Comments on: It’s One of Those Days Again http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:07:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html#comment-8328 ninme Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:03:39 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/08/31/its_one_of_those_days_again.html#comment-8328 <p>Well, there's the cut-glass accents, which I associate with the old BBC announcer accent, then there's the dude who played the Empire in Star Wars accent, and Brian Cox and them, then there's the posh accent, that gets kind of slurred and rolling along, and unless the guy's introducing the Proms on the BBC, and if he's a bit younger than the kind of guy that would ordinarily introduce the Proms on the BBC, does sound like a complete moron.</p> Well, there’s the cut-glass accents, which I associate with the old BBC announcer accent, then there’s the dude who played the Empire in Star Wars accent, and Brian Cox and them, then there’s the posh accent, that gets kind of slurred and rolling along, and unless the guy’s introducing the Proms on the BBC, and if he’s a bit younger than the kind of guy that would ordinarily introduce the Proms on the BBC, does sound like a complete moron.

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html#comment-8327 Rueful Red Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:45:29 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/08/31/its_one_of_those_days_again.html#comment-8327 <p>Some of the dumbest people I know speak with cut-glass English accents.</p> Some of the dumbest people I know speak with cut-glass English accents.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html#comment-8326 ninme Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:51:25 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/08/31/its_one_of_those_days_again.html#comment-8326 <p>Hah!</p> <p>That's a great line. Everyone: Take that down!</p> <p>It just amazes me. I mean, have they ever heard Dick Cheney <i>talk</i>?! I mean, where does this come from?!</p> <p>It's like the (liberal) Hollywood thing that anyone with an English accent must be a bad guy, because they sounds really smart and everyone knows that evil people are smart. "Ooh he speaks softly and has a twinkle in his eye! Obviously he must be plotting our oppression!"</p> Hah!

That’s a great line. Everyone: Take that down!

It just amazes me. I mean, have they ever heard Dick Cheney talk?! I mean, where does this come from?!

It’s like the (liberal) Hollywood thing that anyone with an English accent must be a bad guy, because they sounds really smart and everyone knows that evil people are smart. “Ooh he speaks softly and has a twinkle in his eye! Obviously he must be plotting our oppression!”

]]> By: RC2 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html#comment-8325 RC2 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 04:51:39 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/08/31/its_one_of_those_days_again.html#comment-8325 <p>I think my head banging may begin now. Did you read at Powerline that the gist of the Bush dies movie is that when he's popped it will be revealed he was a salutary influence holding the monstrous Dick Cheney back --and with Cheney unleashed, life at Gitmo gets really bad and other unspeakable horrors ensue?</p> <p>Would this be the time to dredge up Tom Wolfe's observation that "the spectre of fascism is constantly hovering over America but always seems to land in Europe"?</p> I think my head banging may begin now. Did you read at Powerline that the gist of the Bush dies movie is that when he’s popped it will be revealed he was a salutary influence holding the monstrous Dick Cheney back –and with Cheney unleashed, life at Gitmo gets really bad and other unspeakable horrors ensue?

Would this be the time to dredge up Tom Wolfe’s observation that “the spectre of fascism is constantly hovering over America but always seems to land in Europe”?

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html#comment-8324 ninme Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:45:53 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/08/31/its_one_of_those_days_again.html#comment-8324 <p>No it's not. Cuz they're gonna get there and be all "Fight the goddamn fascists!" "We're not gonna lie here and take it anymore!" "Question authority, man!"</p> <p>Then they're all gonna sit there with stupid ass looks on their faces for two years waiting for someone to do something they can react to.</p> <p>Then election season will come around and they'll get even stupider.</p> <p>And the rest of us will be passed out from beating our heads against walls.</p> No it’s not. Cuz they’re gonna get there and be all “Fight the goddamn fascists!” “We’re not gonna lie here and take it anymore!” “Question authority, man!”

Then they’re all gonna sit there with stupid ass looks on their faces for two years waiting for someone to do something they can react to.

Then election season will come around and they’ll get even stupider.

And the rest of us will be passed out from beating our heads against walls.

]]> By: HalfEmpty http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html#comment-8323 HalfEmpty Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:39:52 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/08/31/its_one_of_those_days_again.html#comment-8323 <p>Ninme gonna be <s>a fine read be </s>even better if the donks win in 2008.</p> Ninme gonna be a fine read be even better if the donks win in 2008.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html#comment-8322 ninme Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:56:01 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/08/31/its_one_of_those_days_again.html#comment-8322 <p>Well, not necessarily. Even if you don't think it's a Big Deal, you can still tell that they're rather keen on killing lots of people, and think "Yeah alright we should really do something about that." But they think it's all Bush making it up because a) he's a Republicans. And that's it, really. Because Republicans are all fascists. So Lo! behold the breaking skies in the distance now that he's gone! All is blue and sunny and sweet songed birds are singing!</p> Well, not necessarily. Even if you don’t think it’s a Big Deal, you can still tell that they’re rather keen on killing lots of people, and think “Yeah alright we should really do something about that.” But they think it’s all Bush making it up because a) he’s a Republicans. And that’s it, really. Because Republicans are all fascists. So Lo! behold the breaking skies in the distance now that he’s gone! All is blue and sunny and sweet songed birds are singing!

]]> By: RC2 http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html#comment-8321 RC2 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:53:37 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/08/31/its_one_of_those_days_again.html#comment-8321 <p>It strikes me that Bush was more right than he knew when he said you're either with us or against us. He was thinking of regimes, not individual citizens; but if you really don't see a civilizational threat from Islamofascism, this kind of mockumentary follows logically, right?</p> It strikes me that Bush was more right than he knew when he said you’re either with us or against us. He was thinking of regimes, not individual citizens; but if you really don’t see a civilizational threat from Islamofascism, this kind of mockumentary follows logically, right?

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html#comment-8320 ninme Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:34:19 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/08/31/its_one_of_those_days_again.html#comment-8320 <p>Certainly not when they're going to tell us that the realistic part is all in our, the viewers', paranoid imaginations. I mean, the docu part would probably have something to do with the threat we face, but no, it's just about killing Bush.</p> Certainly not when they’re going to tell us that the realistic part is all in our, the viewers’, paranoid imaginations. I mean, the docu part would probably have something to do with the threat we face, but no, it’s just about killing Bush.

]]> By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2006/08/its_one_of_thos.html#comment-8319 Brett_McS Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:06:17 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2006/08/31/its_one_of_those_days_again.html#comment-8319 <p>It's probably just further evidence of my descent into grumpy old man-ness, but "docudramas" seem a little pointless to me these days. I mean, do we really need to <i>make up</i> stories about death and destruction and terrorists and conflicts?</p> It’s probably just further evidence of my descent into grumpy old man-ness, but “docudramas” seem a little pointless to me these days. I mean, do we really need to make up stories about death and destruction and terrorists and conflicts?

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