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cobb
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Topic: Whos added? Posted: August 09 2005 at 00:03 |
What's all the bitching about who has been added and who hasn't?
Membership to this site doesn't give us voting rights. It's not an
autonomy. All decision rights to the site belong to probably only two
people, the creators of it. Why all the fuss- it's their intellectual
property, not ours. So far they have done a fine job in promoting
progressive music to the world. I have checked out a few similar sites
and found this to be worlds ahead of the rest.
Quit the gripping and let them get on with it. If you want a band
included there are channels of communication in place to allow this to
happen.
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NutterAlert
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 04:57 |
cobb wrote:
What's all the bitching about who has been added and who hasn't?
Membership to this site doesn't give us voting rights. It's not an autonomy.
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I thought this was an anarcho-syndicist commune.
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Scrambled_Eggs
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 11:57 |
NutterAlert wrote:
cobb wrote:
What's all the bitching about who has been added and who hasn't?
Membership to this site doesn't give us voting rights. It's not an autonomy.
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I thought this was an anarcho-syndicist commune.
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You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.
Edited by Scrambled_Eggs
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And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime.
I never said I was frightened of dying.
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sigod
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 12:45 |
On second thoughts let's not go to the Progarchives...
...'Tis a silly place.
Boy, are we off topic.
Sorry cobb.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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Snow Dog
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 13:19 |
Quit griping about us griping, we enjoy griping for heavens sake!
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Certif1ed
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 14:04 |
Maybe this should be GripeArchives.com?
Or is that not gripe?
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 14:06 |
middleagedmenwhowish*twasstilltheseventiesbecauseallothermus icsucks.com
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NutterAlert
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 09:44 |
The full version:
Scene 3
[clop clop] ARTHUR: Old woman! DENNIS: Man! ARTHUR: Man, sorry. What knight lives in that castle over there? DENNIS: I'm thirty seven. ARTHUR: What? DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old! ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'. DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'. ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.' DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind you looked-- DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior! ARTHUR: Well, I AM king... DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to our outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress-- WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do? ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that? WOMAN: King of the who? ARTHUR: The Britons. WOMAN: Who are the Britons? ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king. WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes-- WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again. DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would-- ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? WOMAN: No one live there. ARTHUR: Then who is your lord? WOMAN: We don't have a lord. ARTHUR: What? DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. ARTHUR: Yes. DENNIS: But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. ARTHUR: Yes, I see. DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,-- ARTHUR: Be quiet! DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more-- ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet! WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is? ARTHUR: I am your king! WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you. ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings. WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then? ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king! DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. ARTHUR: Be quiet! DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! ARTHUR: Shut up! DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away! ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up! DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system. ARTHUR: Shut up! DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed! ARTHUR: Bloody peasant! DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you hear that, did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
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Snow Dog
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Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:09 |
^ One of my favourite Holy Grail scenes..
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