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svejk restaurants in prague
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From: JJ
Category: Other stuff
Date: 05 January 2002
Review
I went to two svejk restaurants in Prague, the good soldier is the Ronald
McDonald of Middle Europe. In the first the beef broth with its fragments of
hard carrots burnt my mouth, and ironically made me crave a chocolate icecream
in the snow. In the second the mustached beer maestro running the show made us
beg to eat his terrible food. Prague's food is rightly cheap. The Italians on
the train home, in a carriage full of regazzi, complained that everywhere they
went they found Italians. I wonder what they seek in Prague. It's gone off you
see, there isn't enough beauty to go around, and until we tourists have
destroyed it completely we will not be satsified, after that we will march on
the indestructible Venice. What are we looking for? Not the peasant's platter
I stomached in the first Svejk restaurant, A Brueghelesque place woody and
good for planning Putschs. The dumplings and ham and pork and slice of sausage
were unpleasant in a pool of brown water. In the second Svejk a few lumps of
tough goulashed meat clung to some more too dry dumplings. For three pounds or
less you must not complain, you will eat lots of porks, you will poison your
inners with many hotdogs, you will look into the dark blue sky above the river
and thing the castle sounds better than it looks. Go and look at the suburbs
in the snow, or just enjoy the misery as you're meant to.
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TEN MOST overrated Films In History
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From: Jane
Category: Films
Date: 26 November 2001
Review
Most of the overrated movies are recent because we exaggerate the value of
the present relative to the past, avoiding despair. Possibly many of us are
too stupid to understand or remember any films pre-1980.
1 Schindlers List: revolting piece of crap, sentimentalizing the Holocaust
in every moment of its pseudoartyseriously filmed redemptive plot.
2 Star Wars: likeable children's movie.
3 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Phony love story with a little fighting.
4 The Usual Suspects: shallow and always sends me to sleep.
5 Pulp Fiction: everything stolen from Godard et al with nothing added
besides hamburger stars.
6 Reservoir Dogs: see usual suspects
7 Traffic: incredibly simplistic in every way.
8 ET: sentimental children's movie.
9 Raging Bull:shit.
10 Toy Story and all of Disney: for children, not intelligent adults, ugly
and gross and silly and coercive material unsuitable for children.
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Ian Duncan Smith versus Ken Clarke for Conservative Party Leader UK
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From: Peeler
Category: Other stuff
Date: 21 August 2001
Review
Although it will condemn them to unelectability, my gut says they will
choose Duncan Smith as their leader. Clarke seems reckless like a man who
knows he's going to lose, telling people to get out the party if they disagree
with his philo-Europeanism, or dismissing Thatcher's endorsement as worthless
or even harmful. She is their heroine and totem, the woman who transformed
Britain into an enterprise economy, stopped the strikes, and won the war, and
her views must not be taken lightly. Either way Labour win for now. Duncan
Smith is too doctrinaire and charmless to appeal to the television electorate,
while Clarke will crack the Tories in two, leaving them helplessly exposed to
Labour thrusts on Europe. Both are curious and old fashioned, unless people
are unusually perverse, neither will fit as PM against the normal and
reasonable Blair. We must ask what will Labour do with their privileges of a
huge majority and a decimated opposition with no credible future leader. They
never dreamed it would be like this, and seem to know not how to use their
luck. They must be careful for power unplanned and uncontrolled will destroy
its holders.
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