"Blog Tin Drummer is written by unperson. Rectify" Crushed, Crushed By Ingsoc
"...you garner a lot of respect from people for the quality of your writing." DK, Devil's Kitchen
"F*** me sideways with a chain saw what a damn good blog." Bradford Vision
"An A-blogger if ever there was one, The Tin Drummer has this cursed no-comments policy which I feel detracts from the universal blog-purpose and yet he may be right. Perhaps experience dictates that comments are a mere distraction. Who knows? The best bloggers have their fingers on the pulse, if we might put it that way and TTD does this to perfection.."
James Higham, Nourishing Obscurity
"This is clearly a bright guy. He has something to say and he's not dithering about it." Tom Paine, The Last Ditch
"A source of insightful commment, the thoughts contained within are a great help in developing your pub debates." City Unslicker
"The tin drummer can also make cricket interesting to me, no mean feat as I’ve said. On this blog you will find clear political analysis, beautiful descriptive writing and some self-deprecating humour as well. I love his recent posts on why he has been driven to swear online! All posts are delivered in an excellent and riveting prose style. The tin drummer has a great flair for post titles, too!", WL, Sicily Scene
"So evocative with a dark edge..." Colin Campbell
9 comments:
I think you should take up yoga.
Calm down dear boy.
In your present mood, you might appreciate this postcard, over at A Beautiful Revolution. You'll be pleased to note that no taboos were broken in the making of this card, either.
I was indeed glad to see that! I feel calmer this morning, and now that I know Jade is out and Chelsea lost, all is well with the world.
Shit, piss wank, fuck cunt, bollocks.
Shit, piss wank, fuck cunt, bollocks, knock it on the head.
Shit, piss wank, fuck cunt, bollocks, knock it on the head, do what John?
(As Alexei Sayle used to say as his Mr. Swearie Character.
Cak! is one of my top five comedy albums).
As a linguist, I know that a swear word is just an arbitrary signal, so don't worry about it, tin drummer! In English, it is also to do with the strong consonants in the word - they literally let off steam!
You can host the swear bloggers round up, since Mr E has given it a sabbatical. First up Tin Drummer,... and now Tin Drummer and.... finally Tin Drummer in comments on.
The problem I always find with swearing in writing, is that it is actually remarkably harder than you would suspect. I never sounds quite "right" when I do it!
I tend to go through phases of swearing, depending on how inarticulately angry I am. It is very difficult to do properly and Mr DK is by far the best exponent (and he goes a lot further into taboo-territory than I do).
Incidentally I am still here, my lack of posts being easily explained by a lack of ideas. Sorry chaps and thanks for dropping in, I'm sure I'll think of something soon.
Have you been doing yoga for the past few days?
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