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    UK's Coke Way Harsh

    Man Made Misery (Not Marijuana)

    Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
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    Image of gooneruk gooneruk
    08/27/09

    In reply to UK's Coke Way Harsh
    I reckon it should be made clear that the 50% rise is over five years, and the heroin figure is over three years. Talk about cherry-picking your statistics for the biggest impact.

    The Sun has deliberately picked the outlier year for heroin deaths to claim such a big rise. Equally, it can be claimed that heroin deaths are DOWN 10% since 2001, if I were to cherry-pick to show something different.

    As it happens, coke deaths are up 20% year on year, and heroin 8%.

    Full stats here: [www.statistics.gov.uk]
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    08/27/09

    In reply to UK's Coke Way Harsh
    It's not scary if you don't do drugs.
    DON'T DO DRUGZ, KIDZ!
    You see how I added those "z"s at the end? The kids like that.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    08/25/09

    In reply to Man Made Misery (Not Marijuana)
    When England outlaws the pub, we'll know Ragnarok has arrived. They set welfare rates so that literally everyone can afford to have a pint or two a day at the pub, and even the staunchest of "Get A Job You Bum" Tories is astonished at the suggestion that might be slightly wonky in the priorities department.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    08/24/09

    In reply to Man Made Misery (Not Marijuana)
    As long as they keep salvia legal, I'll sleep well in the knowledge that if I'm ever in the United Kingdom I'll always be able to legally tilt the universe 45 degrees to the left.
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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    Oh my nation I weep for you.


    Real tears.


    I have not seen this film and I never will.


    I should probably hand my passport in now.

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    I'd understand this, if it were MANIAC COP II, THE MUSICAL.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    This actually doesn't surprise me at all.


    When I was in England during the summer of 1978, "Brown Girl In the Ring" by a band called Boney-M was No. 2 on the charts. It was perhaps the most irritating synth-pop song I've ever heard, and you couldn't escape hearing it wherever you went.


    When I got home to the U.S., I never heard it again.


    But thanks to the wonders of Youtube, YOU can hear it NOW! (Warning: You will not get it out of your head for at least a week.)


    Enjoy!



    + Watch video
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    Image of Mary Mouse Mary Mouse
    12/16/08

    @MisterHippity: Wowza. One of my earliest memories is my aunt singing that to me. She had the 7". That and The Frog Song by Paul McCartney were my first musical experiences.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    Every opera student should be made to watch Streep’s rendition of "The Winner Takes It All." It is a model of how to act and sing. That the song is repetitive melodrama with silly lyrics makes the comparison all the more germane.
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    Image of Tnuc Tnuc
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    Also: we used to have a TV show called Gimme Gimme Gimme.


    [uk]

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    Image of EleanorRigby EleanorRigby
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    I saw the stage version in Leceister Square. Pretty much everyone was dancing in the aisles during the final rendition of Dancing Queen.
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    It failed my Delta review method; watching it without sound on a flight because the earphone jack doesn't work. And that Eddie Murphey "I'm a tiny alien inside a big robotic head" movie got a C-.
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    Image of OhBilly OhBilly
    12/16/08

    @Itsjustcatnip: I watched it WITH sound on a Delta flight 3 weeks ago and it was legitimately excruciating. I'm not exactly a film critic (Newsies is in my VCR right now), but this was truly bad.
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    12/16/08

    @OhBilly: You weren't returning from San Juan were you?
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    12/16/08

    @OhBilly: I like singing movies. My husband will testify as to how long The Sound of Music has been clogging up the DVR.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    I guess this is what you'd call an "abbaration."


    (I am sorry.)

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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    Nearly every Englishman secretly wishes he was a wholesome Swedish girl named Agnethna, with strong white teeth and a sweet clear voice.


    This is why they drink.

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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    12/16/08

    @City_Dater: Snrk!
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    Image of Tnuc Tnuc
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    £69 million? That's a lot of Money, Money, Money!
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    Image of Titania Titania
    12/16/08

    In reply to Brits Are Dangerously Obsessed With Mamma Mia!
    I've had three roundtrips to the UK in the last few months as well as a few domestics, and while this movie is playing on approximately every plane in the entire world right now, only on the flights from England do people SING ALONG.
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    Image of blix blix
    12/16/08

    @Titania: The long lost eighth circle of hell.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12/16/08

    @Titania:


    That would have called for a hijacking.

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