> Why try and cram all the doctors into the campus surgery and shove
> Diane Keen into a tight spot (hey, she can share with me!) when
> there's tons of room in the proper surgery?
I watched it for the first time a few weeks ago because a mate of mine was
in it. What a pile of tripe - that screaming queen bloke with the bow-tie
who's meant to be having an affair with the woman is about the campest thing
I've ever seen!
My mate was a bit miffed because he said they give the guest actors all the
tough stuff to do and loads of lines to learn, but the regulars get away
with hardly doing anything.
Ian
Don't actors normally whinge when they aren't given many lines?
Fred X
> Don't actors normally whinge when they aren't given many lines?
Not when they're on the crap money that 'Doctors' pays!
Ian
I don't think Harpo Marx was too bothered.
--
Halmyre
This is the most powerful sigfile in the world and will probably blow your
head clean off.
Presuming you're talking about him from One Foot in the Grave and her
from The Bill, they're not having an affair, they're a couple.
> My mate was a bit miffed because he said they give the guest actors all the
> tough stuff to do and loads of lines to learn, but the regulars get away
> with hardly doing anything.
Any idea how much the extras get paid for an episode and how long it
takes to film?
But Sooty was.
Fred X
So would you be if you had Harry Corbett's hand up your arse.
> Presuming you're talking about him from One Foot in the Grave and her
> from The Bill, they're not having an affair, they're a couple.
Even more pculiar. He's camper then Christmas.
> Any idea how much the extras get paid for an episode and how long it
> takes to film?
No idea what extras get, sorry. My pal was up in Birmingham for two days
doing his one, but I don't know if that was it for everyone or just him.
Ian
Wow! I won't get through all that tonight. I'll check the rest out
tomorrow.
> Ian F aka Ian Freeman
Discussion switched to UMTM 2.0 on Facebook.
Ian
Fair's fair, I think we should actually switch this discussion to a
forum in which we can all participate.
How about this one: http://www.ligotti.net/index.php
Let's all sign up for it and continue the discussion there, I'm sure
all the current members won't mind.
Cheers
Jeff
And back to the topic at hand, is it just me who's having impure
thoughts about Diane Keen thesedays?
Good luck! :)
<wind blows, tumbleweed, bell tolls in distance>
>In article <8796dcb7-db68-48c6-95ba-68ebeeb28ef8
>@g1g2000vbr.googlegroups.com>, haunte...@hotmail.com says...
>> On Nov 23, 4:47�pm, DVDfever <pickp...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On 23 Nov, 13:32, "Ian F." <wowfabgro...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > "The Laughing Gnome" <hauntedri...@hotmail.com> wrote in messagenews:56eade88-2763-4efb...@x15g2000vbr.googlegroups.com...
>> >
>> > > > Ian F aka Ian Freeman
>> >
>> > > Discussion switched to UMTM 2.0 on Facebook.
>> >
>> > And back to the topic at hand, is it just me who's having impure
>> > thoughts about Diane Keen thesedays?
>> >
>> > Good luck! :)
>>
>> Your girlfriends couldn't stick on-topic if they were glued to a giant
>> Nestle bar of that name.
>>
>
><wind blows, tumbleweed, bell tolls in distance>
Perhaps he meant a giant Mars Inc. bar of that name.
Jerry Brown
--
A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)
>Ian F aka Ian Freeman
>Website: www.ianfreeman.com
I see you do something called 'Reputation Management'.
Perhaps Barker could do with some, or in his case it might
be a case of 'Reputation Salvage'.
>Interview: http://www.teletronic.co.uk/freeman.htm
LOL, did Tommy Cooper *really* come to your
8th birthday party?
Col
>
>PS. I should see someone about that hair loss, Lawrence. You're
>thinning dramatically. Soon you'll look like....well, Plowman
>(assuming you put a few stone on as well).
One of the perils of having a job and being able to afford to eat
Baker. Therefore not something you'll need to worry about.
Book out yet?
So that's what all Sweep's squeeking was about, I did wonder.
