A sad state of affairs. If only there was some sort of idiomatic reference book in which I could find a phrase that would concisely express my feelings on this matter.
Facebook tells Viz to f**k right off
Facebook has "unpublished" the page pertaining to legendary Brit comic Viz, citing a breach of the social network's terms and community standards. Viz revealed the shock news on Twitter earlier today, prompting one fan to suggest: "Couldn't you disguise yourselves by posting child pornography or right wing nut job content?" …
COMMENTS
-
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 18:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
How about...
The Facebook Files......
aka The Definitive Reference for Politically Incorrect and Potentially Offensive Material
And no breast-feeding moms here.... no siree bob. Just good clean, mindless postings about lolcat behavior and this morning's hangover. Apply antiseptic as needed....
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 18:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Office game
With such a publication one can expand the knowledge of ones colleagues in a "learning at work" way. Simply email them a page, column and entry number, specifying an definition which they then have to read, comprehend and appreciate. They may express voluble surprise at what they have learned. They in turn can respond in a similar manner.
Thus all can improve their understanding of this rich language.
-
Friday 19th February 2016 15:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
This is what its coming to...
Asses like Zuckerbag and the whole miserable bunch of corporate foam whippers will dictate what's acceptable with some bullshit small print.
Hail the new overlards.
Their cleansing away of your free speech is just as distasteful as their plans to cleanse away Arabs, Muslims, Russians, Mexicans, Migrants (what a fantastic word to stigmatize someone who moved from somewhere to somewhere else) and of course the increasing amounts of newly poor Americans and Europeans who refuse to return to the peasant status of their forefathers.
-
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 14:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
"And therein lies the danger of Facebook, aka, just another walled garden."
Did anyone seriously believe otherwise? You can perhaps excuse naive teenagers for believing the whole hippie glorious new future without frontiers or rules schtick applied to the web & internet in general, but shame on any adult who was taken in. Companies website - companies rules. Simple.
-
-
-
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 14:23 GMT Roq D. Kasba
Re: A once brilliant comic....
I agree that it can be somewhat uneven, but it was always hit and miss. Some of the older strips were very thin and contrived - swearing vicar, swearing postman, not really comically developed :)
Many of the old favourites live on, and some of the slightly newer stuff like Drunken Bakers is splendid comic pathos. Profanisaurous has gone on too long, but still contains the occasional gem. Read some of the earlier comics (in the issue 30's ish range, maybe) and there wasn't really a golden age
-
-
-
Wednesday 17th February 2016 11:17 GMT matthehoople
Re: A once brilliant comic....
'Black Bob' was Dandy. My 12 year old son loves the old Beano's and Dandy's - realises that new ones are a rip off and crap so we often have fun searchign charity shops for piles of old comics. The great thing is that he will 'understand' viz strips like 'Black Bag' when I eventually introduce Viz to him. I have a huge pile in the loft, ready for his enjoyment!
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 14:51 GMT Captain Queeg
Re: A once brilliant comic....
Hit and miss, yes very much so, but more or less very issue still contains some real quality.
This month there's a "Things you will see in the Gym" double page spread. I defy anyone to read down that with a straight face.
Likewise the day in the life of a fireman
http://viz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/012_viz156_fireman.jpg
or Trainspotter Situations Vacant
http://viz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/train-spotter.jpg
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 15:11 GMT Fraggle850
Re: A once brilliant comic....
Didn't they once do a strip called something like 'DC Thompson, the miserable Scottish bastard' after being taken to court for ripping off dc Thompson characters from beano and dandy?
Mr Logic was a favourite of mine, possibly because it struck a little too close to home! El Reg should have him as an icon for excessive pedantry.
-
Wednesday 17th February 2016 10:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: A once brilliant comic....
>Didn't they once do a strip called something like 'DC Thompson, the miserable Scottish bastard' after being taken to court for ripping off dc Thompson characters from beano and dandy?
I think it was DC McThompson, from memory. Ironically, they're now doing data centres and cloud computing, so there's another IT angle. Dennis the Menace, thanks to his lack of interest in paying attention at school, now spends his time putting cardboard boxes and polystyrene into the skips out the back, and occasionally keying Walter's Merc.
-
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 15:43 GMT Ralph B
Re: A once brilliant comic....
Occasional gems such as this and the ever reliable Top Tips keep me subscribing.
-
-
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 18:36 GMT Ali Um Bongo
Re: A once brilliant comic....
At the risk of sounding like a candidate for another magazine's "Pseuds' Corner", I've always thought that; as well as [on occasion still] being good crack, Viz as a whole is also a very good barometer of 'real' contemporary British society
I only wish I could persuade the Arts Council to fund my learnēd thesis on the subject.
-
-
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 13:10 GMT TheProf
Facebook? It's society in general
I'd be quite interested in seeing some of the websites that radicalise people and turn them into religious zealots. From what the 'news' tell us they seem to be optical heroin; one look and you're hooked.
I can't though, because if I look for these websites I'll be investigated to the full extent of the law (and beyond!) and end up in a foul-smelling prison cell.
You're free to think what you like as long as it's been approved first.
-
This post has been deleted by its author
-
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 14:22 GMT RogerT
Re: Facebook? It's society in general
>For me it's any time I need to deal with a bank and have to do all that prove-your-identity / know-your-customer crap to prove that you aren't a terrorist
I always enjoy the sport of getting organisations to prove their identity to me when they ring. Their agents always claim to have no access to the information I request. It's a great sport.
-
Tuesday 16th February 2016 19:03 GMT Cynic_999
Re: Facebook? It's society in general
"
For me it's any time I need to deal with a bank and have to do all that prove-your-identity / know-your-customer crap to prove that you aren't a terrorist
"
Banks could save a lot of time by simply providing the customer with a mirror. That way the customer can quickly check that it's really them and not a case of identity theft.
-
-