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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 3m

Couldn't agree more

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 4m

EM Forster called and he's VERY CROSS

Satan @social-hell.uk · 10m

I don't know if it's "unhinged" but the story is key. It matters more than anything else.

Beautiful prose is meaningless if it travels nowhere, or worse, is boring.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 4m

The invention of the wireless vastly improved the novel, the invention of television ditto.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 5m

I HATED Tess - still do, the novel AND the character - but came to appreciate Mayor of Casterbridge a bit later in life.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 16h

sometimes do this with the working day. For example in 1653 Cromwell dissolved the rump parliament.

Sadly, owing to the way hours work, I never get to see the restoration, which is my favourite bit of the c.17th

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 21h

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 16h

literally only came on to say "Eric Bristow's only 27"

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 17h

if you want to see TDAFOTMRE in play form, it's on at the National right now and it's called The Bacchae and yes I'm still annoyed about it

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 18h

It's probably my second favourite interaction featuring Littlejohn.

My favourite is when he invited Michael Winner onto his show assuming he would be a reactionary conservative about lesbians having families and Winner went completely the other way

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 18h

WHERE IS MY OWL

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 18h

without even looking, I'm going to assume this is the one that contains the joyous line "why, does it turn into Tolstoy on page 201?"

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 18h

I'm sure they're great. I've just heard that particular song one time too many. Not helped by the popularity of the Mark Ronson version

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 19h

You will absolutely never guess what the context is for this rather ominous passage

www.thenational.scot/news/2553640...

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 18h

Casu Martzu.

Requiem For A Dream. Not necessarily bad, just gave me instant depression, felt physically, like a pang of earache

Valerie by The Zutons.

Rich @rich-bryant.uk · 21h

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Crustaceans, I’m allergic

Captain America- Brave New World. It just really doesn’t work at all.

It’s Oh So Quiet by Bjørk. Hideous fever nightmare material.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 21h

Baked beans. They look and smell and taste disgusting.

The Matrix. Load of condescending bollocks.

Bohemian Rhapsody. Or anything by those twats for that matter.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 20h

my range of regional accents definitely improved once bedtime stories got more interesting. The most difficult is when you have already allocated a character, say, light Scottish, and another character comes in who actually IS Scottish, and now you're trying to do eg Morningside vs Ayrshire

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 21h

This (fascinating) audiobook thread reminding me of the hardest choices you have to make as a parent, “how many characters in this book are getting funny voices?” b/w “can I actually do the accent I am attempting?”

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Dec 26

“May your favourite authors get big enough that their audiobooks get a cast of more than one actor.” - ancient Cockney curse.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 20h

"Jury service model"

You have to admit, it is very on brand to force people to come to the conference and debate motions, whether they want to or not....

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, I also enjoy the special pleading on both sides

"For too long, people have been shut out of our political system."

*Reform polls at 34%*

"NOT THOSE PEOPLE"

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 21h

"Unapproved version went out"

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Translate 'yoroshiku onegai shimasu'”.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 22h

your reminder that not only is this not obscene, but has been proven to be not obscene in court (Professor James Kinsley in Seale, 1977)

Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 22h

god i love when the NYT writes about britain

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 23h

I have a very half-formed theory that getting fit *for the sake of getting fit* always trends culty because there is no actual purpose to it, so you get stuck in a doom loop of "just getting fitter"

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 23h

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly this! Genuinely thought it might just be me

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 3d

I have an intrusive part of my brain that automatically thinks of the *most inappropriate possible* thing to say in nearly all circumstances. Occasionally so much so that I do a full flinch, like a tic

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 3d

(I quite like them too)

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 3d

I have literally no idea why you like the books about a massive former squaddie from the west country who is intensely cynical and turns out to be right about everything. No. Not a scoob.

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