http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:08:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9798 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:42:44 +0000 AdrianJ 9798@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You can now buy mattresses specifically for dogging – well, what will they think of next? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9795 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:32:42 +0000 The All New Jeni B 9795@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Large Mitsubishi 4x4 for me Adrian. Full leather interior (it wipes down a treat) with fully reclining front seats, and fold flat rear seats. Totally removes the risk of handbrake induced bruising. Plus there's the comfy big dog mattress in the boot... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9792 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:18:58 +0000 AdrianJ 9792@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>...as if you didn't already know yourself Jeni!<br /> At least the next time I visit the gym, I won't have to explain away the Ford Focus C-Max's handbrake shaped bruise on the small of my back any more. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9640 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:07:54 +0000 The All New Jeni B 9640@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ford?! Surrey not into it's Volvos any more?<br /> Much more room in the V70 estate for that kind of thing surely? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9635 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:48:10 +0000 Mary Evans 9635@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fine by me. I wouldn't have you in the back of my Ford Focus C-Max for all the le creuset in Petworth. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9618 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:40:20 +0000 AdrianJ 9618@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>To be brutally honest Mary, while I could forgive your rather annoying habit of picking bits of partially digested Danish from between your teeth - with of all things, the bloody Grapefruit knife - it was precisely the extreme views you expressed regarding the Hindhead bypass, which finally tipped the scales for me. On hearing your cavalier attitude toward the potential risk that tunneling poses to the Devil's Punch Bowl, I realized just what a self-centered little madam you truly are.</p> <p>I only hope in turn that you realize that not everyone shares your need to shuttle back and forth between Portsmouth each weekend, en-route to their palatial second home on the continent. Some of us would prefer the rural idyll to remain just as it is thank you very much - particularly as we prefer to fly rather than drive acrross.</p> <p>As for your Gooseberries, I whole heartedly agree. I think it would be best for all concerned if you were to "deposit" them elsewhere for the time being. I assure you that you'll not be making a Fool out of me any time soon young lady!</p> <p>Incidentally, if like me, you also intend to attend the Harrison's soiree on Friday, then I'd be grateful if you would pay me the courtesy of placing your car keys on the other side of the fruit bowl from my own. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9610 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:46:07 +0000 nealdoran 9610@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Clever people take newspapers and read university courses, the rest of us take the courses and read the papers...</p> <p>I saw a copy of the Dandy this weekend. My goodness, it's changed from my day. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9602 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:20:54 +0000 Zadok the second 9602@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I always worry about people who say 'We take the... [insert newspaper here]'. Can't you afford to pay for it?</p> <p>Radio Times for me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9535 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:37:07 +0000 edward hack 9535@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What's this TV Quickie...sounds a bit gross.<br /> Is it a Rocky Horror type thing?<br /> Mary? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9528 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:54:50 +0000 Mary Evans 9528@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>TV Quick????? TV Quick????? How dare you Ferdy - I'd rather care for my own children than write for that rag...</p> <p>And as for you, Ade. I thought we shared something beautiful over some light pastry and discussion about the Hindhead bypass. And now you turn on me like this. From henceforth I'll deposit my farmhouse gooseberry jam more carefully. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9515 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:33:23 +0000 sauce 9515@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>We have the Beano.</p> <p>Sometimes the adults in the house read the Grauniad (Mr Sauce likes the cryptic) and the Indy. </p> <p>Used to have the New Scientist weekly when I could afford it. (ie when my parents bought a subscription as a present.)</p> <p>I suppose I should add "reading utterly inapropriate chav mags" to that guilty pleasures thread. There's a voyeristic impulse to sneak a peek into Hello or The Mail on Sunday in the dentist's wiating room. It really adds to the masochism of the session.</p> <p>(Rick, I'm never anything but silly in here: wouldn't expect anything less from you.) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9502 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:28:49 +0000 AdrianJ 9502@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Typical lying Journo! First she says: “and that's all I have to say about that”, then she promptly goes and posts again. Can’t trust that bloody Evans woman, half the stuff she writes just isn’t true! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9498 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:13:00 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 9498@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/19/18641919.php">They'd have to bite this bullet</a>....if there were any journos being published, today. <em>Mes enfants, ce ne sont que de pitres et de creux amuseurs</em>. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9494 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:50:18 +0000 rickwestwell 9494@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My uncle worked on The Beccles &amp; Bungay Journal many years ago - as a child I was always struck by the glamour hinted at by those exotic names. