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    method acting/role play supercedes irony as cultural strategy

    Go on then. Something like, metamodernism is maybe as much a dialectical progression from transpersonal thinking that never really paid any significant mind to postmodernism in the first place, as it is an oscillation from away and back towards a previous postmodernist position.
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    method acting/role play supercedes irony as cultural strategy

    Am I really supposed to tell you?
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    method acting/role play supercedes irony as cultural strategy

    I thought I'd re-earth this one - I was thinking about 'ambiguity' in business, and that lead me to metamodernism. Plus I watched The Interview. I am not an actor, and have had no aspirations in that direction, but I encountered 'Meisner repetition' (one of the principle learning tools of...
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    where will you go when you cant afford london?

    There is some weight to these points, though there are a number of reasons why you want people able to manually drive these trains on the trains.
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    Hipsters: Scourge or Irrelevence

    Despite being a rehash of pretty tired hipster cliches, it is still lolworthy for some reason.
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    UK Election non-frenzy

    When the Conservatives push through boundary changes, I think that makes them pretty unassailable in 2020. Given the polls got it so wrong, Brexit looks pretty likely to me. Unless Cameron decides that the referendum is just too damn risky for the Union and he can sell that to the fringes of...
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    UK Election non-frenzy

    They can't win in 2020 against Boris Johnson when the boundary changes go through.
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    UK Election non-frenzy

    That Nuneaton result. Shit just got real.
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    UK Election non-frenzy

    Although killing the LDs will cheer the Conservatives, Cameron is still probably in a weak position. He's going to be held to ransom by his own party.
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    Hipsters: Scourge or Irrelevence

    I am in Sofia. I got taken to a bar with cats and was served a pale ale. Everywhere you go, there you are.
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    The great BEER VS. WINE fight!

    My brother had a pint of Beavertown Gamma Ray yesterday whilst I opted for the Wild Beer Bibble. Despite being a 'Session IPA' I thought the latter was the better drop - good malt backbone for a 4.2.
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    The great BEER VS. WINE fight!

    Sorachi Ace can indeed be the Aces - The Mikkeller Sorachi Single Hop IPA is definitely in my Top 10 list. Funky bubblegum. I had a beer from the Camden BD Hopinator which was an IPA that had had cofffeebeans steeped in it right on the bar. I definitely got that Buckfast rush. With black beers...
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    The great BEER VS. WINE fight!

    I am in London, though I get around. Siren Undercurrent, Soundwave and Liquid Mistress all rate. So do some of their others. Dark Star Hophead & APA are both really great, as are some of their specials (e,g, Green-Hopped IPA). Brodies are a bit samey malt-wise, but the Hoxton Pale, Dalston...
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    The great BEER VS. WINE fight!

    Nah, I tried it with a single bottle of Jackhammer and it nailed me - not in a spinny way, it was nice & expansive. In Morocco, they often serve bitter lemon for similar purposes.
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    The great BEER VS. WINE fight!

    Other thing about hop-bombs, the high Myrcene levels means if you smoke a joint a hour later it absolutely blows you away.
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    The great BEER VS. WINE fight!

    It seems to me that this 'Pilsner malt, 5 trillion hops' IPA thing is actually a British phenomenon - Kernel are probably the primary exponents. The US beers (and indeed the likes of Mikkeller) are generally a bit maltier. There's plenty of craft beer which isn't pale, including those strangely...
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    The great BEER VS. WINE fight!

    I think people may be discounting the arrangement of tastebuds that comes from being able to access decent red ales & porters which deliver much better than BoringBritishBeer in the malt stakes. Better old ales and barley wines too. When I was in Oldham recently, I had a few of the local J. W...
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    The great BEER VS. WINE fight!

    This. A bottle of Oakham Citra (4.6%) is £1.50 at the moment in Waitrose and you're not going to find an equally good bottle of vino for £6. A third of some ludicrous craft triple IPA in Brewdog costs about the same as a glass of random red in any pub that's not a Spoons. I like a nice red...
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    Hipsters: Scourge or Irrelevence

    http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/mar/17/nu-lads-on-the-block-post-hipster "Nu-lads are the opposite to hipsters – they’re about looking young and real " / The lol thing about that is that being a hipster also used to be about looking young and real - "looking real" especially, but...
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    is the news fundamentally conservative?

    I don't watch enough BBC to really know. You look at bookie's odds for any EU referendum and they all have it as a close call; whilst this is not an identical topic to immigration, the idea that this is a fringe issue looks suspect to me. I don't think people handwaving and calling it a...
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