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Please Please Me is a better listen than any of the Beatles' post-Help! albums
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White bread tastes dreadful.
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Nov 24, 2016 11:09
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I used to only have white bread, then I switched to brown bread and only realised how much I'd gone off white bread when I was making my sandwiches to take into work and we'd run out of the whole wheat stuff. White bread is far too sweet-tasting.
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Nov 24, 2016 15:56
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grittyreboot posted:-Grown men who take every opportunity to bitch about Justin Bieber are entitled crybabies. He's not making music for you. Not everything has to appeal to your taste. "I'M ONLY 13 AND I KNOW WE NEED REAL ROCK STARS LIKE PAPA ROACH, NOT THE lovely (C)RAP MUSIC OF 2DAY!" (It was actually this rubbish rather than politics stuff that first inspired me to start blocking comments on YouTube.)
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Nov 30, 2016 13:00
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Jerry Cotton posted:The Comics Code was not "legal", it was self-censorship. Just like the ratings systems games companies adhere to so they can get sold in shops. I believe the big publishers (chiefly National Comics and I think MLJ, which subsequently became DC and Archie) were the driving force behind it because a) it was much better to set the terms themselves rather than have them imposed by an outside regulator; and b) it would hurt competitors such as EC whose content tended to be more mature.
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Dec 1, 2016 01:28
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Aramek posted:Speaking of, Meatloaf is good. The food and the singer. Guy's voice has been shot to hell for years now. Went to see him in 2010 and he was bellowing and slurring everything.
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Dec 3, 2016 13:20
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Pierce Brosnan is the best James Bond there's been (but he only had one good movie and one okay movie).
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Dec 5, 2016 14:45
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I agree with the wheat loaf about pierce brosnan too. Sean Connery second best. Connery created a character who was different from the books; his Bond was a posh roughneck like the character in the books but for the most part his negative attributes (the misogyny, the drunkenness, the penchant for excessive violence etc.) were present but downplayed. Obviously Moore played the suave, cartoonish 1970s super-spy character while Dalton and Craig are closer to the novels (Dalton is probably closest, actually). I think Brosnan's take did the best job of combining both versions of the character. Like, you've got Craig who's explicitly described by M as a "blunt instrument" - he's a thug in a suit. Put in the same terms, Brosnan plays him like a surgeon's scalpel if that makes any sense.
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Dec 5, 2016 15:37
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Tiggum posted:Pierce Brosnan is the best James Bond, but "best" is a relative term and all James Bonds are actually terrible. Nah, it's good fun.
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Dec 5, 2016 18:49
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Count Basie was the best bandleader in the swing era, not Duke Ellington or Benny Goodman.
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Dec 5, 2016 22:47
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Is this a "perfect is the enemy of the good" thing?
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Dec 5, 2016 22:54
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In my view it's completely acceptable to be right for ostensibly "wrong" reasons. My own anecdote relates to this year's referendum. I voted to stay in the EU because I thought it would be the better choice for British businesses in general and the financial sector (to which my job is connected) in particular. But, no, apparently the only valid reason to vote to stay in (if you believe the people I encountered) was because Nigel Farage was a racist. Well, whatever. You had my vote even if you didn't want it.
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Dec 6, 2016 03:10
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doverhog posted:Racism is bad for business so you were almost there. I agree on the first part but don'think know what to make of the second.  In any event, the other fellow ending the conversation by saying, "The idea of a capitalist supporting the EU makes my skin crawl," was an amusing spectacle. Did he even know what the EU is all about? Evidently not. 
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Dec 6, 2016 09:25
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It is good to be flexible with one's principles. Not in every situation, mind you, and certainly not on every issue, but just as a general rule, it's no great sin to take one step back so you can take two steps forward.
