Bullshit, he said nothing of the sort. His basic reason was that the "Scouring of the Shire" was a story in its own right, you'd need to a full length movie to do it justice.

And I would have loved to have seen that, but trying to squeeze the Scouring into the last movie would have wrecked both of them.

Get a real job

I don't think I have ever seen a fully erect penis in even an art house movie, let alone a main stream one.

And therein lies a lot of the issues I suspect. Fully erect penises are an unambiguous in-your-face sign of sexual arousal and desire - that just won't do. Flaccid penises just look silly :) and don't particularly appeal to men or women, except as an object of humour. So you're unlikely to see a penis unless its for comedic effect.

I hope the movie is indeed as good as you say.

@jerzee735 - you must be a real blast at parties.

Ok, so we have an anonymous unverified article published in the conservative newspaper of a state dedicated to the destruction of Iran.

Yeah, that's really convincing.

The claims that Salon is reprinting exist in total isolation. No one has ever said anything bad about the Basij before, or the Iranian government, ever.

This is how things get done in the USA. Take the BadGuys(TM) of the month, spread unsourced horror stories seasoned with a sprinkling of truth and one sided reporting, self reference it all as "proof" of what everyone is saying and you have a brand new shiny truth.

Add in human rights abuses to bring in the left, non-Christian religions for the right, fear of the brown folks for both sides and you have a winner.

Saudia Arabia is a *DIFFERENT* country to Iran. Not even the same ethnicity, Iranians are not Arabs.

Svutluv is fetboy! I wondered where he got to, the obsession with penetration, the arbitrary assessment of intoxication levels, the admantinium shield of +10 vs logic, the misogyny and sexual insults against those who men who debate him and worst of all, his wretched infantalising of women under the pretence of femminism - its fetboy to a T.

Soon he'll be threatening violence and rape against those men who disagree, that's what he did to me.

And Salon editors will do nothing about it.

These are things that are considered to dangerous for a person to while they are intoxicated:

Driving

Operating heavy machinery

Practicing medicine

Swimming or diving

Doing any kind of professional work

Wandering through any neighborhood

Hunting and/or carrying firearms

boating

Surfing

Sky diving

sking

And if you do any of them while drunk *you* are responsible for the consequences. You are responsible for the decision to get drunk in the first place and the choices you make thereafter. Indeed for some of those, such as practising medicine or driving, the choice to drink and then practise is a crime in its own right.

If people choose to drink excessively and then have sex that is their choice.

What is really annoying is your continual insistence that women only get drunk at a mans connivance and is then incapable of making her own decisions, a child basically. This is where you reveal your true colours - in your world women are not true people, they have to be protected by the likes of you.

If we continue this argument with him and he remains true to the form of his previous incarnation of fetboy, he'll ignore the women and issue threats of violence against the men and express the hope we'll get raped. We've already seen the childish accusations of sexual inadequacy and small dick size.

As a society we remember that presumption of innocence applies to *everybody*, not just the groups we think worthy.

A new policy has been laid down. All women posing on salon must also post their blood alcohol levels so that we know when we should ignore what they are saying, as all women when they have drunk alcohol are incapable of making decisions. Their poor female brains are just overheated by the alcohol in their blood. Fortunately they have fetboy to protect them from themselves,

Just ask them if they have had five or more drinks in one hour. If the answer is "no," then they are probably of sound mind and judgment.

If the answer if "yes," then have her rest (or stop drinking) for one hour for each drink they have had beyond four.

I post an extreme example assuming even you could not be that paternalistic and then you go and take it seriously. I suggest you try rereading what you just wrote to consider what might just what is so seriously wrong and sick about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallows_and_Amazons_(series)

Fabulous fun series with great role models for boys and girls. Amazing for its time - 1930's England, but still holds up today. Fun for adults to read as well.

You don't have a boyfriend - you have a girlfriend and potential wife.

::ducks and runs::

Its epidemic in your prisons, tens of thousands of men are raped on a daily basis in your prisons, and yet no one covers it. Where is the outrage?

Its a joke, people love funny stories about guys getting raped in prison. And of course they deserved it.

They only exist in your fetid little fantasies fetboy, where you're the big hero rescuing the poor defenceless infantalised drunk women from the vile slavering men who forced alcohol down their throats.

That's all Broadsheet is these days - not that it ever was much more than that.

Doesn't this belong in Broadsheet?