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FT293

Give Abbot Ale a whirl if you've never tried it. Wonderful pint.

Off topic? No no. Nope. Not us.
 
I didn't didn't find the cover offensive - but then I knew it was FT so also knew it would be linked to a story. Like the Nazi cover a couple of years ago.

However, I also deal with pretty horrific crime files at work a lot, I've seen a lot of photos of people that really have been abused. So maybe I'm desensitised.
 
CarlosTheDJ said:
I didn't didn't find the cover offensive - but then I knew it was FT so also knew it would be linked to a story. Like the Nazi cover a couple of years ago.

However, I also deal with pretty horrific crime files at work a lot, I've seen a lot of photos of people that really have been abused. So maybe I'm desensitised.

i reckon there should be a tv series about you.
 
ramonmercado said:
CarlosTheDJ said:
I didn't didn't find the cover offensive - but then I knew it was FT so also knew it would be linked to a story. Like the Nazi cover a couple of years ago.

However, I also deal with pretty horrific crime files at work a lot, I've seen a lot of photos of people that really have been abused. So maybe I'm desensitised.

i reckon there should be a tv series about you.

:lol:
 
stuneville said:
Give Abbot Ale a whirl if you've never tried it. Wonderful pint.

Off topic? No no. Nope. Not us.
I used to live in a Greene King pub.

Strange coincidence, or still off topic? :lol:

I sat reading Issue N°293, on the terrace of my favourite local, today, whilst downing a couple, or three, bottles of Hertog Jan pils. I must admit, I folded the FT in half to hide the cover. Excellent issue, though. Some interesting reviews. Good one from Bob Rickard on, Wicked Enchantments, the story of the Pendle witches, by Joyce Froome. Looks like a well researched account, well worth looking out for. Also a good read, Charles Foster's review of, The Self Illusion: Why there is no 'You' Inside your head. He gives it a 9 for being a good overview of the reductionist position, even though he obviously disagrees entirely with that position. So do I, but probably for quite different reasons.

I skimmed a bit, today. The Polts Under Analysis piece was intriguing, I'll sit down to the rest of the poltergeist related articles when I've got a little more time. ABCs, the return of the Loch Ness Monster, various cryptids, including yetis and the most disturbing amphibian that I've ever seen. It's nice to know that there's still plenty of extremely weird stuff out there to fill the FT's pages.
 
My copy arrived today. The "Trouser Snake" article! I fell over! :shock:
 
Wasn't so taken by the Polt stuff apart from Martin Luthers experiences, that was fun!

GhostWatch was good, the partygirl who blamed the noise on a polt!

A vid, The Devils Business, sounds interesting in the Reviews, don't know if it got a cinema release. Seems vaguely reminiscent of Kill List.
 
I think it did get a cinema release, I remember Mark Kermode being unconvinced. Mind you, I hope it has a better ending than The Kill List, what a way to piss away ninety minutes of intrigue.
 
I was not impressed by the torture-porn cover. If that was representing someone with bruising around the neck what would carpet burn be represented by - a flayed corpse perhaps?
 
Regarding the cover...

A few years ago there was a cover with something like Nazis decorating a christmas tree with swastika baubles. I was getting into my car when the postman was delivering it, he gave me a dirty look but said nothing.

The very same postman delivered this months edition, made a point of ringing the bell and handing it to me. If looks could kill I'd be splattered all over my hallway.

I'm a nice guy but I'm sure in the eyes of my postman I'm a nazi rapist :(
 
Got to admit the cover, to me, said less 'attacked by spook' and more 'fell off bike into hedge after riding into wire washing line'. A more subtle pic might have got across the spookiness better.
 
You might like to purge your cache, it's showing the most current issue now.
 
[you'll excuse me, i get to these very late]
As an East-Cornishman manqué I have to point out that JC landed on Looe Island aka. St George's Island, as any fule kno. A much more sensible candidate for Ictis than Burgh. Not-at-all-coincidentally once known as St Michael's island and in Mediaeval times under the control of Glastonbury Abbey [as was an establishment on the mainland facing it]. Surely all you need to know, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looe_Island says it all again
 
47Forteans said:
My copy arrived today. The "Trouser Snake" article! I fell over! :shock:

That thing was X-rated! :)

Reading it on the Metro on the way to work with the page folded over I wondered why I was getting a weird look from the woman sat opposite...!
 
McAvennie_ said:
47Forteans said:
My copy arrived today. The "Trouser Snake" article! I fell over! :shock:

That thing was X-rated! :)

Reading it on the Metro on the way to work with the page folded over I wondered why I was getting a weird look from the woman sat opposite...!

And it wasn't just for the "Trouser Snake" in your FT...
 
I'll let that pass as it seems you joined the site on my 29th birthday...
;)
 
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