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[Monika]

Okay, but that's no fun!

[Jennifer]

It's fun for me! My new game is called "Nothing to give me Nightmares" and I plan on winning!

Time for new complaints!

[Boyd, Hunk of hunky burning passion]

Rich wrote: "Fresh from my shower and spanking clean!"

Spanking clean?

I think a father who writes,"Widowed after 32 years married result best daughter ever" in his profile should get nothing but gratitude from his daughter.

So Jennifer no more "Ewww". Rich is frisky and clever and a great addition to the Complaint Department so seeing as he's one of my favorite members you better be nice to him! If necessary I'll put that in the rules.

[Preston, Moderator]

Congratulations to Complaint Department member Roger Kean whose epic novel of love, war and adventure Gregory's Story has been voted Book of the Month (BOM) for October by the 11,400 member M/M Romance group.



Thank you to all the Complaint Department members who voted for Rogers book for BOM. Your support is tremendously appreciated!

[Lori S.]

Yay for Roger!

[Lori S.]

As for all the whining and complaining about the whippings - they'll continue until moral improves!

[Preston, Moderator]

Lori wrote: "As for all the whining and complaining about the whippings - they'll continue until moral improves!"

My morals will never improve but just seeing messages from you improves my morale
>smiling<

[Eric]

Lori wrote: "As for all the whining and complaining about the whippings - they'll continue until moral improves!"

But...y'all ain't no moral judge of me. >harumph<

'sides, how ya gonna (cyber)'nspect my morals? I'll jes' password protect 'em 'n y'won't never know.

'course, I has this problem with dismembering passwords, so iffen I do this I could mebbe wind up with no morals atall.

Hmmm.

Sounds 'bout right.

Eric

[Rich]

remember moral stands for

move
out
Rich
and
leave

But I am stubborn and wont leave until I finish giraffe in my refrigerator

[Boyd, Hunk of hunky burning passion]

Preston wrote: "Congratulations to Complaint Department member Roger Kean whose epic novel of love, war and adventure Gregory's Story has been voted Book of the Month (BOM) for October..."

I am angry that you have forced me to shout "Hooray! for Roger" and add my congrats on being the only author ever to have two sagas of the Mahdist Wars selected as Book of the Month. I'm so thankful that your writing has not only made me a ribald rabid fan but has brought reading pleasure to many others. I hope this selection of Gregory's Story will bring lots more readers to come to know and love Gregory and Zaki and hopefully the Rainbow "brothers" too as I'm sure they will want to read A Life Apart as well.

[Rich]

obviously arrived late and need to catch up.
Sorry for not being cognizant of Mr Keans ongoing success.
Creation of art can only be applauded by all but especially by those of us who love the written word.
Please continue and best of luck!

[Mike]

Excellent news. Congrats to Roger. Errr.. Bummer of a deal Roger, my condolences.

[Roger]

I'm appalled by the fact that I was out all day yesterday so I couldn't say a big THANK YOU! to the moaning complainers who made Gregory's day (well, month)



Zaki dances a typical Ja'alin thank you too…

[Lori S.]

Preston wrote: "Lori wrote: "As for all the whining and complaining about the whippings - they'll continue until moral improves!"

My morals will never improve but just seeing messages from you improves my morale ..."

Let's hear it for good spelling.

[Lori S.]

Roger wrote: "I'm appalled by the fact that I was out all day yesterday so I couldn't say a big THANK YOU! to the moaning complainers who made Gregory's day (well, month)



Zaki dances a typical Ja'alin thank y..."

Unhappy that I could help!

[Preston, Moderator]

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has not only decided to do nothing about Putin's antigay laws at the Olympics to be held four months from now in Russia but has approved it by stating the IOC is "fully satisfied" it doesn't violate the Olympic charter's anti-discrimination clause, and pronounced Russia ready to host the 2014 Winter Games.

