Irony.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by ophic

Proper solution would be trim a bit off the door and fit a brush.

well quite, but I can't lift a door off its hinges right now

[timwilky]

Education is marvellous, wasted on kids though.

I remember hating French and thinking what a waste of time. 35 years after leaving school, I now work for a French company. Have to work in the country most weeks and it does help to be able to order your meal/beer etc in the language. But I was right all along, the French are a waste of time.

I need to contact my sister who has lived in Spain the past 30+ years to see if they teach their kids Orwell/1984 and if the Spaniards would appreciate the irony of their sign

[ophic]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

well quite, but I can't lift a door off its hinges right now

I'll lend you Kaiser, he'll have it off its hinges in no time. Just put him on one side and his dinner on the other.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

And that, is why you fail...

No film can ever be a substitute for a book.

Oh contrare (I know that's not how you spell it, but as it isn't English it's spelled wrong anyway!)

Have you ever read the book adaptation of the Tim Burton film Mars Attacks!

I have.

That's part of my life I will never see again...

My favourite piece of recent irony: doing an interview for Tonight with Trev, Michael Howard, Neil Kinnock and some Lib Dem fellow who I can't remember (so not Clegg or Cable, anyone name me a third?): Howard, as the answer to pretty much every question, gave this reply;

"Of course, the problem with modern politics is that every party concentrates on merely slagging off the other parties. And the Lib Dems are particularly bad at it..."

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by timwilky

I need to contact my sister who has lived in Spain the past 30+ years to see if they teach their kids Orwell/1984 and if the Spaniards would appreciate the irony of their sign

Her Reply

Originally Posted by Tim's Sister

Dear Tim:

On the contrary,I think that they probably did it on purpose. The Catalans are the intelligent part of Spain.

Besitos,

[ophic]

Just in - a list of internal vacancies. The wording at the top of the application form:

******* recruits people on merit and suitability.
Applications are welcome from people with relevant skills and potential to do the job.
Please complete all sections of the application are completed in full.
You may attach an up to date CV if you wish.

[Biker Biggles]

Originally Posted by ophic

Just in - a list of internal vacancies. The wording at the top of the application form:

******* recruits people on merit and suitability.
Applications are welcome from people with relevant skills and potential to do the job.
Please complete all sections of the application are completed in full.
You may attach an up to date CV if you wish.

No you missed the point.Its written in Newspeak so cant be wrong.

[Jayneflakes]

I do like that pic, so true and yet so sad. We are all being watched all of the time.

I love Orwell and have my well thumbed but loved copy of 1984 right next to my bed, I tend to read it about once a year and the scene with Winston betraying Julia, actually makes me cry.

As an experiment I watched the 1984 version of 1984 (With Richard Burton playing O'Brien and John Hurt play Winston) with my book in hand and it was pretty close to the script of the book. I also tried to watch the earlier (1954) version with Peter Cushing, but it lacked the dark edge of the book.

I have also read a few other Orwell books and seen a staged version of Animal Farm, written for the youth theater and again was in awe of the kids playing such striking roles.

The last Orwell book I read was "A Clergyman's Daughter" which was a horrifying read at times and a desperately sad read at others. I also read one of his short essays in which he describes being witness to a Hanging and that was tragic, I believe it was this experience that gave him the knowledge to describe it so well in some of his works.

I love film and do have an extensive collection of DVD movies, including Brazil, Equilibrium and V for Vendetta, all movies that explore the dark future of human kind. I was also lucky enough to spend a semester reading stuff like this while reading for my degree as part of my Global Futures studies. My Tutor was presented with an essay so dark and depressing that I am amazed I passed the course, it turned out to be the only first of my entire degree!

Although I loved reading as a child and was always off in a quiet corner with a great book (some of which were confiscated from me at school because they were deemed to be too "adult" in nature), yet when it came to reading in English lessons, I was chastised for being too far ahead of the class. Also the one book I can report actually hating while at school was "Welcome Home Jellybean", which should have been a worthy book. The way I was forced to read it at such a slow pace and was ridiculed for getting a few bits wrong while reading aloud to the class (which always made me nervous), means that to this day I would refuse to pick it up. So much for instilling compassion in the reader.
I would have had Jerri shot!