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So Ray Bradbury is dead.
SciFi writers thread?
"The Illustrated Man" & "Something Wicked This Way Comes" were some of of my faves by above.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:10, 224 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
SciFi writers thread?
"The Illustrated Man" & "Something Wicked This Way Comes" were some of of my faves by above.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:10, 224 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
He was almost as shit as Apeloverage.
I rate him a 6 on the 'Pratchett Scale'.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:12, Reply)
I rate him a 6 on the 'Pratchett Scale'.
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from the woman who got shat on that's hardly a glowing endorsement.
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nope
i did not sleep with the imaginary mate of your imaginary mate, sorry.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:35, Reply)
i did not sleep with the imaginary mate of your imaginary mate, sorry.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:35, Reply)
it was a drunken sleepy shart
don't pretend you wouldn't pay to have billie piper do the same to you
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:29, Reply)
don't pretend you wouldn't pay to have billie piper do the same to you
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:29, Reply)
I'd rather have sex with her.
if I had to, the weird looking wonky toothed floopy tited sexpot.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)
if I had to, the weird looking wonky toothed floopy tited sexpot.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)
if youre looking for a good topic for a book to write,
Then you could write one about the person who got up late and rushed to the train station and made his train by a few seconds instead of having to wait 20 min for the next one... I'll call it "a life story about a man who rushed and just about made his train by a couple of seconds, who was called Pops"
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:15, Reply)
Then you could write one about the person who got up late and rushed to the train station and made his train by a few seconds instead of having to wait 20 min for the next one... I'll call it "a life story about a man who rushed and just about made his train by a couple of seconds, who was called Pops"
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:15, Reply)
I'd prefer to read that than the piss-poor 'sci fi' dribblings of 'Ray Bradbury'.
FahrenSHITE 451 I say.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:23, Reply)
FahrenSHITE 451 I say.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:23, Reply)
William Gibson
The 'Burning Chrome' collection of short stories* was excellent as was the Sprawl trilogy. I loved 'Idoru' but wasn't as impressed with 'Pattern recognition'.
I like most of the old-school classic writers - Asimov, Pohl, Heinlein et al.
*Johnny Mnemonic was a great short story but a shit film.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:20, Reply)
The 'Burning Chrome' collection of short stories* was excellent as was the Sprawl trilogy. I loved 'Idoru' but wasn't as impressed with 'Pattern recognition'.
I like most of the old-school classic writers - Asimov, Pohl, Heinlein et al.
*Johnny Mnemonic was a great short story but a shit film.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:20, Reply)
I'm Struggling thru
The latest Iain M. Banks book.
First time I ever thought I'd say that.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:35, Reply)
The latest Iain M. Banks book.
First time I ever thought I'd say that.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:35, Reply)
Which one?
I quite liked Surface Detail, has there been one since?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:37, Reply)
I quite liked Surface Detail, has there been one since?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:37, Reply)
I had a bad start to reading Mr Banks' stuff...
...Feersum Endjin (SP) - found it stupidly hard to wade through the spelling so I didn't bother - a bit like Gonz's stuff only way too long.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:40, Reply)
...Feersum Endjin (SP) - found it stupidly hard to wade through the spelling so I didn't bother - a bit like Gonz's stuff only way too long.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:40, Reply)
I liked Adams too
More for the Hitch hikers guide series than the Dirk Gently stuff though.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:28, Reply)
More for the Hitch hikers guide series than the Dirk Gently stuff though.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:28, Reply)
I like the bit about the truck driver who hated rain
and everywhere he went it rained. he didn't know he was a rain god and the clouds just wanted to make him happy.
LOL!
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:30, Reply)
and everywhere he went it rained. he didn't know he was a rain god and the clouds just wanted to make him happy.
LOL!
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:30, Reply)
ave you read Last chance to see?
I have it as MP3 read by Adams himself, it's quite lovely.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:30, Reply)
I have it as MP3 read by Adams himself, it's quite lovely.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:30, Reply)
Sorry, Adams gets 9 Pratchetts
for being a smartarse knobhead who was considerably less clever than he and his 'fans' believed him to be. He was the 'Red Dwarf' of authors and I for one don't miss him a bit.
Soz.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:32, Reply)
for being a smartarse knobhead who was considerably less clever than he and his 'fans' believed him to be. He was the 'Red Dwarf' of authors and I for one don't miss him a bit.
