Posts by Rich Lock
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It's the same mechanism behind Brexit, behind Corbyn, and behind anything else where a bunch of frustrated people who feel (rightly or wrongly) that they've been marginalised and ignored and patronised and exploited by those in charge are suddenly presented with a lightning rod: the opportunity to scream 'FUCK YOU' as loudly as they possibly can into the face of The Establishment.
Of course, clearing up and dealing with the hangover after the festival of Misrule is always a hassle. But that's a tomorrow problem, right?
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Speaker: Apocalypse on the count of…, in reply to Tristan,
the sign saying no loan zone is terrfiying
As the old saying about mutually-assured destruction goes: 'never a borrower nor a lender be'.
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to Ben Austin,
the Independent (digital only now sadly) sounds a lot like the Herald.
I followed the indy for a while on facebook a year or two ago - most of the major papers in the UK 'stream' headlines into your news feed. I specifically stopped following the indy because every single headline was crafted in a 'one weird trick, and you won't believe what happened next!' style.
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Yes! I have a friend who writes for the Mail Online and I have learned so many fascinating tricks about how to create good, fun, sticky articles. The Mail knows how to make their trashy entertainment news coverage very enjoyable.
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Since this is the Friday music thread, and I don't think it's been mentioned previously, fans of dubby dadtronica might like to know that 'Pitch Black' are back in action after a nine-year pause, and have just released a new album.
They're back in NZ over your summer and are playing a couple of festivals: Northern Bass on December 30th, Rhythm and Alps on December 31st and Sundaise on March 10th.
I saw them play in Hackney a few weeks ago and they were really rather jolly good.
New album on Bandcamp here
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Probably also worth pointing out that the radiation cloud from Chernobyl travelled far enough, and was toxic enough, that livestock monitoring on farms in some areas of the UK (about 1,300 miles from Chernobyl) wasn't fully lifted until 2012.
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motorcycles are forbidden
There was a photoblog a few years back by a Russian biker who claims to have ridden around the local area fairly extensively, although whether it's fully authentic or not has been called into question.
pop-culture resonance
Back before 'found footage' movies had been flogged to death, there was also 'The Chernobyl Diaries', which was partly inspired by this photoblo. I'll link to the GoodBadFlicks review, because he has an awesome channel and doesn't get nearly enough internet love
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Gaffer Departs, in reply to TracyMac,
some genre that isn't done any more - one good friend of mine remains devoted to hair metal
I'd be more surprised to genuinely find a genre that isn't still going in some form. Every one I can think of has mutated, diversified and is still going, albeit for most of them well below the radar of anyone outside their particular niche. It's not news to most people that house, r'n'b, hip-hop, metal, and rock are still alive and well, because they are the mainstream, or there is at least significant bleed-through. But some of the others? Goth? Still going. Industrial? Still going. Goa? Still goa-ing. Hell, most of these sub-sub-sub-genres even seem to have thier own festivals these days - not only are there half-a-dozen metal festivals in the UK, but if those are too mainstream for you, there's a specialist 3-day desert metal fest, AND a specialist 3-day tech/glitch metal fest.
Hair metal ain't my thing, but even it is (was) having a minor resurgence in the form of 'The Darkness', 'Steel Panther', and a handful of other recent acts.
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My favourite reaction to that Donald Trump twitter pile-on was someone who was so delighted with the creativity displayed that he wanted a tear-off calender with a new British insult-phrase on each of the day's sheets. Would probably be a decent money-spinner for someone who put it up on Kickstarter or whatever.
'Wankstain' is my current favourite pejorative, conveying the sense of something unpleasantly messy that needs wiping up.
'Fuck me sideways' is is popular staple for when things go, um, sideways. I mean, yes, you can be fucked sideways in an entirely delightful manner, but that's not the impression it conveys - more along the lines of a filthy equivalent of knocked down with a feather. Slapped to the floor with a huge cock, perhaps.
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to ,
It’s got some dangerous inertia.
My biggest fear with all this is 'what happens next?' Even if Trump loses, I really doubt that everyone is going to then pack up quietly and go home. Same with Brexit.