I think I'd squeek like that too, under those circumstances....
Col
>
> > Your girlfriends couldn't stick on-topic if they were glued to a giant
> > Nestle bar of that name.
>
> <...Halmyre uses other peoples' cliches......wind blows, tumbleweed, bell
> tolls in distance>
>
> --
> Halmyre
>
>It's not unethical to create your own ideas, H.
It's not necessary to come up with your own idea when
a well known one describes the situation perfectly, either.
Seriously, that was a truly *crap* joke.
Forced & contrived, it has all the hallmarks of being
worked upon for some time, yet it still falls flat on it's
face. I'm sure I've said this before, but you seem to be
trying *too* hard. Don't try and be clever, just knock
out a few quick but witty one liners, and try to be *funny* :)
Col
> LOL, did Tommy Cooper *really* come to your
> 8th birthday party?
Yup. He and his wife and my parents were good friends.
Ian
> It was an off-the-cuff remark that took two seconds to think of. But
> in terms of wit, I hardly think anyone in UMTM is in a position to
> lecture or pontificate.
Yeah right. Everything you know about wit can be written on something
that is the size of your wit.
Cheers
Jeff
http://www.local-glaziers.co.uk/
Actually, his wit was so big he had to have half of it removed.
--
We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile.
>
> It's not necessary to come up with your own idea when
> a well known one describes the situation perfectly, either.
>
> Seriously, that was a truly *crap* joke.
> Forced & contrived, it has all the hallmarks of being
> worked upon for some time, yet it still falls flat on it's
> face. I'm sure I've said this before, but you seem to be
> trying *too* hard. Don't try and be clever, just knock
> out a few quick but witty one liners, and try to be *funny* :)
>
> Col
>It was an off-the-cuff remark that took two seconds to think of.
Hmmm....
In that case perhaps you *should* spend longer on your jokes :)
But
>in terms of wit, I hardly think anyone in UMTM is in a position to
>lecture or pontificate. I can't remember the last time anyone said
>anything funny in here. It was probably Krusty, months ago. Jeff
>Lawrence's jokes make your toes curl;
No, Jeff can be very funny.
Granted I wouldn't expect you to laugh at the jokes directed at
yourself but there's a lot of very funny one-liners on other
subjects too.
Alan Hope's rants are not only
>unfunny but they achieve the rare feat of being consistently joyless;
Erm....
Alan's rants aren't intended to be funny. They are intended to
be nasty & vitriolic.
>Ian F comes across like a prissy, prancing thin-skinned jester; and
>your own postings have deteriorated to the level of tedious and
>sanctimonious sermonising (every group has a Bible-basher: you're
>UMTM's resident preacher).
A preacher, eh?
I kinda like that. I could keep my flock from straying too far
by providing a sound moral compass, thus allowing posters
the framework to contribute in an intelligent and ethical manner.
>No wonder you've hidden yourself away in a Facebook group. Your
>behaviour does not stand up to scrutiny. Personally UMTM 2.0 makes me
>smile because it means you've been driven underground.
Not me.
I'm not on Facebook and I hadn't even heard of 'UMTM 2.0'
until IanF mentioned it earlier in the thread.
Col
>
>> Book out yet?
>
>Being proofed at the moment. Thanks for asking!
Still being proofed? Tell Stevie Wonder to get a move on.
Or is it like the Monty Python most dangerous joke in the world? So
dreadfully shite that an army of proofers are only allowed to view
singlewords as seeing several words of your pseudoprose in sucession
and take themselves off to the nearest level crossing in despair?
Why did the word Ludo come into my head just now?
LOL. Fucking excellent!
Tell that to Shakespeare.
Cheers
Jeff
Good to see your finger on the pulse.
>
>I suggest you toddle off to Facebook and let Alan Hope come into your
>head. You seem to enjoy it.
I tell you what Barker, I'll post in both because I can. I'll also
post in any other forums I care to join. See you there.
>On Nov 23, 10:27�pm, Mike Plowman <mike.plow...@mydomain.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:20:01 -0800 (PST), The Laughing Gnome
>>
>> <hauntedri...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >www.csvu.net
>>
>> Good to see your finger on the pulse.
