Beautiful Minds On This Forum !!!
Posted by: Berlin Fritz on 28 February 2005
Yes; Beautiful minds ! I wonder how many of them there are on this particular forum ? I've just had the pleasure of watching "A beautiful mind" for the very first time over breakfast, which as most of you no doubt know is the biography of the mathematician & Nobel prize winner John Forbes Nash!
As Enjoyable and interesting as it was, one small aspect did strike me as particularly hard, and wether it was put there for 'Entertainment' purposes, ie, artistic licence, or it actually portrayed a real event I know not ? but I was still rather taken aback I must say. A small scene, that I suppose most wouldn't even think about as relevent, when the now quite ill Professor Nash is hobbling home from a days work at Stanford, and some 'students' behind him mimicked and made fun of his shuffle and gait. As far as I know Stanford is considered probably the finest University in the world, and one would imagine that barring the few rich (no hoper brats) to get a place there takes considerable ability and maturity ? We are only talking about a time period of less than 10 years from today here, so that it's almost actual so to speak ?
Without getting too bogged down with how nasty human nature can be, and what kids get up to, etc, etc, I somehow think that if say some British 'students' took the piss out of Steven Hawking and his chair etc, behind his back, they wouldn't be 'studying' there for much longer ? So wether it's the charade of a TV trial for Michael Jackson, or the piss taking of a very sick person by the highly talented fortunate creme de la creme of any particular modern society, I see no difference personally, if it's not checked, and therefore officially sanctioned by the powers that want to be, but don't act, or try to take PC to mind-blowingly stupid unenforcable levels, that result in a less desirable climate than before !
Fritz Von How sad really innit
As Enjoyable and interesting as it was, one small aspect did strike me as particularly hard, and wether it was put there for 'Entertainment' purposes, ie, artistic licence, or it actually portrayed a real event I know not ? but I was still rather taken aback I must say. A small scene, that I suppose most wouldn't even think about as relevent, when the now quite ill Professor Nash is hobbling home from a days work at Stanford, and some 'students' behind him mimicked and made fun of his shuffle and gait. As far as I know Stanford is considered probably the finest University in the world, and one would imagine that barring the few rich (no hoper brats) to get a place there takes considerable ability and maturity ? We are only talking about a time period of less than 10 years from today here, so that it's almost actual so to speak ?
Without getting too bogged down with how nasty human nature can be, and what kids get up to, etc, etc, I somehow think that if say some British 'students' took the piss out of Steven Hawking and his chair etc, behind his back, they wouldn't be 'studying' there for much longer ? So wether it's the charade of a TV trial for Michael Jackson, or the piss taking of a very sick person by the highly talented fortunate creme de la creme of any particular modern society, I see no difference personally, if it's not checked, and therefore officially sanctioned by the powers that want to be, but don't act, or try to take PC to mind-blowingly stupid unenforcable levels, that result in a less desirable climate than before !
Fritz Von How sad really innit
If it's somebody I don't know I just ignore them, as I would anybody else, though the point of my original post was that if those future leaders couldn't act in a Civilised way (male & Female) how can anybody else be expected to ?
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Thanks for that.
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N.B. Initially though if I witnessed the same thing from a distance and it seemed funny and harmless at the time, on a nice sunny day, I think I'd be inclined to laugh as well, but would soon change if I saw that it was serious. The japing over a known schitzophnenic genius on campus by 'students' of any age/gender I find sick and unforgivable, unless they wrere all flying on acid, drunk or stoned, and realised the errors of their ways later!
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N.B. Initially though if I witnessed the same thing from a distance and it seemed funny and harmless at the time, on a nice sunny day, I think I'd be inclined to laugh as well, but would soon change if I saw that it was serious. The japing over a known schitzophnenic genius on campus by 'students' of any age/gender I find sick and unforgivable, unless they wrere all flying on acid, drunk or stoned, and realised the errors of their ways later!
Lomo me old China, I refer not only to disabled folk mate, but to people that are different from the crowd generally.
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Lovely to see Charlie Boy getting all those kisses down Perth way !
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Lovely to see Charlie Boy getting all those kisses down Perth way !
I've just tanned a rake of chips with egg, innit. For those not in the know, 'egg & chips' as they are commonly known, are fried to buggery and normally eaten for breakfast (bigfat in Thailand ) by heavily hungover mid#life crisis ridden drunkards.
"Breaking an egg" is an old German term (probably Yiddish in origin) which menas 'yer cannie crack it proper like yer bampot', cos you's still kippin in ye scratcher, innit.
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"Breaking an egg" is an old German term (probably Yiddish in origin) which menas 'yer cannie crack it proper like yer bampot', cos you's still kippin in ye scratcher, innit.
Fritz Von All translations and complaints to Holyrood (Wibbly Wobbly) Hoose, Norf ov der border