I went to see "A Prophet" last night.
It's the best film I've seen in ages. And I've learned a new use for teaspoons from it.

Do you want a question? OK. What do you think of Count Arthur Strong? I can't decide whether Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show is genius or pisspoor, or whether I want to go to a recording in Manchester to hear it, or to burn the theatre to the ground. Opinions?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:16, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I have no idea about either of those things.
Could you make it a little more lowbrow please?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:18, Reply)

*attempts*
I like breasts.

How's that?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:24, Reply)

I find it unconvincing.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:26, Reply)

Hmmmm.
If I say "norks" instead, would that be sufficiently middle-to-lowbrow?

I'm just not comfortable with this newfangled demoticism.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:28, Reply)

You are getting better at this.

( girlinthehole, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:29, Reply)

Tits!
It's... it's like a whole new monolsyllabic world.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:33, Reply)

I wasn't questioning how convincing your low brow statement was, I was questioning the validity of your assertion.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:32, Reply)

Basically, she was calling you a bender.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:34, Reply)

An assertion can be neither valid nor invalid.
That's a quality of argum...

Oh. Hang on. I think I'm protesting at the wrong part of that post, aren't I?

Damn.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:34, Reply)

As usual
you attemt to win an argument by attacking the phrasing rather than the content.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:36, Reply)

Meh. I have to play to my strengths.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:37, Reply)

I saw it on wednesday
I now solve all my problems with batteries and socks.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:18, Reply)

I'm sticking with teaspoons.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:25, Reply)

Cunt Arthur Strong more like
It is really really shit. After listening to it I want to kick him in the cint. He is a cunt I hate the cunting show.

Burn the theatre 5 minutes after he arrives.

I'm normally quite mild mannered, but Count Arthur Strong is a cunt.

*other unbiased radio 4 reviews are available on request*
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:23, Reply)

You should be in the main question I think.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:24, Reply)

I used to think that.
But I'm not so sure now. Or, rather, I still do, but I have this strange doublethink thing going on whereby I like the programme for exactly the reasons I dislike it.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:26, Reply)

That bugs me.
"I fucking hate this, so why do I like it so much?" I think I have a masochistic streak.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:33, Reply)

No No No No No
I used to listen to it. Thought that maybe it was some kind of double bluff irony. I was wrong. the charecter has no redeeming features whatsoever, It is impossible to empaphise with him. It is a one joke show. "I'm a dithering idiot who is bossy and rude" Next situation: ditto.

The laughter track on the radio shows has the sort of feeling that the audience are in a gas chamber and the option is laugh or I shake the tin in.

Please let me know if I am not looking deeply enough.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:34, Reply)

The laughter track is a very strange thing.
I'll give you that.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:35, Reply)