tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post8448579574413212995..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Friztl the MeaninglessBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-53845806156394442892009-03-20T22:44:00.000+00:002009-03-20T22:44:00.000+00:00Isn't the TLS that dodgy paper they always put nex...Isn't the TLS that dodgy paper they always put next to Horny Housewives in the newsagents? - i heard they only publish a kind of upmarket porn.<BR/><BR/>For shame, Susan! This is a respectable blog, not a bordello!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-55392130253054908112009-03-20T15:47:00.000+00:002009-03-20T15:47:00.000+00:00Published in it? I'd never heard of it, Susan.I ha...Published in it? I'd never heard of it, Susan.<BR/><BR/>I have however been playing the blog comment game for long enough to learn the Golden Rule: never shit a shitter. And if someone throws a big juicy bit of bait into the water, try not to bite too hard on the hook.<BR/><BR/>Oh yeah, and Edgar Allen Poe was the British cousin of Edgar Allan, and is widely acknowledged to be the superior writerBrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-71720484894779019912009-03-20T15:26:00.000+00:002009-03-20T15:26:00.000+00:00"Supplement" is another word for "additional piece..."Supplement" is another word for "additional piece of." Fat enough to sell separately. The word "Times" is the giveaway, Brit. I have actually published work in the TLS. Have you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-1496396853721181512009-03-19T20:55:00.000+00:002009-03-19T20:55:00.000+00:00The TLS hasn't been a section of the Times since 1...The TLS hasn't been a section of the Times since 1914, Susan. <BR/><BR/>(A common mistake, but annoying to see. Thanks for playing.)Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-9723651206343433142009-03-19T18:58:00.000+00:002009-03-19T18:58:00.000+00:00The Red Barn Murder (English countryside, 19th cen...The Red Barn Murder (English countryside, 19th century) prompted someone to write a poem which later became a play, Malty. Engaged yokel killed his pregnant girlfriend and buried her in the red barn. Then her mom started having dreams about her ghost there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-69886405183685817602009-03-19T18:55:00.000+00:002009-03-19T18:55:00.000+00:00Brit, 'twas your own TLS -- you know, that Sunday ...Brit, 'twas your own TLS -- you know, that Sunday section of the Times edited by Peter Stothard -- that published the story to which I refer. I'm sure if you do a bit o' googling (which I know ya like), you can find it. <BR/><BR/>By the way, it's Edgar AllAn Poe. Common mistake, but annoying to see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-85157379736276622892009-03-19T17:31:00.000+00:002009-03-19T17:31:00.000+00:00And, unlike our American cousins we haven't yet pe...And, unlike our American cousins we haven't yet penned a song about family wrongdoings, Lizzie Borden f'rinstance, unless you know different.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-15053181152215059222009-03-19T17:00:00.000+00:002009-03-19T17:00:00.000+00:00The thing about Vienna Susan is its absolute dedic...The thing about Vienna Susan is its absolute dedication to the bourgeoisie creed, this is total, absolute, non reversible. Cream cake eating, real fur coat wearing, blue rinsed, shit faced, zither playing hell on earth. The Austrians up untill the late sixties were as poor as church mice, not today, watch Heimat, all is revealed, Nazi's, wot Nazi's.<BR/><BR/>Re Dexter, seems like a nice chap, maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-75720547612704137052009-03-19T16:16:00.000+00:002009-03-19T16:16:00.000+00:00Hitler anyone?Ooh yes please Susan! Sorry, what ar...<I>Hitler anyone?</I><BR/><BR/>Ooh yes please Susan! <BR/><BR/>Sorry, what are you trying to say about Austrians? Now there is a viable theory that madness expresses itself in culturally specific ways...but come off it...<BR/><BR/>Dexter, Malty? Tried it for a couple of episodes but found it too smug and queasy. Am just at the end of The Wire series 1 though, only 6 or 7 years behind everyone Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-4726511321149277582009-03-19T15:52:00.000+00:002009-03-19T15:52:00.000+00:00there were lots of people on the radio yesterday e...there were lots of people on the radio yesterday expressing dismay that the trial was too short? <BR/><BR/>I imagined them, settled in their chairs, tissues at the ready, preparing for a couple of months of horror-pornAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-74297045601320858702009-03-19T15:15:00.000+00:002009-03-19T15:15:00.000+00:00Malty, I am so happy to have made you a Dexter con...Malty, I am so happy to have made you a Dexter convert! I can't wait for Season 4, myself.<BR/><BR/>As for Fritzl, it tells us quite a lot about the history of Vienna. Freud knew whereof he spoke when he said our dreams are all about incest and killing our parents and/or children. After all, he was a Viennese! <BR/><BR/>I was happy to see that at some point after this story broke last summer -- Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-40878626043705905222009-03-19T12:30:00.000+00:002009-03-19T12:30:00.000+00:00My take was that, in the twisted way his mind must...My take was that, in the twisted way his mind must work he was seeking, without any hope of finding, some sort of rehabilitation, and with the media's appetite for this sort of goulish porn there may be some traction for him.<BR/>Adolf and Eva, transplanted into our age, would doubtless be offered their own chatshow, to follow the publication of Adolf's best seller 'My Sorrow'.mahlermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14469854614938507153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-5076148099144166992009-03-19T10:43:00.000+00:002009-03-19T10:43:00.000+00:00Watch Dexter Brit, learn to love your serials. I w...Watch Dexter Brit, learn to love your serials. I wonder if when we turn away we are denying the existence of true evil or at least suppressing the fact it stares us in the face.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-23204342535266365932009-03-19T10:09:00.000+00:002009-03-19T10:09:00.000+00:00Amen to that.Amen to that.Recusanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11446741817585462393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-70127828205873824792009-03-19T09:30:00.000+00:002009-03-19T09:30:00.000+00:00Totally agree Bryan. I can't read about him or wat...Totally agree Bryan. I can't read about him or watch his trial on TV either. The comment pieces are also cliche ridden- banality of evil being the favourite today. The attempts to extrapolate wider conclusions about Austria are also laughable- I mean did the Yorkshire Ripper tell us much about Britain?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-52905669807193132572009-03-19T09:16:00.000+00:002009-03-19T09:16:00.000+00:00Yes, it's horror-porn, and tells us nothing about ...Yes, it's horror-porn, and tells us nothing about anything except the truism that extremes exist. The nasty vicarious thrill at these stories is a human inevitable and is best suppressed.<BR/><BR/>I thought maybe movies like Saw, where the torture porn nihilim is justified just because it is nihilistic, was a modern invention ...but then I suppose Edgar Allen Poe was peddling the same thing and Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.com