>
>Yes, we all know you like to feel the finger of men on your pulse.
>It's what makes UMTM and UMTM 2.0 such attractive propositions to
>female posters
Well on the plus side, on here no-one can see your photo.
>On Nov 23, 10:02�pm, Mike Plowman <mike.plow...@mydomain.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:01:56 -0000, Halmyre <no.s...@this.address>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> >http://www.local-glaziers.co.uk/
>>
>> LOL. Fucking excellent!
>
>Ah, I see. You're re-enacting a scene from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's
>Nest'.
You've bought another DVD at the car boot sale haven't you?
>
>By the way folks, DO NOT visit the above Mike Plowman website.
and was discontinued over a year ago. Keep up.
>
>It is riddled with viruses, trojans and spyware which your anti-virus
>software should warn you about (provided it is up to date).
By the way folks, DO NOT visit the Ex-Occidente website.
It is riddled with viruses, trojans and spyware which your anti-virus
software should warn you about (provided it is up to date).
Amusingly, type ex-occidenta into google and you get Google generated
warnings not to visit the site followed by someone warning never to
buy from them.
>But thanks for proving in one foul swoop what utter hypocrites you
>are. You can't grumble about stalking and then stalk people.
One fell swoop. It's one 'fell' swoop. Not one 'foul' swoop.
Where's there a decent editor when you need one?
Why pick on this thread, Barker?
>You clip more than Ian Freeman, the group's censorious hairdresser.
I see you have failed to answer any of my points and are far more
interested in what I *didn't* say.
I am not obliged to respond to every statement you make.
If I do not it merely means I don't have anything of any
interest to contribute on the matter.
Oh and that isn't 'censorship'. Censorship would be stopping
you posting what you want, which I can't do on an unmoderated group.
I'm sure Ian appreciates the publicity, just like John Pelan
would have done a while back.
Col
>I have hundreds of DVDs and videos (if not thousands) including many
>valuable genre items
But you don't like to talk about it......
Col
>I'll answer you after you answer this: why don't you criticise the
>bullies who swarm to attack me when they hijack threads?
Hijacked the thread??
It was *you* who started this by jumping in and attacking IanF.
That's www.ianfreeman.com btw.
Nobody was having a go at you, or indeed had even mentioned
you, prior to that point.
You've got nobody to blame but yourself for this thread.
Col
You can always tell what's on special offer at the Oxfam shop by the
cultural references that drop thudding from your posts. I never even
knew Austin Powers was on VHS.
--
Halmyre
Hundreds or thousands? Which is it? There is a significant difference
you know.
--
Halmyre
Talking of websites, where's the 'name and shame' website?
--
Halmyre
> Talking of websites, where's the 'name and shame' website?
--
> Halmyre
Or the website of Barker's publishers come to that.
http://www.exocccidente.com/index.html
(from Barkers website)
From Google
Which seems to have mysteriously disappeared all of a sudden.
michael adams
...
> Or the website of Barker's publishers come to that.
>
> http://www.exocccidente.com/index.html
>
> (from Barkers website)
>
> http://www.exocccidente.com/
>
> From Google
>
> Which seems to have mysteriously disappeared all of a sudden.
It's obviously crashed due to the huge amount of people trying to
order Barker's book in time for Christmas.
Cheers
Jeff
Thanks, nice site and a very good interview linked at the top. Very
interesting Ian.
--
Mr. A
Is there a coal shortage?
--
We are the Strasbourg. Referendum is futile.
> Thanks, nice site and a very good interview linked at the top. Very
> interesting Ian.
Many thanks. It's just about to be redeveloped actually - too much flash and
not enough substance!
Ian
I'll consider each thread/hijacking on an individual basis, but I
wasn't best pleased with what happened to my thread here. Generally it
goes on in other people's threads, and not always on topics I'm
interested in.
Can you take this elsewhere, then, please?
