Apropos of our conversation, “Bob Ellis in the line of fire” by @domknight http://arseh.at/63b
I guess I’m curious because ABC The Drum publishes many ill-argued pieces but today’s by Ellis seems to have pressed buttons.
I wouldn’t read too much into ABC comment moderation. My feeling is that it’s inconsistent from being poorly resourced.
RT @caldron_baidu: Re “lurgy” from the shorter OED: http://twitpic.com/4ka7zd
RT @robcorr: His drivel crowds out people who have better arguments but smaller name-recognition. I’d rather The Drum found smart writing.
Alas I’m going to have to drop back to responding to @replies at random. Oddly enough there was interest in this topic… ;)
Actually, I think the fiction/reality thing is a red herring. Comedy tropes indicate what we deem acceptable as laughing matters not crimes.
Actually @antipodeankate I’d say that Ellis’ thesis is NOT that it’s all OK, but that in the scale of things it’s less than other matters.
RT @TatteredRemnant: C’mon, seeing Ellis having sex would be at best traumatic. [Speak for yourself, sunshine! I’ll plonk down $20 now!]
RT @antipodeankate: No, his thesis is that women shouldn’t offended if people video them having sex without their consent. [Then refute it.]
Ellis’ blurring of fiction and reality hurts his argument, but his thesis seems to be that people seeing people having sex is a minor issue.
This will not end well, but hey…
So @monkeytypist @robcorr @thewetmale the ABC should only publish opinions you agree with or that conform to your standards of rhetoric?
@thewetmale Even so, it’s the ABC’s job to explore the full gamut of opinion IMHO, fairly, and let the discussion ensue. Not pre-judge.
Note for the hard of thinking: I did not just agree with what Bob Ellis wrote. I expressed no opinion about what he wrote.
I see some people suggesting that Bob Ellis shouldn’t have the right of free speech. Well aren’t you stupid cunts!
Dear No Ship Action Group, if you were skywriting today then you’re part of the pollution problem, not its solution.
Dear FIXPlay your videos seem to be about 2x to 3x the size for similar-length programs at ABC iView. Why is that?
@jdub On that stupid @SmartCompany piece, I reckon just leave the poor bastards to drown in their own idiocy. And then laugh a lot.
Deck.ly? I’m so sorry, @jdub, I thought I’d turned off that bullshit. I am so sorry. Friends don’t let friends use deck.ly…
@jdub “The series documents the process of launching a restaurant, Conviction, to be staffed by rehabilitate… (cont) http://deck.ly/~4Wur4
When I first saw it, I honestly thought that “Conviction Kitchen” was satire. The very idea that any sane person would seriously stage it…
There’s a “My Kitchen Rules Cookbook”? That’s good. Because until now we haven’t had any cookbooks whatsoever.
Oh here we go…
Give me a moon rock and I’ll lick it, @NanoPunk #notaeuphemism
@Tim_Coronel Yes, the Macquarie does point out that “the dreaded lurgi” was the usual phrase. I daresay the OED has more on this.
@JagerChris The radio show was called “The Goon Show”, actually, but yes I’m quite familiar with it. “The Goonies” was something awful IIRC>
@NanoPunk If I’m going to spread a lurgi, I want it to be something worthwhile. Typhoid, say, or something medieval.
@johnthelutheran I suppose the punters soon learn to understand the tabloid dialect. Always sounds better in a Cockney accent, I feel.
Says the Macquarie Dictionary of “lurgy” and “lurgi”, “coined by British comedian Spike Milligan, 1919—2002”. So there you go.
@R_Chirgwin I shan’t be joining you for dinner at the pub. I plan a very early night in an attempt to shake off some incipient lurgi.
@jonoabroad You clearly don’t understand the vast importance of this event. Do you not remember Bros? Paul Carr, well, he writes…
So Matt Goss is playing Vegas these days? Paul Carr, brave man, takes in the show on our behalf. http://arseh.at/62x
This afternoon I am drifting in and out of motivation. Mostly out. Hence my @replies being even more erratic than usual.
@stokely @wolfcat That chap in the middle not only looks like @anthonybaxter but a younger Stephen Conroy. http://arseh.at/62w
@elronxenu I suppose that usage is no different from zeroing a gauge. /cc @expectproblems @FelineBred
@elronxenu The headline was “Google nixes new German Street Views”, that’s nix as a verb. /cc @expectproblems @FelineBred
I can’t possibly answer your questions while you’re wearing those bunny ears, @Nic_O_Licious. ‘Scuse me, all, I need a private moment…
Say what @NickHodgeMSFT? In some jobs you don’t have alcohol until AFTER you finish work? How does that, erm, work?
Whenever I see a headline like “VMware’s Harapin promoted” http://arseh.at/62t I picture a tortoise-like critter. Am I wrong? Probably.
Oh OK, so @expectproblems and @FelineBred use “nix”. I sit corrected. It still strikes me as a most unusual word to use.
Does anyone, anywhere, use the verb “to nix” apart from journalists? If not, why do journos speak a different language to their readers?
@AlisterAir Indeed, I don’t understand how Reardon’s description of the risk points in website development could be so completely wrong.
The weather has turned cloudy and miserable, and so have I.
Still shaking my head in disbelief at the misinformation and FUD in Reardon’s @SmartCompany piece. Just. So. Wrong. What’s the motive?
Reardon reckons open source means “the legal minefield created by Wikileaks, the St Kilda schoolgirl, cyber bullies, Napster, etc.” WTF?
@chrisgander I’ll bear that in mind, thank you. I’ll probably be in touch in for another story rather than this op-ed.
Open source website solutions and business don’t mix, reckons Craig Reardon. I say he’s got it very wrong. http://arseh.at/62h
@chrisgander That was me writing one, and I won’t say for where yet ‘cos things have a habit of changing. But it is something I’ll be doing.
RT @safzoro: Ooh, maybe because those 80% of arsehats are your readers. [True. Could it be that I’m only read by arsehats? It’d explain…]
Well, there’s an aricle commissioned on gamification. Editors are watching. Careful what you say.
Ooh! “The most irresponsible nonfiction book I am likely to read this year”! “Games as magic beans”! http://arseh.at/62e HT @quietdiscourse
RT @nambor: Do you have a google doc or something where we can contribute to the list of those 6 people? [Excellent idea!]
My spelling of “gamification” was wrong before. Well, the whole fucking word is wrong to begin with.
Wed plan: Stab to death at least six people and bury them in shallow graves; dance thereupon; vodka; catch a movie. No. Wait.
Paul Carr channels my thoughts on this “gaminfication” bullshit. I truly want to slap these people. http://arseh.at/62c
Reading comments on things I’ve written recently. Wondering why about 80% of these arsehats should be permitted to breathe.
Is @NewtonMark suggesting some sort of Twitter-based homeopathy? /cc @chrisbrownie @OhCrap
UK to check whether cocaine is a safe drug for middle-class dinner parties. http://arseh.at/62a
I suggest we all try this tactic when trying to buy expensive items on plastic. http://arseh.at/629
RT @Wyane: @stilgherrian how neopolitan [I think we now have a new way to describe this state of being. Thank you.]
Je me sens comme trois types de merde agité dans un seau.
@firstdogonmoon Why are you trolling librarians?
Kinda starting Wednesday… kinda.