Posts by Keir Leslie
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No, I mean that you are coming across as both clueless and patronising.
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Chris, I dare say that Paul knows what the Art History Department at Canterbury looks like.
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Wouldn't like to be a strawman around here right now, oh no. Thrashed to within an inch of my life I would be, oh yes.
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For `dealt to' read `randomly assaulted'; very few people like getting punched during sports games.
If you want to be Millwall, nobody will like you. Deal with it & don't be surprised when other people don't want anything to do with you.
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There is a cosy place in hell for those with PhDs who put Doctor on their Koru Club Cards. The purpose of this is to identify MDs for emergencies.
Er, really? because in Germany (& quite a few other countries) it's a convention to call yourself Dr X in pretty much every situation. If ANZ uses Dr. X to spot medical doctors that's a bad idea.
(& surgeons are always Mr or Miss/Ms/Mrs; so in fact many medical doctors won't call themselves Dr X.)
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I don't think women like Linda aren't willing to speak here because of my hiphop posturing.
I've definitely stopped bothering with this one because of it, and I am neither a woman, nor particularly faint-hearted, but I just can't be bothered dealing with this crap.
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Strikes me as intellectual self-gratification at first glance, but then someone has to do it, I suppose.
Really? I mean, come on. This is just mindlessly stupid, up there with telling someone who studied at the Courtauld that they don't know art history.
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It means that attribution is no longer the issue, and that now more interesting things than connoisseurship can be attempted.
It doesn't have much to do with the question of the definition of art, beyond the obvious fact that Boardman is using `artist' to refer to Exekias.
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Er, Islander, if you do want read those articles, feel free to drop me a line at my first dot lastname at gmail.com, and I can probably help.
And Sacha, if you are going to be as petty as to note who has a doctorate, the convention is to say something understated like `I note that Dr Tiso and Mr Litterick disagree'; anything else is gauche.
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In Iceland's case, the crushing debt that the citizens have to repay was incurred by the banking sector.
It was incurred by Iceland. Iceland wanted into Europe (esp. the UK) & to do that you have to promise that the banking system is backed by the state.
Unfortunately that was a hugely stupid promise to make given that Iceland's banks were about as solid as an igloo next to a thermal vent, but then many nations make stupid business decisions. So yes it arose out of the banking sector, but only because the government agreed to take on that kind of debt if it ever arose. The government was quite free to refuse, and stay out of the system of European banking regulation.