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― I R Crusading* Fatnick, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I R wanting dull saturday night telly related answers!

― I R fatnick!, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Fatnick, How are you doing? Where are you from? Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On Saturday night I was watching Sapphire and Steel. That is dull television, I saw the last adventure and was wondering why anyone watched it.

I have not seen either of the programmes you mentioned, but long live Saturday night television as long as La Femme Nikita reigns supreme, with non stop music videos afterwards

― Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you found sapphire and steel boring because you don't understand it, mene. if you'd seen the previous 5 adventures you would know how great it is. and BTW, david mccallum is SOO sexy. i lurve surly men

did you see saturday nights episode of LFN, mene? i hope steve still has it videotaped.

― di, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The VAST majority of people find Sapphire and Steel boring. They are, of course, wrong. The writer, PJ Hammond, was a special stripe of tv drama genius.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well it must be nice to be part of an exclusive majority Alan.

OK I should give it a chance by watching through the first episodes then. It might make more sense.

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah menelaus you so don't get it. but by the way, that doesn't mean i subscribe to the idea that the writer was a "genius". i find the concept to be not only ridiculous but also tedious.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh well then, I think I am going to have to get myself a web diary so I can deal with my issues some place other than the ILE forum. Currently I am in a sulky mood & feeling underappreciated so the idea of Genius is something I would quite like to espouse for myself. I could be tortured rather than just inadequate.

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but your not tortured, menelaus. there is more to your personality than that, thank god

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See! You dont understand me!

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have only known you for like two seconds. if your gonna get all tortured on me, then i would have to say you picked an unlikely sympathiser. but aha! maybe thats contributing to your romanticly angsty opium-ridden existence, Herr Schumann.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and I'ma not gonna stop taking cocaine until my nose falls off woo-ooh

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh, shit mene i thought it was sherbert. thanks a lot

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, thats what I sell to otago girls students

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

maybe you should try that on fatnick

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the secret is out now. besides I don't think fatnick is foul enough to run with my pack of wolves.

I really am excelling myself foulness-wise tonite. mmm tastie

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes your foulness is exceptional, i could smell you all the wqay across arc. oh no that was just the wafty hippies upstairs

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely you jest, I am as fresh and fragrant as a daisy. speaking of which, I might theive some flowers tonight, the last lot I stole are looking a bit swarthy

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mene i've just eaten i packet of blue cheese and you say the word "swarthy". god i've been trying to forget i screwed that guy.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh and you just had to share that over the internet didn't you? spread the bile, spread the bile!

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hey hes your friend

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eh?

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

blimey, i wasn't being *entirely* serious folks. it seems ridiculous to call an obscure writer a genius, especially if the VAST majority of people find his work boring. it must be nice to be part of *any* majority.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my point was that it seems ridiculous to call ANYONE a genius. hey but don't worry, i weren't having a go at you or nothing alan.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

should culture and artistic value be dictated by the wants of the masses?

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

am I even making sense? its too late in the day for this

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it is vaguely ridiculous, but i find it a good label for people working creatively in ways that are a huge break from previous work and yet are utterly compelling.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i prefer to use the term "talented". there's an awful lot of baggage that the term genius brings with it which people who would be otherwise intelligent often subscribe to. i don't want to get into this too deeply, i might step on some peoples toes.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and in saying that i've probably made some people paranoid, so perhaps i will have to elaborate. think of the way in which the word genius also carries with it connotations of psychological imbalances. you can see how that would wrok against women - men get branded as tortured geniuses, whereas a talented woman could never be branded as a genius thanks to our sexist culture, her talents would be inauthentic as shes "mad".

i also am wary of the way in which the label genius seems to elevate people to a level above critique.

on a different path, there's a certain local celebrity who is often referred to by himself and others as a genius, and this seems to pass as some kind of excuse for him behaving quite despicably. which, after the valid reasons i have already stated for my suspicion of the term, just serves to make me feel more strongly against it.

― di, Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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