I remember one me and Xen and Andy and possibly others did, I got banned for a bit over it. Since this happened around the time of the 'milko imposters' it was quite amusingly hard trying to convince anyone I was me under a new ID. Ah, what a thread though. And it'd been done at least twice before as well.
IS THE CAT OK??????????
From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)26 Mar 2009 21:24
Good one Yve. I went all political on their basket-woven arses:
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Craft matters to me - but the Crafts Council took a philosophically and tactically indefensible decision years back when it chose to nail all its colours to the mast of a contemporary art-inspired model of avant gardism.
If the Crafts Council wishes to survive (and in so doing, support the craft pathfinders) it should look to the Japanese model of a balanced approach that enshrines and celebritises masters of traditional craft forms, whilst playing the avant garde against them.
It's not a particularly taxing concept: It's a spurious Coke Vs. Pepsi deathmatch, with the avant garde defended by the young and self-consciously trendy and the traditional by the older and crustier. It doesn't matter a damn who is higher in the ratings; what matters is that the Craft Council annexes both camps. Once it holds that position it doesn't have to defend the one against the other: it owns both.