The Goggle Box Thread

[Del Woppio]

Fuck Dickens and Shakespeare - is anybody watching this season of MAFS Australia? It's fucking brilliant, tonight's commitment ceremony is gon be liiitttttttttttt

 

[Johnny75]

Fuck Dickens and Shakespeare - is anybody watching this season of MAFS Australia? It's fucking brilliant, tonight's commitment ceremony is gon be liiitttttttttttt

 

[lemonjelly]

I've generally struggled with Dickens books, but some of his short stories are brilliant.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Bleak House is brilliant. Takes a bit of effort but well worth it.

 

[Alan]

I've generally struggled with Dickens books, but some of his short stories are brilliant.

This is how I feel about Stephen King a lot of the time.

 

[The Bear]

Fuck Dickens and Shakespeare - is anybody watching this season of MAFS Australia? It's fucking brilliant, tonight's commitment ceremony is gon be liiitttttttttttt

MAFS is for 12 year old girls and single women.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[BillyDee]

Great Expectations is dogshit, largely because it isn't a novel but a collected serialisation. You wouldn't stitch together a bunch of Eastenders episodes and expect an Oscar winning motion picture.

Shakespeare plays are a bit hit and miss, depending on who the author is...

 

[Alan]

MAFS is for 12 year old girls and single women.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Using a female audience as a put down is kinda lame.

Come on, man. Don’t even think Del was being serious.

 

[Tony Towner]

Oh I'm fairly certain he is

 

[lemonjelly]

This is how I feel about Stephen King a lot of the time.

King is good, but his endings are terrible frequently!

 

[AndyWolves]

The amount of symbol hunting we did at school ruined Shakespeare and probably a few other books for me.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I found Chaucer the most interesting "historical" English writer we studied at school.

Voltaire in French and either Böll, Brecht or Frisch in German.

We studied Thomas Mann extensively at uni, fuck me is that boring.

 

[Del Woppio]

Using a female audience as a put down is kinda lame.

Come on, man. Don’t even think Del was being serious.

I am, I fucking love it. The drama is something else. The dinner party/commitment ceremony double header is one of the best two hours of TV you can watch

 

[machin05]

Using a female audience as a put down is kinda lame.

Come on, man. Don’t even think Del was being serious.

Bear's gonna Bear

 

[Alan]

I am, I fucking love it. The drama is something else. The dinner party/commitment ceremony double header is one of the best two hours of TV you can watch

Careful, gonna have to revoke your Man Card™

 

[sycophantia]

I found Chaucer the most interesting "historical" English writer we studied at school.

Voltaire in French and either Böll, Brecht or Frisch in German.

We studied Thomas Mann extensively at uni, fuck me is that boring.

Did you? You're a better man than me, I just couldn't get to grips with it and we had to do it for 'O' level.
I suspect because you are good at other languages it suited your strengths, or you're just much cleverer than me.
Canterbury Tales was basically a foreign language to me.

 

[Tredman]

Careful, gonna have to revoke your Man Card™

Wait, you can get a Man Card™, where do I apply?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Did you? You're a better man than me, I just couldn't get to grips with it and we had to do it for 'O' level.
I suspect because you are good at other languages it suited your strengths, or you're just much cleverer than me.
Canterbury Tales was basically a foreign language to me.

I probably did enjoy the linguistic element, yeah. But the story telling was interesting as well.

I'm really not that clever

I didn't mind Macbeth or Julius Caesar but a lot of the other Shakespeare stuff wasn't for me. Never got on board with Dickens, lumpier than 80s gravy.

Mercifully our class didn't have to study Tolkein (but another one in our year did, luck of the draw). Absolute drivel.

 

[Alan]

Wait, you can get a Man Card™, where do I apply?

Hugh Hefner's grave.

 

[sycophantia]

I probably did enjoy the linguistic element, yeah. But the story telling was interesting as well.

I'm really not that clever

I didn't mind Macbeth or Julius Caesar but a lot of the other Shakespeare stuff wasn't for me. Never got on board with Dickens, lumpier than 80s gravy.

Mercifully our class didn't have to study Tolkein (but another one in our year did, luck of the draw). Absolute drivel.

See I would have been all over Tolkein but no way would our school have considered such modern tripe. It was all Dickens, Brontes, Chaucer and Shakespeare, when we were told we were doing Ivanhoe I got all excited but it's turgid for most of it, I used to get into deep shit for skim reading the crap bits to get to the archery competitions, sword fighting and jousting.
My missus had Kestrel for a Knave and Sons and Lovers in her curriculum.