Makes me want something that's got some taste to it. Good God that sounds filthy.
Things I just don't "get". Page 10
Quote: Aaron @ January 27, 2008, 12:40 AMMakes me want something that's got some taste to it. Good God that sounds filthy.
Are you sure it's a cold you've got, Aaron, and not the beginning stages of Clary's Disease?
Julian Clary is great. Hush.
Something else I don't get:
Why people go on holiday "somewhere nice and hot", almost certainly to lie around and bake in the sun, at the exact f**king time of year it actually gets hot and sunny here. I mean, where the f**k is the logic? Christ people, come on.
And in that vein, I don't "get" sunbathing at all.
Quote: James Williams @ January 26, 2008, 10:47 AM
I think people that don't enjoy reading (and I'm talking more about EMs here) often have a relatively short attention-span. Certainly all the people I've come across who don't enjoy books are forever diddling with the remote control, playing with their mobiles etc.
Personally I consider everyone who does not read (apart from non-fiction for work or studies) a lower human being. And no, I'm not sorry.
But then again, I'm pretty sure people like me will soon be extinct. It's much easier to sit through 25 or 30 minutes of TV or 85 minutes of film, then actually (horror of horrors!) devote a couple of hours for reading. I mean, you complain about films actually being too long! A good three hour film can pass instantly - and I know, I've seen Godfather I and II, Shawshank Redemption, LOTR, etc.
Yet apparently for some it is easier to enjoy 30 minutes from 1960s British Chaplin-esque hitting on head, falling and calling it "classic humour". But then again, to each its own. I just don't like it when people actually boast about being philistines.
PS. I have only read several Shakespeare plays, and none in English 
Quote: WrongTale @ January 27, 2008, 7:32 AMPS. I have only read several Shakespeare plays, and none in English
I don't think many people have ever read a Shakespeare play in English.
haha! my Spanish teacher told us how he used to have to act out Shakespeare in Spanish-and how it loses something to not being able to translate all the thys and thees and stuff-apparently totally confused him once he knew english
well, naturally, there are losses - I mean, there is no such thing as 16th century Latvian there are no samples of written language existing from that time period, and the few examples that have remained, were written by the ruling German clergy who really did not gave a f**k, as it was language of "subhuman".
So Shakespeare is translated, using *loosely* 19th century language, and that is pretty easy to understand, apart from several odd words or expressions I know, I have several Shakespeare plays compilations at home (I need them for work), and they come with quite extensive liner notes
But I'm sure there is a middle way between worshiping that guy from Avon and not reading at all.
Ironically one shouldn't necessarily boast about how much Shakey one has read, but how much one has seen or perhaps acted in.
Why all the emphasis on reading it? It's a performance piece. Study enhances one's appreciation immensely, of course, but I always feel "the play's the thing" ultimately.
Reading Shakespeare in 19thC Latvian. 
So is that argument ^.
Quote: Eat_My_Shirts @ January 26, 2008, 11:58 AMWell obviously if I don’t enjoy doing something, then I’m not going to be giving it my full undivided attention, am I?
My “Field of Excellence” is Art and Design. Books do nothing to me. Am I a thick, uneducated chav? Not really. I can match all those qualifications you have rather pompously listed in your profile.
I have a few books. Books on artists, graphic design, films, photography. But in terms of sitting in a darkened room and “devouring” a novel for hours?....gimme a break.
I'm saying precisely that you are not a thick uneducated chav, rather that is seems likely you may have a short attention-span. That's a 'limitation' that some people just have. A lot of people use it as an advantage, which it sounds like you have. Seems to be advantageous to many designers. See, my saying "shoot them" was less than serious, as you cannot fail to have grasped.
I list a couple of my more relevant qualifications because they are pertinent to my writing. I don't see this as pompous. If I listed *all* my qualifications, or tried to put letters after my name, that would be pompous. I'm really not pompous at all. And my NCTJ qualification, as anyone will tell you who's taken it, is not an 'intellectual' qualification, as you seem to imply. Journalism is a trade, not a profession. In my profile I aimed to illustrate that I take writing seriously. I see no reason to be coy about that.
"I can match your qualifications"! - now that's pompous. We're not playing poker. "I'll raise you another degree!" "I'll see your degree, and raise you life experience and a level 2 NVQ!"
And I for one don't sit in a darkened room, I wouldn't be able to see the page! I often read in front of the TV. Other people watch it and it often bores me to tears.
Let's have a gladiator grudge-match to the death between the book-readers and the non-book-readers. 
Quote: Leevil @ January 28, 2008, 1:03 PMSo is that argument ^.
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I don't understand.
Come on, insult me, I'm just limbering up.
To say Willy is meant to be performed, not read.
And no, I will not fight with you, as you will clearly beat me, with your o-so amazing book smarts.
Although I could just ban you.
Quote: Leevil @ January 28, 2008, 1:29 PMTo say Willy is meant to be performed, not read.
And no, I will not fight with you, as you will clearly beat me, with your o-so amazing book smarts.
Although I could just ban you.
No, I still don't understand.
"Book smarts"!
That smarts.
Well a discussion about books, would indicate that you would need some knowledge on books.
I nominate this thread for "things I don't get"!
All those fancy degree's don't help you now do they?
Can't even grasp the basic concept that the argument for 'Shakespeare is meant to be performed, not read' is an old one.
Which I added as a throw away comment, but has dragged on for 5 more posts, then it should.