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GeneralRe: What will you do if you are the only one who come office today in your team ? Pin
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RantThe Difference Between Intelligence and Unintelligence Pin
Keith Barrow23-Oct-14 22:59
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So, I was watching Channel 4 news and saw the interview Christian Guru-Murthy did with Richard Ayoade (Moss in the IT Crowd). Some background and interview here[^]. I started thinking why is he being such as d**k, until they got to the point of him representing the Norwegian community & I twigged what was going on. The interview is a semi parody of a previous interview with Quentin Tarantino[^] - where Tarantino wanted to plug Django Unchained whilst not providing the payback of actually answering serious questions.

Fast forward to this morning, listening to Radio 4 during my commute. Jake Chapman of The Chapman Brothers[^](viewer discretion advised) wants to plug an exhibition, but I'd guess he'd see Moss's interview. The guy's a modern artist, so you can now guess where the unintelligence bit comes in. First the interviewer says hello - to which where greeted with a scrunching noise. Eventually, interviewee replies, still eating "Sorry I'm eating my cornflakes, it's a bit early in the morning for and artist" (it is 8:40am) - Wow, so radical, much hillarious, very commentary &c. &c. &c. Not. Within seconds I got so irritated by his "aren't I clever and out-there (on Radio 4 for god's sake)" schtick I switched off. I switched back on when I thought it would be safe - it wasn't. The interviewer did the "your exhibition on at venue X between dates Y and Z" bit, and followed with "what can we expect to see?". He absolutely refused to answer saying people should go themselves - all very fine, but it is in Taunton which is where you being to run out of South and West to go. He wouldn't even describe the "themes" of the exhibition as "he doesn't want to explain the meaning of his work because it is too complicated". Given the interview he just gave I suspect he can't explain his work because it is essentially meaningless.

tl;dr:
Moss from the IT crowd Parodies interview where Tarantino behaved fairly badly.
Artist too thick to do a copycat interview - should go back to serving fries with that.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

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