That's it then, is it? That's the best of the bunch? That half-arsed, sub-ragmag schoolboy effort is the pinnacle of what constitutes a worthy NB front page nowadays, yes? Not a word out of place? Not a single misplaced line? Fuck off. Cheerio, everyone. Things to do, people to see, you know how it is. . .
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Today's 'Opera is crap' FP.
(29 posts) (17 voices)
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Stan Laurel
offlineMemberOh brilliant! Could this be the first backlash of the new NB?
There are a lot of opera loving members on this website. Expect a facebook protest at any moment, Oxy.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberHe was a skater Saltire.
I like ballet, would like to see an opera just once in my life, love football, rugby, cars, and shoes.
Whose side am I on?
Posted 3 years ago # -
The Paper Ostrich
offlineMemberLooks like there are more opera buffs than Catholics around here. Who'd have thought.
Posted 3 years ago # -
John Square
offlineMemberYeah. Mind you, on the internet Atheists abound, so I'm less surprised at that.
FWIW: I thought the FP was excellent. Informed, witty and starting from an appealing and understandable point: the middle aged chap who suddenly realises his whole working life has been a waste of time, and he'd be better off doing something else.
Great pic, too.
Chapeau, monsieur.
Posted 3 years ago # -
MADJEZ
offlineMemberI think you've missed the point Bang, (like a lot of stuff on here) you don't necessarily have to agree with it to find it funny. The humour is in the absurdity of the story not necassarily the content. You could just as easily do a sub on football's crap, ballet's crap.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Stan Laurel
offlineMemberWho said I liked opera?? Awful racket ...
Posted 3 years ago # -
Des Custard
offlineMemberI suspect what Mr Bang is getting at is that the piece is little more than a rant, thinly disguised as someone else’s semi-coherent rant, and not what he expects from a NB FP. In many good FPs an assumption that, say, footballers are thick or celebs are vain or politicians are self-serving liars, is taken as a starting point and then developed in a funny and/or clever way.
In Oxo’s defence, the ‘salad-dodger’ and other misconceptions are clearly ways of signalling that his sub was a deliberate exaggeration along the lines of ‘boring Arsenal’. The reality these days is more Agneta Eichenholz's memorable Lulu in six inch stiletto heels.
God, isn’t Alistair Darling boring?
Posted 3 years ago # -
ramblesid
offlineMemberI've just remembered one bit of opera I do like: Ride of the Valkyries, when it accompanies the helicopter attack in Apocalypse Now, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjWDCX1Bdw
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The Paper Ostrich
offlineMemberI've just remembered one bit of opera I do like: Ride of the Valkyries, when it accompanies the helicopter attack in Apocalypse Now, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjWDCX1Bdw
It's not a helicopter attack, it's an aerial local stabilisation operation. Don't be so cynical.Posted 3 years ago # -
Oxbridge
offlineMember'Boring Arsenal' is not a deliberate exaggeration Mr Custard, or at least it wasn't of old before Whinger got them into shape. I've even been to the Libary in the 80s with mates who were unaccountably that way inclined. It had a lot in common with opera: large immobile blokes, stupid costumes, self-serving histrionics...hey I can feel another sub coming on.
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Des Custard
offlineMemberI can't help it if your opinions remain rooted in the 1980s Oxo. Time to move on, eh? I look forward to your sub.
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