We won't have to wait long will we?
The Sky At Night
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Maz
Guru
"Hhwell, I'm afwaid we just don't know!"
BluesDave
Formerly known as DavidDecorator
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- The leafy backroads of Surrey.
Some sad people cannot hide their pathetic obsessions with ists and isms even in the face of such a tragic loss to the world or in Sir Moores case universe. Such people are to be ignored perhaps pitied but not ever taken for anything other than the fools that they are. Rip to the man of the stars.Clarion seems to be establishing he has an axe to grind (here and elsewhere)
Moore was a bigot. I don't know why it's so difficult to acknowledge this. It doesn't invalidate the fact that he inspired and informed an enormous number of people, but there it is. It isn't irrelevant - he used his high profile to pursue a regressive political agenda.
GaryA
Subversive Sage
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- High Shields
I dont think many people took much notice of the political side...didnt seem to be a formulaic bigot as he toyed around with the monster raving looney party and stood up for animal welfare against the hunting tally-ho mob...
Christopher
Über Member
Once again the world fails to live up to Claudine's high standards... do you actually have any evidence for what you posted, or are you just a daring iconoclast, taking on people who can't answer back?
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Collimated. it's easy enough to do, method varies from model to model, but usually involves turning one of the objectives (front lens) until both images coincide. In a past life I made a tidy part-time income from buying "broken" bins for next to nowt, collimating them and reflogging.
A pretty standard one on the misogyny, homophobia and racism front, I'm afraid. People tended to describe this as "eccentric" or "old-fashioned", which seems to me to be a straightforward euphemism.
Oh, give over, you old harridan.
mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
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- Egremont, Cumbria
I'm not taking anyone on, and Moore wasn't shy about saying what he thought, or short of opportunities for doing so. His comments about women, homosexuality and immigrants are all easy enough to find if you've not come across any of them before. I just don't see why the unpleasant aspects of his character need to be glossed over. I concur with what's been said upthread about his talents and qualities as a specialist broadcaster, and with the notion that science is best served by letting the experts have the floor. I liked him when I was a kid, but it's difficult to maintain an affection for someone who clearly regards you as a different and inferior species.
