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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2010 22:36:15 GMT
;D
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Post by trubble on Apr 29, 2010 14:56:53 GMT
I just found this quote, which is quite apt: Sleeping with prostitutes is like making your cat dance with you on its hind legs. You know it's wrong, but you try to convince yourself that they're enjoying it as well. Excellent. ;D I was watching a documentary on mail-order brides from Thailand recently and certainly some men interviewed on it would make you apply that quote to that industry too. And interviews with some of the brides and a charity working with some Thai brides in the UK indicated that some men were treating their brides as prostitutes. And - shockingly but unsurprisingly - an undercover researcher posing as an interested male client applied to 39 agencies and described himself as having a history of violence. Only 3 rejected him.
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Post by everso on Apr 29, 2010 15:37:20 GMT
Awful!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2010 16:03:32 GMT
you do see a lot of blokes about with mail order brides nowadays. well, pressumably. i mean, you dont really know, but i do see a lot of old men with young oriental ladies out shopping n stuff. i mean i suppose not all of them are mail order brides, there is always the chance that it could be a normal couple with a bit of an age-gap. but some of them must be. either that or elderly pot bellied men are what really gets those oriental women going. its one or t'other.
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Post by everso on Apr 29, 2010 18:01:14 GMT
It's always a love match.
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Post by aubrey on May 9, 2010 17:21:07 GMT
I'm sure that I saw something a few months or more ago about a TV programme or series being made about the decadent 90s - Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Aubrey Beardsley, The Yellow Book, The Rhymers' Club - all that. Has anyone else heard about this, or did I dream it?
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Post by everso on May 9, 2010 17:30:49 GMT
Can't say I remember hearing about it, Aubrey.
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Post by trubble on May 10, 2010 10:52:01 GMT
Me neither Aubrey. Sounds good though, perhaps if you dreamt it you should write to them with your idea. Wasn't there was a Channel 4 TV programme about Byron and the Romantics (or something or nothing) - was that what you were thinking of? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haven't listened yet but I like the look of Archive on 4. Radio 4: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s7vs4 On today at 3pm and available on the iplayer now. Satire: The Great British Tradition Roger Law, co-creator of Spitting Image, looks at what the archives can teach us about the evolution of British satire. Do we really have more of a taste for it than other nations, and where did it all start? We'll look at the way in which British satire developed on television with great examples from the BBC archives. Roger revisits his early days at the Establishment Club set up by Peter Cook, and talks to Gerald Scarfe and others who helped form the satirical approach of the 1960s.
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Post by everso on May 10, 2010 11:16:38 GMT
Sounds like a good programme - thanks Trubbs.
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Post by aubrey on May 12, 2010 17:05:03 GMT
Thanks, Trub, but I'm not thinking about Byron. I find the atmosphere of that time (while attractive in its way - Frankenstein and all that) completely different from that of the 1890s. It was the 1890s that I heard/dreamed about.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 22, 2010 16:14:53 GMT
Anybody ever listen to "The Garrison Keiller Radio Show" on BBC Radio 7?
It's really laid back and highly amusing...sort of like a caberet radio show from the 50's with tunes sketches and stuff.
AH
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Post by Weyland on May 22, 2010 16:52:49 GMT
Anybody ever listen to "The Garrison Keiller Radio Show" on BBC Radio 7? It's really laid back and highly amusing...sort of like a caberet radio show from the 50's with tunes sketches and stuff. AH One of my favourite programmes, Alph, but missed it this week. Started reading his books in 1987 or so.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 22, 2010 18:01:34 GMT
Nice one, I'm trying find a torrent with all the radio shows but there isn't one around...the phone conversations with his mom are commedy gold (as is the rest of the programme to be honest).
Not sure if I'd read his books, I really enjoy listening to his cool 'merican drawl though (and a lot of the women characters seem to be crazed "New York broads").
The whole show is just pure enjoyment and pretty unique IMO.
AH
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Post by aubrey on Jun 2, 2010 18:47:37 GMT
Patrick - where did you get the Ed Reardon programmes? It was you, wasn't it? I've got a load that I recorded, but I always managed to miss odd episodes.
I'll try to remember the G Keillor programmes.
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Post by Patrick on Jun 2, 2010 21:48:50 GMT
I've just got the CD's. Series one and two have been out a while - and I see Series 3 is out now too - From tomorrow.
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Post by aubrey on Jun 3, 2010 10:25:30 GMT
Thanks.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 15, 2010 13:21:47 GMT
I downloaded all six series of the Ed Reardon shows, they are out there. AH
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Post by aubrey on Jun 15, 2010 16:42:09 GMT
Thanks.
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Post by trubble on Jul 15, 2010 15:19:15 GMT
I accidentally watched the most recent two episodes of Imagine - with Alan Yentob - BBC The first was about the author Diana Athill and it was fascinating. She was fascinating. 90 years old and resolutely saying what the heck she likes about anything with no fear of a judging public or family. Straight talking. A lot to like about her. She didn't write her first book until she retired. There's hope for all of us. The second was about Tom Jones and it made me like him. 70 years old and singing gospel and blues now - and not doing a bad job of it either - it's what he should have been singing all along; it was his first love. from Praise And Blame (Album). He's proper talented. Forget all the gold medallion rubbish, that was just a bad phase he went through. He's had a great life so far, it would make anyone envious. He's sung with anyone and everyone, every legend, and had affairs left right and centre but got to keep his close and loving marriage with his childhood sweetheart. He had his cake and ate it and now he's having seconds. He is only 16 years older than his son; at this stage they are heading towards being contemporaries rather than a generation apart. It was his son who rescued him from the sleazy openshirted gyrating predator image. Last Autumn I accidentally watched Imagine's interview with David Hockney - yet again, really excellent TV, allowing a new appreciation of yet another figure that I'd come to take for granted. Surprisingly great series.
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Post by everso on Jul 15, 2010 15:33:30 GMT
I like Tom Jones with his new grey hair.
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