"Travel does play havoc with the digestive system. You need to eat healthily and with discipline. I am very typically British. I like to have time and comfort in the loo. The bathroom is an important room and I couldn't live in a culture that doesn't respect it."
The clip is from Carry On At Your Convenience and should be borne in mind whenever you come across former Prime Minister (and Blair role model) Harold Macmillan's quote that "Britain will play Greece to America's Rome." Er...yes.
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I'm not sure why it affects me this way, but that is the creepiest film clip I've seen in a long time...
Dennis
You should watch the rest of the film some time. Very disturbing.
Didn't the leopard skin design motif kind of mitigate your suffering a bit, though, Dennis?
Trust you to find the salient paragraph that explains Blair's, uh, inner workings, Adrian.I hope the Middle East is living up to his standards. There would seem to be a lot riding in the balance.
Seana
I have a feeling that a lot of the reviewers didnt actually read the book that carefully. There were lots of bizarre little nuggets like this.
I've gotten several emails over the years from people complaining about a review of their book, but at least I do actually read the books I review all the way through which is something I cant guarantee for other people in the blogosphere or newspaper business.
The clip was pretty funny. The guy in the ascot with the bad rug cracked me up. I remember when I first went to our office on London, and the bathroom stall was like an enclosed phonebooth. it completely freaked me out. Felt like a coffin. Not used to it having a roof & four walls. I remember growing up when the loo was a taboo subject on American tv. On one show, ALL IN THE FAMILY, they could only let the audience hear "the flush" and the rest was implied.
Sean
That was Charles Hawtry one of the Carry On stallwarts. The clip also featured Kenneth Williams and Syd James - two of the most interesting of the Carry On players. Of course this is the perhaps the worst of the films. And thats saying something.
Seana
I think we should begin a conspiracy theory that the real reason by the invasion of Iraq was to end the dominion of the squat toilet.
That and THE NEW WORLD ORDER, obviously.
All right. I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to work it into conversation, though.
Is this Carry On film a descendant of those old black and white films like Carry On, Nurse? We used to watch some kind of late night reruns of them on television when I was growing up. They seemed ancient even then, but they were probably only about ten years old at most at the time.
I've never understood how Tony Blair could be seen as speaking for labor. It seems that, as here in the U.S., corporate interests long ago bought out the labor leadership.
Not that it would make much difference, but there are too few novelists around that write about the working man, as Nelson Algren once did. Not only does the working man lack political power, he lacks a voice in any medium.
Richard
I'm not sure I agree with that.
Here's what I said about Harvey Pekar:
http://adrianmckinty.blogspot.com/2010/07/rip-harvey-pekar.html
And John McFetridge has convincingly argued that the reason he became a crime novelist is that it was the one genre that actually dealt with blue collar life.
What do you think about adding some more pics? I’m not trying to offend anyone, text is really great. But as I’ve heard humans acquire information much more effective when there are some helpful images.
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