Prince Myshkin

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEw9e0BlHJs]Giant Drag - Drugs - The Panic in Needle Park - YouTube[/ame]

(It's a parody) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRp4oFF5u_A]how to bring a woman to an orgasm - YouTube[/ame] And then his show: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puMUCaJT_DY]Cumbo | Episode 1 | Comedy Blaps - YouTube[/ame]

It's been done now. I missed the boat. I'll be like all the losers who do the Harlem Shake and all that crap.

True maybe, but there are plenty of people on this messageboard who don't actually care about Coldplay. Myself included. So I figured I'd have people who didn't care, people who did care, and people who disliked. Rather than just stick it in here and seem like I'm trolling. But yeah, I do come in peace haha.

Sounds like a Muslim Commiefeminazi to me!

She's got enough money anyway. I don't care if she gets more. Worse people have more. Better people has less. I don't care how much she sells if i'm honest. But according to nutritional experts what she has said is not good at all, so that needs highlighting. This thing is already going to be a best seller because of who she is, so it's wise to face up to the book and review it honestly. Some of it will be harsh but there has been a very good reason why plenty of it has been negative.

Actually, given I have one inny and one outy nipple I could have actually had this done with a huge Thom Yorke head on my chest. Wouldn't have been weird at all...

Possibly the best pick up line I've heard.

This place is different from last time i was here haha.

Was good to read the blog post. I certainly didn't see all of that with my own eyes. I could see certain sides to it that weren't too great, but this is one of the reasons I think this kind of thing should be taught from an earlier age. Teaching people how to critically look at the world around them. Teach them about certain structures in society and the impact they can have on people. Because if you don't read up on these things it's really hard to spot that all the tiny things that add together can have such a negative impact. It's so easy to write off every individual thing and say 'loosen up, I'm not sexist, it's only a joke, you should be flattered' but unless people look deeper into the problem or have it explained to them (men especially), it just seems like an overreaction. To explain to somebody who doesn't realise their actions/words are sexist, and wouldn't do them if they realised, can take a good ten to fifteen minutes of discussion, simply because they've never encountered these ideas before and never considered the greater impact. And that's because at no point are these explained to people and if you want to get involved in these things you do have to do your own searching. And people who aren't passionate about these things just aren't going to do that. And if you look at the important things that people aren't interested in it's no wonder they don't engage with this stuff when they don't have to. That's why I hope it can be driven to the front through activism. So it has to be confronted. So many people could be won over to the cause and so many battles could be won if people were introduced to it in the right way.

But when others are writing articles about her and praising it then why not write up a different opinion about it?

I did consider just putting it in here alone but I imagine there would be only two kinds of person who would read it: people who love her because she is with Chris Martin and will see no bad in anything she does. People who hate her because she goes out with Chris Martin and so see no right in anything she does.

Ah sweet! I'll be getting it come pay day too.

It's Just a tattoo. He's at least Lucky in the fact he can listen to plenty of morbid songs by his favourite band to commiserate his decision on getting it. I Will bet you it resulted from a Blow Out, the intoxication leading him to make the mistake. Now the entire internet has their Knives Out though and he's become a figure of ridicule. He'll be hoping for a Gagging Order to soften the blow. On the flipside, and I Might Be Wrong but it'd be No Surprises if he came out of this a better person. Sure, it's cost him a few Dollars & Cents but it will be character building. Little By Little it may pass. Time may Go Slowly but eventually he'll move on. The Million Dollar Question is whether people ever find out whose it actually is because if he keeps his shirt on and avoid getting Nude nobody will ever know. Right now he'll be Climbing Up The Walls like a Paranoid Android but whilst this think will go viral and may even make it to the television, which Talk Show Host is actually gonna be able to trace it back to him? The Butcher who tattooed him may be able to let people know though. But to be honest I reckon he's just about High And Dry if he keeps his mouth shut. No reason to Sulk about it. He can Go To Sleep easily tonight knowing that even though he's clearly a Creep, he might just have got away with it. After all, it's not like this thing is on Videotape, it's only a picture. I wouldn't say he should be Optimistic about the future as such, but it could be worse. What do You Reckoner?

