beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
1984 was one of the books studied when I did GCSE English...
Davina Mcall hasn't read 1984...
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1984 was one of the books studied when I did GCSE English...
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Oh okay, I retract that comment then.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
And a drug-obsessed, sex-obsessed consumer society. And genetic engineering. Don't forget, it was published in 1931.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
weltweit
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It does not surprise me if Davina has not read 1984 though you would have thought she would have done, the programme Big Brother is not so close to the book however, why not? well perhaps no one on the production team have read 1984.
Anyhow, for those who have read 1984, how would or could they have made the big brother reality tv programe more realistic to the ideals of the novel 1984?
At least as big an issue for Davina watchers is how she managed to get such an amount of hosting work on Comic Relief. I mean Davina McAll is not a comic, not in any description to my mind yet there she was waddling about, Claudia Winkelman also, a comic? I don't think so?
Anyhow, for those who have read 1984, how would or could they have made the big brother reality tv programe more realistic to the ideals of the novel 1984?
At least as big an issue for Davina watchers is how she managed to get such an amount of hosting work on Comic Relief. I mean Davina McAll is not a comic, not in any description to my mind yet there she was waddling about, Claudia Winkelman also, a comic? I don't think so?
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
bouncer_the_dog
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I read lots of stuff im not meant to for my job... like this BB
I've read Midnight's Children, also bits of the Bible and half of Ulysses (before 'putting the rest off til another time' .... 20 years ago 
) and all of 1984.
I don't think people should be afraid of being thought sniffy or snobbish or elitist for having read plenty of classic (or other) books. Not if they're not condemning others for not reading them, anyway, which I'm not.
Can't stand Davina McCall mind .... but that's just general!
) and all of 1984.I don't think people should be afraid of being thought sniffy or snobbish or elitist for having read plenty of classic (or other) books. Not if they're not condemning others for not reading them, anyway, which I'm not.
Can't stand Davina McCall mind .... but that's just general!
weltweit
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I've read it, truefact!
<not lying, honest>
Ive read it, well I have read either 1/3 or 2/3 of it I dont recall but it is seriously dull and slow in places.
Not the same can be said of Tolstoy's confession. Almost as long as War and Peace but much more exciting and dynamic.
I recommend people read his confession, you can read it online.
bouncer_the_dog
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I am utterly condemning Davina Mcall for not reading it. Its practically thought crime.
I condemn anyone who hasn't read exactly the same number of books as me. Illiterate idiots or pretentious elitists the lot of them.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
It's a blurring of boundaries, isn't it? I often find that actors who do a lot of comedy acting work are referred to as "comedians". They aren't comedians at all and wouldn't survive 5 minutes in front of an audience at say, Up The Creek, with only a microphone for protection.
bouncer_the_dog
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I don't condemn people who haven't read the same books as me (even though they are idiots). I do condemn people who haven't read 1984 yet have presented an utterly moronic TV program which rips off one of its central ideas. A program that devalues the phrase 'Big Brother' which was once a watchword for the creeping police state and is now a watchword for totally fucking moronic non celebrities and generally lowering the standards. All the while in a creeping police state.
Only cos most of the books are banned in this country.
