Comments on: 27 dinner – Vince's review

By: Nick Jackson

Nick Jackson — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:21:09 +0000

Leon’s comment makes perfect sense if you read it like so:

“There were flashes of this (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey) in his first comment.”

By: Nick Jackson

Nick Jackson — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:57:20 +0000

Scariest comment thread I’ve ever read.

How did this get to the front page of MF? Confused the crap out of me until I realised it was a year old.

By: justin spratt

justin spratt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:01:19 +0000

@Roy Blumenthal, well written – this is a great blog trail – great piece by vh, good rebuttals from the folks – especially liked your piece

By: esvl

esvl — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:49:47 +0000

Sweet, a debate would be brilliant.

By: Talita

Talita — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:46:25 +0000

@ Paul Jackobson: dubiously named?! And that from a lawyer? Talk about the pot calling the kettle tin arse – only there’s no kettle involved. I’m just going to say that that was uncalled for. Any more will probably land me in court.

By: Roy Blumenthal

Roy Blumenthal — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:24:16 +0000

Nope. I’ve even searched the site for my name, thinking maybe I wrote a comment there long ago. But nothing seems to surface.

Leon doesn’t seem to be a spammer. I’ve gone to his site, and he’s followed me on Twitter. I think he’s legit. I suspect some sorta cut-and-paste error.

By: vince

vince — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:54:14 +0000

Roy, I thought you’d be able to solve this riddle. It appears this Leon guy is either an ingenious spammer or confused..So confused he’s drowning in it.

Speaking of liars / spammers and bastards, wonder what is brewing in the Zuma trial? I passed a bus carrying an entire load of his supporters on the way back from Durban, poor people looked quite tired from all of that indoctrination and sloppy rhetoric.

By: Roy Blumenthal

Roy Blumenthal — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:40:41 +0000

Hiya Leon…

I don’t understand the link you’ve offered. It goes to a Guardian post written by someone pissed off with having the letter ‘a’ subbed out of a review of his. Not sure why you’ve linked to it.

Blue skies
love
Roy

By: Leon Jacobs

Leon Jacobs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:17:44 +0000

Roy is a good writer.
There were flashes of this in his first comment: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey

By: vince

vince — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:46:44 +0000

If I could have predicted that my “review” of the 27 dinner was to result in the above perhaps I’d have been hesitant to write it; but thank god I couldn’t have predicted the future as we’d have lost such poignant positive critique.

What surprises me most, excuse me for reminiscing back to the bad old days of “internet communication” is that the critique which underlies the emotive commentary trailing off of the end of my blog could perhaps have been lost should pride have come before logic.

Roy and Mike do you think that perhaps a “guidelines” section on the 27 dinner could be constructed, using what you both know; Roy your understanding of visual presentations and Mike yours on verbal presentations. You both seem so comfortable in your respective fields it would be amazing to transfer that to young upstarts such as myself…