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[Cena's Little Helper]

Question about some books (I asked about them in the Chuck Palahniuk thread, but you didn't respond...apologies if that meant you didn't have an opinion). Which one would you most recommend:

1) Crow Road by Iain Banks

2) Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

3) How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Question about some books (I asked about them in the Chuck Palahniuk thread, but you didn't respond...apologies if that meant you didn't have an opinion). Which one would you most recommend:

1) Crow Road by Iain Banks

2) Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

3) How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman

I must have missed it. I remember reading Crow Road, I don't think I was a huge fan. I'm unsure about the others. I read a lot, so if it's not a book I own then I tend to forget them.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Question about some books (I asked about them in the Chuck Palahniuk thread, but you didn't respond...apologies if that meant you didn't have an opinion). Which one would you most recommend:

1) Crow Road by Iain Banks

2) Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

3) How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman

I must have missed it. I remember reading Crow Road, I don't think I was a huge fan. I'm unsure about the others. I read a lot, so if it's not a book I own then I tend to forget them.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

I might recognize the covers though.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

I might recognize the covers though.

 

[Cena's Little Helper]

Here's the cover for How Late It Was, How Late:

And, for Morvern Callar:

 

[Y 2 Jake]

I've read neither, I'll order them from the library.

 

[Cena's Little Helper]

Why do the English refer to mentally challenged people as windowlickers? Do they really lick a lot of windows over there in the U.K.?

 

[Spunky]

I was told it was a racial slur.

 

[Sparky]

Whats better, Home and away or Neighbours.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Why do the English refer to mentally challenged people as windowlickers? Do they really lick a lot of windows over there in the U.K.?

I was told it was a racial slur.

It's not a racial slur. It's what happens when you put a ****** in a vehicle, licking of windows is inevitable.

Whats better, Home and away or Neighbours.

I haven't been a student for a while, but I always prefered Neighbours.

 

[Cena's Little Helper]

How does Open University work exactly? Can you take any particular course that you want (for example, can you sit down with your instructor and say that I want to take a survey course in American History or Introduction to Microeconomics)? If your course material is similar to that of a course taught in university, can you sit for papers in the relevant module/class? I just saw Educating Rita the other day, and I remember you saying something about taking courses in Open University.

 

[HBK-aholic]

Educating Rita is awful.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

It's doing courses at home. Teaching and qualifying yourself really.

 

[Uncle Sam]

I've never heard the term windowlicker. Must be a Stoke thing.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

It's global. It's not specific to Stoke mongs.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

ive heard it.

 

[Uncle Sam]

I don't generally associate with the mentally handicapped. Well, the explicitly mentally handicapped.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

I do. pretty much all my friends, really...

 

[Tastycles]

I don't generally associate with the mentally handicapped. Well, the explicitly mentally handicapped.

It's not something you'd hear if you were with mentally ill people. They don't say "I'm a windowlicker", you obviously don't hang out with offensive people. I think it might be a northern thing though, because no-one who I've explained it to since leaving home has known what it is.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Northern as in everybody above London?

 

[Spunky]

Did you watch Hartlepool vs West Ham?

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Bits, I was playing on FIFA 09. I heard it was better than Pro Evo, it's not really.

 

[Spunky]

Fifa 09 > Pes 09

Pes series > Fifa series.

Fifa is amazing this year, I love the Adidas season updates.

 

[Tastycles]

Northern as in everybody above London?

Well, I went to school with people from Portsmouth, Plymouth and the Home counties. I live in London now. So "Northern" as in the midlands and the the north.