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Post by mistermack » Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:05 pm


Many a true word is spoken unknowingly. This made my day :

Justin Bieber ‘May Need Surgery’ After Dramatic Cliff Jump
(Entertainment Daily)


http://www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/jus ... k_id=29353
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Post by tattuchu » Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:25 pm

What I don't understand is how he can have a legion of fans. What are they thinking?
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Post by Tero » Thu Oct 09, 2014 2:41 pm

It's the hair. Teen girls like horses. And hair.

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Post by Svartalf » Thu Oct 09, 2014 2:42 pm

tattuchu wrote:What I don't understand is how he can have a legion of fans. What are they thinking?
They have no brains, with what would they even try thinking?
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Post by mistermack » Thu Oct 09, 2014 4:36 pm

tattuchu wrote:What I don't understand is how he can have a legion of fans. What are they thinking?
It's always been the same. Nero had legions of followers, and he was a loony and burnt the place down.
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Post by Svartalf » Thu Oct 09, 2014 5:04 pm

Didn't, he was away from Rome the day it happened and certainly never watched the fire while playing the lyre.... he DID use some of the terrain cleared by the fire to build his new palace, though.
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Post by Hermit » Fri Oct 10, 2014 8:46 am

Svartalf wrote:Didn't, he was away from Rome the day it happened...
How convenient to be in Antium when the fire broke out. Nero was also conveniently absent when his mother died of poisoning. He was not very good friends with her when she campaigned to replace him as emperor with his stepbrother who coincidentally also died when Nero was elsewhere - the day before he was old enough to succeed him.

I'm not saying Nero arranged the burning of Rome. It's just that we have insufficient information to decide one way or another. All surviving sources we have, by Cassius Dio, Suetonius and Tacitus, are secondary. Primary accounts by the likes of Fabius Rusticus, Cluvius Rufus and Pliny the Elder, if they ever existed, are missing now. At any rate, we wouldn't know how truthful they might have been. The most we can say concerns motive. Nero had plans drawn up for a new, more beautiful Rome (including his new palace, the golden house covering somewhere between 100 and 300 acres of the now vacated area) before the fire. Not conclusive, I know, but what else do we have to go on?

As for news being entertaining, a few decades ago there were the hard hitters like Walter Cronkite in the USA. Now that nation's network headhunts comedians to host their current affairs and news programmes. Right now Jon Stewart is being asked to host Meet the Press.
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Post by mistermack » Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:44 am

Hermit wrote: As for news being entertaining, a few decades ago there were the hard hitters like Walter Cronkite in the USA. Now that nation's network headhunts comedians to host their current affairs and news programmes. Right now Jon Stewart is being asked to host Meet the Press.
That's down to what the ratings respond to.
US ratings don't respond to reliable fact-based news. They want one-liners. That's actually what they always wanted, but now that it's so much easier to flip to a channel that gives you what you crave, that's what the networks try to produce.

If Bob Hope was still alive, he'd be doing the news shows. Reading out his scripted quips like he always did.
We've got the same thing here, it's called ''Have I got news for you''.
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Post by Hermit » Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:20 pm

The trend precedes the advent of wireless remote controllers and a million stations to choose from. Good morning Vietnam.
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Post by JimC » Fri Oct 10, 2014 7:52 pm

I prefer my news to be delivered by serious old men.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Oct 10, 2014 9:11 pm

JimC wrote:I prefer my news to be delivered by serious old men.
I prefer my news to be delivered by serious old men on penny farthings.

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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:18 pm

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JimC wrote:I prefer my news to be delivered by serious old men.
I prefer my news to be delivered by serious old men on penny farthings.
Everyone knows it is impossible to looks serious on a penny-farthing! :roll:
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Post by JimC » Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:44 pm

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
JimC wrote:I prefer my news to be delivered by serious old men.
I prefer my news to be delivered by serious old men on penny farthings.
Everyone knows it is impossible to looks serious on a penny-farthing! :roll:
You guys aren't treating this seriously! :lay:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Sat Oct 11, 2014 6:36 am

Serious/terrified. Can look very similar.

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Post by mistermack » Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:20 pm

Spike Milligan was the best newsreader ever.

And weather man. I remember once he did the weather, and was stood in front of the map of the UK.
He said ''Noon tomorrow'' and picked up the ''noon tomorrow'' title, then carried on ''will be just south of Iceland'' and pinned it in the Atlantic.

For some reason, I was just helpless laughing, it was so stupidly logical.
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