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Angry Mob Wanted
Posted by Mr Drayton on 15 December 2008 - 10:19pm.
Hi,
I'm in need of an Angry Mob.
In Saturdays Guardian Guide they gave away a major plot line in The Wire.
I'm only half way through series four.
It was done in such a glib way that could only be done by some slack jawed yokel with a media degree from Sunderland.
I've mailed them, but heard nothing, no apology, nothing.
I care about these things, so I need a Paris '68 or Athens '08 style Angry Mob to put some windows through.
If you're in, and of a mind, we can go and turn over the offices of The Daily Mail while we're at it, we may as well drop round Cowells place whilst our dander is up.
If you had an angry mob, where would you send them?
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That Daisy out of Spaced
ruined the end of Brighton Rock for me with her voiceover on a Greatest British films docco last yesr. This about 2 weeks before I was gonna honestly sit down and watch the DVD. Don't give a monkeys about the Wire but if we can go do Auntie Beebs windows while we're in the smoke then count me in
Hmmm, difficult to choose...
but I'd suggest Piers Morgan's gaff for starters.
The Guardian only moved offices last week
Could be they anticipated your reaction.
Not too keen on people who take the
mick out of Sunderland for starters.
Sorry.
The Angry Mob descended on Sunderland to smash it up - but when they got there they thought another Angry Mob had beaten them to it.
There was no earlier Angry Mob.
The Angry Mob were mistaken.
Was the yokel from Sunderland or just the degree?
Mind you it doesn't matter, either way Mr.Drayton you're a idiot.
Ouch!
Ouch!
Am I an idiot for:
a)having the comedy opinion that Sunderland had been trashed by the first imaginary Angry Mob?
or
b)for positing that a media studies graduate from Sunderland University had managed to get a job?
Both ideas are hard to grasp.
You can add my missus to
You can add my missus to your angry mob - she had the same experience of the Guardian Guide. I've seen all 5 series, but she's only at the end of series 3 (giving me the chance to watch them again).
I also read this...
...and while not personally affected, thought it a bit off that the article didn't contain spoiler warnings, like the one that prefaced a piece in the same magazine about the movies of 2008.
If Mr Drayton's angry mob can pin the offending journalist to a chair for a few minutes, I will happily spoil the ending of The Shield for him.
You can count me in
I too was angry when I read it. Just finished the excellent Season 2. The Wire is getting a lot of media coverage now as word of mouth about its brilliance spreads (THE WORD were first, mind!) and everyone else has been careful not to detail too much plot as the series is being mostly watched on DVD at people's own pace. The Guardian's spoiler was included in a '12 biggest douchebags of 2008' article. Takes a douchebag to know a douchebag. Douchebag.
After The Guardian, onwards to the NME offices to carry out a mercy killing. It really is embarrassingly poor now. We (previous generations of NME readers) wert lucky.
Mmmm...
The NME owe me big style for wasting hours of my life with the ill-written ramblings of Messrs Penman, Morley, Moore, Burchill et al during the late 70s/early 80s.
They used up all the credit they earned during the glory days of McDonald, Tyler, Farren, CSM and Kent.
I think the Guardian Guide
Is mainly written by twenty-somethings who weren't quite hip at university but are really trying to be down with the kids now(apart from the excellent Charlie Brooker). "Douchebag"? Do I really need this in my Saturday newspaper?
In France they know how to
Organise a proper protest:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/16/france-art-life-models-prote...
Round to Supernova Heights
What do we want?
Originality!
When do we want it?
Five albums ago!
You really have issues on this subject
Do you need a cuddle?
People in glass houses...
...in other news, I was profoundly irritated with David Hepworth's throwaway remark on a podcast some months agho, revealing a key series three plot-twist.
I told him so in an email "and everyfing"...didn't seem nearly as apologetic as I felt he ought to be.
Bloody right
I was spitting feathers etc when I read this- I'm waiting for Santa to bring me season 5, and was ready to head to London and set fire to the new Guardian office. Grrr.
(note, if the guardian office burns down, this is a joke, natch).