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Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b
Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 12:21 pm: | |
...hard to believe, I know. If you want proof, I have a guest blog up here today: http://simonmarshalljones.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/guest-blog-simon-bestwick/ Warning: contains rude words. But nothing about the Pope, which is unusual for me these days. Cheers! |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 12:26 pm: | |
More power to you, Simon! And did you see what the Pope wrote about you on his blog at www.vaticando.it? |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 12:34 pm: | |
Great stuff, mate. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.202.245
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 12:57 pm: | |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7892818.stm She agreed that education was important too. |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 02:35 pm: | |
Or so Max Clifford says. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.134.85
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 02:51 pm: | |
Oh no. Not again. |
Tony (Tony) Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.202.245
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 03:14 pm: | |
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-jade-g oody-showed-the-brutal-reality-of-britain-1651722.html Ta-ra again. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 03:27 pm: | |
Oh no. Not again, again. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 03:29 pm: | |
It's been fun reading the headlines of the Daily Mail this week. How suddenly left wing of them to be objecting to benefit cuts! |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.201.132
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 03:33 pm: | |
Very well said, Simon. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 03:36 pm: | |
Oh no. |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 04:30 pm: | |
With all due respect Tony, that article from the observer is the biggest pile of crap ever. The writer seems to believe that jade actually wrote those "autobiographies". If they contained coherent prose there's not a chance of that. the only bit of that celeb BB i saw was 10 minutes of Jade screaming unforgivable racist abuse at Shilpa. It wasn't a couple of sentences which could possibly have been misconstrued as the article says. It was Jade at her full bigoted screaming worst. Every other sentence she screamed at Shilpa contained some type of racial epthet, but apparently, she was just trying to explain that Shilpa didn't know what the Indian slums were like? Jades mother appeared on one of the reality shows with Jade... in the few snippets I saw at my sister's house (she watches all that shit unfortunately) I never saw any hint of this drug addled evil cow we're expected to believe in. Jade was a vile woman and to believe that is not snobbish. Also there is a huge difference between a man writing about his cancer in the Times and the sick spectacle of the three ring media circus that the millionaire Jade Goody had around her apparently to make sure the kids would be looked after. Wendy Richard died of cancer around the same time. She had a quiet dignified death away from the cameras. There was no reason or excuse for the level of publicity around every tiny bit of Jade's treatment. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.136.120
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 04:38 pm: | |
Well said, Simon! |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.166.164
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 04:53 pm: | |
Weber's right, that Independent article is laughable. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 05:11 pm: | |
Okay, since everyone's chipping in, I will tool. Poorly said, Simon. |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 05:14 pm: | |
Well said Simon by the way. I know people who are proud that they were called the Vicky Pollards of their schools. People actually aspire to be that fucking ignorant. |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 05:18 pm: | |
"Fucking" used as an adjective. Well said, that man! |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 05:23 pm: | |
Actually I was using fucking as an expletive and ignorant as the adjective. Sorry to piss on your chips proto |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 05:25 pm: | |
Exquisite. Maybe you could parse the sentence you used previously in which you gloated about the worms eating through Jade Goody's body. |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 05:34 pm: | |
I could if I wanted to but most people here have already seen that one. I do like to use new material when I can. |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 05:43 pm: | |
Actually, would Ignorant be an abstract noun (or an adjectival noun)rather than an adjective in that earlier post? In any case, fucking was still nothing but an expletive. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 06:57 pm: | |
People aspire to ignorance? Hmm, I suspect it's more the case they're ignorant of the fact that's what some people would call aspiring to that sort of thing is. That last sentence hurt my head reading it back. Perhaps I should've thrown more carnal verbs in there. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 07:01 pm: | |
Mark, that sentence could have the same corrosive effect as Richard Tull's novel Untitled in The Information . . . |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.114.215
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 07:41 pm: | |
Mark, that thing you just did with words... stop it! |
Skip (Wolfnoma)
Username: Wolfnoma
Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 216.54.20.98
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 07:56 pm: | |
Mark, it hurts. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 08:10 pm: | |
I've gone blind. I cant seee miuy kreybioard proipewerly . . . |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 08:44 pm: | |
The pilot just shat himself... |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 09:07 pm: | |
Rather difficult to shat anyone else, what? |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.47.165
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 09:14 pm: | |
Sadly not. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.77
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 11:40 pm: | |
Justin speaks deep truth. |
Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.77
| Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 - 11:42 pm: | |
I do think Tull aboard the small plane, carrying his load of Untitleds, and the pilot crapping himself is the funniest scene in The Information - and possibly in all of Amis's work I've read. Underrated book. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240
| Posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 07:33 am: | |
I love the bit where Tull goes to take his place in the reader's auditorium to a thunderous round of applause: from next door. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240
| Posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 07:35 am: | |
I love most of all Keith Talent's increasingly hot curries. The bit where smoke's coming out of every part of his head and he turns to the waiter and says, "Forgive me for asking, but didn't I ask for the hot one?" |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240
| Posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 07:36 am: | |
Or the dysfunctional horse John Self's dad once bet on: "It fucking munched its way through the final fence." A comic genius. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210
| Posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 11:12 am: | |
The bit where smoke's coming out of every part of his head and he turns to the waiter and says, "Forgive me for asking, but didn't I ask for the hot one?" That's you, that is, Fry... |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240
| Posted on Friday, October 08, 2010 - 11:26 am: | |
Haha. The thrill of recognition in literature. |