Nice people thread

jetta_wales

lostinrates wrote: »

were you slagging me off?

What? No lol :-)

don't tease I'm still sleepy

chucky

PasturesNew wrote: »

Men + beer = too easy
Men + stag groups = too easy

They're like fresh meat gagging to be plucked... no fun at all after a couple of decades of feasting

and there's me thinking romance was dead :eek:

carolt

Mary_Hartnell wrote: »

The book is a satire on the post war rush to "socialism", especially as "Uncle Joe" Stalin expanded his empire from the USSR into the countries of Eastern Europe. It is probably a deliberate typo of 1948 but by setting it in the future the problem of alienating our former allies, socialist friends and colleagues and all the fellow travellers in the UK was avoided, until after the penny dropped.

Now shall we talk about room 101 ?

You can over intellectualise here:
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

You can see something of the author here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

Though these two links do not investigate the possibility/probability that Orwell started out as a middle class socialist lad, like Che Guevara. but by the time he had arrived at the BBC, he had gone through the conversion from "if you are not a socialist as a young man, you have got no heart to if you are a socialist as an old man, you have got no head". So as "one of us" rather than "one of them" he was in a position to report back on the activities of his "pinko" colleagues.

http://www.orwell.ru/a_life/list/english/e_list

That's quite astonishingly intelligent for 4.50am.

jetta_wales

carolt wrote: »

That's quite astonishingly intelligent for 4.50am.

I must admit though that I understood less than half of it but I'm only young and I dropped history at 14 lol.

Thanks for the post though I kinda got the just of it I think (maybe).

lostinrates

jetta_wales wrote: »

I must admit though that I understood less than half of it but I'm only young and I dropped history at 14 lol.

Thanks for the post though I kinda got the just of it I think (maybe).

Did you drop English literature, and watching Big Brother too?

I'd like to say the truly terrifying thing about that show is that noone understands the reference. I watch the celeb one a bit, and it had the only decent reference to Orwell in it, when they all dressed up as farm animals and were hostile to Davina McCall dressed as a duck? I think. The pig in the door way with folded arms had me roaring...but more so because I'm not sure whether the production team realised the reference or not...which was a truly bizarre feeling...was it genius...or just surreal coincidence? That I don't know was initself a little orwellian I think.

lostinrates

I hope wageslave sees this. I went out to buy those boots...following your instructions...but they were gone. No boots, but money saved....I should feel happy.

jetta_wales

lostinrates wrote: »

Did you drop English literature, and watching Big Brother too?

I'd like to say the truly terrifying thing about that show is that noone understands the reference. I watch the celeb one a bit, and it had the only decent reference to Orwell in it, when they all dressed up as farm animals and were hostile to Davina McCall dressed as a duck? I think. The pig in the door way with folded arms had me roaring...but more so because I'm not sure whether the production team realised the reference or not...which was a truly bizarre feeling...was it genius...or just surreal coincidence? That I don't know was initself a little orwellian I think.

Don't watch big brother and I only got a C in both English GCSE's partly because I'm dyslexic partly because half of the time it bored me we rarely read books I enjoyed.

Contrary to that though I now love books since i discovered a genre i enjoy a few years ago and i love to write too and am apparently very good at it, having an intrest in your topic definatly makes a huge difference as does reading a lot too but with my eye sight it does take me a fair bit longer to get through a book lol.

I want a kindle DX so I can have any book I want in large print but I can't afford one at the moment and not for a fair while I dont think, it would be fantastic though.

lostinrates

jetta_wales wrote: »

Don't watch big brother and I only got a C in both English GCSE's partly because I'm dyslexic partly because half of the time it bored me we rarely read books I enjoyed.

Contrary to that though I now love books since i discovered a genre i enjoy a few years ago and i love to write too and am apparently very good at it, having an intrest in your topic definatly makes a huge difference as does reading a lot too but with my eye sight it does take me a fair bit longer to get through a book lol.

I want a kindle DX so I can have any book I want in large print but I can't afford one at the moment and not for a fair while I dont think, it would be fantastic though.

well, despite me not being quite as tin foil hat as many of my esteemed chums here, I heartily recommend you read (or get on audio version) some Orwell. Animal Farm and 1984 are both such classics they are consistently referenced in modern culture....and have shaped much literary work following them. You may well be amazed at modern references you have missed before reading them. I'm no huge Orwell fan....but there is no doubting the influence has been tremendous.

SmartPricePrincess

lostinrates wrote: »

well, despite me not being quite as tin foil hat as many of my esteemed chums here, I heartily recommend you read (or get on audio version) some Orwell. Animal Farm and 1984 are both such classics they are consistently referenced in modern culture....and have shaped much literary work following them. You may well be amazed at modern references you have missed before reading them. I'm no huge Orwell fan....but there is no doubting the influence has been tremendous.

Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend

"Started reading Animal Farm by George Orwell. Am considering becoming a vet.":D

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

On cashtrated? I didn't notice you saying anything wrong.

No, here... er ... marriages/family board I think.

I know .. I know ... !!!!!! would I know about anything. Anyway ... gave my opinion/thoughts ... wasn't wanted.