On the same day, the Afterword and Boris Johnson tried to bring in new talent. Much ado and comment was made over both actions, but today voices are much quieter.
Can it be that the glare of public attention is harsher and more dissuasive in this corner of the internet than in Whitehall and Westminster?
As someone who has to welcome their new overlord as part of their day job, I’ll take Smat over Nadine ‘published author’ Norries anyday. There’s a well salty wikipedia entry on this:
Her first novel, The Four Streets, which draws on her Liverpool Catholic background,[4] became a No.1 best-selling e-book with 100,000 copies sold in the format by July 2014, although print sales in hardback and paperback were significantly lower with, respectively, 2,735 and 637 units sold by then.[157] Dorries’ work of fiction gained mostly negative reviews.[158]
Sarah Ditum in the New Statesman complained that some of the sentences “read like clippings from Wikipedia” while Christopher Howse, writing for The Daily Telegraph, thought The Four Streets was “the worst novel I’ve read in 10 years.”[159][160] “You should read the next one. It’s much better”, Dorries told Ann Treneman of The Times.[4]
Ah yes. Like a local authority I worked in who would put on the most ridiculous St George’s day event. So when the knuckle draggers complained about immigrants and council housing and how they never do a thing for white people…but look at what we do on St George’s Day!
Turns out it was a hoax. Smat was in fact an agent of the Russian government sent over to conduct a cyber attack on us. Mods acting under cover have liquidated her.
H.P. Saucecraft says
What are you wearing?
(Too soon?)
hubert rawlinson says
Ooh you are saucy…. but I like you.
Boneshaker says
Give it up Bri, you are never getting back in.
H.P. Saucecraft says
IAMBRICAMERON!
GCU Grey Area says
I’m Bricameron, and so’s my wife.
thecheshirecat says
Silent as a smelly one?
hubert rawlinson says
Ah but if Sir Henry breaks a fast you’ll curse double glazing.
Rob_C says
Purple kimono, matching purple jockeys, patchouli cologne.
H.P. Saucecraft says
OOOOOHHHH!!!! *chases Rob C. around campsite to Benny Hill theme”
Rob_C says
Some fires are best left unstoked, darling boy.
*We’ll always have that whelk sexing weekend in Budleigh*
x
Rob_C says
Let’s play….. Spot The Dildo!
Moose the Mooche says
Here’s a bloke who’s so not new, he’s dead.
salwarpe says
On the same day, the Afterword and Boris Johnson tried to bring in new talent. Much ado and comment was made over both actions, but today voices are much quieter.
Can it be that the glare of public attention is harsher and more dissuasive in this corner of the internet than in Whitehall and Westminster?
Moose the Mooche says
Smat was Nadine Dorries? Wow!
moseleymoles says
As someone who has to welcome their new overlord as part of their day job, I’ll take Smat over Nadine ‘published author’ Norries anyday. There’s a well salty wikipedia entry on this:
Her first novel, The Four Streets, which draws on her Liverpool Catholic background,[4] became a No.1 best-selling e-book with 100,000 copies sold in the format by July 2014, although print sales in hardback and paperback were significantly lower with, respectively, 2,735 and 637 units sold by then.[157] Dorries’ work of fiction gained mostly negative reviews.[158]
Sarah Ditum in the New Statesman complained that some of the sentences “read like clippings from Wikipedia” while Christopher Howse, writing for The Daily Telegraph, thought The Four Streets was “the worst novel I’ve read in 10 years.”[159][160] “You should read the next one. It’s much better”, Dorries told Ann Treneman of The Times.[4]
Moose the Mooche says
She’s already been dubbed the Culture Wars secretary.
How many hours will pass before she weighs in on the Chubby Brown controversy? (TMFTL)
moseleymoles says
Ah yes. Like a local authority I worked in who would put on the most ridiculous St George’s day event. So when the knuckle draggers complained about immigrants and council housing and how they never do a thing for white people…but look at what we do on St George’s Day!
salwarpe says
The byways of culture, media and sport…
Maybe we should form the AfterWord Party and enter a coalition with whoever lets us take charge of the Ministry?
dai says
What happened to that other thread? Did not post on it, despite the interesting idea of a female member.
Boneshaker says
Turns out it was a hoax. Smat was in fact an agent of the Russian government sent over to conduct a cyber attack on us. Mods acting under cover have liquidated her.
fentonsteve says
Or an agent/customer of a Canadian drug cartel posing as an expat Scotsman.
dai says
So did anybody embarrass themselves there in their excitement?
Lodestone of Wrongness says
Anybody = Everybody (apart from me)
Moose the Mooche says
Not so much “Interesting” as laughably improbable, shugah!