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by afew Sun Feb 5th, 2012 at 11:10:28 AM EST
Thinking...lots of nachos with some chili. And beer. Lots more beer.
Also: Go Giants! Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
Yes, rugby, Six Nations tournament.
Although probably the best all-round athletes. Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
It's a fun game to play though not as much fun as ice hockey, and those players are the best athletes, I think.
I wouldn't put hockey in the same category on pure athleticism. But I like it more than bball. Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
And it's not the physical aspect of the game - I have played a little lacrosse but it wasn't the same. The speed and balance required for skating just puts ice hockey in a category of its own.
'Fan' is pushing it... I played some basketball in highschool and sometimes watch it on TV (most of that during the Olympics) but that's all. I'm more into (association) football, ski jumping, snooker, sumo...
not enough strategy to it for my liking
I think Argentina and the European teams who beat US sides in world championships and the 2004 Olympics brought more strategy into the game, though no clue whether that had any effect on the NBA.
probably the best all-round athletes
Better than (association) footballers? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Quite exciting, Utd have fought back to 3-2 from 3-0 down and 10 mins to go. keep to the Fen Causeway
At the top of the table it's Man City leading United by 2 points, then spurs, Chelsea and newcastle. I despise City and neither Spurs nor newcastle are quite good enough so we have to want United to win. It's not what I want, but it's enough keep to the Fen Causeway
Talk about least worst option...
The notoriously outspoken guitarist is unimpressed with the 'embarrassing' attitude of British public .'Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive,' Noel Gallagher told the Mail On Sunday.The Oasis star went on to say 'it was a different mindset back then'.'There was a work ethic - if you were unemployed, the obsession was to find work.
The notoriously outspoken guitarist is unimpressed with the 'embarrassing' attitude of British public .
'Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive,' Noel Gallagher told the Mail On Sunday.
The Oasis star went on to say 'it was a different mindset back then'.
'There was a work ethic - if you were unemployed, the obsession was to find work.
...Gok Wan is a Leicester boy. Gok Wan is a fully licensed me duck or duckie. You can't be me, I'm taken
alternatively: i'll have what he's having. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Seems to me, as an outsider, the rural areas, small town, and urban elites (the industrial herrat, as it were) coalition formed during the Civil War still continues as the Ruling coalition. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
More worrying is the temperature that hasn't got above the freezing point for about a week now, and is forecasted to remain so for yet another week. A water pipe for the washing machine has a tendency to freeze up when it gets cold for a long period of time so I'm watching it carefully; difficult to run water regularly since it's the washer's supply and there's no sink underneath: we plan to wash a load every day.
Frage: why is it 4 grad in my apartment? Antwort: close the windows, dork, even if you aspire to be German. Fazit: wow, that sure is fresh air Gazprom Siberia sent us. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Ja order nein? She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
THESE:
are cakes with an overdose of sugar.
(Guess you don't have access to much sugar in your forest hide-aways?) She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Anche se spera che "la primavera venga presto", come ha detto oggi all'Angelus dopo aver affermato che "la neve è bella", Benedetto XVI in questi giorni non ha mai rinunciato alle sue passeggiate pomeridiane nei Giardini Vaticani. Ben coperto, dunque, il Pontefice ha camminato - si apprende - per più di mezz'ora non solo ieri, come rivelato da un quotidiano, ma anche l'altro ieri e oggi. Del resto, si fa notare, a questa abitudine salutare il Papa tedesco non ha mai rinunciato nemmeno nelle giornate caldissime o durante i suoi molto impegnativi viaggi pastorali.
the podcaster compares them to motorcycle gang members.
http://hw.libsyn.com/p/a/7/1/a714ef73fcca0cc2/dchha41_Thors_Angels.mp3?sid=57bfcec8530ef444647e17bc6 7ae1cfa&l_sid=19573&l_eid=&l_mid=2872448&expiration=1328493967&hwt=1fc2728f8c179 c6a2
Das ist der furor Teutonicus, Von ihm berichtet schon Tacitus, Kein Tisch bleibt ganz, kein Stuhl, kein Spind, So oft Germanen gemütlich sind!
