You know what they say...bout heroes having feet of clay and all that?...

[Badvoc]

Just been on the Caitlin Moran live web chat.
I asked her if she regretted the "retard" comments in her last book.
She did reply and apologised but then another poster chimed in with "aren't you fed up of talking about the retard thing?" or some such comment...
Sigh.
Very very depressed that a) she wrote it at all, b) it got though the editorial process and c) even though to me as a parent of a child with sen it's very offensive, I should shut up because it's boring now?
Her replies to the over questions were a bit vacuous too IMO.
:(
Oh well.

Other questions I meant!
Flipping auto correct!
I am so sick of people thinking language like this is ok.
Her excuse?
She was 13 when she wrote it.
Although I dont remember the book reading that way...the exact quote is:
"I had all the joyful ebullience of a retard"
(sorry)

Yes.
That's my view lemarche.
Thanks for replying.
Feel oddly Upset and let down, which is mad!

Yes I asked before and was ignored so asked again! :)

i agree, the whole 'oops, silly me' excuse is used far too often and worse, accepted by MS society

i didn't see this part of the webchat, i chipped in with the merriment

thanks for trying to raise consciences

Well there were a few overused phrases that spring to mind...dude for example!
:)
I really love her writing usually.
Am all sad now.

Much fecking good it did unchartered.
Thanks for the flowers x

Do you know? When I read the book I actually squirmed in my seat when I read that word?
And then she used it again further on in the book!
Ugh!

i'm totally disillusioned by most of society right now

so much sweeping under the rug is par for the course

Me too unchartered...me too....

i wish i had some

fancy a [brew} badvoc?

see, i can't even make a fucking cuppa emoticon work on the arsing internet

Ooh yes please!
Builders tea for me please, no sugar.
(it's hilarious...I don't take sugar but eat a pack of custard creams with each brew,)

Lemarche...wise words.
I am just feeling a bit meh today.

i hate custard creams, almost as much as i hate autism right now

anyone got a stable for DD to stay in? she's a horse right now

Ah.
Ds1 likes to pretend he is a shire horse.
I didn't mind most of the time but at 6am it can be a tad wearing.
Do you like choc hob nobs?
(if the answer is no I dont think we can be friends :))

if they dip in they're my faves

Well, as Peter Kay says the hob nob is "the SAS of the biscuit world"
"dip me again!"