Soz.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:32, Reply)
that's probably because you're a filthy hippy that likes reading germaine greer.
and not even wanking over it.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:33, Reply)
and not even wanking over it.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:33, Reply)
William Gibson is good.
But Sci Fi and Fantasy are epically bent. Just because a book is massively long, it doesn't mean you have to be extra clever to read it. There's a very deep strain of hilariously misplaced intellectual grandstanding which is pretty much unique to Sci Fi and fantasy fans.
There's a very good reason that the vast bulk of that stuff is ignored by literature academics. It's because it's shit.
Hope this helps.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:26, Reply)
But Sci Fi and Fantasy are epically bent. Just because a book is massively long, it doesn't mean you have to be extra clever to read it. There's a very deep strain of hilariously misplaced intellectual grandstanding which is pretty much unique to Sci Fi and fantasy fans.
There's a very good reason that the vast bulk of that stuff is ignored by literature academics. It's because it's shit.
Hope this helps.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:26, Reply)
I like Gibson's work because it's not overly-explained
It's also kinda believable, instead of the huge sweep of, say, the Dune books, it takes place in a world you and I could inhabit.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)
It's also kinda believable, instead of the huge sweep of, say, the Dune books, it takes place in a world you and I could inhabit.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)
believabity has fuck all to do with it. Neuromancer's power is in its treatment of the posthuman in the modern gothic.
As any fule kno.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:36, Reply)
As any fule kno.
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is spouting pretentious bollocks part of you 'persona' or do you mean this shit?
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William Gibson is a fucking bent 'cyber' spastic.
Therefore, by association, so are you.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
Therefore, by association, so are you.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
I grew up onsftuff like Heinlien
ANd while I've gone off sci-fi abit lately I still think the genre has a lot to offer it's one of the few that routinely explores new ideas and 'what if' questions and is more rsiatnt to becomeiong formulaic than most genres.
I don't think I'd read any or Bradbury's stuff other than Farenheight 451, which was good but, to my mind had dated rather. I imagine it was quite groundbreaking in it's day.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:28, Reply)
ANd while I've gone off sci-fi abit lately I still think the genre has a lot to offer it's one of the few that routinely explores new ideas and 'what if' questions and is more rsiatnt to becomeiong formulaic than most genres.
I don't think I'd read any or Bradbury's stuff other than Farenheight 451, which was good but, to my mind had dated rather. I imagine it was quite groundbreaking in it's day.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:28, Reply)
makes sense.
Like I ay, at the time, probably epic, these days, not so much, but then I fell similarly about Shakespeare so I'm obviously wrong.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)
Like I ay, at the time, probably epic, these days, not so much, but then I fell similarly about Shakespeare so I'm obviously wrong.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)
lol at sci fi not being formulaic.
A genre characterised by sticking to a well established, heroically bent formula is not formulaic.
Well done CQ.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:30, Reply)
A genre characterised by sticking to a well established, heroically bent formula is not formulaic.
Well done CQ.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:30, Reply)
futurism, sciency stuff etc.
The fact that it is a very prescriptive and didactic genre.
Y'know?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:32, Reply)
The fact that it is a very prescriptive and didactic genre.
Y'know?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:32, Reply)
That's not a formula, that's a genre.
that's like saying all romance novels involve "romance" and as for them being didactic, that heavily depends on the authour and your own reflections on the book.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:35, Reply)
that's like saying all romance novels involve "romance" and as for them being didactic, that heavily depends on the authour and your own reflections on the book.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:35, Reply)
it's a formula. there has to be certain elememts to qualify it as sci fi, hence the formula.
And didacticism runs deep in the genre, it's one of the many reasons why it is so laughable as reflective culture.
See also it not being anywhere near as clever a genre as its fans think it is.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
And didacticism runs deep in the genre, it's one of the many reasons why it is so laughable as reflective culture.
See also it not being anywhere near as clever a genre as its fans think it is.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
It's a formula alright. A lazy, tedious formula for lonely turds from IT with BO.
