Comments on: Proper hating

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:25:00 +0000

Do you remember when Sir Clive Sinclair punched the head of Acorn (at the time) Chris Curry in the Baron of the Beef pub in Cambridge? [I don’t mean literally — I remember it on the front page of the Daily Mail].

You don’t see Bill Gates and Steve Jobs doing that, more’s the pity.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:39:00 +0000

Oh yeh, governments have produced some excellent computers. I was just interested that the "bruschetta orthodoxy" has done a 180 degree flip since the Thatcher years; these days if the BBC announced that it was producing a special BBC-branded games console to go with a new TV show, everyone would just react with stunned incomprehension.

(Acorn, makers of the BBC Micro, are now called "ARM Holdings" and fly the flag for British computing by doing all sorts of funky things with mobile phones I think).

By: Backword Dave

Backword Dave — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:41:00 +0000

I know this is going off topic, but Dan, your comment on the BBC micro. Never heard of Bletchley Park? Great wodge of state-funding there. And private enterprise and competition have given us triumphs like VHS over BetaMax, so no, it wasn't as daft as all that.

Besides that I agree with you, dear boy.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:23:00 +0000

"The reality is he can't have open comments anymore and simultaneously maintain the illusion that his position garners widespread support."

Well he can, it's just that the widespread support comes from the Bat Ye'or/LGF crowd.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:01:00 +0000

Harry's is increasingly batting on a sticky wicket regarding the whole war thing.

To defend his position he's entering the realms of self satire and is now hardly bothering with even the mildest criticism of the Bush position.

He's even defending Bush's latest speech in comments on his blog, without (he admits) haven't seen it or read it.

So he battles on, calling people who oppose the whole charade supporters of terrorism, or deleting or changing comments, and banning commenters.

The reality is he can't have open comments anymore and simultaneously maintain the illusion that his position garners widespread support. Support for the war is dropping like a stone accross the political spectrum. Just don't expect that to be reflected in comments at that Labour supporting blog.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:01:00 +0000

Re cretin: cleft palate was at one time particularly prevalent in mountain villages in Savoy. Children suffering from it became popularly known as ‘cretiens’ (‘Christians’) because this signified that in spite of their disability they were regarded as Christians – i.e. equal before God & sharing in the human condition. So ‘cretin’ is, ironically, an early example of a PC-term emphasising the integration & acceptance of disability in ablebodied society . . . (end of long boring ‘I think you’ll find . .’ comment).

By: dsquared

dsquared — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:43:00 +0000

Thanks very much Larry. My thanks would be unbounded if anyone could come up with a post where John uses the word "Spazzer" which doesn’t have a jokey comment from me attached as this would make me look less of a hypocrite and more consistent in my moralising.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:00:00 +0000

"Eric meanwhile links to a site claiming to dissect the ‘Cretino-Left’ – which, despite being written by a philsoophy lecturer in defence of ‘reason’, is remarkably incoherent – and jokes about setting up a list of ‘Islamofascist fellow travellors (sic)’."

To that list I would add that he accused me of ‘supporting murderers’ on Harry’s Place the other week, apparently on the sole basis that I was against the war. He seems like an angry man.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:39:00 +0000

Well, Chris, cretin appears to be derived from the late latin for Christian so ease up on that or the septics will invade us.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:38:00 +0000

Dsquared,

Happy Christmas