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Off Topic / Re: It's a bit warm/ wet/ cold outside
« on: 23 November, 2019, 12:16:29 pm »
My last post was a bit harsh. Sorry. Woke up feelin grumpy having to work on a Saturday. Also it's a bit wet / cold etc outside.
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Consensus does ask for faith - a majority of people would be unwise to support something in which they have no faith. Okay, that's just wordplay. Scientfically, consensus does not prove truth - but politically, it does.
Scientific consensus is A Thing. It's slightly different from the general use of consensus - it refers to the process of presenting, discussing and publishing via peer review within the particular field , it's not just a canvassing of general opinion.
I agree. Political consensus, however, is a different thing. It's my hope to divorce one from the other.
But...you just tried to conflate them? Or concatenate them? Or convulute everything? I don't fuckin' know, I give up.
I like your manifesto, put it to the testo.
I hesitate to ask this, but what's the story with the Grant Morrison hand-shandy jokes?
After an iffy storyline where Morrison did a Pat Mills and sent his heroes travelling in time, sales of his creator-owned DC title, The Invisibles, were tanking.
Morrison used the letters page of the comic to urge readers to take part in a magic ritual designed to reverse falling circulation. At an appointed time, they would focus on a magic symbol he'd devised and masturbate - the idea being that the release of accumulated orgone energy would power the sigil *
* In the same way a blood sacrifice is supposed to power ritual ceremony. Magic is bollocks, obviously, but his request generated publicity and endeared him to readers. The book survived long enough for the storyline to limp to a conclusion and Morrison basically rebooted the comic as an action adventure title bursting with spunk, relocating events to the US and copying Mills's old formula of making sure that whatever esoteric nonsense he filled the book with someone always got shot or made something explode in every issue and the book became a cult success that survived for many years
Now the entire election rests on whether Grant Morrison decides if he a) supported Corbyn at least three years before Moore did, or b) has a quick wank over a photo of Michael Gove to assure a Conservative victory.
I'm with JBC Block. I got my shed, my dog, a little community (a white witch, an aromatherapist, a NHS trauma counsellor, a ceramicist, a nurse and her post-stroke husband, a trucker, a police officer, two old ladies (twins), and an assortment of children), all in a quiet country setting with trees, horses and squirrels. Life is Good!
Nowadays, when I reread (usually Ennis) Dredd calling people 'meathead', I can't help myself pronouncing it in a similar fashion. It sounds ridiculous either way up - did Wagner Dredd ever call someone a meathead (or me-theed)?
Off the top of my head, there's this classic exchange with a vigilante:
Dredd's response: Meathead! You're doin' thirty!
And beer. You clearly have beer.