Entertainment For Lively Minds
Friends? wtf?
Maybe I'm being picky - and if so apologies to y'all, but I really must take issue with the sidebar here-and I think it also appears in the magazine this month. (which, by the way Mark, David et al was an absolute bloody delight: I read it enthralled from cover to cover last night. The Who won? thing was a great framing device. The coup de grace was Dorian Lynsky's fittingly glowing tribute to The Trip; I only wish it'd been a two-pager..)
Anyway, my beef is with the promise of FRIENDS! Reading? Good. Banter? Good. Music? Good. Other stuff? Great, tell me more.
But friends? Don't get me wrong, I've made some great friends - and have grown to admire a great many other people both for their posting and their personalities in the meat ups. But hey, we were never shut-ins, we had friends before Word, we still 'ave 'em.
The fact that Word has inadvertently spawned a lot of beautiful friendships is just one of the great by-products of the ,'magazine, podcast, way of life,' Word which we love.
Using it in the advertising, while not misleading, diminishes us slightly IMHO. We are the Massive, we are proud. We are rocks. We are islands, all that happened was that we liked what was going on here, took tentatiave steps: both cyber and later shoe-centred and met people either online or in the flesh with whom we become friends. Rather than using that fact in our marketing, let those who enter make that delicious discovery for themselves...
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You ain't from around these parts are you boy?
Yes I'd say you are being picky; it's in the subscription advert so as subscribing to a magazine means that they deliver it instead of you going to a shop, the banter, friends and deliberately vague "other stuff" cannot be linked sensibly to the subscription process and are clearly meant ironically or humorously. It's a bit like a Viz top tip or suchlike. A joke. Of sorts.
Another vote for
"being a bit picky" I'm afraid.
ah, my mistake
as you were..
I'm not proud...
"friends" - what can possibly be wrong with that?
I'd rather be known a a "Friend!"
Than as an "Other Stuff!"
I was hoping for a cute picture of
Joey and Chandler.
Gutting.
yeah but no but
hoisted by my own petard, twould seem...I made a comment about what I wrongly perceived to be an atypical commodification of friendship. I was wrong, as it was a joke which I hadn't got. I feel a bit embarrassed, but there you go. Sometimes you make a fool of yourself in front of your friends. Mea maxima culpa.
What are friends for?
its already forgotten.
*smirks and winks at others*
I read that as
"smiles and winks at otters".
I blame Hannah.
I *heart* you V
Only because I'm the numpty holding The Word in the photo with all my fellow friends.
Can't wait for the royalty cheques and offers of modelling work to come pouring in...
Excellent
My work here is done
I don't give a monkey's about the adverts.
I tried my best to teach my kids(and my mother), that when they go on the internet...never click on an advert!...especially if it's flashing.
Never, ever click on a pop-up and if it won't let you go any further, just close the window....always!
A couple of weeks ago, at dinner, my son asked me what HOMEYS(I think that was the ad)was. I said it was probably a band...did he not know about them? Of course, later, when catching up on Frazer's STFW emails, I found out it was a slippers ad...(maybe they've found the correct demographic)...hehe!
I don't care if the mag uses *friends* in it's advertising stuff. I've swapped stuff with virtual friends here and I've actually met some folks I'd like to call friends....moreso if they had better taste in music...hehe!...I don't know how to do the smiley thing.
yer awrite by me
Big Stevie and I look forward to sharing a few beers n' fags with you in the future
*awards bigsteviecook Victoria Cross*
Well, you were brave enough to trek to Glasgow and meet up with us, so you deserve a medal
I enjoyed the covers CD you put together and I've made a copy of it for another friend on here.
But, seriously, LOUDON WAINWRIGHT???!?!?!??!???!???!???!?
*inserts smiley thing*
Just you's wait an' see....
....in a year's time, when we've had another 4 of these meet-ups. I'll have you all listening to music for grown ups..hehe!
If it's illogical English you're looking for try
One lucky WORD reader will start 2011 by building the greatest audio-visual treasure trove...
No s/he won't.
First off, giving someome a prize does not mean the prize winner is building anything: s/he is passively receiving a gift. A very nice and generous one, but that still doesn't mean "building."
Secondly, whilst the winner might add this to an existing pile of dvd's or use it to start a collection, this is only conjecture. So the positive will start ... building is by far from certain.
A more accurate headline might be, One lucky WORD reader will start 2011 with hours and hours of viewing ahead...
/As you were.