"Sport can't pretend to be a separate world, in which there are some cretins, who do cretinous things and for everyone else the important thing is to take part," insists Carlo Verdelli in today's Gazzetta.
'This is the work of cretins, and Godard is the most cretinous of them all,' said the Situationist philosopher Guy Debord.
But how can we get more bums on saddles when we have to share the road with such cretins?
Mr Farage's response at the time was good: "Have you met the cretins in Westminster?
At a rally in Wolbrom in southern Poland this week, he lashed out against the "lazy cretins" in the bureaucracy, and sternly chastised peasant farmers for their whingeing dependence on handouts from the state.That is fun to listen to, but may be unwise.
Blank-slatism reached its nadir, in Mr Pinker's view, in the post-modernist claim that all human attitudes and categories of thought even gender are a social construction.Beyond the two campsAt this point, it would have been neater for a two-camps approach if hard science, as Mr Pinker calls it, were united against the rogues and cretins of cultural relativism in rejecting the blank slate.
He intended to earn for comics the serious reputation he felt they had never been granted by the wider world of art.Related items Graphic books: A life in picturesOct 28th 2004 Pencil powerFeb 1st 2001Mr Eisner objected fiercely to the predictability of most comic strips created by publishers for, as he put it, "15-year-old cretins from Kansas".
Those who reject this credo are seen either as soft-headed cretins or Commie class traitors.
He fired off angrily at others – "Institutions, pensions and honours are made only for cretins, humbugs and rascals" – and adopted an outsider position, which yet permitted a vein of conservatism and his habit of going to Mass.
WTF THAT SONY LEAK HAS DOCUMENTS OF THEM MAKING RACIST JOKES ABOUT OBAMA Sony Emails Disrespectful & Racist http://t.co/JDkxGqqJTg via @Variety @Shame #WhatHappensInTheDarkComesToLight #PowerDoesNotEqualCharacter Shocking to find out Hollywood is run by racist, insecure cretins.
One television presenter puts it like this: "If a programme has a mass audience, does that mean it is an audience of cretins?
