catchphrase that gave him away .he is from the north,he is funny,but an irritating arrogant prick who wears dresses,he appears on shows as a guest now and again.
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Doylem
offlineMembercatchphrase that gave him away .he is from the north,he is funny,but an irritating arrogant prick who wears dresses,he appears on shows as a guest now and again.
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the person mainly responsible for infecting this potentially interesting and interactive website, is YOU. You, your single, repellant personality, your multiple user names, your inability to write anything funny or read what you've 'written' before pressing the 'post' button. You're the reason that promising writers drift away, leaving just you, your depressing world view and a handful of other malcontents who think it's amusing to say "cunt" to people they don't know and will never meet. John O'Farrell will be proud...Posted 2 years ago # -
I think arrghgarry / malcum eggs / yamashow can be very funny.
I don't think he is responsible for the death of this site.
I don't think any promising writers are drifting away because of him, and if they're saying they did, then I think that's a bit pathetic.
He has only ever had one user name at a time.
He sat in the corner saying random things - some daft, some unintelligible, some offensive, some really funny, nearly always original.
He didn't bump his pieces, he didn't give himself stars, he didn't write open letters, he didn't slag other writers off. He had one falling out with Ramblesnake, but apologised when he realised he'd misunderstood what Ramblesnake had meant.He also seemed largely unaware of the front page, and the formats that existed there, stubbornly sticking to his own one-and-a-half liner, but that was kind of part of the joke - that he could never quite get his thought into 80 characters.
I think things got nasty when
a) People started making it their mission to pull him up on every spelling mistake, every misplaced comma...
b) People started poking him and goading him, tagging all his subs, trying to set him off.
He has been writing here since June, but he only became an "issue" three months later when De-scribe and a couple of others started slagging him for using the word "paki" and making some other racist remarks.
My suspicion is that the passion with which De-scribe mounted the campaign against Aarghgarry was less to do with a desire to root out racism on the internet, and more to do with revenge, because Aarghgarry had criticised De-scribe for making fun of some dead New Zealand miners' wives having to return lingerie because their husbands had just died and weren't going to return like the Chilean ones did.
The personal attacks on him that followed were pretty hard core, but loads of people joined in because he had been written off as a racist, so you can say what you like to him.
Then everyone enjoyed another good public flogging because he had views on global warming (ffs!) that were at odds with the NewsBiscuit policy on the subject.
Doylem - you've posted plenty enough crap on this site yourself. At least Arrghgarry's only take a couple of seconds to read - some of yours spend 400 words being crap. You've done some funny ones, but you've also written plenty of half-arsed derivitive masturbatory bollocks, and have gone through periods of treating the subs board like some kind of scribble pad to work through your writers block issues - so lecturing Aarghgarry to read before he posts seems a bit two-faced coming from you. Defender of standards, you are not.
Yamashow - I think De-scribe might be Medhi Hasan, the editor of the New Statesman.
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Doylem
offlineMemberI think arrghgarry / malcum eggs / yamashow can be very funny.
Funny? Really? As in: makes U laff?
Defender of standards, you are not.
Hmmm... that's exactly what I am...
This place could - should - be a place where writers can spark off each other, maybe collaborate. But the tone is so relentlessly depressing, and the nob gags are dire, and "cunt" this and "cunt" that. You can keep it...
Posted 2 years ago # -
SingingHinny
offlineMemberIt was my understanding that the more successful writers are no longer regularly posting because they are editing the site or have other things to do; some of them will hopefully be putting there talents to more profitable use. The fact that we have noticed their absence is an indictment of th rest of us, who could probably do with bucking up our ideas (my very infrequently published self included). Two things will help this: firstly, being constructive in our criticism and being able to take it. Secondly, I do think someone on the editorial team needs to grow a pair and step in when people are being twats. Forums will descend into childishness sometimes, and I think the desired atmosphere needs to be actively maintained when people begin being unpleasant.
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To clarify, yes, funny as in his posts and comments have made me laugh.
I'm not saying all of them.
Also, I'm not saying your posts have never made me laugh. You have done some funny ones.
But you've also rattled off a large amount of half-baked toss.
Don't say you haven't.
That's not what is killing the site, though. (I would also add that I don't think it is dying anyway).
Anyway, it can only ever be my opinion, but I reckon that he has maybe the same hit rate as you (laughs per hundred posts).
You'd have the lead in terms of structuring etc, but I quite like the original voice and car-crash nature of Arrghgarry's oeuvre.
And in the face of some pretty harsh insults from you, he has still found it possible to praise some of your stuff, which takes some class.
Posted 2 years ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberI must agree with riesler. No-one has called me names yet. Infact the silence is deafening. I could do with some positive encouragement...or even some insults...its the tumbleweed that is so disheartening. But then I always was neady. I confess to using a scattergun approach when inspired; much is not noteworthy but the ones that do get praise are the ones I would have edited out.
Posted 2 years ago # -
bonjonelson
offlineMemberI know I haven't been the most tolerant person when it comes to our friend Garry, and he has irritated me beyond belief.
But we all have to change our attitudes if we're going to make this place friendlier and happier, so I'll try VERY hard to not say anything unless it's going to be positive.
Occasionally Garry does come out with some funny things, although not as many as those which I truly dislike (not just because they're not funny, but because I find them offensive in a non-comedic way - it's as if they are messages of hate rather than meant to be amusing). However, I'm prepared to accept it may just be MY perception at here, and not the universal view.
So, Garry. We'll all try and be nice, for the sake of newsbiscuit.
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