thijsvanhouwelingen--disqus
Thijs van Houwelingen
thijsvanhouwelingen--disqus

Woohee, you sure showed him!

Shame that AVClub shoots this down without a second thought.

It's Dutch. We founded New York. Back then, it was stilled called "The Big Napel".

*hanged

Where can I get me some of that new instant Folger's coffee?

Should read: "It seems that some people, including people writing for the AV Club, may have been too quick to trust the stories about the photo."

None of this matters.

I saw the film Wetlands (the original is called 'Feuchtgebiete') at the film festival in Locarno a few years back, and when the protagonist wilfully sits on a sharp metal bed pole with her endlessly operated-on vagina just to be able to stay in the hospital and in the vicinity of the nurse she has a crush on, I had to

"Aubr…" SOLD!

If they really want to confuse the Brits they should call themselves Chipsy Kreme

I'm sorry for whatever suffering there is in your life that makes you lash out to other people online.

And I agree. I might not have been explicit enough in communicating the irony of my original comment; with which I was making a reference to another public debate about "some bad apples"…

Aha, and what effect did you intend to achieve by asking it?

If what you posit is true, how would I be the one to answer your question? Internal logic fail! Bad!

Poppycock. These are just a few rotten apples, taken up by gang culture. Metal is music of peace.

There's one clap in there where her hands don't even TOUCH!

I think deciding that a voice deserves drowning out is not something we should do when a large(!) community of people wants to listen to that voice. It is by correcting that voice—all those voices—together that we can show those who hold abhorrent views that those views are not acceptable. I believe public forums are

I do think there's a bit of a contradiction in this: forcing it underground is exactly how this shit will go unchecked. We have dialogue, and we have violence: they are inextricably linked and the line is thin—true—but to me that seems all the more reason to give dialogue a chance wherever possible.

I agree the problem may easily turn one pessimistic, I don't see how it helps though… People can change, will change, but many are angry and have felt for too long that their voices have been drowned out. Drowning them out further is not the way in my opinion.

Not all shows, not under all circumstances. Definitely those where different voices are allowed to speak. But I especially think an offline public platform is a powerful means of correcting a collective's potentially dangerous ideas through the inherent necessity of its participants' physical presence.