http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1159112,00.html
For various reasons I find difficult to express, I found this article absolutely repellent. The ugly, holier-than-thou-ness of the writer perhaps, or possibly that the nauseating d4v|d h3pw0rth gets to parade his sickening smug toss opinions w/o getting thee verbal beatdown of all time, plus it also mentions m4rk 3ll3n. h3pw0rth & 3ll3n mentioned in the same article = my blood pressure thru the roof they are teh sukc the pair of them. Oh dear i have become sidetracked a bit. anyway....
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)
It makes me want to never buy 'Word' again. (Which is actually tolerable, when Hepworth isn't in its pages)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)
(x-post later "whistle test" progs w/ellen/hepworth = HORRIBLE)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)
By definition, I should fit the description.
I don't think Pop Idol devalues music. I do believe it devalues the participants. My kids are both quite musical/dancey talented (more later, like 15 years later), but the thought that they have to learn maria carey songs to get anywhere makes me poorly (nothing against ms Carey btw).
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― robster (robster), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)
It's just about the difficulties of demographic marketing definitions.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)
DVD as "transformational medium" WTF? Also: "But frankly," says Hepworth, "blokes get the same giddy rush from buying CDs and DVDs that most women get from shoes. It's a spiritual thing."
Wow. I wish I was his girlfriend. We'd have so much to talk about.
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― Strachey, Thursday, 18 March 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)
I think they could improve circulation by signing up JtN.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 18 March 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― the wordfox, Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)
I’m one of those sad middle-aged chaps you see hanging around record stores. While the young have learnt to download music for free, I still like buying CDs in shops. The music industry had the unappealing name of “£50 man” to describe middle-aged blokes like me who would spend more than we could sensibly afford on classic rock and pop CDs to replace scratchy vinyl discs and recapture the thrills of our distant youth.These days, however, we are thinner on the ground and HMV, Britain’s largest music retailer, is in trouble. It has closed 40 of its stores, flogged off the Waterstones bookshop chain and issued repeated profit warnings. Sales over the crucial Christmas period to the end of December last year were down by 8.1 per cent, though there was a glimmer of good news the other week after the company struck a deal with banks and suppliers aimed at halving its substantial debts over the next three years.
These days, however, we are thinner on the ground and HMV, Britain’s largest music retailer, is in trouble. It has closed 40 of its stores, flogged off the Waterstones bookshop chain and issued repeated profit warnings. Sales over the crucial Christmas period to the end of December last year were down by 8.1 per cent, though there was a glimmer of good news the other week after the company struck a deal with banks and suppliers aimed at halving its substantial debts over the next three years.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 05:27 (thirteen years ago)
They also have a nasty habit of giving you a look of utter contempt should you have chosen a CD or DVD they regard as uncool.
if you give the plebs in hmv an opportunity to sneer you really have fucked up tbf
― DG, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 13:25 (thirteen years ago)
^ this.
I swear people just make this shit up. That didn't happen mr £50 man. Don't be so self absorbed to think for a second that people who work in HMV give a shit about what you're listening to. And if they do, remember, they work in HMV.
― owenf, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 13:58 (thirteen years ago)
they probably do have utter contempt for you though, just not because of the music you're purchasing.
― Rosie 47 (ken c), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:03 (thirteen years ago)
I imagine working in HMV is like working in little chef.
― owenf, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:09 (thirteen years ago)
why, does Charles Spencer go in Little Chef every week and get disdainful looks for ordering egg and chips?
― Sylv_ebanks (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:16 (thirteen years ago)
no he goes to Wimpy
― owenf, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:18 (thirteen years ago)
?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:22 (thirteen years ago)
Just because many years ago, I did indeed see Charles Spencer in Little Chef. (This was before Diana died)..
(checks article) ah, a different Charles Spencer
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:25 (thirteen years ago)
britishers -- tell me about WIMPY BARS and their shitty burgers
― DG, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:25 (thirteen years ago)
― DG, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 13:25 (11 months ago)
― moët plaudit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:26 (twelve years ago)
Your search - "boxset blokes" - did not match any documents
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:51 (twelve years ago)
codswallop!
― sarahell, Friday, 1 February 2013 22:04 (twelve years ago)