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Originally Posted by narlus
well they are more than 20 years on at this point...what're yr suggestions for shock and awe?
and yes, Robbie Yeats wasn't w/ them, as they'd just left Berlin and were on their way back home to NZ (after a brief US stay/tour).
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Save for the the word 'nigger', which I find is used in a way too aggressive and derogatory manner (especially in the states), plus has too painful a resonance in a society which is meant to be about 'progress', I've tried thinking of some unusual context all the above terms could take on some interesting ways of 'suggesting' a new meaning, and came to the conclusion that it really is all a lot of bollocks, since the way any subject is talked/written about has more chances of being thought-provoking than single words themselves can ever be. Words aren't shocking
per se, it's the context where they are used that alters their significance, to an extent at least
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