Comments on: Jacket required

By: Jim Bliss

Jim Bliss — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:56:33 +0000

Might be worth starting a sweepstake into how long it is before replica jackets start showing up in the shops and become the latest must-have fashion accessory.

In fact, there’s probably money to be made if you get in there fast enough.

By: ejh

ejh — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:03:28 +0000

Well, I can think of a few…

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:21:57 +0000

I’m waiting for bodies of football stewards to start turning up in skips…

By: Andrew Adams

Andrew Adams — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:22:59 +0000

I guess that explains the people shouting “You evil no good scumbag!” at our local lollipop lady this morning.

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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:14:20 +0000

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By: Jim Bliss

Jim Bliss — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:16:17 +0000

You’re right… serves me right for not double-checking. I think there was an explanation of how Raven managed to get captured and the… er… counter-measures he subsequently took to avoid it happening again.

I’ve not read it since about the time it was published, so my memory of it is a bit hazy. But scarily, we do appear to be getting closer to a Snow Crash world. In social terms if not technological ones at least.

By: ejh

ejh — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:47:17 +0000

Tell it to the judge.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:12:23 +0000

It’s une homage, innit.

By: ejh

ejh — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:09:08 +0000

The scene where Robson Green is beaten to death in slow motion by a screaming Paul Dacre wielding his tumescent-with-self-righteous-fury penis wins the series a BAFTA.

…which then causes a broadsheet frenzy after somebody accuses the scriptwriter of ripping off A Clockwork Orange.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:33:55 +0000

Indeed. There’s a gritty ITV drama in this. Robson and Jerome are two hard-bitten cops with problems at home. They’re on the trail of a serial killer who’s offing COMMUNITY PAYBACK wallahs.

It turns out it’s the Minister of Justice who’s doing it to court tabloid opinion. The Daily Mail is loving the piles of bodies. Robson and Jerome risk their badges in exposing the establishment cover-up.

But when they play their covertly recorded tape on live TV of the Justice Minister inadvertently admitting to the murders, they’re immediately descended upon by a baying mob of tabloid editors who’ve been in on it all along.

The scene where Robson Green is beaten to death in slow motion by a screaming Paul Dacre wielding his tumescent-with-self-righteous-fury penis wins the series a BAFTA.

Nobody sees the carnage because Robson and Jerome mistakenly decide to broadcast on Channel 4 News on a Saturday evening. Their deaths go unreported and unmourned.