And, indeed, why not....

[mark13]

As the list of films I haven't got round to writing up yet is getting longer and longer, here's a quick run-through of those I have seen recently, in no particular order...

The Hurt Locker is a truly tremendous film, one of my favourites of the year so far, following a team of US army bomb disposal technicians in Iraq, particularly the

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[names0fthedead]

Cheers for this, been looking for new stuff to watch. Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and Pusher both sound promising, there are few things I like more than a bit of crushing hopeless despair.

You know you're not allowed to take photos in shopping malls because they don't want terrorists to see the layout. I would have thought the helpful maps they publish would be a bigger help than some photos. Security don't know about my pleasent afternoon taking photos in the basement.

[mark13]

I think they only have that rule to give security another thing they can bully people about.

I was in one of the major local supermarkets a couple of years back, and decided to take a photo of a promo display of bananas and eggs for Toby (who at that point was only eating bananas and eggs). I was immediately set upon by the head of security, backed up by two further security guards, who told me it was illegal to take photos in that supermarket, and demanded that I hand over my camera phone.

I refused and called his bluff - not being vital to national security, displays of fresh fruit are not actually illegal to photograph, and he told me to finish my shopping and never come back as he was banning me from that supermarket. Been shopping in there regularly since, and never seen him again, so I suspect they got rid of him once they realised he was barking.

[names0fthedead]

that would make sense as security seem to be heavily populated by people too thick and/or vindictive to be in the normal police.

Just bananas and eggs? His bowels must have been in a right state.

[mark13]

Even worse, supermarket security are the ones too unstable to even make it as traffic wardens, and too rubbish to be proper club/venue security, so they're both dumb and belligerent.

I seem to recall he also consumed whisky and fags at the time, so there was some variety.