, the more horrific the act is, the funnier the joke is. Execpt for women comedians - they told it with much more cunning and less shitting.
It is not a film that would appeal to many people but it is amusing in places. Especially the bit where Cartman tells it to the South Park gang and their faces fall, and fall and fall. That bit is almost genuis.
There is an arms fair going on at ExCeL next week and the police are out in such numbers as I have never seen before.
The dock contains warships and no doubt more instruments of death will be delivered over the weekend ready to be traded to people who the west will invade in a few years and get the chance to try them out.
I am very annoyed that this kind of thing is going on in my patch and am flying a peace flag as protest.
Some coppers who were outside our flat shouted up, all innocent like, questions about who lives here. I deflected their queries, especially when one asked what number flat we were! Aren't they supposed to be looking out for terrorists and not bothering law-abiders such as myself?
It is interesting that the arms fair is the only thing not publicised on ExCel's website.
Wanna know what is going on? click here.
Wanna know what is really going on? click here
The Aristocrats
If you are a fan of comedians, rather than of their comedy, you might enjoy this film. It is basically a documentary, fast-paced clips of (mostly american) comedians talking about the joke they tell when the audience has gone home.
It has been passed down through the ages from the Vaudeville era and can be summerised thus: A man walks into an agent's office and says, have I got an act for you. The agent says, tell me about it. The man proceeds to describe the most scatalogical, incestuous, rancid and vile act carried out by a family on stage. Rape, faeces, bestiality etc etc. Whatever sick things the comedian can come up with.
The agent looks horrified and says, my god I've never heard of such an act! What is it called? And the man, with a little ta-daa! in his voice says, The Aristocrats!
The film disects the 'joke' through the comedians' expericences and some funny, some unfunny, tellings of the joke, and pretty much concludes the humour is in the performance rather than in the joke itself.
And because it is an 'in joke' among comedians, the more horrific the act is, the funnier the joke is. Execpt for women comedians - they told it with much more cunning and less shitting.
It is not a film that would appeal to many people but it is amusing in places. Especially the bit where Cartman tells it to the South Park gang and their faces fall, and fall and fall. That bit is almost genuis.
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