In a way, making "xenophobia" and "racism" taboos was one of the ideological and political breakthroughs of the 20th Century. Ironically, one of Hitler's greatest legacies was to make accusations of "xenophobia" or "racism" almost as bad as being called a &quo...

I think that the old rosy-coloured specs come into play a lot when people hark back to the 'good old days'. I used to have a tape of my mother and various aunts, recorded in the early 1970s, reminiscing about how wonderful everything was back in the 1930s. At one point, they talk about a neighbour ...

Why do people think more is better = more cost, more complexity, more components, more bling, more hi-fi, more ego, more marketing bullshit = more stupidity and less music. I think the standard explanation is that on average, and all other things being equal, those of our ancestors who effectively ...

Lindsayt wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2017 10:59 pm I can't really comment on your opinion and on Bigman80's opinion of Richard because neither of you have presented any specific evidence to support your views.

Ok.
Probably for the best.
I feel bad for raking things up.
None of my business.

...To my mind, in general it would fairly uncontraversial to say that some of Richard's posts (a minority) carry a likelihood of causing insults to their targets. Indeed, that often appears to be one of their functions... Can you please give links to examples? Fair question. Off the top of my head....

Can't speak for Bigman80, or that situation. I haven't followed it. To my mind, in general it would fairly uncontraversial to say that some of Richard's posts (a minority) carry a likelihood of causing insults to their targets. Indeed, that often appears to be one of their functions. The debate seem...

I found these words from Roy Allison encouraging: "I had emphasized dispersion in order to re-create as best I could the performance-hall ambience. I don't want to put up with a sweet spot, and I'd rather have less dramatically precise imaging but a close simulation of what you hear in a conce...

Clearly it is not the case that all examples of a particular design of speaker are universally preferable to all speakers of a different design. There's nothing controversial in my writing that. The individual listener can compare only individual examples of different designs, and express a subjecti...

Nonsense - so we should have just let Hitler invade us should we. Fighting the Nazis was a good and necessary thing to do. Interestingly though, we declared war on them not because they were about to invade Britain itself (the Nazis were 1000 miles away in Poland), nor simply because their ideology...

But the Indonesian Buddhists didn't start a civil war with a gorilla army, they just got butchered because they were Kafir. The Sri Lanka insurgence went on for so long the Sinhalese Buddhist said feck it the only way to stop this is to REALLY stop it, and they did. I don't doubt that in the minds ...