This clip reminds me of the time I auditioned to play a very unusual part in a movie by the weird Bavarian director Werner Hedgehog, called "Lines in the Road". Hedgehog's the guy who made Aguirre, Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo (about a lunatic who pushes a boat across Brazil to build an opera house. It sucked, by the way). Anyway, "Lines in the Road" involved lots of close-ups of - yep - lines in the road, but the catch was that it was human actors who played the lines. I tried for the role of a white line drawn on the ground by police round a dead body. I had to coat myself from head to toe in fucking whitewash and lie in a sort of semi-circular position for three hours while the cameraman got his angles. And you know what!? I got the part! Unfortunately, the movie never went on general release, because the critics said it was "like watching paint dry". Ah well, c'est la vie.
While risking possible disqualification for i.d. theft, it has become increasingly apparent that the competition for "Best In Story" has heated up. Few competitors have yet made their presence known, but already there appears to be a move towards a relative newcomer in the race, and one who has totally shed all prior inhibitory aspects, including self-revelation.
Still..........the viewing community awaits the next installment with expectation, apprehension, and even delectation.
What is NEXT ? !?!
(my bet is that canvck resists personal id, and that our resident Canuck chafes at this newcomer's insolence.)
I could just swear out loud, to no one in particular, about my frustration at failing to grasp exactly what is going on here.. but typing it will do a much better job getting my point across.
So, without further ado,
Damnit damnit damnit damnit DAMNIT!
There. I feel better now.
Two men leave a drinking den both drunk, both drive home, one gets home awakes with nothing but a hangover, the other however kills someone on the way home, awakes in a prison cell, is then sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Which man is more guilty ?
Question2
A village barber shaves everyones head in the village who doesn't shave their own head, the barber shaves his own head, which category does the barber fall into?
Question One; If the inebriates were in the US, the "more guilty" or only one guilty, would be the one that was convicted of said crime. Here, you're innocent until proven guilty. This would be the price we all pay for an alcohol tolerant society, along the lines of "they wont do anything till someone gets killed".
Question two; was this the entire question? Seems as if there is an option missing here skid, or I haven't had my morning coffee yet to get my brain in comprehension mode.
Question 1; The point i believe is that the man convicted of murder; was unlucky and the other guy was lucky, the man convicted of murder was sentenced because of luck, fate? , not because of drink driving.
Question 2 ; It's a paradox, if the barber shaves his own head, then he falls into the group who have their head shaved by the barber, but as he is the barber he falls into the group who don't shave their own heads!
Q1: Both suck. Endangering your own life is your own business, endangering other peoples lifes is not acceptable.
This is not a philosophical but a moral question. In Italy they have a nice new law for driving drunk: If you are above a certain blood alcohol level when tested your car gets seized and auctioned.
Q2: Incomplete question, or assumptive answer. It was not defined that there are only two categories. My answer would be that he is in the "barber" category and since it was already defined that he is a barber this category does exist.
All this talk about the Fuhrer reminds me of the time I auditioned for the lead role in a movie called "Downfall", about Hitler's last days in the bunker.
I really prepared myself for the test. I grew a little moustache, had my barber give me a Hitler haircut, and wore jackboots, brown shirt and swastika armband. The neighbors couldn't stop talking about me!
My wife nearly shat herself the first time I came home in character but she got to like it so much she insisted I wore the outfit in bed. But that;'s another story....
Anyway, I went along for the test and thought it wouold be a good plan to goose step onto the stage to show how seriously I took things.
The proiducer and his assistant nearly fell off their chairs. They were relly imprssed by how I'd immersed myself in the part.
Unfortunately, it turned out the film was to be completely in the German language, and I only knew "Auf Wiedersehen". So the role went to an Austrian guy called Ganz. He was quite good, but I thought I would have done it better.
Fuck it! It wasn't that good a movie anyway, and for my money, Charlie Chaplin played a better Hitler then the guy Ganz.
The Fuhrer is dead. He is no longer a Glumbert poster. Please respect this.
However, if anyone wishes to join me at the hacienda for cocktails, tango and rumpy pumpy, I am still available.
I am sultry, available, classy, and can speak three languages. Also, I can milk armadilloes blindfolded.
This is my final offer.
we go round in circles, stutz posted the other day, Deb in on strike i think, as in at work. It's funny how the names you mention aren't always the ones i think of, i suppose peoples attention is grabbed by different posters
No matter.....keep 'em coming, canvck.....and if you are as adept at innovating i.d.'s as the Skidster suggests, then, dammit, get rid of the canvck label and post under a different one. Would suit your style better.
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