Yes, I'm against that sort of thing. I've been expecting feminists to object to 'Carmen ' and 'Madame Butterfly' because of who gets stabbed. Not 'Tosca', though, because of who gets stabbed there. It's probably praised for 'empowerment'.
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Recommend this series of programs about the housing crisis
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While browsing i found this about the birth of israel, apt for the gaza conflict.
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Found an interesting program about psychosis, says cannabis smoking can be a factor, no wonder its illegal then.
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Yeah, I mean it's not like alcohol can have a downside.Originally posted by JasonPalmer View Post
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they did not mention that a factor though he first got ill when taking lots of pot and booze, best try be healthy ehOriginally posted by Joseph K View Post
Yeah, I mean it's not like alcohol can have a downside.
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What I meant was that the government respects the fact that many people can enjoy alcohol responsibly and is prepared to accept the fact that this comes along with the many problems alcohol causes, but for some reason doesn't extend this to cannabis. Maybe because people could grow cannabis so there's not much money to be made from it? I don't know, maybe it's a cultural thing too. Speaking as someone who has a prolonged history of psychosis, primarily caused/triggered by cannabis (or the very strong strains thereof) I think it ought to be completely decriminalised/legalised and regulated.Originally posted by JasonPalmer View PostComment
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I try be healthy and take my pills, they seem to be working well.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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Joseph K,
Mind say you should avoid drugs and alcohol
i volunteer in a mind shop once a week, they used to have helpfull brochures in the shop, not anymore, now they just say talk to your gp.
jason
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I expect Emma Bovary could have done with a "mind shop". Just been watching the live stream of Bovary
Staatsballett Berlin
The world premiere of Christian Spuck's take on Flaubert's Madame Bovary. On demand until Wednesday 31 January 2024 22:59. www.arte.tv. Very imaginative use of music by various composers, incl. Saint-Saens, Ligeti, Takemitsu, Part.My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
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Agreed. When you read Simenon, which is highly recommeded by the way, it is staggering the amount of alcohol consumed in a novel. I remember doing a placement in a factory in northern France in 1981. Lunch was two hours and the employees, many of whom were operating heavy machinery, were allowed two glaases of red/white or two small beers with lunch. Things have changed since then of course but alcohol used to be a very common feature in everyday life in France, along with smoking.Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostComment
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Anyone watching Uncanny on BBC Friday evenings? Viewers are invited to give their reaction -believer or sceptic to the experiences described as well as describing anything they have experienced. It seems unlikely that anyone sceptical about ghosts, poltergeists etc will have their minds changed by the accounts given on the programme but they may find the explanations given by the resident sceptical Psychologist convincing although he also seems to be stretching it a bit sometimes.Comment
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Simon Schamas Power Of Art was good on bbc four lastnight.
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I haven't seen it mentioned here, so I thought I'd put in a word for the three-part documentary 'The Irish Civil War' on PBS America. As far as I could tell it is scrupulously impartial.
One thing they emphasise is the importace of seeing the event in context with other civil wars and revolutions taking place before and around the same time in Russia, Finland, China, etc. Showing at the same time as the wars in Ukraine and Israel, it evokes the (perhaps naive) dismay as to why people cannot simply sit down and live in peace next to one another, accepting their differences rather than resorting to violence.
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Will the world ever saner be,'
Said one, 'than when He sent us under
In our indifferent century!'
And many a skeleton shook his head.
'Instead of preaching forty year.'
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,
'I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.'
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