Re: Ransome on TV and Radio


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Posted by John Nichols on April 21, 2003 at 13:55:54 from 165.91.199.202 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Ransome on TV and Radio posted by Duncan on April 21, 2003 at 10:13:37:

Duncan,

We do not get BBC on the cable we get in Texas, as a matter of fact our TV here is limited to 54 channels of which one carries anything useful and the rest are a bit drole.

I am happy to discuss any topic related to Ransome or his politics that you like. I did not enjoy his stuff on Oscar Wilde, expose reporting in 1904 (or thereabouts) is still expose reporting.

I have not seen the movies, I would like to, but I am saving up to bring my daughters to America for the summer so I can see them for 3 weeks, which is the reason I started to design Swallow to take them sailing. As my brother said in a rude email "buy a Californian fibreglass boat"

I could I suppose, but that would not teach my daughters about sailing in a real boat that moves and breathes, a bit like a 0-4-4 being compared to Union Pacific Diesel. I learnt to sail in a wooden boat that weighed twice what the next boat in the class weighed, and I never won anything, but then again I won alot as I learned to sail and I could enjoy Ransome. My brother races competively in Diamonds and such like. Nice guy, he just can not lose at all. I understand the rumours that he took out a lot of the weight in the keel are true. But that is his choice, mine is to spend my time designing the plans for a boat that ceased to exist in the 1930's so I can teach an 8 yr old girl to sail and try and dial back her competive streak. She makes her Uncle look like a wuss as a competitor. ( A wuss - 100 kg of manure in a 20 kg bag left in the sun to long). Her Sister calls it Charlotteness.

As far as Beckfoot goes, we teach Architecutral theory here and there are people paying good money to learn how to reconstruct homes from inadequate plans. Here you can learn the trick for free and have fun along the road, plus Ed is a worthy adversary in terms of debunking my theories on the house and now Adam has shown we are both wrong and so we go to the moon to solve this problem.

I also get the joy of meeting nice people (for the most part) and having a good yack (a walkabout talk) each day. Ed is a really nice guy and it is fun to take my mind of my real research on deaths in earthquakes, a morbid topic but someone has to look at the issue as it only kills about 2 million a century a lot of them young and old. Schools are particulary hard hit.

I spent 20 years listening to the Australian Liberals describe the Reds as being under the beds and other such things that I am not prepared to repeat here. The funniest line I ever heard was someone saying the Australian bankers would be under the beds and the then PM said not the reds were already there.

Lenin was not a nice guy, and the communist thing has been shown to be a problem because absolute power corrupts etc. But then again capitalism has its problems just try getting sick in the USA, and see your wallet drain faster than a crowded club addressed by a GA.

It is a pity that Captain John Walker does not run the world as benignly as he ran the Swallow, then again he would be like Lazarus Long in the Heinlein series.

So Duncan balls in your court, what would you like to talk about?

John Nichols




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