Posts by Craig Ranapia
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the way polyamory seems to have been lumped together with bestiality and paedophilia as 'the worst things we could think of to smear same-sex marriage with".
Of course, because all of the above isn't even an honestly dishonest well-oiled playground slide of an argument as far as I can see. It's just code for "damn fags will fuck everything all at once give half the chance, and they want us normal people to accept it". M'kay...
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I reckon it’s always better to leave a city regretting you can’t stay longer, though – the other option is usually regretting you stayed that long, and that colours the bits you did enjoy.
True enough - it took two thousand years and change for London to become what it is. Wee bit arrogant to think all its mysteries and delights are going to reveal themselves in a few days (or weeks or even months).
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Muse: Postcard from London: Lines…, in reply to Conrad Heine,
Bear in mind that the extortionate ticket prices for temporary exhibitions (and the ripoff restaurants etc) at the likes of Tate Modern, Tate Britain, National Gallery, V&A, British Museum etc etc, to a degree subsidise awesome and free permanent collections.
Sure - but what I got fucked off about was having a Gift Aid loading put on my ticket without being asked or having it explained to me. I'm going to de-spleen a post as soon as I've had dinner, but if they're pulling this on half the 3 million plus non-UK visitors to the Tate in 2009/10 (the last year figures are available) -- who can't actually benefit from the Gift Aid tax credit.... Well, it's one hell of a scam.
I was ready to rip the clerk a new arsehole until a thought passed my brain-rage barrier: You know, he's probably doing exactly what he was trained to. Gave him the gimlet eye instead, and suggested he look up "donation" on his tea break.
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Muse: Postcard from London: Lines…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
While you’re still in London, have you visited Senate House – the one made (in)famous by George Orwell?
Rather hard to miss - staggered past on the way to the British Museum if that counts. Please expect months of wailing and gnashing of teeth over everything you couldn't possibly do in four days. It's the question: Do you do a lot of things on the trot. or swallow hard and decide to spend half and full days somewhere?
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Never mind - you should enjoy my tale of ticket office extortion at Tate Britain today. I fucking didn't.
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And further to my points, one only has to listen to Michael Lhaws on a good day. Change all the nasty stuff he talks about to Gypsies and Romani, and you get the general idea.
Actually, no - Red. If you want to draw that analogy, let's go there and do it properly and honestly. Perhaps you should haul arse to Berlin and stand in Bebelplatz and look at this for a while. Then turn around and look at the facade of Humboldt University -- not only were thousands of volumes from that great institution's libraries destroyed on that bonfire, hundreds of Jews and "ideologically unreliable" staff lost their jobs - if not their lives. An institution famed for its emphasis on scholarly rigor and integrity built over a century was gutted in a few short years.
Do some research into what the bland term "Aryanization" really meant for German publishing, radio and newspapers.
I wouldn't piss on Laws if his head was on fire, but cheap (and dishonest) Nazi analogies trivialize the violence done not only to thousands of individuals but a nation's sense of cultural identity. There's a large part of the world where that's not just a rhetorical trope but real, and in many ways still raw, history.
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But our press culture has always allowed a greater latitude to cartoonists, on the part of their editors and on the part of the public.
This tradition has a bearing as the press begins to fall out of love with John Key's government.
OK, and just because you can do something does that mean we should applaud it. (Which is distinct from saying "well, I'll defend to the death your right to be a crass, ignorant fuckwit because that's how freedom of speech has to work if it's going to mean anything at all.")
In a fit of masochism, I've been picking up the occasional copy of the Daily Mail and they are very free with the ghastly Nazi analogies -- especially where the Eurozone is concerned. Even if you think the current coalition is evil incarnate, it might well serve cartoonists to think whether that's a bar to avoid entirely.
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BChipping away at the Govt…
Which isn’t actually what this enquiry is supposed to be about. (Anyone remember, let alone still care about, journalists wiping their arse on any concept of privacy?) It’s vaguely irrelevant reading the English papers right now when regime change in France – and paralysis in Greece – could have serious consequences the rest of the continent’s media considers worth attention.
she had the awareness and easy confidence of a high-functioning psychopath.
Or without being that offensive, Russell, someone who has probably spent weeks - if not months - with the best lawyers and media trainers a lot of money can hire drilling her on every possibly line of questioning.
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Sophie – I can’t frigging believe I didn’t get yours and Steve’s address when we last met. Could you please DM me and I'll rectify the lack of postcardage immediately.
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Anyone still driving the notorious Trabis?
I'm sure someone somewhere is suffering for the sake of DDR kitsch, but I did sit in one at the Deutsches Technikmuseum and take a magical mystery tour to Stasiland… It smelled of damp, rust and futile resignation but the kids loved it. Weird little sods.
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