Title: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Eric Plumrose on 16 June, 2005, 08:17:06 PM
Post by: Eric Plumrose on 16 June, 2005, 08:17:06 PM
Batman's granddad.
Not brilliant but good, certainly better than all those other Big Screen adaptations. Now go see it for yourselves while I try thinking up a clever title for this thread!
Not brilliant but good, certainly better than all those other Big Screen adaptations. Now go see it for yourselves while I try thinking up a clever title for this thread!
Title: The Novel of the Wicker Man
Post by: paulvonscott on 16 June, 2005, 10:01:21 PM
Post by: paulvonscott on 16 June, 2005, 10:01:21 PM
It's ?2.97 in music zone I didn't even know it had been rereleased. Like the first chapter, it's not a long book either which is good (someone shoot me before I have to finish Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell).
Also got Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as that too looked fairly short. I've bought books by wotsisname before but never bothered to read them, as this is the famous one, I'll read this and see if I want to read something, er, longer.
Also got Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as that too looked fairly short. I've bought books by wotsisname before but never bothered to read them, as this is the famous one, I'll read this and see if I want to read something, er, longer.
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: eggonlegs on 17 June, 2005, 02:28:27 AM
Post by: eggonlegs on 17 June, 2005, 02:28:27 AM
a tory druid
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: therev on 17 June, 2005, 03:00:37 AM
Post by: therev on 17 June, 2005, 03:00:37 AM
made of Meccano?
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: johnnystress on 17 June, 2005, 03:04:26 AM
Post by: johnnystress on 17 June, 2005, 03:04:26 AM
blessed with a fine head of hair for a man his age?
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Bart Oliver on 17 June, 2005, 05:25:21 AM
Post by: Bart Oliver on 17 June, 2005, 05:25:21 AM
..dog food and luvin' it?
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Misanthrope on 17 June, 2005, 05:41:25 AM
Post by: Misanthrope on 17 June, 2005, 05:41:25 AM
a cunt
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: paulvonscott on 17 June, 2005, 06:07:37 AM
Post by: paulvonscott on 17 June, 2005, 06:07:37 AM
succesfully sued people for less in the high court and won substantial damages
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Floyd-the-k on 17 June, 2005, 10:34:46 AM
Post by: Floyd-the-k on 17 June, 2005, 10:34:46 AM
apart from the above things, who IS Ken Barlow?
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Bart Oliver on 21 June, 2005, 03:50:22 AM
Post by: Bart Oliver on 21 June, 2005, 03:50:22 AM
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Artificial Idiot on 21 June, 2005, 04:05:31 AM
Post by: Artificial Idiot on 21 June, 2005, 04:05:31 AM
... The 11th Doctor waiting to happen!
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: SamuelAWilkinson on 21 June, 2005, 05:10:26 AM
Post by: SamuelAWilkinson on 21 June, 2005, 05:10:26 AM
...the secret keeper of the Holy Grail.
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Dudley on 21 June, 2005, 05:29:12 AM
Post by: Dudley on 21 June, 2005, 05:29:12 AM
...Toast
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Bico on 21 June, 2005, 05:57:09 AM
Post by: Bico on 21 June, 2005, 05:57:09 AM
Cock.
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 June, 2005, 06:23:36 PM
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 June, 2005, 06:23:36 PM
Ready to sue all the above?
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Eric Plumrose on 21 June, 2005, 06:25:11 PM
Post by: Eric Plumrose on 21 June, 2005, 06:25:11 PM
And to think this post was meant as the Batman Begins review thread . . .
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Byron Virgo on 21 June, 2005, 08:30:15 PM
Post by: Byron Virgo on 21 June, 2005, 08:30:15 PM
"Cock."
And you claim that you're not homoerotic...
And you claim that you're not homoerotic...
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Bico on 21 June, 2005, 08:47:58 PM
Post by: Bico on 21 June, 2005, 08:47:58 PM
I meant it as a critique of all things soap-opera. That you seem to be reading it as a shopping list says more about you than me.
Apart from Sunset Beach - the natural conclusion of the soap-opera evolutionary chain - all soaps are utter shight - especially when they trot out their rape/child abuse storylines as if they're doing a service to the victims of such acts, when in reality they're trivialising the crime in pursuit of ratings. No matter how well-acted or scripted, they're still just a ratings-grabbing ploy that sensationalise the indefensible and - to my mind - actually begin to justify such things by glamourising them as being worthy of screen time.
