E: 08/05 Win an original Damien Hirst painting. GAME OVER!!

lydias

It is vaguely amusing that it is Guardian readers rather than Sun or Daily Mail ones that object to answer sharing?

Or maybe that's just me

MadeInTheDark

Guardian readers can be elitist, I can't really speak for the Sun, Daily Mail readers however, object to just about everything

I think this forum is a good thing, and even if many people do not, there aint nothing they can do about it! :cool:

Whoever wins though probably shouldn't hang it on their wall if they can't afford to insure it! I appreciate art, but I am an impoverished student! Hirst says he expects the winner to sell it, that's what his work is all about anyway.

badcoverversion

OingoBoingo wrote: »

re: "I do find myself somewhat disappointed by threads like these."

But, I find myself rather disappointed by Damien Hirst....Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, et al. Their excuse is that they are just reflecting life...

I'm giving away the answers, because I want the Hirst to be hanging above a gas fire, next to a picture of dogs playing snooker, in someone's council house, while they sit and watch Corrie, eating fray bentos pies.

I have no time for competition, toryism, protestantism, greed, selfishness, "why nots" & "why shouldn't I's".

To me, there is a difference between those who have been shaped through the education system to form these machiavellian ideas, and those who do it out of ignorance, poverty & desperation.

Only 3hrs 30mins to go until I can give the next answer.....and the next answer.....and the next answer. I'm an unrelenting foot stamping on your face (metaphorically of course.)


Lord of the Flies time.....

Regards,

DH.

You're making asinine assumptions about me OingoBoingo, and similarly misjudged assumptions about a 'class' that doesn't exist outside of Alan Clarke movies and trite Harry Enfield type sketches.

You're insulting the very people that you claim to be aiding by painting them as crass stereotypes.

What amuses me most is the fact that I live in Salford...an area rife with deprivation and bona fide poverty and I live in a !!!!ing Council House that boasts a picture of a weeping boy of all things!

I am a self-educated girl from a VERY deprived background who attended one of the worst schools in the Country (Lowry High). I don't love Warhol, Koons, Hirst et al because they don't move me, but I appreciate their individual contributions to the creative arts and would personally feel privelaged to own one of their works - if only for a little while.

I'm more of a Hockney, Moholy-nage, Klimt girl but hey, that probably doesn't provide you with enough 'material' to rip the proverbial p!ss out off me.

My reasoning for disliking this thread was purely because I don't think it's fair play...and fair play is one concept that I truly believe in.

If you disagree with me then fair enough, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't insinuate that I was some elitist scumbag trying to trample on the poor a la Jack Merridew.

cestlavie

i do hope damien's having a good laugh. lord knows i am. badcoverversion, since you ask us not to judge you at first sight, i looked through your past posts.. and i am very confused by your version of "fair play" . so, just to clarify, for the rest of us, ( who may also live in poverty and council houses), in your world... it's perfectly ok to ask perfect strangers to vote for your son to win a competition they know nothing about... but the rest of us can go to hell for sharing info here? hmm...

badcoverversion

cestlavie wrote: »

i do hope damien's having a good laugh. lord knows i am. badcoverversion, since you ask us not to judge you at first sight, i looked through your past posts.. and i am very confused by your version of "fair play" . so, just to clarify, for the rest of us, ( who may also live in poverty and council houses), in your world... it's perfectly ok to ask perfect strangers to vote for your son to win a competition they know nothing about... but the rest of us can go to hell for sharing info here? hmm...

Are you f**cking kidding me? I asked people to vote if they wished or had the inclination.

I don't live in poverty, never claimed to. I'm just stating facts about my background and current situation.

Nobody can go to hell. I said I didn't approve of certain aspects of this forum (mainly the answer giving process and the multiple e-mails). I stand by that.

bonzobob_2

Q10. Quite easy this one, just use google map

Spoiler (Highlight)
Hours

OingoBoingo

doink! There's another! Whee!! ty.

badcoverversion

OingoBoingo wrote: »

doink! There's another! Whee!! ty.

Thanks for the sensible and relevant response.

OingoBoingo

Quick! it's a Troll.

-But maybe, if you want to be told, why you should go away and stop bothering this free-thinking thread; you could make up another forum thread titled "Should quiz answers be posted on the moneysavingexpert forum?" Oh! Hark! Will you look at that!... I've already created the thread, to save you the trouble....
:j

crin

I think you have a chip on your shoulder bigger than Rivington pike badconversation and I think everyone is a bit tired of your vitriolic outbursts please give it a rest.