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Which brings me to another point. I went to a really nice museum in Antwerp and they tried to blend modern art and art from this period. Let me just say that there is a need for some psychiatric meds in this city. Apparently a dead dog wearing a party hat with confetti all around is "art." If that's art, I see it all the time on the way to work sans the party hat. It gets worse. Then I see ...[text shortened]... og wearing a party hat is just too much. I'll have more to say about this exhibit later.[/b]
For me it's impossible to look at these dead dogs as "art". I can imagine that someone had to euthanize his dog because it was sick and has a lot of grief about it. Suppose that this person goes to the museum two months later and sees his dog hanging on a meat hook with a party hat on it's head. It's good to get a heart attack. Where is the respect for the dead creatures?
Julia

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Originally posted by lioness
For me it's impossible to look at these dead dogs as "art".
Who's the artist responsible?

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Ivory is white, I ain't got no problem with Ivory. But that Ebony. Oh boy, that stuff better get itself the hell out of my country.
So, are you saying that you hate ebony people?

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Originally posted by Red Night
So, are you saying that you hate ebony people?
They're a bit wooden. It makes some people uncomfortable.

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In Ebony and Ivory, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder sing:

"We all know that people are the same, where ever you go."

Clearly, they have never visited Workington in West Cumbria.

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Originally posted by lioness
For me it's impossible to look at these dead dogs as "art". I can imagine that someone had to euthanize his dog because it was sick and has a lot of grief about it. Suppose that this person goes to the museum two months later and sees his dog hanging on a meat hook with a party hat on it's head. It's good to get a heart attack. Where is the respect for the dead creatures?
Julia
From a distance, it looks to me like it was probably against eating dog meat or mistreating animals.

Where's the respect in ignoring the problem or pretending it isn't there?

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OK, moving along. Is it my imagination or is London the fashion disaster capital of the world? I expected to see a little punk. I did. I had the impression that a lot of people never got any attention as children from their parents so they are making up for it now. For crying out loud it's 36C. so there's no need to wear long johns under your dress.

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Originally posted by Palynka
From a distance, it looks to me like it was probably against eating dog meat or mistreating animals.

Where's the respect in ignoring the problem or pretending it isn't there?
You are right that it might be a way to make people aware of the problem that many animals are being mistreated, but anyway, it wasn't on the right place to see these dead dogs and 10 meters further you saw a Rubens or a Van Gogh or Ensor. It isn't right to mix these different kinds of "art".

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Originally posted by kirksey957
OK, moving along. Is it my imagination or is London the fashion disaster capital of the world? I expected to see a little punk. I did. I had the impression that a lot of people never got any attention as children from their parents so they are making up for it now. For crying out loud it's 36C. so there's no need to wear long johns under your dress.
The leotard/dress/doll shoes combo is the worse thing to come out of London since Jack the Ripper. Good eyes, Kirk.

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Originally posted by lioness
It isn't right to mix these different kinds of "art".
Ensor--or Rops--might have had a bit of a grin.

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Originally posted by Starrman
There's very little else in the UK worth seeing 😛
Ok - I bite.

Lake District
Peak District
Scotland
Wales (Hilly bits up norf plus the Gower)
Anywhere coastal (just about)

But most importantly, the post-industrial wastelands of the Midlands and Yorkshire.

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Yo, Brotha Kirksey, did you see any Germans up in there? I'm sure you'd know if you did - they are a particularly nasty people. The Dutch too.

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Originally posted by DoctorScribbles
Yo, Brotha Kirksey, did you see any Germans up in there? I'm sure you'd know if you did - they are a particularly nasty people. The Dutch too.
Why do you think that the Dutch are nasty people? Did you have some negative experience with one of them?

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Originally posted by lioness
Why do you think that the Dutch are nasty people? Did you have some negative experience with one of them?
I've seen Dutch porn. Disgusting.

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Originally posted by thetank444
Probably something to do with the average American having no sense of environmental conservation and buying cars, to commute themselves from A to B, which get similar mileage to your average tiger tank. Guzzling fuel at a rate that is not only destroying the planet, but also the worlds oil reserves.

Having a gas station on every corner isn't necessary ...[text shortened]... n of a decadent culture that is intent on destroying itself and bringing everyone else with it.
I only take my tiger tank out of the garage for those long, cross-country trips. 😛