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Bollocks.....AS THAT WOULD BE tainted money.....
Commented May 14, 2013 on He’s So Liberal, You See at davidthompson
He’s So Liberal, You See
In today’s Guardian, George Monbiot is stressing a pressing need. Specifically, The need for a disinterested class of intellectuals which acts as a counterweight to prevailing mores. And without which, Racism, nationalism and war are only three of the many hazards to which society is exposed. ...
Would the taxes derived from the legitimate income of a weapons-dealer be forbidden from contributing to the venture or is that tainted money?
Commented May 14, 2013 on He’s So Liberal, You See at davidthompson
He’s So Liberal, You See
In today’s Guardian, George Monbiot is stressing a pressing need. Specifically, The need for a disinterested class of intellectuals which acts as a counterweight to prevailing mores. And without which, Racism, nationalism and war are only three of the many hazards to which society is exposed. ...
OH GOD....IT BURNS.IT BURNS...
Commented Apr 30, 2013 on Aesthetes Take Heed at davidthompson
Aesthetes Take Heed
It’s time you philistines were subjected to rewarded with some cultural improvement. It’s for your own good, so I won’t have any complaining. First up, here’s a little something for the diary: The first collaboration between tattooist and fantasy artist Loren Fetterman and performance artist S...
"They'll be eating it next."
The equivalent in Japan will anyway...
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=japanese%20faecal%20meat&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fscitech%2F2011%2F06%2F17%2Fjapanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop%2F&ei=udp8UcGhMYGtiAfK1oHQDQ&usg=AFQjCNH7v_P5HP3FRqgmQCzCkvJZedbkoA&bvm=bv.45645796,d.dGI
Commented Apr 28, 2013 on It’s Good for the Carpet and Smells of Candy Floss at davidthompson
It’s Good for the Carpet and Smells of Candy Floss
The New York Times reports on a breakthrough in cutting-edge eco-friendly parenting: When Jada Shapiro decided to raise her daughter from birth without diapers, for the most part, not everyone was amused. Ms Shapiro scattered little bowls around the house to catch her daughter’s offerings, and h...
There's always one isn't there?
Commented Apr 25, 2013 on Detecting Movement at davidthompson
Detecting Movement
(Slightly) animated gifs by Nicolas Ritter: Via Laughing Squid.
Anti-nosepicking technology has progressed rather a long way I feel.
Commented Apr 23, 2013 on Answers On a Postcard, Please at davidthompson
Answers On a Postcard, Please
Physicist Vivian Leroy Chrisler, circa 1930. Okay, a clue. But just the one.
I'm also provincial and thus unworthy of enjoying.....
Commented Apr 15, 2013 on Stealing the Proles at davidthompson
Stealing the Proles
Readers who followed this recent thread on Margaret Thatcher and her critics may enjoy Martin Durkin’s documentary, available on 4oD here and on YouTube here, Margaret: Death of a Revolutionary. Durkin’s film not only offers a useful history lesson, it’s also a nimble shredding of quite a few l...
P.S.Forgive me...some it REALLY IS excrement....
Commented Apr 1, 2013 on Such Humble Creatures at davidthompson
Such Humble Creatures
Franklin Einspruch climbs Mount Vanity and argues with art dealer Ed Winkleman, who tells us: “Is that art?” is not a valid question for the observer, despite how well educated, to apply to a declared artwork. “Art” is whatever an artist says it is. The role of the observer is limited to decidi...
I operate at the level of whether I 'like' it or not.
Presumably my detestation of the excrement that these pseuds peddle as 'art' simply demonstrates just how deeply ingrained the peasantry is in me?
Commented Apr 1, 2013 on Such Humble Creatures at davidthompson
Such Humble Creatures
Franklin Einspruch climbs Mount Vanity and argues with art dealer Ed Winkleman, who tells us: “Is that art?” is not a valid question for the observer, despite how well educated, to apply to a declared artwork. “Art” is whatever an artist says it is. The role of the observer is limited to decidi...
