What Happens?
Fri, 2005-05-13 15:52
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What Happens?
What happens if a piece submitted is not suitable for publication? Are we informed?
what happened with stormy's sheep shagging story?
Stormy and Bessie lived happily ever after.
The sheep sued.
Surely you mean ewe sued.
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'Barbara' was rejected by the then editor of abctales, MYB, who deemed 'sheep shagging' not suitable for a family orientated website. In fact, it really got up his goat.
I suspected that he had missed the joke by a long shank and emailed John Bird's daughter (Emily?) who was then chief editor of abctales in protest.
She emailed be back, after showing it to the other staff, to say it was entirely acceptable and allowed it to be put on the site.
I received a few emails about the piece, the strangest being this and I paraphrase:
"i loved yur story, it turned me on big time. ive sent it to some friends. but why did it end with baaaaah?"
I didn't reply.
me not be.
baa.
Many times as art interprets life, a few things purport to be what they are not! But to misconstrue a coincidence as not being a factual cause of an extension of any reality, is pure human bigotry! The fact of simply placing oneself in a precarious position to begin with is an Active Decision which cannot be negated as irresponsible (passive) by a thing called 'Beyond reasonable doubt!
Common sense is not a general commonality of human prevalence in preservation, and as such is not for jurisprudence to define as being concrete evidence in any way or matter. Risk is however, and it is sublime but very attractive to all human natures! Opposites attract big time, and Pessimism is the basis of all optimism...so be very careful about what you only think you believe!
One must simply distinguish between Empathy and Pity.....psychopathic zealots however, can not! And they are normally found in Authoritative positions, rather than in the authors (victim). IE: there cannot be a crime without a victim!
Many eminent studies claim that women in general fantasise about being raped and tortured! But as fact and fantasy are two different mediums of both in mind set and in reality, common sense is personal but not proportional, and self pietious in claiming to be - rather than being presumed in general!
PS: You can?t have it both ways, Emily Yaffle...not ever!
-"rather than being presumed an in general fallacy"
Yawn zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Oh, come on Sludge: no-one can possibly believe you can stay asleep for that many Z's .......except me, of course..LOL
(psssst....there's simply not 30 hours in a full day neither)
You've been told your not welcome here by almost everyone including the site management.
Why are you still here?
You're behaving like a scorned lover who won't accept his attention is not wanted.
It has only ever happened once. It was a sequel to Torturing Tanya and involved a story based on not only sexually deviant torture of a woman, but an inference that she began as an unwilling hostage and then enjoyed it. Having been involved in the decision, it wasn't an easy one - not least because I had to read the piece a lot of times to see if I was just being squeamish.
Other than that - if something is blatantly plagiarised, a quiet note goes to the author, to say "yes, we do actually read Carol Ann Duffy here at this poetry website"
Seems there was some other story on here several months ago about a physically abusive relationship which started out with the wife getting a good beating, and then the happy couple winding up in bed together, hot and horny and in love. Are there sliding scales in acceptablility, then?