> "The Laughing Gnome" <hauntedri...@hotmail.com> wrote in
> messagenews:9a03795d-1e4b-4655...@f10g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I'll answer you after you answer this: why don't you criticise the
> >bullies who swarm to attack me when they hijack threads?
>
> Hijacked the thread??
>
> It was *you* who started this by jumping in and attacking IanF.
> That'swww.ianfreeman.combtw.
> Nobody was having a go at you, or indeed had even mentioned
> you, prior to that point.
>
> You've got nobody to blame but yourself for this thread.
>
> Col
>Duh, I didn't say they'd hijacked _this_ thread, I referred to the
>general hijacking of threads.
Ah, the joys of back-pedalling.....
Col
> I'll consider each thread/hijacking on an individual basis, but I
> wasn't best pleased with what happened to my thread here. Generally it
> goes on in other people's threads, and not always on topics I'm
> interested in.
>
> Can you take this elsewhere, then, please?
Yes, come on everyone let's get back on-topic. Anyone got anything to
add about this small room the doctors have to use at the campus?
Cheers
Jeff
>So where's the website, Barmy? Where are the books? Where are the
>reviews?
Don't tell me "Tedious Tales" hasn't been published yet. Wasn't it
due out in August? I was hoping to obtain a copy for Christmas. Never
mind...I have a feeling there'll be copies aplenty on eBay next
Christmas, when Barmy starts clearing out his attic. :)
> I give you the future of public debate on the internet: Alan Hope
> ruining things for 95% of the general public, especially youngsters,
> whose parents would rather they not engage in discussion with a creepy
> old man who haemorrghages offensive language.
Let's just hope all the UMTM youngsters are reading this so as to not
be led astray. Pay very good attention all you young 'uns! Work hard
at school or you could end up writing a load of poorly spelt guff on
some usenet forum like Mr Gnome here.
Cheers
Jeff
"You may be a car-boot enthusiast, I am most certainly not. I far
prefer the retro TV shop in my local city"
Wot the hells a "Retro TV Shop" ?
B-B
Wow, hello Mr Pleasant(!)
And you call me newbie? I've been using TV newsgroups and their
equivalents since October 1990. When did you start, and how long
before I am not a newbie?
Off you pop, little chap, I don't think your father has quite finished
raping you yet, and afterwards he's going to start on your sister. And
then it's your turn on her.
Hello, Alan.
>Deliberate malapropism, "Rosie" (aka the stupid man's sock puppet).
Yeah. Right. I'm not convinced. You have a fumbling way with language
Mr Barker. Reading your prose is like wading through toffee.
Your 'jokes' are virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the clag.
>[Whenever the lack of female posters is mentioned, "Rosie" puts on a
>dress, stubs out her fag, and pretends to be a woman.]
Was THAT a joke as well? No, of course not.
It's just you thrashing around trying to make people think I'm Alan Hope,
or Sofa Spud, or Jeff Lawrence, or any other of the myriad posters who
would happily put your name forward as the most despicable and fraudulent
poster to usenet. Ever. Blame the blokes who just don't like you. Not
the people who you mortally offend.
I'm the mother of a mentally handicapped daughter. She's 26 and I still
look after
her here at home.I came in here and told you
off about a 'dribbling' joke. I said I was offended by it because my
daughter dribbles
to a really troublesome extent. Maybe your disabled kids don't. Mine
does.......so
I found it offensive, especially from a man who claims to have mentally
handicapped children.
And I told you so, and gave you short shrift.
Maybe you didn't like idea that other people have problems similar to
or worse than your own
From that moment, you have thought it ok to insult, heckle and deride me.
You have suggested that my daughter is not safe living with me because I
might snap,
and that I am an old wrinkly who is losing her grip, and leches after young
men.
Your accusations know no bounds.
Personally, I think you just felt a bit embarrassed about your own bigotry.
You claim to have two autistic children. But I'm sure they don't have a
dribbling
problem, or you'd never have thought to make a joke about 'dribbling
minstrels'
or about sofa spud 'he's the one dribbling in the corner' I paraphrase.
