Baden

Enjoyed this. Neat, well written, self contained. :cool:

Warning: gutter humour follows. There's Raymond. He's a hamster and he's sad. Richard is Raymond's owner and he's happy. But why is Raymond sad? Have ...

Yeah, there's great storytellers who aren't very good writers and vice versa. When I read plot summaries of his stuff I'm blown away.

No, I don’t. If I had I probly would of killed them by now. I mean that literal. I know you probly don’t believe me but I done a lot of things, god’s ...

Great idea, Jack. Just saw this. I'm gonna get involved soon. :party:

Sorry, I don't think I've been much help. And I don't have enough background on what's going on to help, really.

Yeah, I remember I sent my bruv this one where I said I was kidnapped and he had to pay a ransom in Bitcoin but it was my Bitcoin address and he paid ...

It might not be meant to help. Maybe helping isn't everyone's priority all the time, I guess.

I've argued with my brother once or twice but never with my sisters. That would be awful. So maybe there is a different dynamic? Sorry, just thinking ...

Ah, right. Is it really a male/female thing though? Or more of a sibling trust thing?

Who's angry, your son or your ex?

Too confused. Advise on what?

:cheer:

Ah, yeah. I see what you mean. I'd maybe refer to 'Anglo-Irish' slang or speakers of British English as a shorthand there.

Collectiveness is tricky when the historical relationship is marred by colonialism. If it weren't, it'd be a lot easier. Hopefully, we can get over th...

Only, strictly, it's not even an alternative because it's not a collective term as such. More accurate to say there's no good alternative, so I would ...

You did go on a bit of a tangent regarding how Irish people refer to the North and South etc. which is not relevant to @"jamalrob"'s question. Anyhow,...

"Britain and Ireland" is the simplest group alternative, I think. I don't really see a need for the use of a term like "Anglo-Celtic Isles". And "Brit...

What's his best one, you think? I might try again.

I agree with @"Noble Dust", didn't love it. Preferred Stalker (I wasn't expecting the book to be so different). Yes, I remember just giving up on one ...

It's going to be even more confusing when/if Scotland leaves the UK.

Colonial hangover. But it's hard to shift.

Bernhard Langer

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Langers.

That's actually funny 'cos I wrote this today: "Up through the planks beneath my feet slide suddenly a swarm of sea tentacles, living weeds curl my an...

I think you two need a few more drinks in you. :razz: Really good feedback anyhow because you both hit the issues I was wondering about. Am I confusin...

Hey thanks, man! Hope it stands up to a sober assessment. :grin:

Here's a draft anyhow. Not sure how it comes across (a lot of abrupt jumping around characters and perspectives and maybe it needs more filling out) b...

Any insight into why the US might care if Russia formed a military alliance with Mexico and put its missiles there? Same reason.

Mostly about NATO encroachment/threat. Stalin wanted (and got) the whole of Eastern Europe as a buffer zone after WWII. If all Putin gets is Ukraine, ...

Vaxxed gibbon mooners. I like it. :party:

I was going to mention @"Benkei" too actually. :strong:

Aye, I remember enjoying a few of his stories on the old PF. I think he won the competition there a year or two before I first entered and then @"180 ...

Cool if it helped some. :up: It deserved a more substantial commentary tbh. I was kind of in lazy mode at the time.

I remember saying years ago in the old PF when @"180 Proof" commented on my story "Cora" (which ironically is a siginifcantly more recent work than "A...

Wish I'd known that before, would have been a nice bit of research, hehe. "Crying" (despite my having reasons to use it in the story) is a bit of a mi...

It's certainly not supposed to be a mystery story, though it starts as if it might be, which is kind of misleading, albeit not in an intentional way.

:yum:

Why didn't I think of that... ? :up:

Tell me more....

This is part of her superior positioning, as described through the perspective of our relatively hapless narrator. She knows what she's doing and he d...

I actually remember being very satisfied on writing that paragraph after rewriting it several times. It seemed, and still does, neat. Thanks for notic...

I like this interpretation. A story of human emotion even if a bit awkwardly done. I think that was mostly my intention when writing it. I was process...

Cheers! Nice summary. :cool: My lawyer says I should respond in the negative to this. :grin: But, really, I've taken elements from reality and mixed t...

Maybe, but can't remember this being on my writer's radar and the narrator describes Maria in fairly neutral terms: Of course, we could pschoanalyze t...

I like the way Colin says "banana". She's lovely. As are bananas. Or as we say in Ireland, bananas.

The way you go through these stories line by line outlining your thoughts and impressions is phenomenal and has set a high bar for all of us as author...

Wow, much appreciate that!

This is correct + "Amnesis" @"_db" "The Key" @"Tobias" "Common Things" @"ucarr" "Christmas Doing" @"Athena" "The Swap" @"Paul" "What I Found in a Stor...