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Post by flatandy on May 22, 2019 13:47:11 GMT
Amongst the usual stories of "my struggle with my periods as a female footballer" and "how many times do female characters in GOT speak?" Is the following gem: "Film director Amma Asante came across an old photograph taken in Nazi Germany of a black schoolgirl by chance. Standing among her white classmates, who stare straight into the camera, she enigmatically glances to the side." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-48273570Now, at least two of this girl's classmates are also looking away from the camera. Why do they write this nonsense? It's just odd. It's a shame because this could be an interesting story but it fails the objectivity test at the very outset. I was listened to Kermode and Mayo talking to Asante about her new film last week. It does seem like a fascinating story (although Kermode wasn't 100% glowing about the film in his review). As they said, it's very odd to find any angle on that period that's not already been covered over and over and over again. |
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Post by Repat Van on May 23, 2019 2:23:23 GMT
Well, it is a glaring error/bit of bullshit right at the very beginning of what could be an interesting and illuminating article about a very tragic period. Now, if I'm interested in a factual account of what went on, I'd be put off by that. It's a fairly minor comment and your tantrum about it is odd. So she said only one person was glancing away from the camera when you could make the argument a few more were. Big Whoop-Dee. |
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Post by Repat Van on May 23, 2019 2:25:40 GMT
Amongst the usual stories of "my struggle with my periods as a female footballer" and "how many times do female characters in GOT speak?" Is the following gem: "Film director Amma Asante came across an old photograph taken in Nazi Germany of a black schoolgirl by chance. Standing among her white classmates, who stare straight into the camera, she enigmatically glances to the side." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-48273570Now, at least two of this girl's classmates are also looking away from the camera. Why do they write this nonsense? It's just odd. It's a shame because this could be an interesting story but it fails the objectivity test at the very outset. I was listened to Kermode and Mayo talking to Asante about her new film last week. It does seem like a fascinating story (although Kermode wasn't 100% glowing about the film in his review). As they said, it's very odd to find any angle on that period that's not already been covered over and over and over again. Although I think it is a fictional account it is a very interesting concept. Particularly knowing the Nazi obsession with racial purity, the story of black/mixed raced Germans living during their regime will be fascinating. Plus I quite like Amandla Stenberg as an actress. I still have to watch 'The Hate You Give.' |
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Post by perrykneeham on May 23, 2019 6:06:45 GMT
Well, it is a glaring error/bit of bullshit right at the very beginning of what could be an interesting and illuminating article about a very tragic period. Now, if I'm interested in a factual account of what went on, I'd be put off by that. It's a fairly minor comment and your tantrum about it is odd. So she said only one person was glancing away from the camera when you could make the argument a few more were. Big Whoop-Dee. Yeah, but we have long-since established that you have a difficult relationship with truth. |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 7:35:37 GMT
"...of what could be an interesting and illuminating article about a very tragic period."
Nice bit of camouflage there.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 23, 2019 7:45:04 GMT
What camouflage? Is this more whistling from an empty vessel?
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 7:50:06 GMT
It's what you do, cover your innate racism with with tagged-on virtue signalling. At least mids is open about it.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 23, 2019 8:11:26 GMT
Oh yeah. Saying something not racist makes you a racist.
There it is folks.
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 8, 2019 9:25:04 GMT
An amusing Freudian slip from Auntie: "At 100 years old, Judge John Hayman is the oldest recipient of an award and is getting the British Empire Medal (BME) for his work in Binsted and Alton, Hampshire, where he "continues to work with dedication and imagination to enhance village sports facilities"." www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48558289 |
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Post by Repat Van on Jun 8, 2019 10:26:24 GMT
Ok what am I looking at?
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 8, 2019 11:51:15 GMT
The initials.
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Post by Repat Van on Jun 8, 2019 12:04:35 GMT
Ohh.
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Post by perrykneeham on Jul 4, 2019 18:32:49 GMT
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Jul 4, 2019 19:16:51 GMT
Riona O Connor, a body acceptance advocate.
Yeah, and i'm a punch a clown in the mouth advocate.
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Post by perrykneeham on Jul 4, 2019 19:21:11 GMT
Good point.
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Post by mids on Jul 4, 2019 22:29:37 GMT
Seems a bit weird, suckling a school aged child. I'm sure chewing food must be necessary for proper tooth and jaw development.
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Post by hammerhead on Jul 4, 2019 23:46:35 GMT
Known a few mothers who breast-fed their kids long after it was necessary; the young ones were also eating solid food.
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Post by Repat Van on Jul 4, 2019 23:48:21 GMT
*shrugs*
They say you should breastfeed as long as you are able (and the child willing.)
I cannot see how the kid is harmed by this so each to their own.
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Post by perrykneeham on Sept 21, 2019 7:28:34 GMT
"Two days after retiring, the legendary broadcaster accuses the ‘Kremlin’-style corporation of being out of touch. He says its bosses ‘badly failed’ to read the nation’s mood on Europe and ‘simply could not grasp’ why anyone voted Leave. In an explosive memoir serialised from today in the Daily Mail, Remain-voting Humphrys pulls no punches after decades of being constrained by rules that stop journalists expressing opinions. The 76-year-old, who spent 33 years on Radio 4’s flagship news show Today, says he is now free of ‘the BBC Thought Police’ which has ‘tried to mould the nation into its own liberal-Left image’." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7487661/Broadcaster-John-Humphrys-lifts-lid-institutional-liberal-bias-BBC.html |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2019 8:04:14 GMT
"‘simply could not grasp’ why anyone voted Leave." TBH beyond a massive dose of confusion and miscomprehension on the part of the 52% there still is no rational explanation, nor has any ever been offered. But.. Dominic Cummings actually came up with an explanation which, although a little hysterical, was at least an acceptable view: In January 2016, Cummings said, "Extremists are on the rise in Europe and are being fuelled unfortunately by the Euro project and by the centralisation of power in Brussels. It it is increasingly important that Britain offers an example of civilised, democratic, liberal self-government." [At the Nudgestock event in 2017, Cummings said:] "For me ... the worst-case scenario for Europe is a return to 1930s-style protectionism and extremism. And to me the EU project, the Eurozone project, are driving the growth of extremism. The single most important reason, really, for why I wanted to get out of the EU is I think that it will drain the poison of a lot of political debates ... UKIP and Nigel Farage would be finished. Once there’s democratic control of immigration policy, immigration will go back to being a second- or third-order issue." While his views on extremism are over-fanciful and a bit paranoid, I'm with him on the need to neutralise self-promoting scum like Farage. link |
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