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Old 10-19-2012, 04:49 PM   #137 (permalink)
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Just a point for Big Ears: I'm having that same trouble sporadically with Firefux when using YT clips, but they play ok in Internet Exploiter. The key is that if you use the spoiler tags the page will load a lot faster for you, if that's what's slowing you down. I started doing this once there were more than about 4 or 5 videos, as people had been getting upset about them slowing down their PCs. It works quite well.

Pretty sure it was Oxford St where I went too: I know the place was bloody huge. Wonder if it's still as big? Doubt it, sadly. It would have been probably 1982/3 when I went there.

I don't fully understand the lyric either, but it's fairly clearly a dig at the way the media tries to control us, and how in various and different ways we just line up and take it, nodding our heads. Look at all the sheep who hang on every word the X Factor judges utter. Or those who believe everything they read, or support one political party/ideology and think the other is crazy and/or evil. That's how I interpret it anyway. It's a case of hoping if you shout "We are sane!" loudly and often enough, you'll convince people it's the truth. Hell, you might even start believing it yourself!

I also feel that "Creep show" is to be seen generally as the end result of this programming, where all those whose minds have collapsed under the strain of decades of programming have been sent, a sort of polticial/ideological asylum.

Of course, I could be totally wrong. Would not be the first time...

Well done to everyone on the reviews so far; looking forward to framing my thoughts on the bearded ones' album soon.
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