The King of Pop

One of the most bizarre yet "must-watch" "shows," if you can call it that, I must have ever witnessed, definitely how Micheal Jackson himself would have like to have been sent off. I particularly like the tributes to him, not only through word and song but also by fashion and style that was show throughout the "show."

The gloves that his brothers wore said so much and they looked great. I don't no if anyone has ever pulled off a fashion statement that bold, that has stuck for so long, decades even.

Not only did his brothers make a statement; the gold coffin which cost £15,000 covered in red roses is absolutely beautiful. Its like no coffin I have ever seen before and its very curvaceous and bold. I would definitely put my money on Micheal loving this send off and everything about it.

RIP MICHEAL JACKSON, THE KING OF POP.

Has he still got it?

I went to see this film as soon as it came out, despite having never seen the five earlier 'prequels' I thought for his age, Sylvester Stallone, who was almost 60 years old when filming, was actually quite endearing and witty, not to mention a damn good writer!

The film which sees Stallone star as Rocky whilst also writing and directing it, follows up Rocky V as Stallone recalls: "he was negligent" in the production of Rocky V and many fans were disappointed at the presumed end of the saga, he too was disappointed and Rocky Balboa allowed Stallone to incorporate some of his own troubles and triumphs of recent times and end with a bang.

Since watching the sequel I have watched the former five films and did not realise there was so much more depth to them, the romance, humour and the tackling of political and social issues to mention just a few.

The final films sees Rocky struggle with the loss of his wife, his dwindling relationship with his son and fighting back his fighters instinct. I thought the film would be a bit of a disaster but I thought it was a great end to the series and actually quite realistic. The end of the film has an alternative ending which would have been far less convincing and I bet you can guess what that was if you have ever seen any of the other Rocky films.

Another note of interest with this film is the different colouring of the DVD cover in comparison to the five earlier film covers. This looks a lot more classic and stylish, it almost looks like a "winner" the classic black, white and gold, comparing to the more gritty black, white and red images from the former DVD covers.

The only one question I have is: does every ones copy of this DVD have the A half cut off from Balboa or is it actually meant to be like that? I have looked at a few and they all have that bad production or strange typographical design.

Well worth a watch though if you haven't see it or even if you haven't seen any of the Rocky films, you never know you might enjoy it.

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The first time I read this was in college, when we discussed swearing. While out teacher started to read this report out loud, the whole class couldn't help but smirk everytime the 'f-word' was said, but now looking back and reading this again that is the whole point!

First of all, read this Guardian investigation into the acceptability of swearing in modern day culture and you can't help but agree.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/nov/21/britishidentity.features11

I do completely agree with Jonathon, certain swear words have lost all shock value and I for one can't talk as I use most swear words several times a day, even if there is no need to use them! I can't even explain why, although saying we use the word "fuck" as a reinforcing adverb answers quite a lot.

Contradicting myself, as a person who does swear usually unnecessarily, I still find myself shocked when watching the likes of Coronation Street and Eastenders and before the watershed and hearing words such as 'bitch' and 'slag.' Maybe if swearing wasn't so accepted on television and radio we wouldn't swear quite so openly and often? Recently the BBC has made the watershed for there main channel BBC1 10pm, with the only swearing before 10pm and after 9pm happening for exceptional circumstances, but they have not stated what counts as 'exceptional'?

The other swearing that usually happens which also makes me cringe, is whilst out shopping when music is playing and you know exactly when the swear word will come in a song and if its not censored out, I can't help but cringe looking around to see if anyone actually heard. Lily Allen's: The Fear I've heard quite a few times whilst out shopping and there actually is a censored version which make is worse when you hear the swearing in the original version!

Despite slagging off swearing, I actually find the views of Nick Lohr quite true, fuck is an interesting word and very flexible expecially when you actually don't know what to say. Whether it should be used though is a very different question.

Although I could probably discuss this more and more, I may even add to this post I'm going to end on the last paragraph and ask: what does this even mean?

"I'd rather my children said fuck than toilet."