Comments on: Son Of English Teacher Resists Using Name Of Austrian Modernist Writer In Blog Post About Interminable Bureaucratic Torment

By: Tim Newman

Tim Newman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:04:30 +0000

The final scenes of The Bourne Supremacy were shot in Moscow

Yup. And it’s the only film to date which makes Moscow actually look like Moscow looks.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:16:16 +0000

> because of his scrupulous chopping-off-his-nose-to-spite-his-face honesty, the Geek sentenced himself to half-a-decade of consumer hell.

Oh, God, yeah. I learnt that one when I was nineteen, and remember the incident clearly: some mail-order firm accidentally sent me an extra item in a package, without charging me for it. I was honest, so tried to return it. They punished me, and punished me, and then punished me some more. I have stopped being honest with bureaucratic organisations now, on the grounds that it’s clearly not what they want from their customers. Besides, the few instances of their accidentally giving us freebies are surely vastly outweighed by the number of times they screw us around.

That being said, I did try to be honest with the DVA last year, but to no avail: they absolutely insisted on giving me a free MOT. Mustn’t grumble.

The final scenes of The Bourne Supremacy were shot in Moscow, whilst the opening scenes of The Bourne Ultimatum, ostensibly continuing from the same scenes, were shot in East Berlin. The continuity is absolutely perfect. The Soviets really did make everywhere they went look identical.

By: SnoopyTheGoon

SnoopyTheGoon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:32:51 +0000

Sorry, PG, it’s modern times now. You will be going to the quarry for the execution by your own self, unescorted. Voluntarily and singing all the way.

By: Kibi

Kibi — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:15:33 +0000

Damn those Smurfs

By: PooterGeek

PooterGeek — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:19:59 +0000

I have no idea. He wrote in German though.

I’ve just come back from a business trip to Poland and Slovakia. Every time I arrived in a new location, my host or one of the natives would explain that the reason Place X looked this way was because it used to belong to the Prussians/Hungarians/Germans/Russians/Smurfs before it was invaded by the Smurfs/Russians/Germans/Hungarians/Prussians before it became Polish/Slovakian.

By: David K.

David K. — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:00:54 +0000

Does the modernist writer whose name is rather over-used actually qualify as Austrian? I know that he was born in part of the Austro-Hungarian empire - but isn’t he usually counted as a Czech/Bohemian or an Ashkenazi Jew?
For example Henry Lawson still counts as an Australian writer - even though he was born in part of the British Empire.