Straggler Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 28 minutes ago, Xela said: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 If you have an hour, watch this. Great work and a shame to have lost someone like him so young. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 On 28/12/2019 at 04:35, peterms said: I think the logic for this sentence is that theft is committed with the hands, therefore removing them prevents future offences. Just wondering, what is your take on crimes relying more on the mind, say, fraud? Make them watch soap operas for 12 hours a day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Alcohol was created by the Devil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 17 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Alcohol was created by the Devil. Hmm, fairly sure it was just yeast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Hmm, fairly sure it was just yeast. Yeast was created by the Devil!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Aptly. The devil is the good guy in the bible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr_Pangloss Posted December 31, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2019 Stormzy, his music is **** terrible. In fact grime, drill etc is an absolute disgrace. 8 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 1, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2020 On 31/12/2019 at 10:22, Dr_Pangloss said: Stormzy, his music is **** terrible. In fact grime, drill etc is an absolute disgrace. This won't be an unpopular opinion on VT. It fits in well with the "anything that's popular is shit" vibe that this place has. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Demographic more than anything For such a "big" artist I would say stormzy doesn't cross that many lines, plenty of people know who he is but his music isn't widespread, he's not done that much that creeps beyond radio 1, 1 xtra and capital I don't know many indie kids that are listening to stormzy on the side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 1, 2020 Moderator Share Posted January 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Stevo985 said: This won't be an unpopular opinion on VT. It fits in well with the "anything that's shit is shit" vibe that this place has. FTFY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 People disliking popular things isn't exclusive to this website or a new phenomenon, this is from a book i'm reading which is over 130 years old... 'and if it be true that the loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own, the work of art which does not remain indifferent to the spurious artists, which is not contested by fools, and which is not satisfied with awakening the enthusiasm of the few, by this very fact becomes profaned, trite, almost repulsive to the initiate. This promiscuity in admiration, furthermore, was one of the greatest sources of regret in his life. Incomprehensible successes had forever spoiled for him many pictures and books once cherished and dear. Approved by the mob, they began to reveal imperceptible defects to him, and he rejected them, wondering meanwhile if his perceptions were not growing blunted.' 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 1, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2020 19 minutes ago, useless said: People disliking popular things isn't exclusive to this website or a new phenomenon, this is from a book i'm reading which is over 130 years old... 'and if it be true that the loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own, the work of art which does not remain indifferent to the spurious artists, which is not contested by fools, and which is not satisfied with awakening the enthusiasm of the few, by this very fact becomes profaned, trite, almost repulsive to the initiate. This promiscuity in admiration, furthermore, was one of the greatest sources of regret in his life. Incomprehensible successes had forever spoiled for him many pictures and books once cherished and dear. Approved by the mob, they began to reveal imperceptible defects to him, and he rejected them, wondering meanwhile if his perceptions were not growing blunted.' Is that Huysmans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Yes 'Against Nature', or À Rebours, apparently it's also the 'yellow book' that Lord Henry gives Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 1, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2020 3 minutes ago, useless said: Yes 'Against Nature', or À Rebours, apparently it's also the 'yellow book' that Lord Henry gives Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Thought so. I read it a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 I very nearly gave it up as there are so many obscure references and words that I had to keep looking up, but thought I'd stick with it and not bother looking everything up, just get the main gist of what's going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, villa4europe said: Demographic more than anything For such a "big" artist I would say stormzy doesn't cross that many lines, plenty of people know who he is but his music isn't widespread, he's not done that much that creeps beyond radio 1, 1 xtra and capital I don't know many indie kids that are listening to stormzy on the side Can't stand his voice first and foremost, then there's his lyrics, in which there's nothing clever or interesting, there's also no real skill to how he rhymes. UK rappers in general just sound embarrassing to me. Then you have the production, it's **** garbage, same drum patterns where the hi hats sound like sprinklers at a golf course, generic 808s, just awful. Edited January 2, 2020 by Dr_Pangloss 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 This, from the Film Thread, is right . . . 7 hours ago, Stevo985 said: [Spectre was] Absolutely dreadful I thought. Apart from Casino Royale (possibly the best Bond ever) and Skyfall, Bond has been awful for 20 ish years . . . and my Unpopular Opinion for today is that they should just stop making Bond films. Don't try to make them better, don't try to 'find a new Bond', just stop making them, and have some different ideas. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Celebrity Jungle is horrible. I don’t get why anybody wants to watch washed up celebrities do f**ked up things. Not sure how unpopular this opinion is though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 2, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 2, 2020 7 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: This, from the Film Thread, is right . . . . . . and my Unpopular Opinion for today is that they should just stop making Bond films. Don't try to make them better, don't try to 'find a new Bond', just stop making them, and have some different ideas. Problem is they always make money. I don't mind Bond films in general, but they're very very tired. Casino Royale gave them a genuine opportunity to take it in a different direction. And even though it was a blatant ripoff of the Bourne films, it **** worked. But they've ditched it and gone back to the same old gadget filled garbage that the Brosnan ones suffered from by the end (Die Another Day was an abomination) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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