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I had to sit in church for an hour today- and I didn't particularly enjoy myself either. That said, I managed to do it without causing anyone else any unnecessary offense or anxiety.

And I'm quite sure he could have sat in his bus all day, and done the job he was being paid to do (and from where he could not see the ad anyway).

Are you serious?!?  He can't actually see it from where he's sitting- so it's ok?  Did you really just say that?
 

Here's a link to the story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hamp ... 832647.stm
I'm a bit of a traditionalist here, in that I think you do the job you're fucking paid to do- you be professional about it and don't let your personal life affect how you do it.

I'm not sure what this has to do with my asking you how the guy is making a "clumsy religious point", exactly- but now that you've mentioned it, off the top of my head, I can think of one or two instances where I would refuse to do the job I was being paid to do- and I bet you'd back me for it as well.

The guy doesn't want to drive a bus that is essentially dissing his religious views- and I think that's fair enough.  If he wouldn't drive the bus because the company refused to let him have a 'Jesus saves' bumper sticker on it, I'd agree with you.

Is the bus dissing his religious views, though? Yes, it's an ad expressing a view at odds with his own, but it doesn't say "there's probably no God and people who think there is are divvies" - I think we'd all agree that's pretty out of line. Ultimately, buses carry ads, but nobody expects the driver to endorse the message thereupon, otherwise screenings of Saw V would be full of bus drivers every night. By all means he has the right to refuse to drive these buses, but his employers shouldn't have to humour him if they don't feel so inclined.

BBC breakfast have just accidently played a clip with an unexpected 'Fuck'

I trust the whole team will be fired forthwith, with a pause only long enough to let the purveyors of teenage titties and race-hate whip up some much-needed outrage.

Seems to be a lot of 'slip ups' on telly latley.

Last Sunday in the repeat of Coronation Street from the previous fridays late night edition (no I don't follow it, it just happened to be on while I was in the same room as the telly) one of the characters said 'He's a fuck' in reference to a guy that had just broke his nose.

This was on at 12:45 on sunday afternoon, I'm surprised there hasn't been an outcry about that too.

Kids these days, eh?

I can categorically announce that he definitely didn't say that, he called the chap a 'thug'.

Make your own atheist bus!

Oh, Eff Eff Ess!

Merf, I've had my bad times reading some Pat Mills, and now and then expressed such an opinion on the boards (although my posts ratio on-topic:off-topic must be one of the lowest on the board), so I can understand your issues, Faplad, but I'd pick my moments were I you.

Why not start by telling us something you love? Like your favourite biscuit or something.

I'd agree with the above advice - the blog's a great place to test drive your stuff and see if it suits what you're looking for.


I'd also advise checking out //http://goodsandwichgreatclock.blogspot.com - now back in business after the author pulled his finger out and got on with something!

So I hear...

"Musn't grumble" is very English. Quite old-fashioned though, and you mostly hear it from older people. I shouldn't be surprised if the expression became extinct within 3 generations.

That'd be a sad event indeed, even though I never say it. A bit like Woolworths.

Now then, now then...

I see judge saville has been sending letters in...

Recruiting for the Justice Street Team, no doubt.

"by the way, i am not semiliterate, this is how i prefer to type on the computer. i apologize if this thread is out of line, i am just pissed.
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I dont know anything about all this and its not my business either but i laughed after reading the above comment.

I really hope you were laughing in agreement, Johnny Calls-The-Kettle-Black.



On another note: oh noes! He has posted an image of Johnny Cash swearing! This will teach us the error of our ways, and no mistake. Teach us, oh mighty Smegma, how to be as rakish and clever a card as you!

Had a hearty dose of snow here in Leeds-town, so much so that the decision was made by the sufficiently-high-ups that we could all go home after lunch! Hooray!

Alas, the department with which we share an office got the opposite decision, providing us with many a dirty look as we strolled out. Losers.

I'm playing through the original FEAR games right now, and frankly, it'll shit you up. Awesome game - incredible fight sequences and masterful creation of a scary-ass story.

It's nice that we have another comics-related board to be at war with.

I always check out //http://www.find-dvd.co.uk, which compares prices on just about any online retailer you can think of, and many you can't. I'd advise giving the unfamiliar ones a quick google, see if anyone has done any bitching about them if you're not sure.

Well, chaps, much as we all love the cheese comparison threads, arguing about whether a kitkat is a bar or biscuit* and correcting each others' grammar, I thought I'd use the board to prompt some kind of a deep, in-depth but vaguely on-topic sort of a question for us all to think about while we languish behind our desks tomorrow. So, the motion on the table is:

The use of the Tharg identity as editor of the Prog is detrimental to efforts to attract new readers.


Speaking for myself, I do love ol' Green-Bonce, but I remember buying my first prog (1334, if memory serves) and being thoroughly perplexed that this awesome, grownup sort of a comic had for no readily apparent reason held onto the fictional editor idea that all the kids' comics used to have when I was younger, and shedloads of inexplicable slang to boot, which served no real purpose.

So is all this just some secret club by this point, mystifying those who wish to join us with our secret language? Or is it by now just a big in-joke for those who've been reading since day dot and would miss it if it all went? Even if it is, are we putting new readers off by carrying it on?

What difference would it make to sales, morale and the overall feel of the comic if next Prog there was no Tharg's intro but rather a little note from Matt explaining that he's done away with all that stuff?

Discuss.


* - it's one of these. But that's not the matter at hand!

Maybe it just means that it could fire 360 rounds per millisecond if it had infinite bullets?

In which case, assuming that magazine holds enough ammo for maybe 30 seconds' worth concentrated fire, it contains 10,800,000 rounds. Which must be fucking tiny.

Is it an atom-gun?