tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post6726050419514060153..comments2024-01-06T00:28:45.062+08:00Comments on Bibliobibuli: Tesco Undercuts on Beedlebibliobibulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-57236848076980883932008-12-27T02:22:00.000+08:002008-12-27T02:22:00.000+08:00"Thanks for saving me the energy of replying to th..."Thanks for saving me the energy of replying to the prick, Preeta."<BR/><BR/>Okay, so now we're into childish name-calling, are we?<BR/><BR/>"Preeta, way back on this posting, you said you were capable of ignoring the truly stupid. Ahem."<BR/><BR/>Are you implying that I'm "stupid" because you don't agree with me ? :)<BR/><BR/>"I think you just answered your own question, buddy. It's like how, if I wanted to put dogshit on my OWN pillow every morning, nobody could stop me, see, but it still wouldn't give me the right to put dogshit on *your* pillow."<BR/><BR/>Well yes it does, actually. I can't have you arrested for that, can I Animah ? :) if that was illegal a lot of people would be arrested now wouldn't they? <BR/><BR/>Preeta, when did I personally attack you? please let me know, I'll apologize if necessary. All I remember is some debate and some criticism (of the book) which I think was deleted. <BR/><BR/>And yea, about er..yesterday. I'm lucky it's only once a year, but yea whatever. This remains one of the very few countries in which a muslim can say "Merry Christmas" to everyone without being regarded as strange (or worse :P)<BR/><BR/>"When the government bans a book, it is trying to withhold the contents of that book -- information, philosophy, whatever -- from the entire population."<BR/><BR/>When the government (administrator) of this country (blog) bans a book (post), it is trying to withhold the contents of (the book) the post -- information, philosophy, whatever -- from the entire population of the country (of the blog readers).<BR/><BR/>Same thing.<BR/><BR/>"If Sharon could ban you from this blog (oh! if only!) she would be withholding nothing from anyone."<BR/><BR/>She would be with-holding the contents of my post from all her blog readers.<BR/><BR/>"She would not be making it impossible for anyone who wanted to listen to you to do so ELSEWHERE."<BR/><BR/>Same difference. When a government bans a book, they are not making it impossible for someone to read it anywhere else in the world :)<BR/><BR/>"You would not be 'banned like a banned book'"<BR/><BR/>Yes I would. See above :)<BR/><BR/>"you could still hold forth on your own half-past-six theories ON YOUR OWN BLOG, and Sharon wouldn't stop you."<BR/><BR/>The authors and publishers of said banned books could still hold forth on their own half-past-six 7theories anywhere else in the world, and the government here would not be able to stop them.<BR/><BR/>"Nor would anyone else. In fact, I must confess that I would probably visit your blog regularly myself. I need to get my daily dose of entertainment and inspiration, and I get most of it from foolish people's blogs."<BR/><BR/>So are you implying that I'm foolish because you don't agree with me? :P<BR/><BR/>Bib,<BR/><BR/>If you want to ban me (exactly like a government bans a book, or even a person) all you have to do is say the word. I will take it as law because after all you are the "government" of this "country".<BR/><BR/>Preeta -<BR/><BR/>You're right, I can't stop you from wishing me, even though I wish you didn't, that's how it works I think :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-76612333586776708782008-12-24T16:44:00.000+08:002008-12-24T16:44:00.000+08:00Animah -- yes I am, but I meant that specifically ...Animah -- yes I am, but I meant that specifically in reference to the personal attack against me (which Sharon deleted). I don't feel quite so restrained defending *other* people :-) . Merry Christmas to you too, and all the rest, even to the Scroogy Mouse: MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS. See? You can't stop me from wishing you, haha!<BR/><BR/>-- PreetaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-66721972655005546012008-12-24T12:25:00.000+08:002008-12-24T12:25:00.000+08:00Preeta, way back on this posting, you said you wer...Preeta, way back on this posting, you said you were capable of ignoring the truly stupid. Ahem. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, Merry Christmas Sharon, Preeta, Chet, Poppadumdum and Ah Pong (I remember who you are cos you accidentallly left your name and then signed Ah Pong). And to the Scroogy Mouse: Bah Humbug to you too. Hee hee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-61056757791006599282008-12-24T10:11:00.000+08:002008-12-24T10:11:00.000+08:00Thanks for saving me the energy of replying to the...Thanks for saving me the energy of replying to the prick, Preeta. <BR/><BR/>- PoppadumdumAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-7375845310944398032008-12-24T06:01:00.000+08:002008-12-24T06:01:00.000+08:00HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Anonymous thinks he's an activist...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Anonymous thinks he's an activist! Anonymous, what are you an activist for? Sticks up the arsehole? The right to remain a sourpuss? Seriously, what worthy cause are you furthering here? Do tell us.<BR/><BR/>"she criticizes things in her blog, why shouldn't I criticize things in her blog?"<BR/><BR/>I think you just answered your own question, buddy. It's like how, if I wanted to put dogshit on my OWN pillow every morning, nobody could stop me, see, but it still wouldn't give me the right to put dogshit on *your* pillow. Or do you think it would? Do you think, if I believed that dogshit had a salutary and bracing effect on human morals -- say, for example, that I thought of dogshit on pillows as a form of activism -- that I should have the right to enter your house and lay a nice fat turd on your pillow every morning?