Posts by George Darroch
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Even if there is a lot more to this case than what we are told, the reporting still puts out the lesson that if you tell someone you want a certain sexual act, then you are consenting to any future sex, even if in reality you don't want to do it. :(
And if people, judges for goodness sake, can't comprehend that, or think that a trial will fall apart because a jury can't comprehend that, then how are they going to comprehend the fact that you could spell out a fantasy in front of someone in the bedroom, and at the point you made clear that you'd withdrawn your consent you've withdrawn your consent. Nobody has a right to your body, and talking about what you'd like to do with your body doesn't give anyone that right.
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Opinions on Skins? Nicholson in the Guardian thinks it's clever and well done. I have no idea, because it's never appealed to me enough to watch a full episode.
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Barney on How I Met Your Mother is a character I can find amusing on television, but would punch in the mouth if he was a real person. But there's a line between "stupid and sexist jerk gets his" and wondering why we haven't yet had the very episode where Penny slaps Howard with a non-molestation order. Or a baseball bat. Either works for me.
Absolutely. Although similarly, knowing that Charlie Sheen is in fact a real life misogynist on charges for assaulting a woman while drunk makes watching Two and a Half Men just that much more less likely, and his on-screen persona even more creepy.
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I hate how the discussion (obviously excepting Tatchell and the one here) is completely oblivious to the fact that in our society, entering into a sexual experience with someone you don't know might be complicated. You might have different boundaries in different circumstances. With more than one person, you might even have more boundaries.
And obviously, it also ignores the fact that one has the right to say no at any time, to any person, for any reason whatsoever, no matter what has happened previously. And the converse of this is the right to say yes. I think one of the reasons why people, primarily women but also men, are so cautious about their sexual choices is that they don't want to be put into a position where they don't have the ability to make the choices they want.
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Beyonce works it so much better. But then she does have many years experience on Lady G.
Crazy in Love is a great song, but really isn't a patch on the song it samples: Chi Lites Are You My Woman?
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Do you have any allergies to goat blood, baby flesh, latex (we practice safe Satanic orgies), asprin, lactose or nuts? And are you prone to seizures caused by listening to backmasked Helen Clark speeches?
Sorry, not for me. I'm a vegetarian.
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I hear ya'! Still, kind of fun too, in a ZOMG ponies sort of way.
Hearing that. You get disillusioned, it comes back with ponies.
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Leave the law as it is. Make them* suffer.
*The general public, who vote for such stupid policies, and will see higher crime rates and spend many millions more on pointless prisons.
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What is wrong with Varsity Brutalism? Ok, I rephrase, there's a lot wrong with it, but for me it provides an effective and efficient historical narrative.
Just look at what they're doing to the National Library building. Slapping acres of glass on the front, and Supreme Court style metal facades on the side in order to destroy the form of the original building.
Improvement and expansion was needed, but this fix is only temporary, as more space will be needed less than two decades from completion.
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they rocked the house at last years Womad. I reckon they could just about take Shihad in a scrap.
I reckon that a Kora vs HLAH battle would be just as entertaining.
And wow, Dizzee is simply amazing. I rated his first album, but thought that he would be simply a one-trick pony. He's proven me wrong, time and again.