Posts by Stephen Judd
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Bravo! Bravo!
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Juha, at the risk of pimping my own handiwork, this story is getting on the radar - see "asian" and "press". Keep an eye on it tomorrow and we'll see if it's getting traction.
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Andrew, that hurtified.
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I note he now calls me "Coddingtonswallop" on his website.
Not wanting to toot my own horn, but that was my entry in the word of the year competition.
HONK HONK!!
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I think a good rule of thumb in these cases is to ask oneself how would it read if you replaced all instances of X with "Jew?" If you end up with something that could have appeared in a 1930s German newspaper then there is something wrong.
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I was actually a ticking timebomb, with "Deborah Coddington" emblazoned on my left buttock. (Actually, the "ton" is carried over to the right one. Let's just say I won't be going back to *that* tattoo parlor again.)
So that would be CODDING * TON, yes?
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Apropos Beard: should members of the sex class threaten the hegemony through the demonstration of physical prowess, they must be forced to submit to objectification through the assumption of a posture of ritual availability, and thus show that they are not "really" enjoying or indeed deserving of the privileges of the dominant class.
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Don't you know Chris, real men play on 10.
I have tinnitus too. It's not too bad right now but since I'm 37 there are many more years for it to get worse in...
I suspect there are a lot of deaf people on the sound desk. And I suspect publicans sell more beer when the music is loud.
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I don't reckon they feel exploited. They are more likely taking cameraphone pics of themselves on the giant billboards around town and marvelling at how awesome they look.
That is merely because they suffer from false consciousness. The success and the crime of the patriarchy is that the exploited sex class is taught to experience pleasure from their exploitation without learning its name. No doubt there were slaves on plantations who gloried in their visits to the big house too.
Now if you'll excuse me I have things to deconstruct.
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(Works just as well in this context as the religious one, I think).
Seriously, I think a large part of our disagreement above comes from using "science" to mean different things. Some of us are thinking about a body of knowledge, and some of us are thinking about the way that knowledge is assembled. Clearly, the body of knowledge is and always will be incomplete and subject to dispute. But in principle any systematic attempt to abstract from empirical observation is going to be some kind of science. And if your answers are not based on empirical evidence, I'm not interested in them.
Tze Ming: I have enormous respect for the powerful Mok brain, but acupuncture and homeopathy sharing the same bioenergetic basis? Give me a break. What is this bio-energy? Homeopathy doesn't have any demonstrated mechanism at all, and I suspect that the basis for acupuncture will turn out to have more to do with hypnosis and suggestion (hence Russell's fat doobie substitute). As I said earlier, the fact that a tradition is large and old and hard to master is not evidence of its validity (cf astrology, as ancient and complex in the west as it is in the east, which kicked the original post off).
It seems likely to me that the growing acceptance of complementary approaches by the medical profession has far more to do with the demands of their customers than any inherent merit.
Eleanor et al: despite my great skepticism about your practises, thank you for pointing out the problems with the legislation at hand, which I think are of real concern.