THE BRITISH THREAD II

Mac wrote-

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BTW your latest post seems to take the opposite position to the one just before, or maybe that's just another thing I don't understand.

Not at all. I never said anything in my "tourist art" post about what I think of it. Rubbish is something that has no point to me. If it's there it has a point to somebody I suppose.

Mathos's descriptions, his form of tourist art, like your pic from the ivy covered whatsit, are like empty plastic bags as far as I'm concerned. They are artless. The displaying ego is all there is. If it was cockadoodledooing outside the window at 6 am I would shoot the flipper.

I could take a map of the Yorkshire Dales and write a more colourful description of travels in those desolate regions without shifting off my couch.

The only purpose of Mathos's Journeys in the East is Mathos and what a big dick he is compared to us silly sods who are supposed to be drooling with envy or admiration and I find it difficult to feel either of those emotions about anybody who has got to his stage in life and still can't read or write worth a blow on a ragman's trumpet. His descriptions are the equivalent of what Olympia would look like if he painted it.

And he could have gone somewhere else and that "quite a nice town" would never have had a mention and none of would know that it's quite a nice town. And he would have had to appreciate a foreign culture in some other place where he stopped for the night.

Talk about patronising.

I thought of a work of art myself. You get a 6x8 canvas and put a fence around it. Throw some cans of paint on it and put two fighting cocks in, When they've finished you let it dry and hey presto "The Cock Fight". Or two bulldogs to get "The Dog Fight". I don't mind patronising cocks and bulldogs. That's why I wouldn't do " A Sabine Wrestling Match". I don't patronise women. Blokes are okay. Artists became sensitive to the charge that they were patronising their subjects. Even Nature can be patronised.

If Mathos brings back some photos the subject will be the same in them all: what Mathos condescended to point his camera at in some place he had condescended to visit in order to make the same point, to which I alluded earlier, endlessly, for ever and ever.

I don't like foreign tourists coming here to look at our quaint ways just because they are bored with their own quaint ways. Although they do put some foreign exchange on the side of the balance that Mathos has removed it from.

What do I want a measly bloody "grand " for?

I wouldn't mind a Grand Piano though. Not a cheapo.

But saying that I'm a yellow bellied chicken little **** who mouths off at every given opportunity is the first time I've ever seen you get somewhere near a fact. I'm actually a lazy, idle, good-for nothing, yellow bellied little **** who mouths off at every given opportunity.

You should try it sometime. It's no good having a guilt complex about it. Any guilt concerning me is down to Ma and Pa. Had I had a choice I would have waited another ten thousand years. Maybe more.

let them experience the feel of a basic existence for a few days and nights.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...

I'd thought, McTag, you were watching Scotland win vs France ....

I also have photographs of the so called enemies they slew, skulls caved in, heads lopped off and hung up from their primitive abodes.

Maythos: I like to travel, to experience new things and places.