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Brian Peacock wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 23, 2022 5:33 pm

...as Monbiot points out, there may be a bit of a credibility problem there...

Yes. When anybody in the world can become a Tory Party member and thus enfranchised to elect the British Tory Prime Minister, the notion of democracy in Great Britain looks iffy.

Autumn Leaves in the style of another 10 classical composers. UQfTkNmdv4c The Schubert and Satie variations were my favourites. Some subtitles are humorous too. For instance Haydn: "borderline rude" (2:20) "wholesome conclusion" (2:24) Schubert: "ominous line" (3:45) alluding to Erlkönig? Sturm & D...

It doesn't matter who finishes up as the next Tory Prime Minister. It'll be a Tory Prime Minister, and all Tory Prime Ministers take their orders from the same mobsters.

These ones:

Back to Mozart's Zauberflöte again. Specifically, Diana Damrau's renditions of the Queen of the Night aria. Nobody expresses the utter, unmitigated fury of the mother aimed at her daughter better than her. Just when you think she topped it she raises the performance with a fitting and convincing sna...

Sean Hayden wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:02 am

Be prepared for the naked fight.

Another one?

Borat's will be difficult to top.

Everything will change after the coming nuclear war and population collapse. Never said only one thing is gonna change. Also I think education is over-valued. There is biological intelligence. Those with it will ferret out info for themselves. In the interent era. Those without forever live in fear...

Brian Peacock wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:16 am

Alex Jones ordered to pay Sandy Hook families $965m.

Jones says he can only pay $2m. Someone working with the prosecution says he has $270m. Maybe Trump can top him up with the rest.

Much smaller population with much lower social velocity I think the ordinary patriarchal nature of society will return. A few decades of cultural marxism can't wipe out natural human relations. Um, Not having sex with the person who marks their papers will do that? You need to go into detail to mak...

So a recent post round here reminded me that Jesus, insofar as he may bave been a historical character, is thought to have been an apocalyptic preacher... Now, I don't remember if that's really the image given in the gospels (I'm purposefully omitting the paulinian works and revelations) I'm wonder...

Only to serve a point about internet anonymity. As for your twisted sexuality, no one cares... ...except you. Tell me why closet gays are the most rabidly anti-gay. I believe you have special insight. This is so false. I've had this discussion with someone far wiser than you, and he agreed that dis...

Much smaller population after the human die off and intellectual crunch by the loss of lineages that depended on caesareans to give birth to the nephilim who are like smart mules without modern technology which the collapse will deny them. You got to realise the scale of catastrophe for humanity on...

Those who bring in the power dynamic argument forget life is not fair except in Communist countries where people pay a heavy price for the level playing field. So called communist countries were and are bereft of level playing fields. Why shouldn't pretty or handsome folks get a higher grade than t...

I was in a position like this when I was tutoring a subject in uni. I could have shagged a student, but chose not to for ethical reasons. Fucking idiot. Missed out on a nice chick. If you were tutoring rather than lecturing, then presumably you would not have had the opportunity to give grades, so ...

superuniverse wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:17 am

You need time at a re-education camp:

There are many of them. You'd make a good re-educator at this one. Suits your style.

There are mysteries in this universe which no one understands. A perfect way to let religion or superstitions off the hook. No evidence or logical thinking required... :roll: Back in the Bronze Age histories of the major religions, vast numbers of everyday phenomena had no explanation, other than "...