freedom loving
but also tattoo loving, hard drinking, long hair worn in pony tails with parts of the skull shaved
no beards but mustaches even if born and raised in Rome
and lots of murder when drinking with their buddies, which was recognized as a legal defense.
considered women equals and asked for their advice on all matters
nice change of pace... i listened to the whole 4 hrs straight of thor yesterday... 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
They fucking hate you. They want you, and everyone who speaks for you, and every institution that represents your values, whether it be Planned Parenthood or food banks or ACORN- you name it. They want it destroyed. I just do not understand why more people do not recognize this. The Republicans have declared total war on America, and people are responding like this is politics as usual. It isn't. It really isn't. It's really all or nothing at this point. We put the birchers/tea party/conservatives back in their place and destroy the current GOP, or we deal with this shit for the next forty-sixty years.
I just do not understand why more people do not recognize this. The Republicans have declared total war on America, and people are responding like this is politics as usual. It isn't. It really isn't. It's really all or nothing at this point. We put the birchers/tea party/conservatives back in their place and destroy the current GOP, or we deal with this shit for the next forty-sixty years.
Every morning, Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School, her nerves already on high alert, bracing for the inevitable. "Dyke." Pretending not to hear, Brittany would walk briskly to her locker, past the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs. "Whore." Like many 13-year-olds, Brittany knew seventh grade was a living hell. But what she didn't know was that she was caught in the crossfire of a culture war being waged by local evangelicals inspired by their high-profile congressional representative Michele Bachmann, who graduated from Anoka High School and, until recently, was a member of one of the most conservative churches in the area. When Christian activists who considered gays an abomination forced a measure through the school board forbidding the discussion of homosexuality in the district's public schools, kids like Brittany were unknowingly thrust into the heart of a clash that was about to become intertwined with tragedy.
"Dyke."
Pretending not to hear, Brittany would walk briskly to her locker, past the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs.
"Whore."
Like many 13-year-olds, Brittany knew seventh grade was a living hell. But what she didn't know was that she was caught in the crossfire of a culture war being waged by local evangelicals inspired by their high-profile congressional representative Michele Bachmann, who graduated from Anoka High School and, until recently, was a member of one of the most conservative churches in the area. When Christian activists who considered gays an abomination forced a measure through the school board forbidding the discussion of homosexuality in the district's public schools, kids like Brittany were unknowingly thrust into the heart of a clash that was about to become intertwined with tragedy.
Fiscal Ignorance should not be allowed to cloud the argument Further to Kate Devlin's article on the Scottish budget veto, the amount of ignorance on the subject of national fiscal and monetary matters - extending right up to the top level of the UK Government - is quite staggering ("Scots budget veto threat to Bank of England plan", The Herald, January 28). On the subject of currency and central banks firstly, Hong Kong has never had a central bank and their private banks - which are well capitalised because there is no HK lender of last resort - clear bank credit "real time", and issue bank notes. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority maintains monetary stability with a peg to the US dollar and a currency board backed by substantial assets, including significant capture of land rental value. The fact HK people do not have both landlord and government monkeys on their shoulders to the same extent as we do is undoubtedly a competitive advantage for that entrepreneurial territory. Another approach is that of Ecuador, which is one of several countries which choose to use the US dollar as their currency but without intrusion from the US. While this does cause problems, they have been working on a very interesting idea whereby Ecuadorean businesses may access credit for working capital simply by discounting VAT invoices directly with the central bank. With such a credit clearing system, goods and services will change hands not in exchange for US dollars sourced from the US, but by reference to the US dollar purely as a standard unit of account or benchmark. Those are a couple of examples of more or less conventional possibilities. I advocate a simple but radical 21st-century version of the sovereign credit model which pre-dated modern central banking. Scotland could turn back the clock to 1693 when the then privately owned Bank of England first privatised public credit. Sovereigns had for some 500 years funded public expenditure through issuing stock, which was simply undated credits or IOUs given to creditors in exchange for value received, and returnable in payment of taxes. The origins of the phrases "stock" and "rate of return" - which referred to the rate at which stock could be returned to the exchequer for cancellation against tax obligations - have long since been airbrushed from economic history as an inconvenient truth. I advocate a new approach to stock creation and issuance, perhaps through basing professionally managed public credit issuance on taxation; or on Scottish land rental values, as proposed by John Law in 1705; or on the value of Scottish energy production; or even all of these. I am sure Messrs Salmond and Swinney and their team could easily achieve monetary independence in this way. etc etc
Further to Kate Devlin's article on the Scottish budget veto, the amount of ignorance on the subject of national fiscal and monetary matters - extending right up to the top level of the UK Government - is quite staggering ("Scots budget veto threat to Bank of England plan", The Herald, January 28).
