Are you a Nazi? Let Jane Austen fix that for you.

[two sheds]

Bleak House might be on the list - make the fucker grateful that he went through criminal courts rather than civil courts.

 

[A380]

Or HG Wells Time Machine.

Morlock em up!

 

[A380]

Silas spends 100 pages in the middle just fucking weaving.

Bit like Das Kapital then…

 

[nogojones]

Well he was a weaver tbf, what do you think he should have been doing?

I'm relaxed about his career choices, but Eliot could have just said Silas sat down and weaved for 20 years, rather than dragging it out for so long.

 

[A380]

I'm relaxed about his career choices, but Eliot could have just said Silas sat down and weaved for 20 years, rather than dragging it out for so long.

Might have lost the thread of the story with a narrative time warp like that.

 

[maomao]

I'm relaxed about his career choices, but Eliot could have just said Silas sat down and weaved for 20 years, rather than dragging it out for so long.

I'm pretty sure the 'passage of time while Eppie grows up' bit was shorter than that but it is the Victorian equivalent of a montage and probably jarred a bit.

 

[nogojones]

I'm pretty sure the 'passage of time while Eppie grows up' bit was shorter than that but it is the Victorian equivalent of a montage and probably jarred a bit.

Maybe I recall incorrectly - it was 30+ years ago and my tastes have matured a tiny bit since then, but I don't look back in fondness at my English lit classes.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

I'm not all that about Jane Austin either. Read Pride and Predudice a couple of years ago and it was pretty dull. It picked up towards the end, but I'm not in a rush to read any of her others.

Never mind all that. What about Colin Firth in his undies?

 

[Serene]

As an avid reader Id welcome that punishment, if I am ever in trouble. I need to finish off the Wordsworth Biography I am reading, but cant as I have to keep going to work. Maybe I should steal a car, change the plates and start driving it without insurance, and get caught, then I can have a few bliss weeks reading it for a test.

 

[likesfish]

Neither have most of the Muslim men imprisoned on terrorism charges in the UK.

Because muslims who have attacked people tend to die in the process.
Trouble is that is an islamist tactic takes no planning or build up.
Nazis tend to want to survive makes stoppi g them a lot easier

 

[BillRiver]

Because muslims who have attacked people tend to die in the process.
Trouble is that is an islamist tactic takes no planning or build up.
Nazis tend to want to survive makes stoppi g them a lot easier

Not all of the Muslim men locked up on terrorism charges had any plan or intention to hurt anybody. They can be imprisoned for fundraising. Eg a man I knew who was sending money to Afghanistan. He said it was to fund mixed gender schools, the UK state said otherwise (and refused to show him or his lawyers any evidence). Others are inside for having travelled to certain places, reading certain websites/literature, associating with certain people, etc.

 

[planetgeli]

I love my diverse thread.

 

[Serge Forward]

Half decent victorian novel was The Manchester Man.

 

[hitmouse]

Half decent victorian novel was The Manchester Man.

I was going to say "that'd be a good name for a pub, surprised I've never heard of a pub named after it", but then I clicked through and saw the main character was called Jabez Clegg. Never knew where that name came from before.

 

[Serge Forward]

Also Bishop Blaize.

The book itself is a bit melodrama but the historical backdrop is top notch.

 

[likesfish]

Not all of the Muslim men locked up on terrorism charges had any plan or intention to hurt anybody. They can be imprisoned for fundraising. Eg a man I knew who was sending money to Afghanistan. He said it was to fund mixed gender schools, the UK state said otherwise (and refused to show him or his lawyers any evidence). Others are inside for having travelled to certain places, reading certain websites/literature, associating with certain people, etc.

unfortunately TWAT has made anyone labelled a Muslim terrorist the most Dangerous thing EVAH! even when they are in a B category prison the national search squad would descend spin his cell ignore the local staff and remove his copy of National Geographic?

 

[cyril_smear]

yes sorry I was playing on the crime and punishment gag that SpookyFrank did much more subtly and so nobody including myself noticed

Nobody picked up on my reference either; and that's the tragedy

 

[hitmouse]

Nobody picked up on my reference either; and that's the tragedy

I was going to say "Abba thread's thataway", but on reflection that song's actually by the Bee Gees, and I don't think the Bee Gees are turning themselves into robots to do a reunion or anything so there's no active thread about them. Still, will bear that potential pun in mind the next time a judge sentences someone to listen to 70s disco songs instead of going to prison.

 

[Pickman's model]

Nobody picked up on my reference either; and that's the tragedy

everyone picked up on your reference but thought it pedestrian

 

[nogojones]

Nobody picked up on my reference either; and that's the tragedy

So much of our best work on this site goes unrecognised

 

[hitmouse]

I like that I have absolutely no idea whatsoever whether the above series of posts are filled with clever hidden references to 19th-century Russian literature. Or Abba songs or Bee Gees songs.

 

[Pickman's model]

I like that I have absolutely no idea whatsoever whether the above series of posts are filled with clever hidden references to 19th-century Russian literature. Or Abba songs or Bee Gees songs.

if there's anything clever hidden in a cyril smear post it he posted it unwittingly

 

[Santino]

ABBA or The Bee Gees... ABBA or The Bee Gees. I guess it's time..... for making your mind up.

 

[Raheem]

ABBA or The Bee Gees... ABBA or The Bee Gees. I guess it's time..... for making your mind up.

Don't bring the Fizz into it.

 

[SpookyFrank]

if there's anything clever hidden in a cyril smear post it he posted it unwittingly

Or he's had his account hacked by someone smarter. For example, a rock or some yeast.