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Re: How dangerous (none / 0)

But all comedians satirize from the inside...That's what they do. That's their audience. To the extent that other cultures impinge on the inside, they satirize that too.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 01:13:26 PM EST
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Re: How dangerous (none / 0)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 02:23:33 PM EST
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Re: How dangerous (none / 0)

As you very well know, there are no citations in the perceptual world ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 03:15:19 PM EST
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Re: How dangerous (none / 0)

Bullshit.

When you say

But all comedians satirize from the inside...That's what they do. That's their audience. To the extent that other cultures impinge on the inside, they satirize that too.

you're making statements of fact. Unless we're suppose to interpret everything you say as "I just pulled this out of my ass right now".

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 03:23:38 PM EST
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Re: How dangerous (none / 0)

You can do what you like with it. It's art - remember?

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 03:31:59 PM EST
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Re: How dangerous (none / 0)

I'm going to ignore it as worthless.

I distribute. You re-distribute. He gives your hard-earned money to lazy scroungers. -- JakeS

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 04:51:40 PM EST
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Re: How dangerous (none / 1)

Here's a question: can you see why the song If you could see her through my eyes from Cabaret would have been morally wrong satire if it had historically been sung in a German cabaret in the early 1930s? Or do you think that kind of satire is okay?

(to be sure, I think it is okay for the musical to actually contain the song as a way to illustrate the state of opinion in pre-Nazi Germany, though apparently when the stage musical came out it provoked protests from Jewish groups in the US)

I distribute. You re-distribute. He gives your hard-earned money to lazy scroungers. -- JakeS

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 03:15:20 PM EST
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Re: How dangerous (none / 0)

You answered it yourself.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 03:19:47 PM EST
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Re: How dangerous (none / 0)

Don't avoid the question.

Interpret the song (by itself, within the musical, and in the fictional universe of the musical) for me.

I distribute. You re-distribute. He gives your hard-earned money to lazy scroungers. -- JakeS

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 03:22:07 PM EST
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Re: How dangerous (none / 0)

I can't be bothered.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 03:32:24 PM EST
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Classic Triloqvist cop-out (none / 0)

I keep forgetting you don't write in English but in Triloqvistian and you never mean what you say.

I distribute. You re-distribute. He gives your hard-earned money to lazy scroungers. -- JakeS

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 03:35:36 PM EST
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Re: Classic Triloqvist cop-out (none / 0)

In the wonderful world of ET On Ice, where genius meets obstinacy, about the only thing I have to offer is my ability to skate on the thin ice of semantics.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 03:43:43 PM EST
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Re: Classic Triloqvist cop-out (none / 0)

Redefining meaning when it suits you is not skating on the thin ise of semantics, it's shattering the ice with a sledgehammer.

I distribute. You re-distribute. He gives your hard-earned money to lazy scroungers. -- JakeS

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 04:49:37 PM EST
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Re: Classic Triloqvist cop-out (none / 0)

I am not as smart as you, but I am funnier.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 03:46:03 PM EST
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Re: Classic Triloqvist cop-out (none / 0)

You think you're funny, but being funnier than me is not saying much.

I distribute. You re-distribute. He gives your hard-earned money to lazy scroungers. -- JakeS

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jan 6th, 2013 at 04:50:32 PM EST
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