Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And, for my blood, it took real balls to run this at the high tide of lunatic Diana idolatry:
The Late Princess Diana
An ApologyI remember when they published that. It was effing brilliant.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Joshua Drummond,
To any TV people reading this, giz me and JJW a show. Please? We’ll be ever so funny. Funnier than Hosking, or Henry, or even Sainsbury. Come to think of it, his slot will soon be available, won’t it? We can have that!
I genuinely will raise it with some people.
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Hard News: Media3: Standards Showdown, in reply to Sacha,
PAT tests?
And STAR (for maths?) and ASTTLE. All established and moderated. The idea that there weren't any measures for achievement before national standards is pervasive and wrong.
One thing that didn't make the cut of the discussion in last week's show was my question about why no one has ever bothered to seek *those* results by OIA. John Hartevelt admitted he didn't know.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Islander,
Cool! But followed up by Sacha’s ’Heehaw” (=donkey) is a comment that
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anyway, fuck it all- the comment may have been ironic. May have been satiric. It just lessened Sacha’s mana in my mind by about 500%-It was just a light-hearted play on Mr Ed being a horse. No offence was intended or should be taken. Sacha's mana is quite safe, methinks.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
But you really need a douchebag jar (h/t New Girl) on set for the Gerry Brownlee fat jokes. Seriously. Just stop it.
If you're doing Gerry Brownlee fat jokes on a regular basis, you should contemplate what that says about about your own talent.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Islander,
I am totally unable to recognise sarcasm/satire when it is here – let alone anywhere else, like tv…
I have a tin ear for it/them: a blind eye. They just dont interest/entertain me in the least.
And as for irony – unless it’s clearly spelt out – pftui!That's interesting. Does it make things a bit difficult on parts of the internet that are quite culturally rooted in irony?
My two ASD boys, who are supposed to have trouble with non-literal text and speech, recognise and respond to various flavours of irony -- partly because they're internet natives and partly, I suspect, because they've grown up with their father talking absolute bollocks at them.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Deliberate. David H always insists that his work is humour, not satire. But truth be known, he has written satire here. So let's dragoon him in.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Jackson James Wood,
Josh and I would love to do a satire show. Can somebody make this happen?
Lordy, that *would* be good.
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Phil Lyth,
To observe that Green MP Gareth Hughes put a Members Bill into the last ballot to allow use of copyright work for parody and satire.
Ah, yes. I meant to include that in the post, so thanks.
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Hard News: Media3: Standards Showdown, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
It really is looking like a system designed badly enough to be an argument for national standards testing. Oh the reason this data is no good is because it’s based on individual teacher assessments so it’s not very useful. We should have a national test that all children sit each year…
I'm still on the side of cock-up over conspiracy, but ... yeah.