It is too quiet on here right now. So talk about anything.....

Urban_Tribesman

I thought we were now under FIFA fair play rules where a club has to turn a certain degree of profit across a season. Cannot see how Barcelona manage this with the exorbitant transfer fees and wages paid that they make compared to gate receipts and 'earnings' from competitions. I do feel football has completely lost its way financially.

iuventus · Post edited by iuventus at 2014-07-11 20:54:12

I find this fascinating and true, particularly of shared-interest forums with social bents (though, I presume the article refers primarily to sites like facebook and twitter). It's really quite like high school.

<<Social media really does seem to have upped the outrage quotient in public discourse. Angry denunciation, evidently, is highly “shareable,” as digital gurus like to say.

Why is that? Surely there are many reasons, but the most interesting one is also, curiously, the most upbeat: Haterade helps us make friends.

That, at least, is the suggestion of an earlier study with the fabulous title “Interpersonal chemistry through negativity: Bonding by sharing negative attitudes about others.”

That research, described here by Aaron Retica, writing for The New York Times Magazine, suggested that one of the surest routes to friendship is disliking the same things about other people.”>>

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/why-is-internet-outrage-so-popular-91357483899.html

LuDux

Urban_Tribesman · Post edited by Urban_Tribesman at 2014-11-09 18:17:05

Was your post to flag up a possibility of this album image from Iceage was heavily 'influenced' by the image of Alison's legs from the Black Cherry era?

This image is one of my favourites and I have it as a small badge I got from Mute ( they sent me two) when .i bought some singles from them in 2003. I wear it on my coat all the time and swap it from coat to coat through the seasons. It gets a lot of comment from people.

This image has been the subject of allegations of copying before. See this website I found which draws comparisons between this design and one used on a T shirt by Sunglasses company Von Zipper.

http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/2008/12/16/design-bygoldfrapp/

Halloween_Jack

Just a heads-up to anyone who hasn't seen it... the first Alison-legs cover-pic above... is from the brilliant Anna Fox 'Country girls' photoshoot. All 19 pics can be seen here.

Ponygurl

Les play another game of "Would You Rather"

Ok, would you rather make out with Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?

cookiee_munster

Halloween_Jack said:
Just a heads-up to anyone who hasn't seen it... the first Alison-legs cover-pic above... is from the brilliant Anna Fox 'Country girls' photoshoot. All 19 pics can be seen here.

oooh, thanks for the link, i've seen some of anna fox's stuff with alison before, but not all of it. i'm tempted to print off the one of her sat on the lawn with the two pheasants and hang it with my family pics as my eccentric aunt.

i had no idea either that the one of her sat on the logs with the wellies and ear muffs was an anna fox image. learn something new everyday :)

Halloween_Jack

Ha, yes - the pheasants and wellies ones are amazing.

Alison could pass for 25 in the leggy ones and, ahem... about 55 in the pheasanty ones. The latter achieved via costume and stills "acting" of course :-)

One thing that link doesn't specify is the date... was it late 90s?

Ponygurl · Post edited by Ponygurl at 2014-11-10 18:44:20

Hmm, good question..it does look like late 90's. I guess we'll have to do some research. Her face looks so different to me in those photographs. Still beautiful, but I think her beauty has increased with age. She's only become more gorgeous with time.

Edit- found out they were taken in 1999.

A_is_A

^ She's always been a looker, but i'd agree that she's only become that much more attractive with age.

Pet

A_is_A said:
^ She's always been a looker, but i'd agree that she's only become that much more attractive with age.

'Looker' is a strange word. Usually the suffix '-er' tacked on to the infinitive of a verb indicates someone who performs the action of that verb. A runner runs, a walker walks, an employer employs, a shopper shops, a killer kills... and so on. Yet, a looker isn't someone who looks, but someone who's worth looking at. Perhaps the word should be 'lookee' rather than 'looker'.

iuventus · Post edited by iuventus at 2014-11-12 04:48:14

Looker could be used either way; cf. keeper. There must be a category of such nouns. I'll be considering this all week now.

Pet

Good point. A keeper can certainly either be someone who keeps (often in sport: a goal keeper, a wicket keeper, a score keeper) or something that is worth keeping (I've recently been sorting through old papers, separating the keepers from the shredding or the recycling). I can't recall seeing 'looker' used to mean 'one who looks', though. Words meaning 'one who looks' can sometimes also mean 'one who listens' -- 'observer' is certainly thus. The word 'viewer' usually refers to someone who watches television and who thus both looks and listens (whereas a radio listener just listens.) 'Watcher' perhaps just involves looking, but (I think) tends to be used in specialised ways -- as in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and William Hope Hodgson's novel 'The Night Land'.

iuventus

That's why I said could; though, I've seen it somewhere in literary media. Perhaps, in some archaic dialect. Of course, you'll find the the vestiges in the combined form onlooker. Words of perception are fascinating in all languages on many levels. I'm sure I wrote at least one paper on them in college.

iuventus · Post edited by iuventus at 2014-11-12 06:29:27

OK, Pet. I've been pondering this instead of sleeping. I'm considering that, perhaps, the reason we don't use looker as a function of the agent is that the verb look typically requires a prepositional phrase (and sometimes a particle) rather than a direct object. I think it actually fits into the phrasal verb category. Therefore, we wouldn't say looker but look-at-er/look-for-er/etc., but we typically don't have such formal constructions in English. At least two on-line dictionaries defined looker as 'one who looks,' but I've not found any usage examples.

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