>>> Mr B - I was well fresh when I wrote that; so much so that I'd actually forgotten about it completely. I don't disagree with my sentiments though. And I did like Battleship Potterykiln.

 

>>> Ms Yve, It's long irked me that the CC adopted the Arts Council model of focusing on the avant garde (from which I personally benefited, I have to declare). They did an effective job of raising the status and the incomes of a minority of makers, but pretty much sat by while a number of British craft traditions died of neglect. Like I said in my drunken post, the Japanese have proven that you can support both the avant garde and excellence in the traditional.

 

<edit> PS, Things made with pointy sticks and stringy stuff are generally known as 'bows and arrows'. </edit>

You know, in the current national situation, with national debt spiralling out of control and troops fighting an unwinnable war with unsatisfactory equipment, I can't think of a better thing for the government to spend money on than a quango to regulate wicker.

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Things made with pointy sticks and stringy stuff are generally known as 'bows and arrows'.

You're onto me. How else do you think I rule over all the testosterone in this house?

Maybe they're wanting to create a national handbasket to go to hell in.

Population of the EU is about 500 mil so we can still win in a fistfight when it comes down to it.

And if we duplicate all of our posts we'll look even bigger.

Oh, FFS - let it die!!!

 

(no, don't)

Graphitone thinks there might be a contender to the Cracked my ball throne. Tell him otherwise.

Stop it - you're only adding to the problem... any new post is going to make it even harder to beat the 'ball.

 

You've even got me replying and adding to th... :|

 

(fail)

Don't add to it, Graphitone; I never do.

Gah...

 

Stop appealing to my OCD nature, making me reply to people who've sent me a message. We'll get into a vicious circle of messages/replies with no end in sight, all of it adding to your magnum opus of a thread.

 

Bastard.

is this one of yours?

 

http://www.lostmag.com/issue24/images/Lindsay-4.jpg

But then you could take that vicious circle and twist it just so and end up with a vicious ball, which may then crack, bringing us full circle.

You can't transform a circle into a sphere because of the hole.

Genius, that man.

That is one cracked ball. But not mine.

Break the vicious circle, Graphitone; the 2d equivalent, as Care suggests (& John refutes, TBH) of cracking a ball. Do it.

Not John refuting. The magic of topology refutes. If only I could take the credit for the refutage!

ball ≠ sphere

No, it's no good. Please explain what you're on about. Whatever shaped ball you want to bring up, you can't get there from a circle because a circle has a hole through it.