Does 'scavenging' imply 'recycling'?
Commented Mar 19, 2013 on An Expert in Leather at davidthompson
An Expert in Leather
In other campus news: A lesbian bondage expert and a campus-wide condom scavenger hunt are among the activities planned for The University of Tennessee’s first-ever “Sex Week.” The six-day event is expected to cost nearly $20,000 – covered in part by university grants, student fees and contribu...
Doh......there I was thinking it was about penises.
I have such a one-track mind....
Excuse me for going but I have a knob to polish and then will have to shoot off....
Commented Feb 23, 2013 on Lovely Stiffness at davidthompson
Lovely Stiffness
“Slightly rubbery, which picks up any residue off your fingers and makes the knob look dirty. The rotation is ever so slightly off axis. The click isn’t too satisfying.” “Nowhere near enough depth, and too much weight to the rotation. Also lacking in knob grip.” “Great weight (not too heavy, n...
I realise that this is a 'cheap-shot' dig at Ms Lucas but I do find myself asking whether 'demand management' will apply to her?
Is it a case of 'to each according to their self worth'?
Commented Feb 12, 2013 on Elsewhere (85) at davidthompson
Elsewhere (85)
Chris Snowdon on the dishonesty of ‘minimum price’ lobbyists and the prohibitionist tendency: There is much more that could be said about this thinly veiled piece of lobbying. The inexplicable lack of a control group, for example, or the mystery of why official hospital records were not enough ...
With respect to Sweden I must confess to being genuinely fascinated at their Lemming-like efforts to commit cultural suicide.
Fascinated too as in I simply don't understand it....
Where does the self-loathing originate?
Commented Jan 24, 2013 on Elsewhere (83) at davidthompson
Elsewhere (83)
Tim Worstall on the ever-changing grievances of the left: There are certain people, Dianne Abbott being a good enough example, whose existence is only validated by telling people to do something different from what they are. If everyone’s a model of Victorian primness then the shriek will be th...
The allegory of the cave comes to mind I must confess.
Commented Dec 28, 2012 on Monbiot and the Morlocks at davidthompson
Monbiot and the Morlocks
In which the Guardian’s George Monbiot encounters the underclass and shows how his worldview is quite different from yours: A group of us had occupied a piece of land on St George’s Hill in Surrey... Our aim had been to rekindle interest in land reform. It had been going well – we had placated ...
You enrich my existence David.
Actually, more than anyone else I have stumbled across in my travels around the webbynettyinterthingy you have provided the ammo I have needed when arguing with the ...the.....well, tossers, that you so beautifully post-mortem on this site.
Thank you.
With thanks please accept my pathetic attempt at returning the favour via paypal. Do spend it wisely.....exploding banana masks won't cut it. A bottle of Scotch might.
P.S. mind you, being well armed in an intellectual debate where the prevailing orthodoxy rules can expose one to some rather uncomfortable attention from those in 'authority'.... Ah well......
Commented Dec 23, 2012 on Tidings (6) at davidthompson
Tidings (6)
Or, Six Years of Blogging and I Still Don’t Have One of These: A birdsong machine, circa 1890. (h/t, Cmeej.) As usual, posting will be intermittent over the holidays and readers are advised to subscribe to the blog feed, which will alert you to anything new. Thanks for another five thousand or...
"The woman scrubbing that doorstep - I wonder how old she was?"
Well life was reet arsh back then with accelerated decrepitude......My guess is seventeen or eighteen.
If she still has all her teeth then probably younger.
Commented Dec 17, 2012 on Northerners of Yore at davidthompson
Northerners of Yore
Photographed by John Bulmer, whose book The North was published in November. Via Mick Hartley.
Oh,I often have difficulty trying to work out whether the sincerity is contrived or not with this species......
Commented Dec 13, 2012 on And Now Some Film News at davidthompson
And Now Some Film News
Actor Sir Terence Stamp remembers the Seventies and playing a supervillain from the planet Krypton: For me, it was my comeback movie. I’d been out of work for eight years and living in India.... When I walked onto that set I’d been in an ashram for a year, learning to separate orgasm from ejacu...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/dec/12/when-ok-sexually-arouse-audience
The comments are a better read.....
