Posts by Rich Lock
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It awakens!
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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Nah, they'd prefer this version, surely...?
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Iceland is empirically weirder than New Zealand. Exhibit A being their headlong embrace of dubious kinds of financial services and consequent descent in flames.
I would have thought exhibit A would have been Bjork. Clearly several quantum states of weird removed from anything homegrown.
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And even if they did deserve it, it should not have been done, and would have only served to increase the atrocities that the Germans were already doing. The idea that it would actually scare and unnerve the Germans was just ridiculous. On the contrary it would have made them more vicious, exactly is it did do on the Russian front.
Just to be a history pedant for a moment: the Normandy battlefield was every bit as vicious as the Russian front, with or without provocation. Have a read of Antony Beevor's 'D-Day', if you're interested in the detail.
The journey of the 'Das Reich' division from it's (relatively) safe location in Tolouse, northwards to the normandy battlefield, was marked by a string of atrocities, not least of which was the 'Oradour-sur-Glane' massacre.
He also particularly points out the low numbers of prisoners taken from SS divisions, and notes how unlikely it was that they were all fanatics who would fight to the death rather than be taken alive.
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(For that matter, I loathe misogynistic rap but love grand opera, which is itself problematic on the feminist tip.)
What was so sexist about 'Tommy'? That deaf, dumb and blind kid just wanted to play pinball, man. He wasn't hassling anyone.
Or perhaps you meant this?
Here's the interesting thing for me: I love horror movies (re-watch Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Dawn of the Dead, Candyman etc. regularly) but loathe and despise the Saw/Hostel school of torture porn.
Well, the first 'Saw' wasn't too bad, but I've never bothered with the rest of them.
I recall you mentioning you enjoyed 'Inglourious Basterds', though, and I have wondered why '300' made you uncomfortable, but 'Inglourious Basterds' didn't.
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Seems to me that Bos'n Higgs has been on unauthorised shore leave for far too long.
Clearly he is enjoying the charm of strange ports of call.
A dozen lashes with the Schrödinger's cat await him when he finally returns to the good ship Hadron: up, down, top and bottom. No mercy will be shown - it certainly won't be a weak interaction.
That should leave his head spinning.
Oh, and why hasn't anyone youtube'd some Hawkwind yet?
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some of those on screen appeared to have got dressed in the dark
It really tickles me that many of my (male) twitter pals following this were tooting about the dress sense (or lack thereof) of the scentists.
They do realise these guys are scientists and engineers, right? Lack of dress sense and 'interesting' hair kind of come with the territory....
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you can't tell me that there wasn't a masculinist backlash at work
Anyone who has more than a passing interst in this sort of stuff should seek out a copy of Susan Faludi's 'Backlash'.
She basically makes a reasonably convincing case that the status quo will always act to reassert itself, so when uppity wimminz try to get, for example, equal representation/pay in jobs, the (male) status quo will find a way to put them back where they came from.
The follow-up, 'Stiffed' is also well worth a read.
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It's not just feminists. I find this comment goes for just about any kind of opinion or debate.
My reason: Mass media has to appeal to mass markets. Cutting edge is seldom mass market.
but the implication here is that intelligent writing/journalism and mass market appeal are mutually exclusive. I don't think they have to be.
I find it enormously frustrating that most, if not all, 'in-depth' newspaper writing here is either brought in from overseas (which means I read it two weeks earlier online), or just a bit rubbish.
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scans of the Canvas article on feminism.
I am willing to send a copy (old-timey photocopy) to anyone who would like the full Nowra article (just bung me an email).
Copyright takedown notices for all my PAS friends! Two for the price of one!
Tell Russell it's nothing personal, just business...
Ahem. As you were.