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What your'e saying here is that all novels are formulaic
and have to be in order to fit into a genre, but you're focussing it entirely on sci-fi/fantasy. You're being intellectually dishonest.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:41, Reply)
and have to be in order to fit into a genre, but you're focussing it entirely on sci-fi/fantasy. You're being intellectually dishonest.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:41, Reply)
"it's a formula. there has to be certain elememts to qualify it as sci fi, hence the formula"
Applicable to all genres.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:44, Reply)
Applicable to all genres.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:44, Reply)
I think it was the great Rory Lyon who once put it best:
'EastEnders in space'
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)
'EastEnders in space'
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)
Well it's not explicit is it, if that's exactly how it comes across.
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It's ok though, because it's sci fi that thinks it's cleverer than it is.
Sci fi.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:58, Reply)
Sci fi.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:58, Reply)
You're talking such bollocks, and being so proud of yourself.
There is nothing at all to be proud of about dismissing an entire swathe of culture which has been popular and celebrated since HG Wells.
That's willful ignorace and bloody mindedness you should just kill yourself.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)
There is nothing at all to be proud of about dismissing an entire swathe of culture which has been popular and celebrated since HG Wells.
That's willful ignorace and bloody mindedness you should just kill yourself.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)
That's what you've got to defend your stance?
Talk about your intellectual grandstanding. Some sci-fi/fantasy books are formulaic, yes. Fantasy in particular. To dismiss both genres as such is ignorance.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:40, Reply)
Talk about your intellectual grandstanding. Some sci-fi/fantasy books are formulaic, yes. Fantasy in particular. To dismiss both genres as such is ignorance.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:40, Reply)
I prefer the films, especially the 3rd one which I think was the truest to the cannon.
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It reached it's creative peak at the Generation 2 comic book and the Beast Wars TV series
I sware I'll cut anyone who says any different
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I sware I'll cut anyone who says any different
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:33, Reply)
i liked when optimist prime turned into galvertron and said 'its clobber time!'
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You mean canon right? Or are you referring to the accuracy of the autobots' guns?
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I don't like a lot of sci if but even I know BSG is the 'Crossroads' of the sci fi world
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original or new?
i haven't seen either, both looked shit but the old one had Face in it
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
i haven't seen either, both looked shit but the old one had Face in it
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
i don't know any
and this thread makes no mention of food. hmm. can we say "fuck off back to qotw" on here?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)
and this thread makes no mention of food. hmm. can we say "fuck off back to qotw" on here?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)
and i mean a really runny, smelly curry poo
not a normal 4 burger a day one
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:33, Reply)
not a normal 4 burger a day one
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considering there is not enough money in the world to get me in the same room as you
i'd have to say you couldn't afford it, sweetheart.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:36, Reply)
i'd have to say you couldn't afford it, sweetheart.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:36, Reply)
alright i'll send it by post
fucks sake, the last guy never had this much trouble
is it because i made it about money? would you have done it free if i asked?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:37, Reply)
fucks sake, the last guy never had this much trouble
is it because i made it about money? would you have done it free if i asked?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:37, Reply)
if you donate a kidney, a lung and a cornea to people in need
i'll think about it
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:38, Reply)
i'll think about it
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:38, Reply)
nononononononnononnononnononon
do NOT set markymark off on my auntie. you'll be sorry.
we'll all be sorry.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:43, Reply)
do NOT set markymark off on my auntie. you'll be sorry.
we'll all be sorry.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:43, Reply)
so she just admitted to being a prostitute then. oh swipey :'(
swwwwwipey, you don't have to put on the red light!
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
swwwwwipey, you don't have to put on the red light!
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
urgh i am going to have that whining cunt stuck in my head all day now
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I want to make a pasta bake but some cunt has used my big dish. Can I throw their shit away? Can I swipe? What does the law say?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:33, Reply)
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you can
but you'd be exposing yourself to a claim for damages. you need to assess the value of the shit and the likelihood of the individual taking action to quantify that risk. if the answer is that you are exposed, serve a torts notice first.
/helpful
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:38, Reply)
but you'd be exposing yourself to a claim for damages. you need to assess the value of the shit and the likelihood of the individual taking action to quantify that risk. if the answer is that you are exposed, serve a torts notice first.
/helpful
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:38, Reply)
No you're not, it's part of your sock puppet character. You sad git.
