I've noticed recently a flood of very similar or almost identical submissions in the writer's room. Is there any way we can fix this?
Thanks
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Hunter F. Thompson
offlineMemberNot picking a fight, but it was my understanding that we sculpted and polished and honed a comedy twinkle until it was fit for Page 1. It doesn't bother me that there are several attempts until the ticker line is properly turned. Comic effects are obtained by twisting the right words around a loony situation, and we have lots of those at the moment. The right words don't come together promptly in such an unusual combination of major disasters which result from stupidity, greed and carelessness, presided over by yapping jackasses.
There's huge scope for comedy, but the tone is at present difficult to define. We keep trying.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Sinnick
offlineMemberHunter, I completely agree.
My gripe is really to do with puns & gags being recycled, rather than stories being developed, often by trial-and-errorIt would probably help a story theme if members were to try to keep to the same thread, rather than to go for self-glory on a new thread. IMHO.
Posted 2 years ago # -
be reasonable
offlineMemberI agree with Sinnick. It would also give the OP a sense of 'hey, look what I've started!' quiet satisfaction, rather than thinking 'some bastard's stolen my idea.' Also, going off-topic slightly, it means those of us who've never outgrown our childish delight in silly puns won't have to wade through all the unfunny 'I'm from the North, I hate the Middle-classes, Southerners and the Tories, grrrr' stuff. As someone who finds all politics risible or depressing and bigotry of all stripes unamusing, I find a lot of the political stuff gets very old very quickly; bar-room revolutionaries and Nazis alike have been churning out the same material for as long as I can remember (about 45 years on a good day, 45 minutes on an average one) and it long ago failed to even elicit a wry smile. That's my tuppence-worth.
Posted 2 years ago # -
MADJEZ
offlineMemberI blame the News me. It's almost as if people are all reading the same stories and then making humour out of it.
Am getting a little jaded at the moment as the site is very headline driven. Unless you can grab everyone with a witty headline no-one seem to read your post at the mo.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Sinnick
offlineMemberPrecisely. Quickfire stuff can be fantastic, but there's a lot of chaff out there at the moment. There are also many ideas which have a spark but no depth, and a lot of waffle. Must be hard for Ed to bring stuff together.
It would be much easier if the Pope came back, or if Cleggy were to resign from government, or if the LHC were to prove that the "God particle" actually confirmed the existence of a God (or not).
Posted 2 years ago # -
IABP
offlineMemberDolphins Start Tiling The Moment Our Backs Are Turned
A marine biologist has discovered that dolphins smile and play up to the cameras but once the cameras are off they go back to installling fairly expensive bathrooms and showers, which would be cheaper if you bought the parts yourself and hired your own plumber and tiler.
Mike Varney was looking to get a new shower and bathroom and flicked through the yellowpages and saw 'Get your new bathroom installed by Dolphin'. He'd been used to seeing dolphins going through hoops, talking, eating fish and swimming with explosives on their back but was unaware that they were quite so handy at installing quality bathrooms.
"It's fascinating to see them out of the water and earning their fish. You think you know everything about marine life but this just shows there are things we don't know. One day we may see a Killer Whale drag a trainer into the water and drown them but it's unlikely. I wonder who named them that?
Nothing like the original. The original was funny.
Posted 2 years ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberJeez FaG!! You are getting so bloody predictable.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Zadok the second
offlineMemberTo save time, can I suggest we abbreviate 'just about every other fucker on the website' to JAEOFOTW from now on?
This will assist with the more traditional complaints of cliquism, plagiarism and scoring systems and could save up to 0.7 seconds per post. Which would be good.
Posted 2 years ago #
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