This, totally.
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This, totally.
That's the kind of condescension that invites condescension in kind, not an invitation to live and let live.
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Except you posted that I 'didn't get it' which was 'on me' before I posted the pedestal Pratchett fans place him on is ludicrous. Looks to me that I've got you guys fairly well pegged tbh.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
If so then he has failed abjectly, like I said I'm a big fan but I definitely have never taken his work remotely seriously.
We posted at the same time, mine just got there slightly before yours. You weren't responding to my post. And I was responding to "thing you like is bad". If you're going to say "thing you like is bad", you're inviting a response.
Right. You think it is "ludicrous" that people "put him on a pedestal". But also think that we should all agree to disagree. Got it.
I quite often "agree to disagree" with people who think something that I find ludicrous. Precisely because I feel their opinion is too ludicrous to have an interesting or respectful debate about.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Isn't that agreeing to disagree though
Agreeing to disagree isn't actually agreeing to disagree though, it's agreeing to stop arguing without a resolution. Which I suppose we'll do eventually anyway, but I'd rather do that out of boredom or something more important distracting me than some fake negotiated end of hostilities
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I don't think everything Pratchett wrote was brilliant by any means. Some of the earlier ones are quite hardgoing, I found, but then he found his voice and they really take off. The Monstrous Regiment was particularly clever, and I really loved the ones about the witches and the town guards, and his few last books I really enjoyed (about the mint, the post office and the railways). The newspaper one was the last one I remember not liking.
So as with many authors I like, I don't think everything he wrote was pure genius. Not all fans place him on a pedestal killer b
So as with many authors I like, I don't think everything he wrote was pure genius. Not all fans place him on a pedestal killer b
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Lads, eh?
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Lads and lasses too Jimmy Savile though
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Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Shudder
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Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Let's all be lasses then!
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Please feel free to join in
Seems i let the side down by wearing an old t shirt. 
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It was the honour of my life (and I say that only semi-jokingly) to be able to dispatch the ambulance that took TP from Salisbury District Hospital back home for the last time (I assume - he died not too long afterwards). A life spent giving joy to millions and also giving tedious bores a chance to tell everyone how much more refined their tastes are so I think everyone here can be grateful to him for something anyway 
Isn't this the plot of Monstrous Regiment?
Anyway, 'lads' is increasingly used in a gender neutral sense these days. That's certainly how I use it
That's because they all seem to have been made by people who made the mistake of thinking they were making a fantasy story
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I could not read the article. Too cringing. The excerpt above, I mean what the fuck.I read it again to check whether there was a mention of policiesat self.
Amongst stiff competition, this is perhaps my favourite paragraph though, about the edgy photograph with a skull:
That's not commonly used as a plural, the way "guys", "lads", etc. are. Not really equivalent.
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