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Flyingcursor wrote:Has he been identified?

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4569592
Oh for craps sakes..."He is now being held in a secure mental health unit in north Kent, which has no piano, until a full assessment has been carried out."

That seems immensely cruel to me. The one thing he can relate to and through, and they take it away from him.
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anniemcu wrote:
Flyingcursor wrote:Has he been identified?

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4569592
Oh for craps sakes..."He is now being held in a secure mental health unit in north Kent, which has no piano, until a full assessment has been carried out."

That seems immensely cruel to me. The one thing he can relate to and through, and they take it away from him.
And the misassembled symbiote that is bureaucracy lumbers on.
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Do you think he can play Piano Man by Billy Joel?
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It seems to me that the labels aren't such an odd thing, especially if he is a street musician -
it seems to me that factory rejects often have the labels removed (so the reject is not
associated with the brand) and then sold to discount outlets or given to charity or such.

But maybe they do things differently over there.

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Nanohedron wrote: And the misassembled symbiote that is bureaucracy lumbers on.
Great word usage though I'm not sure symbiote would be my first choice. Doesn't that imply everyone benefits.
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Flyingcursor wrote:
Nanohedron wrote: And the misassembled symbiote that is bureaucracy lumbers on.
Great word usage though I'm not sure symbiote would be my first choice. Doesn't that imply everyone benefits.
I couldn't come up with another offhand. The idea of misassembly served to tackle your point, for me: a sort of unlikely colony that benefits by intraparasitism. How's that? :)
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Wikipedia.org already has a page about him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Man_%28person%29
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