The freaking donkeyholes on the Olympic Committee, the fooking elected representatives of the frigging governments of the US and UK and all participating countries are allowing Putin to have the prestige of the Olympics while condoning his antigay laws and doing nothing to insure the safety of athletes and spectators. Putin has declared the Olympic site and miles around as a no protest zone to quash the voices of human rights advocates.

SOURCE: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-5...

[Monika]

Preston wrote: "The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has not only decided to do nothing about Putin's antigay laws at the Olympics to be held four months from now in Russia but has approved it by stating the ..."

[Rich]

on the other hand.
We, fair minded all have to also defend the athletes some of which have trained and sweated most of their lives. One chance only perhaps.
I do not have an answer.

[Tj]

Darn government! They need to fix this budget thing! I want to be able to pay bills and etc:(

[Lori S.]

Tj wrote: "Darn government! They need to fix this budget thing! I want to be able to pay bills and etc:("

They all need thwacks up the backside of their collective heads.

[Preston, Moderator]

Tj wrote: "Darn government! They need to fix this budget thing! I want to be able to pay bills and etc:("

Other than the news coverage I would have no idea that the government was closed. Nothing has changed in my life since the shut down that would make me notice.

[Lori S.]

I would like to complain that missing episodes of my favorite SF show have been found: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainme...

[Rich]

How can dog food suppliers promote healthy foods that have grains,veggies and claim this is the best diet available.
Really. Dogs have been domesticated for tens of thousands of years. SEE canis lups familiaris.
The vast majority of this time dogs ate MEAT.
Dogs did not get a shovel and dig up carrots or call a Chinese take out joint to get rice.
They ate meat!
So nature was satified with meat for eons but now we know better, REALLY.
I for one will continue to feed my dog Cujo table scraps and odd dog food suppliers who happen by.
Thats my complaint.

[Lori S.]

Dogs are quite omnivorous and will eat carrots and other veggies too. Cats, on the other hand, are true carnivores.

[Rich]

Lori dear
Of coarse you are correct
The point on which my arguement rests is that over hundreds of years and through climatic trials,[ice age] dogs thrived on meat. Vegetables and grains were often not available.
How pray tell dog food manufactors claim a diet of rice and peas and carrots is better than a diet that nature has validated over such a long period.

[Tj]

*sigh* Still no end in sight for the shutdown. I really hate having my hubby work when we won't get a paycheck:(

[Rich]

With you Tj
Our government is run or misrun by childlike selfish idiots. Remember this next election!

[Averin]

Sincere sympathies, TJ.

Here's a new slice of anguish: I'm reading , chock full of all kinds of things I've forgotten about in high school. And stuff I don't think I ever knew, like disco versions of Bridge Over Troubled Water and MacArthur Park!

[Roger]

Lori wrote: "I would like to complain that missing episodes of my favorite SF show have been found: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainme..."

The BBC's trouble with preserving recorded programs like Dr. Who from the early 1960s is typically put down to "losing" or "destroying" tapes. The real problem was the cost of the Ampex tapes, $300, or $2,550 in today's values. And that bought you an hour's recording (but only one show per tape was possible, so a half-hour was the same cost as an hour). At a time when an episode of Dr Who cost approximately $500 to stage, all-up except the recording tape, you can see the BBC couldn't afford not to reuse tapes, at least for 3–4 further over-recordings. So the only way the episodes were preserved was if they were recorded onto film for sale to other countries – which, of course was not of a very good quality.

Add to that the infancy of Ampex video recording – the first usable machines started service in 1957 in the U.S., about 1958–9 in Britain – and the lack of editing, it's amazing anything survived. Those pre-editing early days, they had to do the episode like a stage play, all in one take, the huge EMI studio cameras roaring around like racing cars to get from scene to scene, shot to shot, which is why the BBC TV Centre studios were so vast, to fit in all the scenery.

Of course, if an actor fumbled a line, and the director had to pick up and carry on, an editor from the film department was brought in to wield a scalpel, cut out the dead section, and glue together the tape. That precious, expensive tape! You may imagine the actors on Dr Wo trembling in their boots every time they set out to record, each praying they wouldn't be the one to risk an Ampex tape by fluffing their lines. Talk about stress!

