"What about my Irish ruffians?"

Front-butt plumber butt.

"She has one of those see-through shirts that you don't even wanna" is a particularly nasty put-down in the film.

Renton is a scumbag, but he's a slightly smarter, more thoughtful scumbag as compared with his mates. Sick Boy is an exploitative scumbag. Spud is a gentle but somewhat dim scumbag. Begbie is a psychopathic, aggressive scumbag. So there's a whole rainbow of scum there, in both the movie and the book(s).

16 Years of Alcohol starring Kevin McKidd is well worth finding. Bremner has a cameo in that as well.

I'm reading The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray, author of the absolutely brilliant Skippy Dies. So far it's interesting but it starts a bit slow. I maintain optimism that it will get better.

Still holding out hope for Ray Winstone as Marwyn the Mage: "She takes your facking member in her mouf, and you moan wif the pleasure of it and fink, 'facking hehw', … and den her teef snap shut and youah the wouwd'd biggest facking mug."

This is perhaps my favorite Hatesong ever, and it also concerns a Taylor Swift song: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

It's what he would have wanted.

For whatever it's worth, in one of the interviews I read he specifically said his character was supposed to be a bit like a cow in appearance and temperament (or something like that).

I loved the scene where Ed stares longingly at the painting of the pasture. Plemons was asked to keep weight on that he had gained for another role because his character was supposed to be bovine in nature—slow-moving and content to chew the grass on his little piece of land. Also loved his wife holding up the check…

Pop. I'LL KILL YOU

Hey, show Slate Plus member Gentle Herpes some respect!

Why can't the internet debate something useful, like whether pizza is a pie?

I put on a brave face, but I still find dogman/bearman/manbearpig from The Shining deeply unsettling (particularly when accompanied by Polish choirs chanting like hissing radiators and with the clacking sound the movie uses for scare scenes).

I like Oswalt's comedy and follow him on twitter, but after glancing at his tweets today I am unable to marshal enough fucks to reconstruct what they are arguing about.

Oh, she's not a mess—it's just that her people are Nordic.

I count four things.

Frenchman: "Stupide!"
*walks out of theatre, goes to Jerry Lewis movie*
Jerry Lewis: "HIVEN mrs Hivenflive!"
Frenchman: *kisses fingers* "Ah! Formidable!"

You don't have to bump; just enjoy the ride!