Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Conservatives can't be funny.

a)They don't like irreverence 
because their beliefs are based on sacred things that mustn't be questioned.

b)They don't like irony  
because it involves nuance acknowledges that our assumptions about reality don't always match up.

That basically leaves them with humor based on puns and cruelty.

e.g.
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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. 
- Aristotle
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Sex Madness



Vaughn Bell just reminded me of this film, which I haven't seen since an all nighter at The Scala in London sometime in the early eighties. 
I also learnt this rather astonishing bit of information from his post over at 'Mind Hacks': 
"...Before then, the most effective treatment was to be infected by malaria which would give you a fever so strong that the syphilis bacteria would die in your body due to the high temperature. The hope was that the malaria could be treated by quinine before you died from that. The discovery won Julius Wagner-Jauregg the Nobel prize in 1927."


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.@DMiliband says Cabinet has agreed no one will put their name forward for leader until talks are over 2 minutes ago via TweetDeck
(Nice to see that he knows the secret of the .@!) 
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RIP Frank Frazetta


Back at school in Glasgow in the mid 70's the art department was full of boys ripping off Roger Dean.
Frank Frazetta got ripped off a lot too!
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‘Never book me in Memphis the day Elvis dies again.’ - Willie Nelson

JoeBot - "Disaster Tourist" - Photo by Andrew Edman
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Brother Dege (for Stacey!)

“This is Delta Blues for the 21st Century, raging out of the swamplands of Louisiana. Dripping with atmosphere and backwoods noir. The real deal—death-obsessed, god-fearing, foot stomping acoustic blues steeped in the devilish myths and haunted ambience that permeates every inch of Louisiana. Factor in some Historic longhaired rock & roll influences – from Sabbath to Black Flag – and you’ve got an art project and anthropological study wrapped in one time traveling package.”
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Coalition scenarios



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Hung parliament: Tories' 'final offer' on vote reform

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Now...

...Osborne says he will offer the LibDems a referendum on the alternative vote
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davidschneider William Hague making a statement as if someone's banging his balls between 2 bricks. And that someone is Nick Clegg. 1 minute ago via TweetDeck
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HA!


Armando Iannucci explains the faff-mechanics of a hung parliament (1997)
"Look at the young hope on my face."
AIannucci Hey, they both offer votes on electoral reform and they both hate Nick Clegg: how about a Lab-Con coalition? 4 minutes ago via UberTwitter
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Vintage Christian Documentary - ‘Pornography: A Winnable War’


“They took him into an alley and tied his hands over his head and drove a truck into his knees.” 
Via Found Footage Fest, a vintage Focus on the Family production with a frank discussion on the dangers of (soft to) hardcore pornography.
("...or whatever you call it!")
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