ICTChris Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 One of my tutors at University was a biographer of Orwell and in my final year I did a class on the Political thought of Orwell where we read all his novels and had a weekly class discussing them. It was without doubt the best thing I ever did in any education. Didn't do me any good in my chosen career but it was worth it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 What I mean to say is that the experiences perhaps helped shaped his writing in future life; the war, the oppression and being sent away in the first instance.I was just trying to sound smart since I read that last week 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Conor McGregor has managed to cause maximum seethe on both sides of the argument with this status Comments are full of both 'respect ar troops' and 'up the ra' types saying how they've lost all respect and are withdrawing their support. Absolute fuds 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killienick Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Kleinere anpassungen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Whilst that may be true, 1984 is, in my opinion, one of, if not the best book of the last 100 years. Little wonder why people quote it. Homage to Catalonia is one of my favourites. Such, Such Were the Joys also sticks out to me, in which you learn a lot about the young Orwell. Basically, the guy was a total fucking hero. I agree with your assessment there - my problem is that most have only the vaguest ideas of what it's about. Big Brother for one, room 101 and even the title have come to have their meaning corrupted by lazy pop culture. I've met few who have actually read the fucking thing, which is bloody criminal, IMHO obviously. Catalonia is a fine piece of work, which taps into my interest in Socialism, but my favourite is probably Down and Out in Paris and London. I'm also a big fan of his essays about the ideal pub, his expenditure on books, and other subjects which might appear random but are always enjoyable. Animal Farm is a lovely wee intro to his style, if a slightly in-your-face allegory. Total fucking hero is an understatement. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Apparently George Orwell and his friends used to play a game of guessing who would be a collaborator if the Nazis won the war and occupied England. Might be a good game to play with regards to P&B posters.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Apparently George Orwell and his friends used to play a game of guessing who would be a collaborator if the Nazis won the war and occupied England. Might be a good game to play with regards to P&B posters.... ... And slightly less easy post-Reynard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Apparently George Orwell and his friends used to play a game of guessing who would be a collaborator if the Nazis won the war and occupied England. Might be a good game to play with regards to P&B posters.... An irony being that Orwell wasn't marked for arrest post-Nazi occupation, while one of his favourites H.G. Wells was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamdunk Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 We got mawkish on page 1,took til page 4 for jingoistic. Poor show p&b. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 They knocked down the British Legion is Kilsyth. It sold the cheapest beer in the town. I would guess there are other towns that are suffering the same fate. Lest we forget. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Nederlander Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 My Gran was left without a father and was mentally scarred by the fallout Hiroshima or Nagasaki? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 One of my tutors at University was a biographer of Orwell and in my final year I did a class on the Political thought of Orwell where we read all his novels and had a weekly class discussing them. It was without doubt the best thing I ever did in any education. Didn't do me any good in my chosen career but it was worth it. That sounds brilliant, I would have loved to have studied a module like that. I've been somewhat obsessed with totalitarianism since reading 1984 in high school. Wrote a research proposal on autocratic management styles at uni for my dissertation, citing Animal Farm and 1984 at numerous points, and was lucky enough to get paired up to a supervisor who was a fellow Orwell fan. Styled my entire dissertation on the subject, and fully credit the fact that I got a shit hot mark (72%) to the fact that on numerous occasions I cited fictional work on absolute leadership styles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 They knocked down the British Legion is Kilsyth. It sold the cheapest beer in the town. I would guess there are other towns that are suffering the same fate. Lest we forget. Castlemilk is gone as well. What about the one in Motherwell that had the reb nights. Oi, don't shoot the messenger. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob the tank Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 The legion in Alva had strippers every Sunday.... And cheap beer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhoy who invented weetabix Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Castlemilk is gone as well. What about the one in Motherwell that had the reb nights. Oi, don't shoot the messenger. The Pines in Denny was forever having such artists as Gary Og and Shebeen on after big Celtic games and the odd bash Cant believe several serious assaults and an attempted murder or two prompted the licensing board to shut it down 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Heard of another British Legion social club. i won't name it, that ended up by run by the local underworld. Thought that was slightly surreal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 People who stick a poppy on the car are just ripping the piss Regardless of anyone's thoughts on whether it's right, wrong, or nobody's business whether people are wearing poppies, that kind of thing is just dreadful. Anyone driving around with a gigantic plastic poppy on their car bonnet is absolutely screaming 'LOOK AT ME AND HOW GOOD I AM AT REMEMBERING THE TROOPS' rather than attempting dignified remembrance. Tacky, mawkish, awful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Insightful. You should write books with your acute historical knowledge. That was 1935 and is shameful but retrospectively so. They weren't over there endorsing genocide. Behave. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Apparently George Orwell and his friends used to play a game of guessing who would be a collaborator if the Nazis won the war and occupied England. Might be a good game to play with regards to P&B posters.... A good start would be the 2 million No voters. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 (edited) That sounds brilliant, I would have loved to have studied a module like that. I've been somewhat obsessed with totalitarianism since reading 1984 in high school. Wrote a research proposal on autocratic management styles at uni for my dissertation, citing Animal Farm and 1984 at numerous points, and was lucky enough to get paired up to a supervisor who was a fellow Orwell fan. Styled my entire dissertation on the subject, and fully credit the fact that I got a shit hot mark (72%) to the fact that on numerous occasions I cited fictional work on absolute leadership styles. I'd recommend Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler if you haven't read it. It's about believing in a project whilst having certain doubts about the means, but willing to die for it just the same. Been a while since I read it though. Edited October 30, 2015 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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