Colin, not unlike Ed = mensch.   

Sorry if this has already been posted, but congrats to Maggie for getting her YouTube account linked to on DAS for the Cambridge vids. Totally deserved.

read: "fight" actually does link to facebook

eta: apparently jonny took down the post to fix the link and in the process of putting it back up managed to fuck up the site design

he added an extra "m" to the back of the link, he wants to link to this:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=278123313911

nice try, jonny darlin'

 

Mark Radcliffe is the reason I listen to Radio 2. I've been listening to him since the early '90s, when he was on Radio 1 before John Peel and had his poetry slot for which Jonny read poems. 

(Jonny posted on DAS!!)

before i die, i need to meet this man to figure out how on god's green earth he made that happen.

my reaction exactly, except more like:

Jonny posted on DAS!!

I had that, but with flowers and hearts and rainbows around it.

embarrassing confession: it was a cold rainy october morning in oxford, and i'd had a particularly bad night. i woke up and the cat was NOT sleeping on my face which made me . for some reason i decided to check das before i left at 7:30am for my tutorial, which was an hour long walk away, and jonny had updated das with an office chart. (room music, i think.) and it warmed my heart and made my day at least 89% better

aww, rose! 

i just arrives in the office and das is the first website i check every morning. embarrassing moment today: i almost screamed 'jonny posted'! 
 see, even thomgirls get very excited when jonny's posting - thanks god i have an office on my own!    - 

Huh. I wonder if Jonny has Facebook.

(I admit when I think of 'people least likely to have Facebook', Jonny's quite high in the list...)

Still, I'm glad 2/5 of the camp have shown their support now.

Jonny 
always so witty and 

yes! it's 6 am here and I just woke up after losing track of time and playing GTA until 2:50. I also forgot to close the window just above me which does NOT help with my case of a very sore throat, and my throat is important to me because I'm a teacher at an english school and I have a full day of classes ahead of me...

but JONNY POSTED ON DAS!   

Never mind. 

They all seemed rather inept on the WASTE Central site, so I wonder about their technology skills that aren't making music. 

I hope everyone's signed the petition about the 6 music travesty

Or better yet, filled out the Strategy Review. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consultations/departments/bbc/bbc-strategy-review/consultation/intro

I signed the petition and sent a personal email.

a shift in the weather, indeed! It's glooooorious outside

Grammar, Thommy.
And, spelling, but what's new.

The title made me chuckle, though.

So is he stupid, or just lazy? 

Maybe he's having his daughter type for him? I like the image of her sitting on his lap typing what he says.  It would explain the spelling. 

I think he's just doing that "I don't care about spelling. It's ordinary. I must EXPRESS myself" thing.

Maybe his spelling will improve when he has to spend thursday nights going over spelling words with his kids.

I AM PENSION!!!

I can forgive the boy most things but not that!

It kills me that he used "your" correctly twice in the same paragraph. What is his problem? 

I was coming here to post EXACTLY that.  

sumfing is almost as bad 

  he's making a kind of joke there, though (dialect).  i'm convinced he typed that post on his iphone. If he's anything like me, he can't see/use the damn keyboard. 

I really doubt he would have bothered spelling 'you're' instead of 'your' if he had used his i-phone.
And I don't know much about British dialects, but 'sumfing' to me seems just like lolcats lingo.

It's Estuary English.   

yeah, I googled it afterwards.
I'm still really unhappy about how Thom uses language like that to transport something serious (no offense to anyone from Essex or any other dialect in general).
His style of writing is very purposeful and I don't think any mistake he makes is there by accident or lazyness. He said himself that he is annoyed how certain circles create their own sort of language to prevent others stepping into their circle and I suppose he's mocking this attitude. Yet I think that this might lead to people not taking serious what he is trying to say.

I never take him seriously.

*shrug*

He's the worst spokesperson EVAH.

I love his posts.   If he suddenly switched to journalism school style posts like Ed's, I would be sad.

(but I love jonny's posts about music best of all.  wish there were more.)

So writing shit correctly is "journalism school style" now? 

I don't mind Thom as a spokesperson; actually I found him surprisingly eloquent in the Copenhagen summit interviews.  I also don't mind if he fucks up his punctuation or doesn't capitalise properly - but "you're" instead of "your" is coming damn close to unforgivable.   

you know what I mean; being all polite and informative and shit.

I love the way he types and spells, except when he's trying to be a spokespeson. That's when he needs to step it up a bit, imo.

I just realised that you may have thought that the   was directed at you. It wasn't; it's a   for Estuary English.

The spelling/punctuation, though: I suspect Thom is dyslexic, or at least mildly so. And punctuation and grammar are taught so badly (if at all) in this country that I'm amazed when anyone demonstrates that they know the rules of both. I know that sounds patronising, but I reckon 95% of my undergrad AND post-grad students had no conception of what constitutes a paragraph, or when to use a punctuation mark (let alone which one), or why a thesis statement is necessary and how to defend it. Moreover, if you were to read our national newspapers - and I'm talking about The Guardian and The Independent here, not The Sun - and saw the number of spelling/grammar/punctuation mistakes I see on a daily basis, you wouldn't believe it.  



*wags finger at National Curriculum*

I love the fact that this place is high-brow/snobbish enough to reprimand our collective deity Thom Yorke for dodgy spelling.