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what is? being scottish because i'm definitely not scottish
or my spelling? because i assure you i do my best, i even use opera to pick up on my shit spelling but there are still some that get through :(
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)
or my spelling? because i assure you i do my best, i even use opera to pick up on my shit spelling but there are still some that get through :(
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:45, Reply)
Considering this is about food
Wouldn't a torte notice be more appropriate?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:47, Reply)
Wouldn't a torte notice be more appropriate?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:47, Reply)
darling.... this sort of pun is NOT going to help the "luggage is piston" rumours!
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:48, Reply)
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Calling him darling is not going to help the "swipe fucked piston" rumours.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:51, Reply)
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I would do if any of my exes were as sexually successful as piston
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:06, Reply)
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Hold on, Swipey fucked Piston?
Bloody hell, what'd he do, drug her?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:59, Reply)
Bloody hell, what'd he do, drug her?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:59, Reply)
I have a fondness for terrible puns.
Also, mentioning "The Game" to the geeks in the office makes them groan. A lot. This amuses me.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:59, Reply)
Also, mentioning "The Game" to the geeks in the office makes them groan. A lot. This amuses me.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:59, Reply)
don't you ever get bored of being repetitively negative, stopping only to be LOL-racist?
You really are better than this Monty. I think you should seek help.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:42, Reply)
You really are better than this Monty. I think you should seek help.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:42, Reply)
Your arm still bothering you CQ?
You've been relentlessly bad-tempered of late.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:46, Reply)
You've been relentlessly bad-tempered of late.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:46, Reply)
ARm's fine.I am not a cheery bunny lately.
None of this changes the fact that constant cuntitude, especially from a man I know to be perfectly decent in person is: shit, boring and not worthy of him.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:49, Reply)
None of this changes the fact that constant cuntitude, especially from a man I know to be perfectly decent in person is: shit, boring and not worthy of him.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:49, Reply)
I'll stop being repetitvely negative when things stop being repetitively shit.
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It's a shame he died.
But I have to ask... does Monty Boyce actually like anything that could be considered mainstream, or is he just a contrary bugger?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:42, Reply)
But I have to ask... does Monty Boyce actually like anything that could be considered mainstream, or is he just a contrary bugger?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:42, Reply)
i don't think mainstream has anything to do with it, it's all things, ever
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He likes the vastly overrated Jimi Hendrix
He's also fond of hip hop, the proper stuff, not the shite you get these days.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:46, Reply)
He's also fond of hip hop, the proper stuff, not the shite you get these days.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:46, Reply)
Yeah, I wish he'd carried on living forever and ever and ever and a day
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Monty, earlier today:
www.roflemo.com/images/emo/Post-Glam_Speed_Folk.jpg
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:47, Reply)
www.roflemo.com/images/emo/Post-Glam_Speed_Folk.jpg
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:47, Reply)
right everyone make at least one suggestion, and monty can post 'shit' to each of them
Snog Marry Avoid?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:48, Reply)
Snog Marry Avoid?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:48, Reply)
Having a blow job slash handjob where the second hand makes use of that bit of willy that is inside you between your balls.
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do you scream THAT'S SHIT YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG when you have a wank?
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let's see how monty is getting on with his date.
oh dear, Janice has stated that she likes the twilight films. Monty appers to have gone red in the face and slapped the fork out of her hand.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:57, Reply)
oh dear, Janice has stated that she likes the twilight films. Monty appers to have gone red in the face and slapped the fork out of her hand.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:57, Reply)
i saw some bits of them, its very angsty
people trying to kill themselves, glitter vampires, topless werewolf men, it's rubbish
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:00, Reply)
people trying to kill themselves, glitter vampires, topless werewolf men, it's rubbish
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:00, Reply)
space werewolves couldn't bite you through their helmets
think it thru boyce
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:10, Reply)
think it thru boyce
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oh fuck you just took it to the next level
cowboy hendrix versus the space vampires
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:23, Reply)
cowboy hendrix versus the space vampires
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:23, Reply)
Don't be vexed at Monty, he's just trying to establish his own persona
Just think of him as a surly teenager.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:51, Reply)
Just think of him as a surly teenager.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:51, Reply)
He's not dead is he?
Where is Battered? I think we need to call the police here.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:57, Reply)
Where is Battered? I think we need to call the police here.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:57, Reply)
i was making a joke because gonz i a software developer and he is late for work
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Ah, you're getting old and grumpy.
