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The Mafia with Trevor McDonald

starts in 15 minutes on ITV
not much I look forward to on TV, but as soon as I first saw this advertised I thought that looks like a must watch

Comments

  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,190
    As someone with Italian heritage these type of shows are always interesting to me. Even just to see the generic stereotypes they portray. My uncles fit pretty much 90% of those stereo types!
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,524
    Hard to comprehend how some people think nothing of killing another, don't know how they can live with themselves. Guess the brain's just wired differently.
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,345
    This John bloke seems proud of what he did
    just talking about Pistol Whipping a construction working, stripping him down and throwing him in a lake, and had a big smile on his face to whole time he was saying it.
  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    That bloke at the end who was raking in $10m a week back at the height of it!!! That's absolutey insane!!
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,345

    That bloke at the end who was raking in $10m a week back at the height of it!!! That's absolutey insane!!

    never noticed before how much your name sounds like the nickname of a mafia member
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,881
    edited March 2015
    says "Paulie" Walnuts!
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,345
    edited March 2015
    LoOkOuT said:

    says "Paulie" Walnuts!

    I am worried about my life now, if I suddenly disappear then it was The Organiser
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,848

    LoOkOuT said:

    says "Paulie" Walnuts!

    I am worried about my life now, if I suddenly disappear then it was The Organiser
    Nah. Could be any one of hundreds on here..... :smiley:
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,801
    Me and Telmc32 are part of the Murphyafia.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Simon Church is apparently in the Taffia...

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  • Davo55 said:

    LoOkOuT said:

    says "Paulie" Walnuts!

    I am worried about my life now, if I suddenly disappear then it was The Organiser
    Nah. Could be any one of hundreds on here..... :smiley:
    He was talking too much.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    shirty5 Member
    March 13
    paulie8290 said:
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    how much you gonna sponsor me, to open a new thread every minute for 24 hours
    I will give Comic Relief ten pounds if you don't start a new thread for 2 weeks starting this monday.

    Didn't last long @Pauliefailed
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,391
    edited March 2015
    Interesting programme .. but how much is real and how much scripted by fans of the Sopranos ? .. as the masked individual at the end commented, the FBI with all their technology and the threat of very long prison sentences for those found guilty under the iniquitous RICO laws, have pretty much neutered the Mafia .. and how come all these 'hunted, haunted' grasses are still walking the streets and living openly in opulence and luxury ? .. they should be sleeping with the fishes ((:>)
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,209
    I didn't watch it because the trailers put me off. It seemed to be Sir Trev making scripted assertions and the interviewee mumbling "you do what you gotta do", thereby making no admissions at all. Was it actually like that or was the trailer misleading?
  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    Like Lincs saud above I was surprised how some of them were openly walking and driving round 'the streets' having testified against thier own and their lives apparently being in danger 24/7.
    I think it's the openness and care free attitude to killings that is an eye opener - you see it in the films but seeing real people so emotionless about acts they've committed is a bit different.
    As they kept saying 'that's the life'.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    The pictures from the 70s etc could have been taken straight out of Goodfellas
  • Can't believe how many bertie smalls there were and all still walking around shaking hands in the street,

    Shit nonsense program as made up as eastenders
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,212
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    I read this over the summer. It's a proper bullshit-free discussion and history. Gripping and depressing in equal measure.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,087
    That is an excellent book.