Posts by giovanni tiso
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I honestly thought in the context of the etiquette of an Internet forum, it was fairly outrageous. Not wasting wit on that.
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See, we can't directly communicate. Only emote. Ah, the delicious irony!
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You could make an argument that The Rock of Love Bus is better than The Wire, I suppose. I mean, it depends fiirst of all on better how, in what specific respects. Qlipoth might well argue that TROLB is better because it's less evil. But nothing is better than anything else a priori and in all circumstances. It's just that as in all things extraordinary claims will require extraordinary arguments.
But then of course if you're not even allowed to think and argue, but just to feel (enjoy/not enjoy), the whole thing becomes a pointless consumerist exercise. And who's got time for that?
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I can reveal that Sam's surname is not actually "F". I know, shocking!
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I'm not blaming the previous Government for anything. I'm stating they were the ones who started this process. And observing that if they hadn't started the process, it wouldn't be so advanced now. This is basically a truism.
A bit of a long bow, though, no? I mean the gripe here is with the suspension of democracy, not with the idea of amalgamating the councils itself. And while I'm not necessarily ultra-confident that Labour would have acted very differently, well, they're not in charge are they?
All that said, spare a thought for our European friends. Compared to how the European Commission works, the Auckland Super City is direct democracy in the public square.
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Just as well, otherwise you'd be outed.
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You're not saying it's okay to hate Avatar. You're saying it's okay to hate Avatar only if it's for the same reasons why you loved Avatar.
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No, you're projecting that onto me.
Yeah, right. "If that seems like a worthwhile thing to do", "when he writes his masterpiece", "the desperate bitching [of the critics]". And that's just on this thread.
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Again, not at all. You're most welcome to rail against Avatar until the day you die, dissecting it at thesis length if that seems like a worthwhile thing to do
See? You're doing it again! You're saying that I was wrong in not liking Avatar, because my not liking it involved using critical skills that are either misplaced or not worthwhile to employ. Whereas from where I'm sitting it's simply a matter of having found Avatar awful and being willing to back it up with argument - an argument which is in turn open to being accepted or rejected on its merits.
But somehow these days - and I mean quite recently, since around the time when The Matrix came out - this right to exercise basic criticism has become offensive to a dispiriting number of people. It didn't use to be like that.
I am quite convinced that if we could harness Neil Postman's current rpm's we'd be able to power a medium sized city.
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Oh, hang on, you're criticizing the critic's critic, right? That's all right then.
If only you had offered meaningful criticism beyond "he can't do, therefore he criticises", which I think we can all agree is best left to children.
The trend in the avatar discussion and here has been not that criticism is unfounded, but that criticism is illegitimate, or "pseud", or "idiotic" and your dismissal of Downie's piece ("he seems to have thought about the book far longer than most people would take to read it") speaks directly to that. Curse the people who think too much! Really? FFS.
I just thought of another argument against the Wellywood sign. I fear that the powerful cultural cringe might interfere with the aircraft navigation systems.