So we will just ignore her crazy book then? :(

http://www.avclub.com/articles/behold-the-worst-radiohead-tattoo-that-has-ever-ex,96618/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=standard-post:headline:default

Awesome piece of music. I stuck it on a playlist that I posted on here the other day.

Interesting points. Please bear in mind that when I speak of Minaj I'm speaking as an outsider to her art. I don't know much about her (and thus my opinions are far from well formed) but I do think I come at this from an angle that a lot of people who just listen to the music and catch the odd interview (the majority of people) come from. I've no idea about any of her alter egos or anything like that and if this is the case then it adds an extra dimension. The only problem being this isn't what is portrayed in the media to the casual viewer (this could be down to media reporting which has inherent problems with sexism, or it could be down to just how much Minaj pushes the concept of her alter egos and explains them to her fans) and some of her fans may not be aware of this given their age (this is conjecture, I confess) and therefore she will be seen by many to be the one dimensional flesh puppet that she is shown as at times. Perhaps the problem is not in the message that is being put across, if there are subtler ironies that i've clearly missed, but the fact that so much of her target audience are children and therefore may miss out on exactly what part of her act is promoting and instead taking only the negatives from it. It's a complex issue.

Today I learned that the Luddites were actually progressives in many ways.

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5529557#post5529557

Anybody have any thoughts?

I think, if single, I would do anything a French woman said.

The first song I bought was Mr Boombastic by Shaggy in 1995. I was seven years old at the time (which is my excuse). The first album I bought was Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem. The most recent album I downloaded was Julianna Barwick's Believe You Me. Bit of a change.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-is-a-tragedydoes-it-really-matter-exactly-how,32076/ (For anyone with English as a 2nd language, I'll point out that The Onion is a parody)

Incidentally, I'm still learning, so I do appreciate the feedback, especially any parts where I may be wrong, so if I put forward my views on it hopefully you can sharpen up my understanding of it all. But from my perspective (which can be a hinderance but quite useful - certainly not perfect though), I just feel that it's fine individually and when it comes down to it there is nothing dreadful about what Minaj does (apart from the advice I heard her give to young girls - but she appears to give good advice too). It's just when it's part of a wider thing of it being part of the culture for women to have to behave that way. That's when it becomes problematic. Beyonce is held up as one of the most powerful women in the world and is a feminist. She is clearly an intelligent woman, great at what she does and she has even been quoted as saying things like "Equality is a myth, and for some reason everyone accepts that women don't make as much money as men do," she rails. "I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous." Brilliant stuff. And she's using her platform well there. Obviously not all her interviews have to be about this but apparently she talks about such things regularly. Given I don't usually read her interviews, the fact I have seen this makes me hope that she has said things like this more than once, otherwise it's a fluke I saw it. But anyway, great she said it. On the other hand though, whilst she complains about men defining sexiness, she does it in a mens magazine where she's posing nearly naked in seven photos (that's a lot of photo's. How many photo's was she photographed without the emphasis on her flesh? None), taken by infamous photographer Terry Richardson, a man known for his sexualised photos and who has been repeatedly accused of sexual exploitation by young models. If the face of independent women worldwide hasn't the control over her body to stop this then it's a tragedy, in my eyes. I guess in that respect I've been a little harsh on nicki minaj as she's not moved up to the status of beyonce just yet, so I'm happen expecting too much of her when she's not been in the public eye so long. After all, she is at least giving out mixed messages, which is better than simply negative messages. I just feel like part of this stuff is simply repackaged exploitation, sold back to people as feminism. A successful woman is brilliant for feminism, no matter what! I don't personally feel that way. You don't have as much control over your body as you think if you're expected to wear revealing clothes to succeed in life, and then have to. You're simply serving up misogyny in a supposedly acceptable package, aimed predominantly at the very men who would have been ogling you the very same had you been simply a woman who only took her clothes off for magazines and didn't produce anything else such as music. It's not too bad individually, but when that's what is being expected by all successful women who are what is deemed as attractive, it's depressing. It's certainly not ideal.