The Official Nonsense Thread

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Angela Lansbury is brilliant. It's a shame that she's only remembered for "Murder She Wrote" (Nancy Drew at the menopause) & "Bedknobs & Broomsticks". She's one of those jills of all trades who can do every style of theatre on top of musicals & be casually good at it.

Noel Coward productions are just her thing - she got a Tony for his role in the past.

Making the Red Row demolition part of the Commonwealth opening is very bad taste. A lot of families were evicted in various parts of Glasgow or had their homes compulsory purchased to build the athletes village. The corrupt council used it as an excuse to bulldoze a big chunk of Dalmarnock & scatter communities citywide as well as pay off those people that had bought their council houses at a fraction of the real market cost. Reading those Labour councillors & their pals calling them "iconic" makes me puke - none of their families or relations lived in one of them, they made those on the Housing convenor board make damn sure of that!

One of the reasons they decided to demolish was the bad publicity they got as a dumping ground for asylum seekers when a family who lost their application & were told they were going to be deported all jumped to their deaths, whereupon some enterprising journalist discovered they were meant to have been condemned years before as they're riddled with asbestos, but the council shelved the report.

The Red Row was notorious & few will miss it, but dynamiting homes as "entertainment" is sick. I wonder how those Commonwealth countries that have suffered civil wars will feel about this for an opener.

Sorry, sorry, on my soapbox again!