Saying the Unsayable
Freddie Woo tugged our coat and asked: Have you ever had to tell someone they had BO? Had to break dreadful news to somebody? Tell us how you broke through the cringe barrier
( , Thu 10 Jan 2013, 16:09)
Freddie Woo tugged our coat and asked: Have you ever had to tell someone they had BO? Had to break dreadful news to somebody? Tell us how you broke through the cringe barrier
( , Thu 10 Jan 2013, 16:09)
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I'm with you.
Terribly boring, too. People only claim to like it in the same way they find Shakespeare funny - to inform you that they're intelligent.
( , Thu 17 Jan 2013, 9:53, 1 reply)
Terribly boring, too. People only claim to like it in the same way they find Shakespeare funny - to inform you that they're intelligent.
( , Thu 17 Jan 2013, 9:53, 1 reply)
Iconoclasm
Gangster movies: Tedious playground tales of little boys who discovered violence and never had to grow up into real men.
Lord of the Rings: Overblown, turgid dullness. The films are pretty.
P G Wodehouse: funny writing, but who can care about the lives of priviliged air-heads in the 1930s? Or golf?
Dickens: Written as the 19th century equivalent of Eastenders - and about as entertaining
( , Thu 17 Jan 2013, 11:47, closed)
Gangster movies: Tedious playground tales of little boys who discovered violence and never had to grow up into real men.
Lord of the Rings: Overblown, turgid dullness. The films are pretty.
P G Wodehouse: funny writing, but who can care about the lives of priviliged air-heads in the 1930s? Or golf?
Dickens: Written as the 19th century equivalent of Eastenders - and about as entertaining
( , Thu 17 Jan 2013, 11:47, closed)
Dickens needs a bag of commas, semi-colons and full stops.
His sentences appear to end only rarely.
( , Thu 17 Jan 2013, 11:54, closed)
His sentences appear to end only rarely.
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