Doing it from
memory, you see. But TWO dribbling jokes. Not good. Really pissed me off
bigtime.
I would never have said such a thing to you. Not ever.
I could have said of your children, if they rock back and forth, why not
attach them to
a generator. Cheap electricity.
That would be a really terrible thing to say, and I would never say it.
Although I just did, as an example of what you might say if I didn't think
it would be painful for you.
But you have thought up really wicked things to say to me. You don't hold
back
You are a wicked man, Mr Barker.
And since then you've thought it ok to insult, and heckle and deride me,
because that
appears to be what floats your boat. Personally, I think you felt a bit
embarrassed about
the way you casually insulted my daughter, Your kids might be able to go to
the toilet
by themselves. They might be able to blow their own noses. They might be
able to feed
themselves. I have no way of knowing what they can do for themselves.
But what I 'do' know, is that you have made jokes about disabled children
dribbling.
So I'm pretty sure that your children are not so disabled that they dribble
continously
from their mouths. Thus presenting all manner of problems such as the need
for regular
changes of clothing, a one to one carer to avoid any cross contamination
with other
more vulnerable clients with immune deficiency issues. Let's face it. What's
a bit of
dribble to me and you, could be serious illness to somebody with fewer
phagocytes.
You come on here and post nasty things about me.
Why do you do that, when you are not going to convince 'anybody' that you
are the good guy, and I am the bad.?
>How goes your hilarious quest to prove that the Theatre Royal in
>Norwich has box seats?
How goes your hilarious quest on taking the piss out of people with
a severe mental handicap which causes them to dribble uncontrollably?
The theatre Royal in Norwich, I'm sure, wouldn't take offence at being
accused of having boxes.
>Or your equally fraudulent claim to have raised
>a million pounds for a charity that has never heard of you?
Now here is where it might get just a little bit messy for you.
It's not a fraudulent claim. It's a fact that I can prove.
It might have been 15 years ago, but I still have a document thanking me
for the the 4 million pounds that we raised. I didn't do it alone, of
course.
If you feel you need proof, I can meet you at the Cambridge Hospice.
For what it's worth, searching our records, the Cambridge Childrens' Hospice
have never heard of you either.
Here's an offer that you shouldn't refuse.
Meet me at the Cambridge Children's Hospice.
I will bring my Certificate of raising 5 million squids with me.
I have it here in my hand and I'm proud of it.
And it will put an end to this online argument.
I will prove to you that I worked very hard to raise the 5 million squids
required, to get the hospice opened. OK, it might have been 15 years ago,
but without what we did then, it wouldn't exist today.
I have written evidence that I am instrumental in the opening and continued
financial support of the cambridge children's hospice.
I am perfectly happy to meet you there and prove it.
In fact, I'm up for it really big time. I do so want to rub your nose in it.
If you decline this offer of a meeting for me to prove my claims,
then you really have to shut the fuck up. For fucking ever.
Tell me the time and day you'll be there. Before Christmas will be
convenient for me.
And if you decide you can't make it before Christmas, we'll all know
what a fraudulent., dishonourable piece of shit you are.
It's a 45 minute drive, for me. And I'm quite prepared to do it, just
to put the Barker nose out of joint, and prove that we were in at the
get go of the Cambridge Childrens' Hospice.
I KNOW Barker only found out about it 5 or 6 years ago. But it had to
come from somewhere. It had to be established and supported by
people like me.
We worked really hard, 15 years ago, to raise money to keep it going.
Then a little shit like Barker thinks it's alright to have a go at me.
Use the service, then take a pop at, and insult one of the people who
made it possible for him to get respite care there.
I should rise above it, I know. But he is so disgustingly and offensively
ungrateful that I've decided I'll call him on it.
Come on Barker. Tell me a day and a time before christmas
that you'll meet me at the cambridge hospice. It doesn't matter
to me when it is because I'm there every week or so.
Anytime between 10 and 3 Monday to Friday in december.
Step up to it if you have the guts.
Taking on UMTM is like shooting very fat and very stupid fish in a
very small barrel.