Commented Dec 13, 2012 on And Now Some Film News at davidthompson
And Now Some Film News
Actor Sir Terence Stamp remembers the Seventies and playing a supervillain from the planet Krypton: For me, it was my comeback movie. I’d been out of work for eight years and living in India.... When I walked onto that set I’d been in an ashram for a year, learning to separate orgasm from ejacu...
I hope she duly emailed Whitbread her outrage on her Apple iPad........
I also hope the BT/Vodaphone network transmitted it speedily.....
Commented Sep 18, 2012 on The Pure Ones Will Guide Us at davidthompson
The Pure Ones Will Guide Us
Novelist Joan Brady is outraged. So much so she felt compelled to share her indignation with Guardian readers: In 1993 I became the first woman to win the Whitbread Prize, and it changed my life. Money! One winner blew it all on a swimming pool for the family’s French villa. Not me. Mine paid o...
What clever hairless apes we are.
Commented Sep 2, 2012 on Titan Obscured at davidthompson
Titan Obscured
By Saturn’s rings. As seen by Cassini at a distance of three million kilometres from Titan. One of these. See also this, this and this.
It's the high notes I feel that makes the party piece. You can also see the glowing pride written/etched (eroded) on his face.
Commented Jul 28, 2012 on A Hint of Squid Breath at davidthompson
A Hint of Squid Breath
A 30-year-old walrus named E.T., weighing in at a trifling 3,500 pounds, demonstrates his delicate and melodious singing voice. What, you didn’t know walruses could whistle? More whiskered loveliness here, via here, via Anna.
What would happen if one of the o-ring seals failed?
Commented Jul 4, 2012 on The Roar of Mighty Weapons at davidthompson
The Roar of Mighty Weapons
Steve Hoefer explains how to turn matches into very small rockets. Via Laughing Squid. And if you need a little more oomph from your tiny apparatus, there’s always this old friend:
What an awfully conundrum-like shermozzle reading this thread has put me in cos I am still inclined to go and see if I can now salvage something from the savaging above...and I am inclined to believe what I've read.....
Oh god the indecision of it all....
I'm in particular turmoil after now finding out that the TED talk/Dave etc were only online teasers...Ta.....They promised an awful lot.....
Ah well.
Commented Jun 6, 2012 on Why Prometheus is Inexcusably Bad at davidthompson
Why Prometheus is Inexcusably Bad
Spectacular digital effects, of which there are plenty in Prometheus, are complicated, time-consuming and expensive. Likewise, impressive sets and cinematic hardware cost money. Orchestral scores and booming sound design aren’t cheap either. Had Ridley Scott dropped the ball in these departmen...
What's the big deal with wrapping oneself in a plastic bag with a u-bend strapped to your nose?
I've been doing that for years....every weekend in the basement of my favourite club....
Whips and all...I'm not shy...
Neither are my gathered friends....
Commented May 12, 2012 on Crotch Funk as Art at davidthompson
Crotch Funk as Art
Aesthetes that my readers are, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the name of Jan Fabre, a Belgian performance artist and “theatre-maker” who, we’re informed, “expands the horizons of every genre to which he applies his artistic vision.” Mr Fabre’s acclaimed efforts at horizon-expanding include Pr...
Now this may be going off completely at a tangent but it occurs to me that life really has become too easy. The word 'decadence' is thrown around a lot in these here times but is there not a point to be made that we have, as a civilisation, become far too soft?.
The occasional existential threat never did anyone any harm.....
Commented May 2, 2012 on Playing in the Dirt with Occupy at davidthompson
Playing in the Dirt with Occupy
Zombie ventures into the moral wilderness of Occupy’s latest project: The farm they seized was not a working farm per se, but rather a “research farm” for the University of California, near its Berkeley campus. The only difference between the way the farm used to be (prior to a week ago) and th...
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