On the subject of currency and central banks firstly, Hong Kong has never had a central bank and their private banks - which are well capitalised because there is no HK lender of last resort - clear bank credit "real time", and issue bank notes. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority maintains monetary stability with a peg to the US dollar and a currency board backed by substantial assets, including significant capture of land rental value. The fact HK people do not have both landlord and government monkeys on their shoulders to the same extent as we do is undoubtedly a competitive advantage for that entrepreneurial territory.
Another approach is that of Ecuador, which is one of several countries which choose to use the US dollar as their currency but without intrusion from the US. While this does cause problems, they have been working on a very interesting idea whereby Ecuadorean businesses may access credit for working capital simply by discounting VAT invoices directly with the central bank. With such a credit clearing system, goods and services will change hands not in exchange for US dollars sourced from the US, but by reference to the US dollar purely as a standard unit of account or benchmark.
Those are a couple of examples of more or less conventional possibilities.
I advocate a simple but radical 21st-century version of the sovereign credit model which pre-dated modern central banking. Scotland could turn back the clock to 1693 when the then privately owned Bank of England first privatised public credit.
Sovereigns had for some 500 years funded public expenditure through issuing stock, which was simply undated credits or IOUs given to creditors in exchange for value received, and returnable in payment of taxes. The origins of the phrases "stock" and "rate of return" - which referred to the rate at which stock could be returned to the exchequer for cancellation against tax obligations - have long since been airbrushed from economic history as an inconvenient truth.
I advocate a new approach to stock creation and issuance, perhaps through basing professionally managed public credit issuance on taxation; or on Scottish land rental values, as proposed by John Law in 1705; or on the value of Scottish energy production; or even all of these.
I am sure Messrs Salmond and Swinney and their team could easily achieve monetary independence in this way.
etc etc
The polling runes seem unclear on the desire of Scots for full independence - but it's so important that they make the decision knowing that they can make it work if they want to - despite the blasts of propaganda from various quarters suggesting the contrary.
Le ministre de l'intérieur, Claude Guéant, a réaffirmé dimanche 5 février que "toutes les civilisations ne se valent pas", confirmant ses propos controversés tenus la veille lors d'un colloque organisé par l'association étudiante de droite UNI à l'Assemblée nationale.
from the front page of Le Monde
the French Minister for the Interior said that not all cultures are worth the same.
blame the virus I have.
It seems like Marine LePen is having trouble gathering the 500 signatures of mayors in order to be able to run as a presidential candidate as she was requesting that they be able to remain anonymous.
In the Le Monde article on this topic, Guéant also broaches this subject and doesn't seem very sympathetic to her cause.
With LePen's 20% of the vote, Sarkozy could upset the Socialists and win the election.
The real victim if Le Pen drops out is Bayrou, who becomes irrelevant.
