Comments on: Entertainment News

By: rachie

rachie — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:41:27 +0000

Im sorry but this young lady has two beautiful children and no matter what she has done in the past, which may I add she has opologised for and tbh it wasnt that bad, she does not diserve to die. Her little boys will have no mommy, doesn’t that affect you at all. If it doesn’t then you need some kind of mental help because it is VERY un-human not to care about somthing like that. And to just say you want her to die…well hat is horrible! There are very few people in the world that diesrve to die any they are rapists and murderers, that is it…not 27 year old women with young children to look after.

xxx

By: David Semple

David Semple — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:46:36 +0000

If you have no interest in reading anything else I’ve written, I should advise you that your generalisations are unlikely to carry any weight.

Additionally, your critique is far from reasonable. You accused me of being a misogynist when all the criticisms I’ve made of the two women featured above are not criticisms on the grounds that they are women, they are criticisms on political and ethical grounds.

Whether you think the way I posed the matter was reasonable or not is irrelevant to the nature of your accusations against me personally – and as for “bitter”…pot, kettle, etc.

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:43:28 +0000

I have no interest in reading anything else you’ve written after what hateful bile I’ve read here. Though I would bet my hands that your critique of males would have a distinctly different flavour to the words you use for females. And the fact that your response to a reasonable critique is to tell me to sod off speaks volumes about your character. Yes, there’s plenty of reasonable criticism that can be unloaded on Jade for the way she has handled this huge turning point in her life but “Does anyone else hope that Jade Goody dies?” is simply inexcusable in the eyes of most reasonable people, I feel certain.

By: David Semple

David Semple — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:42:04 +0000

Oh do sod off. Only females make my hate list on this occasion. Have you actually read any other articles on this blog? I could care less what you think of me, but misogynistic I am not. It seems as though in some respects you didn’t even read the article, bearing in mind my point about her cancer was that millions of people have cancer and only she has been singled out for plaudits. It’s hypocrisy of the highest order – and worse that she willingly profits from it.

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:38:54 +0000

This is an abhorrent thing to write. And your words betray you as a bitter misogynist given that only the females in your hate-list inspired bile-fuelled statement. Jade Goody might be everything you hate about the media but she is still a human being and a mother. Your words make me feel nothing but contempt for you, whomever you might be, but I’m sure your kids would feel immense hurt upon reading my words of ‘good riddance’ were you ever be diagnosed with a particularly aggressive cancer.

By: David Semple

David Semple — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:14:16 +0000

Well quite. Evidently the opinion on this article is divided, because it’s cited as elsewhere as being worthy of a foolish Labour supporter, but at other points as being worthy of reading. Divisive, controversial. Think I’ll sell many papers?

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:15:52 +0000

So some celebrities are vacuous and the media is crap because it follows them and is inconsistent in the way it reports on them because it want to sell more papers/magazines. Further politicians who get dragged into this world are silly too.

Maybe in my naivety I’m missing the cutting edge left-wing analysis that comes with most of your posts, which is the reason I keep an eye on them, or maybe it’s just been an off day.

At the very least, and notwithstanding the fact you don’t really believe in this kinds of thing, I would want it to be made clear which Circle of Hell you’ve got in mind for your damned celebrities; for myself, I think the most appropriate might be the part of Circle 8 reservied for ‘falsifiers’ who get to be changed into hogs: “In life they seized upon the appearance of others, and in death they must run with never a pause, seizing upon the infernal apparition of these souls, while they in turn are preyed upon by their own furies.”

There seems to be a very useful circle of hell test at http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv, and I do think we should be setting up a Facebook campaign to get all celebrities to take the test and have the result published in a league table.

By the way it’s stinking bogs and foul-smelling slime for all eternity for you, given your level of wrath towards Ms Goody, the fifth circle being reserved for “the souls of those that anger overcame”.