Posts by BenWilson
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Okay, I'll fall for it. Who are the real bad guys?
The black hats are a giveaway. Oh hang on, that's our cricket team.
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It's a fizzer all right. When I saw it last night I thought "even if it's all true so bloody what?". I can't remember jack about the dates of my movements at that time, and I was personally there for all of them.
Labour will try to make this out to be a Herald beat-up-and-then-down. We'll see if that's true.
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It's too short
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Talking about cricket, I've set my alarm for 10 days from now and won't visit PA until then. Hopefully the discussion will have ended. Jerry Lewis was right.
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Funny that the Bible hasn't rated a mention yet. People would rather rag on George Lucas for not being perfect.
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Paul this is a thread for critics to indulge their every prejudice. Someone even ragged on Heart of Darkness, the total philistine.
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Oops i realized I broke the rules of the thread by defending stuff. Soz. Shitlist:
1. Everything that is fictional but not fantastic. Why?
2. Everything written exclusively for adults. Weak.
3. Everything that has no action in it. Ghey.
4. Everything liked by people who have read too much. Too dark.
5. Everything that requires training to appreciate. Here's a thought, entertain me. -
Wtf about Frodo paying for the Prancing Pony? I'm hearing the blatherings of people who can't remember what they read. And why would you care? If you didn't like it but didn't stop reading then you're a fool. Same comment goes for all the disliked works on this whole thread.
I mean I read the first 3 pages of Pride and Prejudice and thought "Yeah I can see why chicks like this book. I don't" so I put it down. Doesn't mean it's shit, just not to my taste.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles was set as a text in English - I read about 1 chapter and felt nauseated that so much of my life would slip past reading it that I cheated and just watched the film. The teacher never noticed, and gave me great marks for the book review. I'm sure it's a great work but so are lots of other things that I actually like.
Probably the only work I've ever forced my way through was Stephen Donaldson's 'Lord Foul's Bane'. I guess despite feeling sickened early on by the rape, I wanted to find out what his point for it was. If it was 'rape is committed by sick bastards, and they can never make amends' then the point was well taken, but very labored.
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This has always mildly puzzled me. If you're doing it even close to right that should result in a net weight reduction.
This is the female school of thought that has a man burning 3,000 calories a shot? And I thought men had ridiculous expectations...
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I think you'd need to be in the US to even contemplate the logistics of obtaining 200 cubic meters of coins. I recall shovelling 3 cubic metres of gravel over a flat path took me about 4 hours once. You'd be covered in money grime afterwards, and would be picking money out of your hair for days.
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