The attempted lockdown of right-wing mayors by the UMP is exceedingly undemocratic. Most village-level mayors are conservative but not aligned with a political party, so the only way to discipline them is to threaten the commune's funding. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
In other news, we're appealing the immigration ruling. Should be a snap, but will probably take months. On reflection : we have two months to appeal. Perhaps best to leave it as late as possible, so that the ruling comes after the elections. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
The Local: Bavarian school bars 'impolite' greetings
Principal Petra Seibert has declared the St. Nikola school a "'Hallo' and 'Tschüss'-free zone." If students slip up, teachers are instructed to politely remind them to use the more polite Bavarian variants for hello and goodbye, "'Grüß Gott" and "Auf Wiedersehen." The word "Tschüss," which is heard everywhere in cities like Berlin when people part ways, apparently has few fans in southern Germany.
If students slip up, teachers are instructed to politely remind them to use the more polite Bavarian variants for hello and goodbye, "'Grüß Gott" and "Auf Wiedersehen."
The word "Tschüss," which is heard everywhere in cities like Berlin when people part ways, apparently has few fans in southern Germany.
One thing is sure though: it isn't Prussian.
There weren't no Bavarians in Bavaria at the time. IIRC the Hermunduri and Alemanni - hence the French name for them folks directly across the Rhine - were farting around in the Black Forest, at the time. And it is a good question if a member of the Hermundari or Alemanni would have thought of themselves as Hermundari or Alemanni since the larger accumulations of "Germans" are a result of centuries of interactions, peaceful and combative, along the Frontier. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
In any case, I have always disliked tschuess myself, I don't know why. It sounds excessively familiar to me, definitely not the kind of thing I would utter to strangers or mere acquaintances. tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker
bless you!
it always sounds like 'schuss' to me, skiing the fall line... 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
Adieu wird heutzutage oft auch im Sinne von ,,Auf Nimmerwiedersehen" bzw. ,,Lebe wohl" verwendet, wenn man davon ausgeht, dass man die zu verabschiedende Person/Sache nicht wiedersieht bzw. nicht wiedersehen möchte.
In my earliest days, i thought everyone was mispronouncing Cheers.
An Ossie girlfriend jokingly uses Tschüssikovski.
Relating to another comment, i don't understand what Bath's Wife is describing. I find most Germans to be Streaming Founts of Happy-go-luckiness. Particularly Frisians. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
What do you expect from a people that drink Friesengeist (56% alcohol)?
The less-old people around here also use "ciao" a good deal. 'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher
when I lived in Bavaria, I would walk to work and all of the shopkeepers, bus drivers, etc would wave to me as I went by. The bakery would have my daily order ready as I stepped through the door, and even in shops where they did not know me, they waved aside the rest of the payment when I had to count my pennies to make up the price.
but then I look rather German and can understand that most people are not treated so well.
in Strasbourg, French people treat me very well and are extremely kind but always mistake me for a German, although I speak French perfectly and am French. the Germans on the other side of the border are also happy-go-lucky as the Bavarians.
I only ever ran afoul of Germans in my last job where they felt very threatened by me, and were extremely defensive about German supremacy in all aspects of life even when no challenge was intended.
I've always been treated very well in France and England and in the Strasbourg area, but not so much in Austria. I never found New Yorkers to be anything but nice - fun, even - and I worked in every borough from time to time. Naturally there are plenty of exceptions here; certainly the Zahnartz and doctors are very friendly to us, but it took the shopkeepers forever to warm up to me, and some still haven't. I'll miss the area when we move, but only for the natural surroundings, not for the general populace. 'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher
When I was young and naive I believed the stereotype that south Germans are much more friendly, open, out-going then the more reserved northerners. And then a native son of Munich explained to me in that the northern gernan university town he now lived people were much more polite and friendly then in Munich. Well, so much for that.
That makes Berlin so strange. The gentrification of the lower east side or whatever part of Manhattan you want to take happened not in the sixties or seventies, but in Prenzlauer Berg and Kreuzberg etc, ten, fifteen years ago.
And is not just a vague impressions: Berlin is still the cheapest city in western europe or even in Germany.
