tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post43880741215020799..comments2024-03-28T17:17:52.949+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Fake is the new real - Inversion is the new normalBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-82952881086106331522019-02-28T07:39:41.162+00:002019-02-28T07:39:41.162+00:00As Calvin put it, "The world bores you when y...As Calvin put it, "The world bores you when you're cool."Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-81372404430523984352019-02-27T19:38:38.098+00:002019-02-27T19:38:38.098+00:00@Dexter - Yes, it seems men are not proving as ame...@Dexter - Yes, it seems men are not proving as amenable as women to the totalitarian plan as implemented by social media - 'toxic masculinity' is the name of this problem. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-67933672626701869032019-02-27T19:12:45.677+00:002019-02-27T19:12:45.677+00:00"They recognised that 'gamble responsibly..."They recognised that 'gamble responsibly' was a stark oxymoron"<br /><br />"Fornicate responsibly" has been the basic message of the Left since the 1960s...<br /><br />Interesting that it was mostly men poking at their phones incessantly (and manly, sports-watching, gambling men at that). I think of this as a female habit.Dexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07748293799490877339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-69950287418035913122019-02-27T15:34:59.034+00:002019-02-27T15:34:59.034+00:00@d - So far as I can tell, the accent is authentic...@d - So far as I can tell, the accent is authentic (rather than 'Mockney' - which is the Cockney equivalent of Oirish* - ref your other comment); but he went to drama school as a kid and has been a professional actor all his life - so the accent is at least *deliberately* authentic. <br /><br />ie. He is a professional-Cockney (indeed The professional Cockney; taking over from Bob Hoskins who held that position for many years) - you will be familiar with the analogous professional-Scots; and -Irish, -Welsh, -Scousers - and nowadays -Geordies. <br /><br />*Perhaps the most famous Oirishman these days is the talent-free-zone that is/was the lead singer of the Pogues - London born and bred, and a schoolboy at that famously Hibernian-working-class institution Westminster School. Another example would be the (by contrast extremely talented) actor Daniel Day Lewis - than whom it would be hard to find somebody more upper class Establishment-English but who poses as one having been dredged from the Dublin slums. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-63707428207060205252019-02-27T14:04:56.555+00:002019-02-27T14:04:56.555+00:00"Wun andred fousan" - do you think he sp..."Wun andred fousan" - do you think he speaks fluent luvvie in private life?deariemenoreply@blogger.com