@bdooley (Brian Dooley)

11:03 September 09 @bdooley wrote:

@ian262 It just set me thinking, which I suppose was part of the intention.

• 11:03 September 09@ian262 It was a general point prompted by someone else's specific point but I don't have any problem with the pointer. If that makes sense!
• 10:45 September 09@smallbecca In which subject?
• 10:44 September 09@ian262 And childishness can come in many forms.
• 10:37 September 09@Cornettofairy I enjoy growing up getting older but surely it can be an expansive thing, not a one-in-one-out process?
• 10:34 September 09Can't a person's interests simply continue to expand? Does one variety of fun have to be make way for another? I don't see the problem.
• 10:32 September 09I have tried quite hard but I just don't get why retaining an ability to enjoy childish pleasures is in any way a bad thing.
• 07:45 September 09@EmmaK67 It's an argument, I suppose. UBB's ok because they're all established and have been through it before. Less desperation.
• 07:40 September 09@EmmaK67 There's an awful lot wrong with it, though. It's not a kindly show in any way. But yeah, it draws you in.
• 07:39 September 09I want Victor to win but it'll be Brian Dowling whose name sounds like mine if you're doing a bad Ulster accent.
• 07:38 September 09I still think there's something cruel chilling at the heart of how it's made but I'd forgotten that simple people-watching is compelling.
• 07:36 September 09Disappointed by my own snobbery I've been watching Ultimate Big Brother and, with reservations, enjoyed it. So not such a prig after all.
• 07:51 September 07@HumphreysHere Sorry to hear that. Hope you're ok.
• 01:26 September 07@angloirishgal Yes, it was great, thanks. They had the best cheesy disco I've danced at for many a long year.
• 01:22 September 07It'll be I'm all right, Jack as the tube chugs you off to your various pleasures, and we're left crying outside a padlocked station.
• 01:20 September 07All of London moans now but where will that solidarity be come the weekend when we poor Jubilee liners are still bereft? I ask you that.
• 01:15 September 07At least the tube strikers feel they have a grievance. The Jubilee line's off every weekend through nothing but arse-brained incompetence.
• 07:30 September 06@rachelpadden Just one? Hmmm. Wuthering Heights. It's utterly mental and - poncey word but it fits - bewitching. Unlike anything else.
• 07:28 September 06@DanBerlinka That's why I love the Victorian stuff: no one has a sense of proportion, everything is turned up to 11.
• 07:26 September 06@DanBerlinka It's years since I read it but Sybil is great - or at least great fun. Another load of OTT tosh, but entertaining.