I try to find authors appearing in bookstores or interesting people giving lectures somewhere, often for free, so lots to do. I even enjoy sitting or standing off to the side in Grand Central Station or on the steps of the Library - something always happens. 'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher
Though my data is skewed, as people react to my shining sunniness in the same fashion.
I love the fresh cold. But wow, the fast flowing Weser is chocked with ice floes. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
And I'm what I'm.
Newt Gingrich said Sunday that an "age of austerity" is the wrong solution for the economy and would "punish" the American people. He said he prefers "pro-growth" policies instead. The comments appear to pour cold water on the modern Republican belief that austerity and growth go hand. The 2012 Republican presidential was asked by NBC's David Gregory on "Meet The Press" whether his hopes for a U.S. colony on the moon fly in the face of the GOP's fiscal responsibility mantra. Gingrich responded with some choice words about austerity itself before defending his lunar ambitions. "First of all, David, I don't think you'll ever find me talking about an age of austerity. I don't think that's the right solution," Gingrich said. "I am a pro-growth Republican. I'm a pro-growth conservative. I think the answer is to grow the economy, not to punish the American people with austerity."
The 2012 Republican presidential was asked by NBC's David Gregory on "Meet The Press" whether his hopes for a U.S. colony on the moon fly in the face of the GOP's fiscal responsibility mantra. Gingrich responded with some choice words about austerity itself before defending his lunar ambitions.
"First of all, David, I don't think you'll ever find me talking about an age of austerity. I don't think that's the right solution," Gingrich said. "I am a pro-growth Republican. I'm a pro-growth conservative. I think the answer is to grow the economy, not to punish the American people with austerity."
The controversial practice is not new: those studying publication ethics have for many years noted that some editors encourage extra references in order to boost a journal's impact factor (a measure of the average number of citations an article in the journal receives over two years). But the survey is the first to try to quantify what it calls 'coercive citation', and shows that this is "uncomfortably common," according to authors Allen Wilhite, an economist, and Eric Fong, who researches management, both at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. ... Fong became interested in the problem when he was asked by a journal editor to cite more articles from that journal as a condition of publication. "Until this happened to me, I had never heard of such a thing," he says. He and Wilhite asked around, and found that some people were familiar with the practice, while others were "absolutely stunned. There was no in-between", says Wilhite. ... Excessive self-citation can inflate the impact factor of a journal, so three years ago, Thomson Reuters started publishing impact factors with and without self-citations. McVeigh says that the company sees "a fairly constant dribble" of journals that have inflated their impact factors with self-citations. If doing so significantly affects the journal's impact-factor ranking, the company removes it from the lists for two years (after which self-citations usually drop considerably). Last year, 33 journals out of around 10,000 received this treatment. McVeigh's figures suggest that social-science journals tend to have more self-citations than basic-science journals (see 'Self-citations in research journals').
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Fong became interested in the problem when he was asked by a journal editor to cite more articles from that journal as a condition of publication. "Until this happened to me, I had never heard of such a thing," he says. He and Wilhite asked around, and found that some people were familiar with the practice, while others were "absolutely stunned. There was no in-between", says Wilhite.
Excessive self-citation can inflate the impact factor of a journal, so three years ago, Thomson Reuters started publishing impact factors with and without self-citations. McVeigh says that the company sees "a fairly constant dribble" of journals that have inflated their impact factors with self-citations. If doing so significantly affects the journal's impact-factor ranking, the company removes it from the lists for two years (after which self-citations usually drop considerably). Last year, 33 journals out of around 10,000 received this treatment. McVeigh's figures suggest that social-science journals tend to have more self-citations than basic-science journals (see 'Self-citations in research journals').
teh Cargo will return. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
1) Empirical evidence exists that can overturn existing theories.
We're mostly past this stage in social sciences... as we can see in economics, the evidence is always contestable to the point that evidence is not the determining factor in peer review.
2) Willingness to print negative results...
Otherwise, you get weird statistical cherry-picking and hypothesis bending... this is a big problem in science these days.
