The Mel Gibson Tapes

I have though him utterly mad ever since I saw that truly dreadful pornographic blood fest 'The passion of the Christ'.

I read yesterday in 'The Times' that The William Morris Agency has dropped him, even if she set him up, he took the bait.

So now he has publicly insulted women, jews, gays, and may well go on to insult everyone except the Pope.

I can remember the days when he made moving films about humanity directed by Peter Weir, 'Gallipoli' for instance. Nothing would drag me into a cinema to see the kind of junk he has been involved in the last decade or more.

He lost my respect years ago when he started exhibiting an obviously anti-British bias. He's obviously on a self-destructive course.

Anti English, surely? He was nice about the Scots and everyone in Hollywood seems to love the Irish. I'm not sure they know the Welsh exist.

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Originally posted by James L:
Who has heard the tapes?

OK, sounds like she set him up to spew his guts on tape but is he insane?

I have heard all of them. He does sound like he is out of his mind.. Though I believe there is a "rest of story" to be told.
She seems to be a real piece of crap.

At least he didn't make her wear a Burqa...

Southpark had his number years ago.

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Anti English, surely? He was nice about the Scots and everyone in Hollywood seems to love the Irish. I'm not sure they know the Welsh exist.

Quite right. Sometimes I just type quickly without thinking about what I've said ... probably was half-thinking about not offending the non-English (poor sods) members of the UK.

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Originally posted by munch:

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Originally posted by Sniper:
I have though him utterly mad ever since I saw that truly dreadful pornographic blood fest 'The passion of the Christ'.

Great sound track album by Peter Gabriel though.

I think you are confusing Gibson's garbage with Martin Scorcese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" for which Peter Gabriel wrote the soundtrack "Passion".

Andrew.

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Originally posted by David Scott?: I'm not sure they know the Welsh exist.

I suspect I may not be the only Welsh person on here to express some relief about that

Hmm, the "40 Year Old Virgin" or "Twin Town"? "Independence Day" or "The Last Days Of Dolwyn"?

Such a tough call!!!

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Originally posted by David Scott?:
I'm not sure they know the Welsh exist.

They know Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Z. Jones, Richard Burton, and Christian Bale exist. Definite shortage of "movies-involving-Wales-and-or-the-Welsh-but-not-featuring-Hugh-Grant", though, for sure.

I've not watched a film of his in a decades. I did see Gallipoli but that was when he was a newcomer and got the big break. Once he hit Hollywood stories were rife with his nastiness. Yes, I do listen to gossip (amazing the people I meet here, talking at a bar or out to dinner with friends)! I'd never want to meet this creep.

Temptation of Christ is to be cherished and has Gabriel collaborating with middle eastern musicians, I don't think he actually wrote the music.

Gibson's blood fest and the Scottish one I'd never make it thru.

They know they exist(ed), but do they know they're Welsh?

Well quite!

The tendency when one uses the word "Welsh" is for the next question to be "... and which part of England is that?".

Mike

My Dad once spoke to a plumber who'd been on holiday in the US. This would have been in the 60s or 70s. Many of the people he met there were surprised to meet a Scottish plumber as they didn't expect us to have running water in our homes.

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Originally posted by David Scott?:
My Dad once spoke to a plumber who'd been on holiday in the US. This would have been in the 60s or 70s. Many of the people he met there were surprised to meet a Scottish plumber as they didn't expect us to have running water in our homes.

Many didn't. Plenty more had to log outside.

Chilly in Feb'.

David Scott?:

- Do they know they're Welsh? Good point, probably not, except for maybe Richard Burton.
- Ya'll got plumbin'? I'm from Arkansas, and I got the same sort of thing when I visited the UK (not everywhere, no, and mostly in jest). Perhaps equally confounding, I was wearing shoes. (In fact, I grew up without indoor plumbing, but there weren't that many families like ours.)

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Originally posted by Mike Dudley:
At least he didn't make her wear a Burqa...

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I grew up without indoor plumbing

I remember from 13-21, my family lived in a house with outside toilet (we'd fallen on hard times for a few years). Not as uncommon as you might think.

I grew up in a house without rolled up newspaper.

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Originally posted by David Scott?:
My Dad once spoke to a plumber who'd been on holiday in the US. This would have been in the 60s or 70s. Many of the people he met there were surprised to meet a Scottish plumber as they didn't expect us to have running water in our homes.

I have been asked many silly questions by Americans over the years:
- Do you have TV? and on being astonished by my answer...
- Do you have colour TV?

- Do you have carpets? My wife, being less of a diplomat than I am replied, "Yes of course we do. And they're made of real wool, not the nylon shit you lot seem happy with".

- Girl in DMV in California: "Your previous address is Scotland. Where's that?"
- Me: "Where do you think?"
- Girl: "British Columbia?"

I couldn't tell you much about Wyoming or Iowa but I'd be able to guess they probably have TV and carpets.

Incidentally I actually found Passion of the Christ an incredibly powerful and moving film. I hated Last Temptation though. Each to his own.

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Sorry a bit off thread ,
What age did you qualify as a Anaethsthetist?
When you became a Consultant a Mr,Did you have any interest in pain managment?

Well, I was 22 when I graduated in Medicine from Edinburgh, 31 when I became a Consultant Anaesthetist in Burton-On-Trent (I tried various career options, including General Practice, before deciding I liked Anaesthesia)

I set up and ran single-handedly the Burton Hospitals Chronic Pain Service for 14 years. It was one of those career choices that sort of crept up on me. I was only one in the department who had any more than the usual amount of knowledge/expertise in pain relief, and the occasional request for help (initially I had no sessional time allocated to it) gradually grew until I was seeing more than 30 patients in an outpatient session and 15-20 in a treatment session.

Never could persuade the hospital to give me more than 1 and a half sessions per week for it, so a lot of it was done in my own personal time. Management even had the cheek to come and ask me what I was going to do about my increasing waiting list, but were unwilling to let me give up ordinary anaesthetic sessions to cover it ... go figure. SWMBO firmly believes that the overwork and stress involved in this eventually impacted my health and caused my angina etc. I and one of the Intensivists were the hospital's specialist paediatric anaesthetists, so that was another major call on my time - even when nominally off-duty.

I only gave it up when I was asked to join the Intensive Care Specialist team due to severe staffing shortfalls in that area. Apparently I was the only one of the General Anaesthetic Consultants whom they considered good enough to join them!

There was no way I could realistically keep up with the reading and practical skills involved with 2 major subspecialities, so I presented management with the choice, and they wanted me to do Intensive Care. Two years later I had my first myocardial infarct.

The joke is that within 1 year of me giving up the Pain Clinic, they had appointed a full-time Pain Consultant and Psychologist to help him! Perhaps I hadn't been forceful enough in asking for help!

Hope you're not asking because you're one of my failures.

Personally, I thought "The Passion of the (alleged) Christ" was a great window into the mind of Mel Gibson.

Clearly, a tortured man with issues about his relationship with his equally bananas father and also with his own sexuality... Oedipus Complex, anyone?

Can't imagine why I did the long post about myself. Totally inappropriate. Must have been a mental aberration. Sorry.

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Originally posted by Dungassin:
Can't imagine why I did the long post about myself. Totally inappropriate. Must have been a mental aberration. Sorry.

Don't worry it's more informative than the answers to the original question!