HATE.
SOAPS.
Apart from Sunset Beach - the natural conclusion of the soap-opera evolutionary chain - all soaps are utter shight - especially when they trot out their rape/child abuse storylines as if they're doing a service to the victims of such acts, when in reality they're trivialising the crime in pursuit of ratings. No matter how well-acted or scripted, they're still just a ratings-grabbing ploy that sensationalise the indefensible and - to my mind - actually begin to justify such things by glamourising them as being worthy of screen time.
HATE.
SOAPS.
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: johnnystress on 21 June, 2005, 08:56:53 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 21 June, 2005, 08:56:53 PM
Fair City is running a story about a brother shagging his sister...again!
I know we're all inbred here and all but to run the same sensational story twice!
me and my girlfriend/ma were just talking about this the other night
I know we're all inbred here and all but to run the same sensational story twice!
me and my girlfriend/ma were just talking about this the other night
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Byron Virgo on 21 June, 2005, 10:47:35 PM
Post by: Byron Virgo on 21 June, 2005, 10:47:35 PM
"I meant it as a critique of all things soap-opera. That you seem to be reading it as a shopping list says more about you than me."
What kind of shops do you think I frequent?
Methinks that the Bear acted somewhat defensive there: you weren't mosllested as a child, were you? Is this the reason your mum sprinkles Holy water around you at night?
(I'll feel really bad if it turns out you actually were, now. Though it would explain the beard.)
What kind of shops do you think I frequent?
Methinks that the Bear acted somewhat defensive there: you weren't mosllested as a child, were you? Is this the reason your mum sprinkles Holy water around you at night?
(I'll feel really bad if it turns out you actually were, now. Though it would explain the beard.)
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Richmond Clements on 21 June, 2005, 11:06:05 PM
Post by: Richmond Clements on 21 June, 2005, 11:06:05 PM
me and my girlfriend/ma were just talking about this the other night
While I am certain that it was not your intention, this does read like your ma and girlfriend are the same person.
While I am certain that it was not your intention, this does read like your ma and girlfriend are the same person.
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: johnnystress on 21 June, 2005, 11:08:46 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 21 June, 2005, 11:08:46 PM
ah but you see that was my intention, i was being all Cletus and inbred you see- to further enhance the incestuous nature of the current plot in the RTE drama "Fair City", to which my post referred
;)
;)
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: LARF on 21 June, 2005, 11:16:34 PM
Post by: LARF on 21 June, 2005, 11:16:34 PM
...legion?
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Dudley on 21 June, 2005, 11:21:01 PM
Post by: Dudley on 21 June, 2005, 11:21:01 PM
smacks Rac's irony-sensor
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Wils on 21 June, 2005, 11:22:08 PM
Post by: Wils on 21 June, 2005, 11:22:08 PM
... actually Deirdre's transexual sister.
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Richmond Clements on 21 June, 2005, 11:24:42 PM
Post by: Richmond Clements on 21 June, 2005, 11:24:42 PM
Ah... I feel quite stupid now...
Irony? I'm from the North!
Irony? I'm from the North!
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: johnnystress on 21 June, 2005, 11:27:42 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 21 June, 2005, 11:27:42 PM
alas my jokes are as pearls before swine, caviar to pigs etc etc
whats Ken Barlow got to do with Batman anyway- i missed that bit?
whats Ken Barlow got to do with Batman anyway- i missed that bit?
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Richmond Clements on 21 June, 2005, 11:35:42 PM
Post by: Richmond Clements on 21 June, 2005, 11:35:42 PM
He's his uncle or grandad or something... unless this was ironic too...
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: johnnystress on 21 June, 2005, 11:39:44 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 21 June, 2005, 11:39:44 PM
it's getting hard to tell...
but on further investigation...
but on further investigation...
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Richmond Clements on 21 June, 2005, 11:45:32 PM
Post by: Richmond Clements on 21 June, 2005, 11:45:32 PM
Well I never.
That's fairly strange.
That's fairly strange.
Title: Re: Ken Barlow is . . .
Post by: Bart Oliver on 22 June, 2005, 01:11:21 AM
Post by: Bart Oliver on 22 June, 2005, 01:11:21 AM
..but true ;)