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Last ep of London on Film - The Suburbs was on BBC 4 last Thursday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kf64g

This one is worth a watch just for the clip of some deer in a park where the sound editor has had a laugh by adding the audio from the "Fenton" YouTube video over it :D
 
Hypedforbrown said:
What is a good heroin documentary that is able to be seen for free either being streamed or not downloaded? And I don't mean a natgeo or discovery channel documentary either. I want a gritty, raw documentary that really depicts the heroin subculture and underworld. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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US-based one may be slightly more relevant than the Swansea-based one recommended (although ultimately addiction is addiction and Swansea Love Story is a great documentary): Black Tar Heroin: Dark Side of the Street - pretty brutal stuff, I defy anybody to watch that (and the sequel (also on YouTube somewhere) that was made a few years later following up on the people shown in the original) and not feel for those in this situation. Doesn't pull any punches and is quite hard to watch in places.

There's a couple other really good ones that I'd also recommend... if I could recall the names offhand.
 
Documentaries I like to think matter, and I see as good aswell at the top of my head.

Drugs inc, a fair and extremely balanced view on drugs.
The Lightbulb Conspiracy
NOVA TV series science love it
HORIZON TV series, science love it
The Universe, love the universe
 
Fuck vice. Said it before, I'll say it again.

Except Ham. Fuck him literally. As in, give him a lay.
 
mydrugbuddy said:
The Will Self interview wasnt exactly full of revelations and amazing new insights. Worth watching though, Jeremey Paxman grilling Will Self about heroin and its effects would have seemed quite surreal normally, but it was in the context of the death of philip seymour hoffmann. Apparently he had been 'clean' for 20 years. Fucks sake thats incredible, 20 years, and still the spectre lurks, or something like that, was what Self said.
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I liked the way self said that it takes a lot of determination to get addicted to the gear. Nice one, my sister will add that to the "you chose to do this and it's ruined my life"
 
Watched Rollin: The Rise of the Drug Economy in Detroit last night. Feature length doc about drugs, gangs, unemployment and social issues in Detroit from the late 60s to the present. Not entirely dissimilar to several other docs about drugs/gangs but not quite as sensational and with a bit more context than usual. Worth a watch.

(i was also amused by the bit right at the end about muckyd's spoons having to be changed cos they were used as standard measurment for bags of heroin in detroit - that's exactly what we used when i first started but had no idea it was apparently specifically due to their use in detroit that they were changed (although the fact they were standard many other places perhaps suggests that detroit folk are overreaching their influence just a tad))

Also watched Reinventing Space Flight about research into plasma rocketry and related stuffs. Interesting doc - I actually learnt a thing or two - that left me wanting to know more which is often a good sign that a doc has produced the desired effect.

In vaguely-related news, new magnetism-based propulsion system been suggested that claims to reach Mars in just three hours and the nearest stars in just two months. Highly hypothetical but wouldn't that just be peachy :)

EDIT: Somewhat annoyingly, the Heil's version of the story actually has far more detail.

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The hyperspace propulsion concept was largely forgotten until it came to the attention of a retired Austrian patent officer, Walter Droscher, in 1980.

Droscher produced an extended version of Heim's theories to describe an eight-dimensional universe called Heim-Droscher space.
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What is it about patent peeps and advanced physics? Are patent offices so short on patents the workers have to fill their time working on breaking the secrets of time and space? Tsk. Haven't they got anything else to do with their time? 8)
 
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You could look at it another way Shambles. These are people looking at other people's ideas all day, they're bound to stumble across a few good ideas. Scribble the original name out, put yours next to it and file it through giving yourself the rights.

Einstein wasn't even a scientist he did a degree in drama, which gave him the skill to lie about it all with confidence.
 
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