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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.134.108.96
Posted on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 09:50 pm:   

Ouch! That was the gloves coming off.

Funniest thing I've seen in ages though.
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.26.69.174
Posted on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 09:53 pm:   

I, for one, shall require some context here.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.134.108.96
Posted on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 11:28 pm:   

Damn. That should be "Really, Nickyknobble? "

Mr Campbell knows what I'm talking about. He may want to elucidate.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 86.24.62.55
Posted on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 11:40 pm:   

Have you been at the wacky baccy again, Weber?
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 02:28 am:   

Between this and the Cronenberg thing....
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.30.199.66
Posted on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 09:05 am:   

This may refer to some online dispute involving a US fan writer (if either term is strictly accurate, which I'm not certain) whose Google rating I won't boost by naming him here.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.212.230.213
Posted on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 12:12 pm:   

It does indeed Joel.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 12:30 pm:   

I had a read of one of the bloke's online stories last night (thanks for that, Weber, I'll get ya back someday, ya bastid!!) and could not believe how truly, abysmally, jaw-droppingly shite it was! Like not even unintentionally funny (as with Dennis Wheatley) but truly awful kindergarten level writing full of bad grammar, spelling mistakes and unfathomable lapses of logic. And he seems to take himself seriously as some kind of legendary underground horror writer on a par with Ramsey Campbell (sorry, his "good mate", Ram).

It's a funny old world out there...
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.8.31.238
Posted on Friday, September 13, 2013 - 02:46 pm:   

Well, yes. I did try and make it clear by calling him Mr [Surname] that I didn't invite familiarity, but the combination of being called Ram and receiving an almost infinite series of rants by email provoked the nickname I've given him.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Friday, September 13, 2013 - 05:29 pm:   

He comes across like one of the more comically delusional characters in one of your novels, Ramsey. Or like the horror author equivalent of Alan Partridge.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.134.108.96
Posted on Friday, September 13, 2013 - 06:21 pm:   

No - that doesn't work. Alan Partridge has "moral standards" of a sort. NickyKnobble has none.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.134.106.107
Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 12:24 am:   

Actually, my point about why the AP comparison doesn't work is that Partridge is a tragic character - despite the brash fae he puts on, there's a level of self awareness visible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2D3-FkoXNU

for example.

Our nameless person has none of that and is all consumed with his sense of self importance.

BTW Ramsey, you really made me laugh out loud with your most recent comment. He probably doesn't know what a euphemism is though.
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 11:20 am:   

My reading of Partridge's character (and that of "he who shall not be named") is of a pathetically talentless individual, completely convinced of his own greatness and 100% devoid of self awareness. In that clip Alan is convinced that Dan hadn't seen him, which is why he stands shouting for so long and making a complete prat of himself to those waiting behind - he really doesn't see himself as others do. That's what makes the character so pant-wettingly funny. He's only tragic to those who look in on him from outside but to himself he is greatness personified.

One of the funniest moments from the Book Review special was when one of the audience comments that he found the title of his autobiography, 'I, Partridge : We Need To Talk About Alan', to be somewhat self-aggrandising, to which Alan replies, "Thank you very much", without batting an eyelid. The man is an ego monster in human form and that's why we love him!

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