This looks good: Dave Gorman in America Unchained
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where do they get their gas from?
Mrs Miggins
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Yes - I spotted that massive flaw in the logic too!
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
But I suppose it's the best you can do if you own a car. Otherwise you could follow that logic all the way down to 'let's stop drinking water because of the greedy bastards who own the water treatment facilities and pump it to our homes'. Like with anything, you make the best choices you have at your disposal. He did say the last time he filled up the tank that he hoped it would be the last time he ever did so, because he'd sold his own car back in London.
yeh, but it wasn't so much the capitalist/environmental/economic aspect of The Man the programme was about, more the experience - the homogeneity/corporate identity thing.
As such the fact that all petrol comes from The Man was less relevant that the fact that it might be sold to you by a friendly lady in a quaint Olde-American gas station.
Or staying in a Beagle
rather than a Holiday Inn.Arguably that was a bit of a weakness of the whole thing - but it wasn't supposed to be Michael Moore, it was just Dave Gorman doing his quirky gimmicky thing.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
yeh, but it wasn't so much the capitalist/environmental/economic aspect of The Man the programme was about, more the experience - the homogeneity/corporate identity thing.
As such the fact that all petrol comes from The Man was less relevant that the fact that it might be sold to you by a friendly lady in a quaint Olde-American gas station.
Or staying in a Beagle
Arguably that was a bit of a weakness of the whole thing - but it wasn't supposed to be Michael Moore, it was just Dave Gorman doing his quirky gimmicky thing.
Good points
I've got a soft spot for Dave Gorman anyway. I freely admit that it wasn't a thoroughly gripping programme, but I watched it through nonetheless.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I know - it's just something that struck me
aye. It was ironic that when he DID buy petrol off "The Man" that the lady representing "The Man" was actually really lovely and "human" and didn't charge him for bringing a can of petrol out to the car. I guess it was more about small-town America than anything else.
I'm still glad I watched it just for Dog Bark Park. I'm slightly obsessed about staying in a beagle shaped B&B now
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I'm still glad I watched it just for Dog Bark Park. I'm slightly obsessed about staying in a beagle shaped B&B now
Yes that was ace - it almost seems worth going to Idaho JUST to go stay there!
Yes that was ace - it almost seems worth going to Idaho JUST to go stay there!
whaddya mean "almost"?
I've booked my flights already, I'm gonna stay in a beagle belly in my head
zoooo
zero tolerance for walkers
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
whaddya mean "almost"?
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I'm not sure what else Idaho has to offer....
Except this of course....Craters of the Moon National Monument
Why did he keep veering off? Go in a straight line if that's what you wanted to do. Independence is just a name not a state of mind like if you meet a girl called Chastity she's not that until she gets married in fact it's a challenge for every horny fucker that ever lived to make sure she isn't.
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