Rochelle Kwok, reporter, TVB News, Hong Kong
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Rolly Wong, chief executive of the Hong Kong Museum of Stone Sculpture, Hong Kong
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Sunday, 10 October 2010
The Stokes, Blackburns, Wolves
The pluralism meme is gaining momentum and critical mass, at least in the world of football. It may have appeared earlier, but its increasing use has been significantly noticeable from the beginning of the 2010-2011 football season (examples here and here).
The definition of a meme is “a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena”. It was first described by Richard Dawkins back in 1976, and propagated by Susan Blackmore in her 1999 book The Meme Machine.
Fulham’s Danny Murphy is the latest to use pluralistic phrases, such as this gem:
The following newspapers and media outlets quoted Murphy's pluralistic phrase:
Managers must take responsibility for tackles - Murphy (BBS Sport)
Managers are to blame for dangerous tackles, says Fulham's Danny Murphy (Guardian Football)
Danny Murphy blames Blackburn, Stoke and Wolves bosses for scourge of 'stupid tackles' (Daily Mail Football)
MURPHY RAPS MANAGERS OVER TACKLES (Football365.com)
However, The Sun newspaper was incorrect in it’s reporting (no big surprise!). It misquoted Murphy saying:
What’s even worse for The Sun is that they have posted the video of Danny Murphy’s speech, and you can clearly hear Murphy using pluralism and saying: “ … the Stokes, Blackburns, Wolves”. Poor reporting and transcribing by The Sun.
What Danny Murphy actually said, from 00:31 on the video clip (red text highlights the original speech changed by The Sun), was:
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The definition of a meme is “a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena”. It was first described by Richard Dawkins back in 1976, and propagated by Susan Blackmore in her 1999 book The Meme Machine.
Fulham’s Danny Murphy is the latest to use pluralistic phrases, such as this gem:"You get managers who are sending their teams out to stop other teams playing, which is happening more and more - the Stokes, Blackburns, Wolves."
The following newspapers and media outlets quoted Murphy's pluralistic phrase:
Managers must take responsibility for tackles - Murphy (BBS Sport)
Managers are to blame for dangerous tackles, says Fulham's Danny Murphy (Guardian Football)
Danny Murphy blames Blackburn, Stoke and Wolves bosses for scourge of 'stupid tackles' (Daily Mail Football)
MURPHY RAPS MANAGERS OVER TACKLES (Football365.com)
However, The Sun newspaper was incorrect in it’s reporting (no big surprise!). It misquoted Murphy saying:
"Stoke, Blackburn and Wolves, you can say they're doing what they can to win the game. But the fact is that the managers are sending the players out so pumped up that inevitably there are going to be problems.”
What’s even worse for The Sun is that they have posted the video of Danny Murphy’s speech, and you can clearly hear Murphy using pluralism and saying: “ … the Stokes, Blackburns, Wolves”. Poor reporting and transcribing by The Sun.
What Danny Murphy actually said, from 00:31 on the video clip (red text highlights the original speech changed by The Sun), was:
“… you know, the Stokes, Blackburns, Wolves … they can say ‘it’s effective and we’ve got to win games' but the fact is the managers are sending out the players so pumped up that inevitably there are going to be problems.”
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October Leung, dentist, Caine Road (by mid-levels escalator), Hong Kong
Note: Today's Novel Name of the Day acknowledges the coincidental triple tenth or double tenth date in October.
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Note: Today's Novel Name of the Day acknowledges the coincidental triple tenth or double tenth date in October.
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Saturday, 9 October 2010
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Kolie Lam, Ngau Chi Wan, Hong Kong (SCMP letters 24 Dec 2009)
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Friday, 8 October 2010
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Whelan Leung Wai-lun, Oxfam Trailwalker veteran, Hong Kong
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Thursday, 7 October 2010
Bizarre Barbaric Buddhists
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is reportedly an annual cleansing event for Buddhist devotees (article here). The article says these “devotees go on a vegetarian diet to cleanse their bodies before taking part in processions, where they pierce their bodies with sharp objects, walk over hot coals and carry shrines past exploding firecrackers”.
According to the 'official' website, participants of this strange shenanigan have to be “local residents of Chinese ancestry”. This would make it more of a cultural event rather than a religious activity.
Nonetheless, whether it be a religious or cultural practice, it is still a bizarre and barbaric event that shamelessly promotes itself to the world as being associated with healthy vegetarianism, respectable religious ritual and upstanding cultural tradition. What utter rubbish! There is nothing about the festival that is healthy, respectable or upstanding.
The 10 Rules of the Vegetarian Festival are amazingly idiotic too.
Another observation: the concept of vegetarianism is totally different depending on whether it is based on East or West concepts. I prefer the Western treatment of vegetarianism, which tends to have no association with religious or cultural traditions and practices.
According to the 'official' website, participants of this strange shenanigan have to be “local residents of Chinese ancestry”. This would make it more of a cultural event rather than a religious activity.
Nonetheless, whether it be a religious or cultural practice, it is still a bizarre and barbaric event that shamelessly promotes itself to the world as being associated with healthy vegetarianism, respectable religious ritual and upstanding cultural tradition. What utter rubbish! There is nothing about the festival that is healthy, respectable or upstanding.
The 10 Rules of the Vegetarian Festival are amazingly idiotic too.
1. Cleanliness of bodies during the festival
2. Clean kitchen utensils and to use them seperately (sic) from other who do not join the festival
3. Wear white during the festival
4. Behave physically and mentally
5. No meat eating
6. No sex
7. No alcoholic drinks
8. People at mourning period should not attend the festival
9. Pragnant (sic) ladies should not watch any ritual
10. Ladies with period should not attend the ritual
Another observation: the concept of vegetarianism is totally different depending on whether it is based on East or West concepts. I prefer the Western treatment of vegetarianism, which tends to have no association with religious or cultural traditions and practices.
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