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Jerusalem.  I've been reading it for over a year, with breaks of shorter books. The Lucia Joyce POV chapter is, while an incredibly skillful homage to Finnegans Wake, honours its inspiration by also being really hard to get through.

You're all wrong about The Road. The book is way better, with full armies of cool cannibals instead of just a handful, and a fun landscape of ash and soot rather than just grey grass and trees like the film.

Fair enough- to be honest it's not the easiest life and you do need to be somewhat able-bodied to carry out necessary duties.

My little boat cost me 16 grand (my dad took out a loan and I paid him back monthly) but with all the maintenance and improvements I probably paid another 10 on top of that. 

Nailed it.

That very wagon was designed by my old Production Design tutor from art college.  He showed us the original designs and took us to meet Eugene Lambert from the show, who gave us a puppetry demonstration using Judge the Dog.

He also worked on Mary Shelley's Frankensteim, which is a weird bit of O'Brien & Godmother / Robert de Niro crossover trivia.

Anyway once again I really hope you get it sorted soon.  Would a boat be an option?  That's what I did (until the fecker exploded, but that is rare and it's a nice if busy lifestyle)..

There has always been a cancel culture. There was no Number 1 in the charts when the Pistols' anti-monarchy song was doing particularly well.  Gerry Adams had to be dubbed on BBC News.  The Catholic Church at the height of their power in Ireland were particularly adept at ostracising dissenting voices.

ah feck, Paddy, you've been through the wars and no mistake.  I really hope something works out.  Sometimes I forget how lucky I am, despite my modest accommodation.

I do understand the mouse issue - when I lived on the boat they were regular visitors.  I tried my very best to get rid of them without killing them but finally went back to the old school mousetraps.  Rats were another issue - they chewed up my clothes and my furniture but wwirdly seemed to move out when they realised I was a permanent resident.

My grud, you're right. Never even occurred to me.

Aye, I'll second that. How are you doing yourself, Paddy?

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Never mind about the use of 'whore', the first thing I did after reading Rogue was Google 'twat etymology'. Didn't think it was around in the WWI era but apparently it's of mid C17th origin (I'm sure the Ennis droid's etymological circuits are well-maintained).

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001812.html

Cheers Funt.  Just not sure where it leaves Putin now.  I heard of Russians cheering the Wagner group on as they drove towards Moscow, but who knows, with the fog of war being what it is.

Obviously Putin is very bad news, but i shudder to think of the consequences of a savage mercenary like Pregozhin having access to the red button. The devil we know is appalling but possibly still better.

Is "whore" swearing?

I was never sure, having seen it everywhere from the Simpsons to Wonder Woman comics.

It's not exactly new to the prog - Nikolai Dante had an army of them, as stated in the title of the story arc - but I do agree that it's very jarring heating Rogue  say 'I'll make every one of your whore-mothers wwep'. He's a sci fi future supersoldier, not a Cimmerian barbarian.  That said, brilliant episode, and I'm sad it's coming to an end.

That's all I've read so far, but Rogue so far has been the prog highlight for me since it started.

The prog hasn't been 'suitable' for kids for years (I'd argue certainly since the mid-90s)

I think I'd go back way further - The Horned God, with all its willies, nipples and blood, started in 1989.  I think that was round about the time Gunnar made his aforementioned jibe at that Souther deserter, occurring among Cinnabar's public orgies, brothels and eye-wateringly graphic violence. 

In fairness, I was a kid at the time, but I wasn't about to show my parents the kind of thing Tharg was serving up to me every week.

I've thought about the possibility of Dredd doing real swearing, and for me it wouldn't work.  Unlike Rogue, he's been bred and trained to interact with citizens, and to speak in a measured, authorative and controlled manner.

 I didn't even like when Garth had Dredd using 'drokk' as an f-word substitute - drokkin' this and shut the drokk up that - as it made him sound unprofessional and lacking in control.

Rogue, for me at least, is fair game for the odd expletive in an age where the prog has already long left its original audience of kids behind (and whether that was the right or wrong move is an issue covered at length in many, many other threads).   Also, you'd be hard pressed to get a line of prog dialogue filthier than what Gunnar said to that Souther about his sister back in Cinnabar.

Feck me pink,  I hadn't even thought of the parallels with Kazan and the Apocalypse War. Both brave moves by Wagner (sorry).

I can't quite work out where this leaves Putin. Weakened by the loss of Wagner or strengthened by the rooting out of bad apples? More popular with his people or less? Oh, those Russians.

Really good prog this week.  Azimuth looks lovely and is a great read, but my top spot still goes to Rogue.  Never thought I'd say this in the era of the Tough Gronk and that mutant teddy bear thing, but i really hope Garth returns to the prog soon.

The swearing doesn't bother me at all - I know we're not used to Rogue cursing like that, but when four battle-hardened male soldiers spend all their time together, realistically i wouldn't really expect them to speak like choirboys.  Insofar as a blue man who travels in time through a black hole can be said to be realistic, that is.