Julie Burchill forced to apologise for twitter comments , and pay out a fat wedge .

[killer b]

I've not seen it, but I've also never seen anybody praise it either... TBH Nicholas Cage is always great no matter how bad the film IME.

Well, I'm praising it.

 

[Serge Forward]

Musicals are genuinely appalling.

I'd honestly rather re-sit my O-Level Chemistry than have to sit through even a nanosecond of painful, performatively cheerful wank.

Even Singin' in the Rain?

 

[AmateurAgitator]

New publisher dropped

Julie Burchill fires new publisher identified as a white nationalist

A supporter of the far-right group Patriotic Alternative identifying herself as Tabatha Stirling has been recorded apologising for publishing authors of colour

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kaka Tim]

musicals are a huge and varied genre which have given us countless fantastic songs, great stories, hugely inventive eye popping spectacle and are a massively influential and important part of popular culture. To dismiss the entire genre out of some misplaced intellectual snobbery is intellectually lazy in the extreme.
Yes - there is a huge amount of utter wank, cringeworthy cheese and cliched drivel - but see also pop music, the novel and film drama.
This just in - its not all Elaine Page and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

 

[killer b]

Elaine Page has done a few bangers in her time anyway. That duet with Barbara Dickson is brilliant.

 

[Pickman's model]

Elaine Page has done a few bangers in her time anyway. That duet with Barbara Dickson is brilliant.

i know it so well

 

[killer b]

I guess we've mostly Bjorn & Benny to thank for it, but it's still an iconic performance

 

[Pickman's model]

Sorry for the derail, but it seems Burchill’s saviour publisher is a Nazi. Lol.

Julie Burchill fires new publisher identified as a white nationalist

A supporter of the far-right group Patriotic Alternative identifying herself as Tabatha Stirling has been recorded apologising for publishing authors of colour

www.theguardian.com

New publisher dropped

Julie Burchill fires new publisher identified as a white nationalist

A supporter of the far-right group Patriotic Alternative identifying herself as Tabatha Stirling has been recorded apologising for publishing authors of colour

www.theguardian.com

i wonder if this publisher will be dropped a third time

 

[Clair De Lune]

musicals are a huge and varied genre which have given us countless fantastic songs, great stories, hugely inventive eye popping spectacle and are a massively influential and important part of popular culture. To dismiss the entire genre out of some misplaced intellectual snobbery is intellectually lazy in the extreme.
Yes - there is a huge amount of utter wank, cringeworthy cheese and cliched drivel - but see also pop music, the novel and film drama.
This just in - its not all Elaine Page and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

No

 

[xenon]

Most musicals are dross, but there are some amazing ones, and its pure snobbery to dismiss them all.

Quadrophenia is that one? I like that and team America. They are the only two.

 

[Raheem]

Dancer in the Dark is good. And Jungle Book.

 

[Knotted]

Scott Pilgrim?

 

[xenon]

Oh yeah blues brothers. Apparently I do like some musicals.

 

[planetgeli]

Everything else is just a painful wank to nowhere. Every time I mention I don't like musicals someone recommends me one Why do that??

Innit.

"I don't like musicals"

"Oh but you'll like - "

"Fuck off."

 

[Pickman's model]

Innit.

"I don't like musicals"

"Oh but you'll like - "

"Fuck off."

don't knock it, i'm writing the libretto for 'fuck off: the musical', a sprawling jewel of a show with 1895 swearwords in an hour and a half

 

[steeplejack]

NB: it is possible to acknowledge the significant cultural / historical footprint of the musical genre, whilst cheerfully fucking detesting the genre.

"Snobbery"

 

[Doodler]

Nothing better for Sunday afternoon TV than an old musical like Oklahoma!

 

[Raheem]

Innit.

"I don't like musicals"

"Oh but you'll like - "

"Fuck off."

Quite right, but it should go:

"I don't like musicals"

"Fuck off."

 

[Clair De Lune]

Innit.

"I don't like musicals"

"Oh but you'll like - "

"Fuck off."

Oh you don't like eating shit? ok?! But have you tried erasing your memory of the worst old shit you've ever eaten by spreading a thick layer of extremely fresh and pungent shit all over it? You'll love it I promise! Do let me know what you think once you've tried it babes xox

 

[Raheem]

Oh you don't like eating shit? ok?! But have you tried erasing your memory of the worst old shit you've ever eaten by spreading a thick layer of extremely fresh and pungent shit all over it? You'll love it I promise! Do let me know what you think once you've tried it babes xox

Just don't involve yourself in discussions about things you don't want people to talk to you about.

 

[Pickman's model]

Oh you don't like eating shit? ok?! But have you tried erasing your memory of the worst old shit you've ever eaten by spreading a thick layer of extremely fresh and pungent shit all over it? You'll love it I promise! Do let me know what you think once you've tried it babes xox

it's usually about now i recommend listening to black lace's agadoo to evict the earworm you have

 

[Clair De Lune]

Just don't involve yourself in discussions about things you don't want people to talk to you about.

Oh sorry I hadn't realised that urban was a place where one must only speak in the affirmative to the topic at hand. My apologies.

 

[Pickman's model]

Oh sorry I hadn't realised that urban was a place where one must only speak in the affirmative to the topic at hand. My apologies.

raheem's new and hasn't got used to things round here yet

 

[Raheem]

Oh sorry I hadn't realised that urban was a place where one must only speak in the affirmative to the topic at hand. My apologies.

No, you can slag off whatever you want, just don't expect no-one to to tell you you're wrong.

 

[killer b]

Oh you don't like eating shit? ok?! But have you tried erasing your memory of the worst old shit you've ever eaten by spreading a thick layer of extremely fresh and pungent shit all over it? You'll love it I promise! Do let me know what you think once you've tried it babes xox

have you tried watching the wicker man babes? seems it's the musical people who hate musicals love.

 

[danny la rouge]

have you tried watching the wicker man babes? seems it's the musical people who hate musicals love.

There’s a reason for that.

 

[killer b]

There’s a reason for that.

is it because musicals are a huge and varied genre which have given us countless fantastic songs, great stories, hugely inventive eye popping spectacle and are a massively influential and important part of popular culture, and to dismiss the entire genre out of some misplaced intellectual snobbery is intellectually lazy in the extreme?

 

[Knotted]

My sister's husband's parents watched Wizard of Oz for the first time and hated it. I don't know how that's possible, but they did.

 

[Clair De Lune]

No, you can slag off whatever you want, just don't expect no-one to to tell you you're wrong.

Are you telling me I'm wrong Raheem ? Because if so, that's fine.

 

[Clair De Lune]

is it because musicals are a huge and varied genre which have given us countless fantastic songs, great stories, hugely inventive eye popping spectacle and are a massively influential and important part of popular culture, and to dismiss the entire genre out of some misplaced intellectual snobbery is intellectually lazy in the extreme?

No