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Mind you, I watched the Terry Pratchett thing the other day, and it really touched me...

So maybe a series about her, and her bravery will help ease the nations angst.

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bennyhillslovechild, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:18, archived)

To be honest with you,

Terry Pratchett is someone that is well respected all over the world and has contributed a lot of worth to the world. Jade Goody is someone who got famous for being in a house, then started losing fame and went back into the same house, just with some other people who had been on telly. That isn't to say I like seeing her suffer, but they are very different people of very different standing in the world.

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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:20, archived)

I dont care

we all die. and pay taxes. just cos they are famous doesnt make it harder/better/easier

mind you i study psychology and Pratchett is a good source of info for alzheimers, eloquent and doesnt ask for sympathy

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boff FL OZ, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:23, archived)

I enjoy Terry Pratchett's works of fiction

but I would hardly say that he has contributed a lot of worth. Doctors contribute a lot of worth. Teachers contribute a lot of worth. Firemen contribute a lot of worth. Novelists and inane TV personalities alike contribute roughly the same amount.

So unless Terry Pratchett has fed a lot of third world children I don't know about, he hasn't really contributed anything of any real worth.

(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:38, archived)

Well i don't know about that.

There are plenty of authors who have helped people, plenty of books that have helped people. You don't need to give someone a heart bypass to save/change their life.

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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:42, archived)

Jade Goody - Terry Pratchett?

Can't believe the connection has been made somehow, one of my fave authors, and a retard from fake TV, bizarre.

(mrfibbers, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:45, archived)

Well,

there is a new series of programs looking at Alzheimers, which is following Terry Pratchett around as he comes to terms with his Posterior Cortical Atrophy. Innit!

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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:52, archived)

yeh but no but yeh...

I know the show, recorded it, gonna watch it, but still can't see the connection. Actually looking forward to watchin it, anyone seen it?

(mrfibbers, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:59, archived)

Unless you're talking about Chicken Soup for the Soul

I must disagree.

(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:46, archived)

I'm not saying it did for me,

but take something like Catcher in the Rye. A lot of people claim it helped them through their disenfranchised youths and such. There are plenty of books out there that have helped people through difficult times in their lives.

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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:54, archived)

except maybe beatles fans...

(k3b/-\b Peace man., Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:57, archived)

But disenfranchisment and youth go hand in hand.

Disenfranchisement is usually solved by a lack of youth. Growing up is the best medicine.

(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:59, archived)

Of course.

We have all been there! Maybe you had music, maybe someone else had books to help them through it :)

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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 0:14, archived)

Also: he's not as funny as he thinks he is

I mean the whole alzheimers thing is more than a bit unpleasant but let's get some perspective here.

He wrote third-rate fantasy novels with an allusion to humour and spotty retards who didn't know better loved him for it.

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gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry, Fri 6 Feb 2009, 23:57, archived)