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Dec 6, 2016 22:03
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It's silly to put too much stock in the message of a piece of art, whether it's ostensibly progressive or conservative or feminist or whatever. Most of those things are what the viewer make sure of the thing more so than things that are intrinsic to the film itself - if you hold something up as a purposeful exemplar of some value you're just setting yourself up for disappointment. If I was making a movie or writing a book or producing a TV show, I'd pander to whatever demographic looked like the it was most likely to sink its money into the merchandise and I would do so totally insincerely. It would be the easiest fib I ever had to tell.
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Dec 7, 2016 09:30
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WampaLord posted:Gee, I wonder if this movie is trying to say anything about women or feminism. I didn't say it was any kind of uniform rule, and in any event didn't mean to talk about Mad Max in particular. You can trust a dishonest person to let you down but you can't necessarily trust an honest person not to.
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Dec 7, 2016 16:09
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WampaLord posted:My bad, the person before you posted this: It's no problem. I'm not saying art or media don't ever have any intrinsic messages or themes, and I'm certainly not saying that they shouldn't. As to the former, everything a person creates will have something to say, and many are indeed open to many different interpretations even in spite of what their creators' explicit intentions may have been. I guess the point I was aiming for was, "We should accept the Death of the Author principle, but we shouldn't rely on it in such a way that we set ourselves up for disappointment," in a situation where (as I suggested I probably would be) the person behind the thing was totally cynical about it and knew the audience would eat anything up if they dressed it up properly. (I'm probably not explaining it very well.)
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Dec 7, 2016 16:30
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spit on my clit posted:dewey defeats truman "You provide the pictures, I'll provide the war."
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Dec 8, 2016 22:19
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I have to confess, if you're turning on the TV and seeing stuff like John Oliver being a smug rich British guy going "lol 'Drumpf' is a silly word lol the dumbass hicks all love a guy with a stupid name lol" I wouldn't be surprised if you gave credence to fake news.
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Dec 8, 2016 22:24
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My opinion is that Taylor Swift isn't much of a singer, and also that Kanye was right insofar as, while Beyoncé's video wasn't one of the best videos of all time (OF ALL TIME) it was still better than Taylor Swift's video. My other opinion is that prog rock, nine times out of ten, isn't really rock music at all. It's just people wanking and noodling and squawking about elves and half-baked philosophy. I think the only worthwhile variety of prog rock is the really early stuff from the late 1960s and very early 1970s when it was still identifiable as jazz or R&B.
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Dec 8, 2016 22:31
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yeah I eat rear end posted:If we're talking music, I'll go back to my old standby of saying that Bon Jovi is the best band to come out of the 80s and are still among the best even now. Bon Jovi were fine back when they were a rock band. Gospel singers rocked harder than most actual rock and roll artists in the 50s and 60s (with the exceptions of Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and possibly Larry Williams). Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 22:47 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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Dec 8, 2016 22:45
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Being a warmonger is still pretty bad even if your opponent is a rape Nazi. What kind of excuses do you suppose Sanders's supporters would have made for him after he ordered his first drone strike?
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Dec 9, 2016 00:59
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Jerry Cotton posted:Dave Cockrum was a pretty darn good X-Men artist! I didn't think anyone disputed that.
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Dec 11, 2016 04:17
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I honestly can't understand the appeal of most stereotypical indie rock that comes off like it's trying to be alternative for the sake of being alternative or something. What's the use of music you can't dance to?
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Dec 13, 2016 01:10
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steinrokkan posted:I don't understand why a newspaper would carry articles other than train timetables and technical descriptions of new elevator models. The Transylvania Times from back in the 1880s (ed. "V. Tepes") was nothing but that.
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Dec 18, 2016 00:00
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As far as politics and politicians go, "authenticity" and "ideological purity" are hopelessly overrated. The most important thing is to win and it's perfectly acceptable to be right for allegedly "wrong" reasons.
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Dec 24, 2016 19:26
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1960-1964 (i.e. post-Elvis, pre-Beatles if you're being reductive) is unfairly maligned for music.
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Dec 26, 2016 21:24
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MizPiz posted:People who legitimately believe dad rock is the best type of music have the worst opinions about music. How do we define "dad rock" exactly? Is it a particular subset of classic rock or just classic rock in general? This is something that's always bugged me a bit because my dad was a teenager in the 1970s and his favourite bands were the Bay City Rollers and ABBA.
