That Jonathan Meades programme on Mussolini last night

[The Jorge]

:bow: just ****ing :bow:

That lad can really make a documentary, cant he? Also, bonus points for making fascism funny.

[Luis Anaconda]

:bow: just ****ing :bow:

That lad can really make a documentary, cant he? Also, bonus points for making fascism funny.

Mussolini or Meades made fascism funny?

Also what channel was it on?

[Burney]

:bow: just ****ing :bow:

That lad can really make a documentary, cant he? Also, bonus points for making fascism funny.

Oh, I didn't know one was on. Must watch it on iPlayer.

His series on France was absolutely outstanding - deeply affectionate while also taking care to dismantle rather a lot of their preciously-held national myths.

[Burney]

Mussolini or Meades made fascism funny?

Also what channel was it on?

To be fair, Musso was very much the cuddly face of fascism. Bless 'em, the eyeties aren't really cut out for centralised totalitarianism - or any other form of organised government, for that matter.

[redgunamo]

:bow: just ****ing :bow:

That lad can really make a documentary, cant he? Also, bonus points for making fascism funny.

I'm just happy he's found some more suitable work

http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files/scaled/711x400/sep_15/gun__1441125353_meade_raphael.jpeg

[Burney]

I'm just happy he's found some more suitable work

http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files/scaled/711x400/sep_15/gun__1441125353_meade_raphael.jpeg

Ironically, the cannon on his shirt looks rather detumescent. If only Raphael had been. :-(

[The Jorge]

Mussolini or Meades made fascism funny?

Also what channel was it on?

They both did but I was specifically talking about Meades, here's the BBC einPlayer link http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07d7nj9/ben-building-mussolini-monuments-and-modernism

[Luis Anaconda]

To be fair, Musso was very much the cuddly face of fascism. Bless 'em, the eyeties aren't really cut out for centralised totalitarianism - or any other form of organised government, for that matter.

Indeed - who couldn't love that podgy face

http://i.makeagif.com/media/6-29-2015/MfOp5N.gif

[Sir C]

:bow: just ****ing :bow:

That lad can really make a documentary, cant he? Also, bonus points for making fascism funny.

Hmm. I was a big fan when he was a restaurant critic and enjoyed some of his early TV work, but I've felt recently that he has invested rather too much energy in his shambling Blues Brother image, and the wimsy and irony is now not so much sprinkled around the commentary so much as laid on with a trowel.

[The Jorge]

To be fair, Musso was very much the cuddly face of fascism. Bless 'em, the eyeties aren't really cut out for centralised totalitarianism - or any other form of organised government, for that matter.

Ultimately though, you're in Rome you're going to get imperial ideas, arent you? Kind of lends itself to it really.

[The Jorge]

Indeed - who couldn't love that podgy face

http://i.makeagif.com/media/6-29-2015/MfOp5N.gif

Revolutionary biscuits of Italy
Rise up out of your box!
You have nothing to lose but your wafers
Yum yum yum yum yum!'

[The Jorge]

Oh, I didn't know one was on. Must watch it on iPlayer.

His series on France was absolutely outstanding - deeply affectionate while also taking care to dismantle rather a lot of their preciously-held national myths.

Yes, he's a bloody marvel, isnt he? I think I posted this before but here you go: https://www.youtube.com/user/MeadesShrine/playlists

[Luis Anaconda]

Yes, he's a bloody marvel, isnt he? I think I posted this before but here you go: https://www.youtube.com/user/MeadesShrine/playlists

Ta - will catch up with that. I like a good Meades

[Burney]

Yes, he's a bloody marvel, isnt he? I think I posted this before but here you go: https://www.youtube.com/user/MeadesShrine/playlists

Interestingly, that doesn't have the Channel 4 J'accuse one he did attacking vegetarians back in the 90s. I watched it not long ago and, while a bit heavy-handed in places, it was extremely funny and rather well argued.

[The Jorge]

Hmm. I was a big fan when he was a restaurant critic and enjoyed some of his early TV work, but I've felt recently that he has invested rather too much energy in his shambling Blues Brother image, and the wimsy and irony is now not so much sprinkled around the commentary so much as laid on with a trowel.

Ah see, I rather thought he sounded like an utter **** in his food work. Mostly because anybody writing, or talking even, about food runs so gayly into the long grass of pretentiousness.

[The Jorge]

Interestingly, that doesn't have the Channel 4 J'accuse one he did attacking vegetarians back in the 90s. I watched it not long ago and, while a bit heavy-handed in places, it was extremely funny and rather well argued.

It did but I think C4 police this stuff quite a bit nowadays

[Burney]

It did but I think C4 police this stuff quite a bit nowadays

Nah. Voici

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohMGqFhpypo

[The Jorge]

Nah. Voici

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohMGqFhpypo

Haw he haw *pop*