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Haha Jah, you have accused me of such in the past, but I think it was in an entirely other, more flippant (ah yes, I remember now - footballing) context. I too suffer from the kind of intellectual snobbery (or wanton contrariness) that prevented my reading Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Harry Potter, or any of the GWADT trilogy. But then a friend showed me passages in the book and I took against it for quite another reason. I think a good writer is capable of closing the door on acts of grotesque violence, while leaving you in no doubt of what's happening - recognising that your own imagination can conjure just how horrible a situation might be, without resorting to graphic titillation. Actually, to come back to Mockney's point about the Judge and Blood Meridian, I think Cormac McCarthy's ending does exactly that. And it's brilliant and beautiful in its spare, lean prose. That ending's stayed with me for years. I had no idea he was a sci-fi fan: am not a reader of the sci-fi, but I'm experimenting this year, so will check it out Mockney. I'm finally getting round to reading Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. The quality of the writing is exceptional, and makes me stop and pause every few pages at a particularly exquisite sentence. It makes me sad that I am a dullard with nary an original thought in my head, but fuck me it's glorious reading.

Yeah pk, you're quite right. I was just blowing off a bit of steam at people who don't have the curiosity to think "hang on, that doesn't sound plausible" and read a bit further than the header when they read a ludicrous story or get an offer of a bank transfer from a Nigerian general. But what you say is correct.

You cahnt Keef. Nope. If there's any spitting, it's a guttural U and a rock hard C and T. And that, my friend, is northern.

Ooh yes PGC. Spot on.

Scribe, you're such a fucking ing?nu.

bibaradcliffe - the employer paid out for tying him up, kidnapping him and beating him up. Please will people try reading beyond the daily mail's headlines.

Mockney, I'm glad you liked Blood Meridian. I too had to re-read the ending a couple of times and it stayed with me for a long long time. I felt traumatised for a while afterwards. Speaking of trauma, the GWADT trilogy - Jah will probably tell me off for my pseudo-feminist bandwagon, but really, can we not have some heroines who are kick-ass without having to undergo graphically violent rape as the catalyst to their finding their inner strength? Please? Enough with the goddamn torture porn.

I'm having a Malcolm Tucker meltdown Nettie. That bath sounds nice though - could you stop by and run it for me? As for the boycott idea - seriously, does anyone actually do this? No one eats kitkats or drinks cocacola or runs a car on petrol (or as Sean says, watches fillums), or is it just fashionable to hate Murdoch more than other ne'er do wells? I'm all for sticking by your principles, but I'll have no truck with half-arsed, uninformed bullshit. Not until I've had my bath at any rate.

Fucking trolling cunts. That's what annoys me. Oh, also, that when southerners say cunts, it sounds retarded. Whereas when northerners say it, it sounds good and proper. Anglo Saxon vowels are where it's at.

Huguenot, when you said "you guys are being ridiculous" I hope you didn't mean me. I'm just irritated to fuck by people not bothering to get their heads round a news story before sounding off in all directions (see also Rastamouse), But then that's part of a bigger dumbing down issue that bugs the shit out of me. As for the poster in the window, it makes me really uncomfortable. I can't be arsed to wade through all 9 pages of this thread, so I'm sure someone else has made the point that don't we hold the innocent until proven guilty rule sacrosanct in this country? Actually, what the hell am I talking about, of course we don't. Even DC slated Cheryl Cole as a racist. But I do. Is the issue that the CCTV showed a person stealing something but the police can't do anything because they can't identify the perpetrator? Or is it that the police won't arrest anyone because the CCTV isn't clear about whether they stole or not?

Yeah, and in a longer version of the story I read today, it said that the boss, with help from others, tied the bloke up, bundled him in the back of his van, and beat him up. And was, as a consequence, potentially facing charges of assault and false imprisonment. So you know, of the two crims in the story, I'd take my chances with the guy who claims he cashed the cheque to cover his unpaid wages. Let this be a lesson to certain of the ED intellectually subnormals: vigilantism does not pay

Yes, I'm on Virgin, but a fairly basic TV package (good broadband though). They have some new whizzbang thing coming out, but it looks like it's only going to be catching up to Sky really. And they don't have the content... I want Blue Bloods, and Boardwalk Empire, and watching 6 Feet Under again.

Haha, my eyes are not as young as they used to be - turning the brightness up could well do it for me.

Contemplating an upgrade - yes, those Sky Atlantic ads have completely suckered me. But. 3D, HD, pausing live tv, all kinds of shenanigans - I don't understand it. Is it worth it? I want the Atlantic goodness.

Thanks Admin; I love you.

shebe and Mike, yes, agreed entirely. I asked on the previous page what evidence James Barber has that this licence is likely to lead to increased domestic violence and fighting in the streets. No answer. While I think it's laudable that he comes on here in a bid to try to help get things done, I don't think it's acceptable that he uses his position as councillor to grind personal axes.

Dear Admin, Could you please give Narnia a balloon and some space dust and a packet of Top Trumps? He seems a little churlish and I think needs cheering up. Dear Narnia, no hand grenades, just expressing my incandescent abuse at the wanton destruction of the English language. I was merely responding to the thread title (rather than the OP). Are you now the self-proclaimed fascist king of the Lounge? Dear Annette, mmm, bacon...

I rather think you already know Larry, sorry, I mean Scribe - hence the hilarious midlands reference.

Yeah well. You know what annoys me about the south (East Dulwich specifically)? No cunt knows what an anagram is. Retards, the lot of you.

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Dear Admin, could you please rename the Anagram thread in the Lounge as the title is misleading: the thread is not about anagrams.

fuck dat shit man with ma other endz hoes on the back seat (clearly that spelling suggests a selection of garden implements, which is much more in keeping with ED's organic roots, but without the E, it would read more like hoz on the backseat, and I'm not sure what that would be) nice work *bob*

James, I'm interested to know what evidence you have for this. I assume by your use of "will" rather than "may" that you do have some evidence for your assertion, in which case, please share it here. I'm not suggesting you're wrong, but I'm deeply uncomfortable that you seem to be using this forum as a platform to secure the outcome you prefer on a licence application. To move from please give your opinion to it will cause domestic violence to roaming fights in our neighbourhood in three posts without any supporting evidence is quite a leap. And such a leap wouldn't be acceptable on political literature without something to back it up. Unfortunately it's a difficult situation - you are of course entitled to your own personal views. But you post on here in your capacity as councillor, and so people may naturally believe that you're privy to information that they are not. I think it behoves you not to sensationalise, and to provide evidence to back up your claims.

Ach David, I think you are losing your grip on power.

Always, Annette.