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Been listening to a few songs: Slow ~ Kylie Minogue. Love the video. There's a strange quality to it, which makes it feel really unique. I still find myself replaying this song all the time. Carry ~ Tori Amos **hushed voice** Breathe Me ~ Sia.

Did other people have problems with Comical having updated to the new Mac Lion thingy?

TWO-THOUSAND-TWELVE WILL SEE THE MOST EXPLOSIVE MOST FIERCE MOST NECESSARY SHOW TO EVER HIT SCREENS KATY PERRY . NICKI MINAJ RIHANNA . BEYONCÉ . LADY GAGA FEMMES FATALES DO NOT MISS

I love the majority of ReZ's photos because I can imagine the events that caused the photo to be taken to be jam-packed with lol.

I'm looking forward to getting back home to Edinburgh so I can catch up on NuDC I've been missing.

It's really good. It's so slow and so barren; having listened to the album all day yesterday, I put on Blazin' by Nicki Minaj, and it felt so fast and dense and everything happening at once in comparison that I became really disorientated and thrown.

That's not even relevant in the slightest, considering I do a maths degree. [And slightly ironic given the guy who wrote the book "Chavs: Demonisation of the Working Class" is an Oxford graduate.]

--- I'm over it anyway. Just something to think about. If you care about not being classist you should avoid using "chav", since there are times where its use is undeniably class hate. The words lout, thug, oaf, knuckle-dragger (and others) all suffice.

I'm waiting for next Sunday to start mine, because that's when I arrive back in Edinburgh. Sorry to start it early!

Possibly, I don't know (can't actually think of any particular words / motifs). I'd be more likely to attack them for their politics. Either way, the point is that rich people have power in a capitalist society. In the same way white people had power over black people. Men had/have power over women. Straight people have power over LGBT people in numbers. The political aspect of hate is intrinsically linked with power.

I don't really understand how pointing out someone is being classist is being dickish? If someone was being racist or misogynistic you wouldn't call them out on it?

Yes, given scum isn't related to class (cf "Tory scum"). (And it's not a case of being "allowed" -- you're allowed to say whatever you want)

Why shouldn't class hatred be as taboo as racism? "As bad as her" is clearly an overexaggeration given she's clearly a grade A cunt, but the point is, how can you critique someone for being a racist and in the same post call them a chav? Even if you prescribe to the notion of chav describing a specific type of dress/behaviour (i.e. burberry cap and bucks fizz) which arguably doesn't come under class hatred, this woman doesn't fulfil any of the prerequisite characteristics apart from loutish behaviour -- which is more than covered by describing her as a cunt racist. So essentially, you're picking out her class, her "irritating voice" (accent/voice is linked to class in a complex way) and using that as an insult. This is what people did to black people in the 50s. "Look at her massive lips! They're really irritating to look at!"

50 years ago: "Racism? I called her a nigger" You could have used any other combination of descriptors to describe her (ie. ugly shitstain), but rather you attack her for her class.

How is class hatred any different to racism? You're as bad as her.

Have we been in love forever?

Could be my have thing.

The black one is a lot more interesting to look at, where the green one is standard/boring. [/that's exactly what you just wrote in your last point and I'm only reading it properly now] I don't think it's Nazi-like at all. I like it. To me, your suggestion sounds a bit too informal, particularly if everyone's erring more towards black tie, and you're in trainers. I'd feel more comfortable being more formal than informal, since being too informal is way worse than being too formal (people will just assume you're making an effort to look dapper) --- but I guess it's down to how you approach these sort of situations in life. If your bag is trainers &c then I wouldn't necessarily compromise on that. Nothing worse than when a person is visually not being themselves.

Watched the first one. The music and camera were nice. The plot makes no sense. Why didn't they just swap numbers like normal people? Why didn't he go and ask for her name and new workplace when he thought she'd left? I hate things which aren't surreal, but make no sense. Also some of the scripting/acting was really bad. What was that voicemail??? What was that thing where everyone turned around shocked because he laughed?? Just terrible. (Also, I hate when women wait to be asked to go on a date or whatever. I thought we'd outgrown unfeminist shit like that in the 60s and 70s.)

There's such an infused sense of sadness, sadness boiling into rage. This song is when you go to a club alone, and allow your sadness,love,anger to manifest itself in violently passionate dancing. When that's all there is that can quell the melancholia. The bridge at 3:20. I'm dead. I'm done in, fucked. There's something so defeatist about "You can have me all you want". As though she'd rather that than to spend another drug/techno day alone. Everything. Makes Umbrella / Disturbia / Don't Stop The Music seem pointless and childish.

Opened Femmes Fatales sign-ups. Sorry to jump past people, my Disney game is third from the top and I'd prefer to run this, and this game can run with as little as 9 players, so I thought it wouldn't be very intrusive anyway.

I love specifically Crossgen rather than Mystics. We now know you were fighting primarily Indie characters.

You are soaring.

This. My £330 Bose speakers (despite killing my bank account ever since) are the most essential things I own in the whole of my life. They're great.

You Da One. My best song I've heard in ages.