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Comments on: The abolition of satire http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/ As fair-minded and non-partisan as Torquemada. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:16:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: zorkmidden http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/#comment-997 Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:50:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=542#comment-997 Thank you, darling :-)

But um… we changed our name to Discarded Lies, we’re not LGF Watch Watch anymore, we decided we have a life.

Sorry, after you’ve gone into all that trouble already, hopefully this will be the last change. And I promise to be extra sweet to you for the next few weeks. Here, I’ll start right now: john b, you’re very cute.
:-)

]]> By: john b http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/#comment-969 Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:29:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=542#comment-969 How very embarrassing. Fixed now (both).

]]> By: zorkmidden http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/#comment-967 Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:59:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=542#comment-967 It’s so annoying to see poor spelling on a blog’s front page, it makes me want to use WMD. John, it’s "nemesis," not "nemisis."

And I see you have not linked to me yet, YOU BLOODY WANKER!

So, what happened to the ferret? You never told me.

]]> By: Michael http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/#comment-959 Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:38:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=542#comment-959 Following up my earlier comment, I did indeed see Billy Connolly last night, and while he talked about the row over the Ken Bigley joke in some detail (and his pride at being voted "very bastardish" on a Richard & Judy phone-in), he otherwise didn’t mention Iraq or indeed the War On Terror (TM) at all.

There were loads of tasteless comments about Robert Kilroy-Silk, though, which was more than enough compensation.

]]> By: Will http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/#comment-934 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:04:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=542#comment-934 Eh? explains what?

Say it like this "Why can’t we all just get along" in a whiney little pathetic sort of way as if you’ve got a carrot stuck down your throat at the same time. When you’ve done that then ignore that I have commented with my real name and just pretend that the signed name ‘Benjie’s Ghost’ is who has really commented.

There now, does that make a differenece? I can’t get the hang of this trolling business.

]]> By: Ista http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/#comment-928 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:44:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=542#comment-928 Damn, I can’t read that column anymore. Anyway, though I can’t comment on Booker’s article, this lack of humour stems from the fact that it’s seriously not funny to them – how can it be? It’s what they’ve based their entire notion of Good and Evil on. It’s like when you’re a kid and someone starts taking the piss out of Father Christmas and you get all red-faced and offended because you think Father Christmas is so cool and how can anyone not agree with you (except in that situation, you then grow up). In their minds it shouldn’t be funny to anyone at all. And so we have to suffer through all these shows of righteous indignation instead because "uh, it’s just a joke.." doesn’t seem to work anymore.

]]> By: john b http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/#comment-920 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:49:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=542#comment-920 I’m pleased to be a dubious commodity. Does that mean that you can trade futures in me at dubious commodity exchanges? I hope so.

And Will, are you really Benjie’s ghost? That explains a lot, in an entirely disturbing way.

]]> By: Will http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/#comment-919 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:35:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=542#comment-919 Why can’t we all just get along?

Benjie’s ghost.

]]> By: Rod http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/#comment-917 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 05:52:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=542#comment-917 Eric the Unread is actually a good blog.

You, on the other hand, are a more dubious commodity but your humour saves you.

]]> By: Backword Dave http://sbbs.johnband.org/2004/10/the-abolition-of-satire/#comment-916 Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:06:00 +0000 http://sbbs.johnband.org/?p=542#comment-916 Charlie Brooker</a>? I'm drunk, but I wish my Latin and Greek were better. Then I could show you tasteless. And a kind of democracy too.]]> You don’t mean Charlie Brooker? I’m drunk, but I wish my Latin and Greek were better. Then I could show you tasteless. And a kind of democracy too.

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