News that makes you say WTF! (43 Viewers)

[radekas]

I don't see much difference between awarding the Nobel prize for song writing and awarding it for poetry. It's pretty much the same thing.

 

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[ZoSo]

I don't see much difference between awarding the Nobel prize for song writing and awarding it for poetry. It's pretty much the same thing.

Bob Dylan

 

[Post Ironic]

Nobel prize for literature has awarded 5 decent winners post-1990. Mo Yan in 2012, Herta Muller in 2009, Gunter Grass in 1999, Szymborska in 1996, Octavio Paz in 1990.

Aside from those 5, it's been decidedly mediocre writers.

Bob Dylan winning a prize for literature is an absolute farce. But no more so than Toni Morrison or Patrick Modiano

 

[radekas]

I don't even like Dylan but I don't see the big deal about it.

Bob Dylan

If only Donald Trump was nominated, though.

 

[icemaη]

I don't even like Dylan but I don't see the big deal about it.



If only Donald Trump was nominated, though.

He has the best words, believe me!

 

[Post Ironic]

I don't even like Dylan but I don't see the big deal about it.



If only Donald Trump was nominated, though.

It's not really a big deal in the sense that the Nobel Prize for literature has been a joke for quite some time.

 

[Nzoric]

Nobel prize for literature has awarded 5 decent winners post-1990. Mo Yan in 2012, Herta Muller in 2009, Gunter Grass in 1999, Szymborska in 1996, Octavio Paz in 1990.

Aside from those 5, it's been decidedly mediocre writers.

Bob Dylan winning a prize for literature is an absolute farce. But no more so than Toni Morrison or Patrick Modiano

Pamuk mediocre?

 

[ZoSo]

https://www.jihadwatch.org/?p=102084?p=102084

 

[JuveJay]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cctv-captures-shoplifters-hilarious-attempt-9075472

"Alleged" shoplifter, love it.

 

[icemaη]

2:

 

[swag]

https://www.jihadwatch.org/?p=102084?p=102084

It's completely counterintuitive. But the question has to be asked is if it's effective. Some research has gone into reconditioning terrorists, etc., and there's evidence to suggest they're easier to salvage and less dangerous to society if you offer them a leg up instead of doing as much as possible to alienate them.

It sounds a bit love-and-hippy crap, but you have to ask what's more important: moralizing or the results?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cctv-captures-shoplifters-hilarious-attempt-9075472

"Alleged" shoplifter, love it.

Don't knock it. I've been accused of forgetting a Venetian blind I left in my pants before.

 

[Ocelot]

It's completely counterintuitive. But the question has to be asked is if it's effective. Some research has gone into reconditioning terrorists, etc., and there's evidence to suggest they're easier to salvage and less dangerous to society if you offer them a leg up instead of doing as much as possible to alienate them.

It sounds a bit love-and-hippy crap, but you have to ask what's more important: moralizing or the results?

Not saying that this program is definitely a good thing, that has to be concluded based on the empirical evidence, but it's not a good idea to dismiss it out of hand.

 

[lgorTudor]

Not saying that this program is definitely a good thing, that has to be concluded based on the empirical evidence, but it's not a good idea to dismiss it out of hand.

whenever there are terrorists to be defended you can count on ocelot to show up

 

[Ocelot]

whenever there are terrorists to be defended you can count on ocelot to show up

I mostly click on the non-football threads these days, ain't got time for all the other stuff

 

[JuveJay]

Don't knock it. I've been accused of forgetting a Venetian blind I left in my pants before.

Sure that wasn't a blind Venetian?

 

[Osman]

Damn, too impressive and cute

 

[ZoSo]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...saying-no-incident-Austria-December-2015.html

 

[X Æ A-12]

That has to be satire right?

 

[lgorTudor]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...saying-no-incident-Austria-December-2015.html

@Ocelot

 

[Maddy]

That has to be satire right?

Why?

It's the rape charge that has to re-trial due to lack of evidence and the defendant will stay behind bars.

Isn't this what we in a civilised world call criminal justice?

I bet @Seven can give you a more formal explanation.

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Bob Dylan

Why do you laugh?

You've never in your life read nobel price winning litterature (heck have you ever read a book beyond Harry Potter/Stephen King?), so how come you've all of a sudden can judge whether or not the nobel price to Dylan can be justified?

You really are on a mission to state your lack of bildung, muppet