High Fidelity: Classic Or Dud?

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To prove a point. Okay, tell me what i said that was in any way derogatory to english people. Go on. Something preferably on par with your sick-making drug addict/sectarianism quip.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

oh i am not repeating myself again... and don't forget the alcoholics

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Are any of the bands Runrig or the Proclaimers? Deacon Blue? Cause this is the only music we produce Matt.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Repeating yourself? You haven't yet stated what my racially pointed comment was.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Donald where's your trousers?

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

That and the natural music of the agonised screams of tenement blocks.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beta Band bit is naffest evah. I was tres disappointed with the film, and I like Cusack AND Jack Black. It's no 'Con Air', put it that way.

BTW 'Con Air' FACT: 'In Da Club' is a clear steal off of the soundtrack. Truly.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

That's only racially pointed if you're not called Donald and you are wearing trousers.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I was winding up Scottish nationalists, a hobby of mine (the local nationalists are bit too dangerous to wind up).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave, you're being a prick.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Crumbling estates and lush glens. Scotland - the land of contrasts.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

He [Jack Black]doesn't even act, does anyone doubt he's actually exactly like his "characters" in real life?

Does this really matter? As long as the characters he's playing are reasonably close to what you seem to think is his real-life personality, does it matter that he's not an "actor"? At least in terms of High Fidelity, Black is much more convincing in his role than Cusack, who seems to think that squinting makes him edgy.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave is surely winding up those that are getting so offended.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah he's being a prick

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Jack Black was very convincing as Jack Black, but that was what the role called for.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost

Squinting and shouting and wearing T-shirts (possibly the latter is not down to him).

I like Cusack in general.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Wot N said just about sums up my thoughts on this one...

― smee (smee), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't day he was being a prick, but I think he is winding certain folx on this thread!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

cusack = dour. played up his character's unpleasant qualities.

black = amusing comic performance.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

He was producer (and adapter?), so I would assume that he hand-picked T-shirts for the whole cast.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

jack black is too american

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i think people using english as a perjorative is pretty bloody silly that's all.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

and i have ADMITTED to being a prick

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Cusack, in the past 5 years or so, always looks like he's wearing mascara. It's offputting. Plus my girlfriend loves him more than me.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Are any of the bands Runrig or the Proclaimers? Deacon Blue? Cause this is the only music we produce Matt.

nah, you can always fall back on del amitri

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

And I meant that ppl shouldn't take it so seriously!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

co-adaptor yeah, i forgot that. Shame, I would rather he were blameless. Mind you, they were working with pretty rank material.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Knowing that one is being a prick so doesn't stop one being a prick. This is one of the lessons I have learned in life.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Cusack. Apart from Serendipity, which is a pile of twat.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I get offended AFTER I've been wound up. Where did you go trawling Dave to find out that I live in Scotland? To bring that up was completely irrelevant. I came on to give my opinion on the tone of a book and I am greeted with a torrent of anti-scottish vitriol. I have NEVER been knowingly insulting on this board or in trw, why are you getting away with it and nobody gives a damn?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Rumpy, you are taking the bait!!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I've lived (meekly) with rascism all my life Pink, should I just carry on?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Ummmm, it's kind of locationism rather than racism innit.

Why can't we all just get along?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't go trawling anywhere to find out you're scottish, i partly guessed and then had it confirmed by smees' post saying you were scottish. i am not anti-scottish my mother was.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread needs more Marcello.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i would never have called her "too scottish"

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

So did everyone take their clothes off like I suggested? I've got a meeting with HR at 4pm to explain my conduct in the office.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah you should sit back and cope with that racism, as if. Don't be so overdramatic, you are quite obviously being wound up on this thread!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

With Harry Redknapp, Mikey?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I was more bothered/surprised by the 'knock the poor and homeless' connotations of the heroin and Tennents Super thing, but hey, I'm English.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

fun fact: one of the proclaimers is married to a dwarf.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i apologise for all derogatory mentions of scots culture (apart from the music-related ones as scotland has a higher ratio of shit music/good music ratio than anywhere else in the world, imho)

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

N is indeed wise..

― smee (smee), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

A certain ratio of ratio?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Knocking the poor and homeless is the 'new' thing, don't you know? Classism's all the rage nowadays.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I was more bothered/surprised by the 'knock the poor and homeless' connotations of the heroin and Tennents Super thing, but hey, I'm English.

i mentioned golf, too. i knocked the middle classes.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Eventually.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, so golf is only for the middle classes then hmmmmmm?

― smee (smee), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway - I'm sorry. It was meant for the female ferret thread.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

and i think everyone is forgetting that scotland also gave us calum, so i think i'm entitled to say whatever the hell i like.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

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