tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052206321752783340.post7833783830762243878..comments2023-10-28T16:14:46.127+01:00Comments on how-you-say-it: Arseholes?Shanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827981433386542298noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052206321752783340.post-30157150970601475712009-06-16T08:55:13.853+01:002009-06-16T08:55:13.853+01:00PI - a judicious choice.
I think it clashed with...PI - a judicious choice. <br /><br />I think it clashed with Sylvia Plath too, who - unexpectedly - became far more intriguing to me as a result:<br /><br /><i>If I pay the roots of the heather<br />Too close attention, they will invite me<br />To whiten my bones among them.</i><br /><br />Words that are wonderful and depressing. Moorlands, bleak yet compelling. <br /><br />It's a terrible analogy, but that's kind of how I feel about Big Brother.<br /><br />And Shane - apologies for sullying your blog with poetry...Meanwhile...https://www.blogger.com/profile/07014446354132484594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052206321752783340.post-89790627715507526152009-06-15T15:20:56.950+01:002009-06-15T15:20:56.950+01:00Pi - I did hear that you'd be receiving a visi...Pi - I did hear that you'd be receiving a visit from HRH. Ears may have been burning, but I didn't notice - was too busy trying to avert aversion-worthy <i>stuff</i>.Shanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07827981433386542298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052206321752783340.post-57674864133469378312009-06-15T15:09:15.893+01:002009-06-15T15:09:15.893+01:00You must not tempt me like that its not cricket.
B...You must not tempt me like that its not cricket.<br />BTW are your ears burning?Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529798893653033970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052206321752783340.post-9161705312081549182009-06-10T00:49:38.295+01:002009-06-10T00:49:38.295+01:00Huw - I cannot relate to that way of thinking. (Wh...Huw - I cannot relate to that way of thinking. (<i>Whilst thinking: 'Gawwwwwdddddd, we are so alike - that's really spooky'</i>)<br /><br />Pi - But Patty Pi Pi, noooooooooo! You're meant to be one of my fellow <i>sufferers</i>. Don't turn all sensible and grown-up on me now. I mean, what about Freddie - nice guy or what?! And how will Marcus be received by the public-at-large? And are we facing the end of the celebrity <i>romance</i>?... Patty... come back.Shanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07827981433386542298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052206321752783340.post-69494091268895904562009-06-09T18:40:57.683+01:002009-06-09T18:40:57.683+01:00I have promised myself that I won't watch at a...I have promised myself that I won't watch at all this year. Any way it clashed with TS Elliot who I wanted to understand and I'm quite sick of Davina. I only watch it of course to marvel at the vagaries of human nature. So there it is. And although MTL said we orter vote, in the end - for reasons I won't bore you with - we didn't.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529798893653033970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6052206321752783340.post-37698907784313623932009-06-06T22:50:46.571+01:002009-06-06T22:50:46.571+01:00Don't tell anyone, but I sometimes catch mysel...Don't tell anyone, but I sometimes catch myself fantasising that if I went on Big Brother, I'd be so detached and at a loss as how to communicate with the really nuts people, I'd become a sort of cult national figure, like Truman in the Truman Show or something. People would empathise with me wandering around, a mixture of confusion and loneliness, seeking refuge in the diary room for intense monologues on how the whole situation was making me reassess who I was, and eventually coming to bond closely with the subnormals around me.<br /><br />But don't tell anyone.Huwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17812961156865975046noreply@blogger.com