Recent content by cih

No, actually let's consider the context. Which of your two definitions makes most sense when applied to Morrissey's "extreme vilification" for a group of people who skin animals alive. Did he really mean to refer to such people as: a category in biological classification that ranks immediately...

Does anyone else find that an emoticon portrays your feelings better than your own face?;);):lbf:

Talking of warm and fuzzy, do you think Wagner will win X-Factor?

Talking of sinuous and fluid, who do you think is going to win Strictly Come Dancing this year?

Again, I meant Morrissey made a mistake, not me. I stand by everything I said, including the literal translation of untermensch (which is debatable to certain extent I concede but I was not incorrect, and it's irrelevant anyway - anyone can see that 'sub-species' when applied to a group of...

No idea what you mean by that - I was referring to Morrissey speaking, in anger, about the mistreatment of animals in China - he made a mistake in using the term 'sub-species'. Right? No, I don't claim moral superiority over anyone. And, it IS reasonable to find the term 'sub-species'...

You're just wrong I'm afraid - and the more you defend what he said, the worse it gets. Everyone makes mistakes when they're speaking with passion about something that angers them, but this long drawn-out rationalization of what Morrissey said is something entirely different.

Yeah - of course, and the context and intent are provided by the surrounding words. For example, a biologist says something like - "Equus caballus, the true horse, which once had several subspecies..." etc, that would be ok wouldn't it? But if a rock star says "You can't help but feel that the...

Actually, the Nazi term 'untermensch' - 'under-man' - was in currency before they adopted it, and meant various things - not always in reference to a genetic 'sub-humanity' as such. The term 'subhuman' is the closest translation of this term with the meaning the Nazis applied to it, with all...

That seems somewhat Eurocentric in terms of a definition of 'quality' or 'beauty'

So.... what is the difference?

Right. Step up Guy Ritchie! I just remembered another important factor about what happened at Finsbury Park (or rather, what happened in the press afterwards). The year 1992 was a very bad time to adopt the Union flag and the ambiguous imagery of the skinhead. This was a time when fascist...

Maybe he's not 'a racist' - however, he has proved that he's held a few racist views in the past. But he's not betraying any kind of blissful harmony that otherwise exists in the musical world he inhabits. Also I'm not saying that those other people I mentioned are 'horrible people' - just...

The question about his views on race is just a moot point as far as I'm concerned - Caravaggio was a murderer, Ike Turner was a wife-beater, Picasso was a misogynist, Andre Breton a homophobe, Chuck Berry a git, Charlie Parker a heroin addict... they all produced great art. If Morrissey makes a...

Yep - it was like "where the hell did this lot come from??". The previous year to Madstock, or maybe the same year, I went to a ‘ska festival’ in Sheffield. Two Madness members were there in their new band ‘the Nutty Boys’, and met with extreme hostility from the crowd who were demanding...