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9486 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:32:03 +0000 fernandomando 9486@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In my time, I have made the Norfolk Evening News, the Newham Recorder, the Wandsworth Guardian, the Bristol Evening Post, and the Isle of Wight County Press. There might be others, but I just can't keep up with the reports </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9485 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:29:46 +0000 fernandomando 9485@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Having some experience of being involved with matters that make the news, it seems to me that the format is to take one or two facts and produce 300-400 words of varying qualities of analysis of those facts.</p> <p>It is for that reason that the only true journalism lies in the television pages of the Daily Telegraph. Or TV Times / TV Quick / Whatever it was that I can't quite remember Mary worked on because I got a bit drunk </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9480 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:43:18 +0000 rickwestwell 9480@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sorry Sauce, was only being silly... :-)</p> <p>All the papers out here are a bit crap, unfortunately, so I still read the Guardian. And they have the best website. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9440 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:10:37 +0000 edward hack 9440@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yep - journalists can both make or break the circulation. Many tend to smother the article with their own take on things these days.</p> <p>Can you really get a scale model of the Starship Enterprise (I've got the ballerinas)?</p> <p>Budleigh Salterton Journal - Guardian - Big Issue - Record Collector - Private Eye - SAGA magazine - National Trust/Woodland Trust mags - even read The Economist up until my partner passed away.<br /> Jeeeeeeezus (I feel liberated) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9422 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:27:58 +0000 Scroat 9422@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What do people read BTW? I get the Indie at weekends, and occasional Observer or Guardian. </p> <p>Because of this leftiness, the Daily Torygraph is a real shock to the system when I see it at the inlaws. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9420 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:52 +0000 sauce 9420@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Rick, one has to keep up one's intellectual persona, sweetie. Brevity is the soul of wit and all that. So, when one knows bugger all about journalism (as one can tell from my subs) yet wishes to make Mary feel that she's with friends, one bullshits. Briefly. (Brief as in pants.) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9416 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:00:06 +0000 Basil_B 9416@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I agree Mary.<br /> In my opinion there is nothing more tedious than someone droning on about themselves and there lives totally forgeting about what the original subject was or is. I personally believe that such people should be made to read their own shit sometimes so that they can see what us poor bastards that read it have to put up with. I'm sure they write it out without any thought or concern for the subject and do it just to fill a space in yet another sunday supplement which is just slightly better than having to fill it with yet another once in a life time offer from Franklin Mint for a 1/10 scale model of the Starship Enterprise or some naff china figure of a ballerina.<br /> It's all about quantity not quality these days and it makes my blood boil to think somebody is actually paying a wage to these crappy journo's who would do better trying to write something interesting every now and then. </p> <p>Anybody still with me. </p> <p>My application is in the post to be a Sunday Times supplement writer where upon I will interview some Z list celeb telling everyone in my opinion what a loser he is. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9411 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:24:29 +0000 Mary Evans 9411@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Now I'm confused... all those years I thought I was a journalist. And I was a journalist all along. I feel I've lost my sense of identity. But apparently there's a bloke at the video shop who'll steal me a new one, so that's okay.</p> <p>And you're quite right Scroaty. I shall stick to reading the News of the Screws from now on for some responsible journalism. Or journalism. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9407 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:12:24 +0000 Scroat 9407@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Honestly Mary, what do you expect from a rag like the Sunday Times? Used to be a fab paper, but I fear no longer. It's all Richard Murdoch's fault... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9384 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:43:12 +0000 rickwestwell 9384@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sauce, that's so... <em>profound!</em> :-) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9379 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:33:30 +0000 sauce 9379@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There are journalists and journalists, Maz. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=3256#post-9336 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:46:53 +0000 Mary Evans 9336@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>After sedating the fraggles last night, Mr Mary and I took to our sofa for our customary late Sunday cuddle with the papers (it's okay, we are married). I was pleased to see the lead article in the Sunday Times culture section was an article on Tina Fey, American female comedy writer of whom I am quite a fan and in whose footsteps I would like to follow. I settled down with the article, but was hugely disappointed, as I often am when reading the posh papers, that what should have been an interesting insight into her influences, experiences and work, was actually several thousands words of self-indulgent ejaculate from Stephen Armstrong expounding his thoughts on 30 Rock, with occasional reference to the woman herself. </p> <p>Now I will grant him that the interview may have been a turkey - Lord knows it is hard to polish a turd when someone gives you a really dull interview - but even with that in mind, surely it is the writer's responsibility to make it sparkle? One of the first lessons I learnt at journo school was to make yourself invisible as the author of a piece - ie, it's not about you. Does anyone else tire of reading the thoughts of broadsheet journalists in these supplements, when you're rather more interested in their subject? Or should I just have watched Britain's Got Talent (Lovely FP Lucy btw) and not given it a moment's thought?</p> <p>And that's all I have to say about that. </p>