Comments on: Christian threats halt Cardiff book signing

By: Monitor

Monitor — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:43:46 +0000

TigerDunc, you must have set yourself up with a gravatar:
http://en.gravatar.com/

By: thesophie

thesophie — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:30:52 +0000

You can see an email from Patrick Jones about the matter on the new humanist blog.

I sent my email today. Looking forward to my automated reply.

By: TigerDunc

TigerDunc — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:10:06 +0000

Marc – Good idea – He’s a fundamentalist, a bigot, a homophobe and a hate filled little bag of puss. Every time that I see him quoted by the media, I’m going to ring up and complain. Maybe if they did some research and realised what an unpleasant character he is, they would think twice about quoting him.

PS – Anyone any idea as to why my photo appears on postings? I didn’t do it deliberately, it just appeared and I don’t want to go scaring people away.

By: marc

marc — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:16:48 +0000

Dunc: I am posting a similar letter to the BBC trust today – demanding to know why the fuck the BBC relies on loonies like Green for quotes. Surely there must be a better Christian organisation to quote from – the Roman Catholic church for instance.

By: TigerDunc

TigerDunc — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:35:17 +0000

The thing to do with Green is just to ignore him. I think he’s just a very lonely man with nothing better to do than hassle people. Failing that, the most effective thing to do would be to club together and buy him a good hooker for the evening, I don’t think there has ever been a man who needed to get laid as badly as Stephen Green.

More seriously though, the people who actually listen to him are at fault. If everyone just ignored him and the fucking newspapers stopped phoning him for a rentaquote every five minutes he’d vanish up his own fundament in five seconds flat.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:48:37 +0000

I ordered the ‘jewel of medina’ a couple of months ago and three times the release date has changed.

I do not believe in coincidences…………

By: BSE

BSE — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:52:45 +0000

I got a slightly different response, the first paragraph was the same as posted by Andy. The second one reads:

“The poetry reading was organised and planned in good faith between our store and the publisher. However, it would appear that shortly before the event took place, the author deliberately took provocative action to create a furore around the publication of his book. These actions were taken without prior discussion with the store or their consent and altered the nature of the pre-agreed event. For this reason and because of the risk of disruption to the store, our staff and customers we felt it appropriate to cancel the event.

Best wishes,
Gerry Johnson”

By: marc

marc — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:56:46 +0000

I got a reply from the BBC when I complained (about Bird Shit) on a different matter – and got a semi-automated response. About Russell fucking Brand!

People need to OWN problems, not hand out a pre-formatted reply.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:57:46 +0000

They haven’t read any of the points in emails, I got exactly the same automated reply.

I too have bought the book from Amazon and will not be purchasing from Waterstones in the future

By: Monitor

Monitor — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:48:47 +0000

I got exactly the same one, Andy.