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michaelm
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No problem with the Beastie Boys. Not so sure about Walt Whitman.
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Okay - for the sake of even handedness discount Whitman and the Beasties.


 


Thoreau


Capote


Cassius Clay


Balanchine


Beverly Sills


Fred Astaire


Martha Graham


Edward Albee


James Thurber


Tennessee Williams


Arthur Miller


TS Elliot


Jackson .......


Keith Haring


The Sugar Hill Gang etc etc. :winkiss:
 
Keshav
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Okay - for the sake of even handedness leave out Whitman and Beasties.


 


Thoreau


Capote


Cassius Clay


Balanchine


Beverly Sills


Fred Astaire


Martha Graham


Edward Albee


James Thurber


TS Elliot


The Sugar Hill Gang etc etc. :winkiss:
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I am glad you substituted TS Eliot for Whitman, and you haven't even got to the greatest in American literature, Hunter S Thompson and Raymond Chandler.


 


What about the demerits for Gwyneth Paltrow though?
 
michaelm
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I gather the term "the  British Isles" is even in dispute now, with "British-Irish Isles" or " the Atlantic Archipelago" favoured by some, and  the Scots uncertain about the Union to boot. I had an English  grandfather, from Gloucestershire actually, and hence am perhaps more Brtitish than you are, although the rest of my forbears were all Irish.


 


Can't agree with you about the beauty of those Isles, having been to the Lakes district, the Cotswolds, Oxford,  Wales, Scotland etc. I would much rather consume alcohol (suitably attired in warm clothing other than in high summer) in Edinburgh than Las Vegas.
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Edinburgh is of course in Scotland, containing some of the most beautiful scenery on the planet and Edinburgh is indeed one of the greatest Cities I have ever visited.


 


England meanwhile, which I was referring to, has a quintessential appeal of its own. In particular, Cumbria, Northumbria, parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Dorset, Hampshire, Devon, Cornwall and indeed The Cotswolds. I adore the heritage and the identity but as a World travel destination based upon natural beauty itself it is utterly underwhelming.


 


Next to some of the landscapes I have visited and journeyed through in Continental Europe, parts of Africa, various destinations in Asia and the far east, North America, Polynesia and the antipodes, the UK simply doesn't compete.


 


On the contrary, personally I would love to be in Vegas right now because I'd immediately head straight into the Nevada desert via The Spring Mountains and on to the High Sierra in California via Death Valley N.P. As wonderful as The Lake District is, I'd sooner be in Yosemite. 
 
Keshav
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Ernest Hemingway


Mark Twain


Edgar Allen Poe


William Faulkner


F. Scott Fitzgerald


Ralph Waldo Emerson


Walt Whitman


Martin Scorcese


Francis Ford Coppola


Quentin Tarantino


Orson Welles


John Ford


Billy Wilder


John Huston


George Lucas


David Lynch


DW Griffith


Elia Kazan


Frank Lloyd Wright


Fran Gehry


IM Pei


Phillip Johnson


Aaron Copland


George Gershwin


Igor Stravinsky


John Cage


Duke Ellington


Ray Charles


Louis Armstrong


Scott Joplin


Robert Johnson


Miles Davis


John Coltrane


Eric Dolphy


Charlie Parker


Dizzy Gillespie


Billy Holliday


Chuck Berry


Muddy Waters


Howlin Wolf


Leadbelly


Run DMC


Snoop Dog


Beastie Boys


MC 5


Woody Guthrie


Bob Dylan


Irving Berlin


Phillip Glass


Television


The Ramones


The Dead Kennedys


Iggy Pop


Black Flag


The New York Dolls


The Dictators


Circle Jerks


The Swans


Lou Reed


Eddie Lawson


King Kenny


Wayne Rainey


Kevin Schwantz


Freddie Spencer


Nicky Hayden


 


Yeah, we ain't go no cultcha.
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No Gonzo, no Ginsberg, no Zimmerman????
 
Arrabbiata1
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Edinburgh is of course in Scotland, containing some of the most beautiful scenery on the planet and Edinburgh is indeed one of the greatest Cities I have ever visited.


 


England meanwhile, which I was referring to, has a quintessential appeal of its own. In particular, Cumbria, Northumbria, parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Dorset, Hampshire, Devon, Cornwall and indeed The Cotswolds. I adore the heritage and the identity but as a World travel destination based upon natural beauty itself it is utterly underwhelming.


 


Next to some of the landscapes I have visited and journeyed through in Continental Europe, parts of Africa, various destinations in Asia and the far east, North America, Polynesia and the antipodes, the UK simply doesn't compete.


 


On the contrary, personally I would love to be in Vegas right now because I'd immediately head straight into the Nevada desert via The Spring Mountains and on to the High Sierra in California via Death Valley N.P. As wonderful as The Lake District is, I'd sooner be in Yosemite. 
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You see i thought that, then jumkie and his wife visited us. I thought "where the .... will i take them that's even remotely worth their airfair". They requested a visit to some old lumps of rock in moonraker country. On the way back i thought i would take them through the New Forrest to visit Burley. I grew up in that area so don't really look at it in the same way a tourist does. The wild horses blocking the road at every turn frustrated me but overwhelmed and inspired them. The wild stags leaping across the fields are nothing new to me but had them reaching for their camera's. Then there was the pub meal in a village with houses and shops older than their country. Then the ancient walls of southampton with its Tudor and Norman buildings.  It made made look at my own surroundings in a different way.
 
chopperman
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You see i thought that, then jumkie and his wife visited us. I thought "where the .... will i take them that's even remotely worth their airfair". They requested a visit to some old lumps of rock in moonraker country. On the way back i thought i would take them through the New Forrest to visit Burley. I grew up in that area so don't really look at it in the same way a tourist does. The wild horses blocking the road at every turn frustrated me but overwhelmed and inspired them. The wild stags leaping across the fields are nothing new to me but had them reaching for their camera's. Then there was the pub meal in a village with houses and shops older than their country. Then the ancient walls of southampton with its Tudor and Norman buildings.  It made made look at my own surroundings in a different way.
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Good post. I am only referring to natural beauty, but certainly old albion can inspire an awe of its own.


