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Thread #120107   Message #2779373
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
03-Dec-09 - 07:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
I can't post it here as it's one of my shaped poems, but you may like to check #70

Okay...

The Filthy Street posters (Youth are viewers): Girls drugged or posed so; How low business can go.

Here you seem to be suggesting here that the advertising models have been somehow drugged into appearing in imagery that you regard as too pornographic for general viewing. Otherwise, too subjectively prudish a statement however much I might baulk at the objectification of beauty, I might at least acknowledge that no one is forcing anyone to do anything, and the real shame here is not nudity per se, but the idealisation of body types. Nothing new though I can assure you.   

Gays - yes; but a surrogate Kid for gays - that we tolerate?

Why not tolerate it? The sex of the parents is immaterial; what matters is love and all the other wonderful things of parenting that are in no way guaranteed by heterosexual parenting. Again, this is too subjective to be of any use and reveals nothing of society, rather of your own reactionary prudishness & homophobia. Does it directly effect you? Have you any evidence that it effects anyone? In which case - mind your own business. I could quote you chapter and verse on the evils of monogamous heterosexual parenting.

A Prime Minister now forced to preach - What tolerance-rung do some aim to reach?

I don't even know what that means, WAV - explanation please???

Long returned, I think it's gone too far, And youth are beginning to scar.

Are they really? The only thing wrong with kids is that adults have forgot what it's like to be young as some of the threads here make abundantly clear.

Less individualism; Regulationism; And some old values We all could use.

The way I see it there's way too much compliance and normalcy; too much by way fitting in and not enough by way of free-floating individualism. Who does the regulating? No thanks, WAV. And old values are the veneer of the hypocrisy that gave rise to them, as I pointed out in my post HERE - these are the foundations of your precious Old Values, the same things you oppose elsewhere.   

From my heart, Restart, 'Dart.

Again you've lost me.

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I think in future when asked for your opinion on things, best just explain it without resorting to your poetry which is too subjective and ill-considered by way of balance - fine for polemics, but not much use for sensible debate. We all know England is a crumbling shit-hole; just as we all know it's never been any different - not 50, not 100, not 1000, not 2000, not 4000 years ago.

Hope you enjoyed Oh Whistle anyway; a taste of the glory days of English Television when maybe ratings weren't such an issue and true art could triumph.