Fined for calling a police horse gay

[alexsarll]

You know how it is; hanging out with an indie celebrity, gold discs on the wall, gleefully indulging a shared addiction...
What do you mean, you don't think watching Pyramids of Mars is very rock'n'roll?
my_name_is_anna suggests that Doctor Who-fandom represents an alternative to football; she may have a point, but until I see an urban area trashed by Whooligans, I maintain that it's a superior alternative.
(Those old stories don't half sag when you're used to the new series, though. I mean, Pyramids is still great fun, and genuinely chilling at times, but you can see exactly where the fat would come off if it were in the new series. Do we really need an extended scene of the robot mummies chasing a poacher for whom we care not a fig, or more than one Osiran logic game to reach the Pyramid's control chamber?)

Subsequent to the pants advice of my friendslist, I hit M&S, and pronounce their pants acceptable. However, I also pronounce the customers of their Camden branch anathema. And as for the recorded voice warning of the perils of their (feeble) escalator, that I pronounce...whatever's beyond anathema. Abhorred on every civilised world, perhaps?

Those few of you who thought Romeo and Juliet had a future together - would you care to explain your working, or am I to take it that, like insecuregoddess, you acknowledge your votes were wishful thinking?

I realised that I must be close to having played a hundred songs at LYE; checking back I realised that I'd already got there, and it was 'Speeed King'. Not that 'Speeed King''s not a good song, but if I'd known I would have gone with something slightly more iconic.

I can seldom get fired up by Greatest [x] Of All Time votes, but am prepared to make an exception and vote for my favourite philosopher.

I recall that some of you have been getting over-excited by the music of Clor, but cannot recall who. It would be in your interests to identify yourselves at this point.

Comments

[666inmyheart.livejournal.com]

I *heart* Clor. Why?

xx

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Do you have the album? If not, I have two copies, to one of which you are welcome.

[exliontamer.livejournal.com]

Me too!

xxx

whatever's beyond anathema

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

hyperbole is such an awkward thing

Re: whatever's beyond anathema

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

But the Doctor and Sutekh were doing such a good job of it last night that I wanted to play too!

[j4.livejournal.com]

Those few of you who thought Romeo and Juliet had a future together - would you care to explain your working [...]?

We're talking about a couple who were too stupid to be able to tell whether each other was dead or not, right? So a) neither of them would have the brains to go and find somebody else (and they're probably fairly well suited to each other anyway if they're both that dippy), and b) she'd get pregnant fairly quickly, and then they'd stay together because That's What You Did In Those Days.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

OK, that version I can almost buy. I feared people were under the sway of a soppiness which the text does not support.

[suicideally.livejournal.com]

I found that Greatest Philosopher poll yesterday.
(Haven't decided who to vote for though. Ooh, it's like the General Election all over again...!)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

For a moment I thought about choosing Bertrand over Nietzsche. But really, Bertrand's more the best philosophy teacher ever than the best philosopher.

[hollowfulofhat.livejournal.com]

Before my coffee had kicked in this morning, I could've sworn I heard Jim Naughtie say to AC Grayling, "Now you, I think, are a Kant man." But it turns out he really did say that.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I am disappointed to hear this lack of poacher love from you. One of the best things about Dr Who is the supplementary casts of rustic poachers/blacked-up coal minders/simple bumpkins who get nobbled by robot mummies/green slime/marauding badgers ect. Agreed with the logic games though.

ABASE YOURSELF BEFORE ME, GROVELLING INSECT

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

We decided that the current series has stuck to the cities simply so they don't have to incorporate any poachers. But yes, obv it is good to see rustic poachers nobbled by robot mummies - I simply question whether they have to take so ruddy long about it!

[johnnyvertigen.livejournal.com]

Song number 100 for me turned out to be Adolf A Carrot? by the Severed Heads. I'm quite chuffed at that.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Was it this post that inspired you to check, or had you known already?

[p-dan-tic.livejournal.com]

so you think wrestling > football?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Dan, I've long been clear on this one - I have no particular objection to wrestling. It's not for me (that men-in-spandex-fighting niche is filled for me by superhero comics), and I think you sometimes overdo the wrestling analogies, but as sports go it definitely seems like one of the better ones.

[kitty-collar.livejournal.com]

We want to find out which philosophers people find most inspiring, or interesting, or appealing, and why, so please - tell us who you fancy.

Hehehehe!

xxx

[suicideally.livejournal.com]

Ah, clearly they read the 20 Most Shaggable Philosophers poll I ran on my journal last year...

[p-dan-tic.livejournal.com]

Those few of you who thought Romeo and Juliet had a future together - would you care to explain your working

all marriages work out don't they?

don't they?..........

[razorcheekbones.livejournal.com]

For some reason I am not allowed to vote in that poll. The page won't load. Is this some kind of conspiracy? Are real, live philosophers not allowed to vote? Bah.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, often people directly involved in a field are barred from competitions - but that seems unlikely. Try going in from elsewhere on the BBC site, maybe?

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

The Clor single Love and Pain set my trousers aflame, being a bit Krautrock and a bit jerky pop.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Then you can have the other copy of the album, if you'd like. Though when am I next likely to see you?

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

I don't understand what all the fuss is about re Clor. It's just a shouty racket.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yes, why doesn't it have tunes you can hum, eh, like acid house used to?

I don't object to them, but nor do I want the darn album.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

TALKING CRAP ON THIS JOURNAL HAS WASTED MY ENTIRE MORNING!! ARGH!! My in-tray is weeping at being forsaken!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

HOW DO YOU THINK I'M COPING?

[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

Those few of you who thought Romeo and Juliet had a future together - would you care to explain your working, or am I to take it that, like insecuregoddess, you acknowledge your votes were wishful thinking?

What makes you think they didn't?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, the fact that he was (as ultraruby puts it) talking the exact same game about Rosalind - whom he drops like she's nothing once Juliet comes along, only to restart the same line of rhetoric as regards the latter. There's nothing to suggest he won't do the same again - nothing except his own protestations of love and constancy, and we've just seen how much they're worth.

But....

[razorcheekbones.livejournal.com]

THERE ARE NO FEMALE PHILOSOPHERS ON THAT LIST!!!!!!

I'm outraged.

Re: But....

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

You've only just realised? You're slipping...

[cappuccino-kid.livejournal.com]

It appears my 100th song was Only Losers Take The Bus!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

You win.

[okborednow.livejournal.com]

i voted for aristotle because he must have been so bored he decided to write about everything *ever*. and my aristotle course at uni was fun because the lecturer was slightly mad.
xx

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Aristotle himself, though, was so tediously *sane* - yet often thoroughly wrong with it!

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/000591.html

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! Though:
Would you go disco dancing with the foreign minister of a fascist state?
Probably, just for the anecdote value. But I wouldn't buy him a drink or owt.