To get annoyed by a badly written novel with serious factual mistakes

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Author thinks the witness to a crime can decide who the Crown calls as expert witness.

Expert witness is a therapist who was treating the witness to the crime. Expert witness is married to a lawyer. Expert witness has been discussing the background with lawyer husband. The person accused of the crime is the crime scene witness'father. Author thinks the lawyer husband can represent the accused and this is not a conflict.

Lawyer husband is actually employed in a government legal department and author thinks lawyer husband can, whilst still employed, act as a defence lawyer.

It's tosh. Did nobody bother to edit or proof read it?

Is it just me who bothers about stuff like this?

Sorry to disappoint you but it is perfectly possible to have both one's nipples sucked at the same time and my breasts are neither long nor floppy.

I kinda love the sword guy...

One book I remember reading as well where the author made a great point of her having a blue passport as she was a diplomat rather than the normal red one. But the book was set in the 1940s! I remember seeing my mum's old passport; it wasn't that long ago that we started using red ones.

I remember seeing my mum's old passport; it wasn't that long ago that we started using red ones. My first passport was blue (no idea where it is now) that was 1983 so it would have been valid until 1993 and I don't think the red ones were even thought of.

British passports were blue until 1988, when the EU burgundy ones came into use. Stocks of old blue ones were used up, often by posts overseas, but they were withdrawn completely in 1993.

EU passports are correctly called burgundy, not red. A red British passport is a diplomatic one, usually by carried by Queen's Messengers (officials who escort diplomatic bags). British diplomats often have ordinary passports with an endorsement inside giving their status.

(Sorry, that was very spotterish, and nowhere near as riveting as the nipple possibilities).

AuntieStella I could have done without the nipple possibilities.

British diplomats do have diplomatic (or official) passports now, Auntie. They are the same as the little burgundy ones, but they have "Diplomatic Passport" or "Official Passport" on the front. Not sure if the Queen's Messengers still have the large bright red ones, or whether they just get a bog standard diplomatic passport now.

I have squashed my breasts together and it would be impossible, unless he had a mouth like Wallace, to suck both nipples at the same time. Even if I fold them it won't work.

Thanks, MrsSchadenfraude!

(I did know that some British diplomatic staff have it on the cover, but thought I was getting convoluted enough already. You've put it much more clearly than me).

alAswad you should read "I Am Pilgrim" by Terry Hayes - it sounds similar to the book you mentioned and the lab has ALL of the things you listed, I'm sure you'd find it satisfying!!

Watching a doc now about the hundred years war and she's handling a parliamentary roll thing with gloves on!

Can I just say how much I love this thread? Visions of hundreds of MNers nodding along to erudite historical facts one minute and thoughtfully squashing their breasts together the next.

Aargh as a librarian working with special collections the whole white gloves thing is so frustrating - as LRD said, you're much better off (except in very specific circumstances) using your bare fingers. Don't lick to turn the pages, of course, but otherwise it's much safer. Possibly parliamentary rolls are considered a special case. See this super post from the British Library medieval ms blog (though sadly the video doesn't seem to work any more)
nb I do not work at the BL :)

britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2011/08/white-gloves-or-not-white-gloves.html

*How has it got to 327 posts without any mention of Connie Willis Blackout/All Clear?

Set during WW2, the characters use the Jubilee line. Finished in 1979.*

I was about to if that helps.

I have just squashed my breasts together thoughtfully. Aside from the fact that it hurt, he's have to have a large mouth.

My pet peeve is when on Radio 4 plays they have a russian character played by someone who is hamming up a Russian accent. It's not that difficult to find a native Russian speaker in the UK surely?

I know I have branched out from books, but it is something that has irritated me for years.

How the hell can you have both nipples sucked at the same time?!!

Unless you have two people at it, one on each side?

jump - oh, that must be so annoying for you!

I want to know - do people lick the pages?! Ewww! Many of mine were written before the plague. I know they can't carry plague germs as it's not that type of illness, but they idea of licking long dead, much-sneezed-upon cow dating back to a time when people didn't know enough to wipe their arses properly ... well, it doesn't appeal!

corn - yeah, DH hates that too, and always tells me exactly what's wrong. In detail.

Can I just say that I'm amazed Jean M Auel has been mentioned on here, I thought I was the only saddo person reading her novels (which quite frankly went properly downhill when Ayla met that eejit Jondalar IMHO, she'd have been better off with Thonolan!!)
I got so annoyed when the last book was endless repetition of that "mother's song", I kept skimming past those bits. And Ayla loves her animals more than her little girl which is a bit sad.

Once they had a supposedly Russian character call someone 'Nardy-esta' instead of Nadezhda. Something like that anyway. I nearly drove off the road I was yelling at the radio so much.

LRD I was thinking more of licking your finger, as in the Name of the Rose...

corn, DH's pet one was when (and I have no idea what this means) they said 'hello' in Ukranian not Russian.

He was very angry, but not angry enough that I remember the words!

kate, I'm sad to say I believe you. I really enjoyed her earlier books but they're getting more and more shit.

I think Tom Clancy has one of those machines too, Obfus.

jump - aahhh, yes! I don't lick my finger like that.

I do find it sad when you know how someone died - I guess if you work with them, you always know? That must be very creepy at times.

The last Ayla novel is particularly bad, after years of waiting when I read it I threw it to the back of the bookcase never to see the light of day again. Just awful. And that fucking mother's song!

Hated how Ayla and Jondalar and their kid are all so bastard perfect and everyone they meet are so blown away by their perfect blondness. The valley of horses is a good book though despite the dodgy sex scenes.

But I digress. Back to the main event.

She should have left the sex out and made Ayla only communicate with animals (as she is so good at it, we all know)
ps, as a child I tried biting my dog's ruff on her neck - she was not impressed. Jean M Auel told me they liked it!