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13 August 2008 @ 07:42 am
Policy Exchange? Ahahahahahaha!!!  
This news has been creating a stir (they are talking about it on the Today Programme right now). I find it very amusing. In a time when people can work from, bank from, shop from and pretty much do everything from home, Policy Exchange thinks that everyone should move into the overcrowded, overpolluted south-east? Ahahahahahahahaha! Me, personally, I hope lots of idiot scallies fall for this streets paved with gold bollocks. Policy Exchange and their right-wing chums, gazing upon our Northern paradise with envious eyes and wanting us to suffer their level of overcrowding too, are welcome to them.


[info]redatt makes a very good point about the assumptions we all make about anonymous posters. I am as guilty of this as anyone, as can be seen by how hard I go at Jo Christie-Smith, here. It's certainly something worth bearing in mind, and a discouragement against making pointless ad hominem arguments against a person whom you know nothing about.


Political Betting has a reality check for those of us who are clinging to the hope that we're not heading for a Tory Landslide next election.


[info]captainlucy has an impassioned argument as to why they shouldn't remake The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I agree with him. Having new theatre productions of The Rocky Horror Show with new casts is fair enough. A remake with a new cast would be forgiveable, if pointless. But "re-imagining" it, with new songs? Just NO. I can think of a few remakes that weren't horrendous, and fewer still that were better than the original, but the odds are not in the remake's favour, are they?


Stop the Remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show



OTOH, and just to be contrary, a remake I am excited about: the Star Trek origins movie. I am so sad I actually bounce up and down in my seat with excitement when you hear Leonard Nimoy's voice about 25 seconds in. And click on Downloads! They've released another four-way-split poster, and I have finally replaced my desktop background. Instead of this, I now have this.


Police state story of the day (hat-tip: [info]mooism). I tell you this, Internets, if the rozzers kick my door in and re-arrange my cool wall, there will be trouble. I am NOT having Hammond in anything other than totally uncool!


Via Chicken Yoghurt, All is not well at the construction site of Olkiluoto 3, the world’s largest nuclear reactor… All together now? WE'RE ALL DOOMED!


And finally, to distract you from the impending nuclear holocaust which will wipe us all out, some morning fun: How many episodes from each classic Doctor can you name in five minutes? I got all of Colin's in 2 minutes 15, which isn't bad to say I am hungover and tired.
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velociraptor clint-thrust[info]refusion on August 13th, 2008 07:48 am (UTC)
You put Hammond in Totally Uncool, too? That makes me feel good. James is, of course, in my Sub Zero section.
SB: TG - LLCoolJ[info]miss_s_b on August 13th, 2008 07:50 am (UTC)
Maturally!
Paul Alexander Mudie[info]pmoodie on August 13th, 2008 12:40 pm (UTC)
Yes, it would be quite nice if you could get all your feckless idiots to relocate to the South East, because then the North would be left in the hands of lovely people like you, and we Scots would have much nicer neighbours. :)
doccy[info]doccy on August 13th, 2008 02:11 pm (UTC)
Oooh, just read the power station article - I love the first response there, from the bloke talking about "the paranoid safety culture surrounding nuclear power". Yeah, they're pretty uptight about the safety regulations (or should be)... because IT'S NUCLEAR POWER. *twitch*
rhythmaning[info]rhythmaning on August 13th, 2008 03:07 pm (UTC)
Policy Exchange: complete bollocks. Build 3 million more homes in the over-crowded south east which lacks the infrastructure to cope with any more? I haven't read the original paper, but what I have heard on the radio just doesn't make any sense. I can't understand why economic forces haven't actually been active to pull businesses out of the south east into the much cheaper cities north of Watford Gap.

I don't know if you saw the article in today's Indie... Actually it isn't on their website - it might be a Scottish-edition only thing: "SNP will rout Labour in general election - poll...Labour will lose almost half its Westminster seats to the SNP as the backlash grows against Gordon Brown's Government, according to an opinion poll today." It forecasts both Alistair Darling and Des Browne will lose their seats. I think I am about to post about it now...
One does not simply walk into Mordor.[info]yuxonomei on August 13th, 2008 05:08 pm (UTC)
God I hope the Chavs go.

Essex is far, far grimmer than anything up North, even Dewsbury.. Grays in particular is hell on earth.

It's beautiful up here. There is regeneration going on all over the North-east(sadly to the cost of communities. I shall write this up when I get out taking pics of it). I can be out on the Pennines in 40 minutes by car.
Ani: K-9[info]anisiriusmagus on August 14th, 2008 10:46 am (UTC)
I completely agree. I used to live in the Basildon/Pitsea/Canvey Island/Southend area. I've been here in Yorksher for 3 years now, and as my family has follwed me up, I have no plans to return to Ehssix. It is grimmer than anything up North. The whole place is disappearing underneath concrete, and they put a block of flats up whenever they knock one house down. Who wants to live there?
Leonie Delt: spock smile TOS[info]leoniedelt on August 13th, 2008 05:23 pm (UTC)
That Zach Quinto poster is woof.
(he looks really *really* believable)
Spock approves, yes.

‮hjap‮[info]gominokouhai on August 14th, 2008 12:33 am (UTC)
> a remake I am excited about: the Star Trek origins movie

I'm not convinced. For one thing, as everyone knows, the NCC-1701 was built in the San Franciscoo Fleet Yards, which are in orbit over San Francisco. so I shouldn't be able to see a horizon.

For another, despite some absolutely luscious CGI and Leonard Nimoy's voice, I didn't see any actual acting in that.