High Fidelity: Classic Or Dud?

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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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

Rumpy, you are taking the bait!!!

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

This thread needs more Marcello.

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

i would never have called her "too scottish"

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

With Harry Redknapp, Mikey?

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

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

N is indeed wise..

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

A certain ratio of ratio?

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

Eventually.

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

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

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

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

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

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 years ago) link

When you go, will you send back, a midget from America.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

THIS IS WHY NICK HORNBY SHOULD BE DESTROYED! HE'S LIKE THE SERPENT IN OUR GARDEN OF EDEN AND WE ARE ALL ASHAMED OF OUR NAKEDNESS!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

Lauren, I kiss you for that information!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

Mikey I am posting that on the laugh out loud thread!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link

Being overdramatic? I have put up and shut up with too much (anti-scottish rascism, anti-black rascism) and have only recently began standing up for myself. I've had my say now, the hackles are going down, and I'm going home to put my rangers top on and open another twenty deck.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

(I actually like High Fidelity, I recognised a lot of myself in it though it pains me to says so, and the film worked as well in Chicago as it would have in London, or Edinburgh, which is why this is all very silly)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

I quite liked it too, though I don't know what I'd think if I read it now, with all the Hornby-hating that has been fed to me by this evil board.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

Yes rumpy, you are on an internet forum where ppl will take the piss and wind you up. They may have those opinions, but i seriously doubt it. All i meant is that by responding the way you have you have made them worse. I am not suggesting you put up & shut up about racism, all i'm saying is look at where it is coming from, i.e. ilx, home of piss taking & wind ups.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

Nooooo Rumpy, not the Rangers top, anything but that!

Actually, going by Dave's earlier comments on football, shouldn't we hate each other?

― smee (smee), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

Is High Fidelity the first (only?) rom-com aimed at blokes?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

jesus christ get over it rumpy - you experience more "racism" (and this is a stupid word to use in this context - go for regional bigotry, instead) as an english person in scotland than you'll ever get as a scottish person anywhere else in the world.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

Apparently.... two words - Rosary Beads. And on that note...

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:02 (twenty years ago) link

Ew ew ew! You are so not haveing that as the last word. You know you should tell that story on here one time, I bet it'll be up there with the Cheese Fry story....

― smee (smee), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago) link

These bleads?
x-post

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago) link

I can't say I've experienced any anti-English bigotry from being an English person in Scotland, but maybe I move in Anglophile circles. Oh, there was one bloke in a pub who laughed about hating me for being English, but I don't think he was serious. It's all talk.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

as was that... i just love the double standard scots have about this stuff.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

Scottish music is all shit. I mean what have we ever achieved apart from the Incredible String Band, Alex Harvey, John Martyn, Gerry Rafferty, the Average White Band, the Poets, the Buzz, Frankie Miller, early Simple Minds, Ivor Cutler, the Fire Engines, Orange Juice, Josef K, early Aztec Camera, the Cocteau Twins, the Associates, Mogwai, Arab Strap, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, the Scars, Positive Noise, Leisure Process, Win, Nectarine No 9, the Commotions element of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, the Delgados, Brian Connolly, Teenage Fanclub, the Pastels, the Vaselines, Future Pilot AKA, Bobby Wellins, Bill Wells, Marmalade, Lulu and Franz Ferdinand? Eh?

OK, admittedly you might have a problem with Middle Of The Road or the Bay City Rollers...

― Jesus H. Clapton, Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

See what you've done now Rumpy?! Forgive her ILX, she's new...

― smee (smee), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago) link

uh, Capercailie.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

wet wet wet

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

RUNRIG

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

and apologies for being rude - i'm in a bad mood this morning. you can do what a friend of mine did when he took me into his local in govan last year, took me round and introduced me to people saying: "this is dave, he's english but he's alright!" so as i didn't get chinned.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

British people are funny.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago) link

Racist.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

(cries)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

Scotland's still largely run by a government and fed by a media that's 500 miles away. I think that's the difference. It's usual for people in such a position will have some mild resentment. Making remarks the other way around 'to get your own back' just sounds crass. Basically, I think you misunderstand the 'too English' thing - I usually understand it as "Ach, I get enough of this culture as it is", not a "The English culture sucks per se."

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

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