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Amorous Badger asks: Tell us tales of people who have a high opinion of themselves. Jumped-up officials, the mad old bloke who runs the Neighbourhood Watch like it's a military operation, Colonel Blimps, pompous bastards and people stuck up their own arse.

(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 12:22)
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It's probably not worth pointing this out to you cunts
but Powell & Pressburger's Blimp is an affectionate portrait of an old-school military hero and his inability to come to terms with the unaviodable appallingness of 20th century total warfare. It doesn't have anything to do with pomposity. It's an extraordinary film. Stick that and their equally astonishing The Small Back Room (from which we get the prototype of the blustering non-commissioned officer who over-henunciates hall 'is haitches) in your VCR and you'll probably learn more about the second world war than from all your Hitler memorabilia and glue-fucked airfix models.

Pricks.
(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 22:29, 21 replies)
Yeah but you had to be there.

(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 22:35, closed)
Rude.

(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 22:47, closed)
Cheers

(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 22:43, closed)
Pip pip!

(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 22:46, closed)
tl;dr

(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 22:45, closed)
exec summary: your mother has a moustache

(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 22:46, closed)
I prefer The Red Shoes
because I am probably a homosexualist.
Cheers.
(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 23:08, closed)
Cheers.

(, Fri 25 Jan 2013, 8:10, closed)
I'll wait for the Michael Bay remake, thanks.
Explosions make everything better.
(, Thu 24 Jan 2013, 23:34, closed)
(it's about bomb disposal)

(, Fri 25 Jan 2013, 7:48, closed)
Also Roger Livesey's a really good actor.

(, Fri 25 Jan 2013, 4:31, closed)
lol

(, Fri 25 Jan 2013, 4:37, closed)
Personally,
I now think ALL warfare is appalling.
(, Fri 25 Jan 2013, 6:53, closed)
Pinko.

(, Fri 25 Jan 2013, 7:58, closed)
Never seen it but I'll put it on the list.

(, Fri 25 Jan 2013, 10:43, closed)
Honestly. They're both properly brilliant.
They used to show P&P films regularly on BBC2 back in the good old days before blah blah all this was fields old english spangles tiswas monster munch for five pence jumpers for goalposts harumph harumph etc etc.

Cheers.
(, Fri 25 Jan 2013, 17:17, closed)
Sounds shit.

(, Fri 25 Jan 2013, 11:49, closed)
You sound shit.
Shit sounder.
(, Fri 25 Jan 2013, 17:18, closed)
thing is
if you picked up the clear plastic spitfire canopy with glue on your fingers then it's your own cunting fault you ruined it you fucking pricks
(, Sat 26 Jan 2013, 7:19, closed)
I reckon if you went around jumble sales picking up old airfix planes
you'd build up a fingerprint database of every kiddie fiddler in the country.
(, Sat 26 Jan 2013, 9:23, closed)
Found It On YouTube.
Never seen it but, as you give it such a glowing recommendation, I'll give it a whirl.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAWDpaw0wRk

It better not be shit or I'll want my two hours back..

Cheers
(, Sat 26 Jan 2013, 11:26, closed)

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