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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:16,
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Great.How are YOU, Windy Pig?
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:17,
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Pretty good, Tired and greasy, but good.
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Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:21,
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Been wrestling again?(
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:40,
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Also, what you up to? (
Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:17,
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Not bad, thanks. (
Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:23,
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Wotcha Winders. I am reading & relaxing.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:21,
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Stephen King has written a sequel to The Shining, so thought I'd give it a go. Not bad so far for something to simply read rather than think about. (
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:26,
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I read The Shining about 20 years ago.I don't think Stephen King is a very good writer.
He's great at churning out penny dreadfuls though, I'll give him that.
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As I said, something to read rather than think about. Light entertainment.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:34,
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some people might say that ballard is pretentious(
rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:00,
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People that would say that just aren't clever enough to properly understand his work.Soz babygirl.
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i haven't read any YET (it is in my amazon basket)i may or may not find it pretentious.
but it strikes me that anything you would enjoy would be unnecessarily full of itself and, yes, pretentious.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:04,
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Have you read The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis?You'd like that one.
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i've read most of his stuff, but not that one(
rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:06,
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It was published as a contract filler between American Psycho and Glamorama but it was written around the same time as Less Than Zero.So it's minimalist and stark rather than an all out blur of hyperreality and transgressive fiction.
You'd like it.
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i do like his stuffok I shall add that to the amazon basket too
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rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:18,
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Good girl.I prefer his minimalism to his postmodernist stuff. I really liked Imperial Bedrooms, including the whole narrative framing that it used. I thought it tied his two styles together perfectly.
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He's paid by the word - that's why his stuff has so much irrelevant back story. (
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:43,
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Actually Vag, you might know this, what's the going per word rate for freelance copywriters in London?(, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:44, Reply)
i disagree with thatI think some of his stuff is dreadful, but some of it reads really well. probably depends how much coke he'd shoved up his snout at the time.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:49,
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Which stuff reads well?I didn't mind Carrie (but then again, I was 14 when I read it), but he's really hamfisted with his characters, he can't write convincing female characters and his plots are contrived.
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those are YOUR opinionsjust by way of one example, as a female, I don't agree that NONE of his female characters are "convincing". and I thought the bit about gage's death/funeral in "pet sematary" read very well, for another.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:59,
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Well yes, they are my views.But of all the novels and stories of his I've read I've never found his characters to be anything other than cardboard cutouts just there to move the flimsy plots along.
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now, you see, you put it like thatand you don't come across as such a smug know-it-all turquoise cocked fool. In fact, you sound almost normal.
HTH
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rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:03,
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I just find throwaway fiction which is written for nothing more than economic gain to be a massive waste of time.Nothing personal, just that when I do have time to read I'd rather read something with a bit of substance to it. Hence my current queue of Ballard, Lessing and Amis.
I'm gearing up to give Gravity's Rainbow another go.
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CarrieMisery
Rose Madder
Geralds Game
are ones I enjoyed.
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GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:28,
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I'm jealous, I'm looking forward to getting out of here about 3.(
Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:23,
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Long journey back to Oxford from where you are?(
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:26,
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Alright windleMy hands are cold, but apart from that great.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:26,
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Alright.This is both an answer and a greeting.
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Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:30,
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YoI'm fine thanks. Been a bastard couple of weeks but now it's getting a bit less manic.
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good thanksJust before lunch I went outside for a cigarette and then the fire alarm went off - they do a "be prepared to leave but don't leave yet" thing. Wasn't allowed back in and was outside for 45 minutes. Good times.
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:43,
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Oh, what am I up to? Having lunch innit. It *is* lunchtime you know*tutts*
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MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:49,
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I would recommend eating as a daily activity(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:52,
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No problem. I don't want you wasting away.(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:53,
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sleepy and it's friday and i want to be somewhere else and waaah(
rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:50,
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yeah....i was thinking more palm trees, white sand, turquoise water, sunshine. not grey concrete blocks and turds and tampons.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:06,
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WELL YOU WOULDN'T GET PROPER FUCKING CHIPS THERE WOULD YOU LORD SNOOTY(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:08,
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I WOULDN'T CARE BECAUSE I'D BE IN THE CARIBBEAN(
rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:15,
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ITS THIS SORT OF ATTITUDE THAT MEANS I HAVE NOW CANCELLED THE SECRET FOLKESTONE BAYSH(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:18,
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YOU ALL ALONE IN THE BATH IS NOT A "BASH" IN THE SENSE OF THE WORD THAT ANYONE ELSE WANTS IT TO BE(
rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:19,
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I WAS GONNA INVITE YOU TOO, I KNOW YOU WOULD HAVE SAID NO BUT IM SURE YOU WOULD HAVE APPRECIATED THE INVITERORYS GONNA BE HEARTBROKEN
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MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:22,
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I'm listening to a well cool mixtape and have just booked tickets to a well cool gig.Keywords: well; cool.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:57,
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so I went to pizza express to peer at swipeI couldn't see her, but there was a large ginger woman on a mobility scooter face down in the pasta bar...
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:09,
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I call it the knicker dropper(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:16,
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THERE ISN'T A PASTA BAR AT PIZZA EXPRESSYOU WERE AT PIZZA HUT, YOU PLEB
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rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:15,
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Hello Mr PigI'm somewhat drunk
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:10,
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the golf is/is not broken?delete as applicable?
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:44,
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Hiya!I've just had to do some "work". By work I mean, sit in my bosses office, go through a list of client names and have a bitch and a giggle :)
It's fun here.
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GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:26,
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I had a meeting in the pubIt lasted 6 pints
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:27,
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Winning!I miss those meetings, but I changed companies to one not being run by a cokehead.
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GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:31,
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You worked for Stunned?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:32,
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I'm splendidexcept having to spend 24 hours in Swindon this week.
How the devil are you, Winders?
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:45,
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Christ the populol page seems to be shrinking and dying(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:55,
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It is populated by the best three posters here though, that counts for something, right?(, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:56, Reply)
I just got caught laughing at something on hereat the exact same time they were talking about 4000 dead in the Philippines on Le Radio. Ha!
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GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:56,
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I just got caught hanging out the back of your mum(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:57,
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*eiffel tower high five*(
The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 15:09,
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Only cool people have seen my face, not you.(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 15:07,
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Yes and I'm saying you wouldn't know, as you aren't one of the select few cool enough to see it.(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 15:13,
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Yes, and I'm saying even Ch*mp didn't want to meet you, and that currently you have one 'joke' you have massively overused.(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 15:19,
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Yes, and I'm saying that your face is a hideous mess that not even a blind mother could love.(, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 15:21, Reply)
Yes, and I'm saying you have absolutely no idea what I look like, but I have seen you and definitely wouldn't because you look like an Italian smackhead.(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 15:22,
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I was referring metaphorically to the speed of my rapping skills.(
MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 15:39,
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If the option were presented I'd definitely bang Zara PhillipsAs you were.
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 15:14,
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She could chew an apple through a letterbox, that one.(
GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 15:27,
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Or, alternativelyMy cock while wearing a burkha.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 15:57,
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i still have a cold, but I'm off to the opera with my friend(
Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 16:10,
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That's a commitment to the arts right thereor a plan to infect rich people.
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 16:20,
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i bought the tickets ages agoit's going to be ace. I just need lemsip
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Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 16:21,
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