Texas Iron
5:29 Mon Nov 11
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Lard...
Methinks thou doth protest too much...
Lay back and enjoy them...or not...but they are classics of their time...
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Admiral Lard
4:49 Mon Nov 11
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One time or another i've seen all of Shakespeare's plays. Whether it was at the boarding school of my youth or on DVD in the back of Daddy's Mercedes.
It is clear and obvious the man was a complete cunt.
As the author of this piece rightly points out his writing is verbose leading one to a sate of unrecoverable torpor by the second act.
Being mildly dyslexic I find it impossible to follow his plays without having read the script first. Even then if they spake in the original dialect I am all at sea from the off.
He started well with his plays about the various Henrys and Richards, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew (A particular favourite, eh Nursey?) but when he got onto the thorny issue Two gentlemen of Verona the wheels started to come off.
Macbeth and Hamlet both written as an antidote to insomnia and the Tempest sunk him completely.
Shakespeare died of AIDS in 1616. He'd spent too much time in the company thrusting young bucks in tight leotards with outrageous codpieces.
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gph
3:24 Mon Nov 11
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"and they refused to serve me any more alcohol"
Same thing happened when I exposed my battle scars (long thin one down my right shin where the keeper caught me when I ran onto a through ball; big round astroturf burn on my right elbow) in the market place (main bar). And no fucker voted for my consulship.
No wonder Coriolanus felt humiliated...
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Alfs
3:17 Mon Nov 11
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Thanks for correcting me, Canadian Iron. I was surprised when I read that claim. Tbf, he did come up with many phrases that are in common use today.
Only tonight, down the pub, did I shout "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse".
No one replied and they refused to serve me any more alcohol so I'm not sure if I'll use that one again.
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arsene york-hunt
2:12 Mon Nov 11
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As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
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Westham67
10:57 Sun Nov 10
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Pointy ears and short back and sides hair cuts
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gph
10:46 Sun Nov 10
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Unfortunately, there is no extant Volscian poetry.
I want to know whether it was employed as weapon in its war with Rome...
And did the Volscians have pointy ears?
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,
10:35 Sun Nov 10
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What a piece of work is a man
All that glisters is not gold
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ironsofcanada
10:18 Sun Nov 10
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"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
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Hammer and Pickle
10:15 Sun Nov 10
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"Piss off oicks, you boring cunt"
The Bard would have been please with that line.
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ironsofcanada
10:09 Sun Nov 10
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Action is eloquence."
Coriolanus
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Hammer and Pickle
10:04 Sun Nov 10
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The motto of WHO, perhaps
"I’ll so offend to make offence a skill"
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southbankbornnbred
9:59 Sun Nov 10
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I’ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I’ll drown my book.
But only once we've won a major trophy again - so hurry the fuck up, West Ham.
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Nurse Ratched
9:51 Sun Nov 10
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Yeah, that's gruesome 😳
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Nurse Ratched
9:50 Sun Nov 10
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He is also extremely pompous.
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southbankbornnbred
9:50 Sun Nov 10
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Nurse - watched it at the Barbican a couple of years back, with Antony Sher in the lead role. Loved every minute of it, as always. I could watch/listen to it on a loop until I went crackers and wandered about in a storm.
Lear, The Tempest and Macbeth. Works of genius.
Shakespeare: sustained excellence.
"Out, vile jelly!"
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Hammer and Pickle
9:47 Sun Nov 10
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"In the play, Malvolio is defined as a kind of Puritan. He despises all manner of fun and games, and wishes his world to be completely free of human sin, yet he behaves very foolishly against his stoic nature when he believes that Olivia loves him."
I say, that's just wrong!
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Nurse Ratched
9:37 Sun Nov 10
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Southbank
I saw it last year. Ian Mckellen as King Lear. Marvellous stuff.
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southbankbornnbred
9:31 Sun Nov 10
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King Lear is one of the greatest stories ever told.
Fucking Philistines! That's it, I'm leaving the West Ham Book Club...
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Eerie Descent
9:27 Sun Nov 10
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"All the world's a urinal, And all the men merely piss in their own garden"
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