Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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7-0 to JK Rowling.
JK Rowling for President
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martint235
Dog on a bike
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- Welling
I'm just miffed at the amount of free advertising the BBC has given her. I actually got as far as writing to them to ask if they would be giving Andrew Sykes (author of Good Vibrations: Crossing Europe on a Bike Called Reggie) as much of a plug for his new book next year. They didn't respond.
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
Is this man meant to be funny? Was he telling any jokes? Was he using pathos or sarcasm? No he wasn't he's was just having a rant, yet the audience apparently were laughing. Leaving the subject matter aside for the moment, if this is what currently passes for stand up comedy, it will be funny comedians offered up in the thread "Things you don't see any more..."
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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I thought it was funny. And then Trigger made a face.
Have a look in the "any new jokes" thread, there's plenty of old skool stuff in there if that's your thing. Some of them bad enough to make Bernard Manning wince.
Maz
Guru
[QUOTE 2073400, member: 1314"]The Gurdwara committee members actually remind me of the little Britain parochial-type councillors that Rowling attempts to ridicule. I hope she stands up to them and exposes their hypocrisy as well.[/quote]
Or maybe The Vicar of Dibley..."Nehi, nehi, nehi, nehi, nehi, jee, jee..."
Or maybe The Vicar of Dibley..."Nehi, nehi, nehi, nehi, nehi, jee, jee..."
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Stewart Lee... the thinking man's worst nightmare.
Lullabelle
Banana
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- Midlands UK
[QUOTE 2072078, member: 1314"]I'm no fan of hers - I was bored stiff reading the first few turgid Potters to the kids. The more popular she became, the more she self-deludedly thought popularity equalled quality and the more she decided that length equalled quality. There were times when I just speed-mumbled whole clumps of pages as the kids tried to understand what I was saying. One poetic sentence was never enough when 2 pages of mechanical descriptions and "telling" the story, rather than letting it unfold, could make the tome heavier.
I also felt sorry for all the adults reading Harry Potter on trains - in retrospect candy-gum for adults still kids, in the same way 50 Shades of Grey is porno for those who've seen nothing stronger than Babs Windsor get her tits out.
Anyway, you all know Rowling has now written an "adult" book. (This is in itself a distinction that should not be in place - great books are loved by kids/teenagers/adults but's that's a separate debate.) Anyway - her book. God, the PR and hype, I thought. I'll just ignore it in the same way as I ignore the X Factor, Beckham, Take That - the flim-flam ephemera of shouty advertisers. On Saturday, though, I started to become quite amused as the reviews came out. "Gritty, dark, underclass, snobbery, racism...etc." Still not buying it I thought - I still haven't forgiven her for making me read the Harry Potters to the kids without entertaining me with wit, verse and soul.
After 4 days of reading reviews I'm very amused. Rowling's upset the Daily Mail who accused her of having a chip on her shoulder before sending a reporter to her home-town to talk to the locals. ("We're very nice and not snobby at all. Rowling is middle-class anyway, why is she caricaturing us.") The Daily Telegraph has just labelled her misanthropic.
Sikhs in India have been roused. Avtar Singh, head of some Sikh thing:
"If anything is written against the Sikh maryada (dignity), we will write to India's prime minister Manmohan Singh and urge him to take up the matter with the government in the United Kingdom for action against Rowling." Pompous, sanctimonious,self-righteous, self-deluded idiot.
What does he think the UK Government is going to do? Burn the book? Prosecute her for inciting racial hatred? Send her to India to stand trial? Fool.
Anyway, good on you Rowling - you've caused the Daily Mail to froth at the mouth, angered some self-important committee clerics, poked a stick into the Basingstokes of this world. Don't think I've seen as much furore since, ooh, the Pistols back in the day. So - Rowling for President.
Still not buying your book, though, as I think it'll be written with the style of poo.[/quote]
A couple of years ago we watched the first Potter film on telly out of curiosity, she had quite clearly ripped off quite a few films, tedious and I couldn't watch any more
I also felt sorry for all the adults reading Harry Potter on trains - in retrospect candy-gum for adults still kids, in the same way 50 Shades of Grey is porno for those who've seen nothing stronger than Babs Windsor get her tits out.
Anyway, you all know Rowling has now written an "adult" book. (This is in itself a distinction that should not be in place - great books are loved by kids/teenagers/adults but's that's a separate debate.) Anyway - her book. God, the PR and hype, I thought. I'll just ignore it in the same way as I ignore the X Factor, Beckham, Take That - the flim-flam ephemera of shouty advertisers. On Saturday, though, I started to become quite amused as the reviews came out. "Gritty, dark, underclass, snobbery, racism...etc." Still not buying it I thought - I still haven't forgiven her for making me read the Harry Potters to the kids without entertaining me with wit, verse and soul.
After 4 days of reading reviews I'm very amused. Rowling's upset the Daily Mail who accused her of having a chip on her shoulder before sending a reporter to her home-town to talk to the locals. ("We're very nice and not snobby at all. Rowling is middle-class anyway, why is she caricaturing us.") The Daily Telegraph has just labelled her misanthropic.
Sikhs in India have been roused. Avtar Singh, head of some Sikh thing:
"If anything is written against the Sikh maryada (dignity), we will write to India's prime minister Manmohan Singh and urge him to take up the matter with the government in the United Kingdom for action against Rowling." Pompous, sanctimonious,self-righteous, self-deluded idiot.
What does he think the UK Government is going to do? Burn the book? Prosecute her for inciting racial hatred? Send her to India to stand trial? Fool.
Anyway, good on you Rowling - you've caused the Daily Mail to froth at the mouth, angered some self-important committee clerics, poked a stick into the Basingstokes of this world. Don't think I've seen as much furore since, ooh, the Pistols back in the day. So - Rowling for President.
Still not buying your book, though, as I think it'll be written with the style of poo.[/quote]
A couple of years ago we watched the first Potter film on telly out of curiosity, she had quite clearly ripped off quite a few films, tedious and I couldn't watch any more
