Posts by stephen clover
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Sorry, not to get all historical on your ass again, but... emphatically yes. Racist iconography has often associated African-Americans with apes or monkeys as a dehumanising slur.
Yes. I know what you're getting at. But.. that's not what he purportedly said is it. If he'd said something like "the Williams sisters remind me of a pair of apes" then it would be a no-brainer. What does "it makes you realise where apes come from" mean? How does that even make sense, even to a racist?
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Not as vile as Veitch's "lashing out" I grant you, but not exactly the way I'd want a high profile employee behaving while on assignment.
Oh, fer sure.. I just thought "despicable" was a bit rough.
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Humourless politically-correct cultural revisionism is almost a sub-genre of comedy in its own right, huh.
If King Kong is a black guy, then the Cadbury gorilla might be Buddy Miles -- whoever it is, they sure know how to play some rock drums.
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About 2 years ago Veitch, in discussing Venus and Serena Williams with someone on air one morning, commented something like "it makes you realise where apes come from".
I don't understand this. What's he saying? What's he asking? What's the answer? Apes come from... Los Angeles? Tennis clubs? It's so confused and ignorant.. is it offensive?
Clint Brown was sacked for an offence that, while despicable, was nowhere near as abhorrent as this.
He did wha' now? Got drunk and got punched? "Despicable"? Easy, tiger...
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I like it too. I think it's to do with the emotion that the gorilla conveys, which is humanlike in its breathing and blinking and stretching, but also gorilla-like in that little snarl it does at the camera in its face. It owes something to King Kong.
It's not actually a gorilla, though, is it. ;))
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Hey, I think so -- but you know something, I actually think The Sopranos is ever so slightly over-rated, the bone people is unreadable, and Coldplay's entire career breeches international conventions against torture, so what do I know?
Huh. I wouldn't disagree too hard w. ya on all three points, so... i may have to give it another crack.
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Oh, and while I'm here...
I'm hearing a lot of noise out of these parts to the effect that the new Battlestar Galactica is actually good|worth watching. This is disconcerting, and not a little alarming. I watched the first few eps of the season one and then gave up in disgust. In fact, I more than once used BSG as an example of *eek* Space Opera in an attempt to illustrate the differences between that, and tru-skool Sci-Fi.
So, uh.. was I wrong? Is it good?
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*quiz
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Perhaps if John Barrowman gets a pair of tights for the next series?
Speaking of, watch John Barrowman and (host) Simon Amstell Have a Gay-Off on UK TV pop-quite Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
ROTFLCOPTER etc.
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Great to know Low over cooked it and the AAG has now been biffed in the compost. I wonder what flys & worms will crawl over it now.
Where's Kyle Chapman when you need him...?
They did introduce a law that outlawed smacking. Smacking your children was legal before the passage of Sue Bradford's bill, and illegal following its passage. If that does not count as outlawing smacking then words have lost all meaning.
This is surely disingenuous. It's not now illegal to smack children. What is now not possible is to claim "discipline" when you beat them.