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By: Dabbler Diary – Everybody is Mad Except Me « The Dabbler

Dabbler Diary – Everybody is Mad Except Me « The Dabbler — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:02:47 +0000

[...] benefits. The image has stayed with me over the years, and popped into my head again when reading Gaw’s post about eccentricity and the difficulty of appearing nonconformist when the mainstream is so [...]

By: Brit

Brit — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:30:23 +0000

And presumably if you can’t grow your own you simply buy an earwig.

By: BenSix

BenSix — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:05:43 +0000

I remember thinking that it was a bit pointless to take the mick out of a few idiots in Shoreditch that no one else would have paid attention to. More fool me.

By: Gaw

Gaw — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:53:04 +0000

Ha! V amusing. I imagine the subjects have seen this sort of thing but they persist nevertheless – how does that work? Puzzling.

Did you watch Nathan Barley? I thought it was hilarious and, with weird prescience, satirised on mainstream TV a youth culture that had hardly started. It’s still spot-on today, making the puzzle even more perplexing.

By: Gaw

Gaw — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:44:19 +0000

Actually, it might happen – I suppose something similar has happened before, at least in art: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_order. But the later embrace of ‘order’ in European politics wasn’t so benign!

Usually in downturns, style gets more conservative but it’s funny how it doesn’t seem to have happened this time, unless I’ve missed something. Mind you, we may only be half way through our economic depression!

By: BenSix

BenSix — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:51:50 +0000

In any event, the effort reeks of fakery... Indeed.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:11:15 +0000

Recent labour arbitrations over here have upheld the right of police officers and hospital workers to work with visible tattoos. I’m sure this really impresses Muslims, whose right to work while wearing hijabs is under attack.

Perhaps, Gaw, tomorrow’s iconoclasts and revolutionaries will adopt unblemished skin, the navy blue blazer and freshly-creased grey flannels as their “statement”. I do hope I live to see them bring a human rights court challenge against a tattooed and pierced school principal who tried to ban them.

By: Gaw

Gaw — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:58:13 +0000

Cheers, Malty.

By: Gaw

Gaw — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:11:27 +0000

I’m glad the phenomenon of ear locks is getting the attention it deserves, at last.

By: Worm

Worm — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:37:23 +0000

Definately one of Rod’s better direct hits