What single work of creation would you remove from the world?

[deptfordmarmoset]

My God, it's just awful. Good call.

It's a programme from last century that somehow survived the new millennium.

 

[Tim Hall]

Currently watching top of the pops 1984(?) on BBC4. Can I nominate Agadoo by Black Lace?

Ooh, in this alternate universe would Black Lace survive without the fame brought to them by Agadoo? If they don't there'll be a big Gang Bang shaped hole in "Rita, Sue and Bob Too".

 

[nickyboy]

Another one occurred to me just now - Reservoir Dogs. Whilst the film itself isn't that bad (compared to the rest of Tarantino's largely insufferable ouevre) the expunging of RD from our cultural history might prevent baggy, morally incoherent nonsense like Inglorious Basterds and The Hateful Eight being inflicted on the cinema going public.

I would, it must be said, lament the loss of Jackie Brown.

I quite enjoy a bit of moral incoherence

 

[swansonj]

Back on topic (again....) I'm going to vote for yellow smiley facey things. Often used as a substitute for expression or to mean "I'm being obnoxious but I'm pretending I'm not."

I was going to challenge this. Then I saw who had liked it. But I decided to challenge it anyway.

When we interact with someone face to face, we naturally use every means available to make our communication as effective as possible, combining our words with eye contact and body language.

When we speak with someone on the phone (or radio), we lose the ability to use body language, but we still use intonation, pace, volume etc to supplement the words in the interest of maximising effective communication.

When we communicate in writing, we are even more restricted. But there have always been supplements available - underlining, italics, capitals, and more recently emojis. Yet, for some reason, educated people have always been snobby about all of those.

I submit that objecting to emojis is prioritising our sense of our own culture and education over maximising the effectiveness of our communication. And I submit that deliberately failing to communicate as effectively as we could is close to being the unforgivable Sin Against the Holy Spirit.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I was going to challenge this. Then I saw who had liked it. But I decided to challenge it anyway.

When we interact with someone face to face, we naturally use every means available to make our communication as effective as possible, combining our words with eye contact and body language.

When we speak with someone on the phone (or radio), we lose the ability to use body language, but we still use intonation, pace, volume etc to supplement the words in the interest of maximising effective communication.

When we communicate in writing, we are even more restricted. But there have always been supplements available - underlining, italics, capitals, and more recently emojis. Yet, for some reason, educated people have always been snobby about all of those.

I submit that objecting to emojis is prioritising our sense of our own culture and education over maximising the effectiveness of our communication. And I submit that deliberately failing to communicate as effectively as we could is close to being the unforgivable Sin Against the Holy Spirit.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Made in Ireland, innit...

Racist!

 

[AndyRM]

Michael McIntyre.

 

[srw]

snobby

"Snobby" is becoming an all-purpose insult that means something like "I don't like that someone else doesn't like what I like, but I can't explain why." It's one of those words that serves only to signal a claimed moral superiority and is deliberately and unnecessarily divisive. It's usually accompanied by an implication that rational thinking is terrible.

 

[John the Monkey]

Death Metal...nuff said

That's the sort of narrowing I was thinking of (coming from a place where I don't know the genre). The sort of thing we've seen in the thread is more "Metal" or "Rock" in terms of specificity.

 

[John the Monkey]

I quite enjoy a bit of moral incoherence

I'm aware that Tarantino disliking is a minority pursuit

 

[John the Monkey]

"Snobby" is becoming an all-purpose insult that means something like "I don't like that someone else doesn't like what I like, but I can't explain why." It's one of those words that serves only to signal a claimed moral superiority and is deliberately and unnecessarily divisive. It's usually accompanied by an implication that rational thinking is terrible.

Along with "Elitist". Both have useful meanings, but those are diminished by a usage that suggests that aspiring to understand, or understanding and appreciating complex, unpopular or difficult works is, in some way, a bad thing.

 

[winjim]

I'm aware that Tarantino disliking is a minority pursuit

Oh, I dislike him very much. He's just a weird film geek who crams too many weird film geek references into his weird film geek films*. I do love Jackie Brown, but he didn't write that one.




*Not that there's anything actually wrong with being a weird film geek. The opposite, in fact.

 

[srw]

The internet . As much as i love it , it is turning people into idiots and giving the wrong kind of people a voice when they would normally be ignored , told to fark off or arrested .

It's always possible to ignore them, tell them to FO or report them to the police....


Search for an article by Oliver Burkeman about the Vortex. The nub of it is that it takes two to tango.

 

[ianrauk]

Death Metal...nuff said

Oh well.
You won't want to listen to my Cannibal Corpse or Obituary collection then?

 

[Aravis]

Mull of Kintyre

Looks good to me!