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Post by lazybones on Mar 9, 2021 11:06:16 GMT
Sorry. Today's been a bit of a surprise to me. I was drying off after my shower - lying on the bed - and I opened Microsoft Teams as a nod to the beginning of the working day. Anyway a meeting I was supposed to be at had just started.
That is the essence of my morning. An unwanted jolt of adrenaline. Way too early. Way too early in the day.
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 9, 2021 11:06:21 GMT
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 9, 2021 11:09:28 GMT
Shenguin has read a book about Literary theory and now refers to themselves in the third person.
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Post by Faceless on Mar 9, 2021 11:12:19 GMT
My favourite comment about art comes from acclaimed thinker facelessbureaucrat0, who is quoted as saying to an employee of the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam circa 2008:
"at the end of the day it's all bollocks really isn't it? You either like it or you don't. Now if you'll excuse me, I really need to go outside and be sick"
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 9, 2021 11:13:36 GMT
Being sick drunk in a museum/art gallery is nothing of which to be proud.
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Post by Faceless on Mar 9, 2021 11:17:02 GMT
Being sick drunk in a museum/art gallery is nothing of which to be proud. I wasn't. I was drunk sick outside of it. |
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Post by lazybones on Mar 9, 2021 11:22:07 GMT
I think the key word is "objective", and that's the word that many later literary theorists would take issue with. The idea that historic art (or, indeed, presumably, current art) only has value if we believe it has objective value is questionable. I would agree that it is meaningless without value, certainly, but whether that value is objective or subjective is debatable. Certainly post-modernist, reader-response and other literary theoretical paradigms would foreground subjective response and subjective value. This is good content. This is the content I want to be reading. 'Objective' confuses the issue, because you can make similar statements referencing subjective value, instead, and they make as much sense. And actually ... maybe there isn't much point in even mentioning aesthetic value, because you can't talk about something as being art without aesthetic value (maybe). It's sort of ... implicit in even mentioning art ...
The interpretation / conclusion seems wrong because it looks like he's saying that you need aesthetic value to talk about artistic evolution, therefore without artistic evolution there can be no aesthetic value. That makes no sense. Can he have meant that?
Maybe it got lost in translation ...
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Post by lazybones on Mar 9, 2021 11:36:25 GMT
So ...
What is ...
What is everyone having for lunch? ...
I'm fairly sure I'm going to be consuming a Chicken and Mushroom Pot Noodle.
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Post by gongfarmer on Mar 9, 2021 11:55:31 GMT
I have just been hassled about running some presentation to the wider team on Friday. I have been asked before, and have always made excuses.
Having dodged before I though i'd better make this one cast iron, so logged onto our HR system to book the day as leave.
Having logged onto HR I was unable to book Friday as leave, because..... I already have Thursday and Friday booked off, and had forgotten about it!!!!
My precognition has played a blinder here. The week is already much-improved.
Oh man - how pissed off would I have been to have gone through with this meeting, and then found i'd forgotten to take 2 days pre-booked holiday.
4 stars
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Post by sandybahookie on Mar 9, 2021 11:59:02 GMT
We are doing tuesday lunch club at my work.
Had 3 so far.
Week1 - veggie chili made by me, was good.
Week2 - Tart L'Oignion, made by french colleague (sorry Amipal), was very nice.
Week3 - green salad and potato salad thing with little bruschetta things. good.
Week4(today) Is my turn again, I'd really had a hankering for mushroom soup but failed to find a recipe that looked right on sunday when I had the time. Plan B was to maybe do a stir fry or something last night, but by the time I got home it just wasnt going to happen. So instead Im planning to unveil Beans on toast for everyone later. I figure if I add a few splashes of tobasco and top it with grated cheese then I can swing it and make something more fancy next time. Plus Beans on toast is delicious, just not sure it qualifies as 'making' lunch.
Anyone got any innovative Beans on toast tips? I still have an hour to go before we dine.
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Post by Shenguin on Mar 9, 2021 12:05:31 GMT
Top five excuses why you appeared naked on a work Zoom:
1) I thought you wouldn't notice.
2) I thought my video was off.
3) I got mixed up and thought it was a meeting for my second job.
4) It's how I roll now. I'll be coming into the office like this as well.
5) I was drying off after my shower - lying on the bed - and I opened Microsoft Teams as a nod to the beginning of the working day. Anyway a meeting I was supposed to be at had just started.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 9, 2021 12:05:38 GMT
Imo Jan Mukarovsky (or Milan Kundera) is setting up a straw man by linking the construction of art's aesthetic value to the significance or otherwise of a supposed evolution/chronology in art history. Surely pieces of art are in dialogue with their immediate social/political/historical contexts, which is different from claiming that aesthetic values are determined by the evolution of art (the chronological order in which different social/political/historical contexts occurred). He seems to be saying that without the latter, art is just a load of stuff; when it's really the former that matters. In other words, what faceless said.
