Bugger.
Not sure what help it is to the person involved, though, to make a big thing of a small thread which was obviously not true and for which you expressed some regret in the thread itself. Hopefully it will all simmer down and your comment about everyone being lovely will become reality.
I really don't care, to be honest. I write. I like to write comedy. I'm told I do it pretty well. If I'm called a c**t, then I don't take it personally. If I'm told I'm not someone's favourite person, so be it. I tend to try and be nice to everyone I meet. I don't personally bear anyone a grudge and am upset when they think I could. I don't have the bones for that.
However, I don't like ill-founded threats and don't cower over this kind of crap, especially when it is a threat based on who someone is, as though that should carry more weight (despite legal absurdity) than the complaint they present.
Can you not sue them in some sort of never-ending daisy chain effect?
Fight the power!
I'm now waiting for the writer of 'Coming Of Age' to sue me... Surely I'm allowed to say that one day [anonymous] came into the stables, took off his rider's helmet, his louche glasses, touched the floor with both hands, and cried "Captain, my Captain!"... [deleted deleted deleted deleted deleted deleted deleted deleted deleted deleted deleted deleted]... and said "Tim, you're the first man who's ever been able to shift that sufficiently in order that I may attend my first adult bar-mitzvah"
The only thing that annoys me is I'm half-Jew, pretty much upper-middle-class and, if push comes to shove, would probably give a blow-job to a talentless old queer, yet still can't get in at the BBC. I'll stay on the waiting list for Bob Geodolf and his talentless brood to adopt me, 'spose. Or Madonnna/Jolie. I can black-up/look like a baby for money.
Perhaps you should try this whole "going to bed" thing a bit earlier, Tim...
Quote: Aaron @ October 14 2008, 9:14 AM BSTPerhaps you should try this whole "going to bed" thing a bit earlier, Tim...
Quote: Aaron @ October 14 2008, 9:14 AM BSTPerhaps you should try this whole "going to bed" thing a bit earlier, Tim...
That was very funny.
Tim - seriously I had to have a good talk to myself once and put a stop to the late night/booze/internet forum combination. I never got as far as being threatened with legal action though, but my spelling and grammer suffered.
grammar*
*cough cough*
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 14 2008, 9:37 AM BSTI never got as far as being threatened with legal action though, but my spelling and grammer suffered.
Is it wrong that I think that is the greater crime..?
Dan
Quote: Aaron @ October 14 2008, 9:41 AM BSTgrammar*
*cough cough*
It was supposed to read;
"my speling and grammer got worser."
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 14 2008, 3:35 AM BSTThe only thing that annoys me is I'm half-Jew, pretty much upper-middle-class and, if push comes to shove, would probably give a blow-job to a talentless old queer, yet still can't get in at the BBC. I'll stay on the waiting list for Bob Geodolf and his talentless brood to adopt me, 'spose. Or Madonnna/Jolie. I can black-up/look like a baby for money.
If only you were talentless yourself, that might help. It's probably fear and envy that keeps you out.
I wonder if they do keep people out for those reasons?
Quote: Aaron @ October 14 2008, 9:41 AM BSTgrammar*
*cough cough*
Dolly didn't say anything about giving up the early morning drinking.
Quote: Frankie Rage @ October 14 2008, 11:04 AM BSTIf only you were talentless yourself, that might help. It's probably fear and envy that keeps you out.
I wonder if they do keep people out for those reasons?
Have a hit and they'll forgive you almost anything.
Micheal J. said in the comments of his last blog that 'there is no blacklist'. As such.
Dan