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[ruzzi]

thanks all... settled, brown SC after blue!

 

[Windowpane1967]

Hello Journeyman - suit back from Regent. Excellent job. Reasonably price also. Thankyou for the recommendation. Have great weekend.

 

[Coxsackie]

He is saying what he thinks that's the beauty and mystery of language, it's a sign system. As for music yes do you think that yo could reduce Mahler to language?

Art is an expression determined by the technique of the individual in terms of idea and reaction to the zeitgeist. Mind you one of the best quotes about abstract expressionist painting is that "an abstract expressionist painting doesn't really want to be a painting" W.J.T. Mitchell

Ha - of course, you know I was just being a contrarian.

I don't mind the odd bit of poetry, but I don't have enough patience for the really obtuse stuff.

 

[Prince of Paisley]

Limericks are more my go too Coxy.

 

[Gerry Nelson]

Ha - of course, you know I was just being a contrarian.

I don't mind the odd bit of poetry, but I don't have enough patience for the really obtuse stuff.

I have exactly the same feeling about obtuse poetry, jazz or a lot of abstract art. I am starting to appreciate the music side a lot more so maybe it just takes time to develop the taste for it.

 

[skeen7908]

I was just assuming that the poem wasnt just words chosen and placed together to sound interesting

There is an explicable meaning a little more articulate and yes concrete than "oh, its about those few years between world war I and world war II"

I agree with coxsackie, but I prefer my music more literal

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[appolyon]

There is an explicable meaning a little more articulate and yes concrete than "oh, its about those few years between world war I and world war II"

Or is just so that wankers have something vaguely profound to say to sound more intelligent than the rest of us

 

[Coxsackie]

These days, I'm not sure what I'm more scared of: being blown up by teenage bigots at a Mother's Day celebration, or being king-hit by a drunken sociopath on the footpath outside a bar.

Probably the latter. Statistically, it's far more likely.

 

[Gerry Nelson]

@Foxhound , I can give you a training program for this: http://theodysseyonline.com/clemson/dad-bod/97484

 

[iSurg]

Would like to poll the group:
Out of these three styles on offer, which one would you have gone for?

Brown Calf Tetbury

(far left)

Harrogate

Cheviot

All photo credits to our good friends at Doublemonk

 

[Foxhound]

Thanks again, good responses on the poetry.

Been trying to read a lot more this year, and I'm no longer a pizza boy as of this weekend!

So far this year I've read (and finally finished, I started it a few times) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, and the Minimalist's Everything that Remains. The Crying of Lot 49 is such a fantastic book, Pynchon is great, really loved it. Knocked it out in a few days, up until this weekend I haven't had much time for reading. I've read a lot of journal entries on Computer Science.

Currently reading Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence people. It's alright, I'm ~100 pages in or so. I feel as though it could be summed up by "Don't be a dick" and "Consider the wants and needs of your peers". I picked up a copy of Infinite Jest, but that looks quite daunting, might wait a little before I start. Lot's of books I'd like to read, and I'll get to them all eventually. Will probably start Pirlo's biography next, or The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

My book shelf is slowly filling up, but I've decided not to buy anymore books, and buy an eReader instead. The Kindle Voyage looks nice, but not the best bang for buck(since when has that ever bothered me though), but I'll wait till I can get a second gen Paperwhite on sale.

 

[California Dreamer]

Tough question without context iSurg. What are you planning to wear them with, and where?

 

[Foxhound]

Would like to poll the group:
Out of these three styles on offer, which one would you have gone for?

All depends on your current wardrobe. I have the Tetbury's, which I'll probably offload soon, they're quite a comfortable shoe, just make sure you have a wide enough leg opening. I found my trousers, whilst fine on Alden boots, Carmina boots, even trickers boots, used to stack against the shoe laces, didn't look so great.

 

[California Dreamer]



Limericks are more my go too Coxy.

And if he hasn’t read the Sentimental Bloke yet, then he’s unAustralian.

 

[appolyon]

@Foxhound , I can give you a training program for this: http://theodysseyonline.com/clemson/dad-bod/97484

I came across another article promoting 'dad bod' the other day. What the **** is happening to the world? First this stupid fat acceptance/HAES movement, now this.