Hard News: Because it's about time we had another coffee post
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My mum and her friend Joan go to the cinema pretty much every Sunday. (Not to mention they quite often go to those very long opera films that are, I believe, on at the Bridgeway on Fridays or somesuch). Today was a tossup, in my mother’s words “between a tragedy and a comedy”. The tragedy being Black Swan, the comedy being something with Bill Nighy in it. They went for Bill Nighy, after I told them about Craig’s assessment of it. Well, I didn’t give a detailed one, I just said he said it was crap. That was enough for them.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
They went for Bill Nighy, after I told them about Craig’s assessment of it. Well, I didn’t give a detailed one, I just said he said it was crap. That was enough for them.
Oooh, the power... :)
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Could you make us an Imperia-list. Just so we know which ones to avoid.
Is that an imperious demand?
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recordari, in reply to
Is that an imperious demand?
The imperator has no close...
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@ Jackie; if it was Bill Nighy, it would probably have been 'Glorious 39', which unintentionally a comedy, Nighy splendidly miscast, and generally a load of old (British) tosh.
I have just been to The Inside Job, a doco which everyone should get to. -
Danielle, in reply to
Try as I might, I can't top that one. (Whither Ian, dammit?)
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
I have just been to The Inside Job, a doco which everyone should get to.
So have I. More analysis in my other post.
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@DeepRed. Good comments. There was also the complicity of academia in the whole mess, which might be an an argument of expelling business schools from universities.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
And I posted the following once on Pundit:
Chairman Mao once said that "power comes from the barrel of a gun". In this day and age, absolute power comes the barrel of a financier's pen, even when they're in a right royal mess like they are now.
And we're all familiar with Lord Acton's words of wisdom, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
Combine all the above and you get the following:
- Power and corruption come from the barrel of a gun. (Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, Idi Amin, Mobutu, Milosevic, al-Bashir, among others, have proven that right.)
- Absolute power and absolute corruption come from the barrel of a financier's pen. (Bernie Madoff, Enron, Fay Richwhite, just to name a few.)
The truth hurts, eh?
Gets more relevant with each passing day.
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