Comments on: A very sad person http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/ Rambles around the head of an Irish Grandad Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:50:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Boycott Star Wars, not Ewan McGregor at Holy Shmoly! http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-23510 Boycott Star Wars, not Ewan McGregor at Holy Shmoly! Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:09:32 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-23510 [...] films and the sooner the whole merchandising juggernaut disappears the better. Even Grandad thinks they’re rather strange. How long is your lightsaber [...] [...] films and the sooner the whole merchandising juggernaut disappears the better. Even Grandad thinks they’re rather strange. How long is your lightsaber [...]

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-22042 Grandad Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:43:48 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-22042 WB - Thanks for clearing that up. This is the first I have heard about it. So the essence of the story is that Ewan didn't enjoy making Star Wars? And this is somehow showing disrespect to Jedi [who are fictional characters]? Wow! So these morons want to deprive UNICEF and a children's hospice because of an imaginary insult to a character in a story? Infantile! WB - Thanks for clearing that up. This is the first I have heard about it.

So the essence of the story is that Ewan didn’t enjoy making Star Wars? And this is somehow showing disrespect to Jedi [who are fictional characters]?

Wow! So these morons want to deprive UNICEF and a children’s hospice because of an imaginary insult to a character in a story?

Infantile!

]]> By: wb http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-22038 wb Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:55:11 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-22038 Yes, Ewan visited the children's hospice he has supported for years and was answering a child's question about his favorite acting experience and least favorite. You can't blame him for saying acting to a blue screen was his his least favorite! But the gossip press ran with that innocent answer to say that Ewan hated Star Wars. Pretty big difference between it being his least favorite acting experience having hated it. Ewan merchandise: Not much. He sells "Long Way Round" and "Long Way Down" books, DVDs, and scarves to benefit UNICEF and the children's hospice. Yes, Ewan visited the children’s hospice he has supported for years and was answering a child’s question about his favorite acting experience and least favorite. You can’t blame him for saying acting to a blue screen was his his least favorite!

But the gossip press ran with that innocent answer to say that Ewan hated Star Wars. Pretty big difference between it being his least favorite acting experience having hated it.

Ewan merchandise: Not much. He sells “Long Way Round” and “Long Way Down” books, DVDs, and scarves to benefit UNICEF and the children’s hospice.

]]> By: Gerry http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21687 Gerry Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:53:59 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21687 I heard a six-year-old village girl on my street say out loud some years ago to a boy about her own age: "You're an asshole, Paul." She got that remark straight off one of the American cop series. I heard a six-year-old village girl on my street say out loud some years ago to a boy about her own age: “You’re an asshole, Paul.” She got that remark straight off one of the American cop series.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21684 Grandad Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:38:03 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21684 Absolutely nothing. Apart from teaching parents to switch the telly off. In most cases though, parents find that the telly is a very convenient babysitter, so the children are reared on it from infancy. And we wonder why the language here is so Americanised? Absolutely nothing. Apart from teaching parents to switch the telly off. In most cases though, parents find that the telly is a very convenient babysitter, so the children are reared on it from infancy. And we wonder why the language here is so Americanised?

]]> By: Gerry http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21683 Gerry Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:21:14 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21683 It's good to hear that 'scientific' studies done in Holland on the morale of families that eat regular meals with the TV set switched off have proved what many of us know from commonsense observation. Can we do anything about it, though? It’s good to hear that ’scientific’ studies done in Holland on the morale of families that eat regular meals with the TV set switched off have proved what many of us know from commonsense observation. Can we do anything about it, though?

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21682 Grandad Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:57:00 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21682 You could well be right, Gerry. Studies done in Holland have shown that families who eat together [without the television on] and who converse are more cohesive. There is less of a feeling then of isolation amongst the younger generation, which in turn leads to a much better society. You could well be right, Gerry.

Studies done in Holland have shown that families who eat together [without the television on] and who converse are more cohesive. There is less of a feeling then of isolation amongst the younger generation, which in turn leads to a much better society.

]]> By: Gerry http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21665 Gerry Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:55:25 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21665 We know that the unplugged television is a babysitter for young children. We know that it is not switched off during evening meals, thus interfering with the ancient custom of the family evening meal, when parents talk to children or talk in an adult way to each other in front of the children. I am beginning to have a theory that this diminishing communication between parents and children is one thing contributing to the alarming rate of suicides in Ireland by young males aged 16-25. We know that the unplugged television is a babysitter for young children. We know that it is not switched off during evening meals, thus interfering with the ancient custom of the family evening meal, when parents talk to children or talk in an adult way to each other in front of the children.

I am beginning to have a theory that this diminishing communication between parents and children is one thing contributing to the alarming rate of suicides in Ireland by young males aged 16-25.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21649 Grandad Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:16:27 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21649 Gerry - You have hit on one of my great irritations in life. I have always maintained that television is one of the greatest curses of the modern age. It robs people of the need to think or to use their imagination. It breeds discontent with its advertising. It gives people artificial worlds in which to inhabit, to the extent that some forget that there is a world outside television. We live in an incredibly shallow world, where 'celebrity' is the Golden Calf of our age. The modern icon is, in general, some talentless, brainless bimbo who's contribution to society is less than zero. I could go on, but I'd better not. I would fill up too many pages. Paul - You're welcome. Are you a Yoda fetishist? Gerry - You have hit on one of my great irritations in life.

I have always maintained that television is one of the greatest curses of the modern age. It robs people of the need to think or to use their imagination. It breeds discontent with its advertising. It gives people artificial worlds in which to inhabit, to the extent that some forget that there is a world outside television.

We live in an incredibly shallow world, where ‘celebrity’ is the Golden Calf of our age. The modern icon is, in general, some talentless, brainless bimbo who’s contribution to society is less than zero.

I could go on, but I’d better not. I would fill up too many pages.

Paul - You’re welcome. Are you a Yoda fetishist?

]]> By: Paul @ Elders Tribune http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21648 Paul @ Elders Tribune Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:39:21 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2007/09/08/a-very-sad-person/#comment-21648 Yoda?! Now I need to go see a therapist to get that image out of my mind. Thanks so much. Yoda?! Now I need to go see a therapist to get that image out of my mind. Thanks so much.

]]>