From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers from Hell
Date: 21 Aug 92 08:34:55 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <41923@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> awrc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Al Crawford) writes:
=>In article <25029@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
=>> scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach) writes:
=>>> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
=>>>> scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach) writes:
=>>>>> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
=>>>>>> scott@festival.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach) writes:
=>>>>>>> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
=>
=>1.	It was extremely dull.

Dull, yes. Also unfair. It is not, of course, Scott's fault that things
go wrong at EU Computing Service. That is Mike Holmes' fault. But, what
can I say? It's therapeutic from time to time to bitch in a mindless way
at someone who happens to be there. Think of the alternatives - I could
be machine gunning diners in San Isidro, I could be molesting little girls
on the Penicuik bus. Instead I'm just a pain in the arse. So bear with me
a bit, hit the 'n' key and allow me my catharsis.

=>Mind you, compared to endless discussion about some second-rate soap opera
=>which a) probably almost none of the UK peevers other than the two or three
=>that were posting about it watch and b) the vast majority of the readers of
=>this newsgroup couldn't watch even if they wanted to, even the flamewar had
=>some entertainment value.

Here, Al, you're just plain wrong. I know you're entitled to your opinion,
tastes differ, and all that. We're obviously two different people: you
choose to live in Penicuik, I do not; you refrain from imbibing alcoholic
beverages, I do not; you listen to Visage, I do not; you find computer
science interesting, I find it mind-numbingly tedious. However, inasmuch
as there are any absolute standards in the world of art, if
Shakespeare is objectively better than Jeffrey Archer, if Bach is better
than Wham, then Brookside is most assuredly not second-rate. Even at its
worst, it is well above the (admittedly low) average of TV shows. The
acting is passable - certainly of a far higher quality than that which will
be lauded by the "serious" reviewers of the events at the execrable
Edinburgh Festival - and the plots at least entertaining. At its best, it
is as powerful a drama as is seen on the Tube, and certainly better than
anything that has emerged from Hollywood in many a long year.

So have your opinion if you wish, but please spare us from passing it off
as established fact. If you have talents towards artistic criticism, we
would be interested to see them - they have hitherto lain dormant.

=> C'mon, Mike, post something containing Libertarian
=>politics *and* copious Hawkwind references to see if we can free Jeremy of
=>the malaise of crud from which he is currently suffering.

If you have learned anything from reading eduni.vtp, it should be that I'm
not very keen on people pretending to be my parents. So fuck off.



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