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stuneville Administrator
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 Posted: 15-09-2012 08:44 Post subject: |
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Give Abbot Ale a whirl if you've never tried it. Wonderful pint.
Off topic? No no. Nope. Not us. |
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| CarlosTheDJ Dazed and confused for so long its not true
Great Old One Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Total posts: 1927 Location: Sussex Age: 37 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-09-2012 11:38 Post subject: |
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I didn't didn't find the cover offensive - but then I knew it was FT so also knew it would be linked to a story. Like the Nazi cover a couple of years ago.
However, I also deal with pretty horrific crime files at work a lot, I've seen a lot of photos of people that really have been abused. So maybe I'm desensitised. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-09-2012 11:42 Post subject: |
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| CarlosTheDJ wrote: | I didn't didn't find the cover offensive - but then I knew it was FT so also knew it would be linked to a story. Like the Nazi cover a couple of years ago.
However, I also deal with pretty horrific crime files at work a lot, I've seen a lot of photos of people that really have been abused. So maybe I'm desensitised. |
i reckon there should be a tv series about you. |
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| CarlosTheDJ Dazed and confused for so long its not true
Great Old One Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Total posts: 1927 Location: Sussex Age: 37 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-09-2012 13:52 Post subject: |
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| ramonmercado wrote: | | CarlosTheDJ wrote: | I didn't didn't find the cover offensive - but then I knew it was FT so also knew it would be linked to a story. Like the Nazi cover a couple of years ago.
However, I also deal with pretty horrific crime files at work a lot, I've seen a lot of photos of people that really have been abused. So maybe I'm desensitised. |
i reckon there should be a tv series about you. |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 16-09-2012 16:55 Post subject: |
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| stuneville wrote: | Give Abbot Ale a whirl if you've never tried it. Wonderful pint.
Off topic? No no. Nope. Not us. |
I used to live in a Greene King pub.
Strange coincidence, or still off topic?
I sat reading Issue N°293, on the terrace of my favourite local, today, whilst downing a couple, or three, bottles of Hertog Jan pils. I must admit, I folded the FT in half to hide the cover. Excellent issue, though. Some interesting reviews. Good one from Bob Rickard on, Wicked Enchantments, the story of the Pendle witches, by Joyce Froome. Looks like a well researched account, well worth looking out for. Also a good read, Charles Foster's review of, The Self Illusion: Why there is no 'You' Inside your head. He gives it a 9 for being a good overview of the reductionist position, even though he obviously disagrees entirely with that position. So do I, but probably for quite different reasons.
I skimmed a bit, today. The Polts Under Analysis piece was intriguing, I'll sit down to the rest of the poltergeist related articles when I've got a little more time. ABCs, the return of the Loch Ness Monster, various cryptids, including yetis and the most disturbing amphibian that I've ever seen. It's nice to know that there's still plenty of extremely weird stuff out there to fill the FT's pages. |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 6061 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-09-2012 21:45 Post subject: |
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| Pietro_Mercurios wrote: |
I used to live in a Greene King pub.
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Is that a fact or just your wife's oppinion?  |
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| 47Forteans Live Fortean And Prosper!
Great Old One Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Total posts: 1727 Location: In A World Gone Mad... Age: 35 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 24-09-2012 07:17 Post subject: |
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My copy arrived today. The "Trouser Snake" article! I fell over!  |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-09-2012 12:58 Post subject: |
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Wasn't so taken by the Polt stuff apart from Martin Luthers experiences, that was fun!
GhostWatch was good, the partygirl who blamed the noise on a polt!
A vid, The Devils Business, sounds interesting in the Reviews, don't know if it got a cinema release. Seems vaguely reminiscent of Kill List. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-09-2012 18:12 Post subject: |
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| I think it did get a cinema release, I remember Mark Kermode being unconvinced. Mind you, I hope it has a better ending than The Kill List, what a way to piss away ninety minutes of intrigue. |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 25-09-2012 16:50 Post subject: |
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| I was not impressed by the torture-porn cover. If that was representing someone with bruising around the neck what would carpet burn be represented by - a flayed corpse perhaps? |
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| kaisen Grey Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Total posts: 2 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 28-09-2012 12:31 Post subject: |
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Regarding the cover...
A few years ago there was a cover with something like Nazis decorating a christmas tree with swastika baubles. I was getting into my car when the postman was delivering it, he gave me a dirty look but said nothing.
The very same postman delivered this months edition, made a point of ringing the bell and handing it to me. If looks could kill I'd be splattered all over my hallway.
I'm a nice guy but I'm sure in the eyes of my postman I'm a nazi rapist  |
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| marionXXX Un-Gnoing Joined: 03 Nov 2001 Total posts: 2922 Location: Keighley, W Yorks Age: 48 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 28-09-2012 20:15 Post subject: |
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| Got to admit the cover, to me, said less 'attacked by spook' and more 'fell off bike into hedge after riding into wire washing line'. A more subtle pic might have got across the spookiness better. |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 29-09-2012 01:32 Post subject: |
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| I've noticed they've kept last months cover on the home page... |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 29-09-2012 08:07 Post subject: |
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| You might like to purge your cache, it's showing the most current issue now. |
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