The Dahl Affair

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

“let there be no squeaking like mice but only roaring like a pride of lions!”

The Queen Consort [Camilla] has forced publisher Puffin UK to back down on its censorship of Roald Dahl books after she intervened in the decision to edit his words

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...nounces-unaltered-16-book-classics-collection

Not really backing down if they're now selling two versions...

"Series will be released alongside controversially amended versions to leave readers ‘free to choose which version they prefer’"

 

[mudsticks]

? I found the post @BoldonLad replied to confusing rather than sarcastic.

I don't know for sure but I'm surmizing that our mr/ms turnip was riffing on the fact that our 'emboldened' interlocutor often appears to find offensive opinions or statements (expressed on here) highly hilarious ..

Now you've made me really jealous, it is antroido this week, and lacón con grelos (ham hock with turnip tops) is compulsory at this time, but I can't remember last time I had it.

Made some filloas on Tuesday to have with sausages, small mercies.
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That looks delicious - is it pancake or pastry.

 

[multitool]

I did express my disapproval.

That's the thing with you wokies. Can never keep your opinions to yourself and no sense of humour.

 

[C R]

I don't know for sure but I'm surmizing that our mr/ms turnip was riffing on the fact that our 'emboldened' interlocutor often appears to find offensive opinions or statements (expressed on here) highly hilarious ..

That looks delicious - is it pancake or pastry.

Pancakes, there are a few variations, including one with pig's blood. The ones I make are savoury, roughly the same recipe as in the link, but only with water. The batter is meant to be quite thin, because you want the filloas to be thin enough to be translucent. Then you grill sausages (chourizos preferably) and roll them in the filloas.

Proper filloas are made on a stone, but I had to make do with a frying pan.

 

[icowden]

The Queen Consort [Camilla] has forced publisher Puffin UK to back down on its censorship of Roald Dahl books after she intervened in the decision to edit his words

Fixed it:-

Camilla defends free speech in face of Roald Dahl censorship row​

The Queen Consort has forced publisher Puffin UK to back down on its censorship of Roald Dahl books after she intervened in the row over the decision to edit his words. Camilla gave an impassioned defence of free speech and the right of writers to express themselves at Clarence House on Thursday 23 February, just days after she let it be known privately that she had serious concerns over the changes to Dahl’s books.


Last week, it emerged that the best-selling children’s books were being rewritten to remove language considered offensive by Puffin
The word “fat”, for example, had been cut from every book. Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is instead described as “enormous”, an investigation by The Telegraph found.

Following the outcry on social media and in the press, Puffin has now issued a statement announcing that it will make both the original and censored versions available to readers.

 

[C R]

Fixed it:-

Will she also defend the free speech rights of the people who were arrested for voicing anti monarchy opinions during the proclamation of her husband as king?

 

[Mr Celine]

I do find myself editing books on the fly as I read them to the kids.

I remember doing that with a Thomas the Tank Engine book in which the engines went on strike.

In my version their demands were eventually met by Sir Topham Hat, the fat conservative, and after the strike none of the engines liked Edward the Scab Engine.

 

[Unkraut]

Clear political bias in that James was the only red engine.

 

[Mr Celine]

I still have my original copy of Henry the Green Engine. Henry sneezes thick smoke over some naughty schoolboys to teach them a lesson and they all ran away as black as n******.

And Henry wasn't very green either, he had to burn his own special high carbon coal.

 

[winjim]

New Thomas is a festival of diversity but also a capitalist hellscape.

 

[Deleted member 28]

New Thomas is a festival of diversity but also a capitalist hellscape.

I bet that's a great read. Any transgender engines in it?

 

[qigong chimp]

I bet that's a great read. Any transgender engines in it?

Engines can be diesel or electric, never both. It's a strictly binary thing consistent with the ineluctable contingencies of material reality.

 

[Deleted member 28]

Engines can be diesel or electric, never both. It's a strictly binary thing consistent with the ineluctable contingencies of material reality.

And once again, f*ck all to say.

Are you and multiple tool the same germ?

 

[winjim]

I bet that's a great read. Any transgender engines in it?

They changed their wooden track to make it incompatible with other manufacturer's. By changing the shape of the male and female* connectors...











*yes I know, but then the joke wouldn't work.

 

[qigong chimp]

Fuck off, shep.