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Dec 27, 2016 23:51
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gleebster posted:I've never been terribly musical myself, and have found some things to be decent tunes, but do not tend to obsess over the stuff. Until the advent of recorded and later, broadcast music, I think lots of people didn't care for music at all, or only cared very little, and it would be a good thing if society found a way back to that. Opera singers were some of the biggest mass appeal celebrities of the 19th century. They would go on tour and have throngs of people turn out to see see hem when their an up a arrived in the harbour.
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Dec 28, 2016 10:52
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Tiggum posted:If you want to make a more widely applicable point, then maybe give some examples from 1990-1995 an 2002-2007 and say why you think those are better than the music of '96-'01? Let's look at it this way: people can argue as much as they want about who the best recording artists of the 1990s were, but at the end of the day, the most popular and most successful were Garth Brooks and Céline Dion.
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By the way, do people still make "I'M ONLY 13 AND I HATE
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Dec 28, 2016 20:47
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The ones I always enjoyed (?) were the "You say X, I say Y" ones, where X is the flavour of the month and Y is some bottom-feeding blooz rawk band from the 1970s the commenter discovered via Guitar Hero. I remember really enjoying one where a guy clearly decided to have some sport and started off on that whole "modern music sucks" spiel, and when he got some classic rock teenagers agreeing with him, he told them it had all been poo poo since Charlie Parker died and "rock neanderthals who don't know the first thing about music ruined everything" and the people he'd had on side got all affronted.
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Dec 28, 2016 22:40
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I don't think Taylor Swift is especially talented, to be honest.
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Dec 30, 2016 15:37
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lemon-lyme disease posted:Neither do I, but whenever she gets brought up in front of my wife, I make a point of saying she's a "talented young artist." She'll likely murder me for it eventually, even though I'm pretty sure she knows I'm joking. Not a fan, huh?
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Dec 30, 2016 18:54
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Is this one of those "Disney bribed Rotten Tomatoes to give Batman v Superman bad reviews" things?
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Dec 30, 2016 19:53
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lemon-lyme disease posted:Oh, I don't mind some good ol' Taylor Swift. My wife does though. The "artist" bit is what really gets to her. Ah, I see, I misunderstood your post. I thought the implication was that your wife is a fan and you were being sarcastic.
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Dec 30, 2016 22:49
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The UK should have a system of proportional representation even if it meant the outcome was - as it would have been last year - a Conservative coalition including UKIP and the Democratic Unionist Party.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Cannibalism isn't illegal as long as you don't murder the person or steal a body or anything right? Or is it only if its a survival situation?I have no idea how it works if you have to draw lots while adrift at sea or anything though. DOubt anyone would be prosecuted for that, but you never know. There's the custom of the sea, which was a non-legal set of principles followed by mariners shipwrecked or adrift, the most notorious of which involved drawing lots to see who would be killed and eaten to save his starving comrades. There's a very famous British court case called R v Dudley and Stephens which involved the latter scenario and established the precedent that necessity is no defence to murder (although based on public sympathy towards the defendants, they were shown mercy by the Home Secretary on the recommendation of the court and their sentence was commuted from death to six months in prison).
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Jan 5, 2017 00:54
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Texture always puts me off things more than taste. I love the taste of roast chicken, for instance, but I don't like the texture of it, so I almost never eat roast chicken. It's weird, I admit. Obviously it's a luxury to be able to make distinctions like that. If I was starving I wouldn't be picky.
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Go back a hundred years and eugenics was a "progressive" position. George Bernard Shaw, for instance, was a great believer in eugenics as a scientific tool for "uplifting" the poor and needy in the socialist society he envisioned. Quite infamously, on the same night that the Beveridge report - which gave rise to the British welfare state - was being debated in parliament, William Beveridge himself was giving a speech to the the Eugenics Society in London.
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