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Open Thread with Temple Dragon

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This brilliantly coloured dragon on the roof of Longshan Temple in Taiwan features for this week’s Open Thread. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything* you like over this weekend and throughout the week.

a dragon sculpture made from hundreds of brightly coloured ceramic tiles on the corner of a temple roof
By WikiLaurent (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons

So, what have you been up to? What would you rather be up to? What’s been awesome/awful?
Reading? Watching? Making? Meeting?
What has [insert awesome inspiration/fave fansquee/guilty pleasure/dastardly ne’er-do-well/threat to all civilised life on the planet du jour] been up to?

* Netiquette footnotes:
* There is no off-topic on the Weekly Open Thread, but consider whether your comment would be on-topic on any recent thread and thus better belongs there.
* If your comment touches on topics known to generally result in thread-jacking, you will be expected to take the discussion to #spillover instead of overshadowing the social/circuit-breaking aspects of this thread.

10 thoughts on Open Thread with Temple Dragon

  2. An observation I’ve had cause to repeat several times over the last couple of days – isn’t it interesting how some of the loudest howlers over Jeremy Clarkson leaving Top Gear are also some of the loudest mockers of young 1D fans being upset over Zayn Malik’s departure?

    1. I don’t know anything about One Direction, but I’m a little sorry to see Clarkson go. That’s not to say that the firing wasn’t justified or that he’s not a total arse. I’m sorry that his conservative curmudgeon persona doesn’t appear to be just an act.

  4. Ludlow22, I think it was you who posted awhile ago about “motte and bailey” argumentation, and if so, I want to thank you for that; it was a structure I relied on a lot (accidentally) and have since worked at dismantling. It is disturbingly easy to take one specific element of a network of ideals or experiences and hold it up as a key to everything else, e.g. if you don’t agree with me on X you must not care about human rights.

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