Except for the year.

Exactly

Forgive Eric Arthur Blair for being a few years late with his predictions

One of my all time favourite novels. 📕

Orwell never played football.
What are you on about?
Did Spurs win something in 1984?

I wasn't born but yes.

What are you talking about?

Orwell played right wing and scored the winning goal

comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
One of my all time favourite novels. 📕
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He was an absolute genius.

Saw someone being harassed by a uniformed officer yesterday for not buying a tram ticket costing a couple of quid and threatened with a 120 quid fine

Very 1984

There will be justice in the end.

As the Nasis and Soviet Union found out, you cannot crush the human spirit.

What's more, Jesus Christ has been winning battles since the dawn of time.

He will reign forevermore

comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 2 hours, 34 minutes ago
One of my all time favourite novels. 📕
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Yes, mine too 😌

comment by Brother (U20548)
posted 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
One of my all time favourite novels. 📕
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He was an absolute genius.

Saw someone being harassed by a uniformed officer yesterday for not buying a tram ticket costing a couple of quid and threatened with a 120 quid fine

Very 1984
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That’s not even remotely 1984. Not buying a tram ticket is basically shoplifting and the fine has to be high enough to deter people from doing it.

I don’t think you actually understand the book at all, if this is what you take from it.

comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 59 minutes ago
comment by Brother (U20548)
posted 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
One of my all time favourite novels. 📕
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He was an absolute genius.

Saw someone being harassed by a uniformed officer yesterday for not buying a tram ticket costing a couple of quid and threatened with a 120 quid fine

Very 1984
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That’s not even remotely 1984. Not buying a tram ticket is basically shoplifting and the fine has to be high enough to deter people from doing it.

I don’t think you actually understand the book at all, if this is what you take from it.
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Of course it's 1984. It's the subjugation and exploitation of the masses. Obscene amounts of money being extorted from folk for not conforming and buying a ticket.

It's worse than the mafia. Puzo and Orwell both got it right.

comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 4 hours, 47 minutes ago
One of my all time favourite novels. 📕
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One of mine is The Sun Also Rises

But it's set in the 1920's. Before we had Big Brother. Or any tv tbh.

Digital ID cards.

Yay or Nay?

comment by Brother (U20548)
posted 3 hours, 46 minutes ago
comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
One of my all time favourite novels. 📕
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He was an absolute genius.

Saw someone being harassed by a uniformed officer yesterday for not buying a tram ticket costing a couple of quid and threatened with a 120 quid fine

Very 1984
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He was committing an act of theft.

I think that was mentioned in the Old Testament

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Brother (U20548)
posted 3 hours, 46 minutes ago
comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
One of my all time favourite novels. 📕
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He was an absolute genius.

Saw someone being harassed by a uniformed officer yesterday for not buying a tram ticket costing a couple of quid and threatened with a 120 quid fine

Very 1984
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He was committing an act of theft.

I think that was mentioned in the Old Testament
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In the Old Testament people travelled on goats and no one got fined.

comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
Of course it's 1984. It's the subjugation and exploitation of the masses. Obscene amounts of money being extorted from folk for not conforming and buying a ticket.

It's worse than the mafia. Puzo and Orwell both got it right.
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1984 isn’t anything to do with financial subjugation. It’s about a dystopian society with a totalitarian regime, where even thoughts are policed (thoughtcrime), and language is even reconstructed and words removed to prevent any time of independence thought or expression, where it literally becomes impossible to openly express oneself.

*any type

Palmers

Exactly, bunking the train isn't a form of self expression being oppressed FFS

Yeh but what about the goat?

comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Brother (U20548)
posted 3 hours, 46 minutes ago
comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
One of my all time favourite novels. 📕
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He was an absolute genius.

Saw someone being harassed by a uniformed officer yesterday for not buying a tram ticket costing a couple of quid and threatened with a 120 quid fine

Very 1984
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He was committing an act of theft.

I think that was mentioned in the Old Testament
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In the Old Testament people travelled on goats and no one got fined.
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comment by Playmaker (U22780)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
Yeh but what about the goat?
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That was Animal Farm, not 1984

I am shocked...absolutely shocked...
to find that some people on this notice board actually...
READ BOOKS!!!
I haven't read a book in years.
I've written a couple, however!
But they are technical books,...not for the faint of heart.

The last book I actually read was "The Boys in the Boat".
And that was because my wife forced me to read it.
I found it totally boring, boring..except the last chapter where they win the 1936 Olympic eights gold medal race.

A long long time ago, when I wasa young and naive...I did read a book by George Orwell....
"Homage to Catalonia"
about his time in the Spanish civil war..
I could have written a better book about Catalonia myself...but it would have featured restuarants!

comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 8 hours, 59 minutes ago
One of my all time favourite novels. 📕
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And not easy writing with Keith Harris' hand up your bottom.

comment by JustCallMeTed (U21528)
posted 19 minutes ago
I am shocked...absolutely shocked...
to find that some people on this notice board actually...
READ BOOKS!!!
I haven't read a book in years.
I've written a couple, however!
But they are technical books,...not for the faint of heart.

The last book I actually read was "The Boys in the Boat".
And that was because my wife forced me to read it.
I found it totally boring, boring..except the last chapter where they win the 1936 Olympic eights gold medal race.

A long long time ago, when I wasa young and naive...I did read a book by George Orwell....
"Homage to Catalonia"
about his time in the Spanish civil war..
I could have written a better book about Catalonia myself...but it would have featured restuarants!
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Could you have written one on the french cheeses of Catalonia? And called it Fromage to Catalonia.