Sponsor's note Roger Kean worked as a television film editor for various British companies, 1972–82, including stints as a film insert editor for BBC drama productions, and greatly mourns the loss of BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, London to the march of blind digital progress. Readers of the Zack Boys of… series of illustrated novels, which he writes with his partner Oliver Frey (a.k.a. Zack) will find a detailed two chapters which take place in the Top Of The Pops studio at BBC TVC, set in 1975, when the "temple of taste" was at its height, and DJ Jimmy Savile was doing terrible things to the young sparks who liked to dance.

[Lori S.]

Thanks Roger. Yeah, I was aware of some of the reasons for the loss of those shows (and Doctor Who isn't the only show missing episodes either). A number of episodes were preserved by the fans themselves, filming their TV sets while the show was on as well as recording the audios on tape recorders.

In William Hartnell's case on those flubbed lines, well, let's just say that his memory wasn't all that great, but it certainly added to the character!

[Boyd, Hunk of hunky burning passion]

Roger wrote: "Readers...will find a detailed two chapters which take place in the Top Of The Pops studio at BBC TVC, set in 1975, when the "temple of taste" was at its height, and DJ Jimmy Savile was doing terrible things to the young sparks who liked to dance."

I'm complaining that readers do not know where to find these two chapters.

[Rick]

I most complain that this conversation is not taking place on the Doctor Who discussion thread. But I'm more than happy to have the good Doctor popping up willy-nilly on every discussion board.

Yes, it is interesting how "lost" becomes the acceptable term for purposely destroyed/recorded over/replaced because of the economics involved. Still, as Lori points out, "lost" signifies that those episodes no longer exist as videos that can be viewed.

That being said I am THRILLED that some of those episodes that I feared I might never get to see may surface in the near future. It will likely take months/years to determine what it available, make sure it is salvageable and get it either broadcast (which will probably happen) and then released on DVD. But it is still extremely exciting that some (maybe even ALL [he thinks while stupidly crossing his fingers and toes]) of those "lost" episodes can be seen again.

[Erin]

I'm annoyed that my dad hasn't put another gift card on amazon. I can't wait any longer for House of Hades or I will die.

[Preston, Moderator]

Erin wrote: "I'm annoyed that my dad hasn't put another gift card on amazon. I can't wait any longer for House of Hades or I will die."

I'm annoyed that the gods of Mt. Olympus are fickle and unpredictable so you can't count on them to force your father to get you the cards. If the Greek god of war Ares won't order your father to buy the gift card, perhaps the Roman god of war Mars will. Give Mars a try and see.

[Roger]

Boyd wrote: "Roger wrote: "Readers...will find a detailed two chapters which take place in the Top Of The Pops studio at BBC TVC, set in 1975, when the "temple of taste" was at its height, and DJ Jimmy Savile was doing terrible things to the young sparks who liked to dance."

I'm complaining that readers do not know where to find these two chapters. ..."

Oh, whoops! Well, actually, no one can find them… yet. They appear in the fifth of the Boys of… series which will be published in the spring of 2014, which is titled Boy of the West End. I did post the prologue somewhere… :::drifts off, where did I put it?:::

[Roger]

I want to complain that not enough complainers are playing the Which Book? game, which is not only great fun, it actually requires a bit of creative thinking.

[Boyd, Hunk of hunky burning passion]

Roger wrote: "I want to complain that not enough complainers are playing the Which Book? game, which is not only great fun, it actually requires a bit of creative thinking."


Never: Never Complain, Never Explain, Never Do Anything Eccentric
or
Nothing to Complain About?: Outlandish Letters for Implausible Problems?

[Roger]

Ha ha! Funny, though, how both these have the same cover design :)

[Preston, Moderator]

Roger wrote: "Oh, whoops! Well, actually, no one can find them… yet. They appear in the fifth of the Boys of… series which will be published in the spring of 2014, which is titled Boy of the West End."


