Live 8 vs eBay
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- stem0
100+ - this thread was dyin' on it's arse yesterday.
- stem0
...but i do take umbrage at the suggestion that because we're all "creatives" we are either a) morally indemnified against a responsible view of social policy or b) intellectually incapable of forming such.
paraselene
(Jun 15 05, 06:14)You decide for yourselves!!!
- stem0
Not sure which one I fall into???
- paraselene0
You decide for yourselves!!!
stem
(Jun 15 05, 06:15)of course.
and i decide that it's twaddle.
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but it's funny to see the little cliques and how some people kiss one anothers arses - it's all part of the fun!
stem
(Jun 15 05, 06:06)There's no cliques. There's friends. You either realise or not, that there are friendships beyond this forum here. Most of us have met. Most of us will meet. None of them will let you say it's all bollocks, because it's not.
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ha ha. para said twaddle. hahaha
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Do you lot (kuz, moth, mx etc) not think your being a bit tight? Fair enough stems a bit of a cunt but i'm not sure you all need to jump on him.
I feel a bit like a spectator at a school fight where one boy has just picked up a stick.
skt
(Jun 15 05, 05:54)No remorse my friend.
Where someone displays such contempt for such a charitable cause and attacks it with such venom they deserve everything they get.
If said person then tries to say "only joking" in order to regain some respect then they can truly get tae fuck.
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and another reason, vibrators in boots. this all started with dildo's in ann summer. oh right. fair enogh. ann summer positions itself as this purveyor of sanitised "erotica". it musta hit them about the time sales in crotchless panties went up. and ok, people's attitudes to sex have changed, and your ma' and da' don't hide their strap-ons and spanking paddles and pink fluffy hand-cuffs anyymore. granted. but it's still sex. its not helath and beauty. and a vibrator is a glorified dildo - NOT a massager. What, we now find fucking dildo's next to the home pregnancy kits and athlete foots cream?
It is about context. and it's shtoopit.
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Yeah! and its all bobs fault!!
eh? context you say?
- stem0
I can remember seeing a Graham Norton in Japan programme, and the shops he went in were like this.
Toys for the kids, next to toys for the grown ups!
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shut up stem, you're ruining my thesis.
- stem0
There's no cliques. There's friends. You either realise or not, that there are friendships beyond this forum here. Most of us have met. Most of us will meet. None of them will let you say it's all bollocks, because it's not.
determinedmoth
(Jun 15 05, 06:17)Friends - who are you kidding?
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noone, i've met moth several times. i have his number on my phone. i consider him a friend
- stem0
shut up stem, you're ruining my thesis.
Kuz
(Jun 15 05, 06:27)Go on...
*fastens up gimp mask
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Friends - who are you kidding?
stem
(Jun 15 05, 06:30)Actually I wont explain.
Go fuck yourself.
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If we turn to Asia, we find an enormous variety of attempts at linguistic nationalism which are very valuable for comparative study. The variety itself underlines the difficulty of arguing for a single Asian form of nationalism. The Meiji rulers followed the example of Paris, imposing the speech of Tokyo on the rest of the country, and reducing all other forms to the marginal status of dialects—at a time when the spoken language of Kyushu was unintelligible in Honshu, and even more so the language of the Ryukyus. We are familiar with the process whereby Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, and so on, which are clearly languages in their own right—and as loosely connected as Romanian, Italian and Spanish—were reduced to dialects under the new national language of Mandarin. In Thailand, Bangkok Thai came to dominate what it called the dialects of the North, Northeast and South of the country—which Bangkokians usually do not understand.
- stem0
It sounded good, until you said - Bangkokians
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Both India and the Philippines have failed—if that is the right word—to create a generally accepted national language. The colonial language—English and American—remains the effective language of the state and of the national elite. A vigorous English-language—and nationalist—literary culture exists in both places, and has accommodated itself to no less vigorous Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Tagalog and Cebuano cultures. Old Pakistan broke into two separate nations partly because of Karachi’s suppression of the Bengali language, which then became the motor for a linguistic nationalism in Bangladesh that looks very similar to earlier linguistic nationalisms in Greece, Norway and Old Czechoslovakia. The newest nation-state in Asia, East Timor, which, in spite of its small size, contains over twenty ethnolinguistic groups, has opted for Portuguese as its language of state, and a simple lingua franca (Tetun) as the lang­uage of national unity
- stem0
Are you copying this out of a book Kuz?
- soda0
I haven't been coming on here long, but it's funny to see the little cliques and how some people kiss one anothers arses - it's all part of the fun!
stem
(Jun 15 05, 06:06)you are such a prat.
If you are going to post stuff on here that is aimed at annoying people or extracting a reaction don't complain when you get shouted down. It has nothing to do with arse kissing or cliques.
As for the friends dig, you have no idea.