Comments on: We will make everything metal https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/09/we-will-make-everything-metal Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:58:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Jonathan Bogart lugged oot https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/09/we-will-make-everything-metal/comment-page-1#comment-724721 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:58:09 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19658#comment-724721 Wait wait. Staind and Limp Bizkit got credible critical acclaim? Is this a UK thing?

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/09/we-will-make-everything-metal/comment-page-1#comment-722565 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:34:45 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19658#comment-722565 Or is this what Barbara Matthews is saying? It’s terribly hard to tell!

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/09/we-will-make-everything-metal/comment-page-1#comment-722563 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:33:28 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19658#comment-722563 I can’t get into the FT subscribewall to check but the metaphor is VERY bad surely, or at least has got reversed in translation: you could imagine a punker-turned-libertarian constructing a metaphor around mosh-pits as unregulated markets ruined by the strongarm tic-tacs of regulators/security dudes, but saying that the regulators are like moshers seems counter-intuitive to me…

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By: unlogged mog https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/09/we-will-make-everything-metal/comment-page-1#comment-722559 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:55:33 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19658#comment-722559 Blimes, I didn’t even realise how long that sentence was. Needs moar commas.

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By: logged-out Tracer Hand https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/09/we-will-make-everything-metal/comment-page-1#comment-722544 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:15:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19658#comment-722544 also if you find an egg roll in either one, you shouldn’t eat it. trust me on this one.

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By: logged-out Tracer Hand https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/09/we-will-make-everything-metal/comment-page-1#comment-722543 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:14:14 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19658#comment-722543 the other similarity between financial bubbles and mosh pits is that they both provide an easy way to identify who the idiots are in the room

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/09/we-will-make-everything-metal/comment-page-1#comment-722541 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:00:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19658#comment-722541 It’s a continuum: from “blod” to victor hugo!

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By: punctum https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/09/we-will-make-everything-metal/comment-page-1#comment-722540 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:50:51 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19658#comment-722540 In the George Michael sense?

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/09/we-will-make-everything-metal/comment-page-1#comment-722539 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:42:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19658#comment-722539 Dosh pit!

(your second sentence reminds me of some of mine… not in a bad way, obv: ideally all books should only be one sentence long)

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