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Post by scubar on Mar 9, 2021 12:06:24 GMT
We are doing tuesday lunch club at my work. Had 3 so far. Week1 - veggie chili made by me, was good. Week2 - Tart L'Oignion, made by french colleague (sorry Amipal), was very nice. Week3 - green salad and potato salad thing with little bruschetta things. good. Week4(today) Is my turn again, I'd really had a hankering for mushroom soup but failed to find a recipe that looked right on sunday when I had the time. Plan B was to maybe do a stir fry or something last night, but by the time I got home it just wasnt going to happen. So instead Im planning to unveil Beans on toast for everyone later. I figure if I add a few splashes of tobasco and top it with grated cheese then I can swing it and make something more fancy next time. Plus Beans on toast is delicious, just not sure it qualifies as 'making' lunch. Anyone got any innovative Beans on toast tips? I still have an hour to go before we dine. Worcestershire sauce, bit of cheese in the beans, some cracked black pepper, and chuck a fried/poached egg on top |
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 9, 2021 12:07:12 GMT
Oooh!
Bean swirl deluxe
Add a little cream
Ronarid (RIP) swears by this. Says it is delicious.
Also pop an egg on top. Another Ronarid addition.
I don't do either of these things. But I am told that they are the right way to go about things.
Personally I am a big fan of strands on toast. You can't really add cream of egg to tinned spaghetti.
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 9, 2021 12:09:30 GMT
I agree with scubar . *hangs head in shame*
[EDIT] I would ditch the black pepper and replace it with finely grated onion.
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Post by lazybones on Mar 9, 2021 12:23:40 GMT
I am wary of adding condiments to baked beans. I've tried chilli sauce but it impaired the simplicity of the beans. I've considered Hickory 'Liquid Smoke' (but have never dared). I have wondered if smoked paprika might be an option.
I pretty much always just go with a big heavy grate of generic cheddar cheese.
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Post by Faceless on Mar 9, 2021 12:24:21 GMT
As well as not being a fan of Van Gogh, I am also not a fan of beans. It's the texture, it's all wrong.
I am however a big fan of today's Squires. It made me do two LOL's. I'd post a link, but I can't be bothered.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2021 12:26:37 GMT
I don’t think I’ve ever grated an onion.
Did you mean ass an onion?
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 9, 2021 12:34:37 GMT
I don’t think I’ve ever grated an onion. Did you mean ass an onion? Possibly. Also, use Heinz 'Five Beans' for the gourmet touch. |
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Post by scamander on Mar 9, 2021 12:44:08 GMT
Just finished Fatherland by Robert Harris. Intense stuff.
What's the backstory on the 'ass an onion' thing?
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Mar 9, 2021 12:49:26 GMT
Morning all!
You get these art people don’t you etc etc
Valheim! I discovered the crouch button and snuck up on a deer. One whack and it exploded in a red mist. Top banana. Now have myself a shield. Also did some lumberjacking - the way the trees fall and crash into each other and roll around on the ground is very satisfying. Not one but two wood piles, and some snazzy torches around my lodgings.
In the quest for the top half of the door I may venture over the small hill and into the clearing. Lots of greylings and cantankerous boar.
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Mar 9, 2021 12:50:34 GMT
Just finished Fatherland by Robert Harris. Intense stuff. What's the backstory on the 'ass an onion' thing? It comes from that phrase “he doesn’t know his ass from his onions” |
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Post by lazybones on Mar 9, 2021 12:57:09 GMT
Just finished Fatherland by Robert Harris. Intense stuff. What's the backstory on the 'ass an onion' thing? It comes from a recipe for fajitas given by ‘CunningStunt’ on the previous Gamesblog Chatterbox. One of his instructions was to ‘Ass the onions’. He still does it as far as I’m aware. |
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 9, 2021 13:02:38 GMT
Hello. Hope you're all well.
Fuck Excel. Fuck zoom meetings.
Fuck it all.
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Post by lazybones on Mar 9, 2021 13:09:06 GMT
Morning all! You get these art people don’t you etc etc Valheim! I discovered the crouch button and snuck up on a deer. One whack and it exploded in a red mist. Top banana. Now have myself a shield. Also did some lumberjacking - the way the trees fall and crash into each other and roll around on the ground is very satisfying. Not one but two wood piles, and some snazzy torches around my lodgings. In the quest for the top half of the door I may venture over the small hill and into the clearing. Lots of greylings and cantankerous boar. I chopped down a tree the other day. I moved out of the way as it was falling but, after it fell, it rolled over my man and killed him. It’s a good game. I’m hoping to hunt a few more deer in order to build a tanning addition to my workbench. I need to get to a point where I’m not living in fear of the monsters in the forest. |
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