<BR/><BR/>I'm afraid what Sharon is doing has absolutely NOTHING to do with book banning, Anonymous, and I think the rest of us see that, but perhaps you *are* too obtuse to grasp the point, as I suspected at first. When the government bans a book, it is trying to withhold the contents of that book -- information, philosophy, whatever -- from the entire population. If Sharon could ban you from this blog (oh! if only!) she would be withholding nothing from anyone. She would not be making it impossible for anyone who wanted to listen to you to do so ELSEWHERE. You would not be "banned like a banned book"; you could still hold forth on your own half-past-six theories ON YOUR OWN BLOG, and Sharon wouldn't stop you. Nor would anyone else. In fact, I must confess that I would probably visit your blog regularly myself. I need to get my daily dose of entertainment and inspiration, and I get most of it from foolish people's blogs. Smart, self-aware people are rarely quite as much fun to write about :-) .<BR/><BR/>-- PreetaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-18489653165886619332008-12-24T00:33:00.000+08:002008-12-24T00:33:00.000+08:00suggested the blog way back. can't ban any IP the ...suggested the blog way back. <BR/><BR/>can't ban any IP the way my comments are set up at the moment so can only delete ... just ... bloody hell ... be considerate!bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-50397131290317194052008-12-24T00:12:00.000+08:002008-12-24T00:12:00.000+08:00"This is Sharon's blog and she can do whatever the..."This is Sharon's blog and she can do whatever the hell she wants! If anyone doesn't like it, fuck off and go somewhere else, and start your own blog."<BR/><BR/>"You tak suka, you keluar!" -- is that what you're saying?<BR/><BR/>Poppadumdum -<BR/><BR/>I'm not criticizing _everything_. I'm not criticizing _anything_ in fact. I'm just expressing an opinion. Anyway, in your opinion, no one should criticize anything? she criticizes things in her blog, why shouldn't I criticize things in her blog?<BR/><BR/>I'm not stopping her from doing anything _at all_ to me. She can ban me any time she wants, just like the government can ban a book anytime it wants.<BR/><BR/>All she has to do is say "I hereby ban you from this blog" and I will be banned like a banned book.<BR/><BR/>"Why doesn't he start his own blog" ? Because, frankly who the fuck would want to go to his blog?<BR/>He has to ride on a popular blog to get his views across."<BR/><BR/>You're right. This is activism. You don't hold a demonstration, for instance, in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere. Who would care then? you want to hold up traffic and inconvenience people, then people will notice. <BR/><BR/>And no kids were harmed either. As a final note, the lawyers were right. This is kind of fun :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-68799014359590571212008-12-23T21:43:00.000+08:002008-12-23T21:43:00.000+08:00I agree with Preeta. This is Sharon's blog and she...I agree with Preeta. This is Sharon's blog and she can do whatever the hell she wants! If anyone doesn't like it, fuck off and go somewhere else, and start your own blog. You may have freedom of speech, but it's just bad manners to enter someone's house and criticise everything in it. <BR/><BR/>"Why doesn't he start his own blog" ? Because, frankly who the fuck would want to go to his blog? <BR/>He has to ride on a popular blog to get his views across. <BR/><BR/>- PoppadumdumAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-26445026708469223622008-12-23T21:11:00.000+08:002008-12-23T21:11:00.000+08:00Why doesn't he just start his own blog, then?!? H...Why doesn't he just start his own blog, then?!? He can go on and on ad infinitum about how the whole world sucks and it's no point trying to do anything because it will continue to suck anyway, and I'm sure he'll garner a large and enthusiastic readership.<BR/><BR/>-- PreetaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-68957502350933452362008-12-23T21:04:00.000+08:002008-12-23T21:04:00.000+08:00oh it was the usual anonymous after all ... really...oh it was the usual anonymous after all ... really i don't know why i have to keep rapping the same person's knuckles every time and so do the people who run every e-group he decides to join. <BR/><BR/>i think i am incredibly long suffering actually and if i want to chop off your comments when you overstep the mark, i certainly will, moan all you like.<BR/><BR/>and preeta, he doesn't listen, cannot listen. just takes pleasure in making us all cross with him.bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-21952481725718062162008-12-23T19:26:00.000+08:002008-12-23T19:26:00.000+08:00Anonymous: did you not read my earlier response to...Anonymous: did you not read my earlier response to this same comment, or are you too obtuse to grasp my point? Moderating comments on one's OWN blog is simply NOT censorship. That's like saying, "I want to be able to add a paragraph of porn to each chapter of your book, and if you stop me, you're against freedom of speech!" It's an absurd argument. After all, you, Anonymous, are more than welcome to start your own blog FOR FREE, in which you will be able to say whatever the hell you want, and nobody will be able to stop you. Anybody who wants to should be able to go to your blog to read your thoughts. *That's* freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not, however, entitle you to make whatever foolish comments you want on someone ELSE'S blog, if they object to it, any more than freedom of expression entitles me to leave dog shit on your pillow every morning.