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- Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:15 pm
- Forum: Admin-Intro-Chitchat
- Topic: Who is to blame for NHS crisis?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5519
Re: Who is to blame for NHS crisis?
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...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 1:57 pm
- Forum: Admin-Intro-Chitchat
- Topic: What have we lost?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11127
Re: What have we lost?
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 ...
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 1:33 pm
- Forum: General Audio
- Topic: More
- Replies: 50
- Views: 14986
Re: More
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 ...
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 11:20 pm
- Forum: Admin-Intro-Chitchat
- Topic: Richard Dunn - what a nice handsome young man
- Replies: 173
- Views: 48858
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:44 pm
- Forum: Admin-Intro-Chitchat
- Topic: Richard Dunn - what a nice handsome young man
- Replies: 173
- Views: 48858
Re: Richard Dunn - what a nice handsome young man
...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....
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:37 pm
- Forum: Admin-Intro-Chitchat
- Topic: Richard Dunn - what a nice handsome young man
- Replies: 173
- Views: 48858
Re: Richard Dunn - what a nice handsome young man
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...
- Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:07 pm
- Forum: General Audio
- Topic: Impending House Move: New Listening Room
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5092
Re: Impending House Move: New Listening Room
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...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:27 am
- Forum: General Audio
- Topic: Semi Omni v Point and Squirt
- Replies: 64
- Views: 18869
Re: Semi Omni v Point and Squirt
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...
- Wed Jun 21, 2017 7:18 am
- Forum: Admin-Intro-Chitchat
- Topic: The Narrative Response .
- Replies: 166
- Views: 39302
Re: The Narrative Response .
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...
- Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:58 pm
- Forum: Admin-Intro-Chitchat
- Topic: The Narrative Response .
- Replies: 166
- Views: 39302
Re: The Narrative Response .
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 ...