Could somebody start a thread about something they like?

[Roger Godpleton]

Not to sound snippy, but could someone kindly outline the reasons behind comic sans hatred? I am by no means an apologist, but I'm wondering if there are any technical details I should be aware of.

[SamuelAWilkinson]

Not to sound snippy, but could someone kindly outline the reasons behind comic sans hatred? I am by no means an apologist, but I'm wondering if there are any technical details I should be aware of.

Solely from a reader's perspective, it's a real bastard on the eyes if you have to read sheets of the stuff.

[LARF]

It's a free font with Windows, Company Directors tend to use it when they are sending out a 'jolly' internal letter, Wanna be Word based graphic designer we know best receptionists tend to use it on newsletters, it's terrible, it's overused, it's used often in the wrong context, technically it's a pigs ear of a font design - it kerns wrong, the ascenders and descenders are awkward...

need I go on?

[Wils]

I'll just add also that, like Arial, it was designed as a screen font and was never originally intended for print in the first place.

[Peter Wolf]

Comic sans looks like a schoolteacher wrote something in marker pen for a classfull of under 12s which is what it is aimed at.

Microsoft rubbish but fine in its place.

Its still not as horrible as Brushscript.That has to be the worst ever.

[Kerrin]

I like reading books. At the moment I am reading 'The Crow Road' by Iain Banks for the first time. I've read a load of his normal fiction and all of his sci-fi and I've got to say I've yet to find one I didn't like.

[TordelBack]

I've got to say I've yet to find one I didn't like.

Have you read Canal Dreams?  Or Song of Stone?  Ugh, I say, ugh.  And I love the guy's stuff.

However, I loved his most recent one, Matter, although I appear to be alone in that.

[Kerrin]

Those are probably the only two of his I haven't read yet (tell a lie, I haven't read 'Dead Air' either) but I'll maybe get them out from the library. I thought 'Matter' was good but not my favorite M.Banks novel by a measure, there were a few times where I found myself wishing he'd concentrated less on Ferbin's storyline, seemed like a bit of an 'Inversions' retread, but it'll benefit from another read in a year or so I reckon. Still a belter though.

[JayzusB.Christ]

as much use as Anne Franks' drum-kit"

I was at the Anne Frank house in November and round the corner - round the fuckin' corner, not 1 minute's walk away - there's a shop that sells nothing but drum-kits. Oh how I laughed.
I haven't bothered my hole to read the rest of this thread. Is it any good?

[satchmo]

There's some good stuff about Marmite but apart from that, no.

[DavidXBrunt]

Oh I don't know. There's a nice bit about tattoos.

[Jim_Campbell]

I like reading books. At the moment I am reading 'The Crow Road' by Iain Banks for the first time. I've read a load of his normal fiction and all of his sci-fi and I've got to say I've yet to find one I didn't like.

I've found reading Banks' non-SF work (I seem unable to get into his SF stuff) to be very subject to the law of diminishing returns - the same motifs and devices crop up again and again, and you end up starting one of his novels waiting to spot the trope du jour for this particular book.

Dead Air, however, didn't recycle any of the previous themes but somehow failed to excite or engage on any human level.

Cheers!

Jim

[I, Cosh]

I find Banks books, with or without the M much of a muchness. He's always eminently readable, but I can rarely remember what he was on about. Crow Road I always remember for the Embarrassment of Ritchies, which made me laugh. The Bridge is interesting for displaying his inability to effectively string out a metaphor. Not like Cormac McCarthy.

[Satanist]

I like reading books. At the moment I am reading 'The Crow Road' by Iain Banks for the first time.

It was the day my Grandmother exploded is how that one starts eh? I always quite liked that. Last one of his I read was The Business and I thought it was awful.

I've rediscovered reading as my journey to work now takes over an hour so I get peace from the kids. Its great!

I'm currently reading "Bedroom Secrets of the Masterchefs" at the mo and its a pretty fucked up tale.

[Bouwel]

I was at the Anne Frank house in November and round the corner...

Despite going to Amsterdam fairly often I am yet to turn up when the house is open. I think it's a conspiracy.

Oh, and it gives me an excuse to share...


-Bouwel-