<BR/><BR/>-- PreetaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-28122116905182309912008-12-23T18:56:00.000+08:002008-12-23T18:56:00.000+08:00It's censorship Preeta, from someone who appears t...It's censorship Preeta, from someone who appears to be against censorship :P oh no wait, it's "editing" not censorship :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-90636904949083830962008-12-23T09:45:00.000+08:002008-12-23T09:45:00.000+08:00we love you too, ah pong. at least you aren't ano...we love you too, ah pong. at least you aren't anonymous :-Dbibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-14755033607547219152008-12-23T09:35:00.000+08:002008-12-23T09:35:00.000+08:00This comment has been removed by the author.synicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03984505627695034615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-70833785009711618412008-12-23T08:43:00.000+08:002008-12-23T08:43:00.000+08:00if there's an idiot filter i guess i'll always be ...if there's an idiot filter i guess i'll always be filtered out. that's a pity because i like to come to this room and learn something ...and sometimes can't help having a fight.<BR/><BR/>ah pongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-82248294390830737032008-12-23T07:29:00.000+08:002008-12-23T07:29:00.000+08:00it's me it annoys, Preeta! i get fed up with negat...it's me it annoys, Preeta! i get fed up with negativity and folks who can only backbite anonymously<BR/><BR/>i need an idiot filter for this blog but can't block anyone from commenting without installing haloscan, but then would lose past comments. if i monitor comments, the blog loses its spontaneity ...bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-48971148709202278052008-12-23T01:25:00.000+08:002008-12-23T01:25:00.000+08:00Sharon, you didn't have to delete the comment lah,...Sharon, you didn't have to delete the comment lah, I'm a big girl and though I know it doesn't seem like it at times, I *am* perfectly capable of ignoring the truly stupid ;-) .<BR/><BR/>-- PreetaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-12703055287832460492008-12-22T22:10:00.000+08:002008-12-22T22:10:00.000+08:00don't think so, not the same IP, and this one mous...don't think so, not the same IP, and this one mousied in from a blog aggregator so might have been just a random rat leaving droppings.bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-53207212499498527332008-12-22T21:25:00.000+08:002008-12-22T21:25:00.000+08:00I was just about to ask whether it's the same mous...I was just about to ask whether it's the same mouse as the one who posted in the "No Seksan Readings for December" entry.Chethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10743260318771644192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-16172929179554175742008-12-22T21:02:00.000+08:002008-12-22T21:02:00.000+08:00anon comment was deleted 'cos it was just plain na...anon comment was deleted 'cos it was just plain nasty.<BR/><BR/>from now on i reserve the right to remove any anonymous comments esp those which add nothing intelligent to the debate and which are written only to bitch.bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-17093533790364567722008-12-22T20:59:00.000+08:002008-12-22T20:59:00.000+08:00Hypermarkets don't have the class or the classy cl...Hypermarkets don't have the class or the classy clientele who'd want to read Preeta's book. They sell only riff-raff mass-market crap...<BR/><BR/>- PoppadumdumAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-71206337755026686112008-12-22T17:54:00.000+08:002008-12-22T17:54:00.000+08:00you also meet all the best people there - forgot t...you also meet all the best people there - forgot to say that, Jane!bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-77900230567375440522008-12-22T17:18:00.000+08:002008-12-22T17:18:00.000+08:00Long live Village Grocer-grocer of choice for Shar...Long live Village Grocer-grocer of choice for Sharon and Jane Sunshine. <BR/><BR/>Oh, its not just indie bookshops, it's the grocer, fishmonger, butcher and (what do I call a chicken seller), etc, etc. Jane Sunshine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-79133817198851556022008-12-22T16:08:00.000+08:002008-12-22T16:08:00.000+08:00Well, me, too (owning books) but only by specific ...Well, me, too (owning books) but only by specific authors (think Toni Morrison), out-of-print books like Jill Krementz's The Writer's Desk, and also unknown authors whose books catch my eye (usually the covers). I recently bought a paperback called The Camel Bookmobile which was inspired by the Kenyan Camel Mobile Library set up by the government to improve literacy rates in poverty-stricken areas. I bought the book from Popular Bookstore in Ikano and only learned of the Kenyan Mobile Library after I got home.Chethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10743260318771644192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912730.post-85591260153011684152008-12-22T15:38:00.000+08:002008-12-22T15:38:00.000+08:00oh animah have you forgotten the queues outside te...oh animah have you forgotten the queues outside tesco the last time???<BR/><BR/>i shop at village grocer, the prices are lower than the hypermarkets, the produce fresher and more varied, and there isn't that stale pong, or the ambiance of a battery farm<BR/><BR/>ms d- - yes!!! no doubt synical's merry band of book crossers could get one copy between 'em and pass it round. who actually needs to own books? (well me, but ...)bibliobibulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456636355933524132noreply@blogger.com