Yeah, I agree that it is possible, necessary even, to accept a dichotomy exists between an artist’s personal life and their art.
Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean we can’t call them out for their wrongdoings. I’m interested in why some get a pass, and some don’t. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it.
I will admit I’ve had a problem with Tarantino for years. He is a first rate director in terms of how a film is shot and structured, but many of his films aren’t very good in terms of overall narrative. However it’s clear to me he has a seriously dark and unpleasant side, and that comes through in his films, and also this interview. As for Polanski, Rosemary’s Baby contains the best dream (nightmare) sequence ever committed to film. Nothing comes close. I still think he should face the music though.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 2:32,
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he was good mates with wienstein who bankrolled most of his films, so at best he's turned a blind eye to a lot of sick shit
i reckon the only reason women havent come out against tarantino is that they're probably too embarrassed to accuse him of coercing them so that he could jizz all over their feet, even for #metoo
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 2:53,
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You can find him talking about Weinstein on YouTube.
It’s really pathetic. "I knew, but I didn’t really know, I mean I heard the rumours, but you know, rumours are rumours. I wish I’d talked to him and told him to stop." That’s all so obviously bullshit. He knew, and his attitude was exactly the same as his attitude about Polanski’s victim expressed in the vid above. He’s a wrong ‘un, I’m sure of it. But what do I know?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 3:15,
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I really like PJ Harvey the musician.
PJ Harvey the person is a despicable cunt.
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Because she has publicly voiced her support for fox hunting.
Yes, I'm aware that her comments were made more than 20 years ago. But to my knowledge she has never made any statements to the contrary since that interview, and there no statute of limitations on that kind of cuntery as far as I'm concerned.
I can't argue that certain controls on animal populations are deemed necessary in areas where we have encroached on their territory. But there's absolutely zero justification for controlling these numbers on horseback with packs of dogs.
Still, a fantastic musician.
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they aren't doing it to control population, they're doing it because its fun
there's a shitload of foxes in britain, and fox hunting nationwide would only take a couple of dozen nationally each year because there just werent that many fox hunts. To me it's the most petty virtue-signaling issue you could possibly get your knickers in a twist over, usually by city dwellers who've probably eaten a few cows, several pigs, and a few dozen chooks by the time the years out. I was stunned by how much fuss people made about it in england. I reckon I could think of a thousand environmental issue more pressing there than saving a couple of dozen of the one animal that's actually thrived as you've destroyed every last bit of wilderness. and here's you hating someone not because they fox hunted, but said something in support of it 20 years ago. people have fucked priorities
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 12:04,
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I’ve said it before: if it were strictly about keeping the numbers down they wouldn’t dress up for it.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 15:32,
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i don't like dirt biking
it's super loud, probably scares the shit out of the wildlife, damages the trails, can be dangerous if you're walking and they come hooning around the corner, and frankly I don't like most of the revheads who do it as they also tend to camp in big parties playing shit music blaring through the bush. But, it's impact is tiny compared scale of logging or landclearing. They can't do it everywhere. And they enjoy it. so like a lot of things, its about impact and competing rights. just because it competes with my rights to the trails as a walker, I can still walk and theres heaps of places where they cant dirtbike, or the the wildlifes rights to be left in peace, theres a way we can share competing rights with minimal impact so we all get a fair shake. The anti fox hunting brigade are simply, "I don't like it, so you should ban them", without reference to the rights of fox hunters to play dressup with their mates and chase things through the hedgerows, or the minimal impact it causes. and everything has an some impact. cars and roads kill way more foxes. it's fascism to force your preference on others when it's not impacting you much.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 22:17,
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I don’t like dirt biking either.
However the scrotes who do it round here do it on public footpaths which, like hunting with dogs is a crime. If they did it where no one else was at risk I wouldn’t have a problem with it; in fact I’m quite in favour of the council buying a field and letting them have at it.
If fox hunters want to dress up and ride about that’s one thing but there’s no such thing as the right to be cruel to animals, otherwise bear-baiting and cock fighting would still exist. Like I said, if it were simply a case of necessary culling they could do it with a rifle or poisoned chicken carcasses but they don’t, they dress it up as some kind of “sport”.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 30 Jan 2023, 10:55,
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of course theres a right to be cruel to animals, don't be naive
you can shoot them for sport, your whole royal family does it, blasting away to your hearts content. keep big animals in little cages and some in tiny cages all their lives, feeding them whatever slop is cheapest. you can put collars around their neck and drag them around the neighbourhood on a rope and think you're their friend instead of their slave owner. take pack animals and force them to be alone all day in some apartment or backyard while they bark in desperation and lonliness. put them in public cages for people to gawk at. send them off to industrial killing places at six months of age for an animal that normally lives to be 20, to be slaughtered and it's muscles wrapped in plastic for us to eat. we can destroy every last bit of natural habitat for our farms and roads and houses. as far as I could tell the only areas of semi-wilderness left like the new forest were only there because they were the nobles private hunting grounds. lay poison baits for them
And this is all fine and legal. you can even get subsidies to do it.
But kill a couple of dozen of one the few animals that's doing well in Britain a year in pretty much the same way foxes kill other animals and they'll be millions taking to the streets protesting at this intolerable cruelty and the thought of other people having fun. because, as I said, people have fucked priorities
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 30 Jan 2023, 20:40,
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This is a long way from Caravaggio
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 31 Jan 2023, 8:45,
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I'm going to tie it all together, just be patient
Reubens' "Wolf and Fox Hunt" is hung at the Met in their European Section along with Caravaggio's Denial of St Peter. Omar Sharif played St Peter in a 2005 telly movie. Omar Sharif was in Funny girl with barbara streisand who was in Nuts with Richard Dreyfus, who was in the Milagro Beanfield War with Daniel Stern, who was in Diner with Kevin Bacon
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 31 Jan 2023, 9:57,
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Also people wouldn't get so worked up about it if it wasn't almost exclusively done by the rich.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 30 Jan 2023, 9:21,
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"they aren't doing it to control population, they're doing it because its fun"
Is the whole reason I take so much exception to the issue.
When I said: "I can't argue that certain controls on animal populations are deemed necessary in areas where we have encroached on their territory", I wasn't agreeing that fox culls are justified. I was simply stating that no matter how much certain groups may disagree with wildlife culls, as long as there is a demand for livestock, there will be a need for culls in order to satisfy that demand. Apparently that's all these redcoated fuckwits need to justify their hunts in the eyes of the law.
I also don't disagree that there are far to many brbs in this world who won't hesitate to protest against something that they are complicit in, like massive fucking hypocrites. However, I haven't eaten meat, eggs or dairy in about six or seven years, nor have I purchased any new items that contain animal derived products. I don't own a motor vehicle and the moment my partner (my long-term partner, not Tony's mum) accidentally got pregnant we arranged to be rid of it and I immediately booked a vasectomy.
So I think it's safe to say that as far as doing my part to protect and conserve the world around us, I'm doing more than most. And I think that more than qualifies me to call somebody a cunt for voicing their support for a bunch of other cunts riding around on horseback scaring wild animals half to death before ripping them limb from limb for some jollies, no?
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Tally Ho!
must be fun for the beagles, though. I thought you liked animals?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 30 Jan 2023, 10:55,
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Aah, the complex feelings…
…when you hate fox hunting, but you also sort of like that it happens, because then you get to call a woman a cunt AND feel like doing so makes you the hero.
(, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 16:47, Reply)