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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 21-03-2014

Mar 21, 2014 11:00

Where’s our tax cut? ask paintballing sherry enthusiasts
(tags: funny politics UK )
UCL open letter to The Daily Mail, pointing out its racism and sexism
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5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus
(tags: mathematics education children )
The Only Fantasy Map You’ll Ever Need
(tags: fantasy maps )
Lost poems of Douglas ( Read more... )

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Comments 25

strawberryfrog March 21 2014, 11:11:53 UTC

The Youth subcultures piece is great.

It touches on, but doesn't really go into a particular thing: Cultural artefacts used to be hard to find. The right vinyl, the copied tape that you treasured, used to be obscure and there was cultural capital in even getting there, in digging through the back of the second-hand bins at Championship Vinyl.

Now, something is either on youtube and bittorrent or it doesn't exist. Either instantly accessible (and therefore very soon becomes boring) or dead (and therefore already boring). No middle ground.

In taking the effort out of finding things we have taken the thrill out of finding things. This probably not a bad thing, but as ever there are unintended consequences. No-one would have predicted that google search would result in youth subcultures evaporating.

bart_calendar March 21 2014, 11:25:48 UTC

Maybe that's why dudes who think they are straight are always bothering women for anal sex and blow jobs.

gonzo21 March 21 2014, 11:29:19 UTC

And to wear a Beckham football shirt while they fuck her.

bart_calendar March 21 2014, 11:31:26 UTC

Exactly. And maybe that's why they masturbate so often - they just can't stop touching cock!

gonzo21 March 21 2014, 16:54:27 UTC

It certainly explains bukkake.

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la_marquise_de_ March 21 2014, 12:58:32 UTC

I feel we now need a star map of military sf empires... Just as many cliches there, oh yes.

andrewducker March 21 2014, 13:07:53 UTC

Absolutely!

philmophlegm March 21 2014, 13:16:08 UTC

Even some overlap between the two maps - "Lion tribes - for the proud warrior race guy"!

la_marquise_de_ March 21 2014, 13:21:07 UTC

Or C J Cherryh's cat-like space-merchants, the Chanur, yes!

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philmophlegm March 21 2014, 13:19:19 UTC

The UCL letter. On the one hand this might be typical knee-jerk 'The Daily Mail is EVIL!!!!!' bollocks. On the other ( ... )

iainjcoleman March 21 2014, 15:51:59 UTC

I don't think the Daily Mail writer's erroneous assumption that the BICEP 2 team were all white Americans had anything to do with the Director General of the BBC.

That Mail piece was simply what happens when a knee-jerk, unresearched opinion is tossed off by a racist. There's no need to get into contortions trying to explain it away.

danieldwilliam March 21 2014, 15:48:52 UTC

Thanks for the article on gay rights ( ... )

andrewducker March 21 2014, 16:00:27 UTC

Yeah, it never occurred to me either.

And I've made fun of their pronouncements that made it clear what they believed! If I'd just taken a step further I'd have arrived at the same conclusion.

What's bizarre is that I knew that a fair number of high-profile homophobes were themselves gay, but I always thought that was plain internalised self-hatred, it never occurred to me that they assumed that everyone was a little bit gay.