Musical Homophobia - or The Homophobia Histories

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think to be strictly accurate, RM, Amateur has four fixations:- The Tories, Murdoch, Homosexualist rights, and whatever happens to be in that day's Guardian newspaper.

And there's me thinking that you two had nothing in common.

[ahinton]

No wonder you can't find answers to questions if you don't read posts properly, ahinton!

' ... nearly 90% of the Russian people' ... is what is officially and correctly recorded as having been asserted in the post. The 'incontrovertible evidence in support of the assertion' is easily confirmed by way of Google or any other reasonably efficient search engine.

Please look very carefully at the post again.

Some people will believe anything. Anyway, that's hardly the point, which is that if people outsiude Russia but with Russian interests wish to register their protest at so backward a step, they will.

[ahinton]

It's over 170 pages! You can't have read enough already!

Oh well, I give up.

At last!

I said that I'd read enough to convince me that what's there does little more than you've done to show chapter and verse from the law that specifically destroys marriage as it was previously understood.

[Mr Pee]

No it's not
and i'm not sure that you know the difference between notes and sounds

'Ang on, guv, let me fink.... notes are them black dot fings on the music paper, you know, on the lines, called a stave last time I 'ad a gander.

Sounds are the noises they make when you play them notes. Innit?

I KNOOO all them years at music college would come in 'andy one day. Cor blimey, guvnor, strike a light. Who'd a fought it, I ask ya?

[Beef Oven!]

At last!

I said that I'd read enough to convince me that what's there does little more than you've done to show chapter and verse from the law that specifically destroys marriage as it was previously understood.

Well done. Give it time to sink in.

[french frank]

And there's me thinking that you two had nothing in common.

Who needs emoticons? I laughed at that!

[Mr Pee]

Who needs emoticons? I laughed at that!

Me too!!

[MrGongGong]

'Ang on, guv, let me fink.... notes are them black dot fings on the music paper, you know, on the lines, called a stave last time I 'ad a gander.

Sounds are the noises they make when you play them notes. Innit?

I KNOOO all them years at music college would come in 'andy one day. Cor blimey, guvnor, strike a light. Who'd a fought it, I ask ya?

Oh dear
never mind ......... I had forgotten that thinking about music was a bit difficult for you

[scottycelt]

Many thanks, ferney

So you are expressing thanks to ferney for outrageously mentioning paedophiles and child murderers in the same breath as gay activists ... ?

I would have imagined that you would have thought, like me, that it read like some foaming-at-the-mouth rant to the letter-pages of the Daily Mail.

You really are an unpredictable one, amsey!

[Mr Pee]

Oh dear
never mind ......... I had forgotten that thinking about music was a bit difficult for you

With all due respect to the house rules, you really can be a patronising git.

[Beef Oven!]

Fight.. fight...fight...fight..... Lol!

[amateur51]

You are mixing up two things. I agree with your first sentence. But if I were to withhold my professional services simply because I don't like gays then that is prejudice. Wishing to withhold my professional services because of deeply held religious beliefs is not. The law would prevent me (see first sentence) but it is not prejudice.

It IS prejudice to suggest that having religious beliefs that are against homosexuals makes one prejudiced.

You cleverly (or stupidly, one can never be certain) omitted the words 'someone whom they have not met but because of their sexuality' in other words they are creating a class of person against whom they have an animus - this is clearly a prejudgement.

Why IS it prejudice to suggest that having religious beliefs that are against homosexuals makes one prejudiced in such a case?

[amateur51]

No idea, sunshine, you're the one fixated on the Tories.

You say the sweetest things.

[amateur51]

No. To the heart of the matter as you perceive it, that's all.

Music is only about notes and sounds. At the most basic level, that is all there is. We then put onto that our own interpretations, emotional responses, etc., etc.,. If some listeners choose to read all about the composer's life, cultural background, sexual peccadilloes, or breakfast preferences, then that's up to them. But one can get an equally rewarding experience by just....listening to the notes, and the sounds they make.

So why do you get so grotesquely over-heated about photographs of highly competent musicians such as Alison Balsom and insist on sharing your objectification of her on this Board?

[amateur51]

I think to be strictly accurate, RM, Amateur has four fixations:- The Tories, Murdoch, Homosexualist rights, and whatever happens to be in that day's Guardian newspaper.

You and the roller do pay such attention to me - shame I can't get up the ego to be flattered by such.