ianshutters.bsky.social
Belfast-raised; 30 yrs in London as FT theatre critic; now Brexit refugee in Berlin and the Rhein valley. Fat. Smart. Wears tights. At 60 I recognised myself first as genderqueer, then as neurodivergent. He/him, but theyish. Monopolar depressive.
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But... if he has a stroke that leads to total aphasia... how will anyone tell?
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I met him at a party once, and was sent away with a flea in my ear for foolishly assuming that what was going on was a conversation rather than a pronouncement.
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He's within a cigarette paper of doing it here.
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Hmm. I suspect the alienated NI "middle ground" would be outweighed - maybe not in number, but in volume and impact - by the DUP and their thuggish minions taking bigoted succour.
Don't forget that NI UDI has been seriously proposed in the past, and that would just be a Protestant Boerestaat.
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I admire Fry immensely, except on this matter. This strikes me as unsettlingly mealy-mouthed: I infer a feeling on his part that, for whatever reason, he can no longer avoid it, but is still reluctant and perilously close to explicitly both-sidesing.
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'Cause it was invented by Colin... duh!
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For one horrible moment there, when you capitalised "Potter"...!
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I used to be one of those people. Then I realised how I'd spent decades as a professional theatre critic, _reading_ live performances, and pulled my head out of my arse. Not before time.
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I learned my lesson as a student, with a flautist above me who only ever played the one piece. During exam season I wrote him a polite note asking if he could ease off for a week or so; he replied, "I'll stop playing flute if you stop guffawing!" - I DID have a very loud random-shit laugh...
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There's a clarinettist in the flat above me. A year or two ago I was infuriated by all the scales and repeated attempts at mastering twiddly phrases, but they seem to have really come on (or I've grown used) and now there are a number of quite beautiful pieces.
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Enrichment is not simply a direct process. Consuming, in many cases even discussing, the brand through any channel regardless of finance nevertheless perpetuates its viability and enables JKR to be enriched by the purchases of others.
Or did you want to acknowledge only a _little_ responsibility?
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If it's in public fora like this, then the argument is WITH them but FOR third parties who might happen along and still be persuadable.
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I even understand verb tenses, and that the quote is in the present and future tenses, and that you said "ever", which takes us back as far as January 1924. My question stands.
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"Ever"?
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Oh, I want a Labour government. But we'll never get one.
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I think you'r right - I gratefully defer to m'learned friend!
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When one elderly player, unable to keep a foot on the floor when making a snooker shot, decided to play it southpaw, the commentator observed:
"Joe Davis at 67 is too old to get his leg over, so he's using his left hand instead."
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In this context, his insane lust for Hitlerian adoration is a distraction. It so happens that the people he's kidnapping and torturing are opposed to him, but the overall goal is to blow the whole of society apart, both domestically and globally.
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Merciful Zeus.
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From Graham Norton's 1993 show The Karen Carpenter Bar & Grill:
<Karen reading lyrics for the first time:> "Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?" <shrugs> 'Cause I throw my lunch away…
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Hey, nothing wrong with Japanese theatre...
(That genuinely happened to me, the other way round: I once casually mentioned kabuki, and someone else recoiled in horror because he'd confused it with bukkake...)
(And of course let's not forget Dexys Midnight Runners' greatest hit "Come On Eileen"...)
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I'm just an ordinary guy (with a double first in English from Cambridge and 30 years as a professional theatre critic, 25 of them for the FT), but I've spent a lot of time thinking about things like this, and after long and careful reflection, my considered conclusion is: fuck that shit.
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I went on an alcohol-only diet.
I lost three weeks.
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The thing with Cassandra was nobody believed she was right, but at least they did fucking listen in the first place.
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I thought it was too late for moral comfort when I quit Britain in 2019.
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"people put their heads down [...] any individual acting rationally has a reason to think that the personal cost of refusing to make a compromise is going to be greater than the social benefit of their one act of resistance" – What personal cost is too great for being able to keep living?
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Since his tenure at Education, I've been using a slogan from a student demo:
Gove Will Tear Us Apart. Again.
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It's the same as the Rowling issue. If the artist were dead, the views could PERHAPS be set to one side. While the artist is alive and active, consuming the art helps bankroll and propagate those views. You're not just a fan; you're a collaborator.
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<Jeeves> Thank you, sir; I endeavour to give satisfaction. </Jeeves>
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She was hiding bloody well for over 100 of those years, as she was dedicated in 1886.