I'm filing a complaint that these books are so predictable that I can tell you right now what happens in Boiz of the West End. Since it's the West End which is London's theatre district, I'm sure Mike gets a job as a chorus boy in a big musical but one day the star of the show is killed by aliens refueling their UFO and the director chooses Mike to play the lead which he does so well that he become a rich and famous overnight sensation.

However one night he sees a cute young blond boy in the audience and instantly Mike realizes he is gay and it's love at first sight with the blond who is of course Gil. He throws away his theatrical career in order to live with Gil in a unheated, 4th floor walk-up, one-room flat in a run down tenement in the gay ghetto. They get a meager income from hustling because their pimp, a fellow named Rose Rosen takes 99 percent of their earnings as his cut. Rose is producing a porno film in Italy and forces both boys to become unpaid fluffers for the film which stars Jimmy Seville.

Just your typical formulaic love story.

So I bet I guessed predicted the plot exactly and now Zack will have to rewrite the book to discredit my intuitive nature.

[Roger]

Au contraire, non cher Prestone, ze Zack will go into exile to avoid the legal eagles hunting him down for plagiarising your beautiful story. ;-)

[B.D.]

Porquoi Prestone non cher? I never had the pleasure but I'm sure he's non Cher although Halloween is coming up so I suppose it's possible.

[Roger]

B.D. wrote: "Porquoi Prestone non cher? I never had the pleasure but I'm sure he's non Cher although Halloween is coming up so I suppose it's possible."

It was a stupid typo. Who would ever have thought in their wisdom that the creators of the QWERTY keyboard would ever place N and M next to each other? Of course Preston is mon cher, Halloween or otherwise.

[Roger]

I am praising protesting April's review of Gregory's Story in M/M Romance October BOM. How dare April be so misunderstanding?

And how come she had the temerity to finish the book, while no one else (mon cher Preston a life apart) has commented. Hurrumph.

[Roger]

I'm shocked to see that Harry Potter really has gone slash-fictions after all… And it was F****N painful too!

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/10/16/...

[Preston, Moderator]

I'm annoyed that Daniel Radcliffe is making public statements on a subject he purportedly knows nothing about from his experience.

Also I am dither dathered that Oreos are 'addictive' as cocaine in lab rat study.

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10...

[Lori S.]

Roger wrote: "I'm shocked to see that Harry Potter really has gone slash-fictions after all… And it was F****N painful too!

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/10/16/......"

You're only just now finding this out? LOL

I was horrified the first time I came across Harry/Draco slash several years ago. I mean, really ...

Edited to add: actually read the article and while I give him kudos for taking on the role, but wonder at the director.

[B.D.]

I am extremely annoyed and feel the need to complain that Radcliffe doesn't do some manscaping. Why can't the Brits learn to do this?

[Eric]

It is with lots 'n lots 'n lots of joy deepest regret that I announce that Lilia Ford has released an excellent, humorous abysmal, depressing scifi story called "The Slave Catcher" for the well worth it outrageous price of USD .99. It can be found at:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Slave-Catch...

I merely mention this unfortunate news because I have some beta-ish involvement in getting it ready for publication. As an FYI you can find my opinions at

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just a thought or three.

Eric

[Rich]

Yeah well why, in the name of all that is holy do we care what celebrities, personalities,wanna-bes or has beens do say or act out!
Bull!
Nothing I get from those people rates with what I get from my intelligent friends like Roger, Lori,Jennifer and Boyd to name a few.
Three cheers for the Complainers.

[Preston, Moderator]

B.D. Lewis wrote: "I am extremely annoyed and feel the need to complain that Radcliffe doesn't do some manscaping. Why can't the Brits learn to do this?"

B.D. you are such a trouble maker. You of all people are so very much aware of the how un-manscaped the character is that Daniel will portray:

ALLEN GINSBERG:


I would go even further than prohibiting manscaping the actor. I believe if he is truly going to genuinely portray Allen Ginsberg he needs to get his uncut cock to a mohel and go through a bris. I suggest you lead the growing movement demanding to Circumcise Daniel Radcliffe so he can properly play Ginsberg.