3) Broad fields that allow real anonymous review.
As fields become more specialised, this breaks down more and more. I'm personally aware of examples in social science and science. If your results contradict an existing proposition, better pray the field is big enough that your paper isn't sent for review by someone invested in that theory - otherwise you're in for a long road to get published, likely pushed down to a 2nd or 3rd tier journal...
Unfortunately their announcement is in greek. I translate it below, though it's far from a perfect translation (Kilkis is a city in Greece):... The workers at the General Hospital of Kilkis answer to this totalitarianism with democracy. We occupy the public hospital and put it under our direct and absolute control. The Γ.N. of Kilkis, will henceforth be self-governed and the only legitimate means of administrative decision making will be the General Assembly of its workers. The government is not released of its economic obligations of staffing and suppling the hospital, but if they continue to ignore these obligations, we will be forced to inform the public of this and ask the local government but most importantly the society to support us in any way possible for: (a) the survival of our hospital (b) the overall support of the right for public and free healthcare (c) the overthrow, through a common popular struggle, of the current government and any other neoliberal policy, no matter where it comes from (d) a deep and substantial democratization, that is, one that will have society, rather than a third party, responsible for making decisions for its own future. ...
... The workers at the General Hospital of Kilkis answer to this totalitarianism with democracy. We occupy the public hospital and put it under our direct and absolute control. The Γ.N. of Kilkis, will henceforth be self-governed and the only legitimate means of administrative decision making will be the General Assembly of its workers. The government is not released of its economic obligations of staffing and suppling the hospital, but if they continue to ignore these obligations, we will be forced to inform the public of this and ask the local government but most importantly the society to support us in any way possible for: (a) the survival of our hospital (b) the overall support of the right for public and free healthcare (c) the overthrow, through a common popular struggle, of the current government and any other neoliberal policy, no matter where it comes from (d) a deep and substantial democratization, that is, one that will have society, rather than a third party, responsible for making decisions for its own future. ...
The workers at the General Hospital of Kilkis answer to this totalitarianism with democracy. We occupy the public hospital and put it under our direct and absolute control. The Γ.N. of Kilkis, will henceforth be self-governed and the only legitimate means of administrative decision making will be the General Assembly of its workers.
The government is not released of its economic obligations of staffing and suppling the hospital, but if they continue to ignore these obligations, we will be forced to inform the public of this and ask the local government but most importantly the society to support us in any way possible for: (a) the survival of our hospital (b) the overall support of the right for public and free healthcare (c) the overthrow, through a common popular struggle, of the current government and any other neoliberal policy, no matter where it comes from (d) a deep and substantial democratization, that is, one that will have society, rather than a third party, responsible for making decisions for its own future.
Kthnxbai She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Kid 1: "I am a Giants fan!" Kid 2: "I am a Giants fan!" Kid 3: "Soy un partidario de Giants!" Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
and i wasn't even drinking at all. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Two victories over Brady in the Super Bowl means Lesser Manning is now Greater Manning.
Everybody in the press was convinced a few weeks back we'd get a Pats-Packers Super Bowl, proving the old saying "Defense wins championships" wrong (since they were last and second-last in D, respectively).
The Giants disposed of that idea pretty well. Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
What made harder for me to watch was the German feed. TV here doesn't have the supposed awesomeness of bread and circus advertising that makes the Stupor Bowl special in amurka. So no cultural monitoring. on the plus side, i did get to watch what happened on the field during many of the c-breaks.
i found Madonna horrible, but some of her dancers, and the gospel singers just brilliant. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
I have sat in amazement at a party, watching a dozen or so women thirty-ish professional women, of as many nationalities, grooving to a big-screen Madonna video.
It's not the music. It can't be. I guess it's a role-model thing. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
I'm a relic of the pre-video era when scruffy heavy rock bands shuffled on stage, disappeared behind an explosion of dandruff, shuffled off and we all went home. All these fancy visual gizma-tronickery leaves me entirely unmoved. keep to the Fen Causeway
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