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We love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.

(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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you're a bit of a ponce really, aren't you?

(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 21:15, 1 reply)
Not for me to judge
It may be so. It's one of those words which has more than one meaning. If you mean do I hang about cadging smokes then not so much. If you mean smart arsed, swallowed a dictionary, irritating wanker then yes.

I would contend however that another interpretation would be intellectual and add that your comments merely confirm the long-standing English distrust of cleverness. Had to put up with it for years as clearly not smart enough to hide it.

Probably win the "man most likely to be found eaten by rats by the council" award.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 21:43, closed)
Cleverness and
its evil cohorts, education, improvement and aspiration rank highly among the great list of vile and unspeakable beasts and should be put into a sack and tossed into the canal.

Luck is with us though because we have The Anti-intellectual and the Inverse Snob to help us back into the mire.

The Khmer Rouge knew how to deal with the clever, they killed them where they found them and rightly so, the bespectacled fuckers.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 22:42, closed)
You're wrong.
Breeding is more important than intelligence. Meritocracy leads to communism.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 23:39, closed)
Breeding is more fun than intelligence.
Meritocracy, well mebbe. What have the talented ever done for us?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 4:26, closed)
If you think that the English distrust clever,
try Americans.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 3:21, closed)
i'm not distrusting cleverness.
i'm merely pointing out that i find you to be an unbearable ponce. mostly for the metaphysical poets but, y'know. all of it, really.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 12:53, closed)
I said nothing about the metaphysical poets in general
That's known as jumping to conclusions. John Donne yes, most of the rest meh. Bits and pieces but largely indifferent.

What's poncey about what books you like and why? I just like a lot.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:08, closed)

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