Favorite quotes

[UKMikey]

No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and 'improve' on it. "The book is the book, the film is the film," they will tell you, as if they were saying something profound. Then they make the story their own. They never make it better, though. Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse.

 

[Liquid]

Spitting Image was a satirical puppet show that was absolutely on the money in the late 80s and early 90s. The series one finale featured a reworked version of The Police's Every Breath You Take. The show's producers actually got Sting himself to sing the reworked version which was a serious protest song as opposed to the humour of the rest of the show.

Every bomb you make
Every job you take
Every heart you break
Every Irish wake
I'll be watching you

Every wall you build
Every one you've killed
Every grave you've filled
All the blood you've spilled
I'll be watching you

Oh can't you see?
You belong to me
There'll a bill to pay
'Pon that Judgement Day

For every empty plate
Every word of hate
Those you subjugate
Those you violate

I'll be watching you.



The clincher at the end that the song is from Death's point of view has always resonated with me very strongly. He's promising that those featured will also be claimed and that no-one is above Death's final judgement.

If you're wondering, the puppets featured in this order; Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill & Ian MacGregor, Ian Paisley, Konstantin Chernenko, Robert Mugabe, Fidel Castro, Muammar Gaddafi, Erich Honecker, Idi Amin, Leonid Brezhnev, Adolf Hitler, Indira Ghandi, Ruhollah Khomeini, Pieter Botha and Konstantin Chernenko again.

 

[UKMikey]

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

 

[Meythia]

a reworked version of The Police's Every Breath You Take.

"Every move we make, every step we take, every potato we air fry, someone is watching us."
A conclusion on smart device air friers in an article that - oh shock - says that one should expect any device with unnecessary internet connectivity to be listening by default, and to be potentially hacked either will ill intention or "just because" (like vacuum bots making picture of all floors, or people sitting on the toilet and putting it on any social media).

I agree, if it requires an app to use on my phone this is not convenient, I dont cary my phone with me all the time or have it in range to immediatly reply to any kind of information.

 

[UKMikey]

Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.

This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.

 

[ScottPuss20]

"You always have a choice. Making the right one is never easy. One more thing I learned is that when you really screw something up, you can't fix it on your own" - Sonic The Hedgehog

 

[W3H5]

Thanks, Will. Let’s just all be stuck on the small pale dot.