Dr. Alice Roberts. I for one would love a conversation with her…

Gertrude Stein

Victoria Coren,
I don’t drink much. I wouldn’t care if I never drank again. I find drunk people annoying and dull. And they decrease my life expectancy, if only statistically. If alcohol were banned from public places tomorrow, it would be pure gain for me. But I don’t want alcohol banned, because I don’t think my personal gain is more important than civil liberty.
My life would also be better if we banned iPhones, small dogs, insurance adverts, boring conversations, the unexpected addition of chopped peppers to tuna sandwiches, “funny” T-shirts, that weird dusty stuff they put inside Jiffy bags that goes all over you if you open them the wrong way, teabags served next to a cup of hot water when you’ve paid £2 for a “cup of tea”, short people carrying umbrellas at lethal eye-height, Top Gear, unnecessarily large paperbacks that won’t fit in a pocket, spitting, being copied into EVERY SINGLE REPLY to a mass email from an indiscriminate friend, skateboarding and coriander.
But actually, my life wouldn’t be better, because I’d have swapped a series of regular annoyances for massive state repression.
You might say those things won’t kill me. But you’ve never monitored my blood pressure while watching Top Gear. Anyway, me smoking outside Giraffe won’t kill you either.

Billybob and Partypants, I couldn’t agree more.

she doesn’t like skateboarding and coriander? well theirs no room for her in my book club!

PBCOBE, god-like genius

(on the right by the way)

That picture of Gertrude Stein looks remarkably like Jonanthan Price if he were playing Caeser. Laurel wreath is missing though.

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Victoria Coren’s a right barrel of laughs isn’t she? 😐

But actually, my life wouldn’t be better, because I’d have swapped a series of regular annoyances for massive state repression.

Dunno, she sounds pretty levelheaded (and funny) to me.

Don’t know much about her, but I don’t think she likes mothers much either.

A bit before my time, but Joyce Grenfell.

I’m 80% sure that I went to the same primary school as Dr Alice Roberts.. In fact I was good mates with her older brother..

there’s a small chance that it might have been a different Alice Roberts though…

Mr Nice – Howard Marks. Whatever your views on him, he’s very articulate, I’d imagine pretty intelligent and he tells a damn good story….

What a pretty plant mr marks is holding…..

ourkidsam – I’ve got that calendar, bought it for my OH for Christmas.

Someone linked it to me yesterday. I’d like one. Though what Jonathon Ross is doing in there is beyond me

Nassim Taleb, scourge of Stoner economic forecasters 😉

And jolly interesting chap

Can’t go wrong with Virgina Woolf.

I’m impressed, a totty thread can’t get much more high brow than this!

Dr Alice Roberts on a bike. Drools 🙂

APF

that last one’s the baddie out of Harry Potter, isn’t it?

Harry what?

Dieter Rams

“Less, but better”

Germaine Greer, i didn’t even use the one that appeared in Suck magazine

Princess Anne

If I could add images on my iPhone I would add; Roland Barthes & Dr Linda Papadopolous.

Good and relevant shout on Papadopoulos

Cor blimey, has Princess Anne had some work done recently?

+1 for Victoria Coren, would love to play poker with her (with somebody else’s money).

and
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Skip to the bit at 3mins 50 for my favourite rockumentary moment ever. 😀

I don’t think I could be held responsible for my actions if I was forced into a locked room with Germaine Greer.

She ought to come on here for a chat – that would be interesting.

I like her, even if her views are a little old fashioned now.

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR – Member
I don’t think I could be held responsible for my actions if I was forced into a locked room with Germaine Greer.

Why?

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR – Member
I don’t think I could be held responsible for my actions if I was forced into a locked room with Germaine Greer.

I never found her that attractive personally.

She irks me, as do most all feminists.

A broad generalisation I know, but I’ll take back my earlier comments about what I’d do to her in a locked room – I just know she’d piss me off though.

I’d wager she wouldn’t like me very much either and on a level of articulation, would probably tie me in knots. Best we don’t meet eh?

Only one question, why such a big hat? Compensating for something, eh Abe?

pealy – that’s a funnel. Lincoln was powered by steam.

I thought he used it to smuggle chickens.

to smuggle chickens

is that a euphamism?

I was with her until the unexpected addition of chopped peppers to tuna sandwiches.

It makes a tuna sandwich.