I'll just have lemonade, but in the same spirit! (up)

aw rubbish - she's from liverpool NOT newcastle, going to have to rename her 'scouse lady' - wish I had kept my records better!

ooh I wonder who Matt Lane is on here!

maybe we could all meet up one day when we are all finished and have the PGF bonfire in trafalgar square by burning the evil theses. We could dance around it citing the seminal articles in our field.

omg I hate word its so evil - why o why has it decided to crash and mess my entire computer up! :-s

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ooh firemen, count me in! and I can see why some footballers get paid so much :$ :p



I guess I see two ends of the scale. My dad went to central school of art and is a craftsman, and spends his life making beautiful things that require a lot of skill, skill that would take decades to learn. My uncle fancied himself as a foot loose fancy free artist who although was very 'fun' but basically rinsed other people for money for rubbish art that even he thought was bad. - guess I've been burned haha

I get your point. I guess I have an issue with how much they are paid. And i think even though there are some artists out there doing it for the right reasons - as you say, to bring it to our attention etc. I think there are some that are ruthless money makers, as with any discipline.

hmm I would find the light thing just irritating. I think you have it there keep_calm. There can be beautiful things e.g. branch of a tree, that are already beautiful, why do we have to pay for someone to hack it off and lump it in a gallery - why can't we appreciate it anyway? I can appreciate a messy bed - why should Tracey Emin be applauded over it?

actually - surely you can be sued for this kind of thing!? we don't want PGF to be sued! - is that how you spell sued or is 'sued' being hit round the face by the panda from sooty?

poor show! :p

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Advent calander is set up - kind of seems like at the end of it (supposed xmas day) the only santa I'm going to be seeing is the homicidal robot one from futurama.



I would just like to encourage you all to do your admin properly and file things properly. I am currently transcribing the interview of a person I have called 'Geordie Lady' as I have lost any details relating to who she is.

ah Wal, perhaps I am a little bitter - if you have followed recent events on my accountability thread. I do though think that with quant and qual, you can basically decide what you want to come out of it and then find it somewhere - audit trail or not! At the moment I am bogged down in horrible Qual data, ask me again in 6 months when I have gone onto my questionnaire study and I wil probably be scowling about SPSS deficiencies!

One of my studies uses both, where I code statements and then compare groups using basic stats! I think that a combination of methods is the future *sneaks points into the sky*

I have to do both for my PhD and although I can see the benefit of qualitative - I absolutely HATE it. I would far rather get my SPSS thang on!

although to be honest, you can twist stats to say anything you want anyway, just like qual!

Yes - I just like a pretty picture or two, I don't really want to get up in the morning and look at the men's urinal I have just paid £2 million for