... and Its Discontents

I must see at least three or four "______ and Its Discontents" book a day, I saw Simulation today and Politeness (both pictured above) a few days back.

― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:05 (ten years ago)

... three or four a week that is.

― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:06 (ten years ago)

i'm currently reading the Stiglitz book. not a particularly good book, but i think it's a more excusable use of this format than "landscape urbanism and its discontents" or many of the other albums because globalization is notable for its discontents.

― flopson, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:06 (ten years ago)

Nice mark s thread from back in the day (tho won't make much sense in countries with no double decker buses)

Bus shelters and their discontents

― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:08 (ten years ago)

I'll have a sherry turkle please, low fat cream, no ice

― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:12 (ten years ago)

meme originator james strachey?

― drash, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:14 (ten years ago)

has there ever been a band called, like "jojo and his discontents"?

― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:15 (ten years ago)

(though "malcontents" might be a better punk band name.)

― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:15 (ten years ago)

Mal and the contents a more likely punk name tbf

― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:17 (ten years ago)

the malcontents is punk

mal and the contents is post-punk

― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:18 (ten years ago)

Malcolm Content, character idea for M. Amis perhaps?

― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:20 (ten years ago)

nakh had a dn "dis civilisation and its contents"

― noe love derp wev (wins), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 00:04 (ten years ago)

https://rooktopia.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/now-is-the-winter-of-our-discount-tent.jpg?w=450

― flopson, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 13:40 (ten years ago)

^first encountered that joke in the Beano circa the late 80s. way over my head at the time

― a moment on the streets, a lifetime in the sheets (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 13:50 (ten years ago)

Monday morning at work and, yes, it's another one:

http://images3.ehaus2.co.uk/macmillan-images/m/978113/9781137333438.jpg

― Otago Imago (Tom D.), Monday, 30 November 2015 12:00 (ten years ago)

http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/l/9781489985316.jpg

http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/l/9780754626275.jpg

http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/l/9780415815291.jpg

http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/images/jackets/l/9780857203496.jpg

― ogmor, Monday, 30 November 2015 14:34 (ten years ago)

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03135/discontent_cover_3135661a.jpg

― gazcom (NickB), Monday, 30 November 2015 14:36 (ten years ago)

Gawker and its Diss Content

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 30 November 2015 16:29 (ten years ago)

About 3,780 results for 'and its discontents' in the title.

― Humean froth (Sanpaku), Monday, 30 November 2015 16:35 (ten years ago)

books... are bad

― flopson, Monday, 30 November 2015 16:42 (ten years ago)

that's wha ti'm getting out of this thread

― flopson, Monday, 30 November 2015 16:42 (ten years ago)

The Use and Abuse of WTO Law in Investor-State Arbitration: Competition and its Discontents
KURTZ, JURGEN

― jmm, Monday, 30 November 2015 17:31 (ten years ago)

The Use and Abuse of Subtitles in Already Excruciatingly Long Book Titles: Colons and Their Discontents

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 30 November 2015 17:33 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

This morning...

https://kenanmalik.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/multiculturalism-cover1.jpg

― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 10:49 (nine years ago)

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