 


"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes" Marcel Proust
 
I'm not supposed to say this so I will whisper......I think England is a beautiful country, and my English brothers on here have never made me feel anything but welcomed as friend on my trips south.
 
michaelm
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I am glad you substituted TS Eliot for Whitman, and you haven't even got to the greatest in American literature, Hunter S Thompson and Raymond Chandler.


 


What about the demerits for Gwyneth Paltrow though?
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An embarrassment of riches I'm afraid. I'm afraid we all have our bad days, but I figure one "Death Of A Salesman" cancels out the Grateful Dead and 50% of the silly bimbos spawned in Hollywood.


 


 


For those speaking to all the things we have to be grateful to the British - the list is of course endless.


I'd be the last to spawn a cultural pissing match. Just wanted to put paid to the old chestnut about


Americans having no culture of their own.


 


40 years on and I still have a crush on Judy Geeson and Lulu (circa 1967).
 
Arrabbiata1
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No Gonzo, no Ginsberg, no Zimmerman????
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basspete
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I'm not supposed to say this so I will whisper......I think England is a beautiful country, and my English brothers on here have never made me feel anything but welcomed as friend on my trips south.
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but "if it's not Scottish..."
 
I was confident my comment would start a perfectly entertaining flame war! This place rulz! Since there're no meet ups planned I was compelled to do something to bring this group together. Nothing bonds ........ better than a pure all out flame war! Well done all.
 
.... the production Honda if that's what the forward racing Yamaha is doing after less than a 100 laps and the thing has only been put together in a few days and only 1.3 sec down on the leading factory Honda there is hope for some interesting stuff next season

Aleix ESPARGARO might of unwittingly of made a great move
 
final test Wednesday


 


.... me bradders where did that come from!


 


Honda hmmm


 


1.        Marc Marquez        ESP    Repsol Honda Team (RC213V)        1m    30.287s        (Lap 54/56)

2.        Bradley Smith        GBR    Monster Yamaha Tech 3 (YZR-M1)        1m    30.598s        (35/36)

3.        Stefan Bradl        GER    LCR Honda MotoGP (RC213V)        1m    30.868s        (20/54)

4.        Dani Pedrosa        ESP    Repsol Honda Team (RC213V)        1m    30.992s        (32/70)

5.        Alvaro Bautista        ESP    Go&Fun Honda Gresini (RC213V)        1m    31.229s        (57/58)

6.        Pol Espargaro        ESP    Monster Yamaha Tech 3 (YZR-M1)        1m    31.533s        (12/28)

7.        Andrea Iannone        ITA    Energy T.I. Pramac Racing (GP13)        1m    31.594s        (49/69)

8.        Aleix Espargaro        ESP    NGM Forward Racing (FTR-Yamaha M1)        1m    31.644s        (45/49)

9.        Andrea Dovizioso        ITA    Ducati Team (GP13)        1m    31.716s        (33/36)

10.        Cal Crutchlow        GBR    Ducati Team (GP13)        1m    31.875s        (44/54)

11.        Michele Pirro        ITA    Ducati Test Team (GP13)        1m    31.883s        (47/58)

12.        Nicky Hayden        USA    Power Electronics Aspar (Honda RCV1000R)        1m    32.123s        (37/40)

13.        Hiroshi Aoyama        JPN    Power Electronics Aspar (Honda RCV1000R)        1m    32.530s        (27/60)

14.        Michael Laverty        GBR    Paul Bird Motorsport (PBM-ART)        1m    33.055s        (43/44)

 
 
Oh hell - I am remiss in forgetting these guys. They were to comedy what Gershwin was to music.


 
 

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Putting together a list of famous people is not a country culture hahahaha, if anything that proves my point about america making theirs up. Cultures are made of many many years of its people ways, view and traditions. America had no people of its own, even the indibums came from the Caribbean i've read. America is made up of people from all corners of the earth who started to settled there a few hundred years ago. America takes the pieces of those cultures they like or think looks cool, rolls it all together and ends up with a right fruit salad of a culture. England is going the same way, once a rich culture that's now so diluted by the influx of immigrants. Their culture to be celebrated while ours is hidden into obscurity. I say England as the Scotish, Irish and the largely ignored Welsh are ALLOWED to keep theirs.
 
chopperman
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Putting together a list of famous people is not a country culture hahahaha, if anything that proves my point about america making theirs up. Cultures are made of many many years of its people ways, view and traditions. America had no people of its own, even the indibums came from the Caribbean i've read. America is made up of people from all corners of the earth who started to settled there a few hundred years ago. America takes the pieces of those cultures they like or think looks cool, rolls it all together and ends up with a right fruit salad of a culture. England is going the same way, once a rich culture that's now so diluted by the influx of immigrants. Their culture to be celebrated while ours is hidden into obscurity. I say England as the Scotish, Irish and the largely ignored Welsh are ALLOWED to keep theirs.
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So whats your freakin point

Were all descended from n$$$$$$ anyway
 

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