Fair enough. I'm pushing that age when anything on Radio 1 is defined as an unholy racket.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:56, Reply)
Fair enough. I'm pushing that age when anything on Radio 1 is defined as an unholy racket.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:56, Reply)
Didn't say you WERE a surly teenager, just to think of you as a surly teenager.
Also, I've been your age sonny, there's no guarantee you'll reach mine.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:56, Reply)
Also, I've been your age sonny, there's no guarantee you'll reach mine.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:56, Reply)
I would be delighted if the science fiction section of every bookshop and library looked like this.
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And my wife has less stretch marks than you, despite having given birth.
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its ok for me to call you short because i'm not fat, homeless or disabled
isn't it, kneehigh?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:18, Reply)
isn't it, kneehigh?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:18, Reply)
if we both stood in 3' of water we could see who drowns first
shortstack
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shortstack
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:20, Reply)
I read really quite a bit of science fiction, when I was younger.
I am a huge fan of Jules Verne, but to my mind the majority of it pales hugely into insignificance in comparison with the writing of someone like Dostoevsky, it's just throwaway shite - which has its place - but is on the whole a worthless heap of shit.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:17, Reply)
I am a huge fan of Jules Verne, but to my mind the majority of it pales hugely into insignificance in comparison with the writing of someone like Dostoevsky, it's just throwaway shite - which has its place - but is on the whole a worthless heap of shit.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:17, Reply)
At the risk of sounding like a chutney like Dozer
the books which have affected me most in the past few years have been Crime and Punishment and Papillon.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:23, Reply)
the books which have affected me most in the past few years have been Crime and Punishment and Papillon.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:23, Reply)
Well I think you're all being very mean to sci fi.
What's it done to you? Nothing. It sits on its own in the corner of the classroom, minding its own business, occasionally adjusting its glasses and being mildly jealous of the cool kids like psychological thrillers and whatnot. Every now and again it checks out the arse of some chick-lit romance and wishes it was handsome enough to pull her.
It doesn't deserve all this bullying.
Fantasy does, though. At least sci fi doesn't dress up and run around in fields with gay foam swords.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:18, Reply)
What's it done to you? Nothing. It sits on its own in the corner of the classroom, minding its own business, occasionally adjusting its glasses and being mildly jealous of the cool kids like psychological thrillers and whatnot. Every now and again it checks out the arse of some chick-lit romance and wishes it was handsome enough to pull her.
It doesn't deserve all this bullying.
Fantasy does, though. At least sci fi doesn't dress up and run around in fields with gay foam swords.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:18, Reply)
i just heard the sound of a chair tipping over and a rope going from slack to taut as if it was suspending something heavy coming from cavy's room
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That real adult people genuinely do that shit is beyond my comprehension.
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what, having fun, harming no one, regardless of what people think of them?
Terrible
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Terrible
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exactly, worse than 10 hitlers arguing over who built the best gas chambers.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:32, Reply)
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:32, Reply)
I'm inclined to agree with you Comrade.
Although I do find it a little odd.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:32, Reply)
Although I do find it a little odd.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:32, Reply)
I do to some extent
but I admire their ability to genuinely enjoy themselves and not care that people regard them as a joke. I think the world would be a better place if more people were like them.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:34, Reply)
but I admire their ability to genuinely enjoy themselves and not care that people regard them as a joke. I think the world would be a better place if more people were like them.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:34, Reply)
y'see the 'harming no one' bit in my original post?
as long as the BNP can keep to that, then I give them leave to exist.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:39, Reply)
as long as the BNP can keep to that, then I give them leave to exist.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:39, Reply)
I'm not sure the BNP hold to that
Mainly because they have a terrible effect on my blood pressure.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:39, Reply)
Mainly because they have a terrible effect on my blood pressure.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:39, Reply)
It's the eternal problem
I don't agree with what they say at all. I think it's repugnant. However, I will defend their right to say it.
Which is why I found internet ramblings from idiotic monarchists saying people who don't believe in the Jubilee should either shut up or leave the country to be very offensive indeed.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:43, Reply)
I don't agree with what they say at all. I think it's repugnant. However, I will defend their right to say it.
Which is why I found internet ramblings from idiotic monarchists saying people who don't believe in the Jubilee should either shut up or leave the country to be very offensive indeed.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 11:43, Reply)
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