MeFi comment:
"So I was reading through this thread and all I could think about was The Rapture. (The band, not the crazy religious concept.) And then that led me to think about LCD Soundsystem, to whom I now owe an apology for the following.
Yeah, I'm losing my..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by grapefruit, aqhong, mullingitover
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm not old enough to have ever seen a resurgent Tory party heading back to power. It's rather unpleasant.
Yeah, horrible, innit. I remember Thatcher very clearly but am way too young to remember the run up to the '79 election.
I think some of..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by MidAtlantic, Grangousier, jb, liquidindian
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, every time the church/state separation in schools thing comes up on Metafilter, I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what American teachers who have a firmly religious mindset are able to get away with in the course of teaching classes that have..." [
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favorited 27 times, recently by bonaldi, PROD_TPSL, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, longdaysjourney, tehloki, lalochezia, showbiz_liz, turaho, scrump, pieoverdone, rhymer, axon, ceri richard, Pope Guilty, JDHarper, liza, Meatbomb, unregistered_animagus, Avenger, xmattxfx, peacheater, amyms, motty, The Loch Ness Monster, jonp72, aeschenkarnos, Brandon Blatcher
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"As some folk said further up, it would have been interesting to see the writers expand further on the jury nullification thing; it's something I'd never really heard about before – shamefully, I don't even know if the concept exists in the UK, though..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tiny crocodile, papakwanz, feloniousmonk
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"I find this normally happens when reading something that is very internal. By which I mean that you're reading a book which drags you – sometimes unwillingly, though in a good way – inside the head of the narrator/protagonist.
James Kelman does..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by dawson, ClanvidHorse, Mender, salvia, drjimmy11
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"These are just great. (By the way, it is not "Legos". It is "Lego". Thank you.)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jimbob
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"ROU_Xenophobe: at the very least a very sizeable minority of Americans have pretty decent health care coverage. Which is to say that they have something on the table that they'll have to give up in order to get universal health care
I think you're..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jb
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"An addendum to scody's point, from Victoria Finlay's Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox:
Within a few years of Napoleon Bonaparte's death in 1821 (at the age of 51) locks labelled 'Bonaparte's hair' (which his doctor incidentally reported at..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by GuyZero, peacheater
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"five fresh fish, to take your last point first:
And are they any safer? Hell, no, there are still plenty of terroristic attacks there
I'd hardly call four bombs in July 2005 and two loons driving a Jeep into Glasgow airport two years later..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by lalochezia, Rumple, homunculus
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"White male comedians generally don't base their acts around being white or male.
I'm with onlyconnect on this; in fact, you might rephrase it: other people don't judge white male comedians on basing their acts around being white or male.
Bill..." [
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favorited 23 times, recently by Menomena, nooneyouknow, LeeJay, hot soup girl, winna, tickingclock, LobsterMitten, liquorice, liza, scrump, sunai, peacheater, kosher_jenny, metaname, billyfleetwood, [son] QUAALUDE, ao4047, batmonkey, Powerful Religious Baby, lunit, zarah, onlyconnect, transona5
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, that was pretty good, if rather sad.
Vinyl looks v. interesting too – right up my street, as a sad record geek of long standing.
krinklyfig: "jack_mo writes "A friend of mine has, if I remember rightly, somewhere between 60 and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Grod
4 months ago
MeFi post:
A Howl that went unheard for over 50 years
favorited 24 times, recently by nzero, scblackman, Cassilda, steef, whir, jack_mo, pantufla, Abiezer, theperfectcrime, ronin21, lampoil, ethel, hector horace, rajbot, P.o.B., sindark, UbuRoivas, ialwayscryatendings, Rumple, solipsophistocracy, roll truck roll, drezdn, nightwood, jamjam
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I love Alasdair Gray. He's like the west end's frighteningly talented eccentric uncle.
I've met him quite a few times; now and then because I've interviewed him, when he has always been a voluble interviewee (I've yet to witness a description of a..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by imperium, Abiezer, jack_mo, ascullion
5 months ago
MeFi post:
"You just heard the drums. It seemed like he kept them going forever."
favorited 16 times, recently by Human Flesh, generalist, nicolin, Esoquo, nzero, pantufla, jack_mo, loquacious, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, ClanvidHorse, Duug, Abiezer, bienbiensuper, oflinkey, sleepy pete, chunking express
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"benzo8: “The whole thing is underpinned by an unwavering arrogance, the belief that without the content of him and his peers, the Internet would crumble and fall, and only with it have we reached the technological heights that the "hippies"..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by bonaldi, lhl, filmgeek, garrett, Kadin2048, MikeKD, schyler523, R_Nebblesworth, everichon, sidesh0w, Jaybo, eriko, the dief
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And, FFS, why would an anticapitalist use the Frank Sobotka story? The crooked leader of a corrupt union* full of layabouts and ne'er-do-wells fails in his bid to buy influence from democratically-elected leaders, and is eventually offed by his..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, marble, Avenger, MillMan, Senor Cardgage
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm tempted to get a ticket for Number 1 in Heaven, since it has Number One Song In Heaven and Beat The Clock on it.
About 18 months ago I interviewed Sparks when they were playing a small music festival on the Isle of Skye (third on the main..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by punchdrunkhistory, generalist, Mael Oui
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"roofus: yeah, I know Goldsworthy's worked with floors. I'm just making a cheap crack (ho ho) to distract myself from getting into an argument.
Ah, fuck it.
"Dude, you know what would be great for the next piece of art? Imagine if you were..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by low_horrible_immoral, Kattullus, madamjujujive, malpractice, oneirodynia, deadtrouble, agregoli
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"They should have gotten Andy Goldsworthy to do it.
By the same token, I'd much rather enjoy the new Radiohead album if it had been written, recorded, produced and released by Robert Wyatt...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kris@phidelity.com, Abiezer
9 months ago
Ask comment:
"still it bugs me that some very popular music gets labeled as indie
But that's because it is indie, in the traditional sense of the term – i.e. it's music being released on independently distributed labels. It's also "indie" in the sense..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rongorongo
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Do you really think there are poor people in Saudi or Kuwait? The Saudis have to import poor people from the Philippines and other countries just to do their manual labor. It's actually a pretty big problem for their economy.
Sorry delmoi, but..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bonaldi
Last year
MeFi comment:
"By the way, that first video, John Snow I think. What's up with that absurd desk and table. It looks like he thinks he's the emperor of the universe or something. And that crazy camera angle, creating such a distance between the subject and the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by i_am_joe's_spleen, blahblahblah
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I really wish he had won the Beck's Futures, which he was nominated for this year, and which was won by Matt Stokes (with the qualifier that I do really like Stokes' stuff; anyone who blasts out happy hardcore and black metal on massive church organs..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stagewhisper
Two years ago
