DR gunning for Heart and Hand

[BlueAvenger 10,205]

8 minutes ago, stu43rigger said:

Am I the only cunt who has no idea what fear and loathing in las Vegas is??

It’s a 1971 novel by Hunter S Thompson….! 

[Brubear 2,905]

10 hours ago, Zetland said:

A layabout / shy of work! 

That was always my understanding of the word. 

[heathen fish boy 8,572]

1 hour ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

You're missing the point mate. If I was a mhank how would I know that the CL package went on sale the same day RDB signed back in 2000? Fact check it. 

Fact check

That's journo speech

[Iggy666 2,880]

Oh look, thread has a few new pages since last night, maybe H&H have another update for us! Nope. I fucking love this forum. 😂

[heathen fish boy 8,572]

1 hour ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

You're missing the point mate. If I was a mhank how would I know that the CL package went on sale the same day RDB signed back in 2000? Fact check it. 

Fact check

That's journo speech

[.Williamson. 81,994]

Deary me 

[Iggy666 2,880]

Just now, heathen fish boy said:

Fact check

That's journo speech

 

[peter huistra 1,740]

4 minutes ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

I know I technically started this but I want to say - read it, you'll love it - and please can we make this the last ever post about Fear and Loathing? 

Was your other username young bill also a homage to another writer, William Burroughs ? 

[dummiesoot 15,991]

35 minutes ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

All that's happened is I'm constantly being accused of being a DR plant. Have a look mate. It's still going on. And it started before I said boo to anyone. And when I said I wasn't I got a wanker sign. How exactly do you settle into that?

You let it wash over, instead you went on the offensive and abused a few on here. 

It is an online forum and people try to suss people out, your reaction to this has only made matters worse.

[The Dude 20,026]

1 hour ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

If you look back at the history I said nothing until I was accused of being a current DR employee in one post, and a disgruntled ex DR employee in the next (all because I said we should go after the editor in chief). They picked on the wrong guy. 

Raoul Duke is one of the names Hunter S Thompson uses in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Page 66 had this passage:

Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Amazing you picked the passage quoted in full on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_"wave_speech"

So about that number 66. I've read F&L and the opening 8 chapters (which all precede this passage) don't take place in 65 pages.

So...

[sassaaaa 11,406]

1 minute ago, dummiesoot said:

You let it wash over, instead you went on the offensive and abused a few on here. 

It is an online forum and people try to suss people out, your reaction to this has only made matters worse.

Hes a wrong un , and in these times we dont need a hint of these type of shite on here..........

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,428]

7 hours ago, Bronzy said:

Rab Marshall over on FF suggesting that the Record “whistleblower” is from Club 1872 by equating what happened with him and the police (and Club 1872) to what’s currently happening with H&H

What a slabbering, egocentric mess he is.

Hahahahaha wow

[GersInCanada 7,775]

It's a shame but I really don't expect any further updates today. I don't think that you can comment on an ongoing police investigation.

Best I hope for is word of a few resignations/sackings.

[DennyBlueNose 652]

15 minutes ago, peter huistra said:

More of a Cjnovo992 man myself 

I listen to them all tbh, I spend most of my day creating excel docs so I like a pod playing away in the background. There's a new one up this morning that talks about the H&H drama. Making some good points.

[Nelson loyal 552]

16 minutes ago, BlueAvenger said:

It’s a 1971 novel by Hunter S Thompson….! 

Who was a Pedophile, nae wonder this mutant loves him. 

[The Beast 9,182]

3 minutes ago, The Specky Liar said:

Hahahahaha wow

Robert Marshall is lower than a snakes belly but just imagine if this were true though....

[The Specky Forum Organiser 64,428]

5 minutes ago, The Beast said:

Robert Marshall is lower than a snakes belly but just imagine if this were true though....

Surely not

[stu43rigger 327]

22 minutes ago, RaoulDuke66 said:

I know I technically started this but I want to say - read it, you'll love it - and please can we make this the last ever post about Fear and Loathing? 

Cheers for the recommendation but I can't be fucked reading posts on here that are more than 5 lines long so the chances of me reading a book that I know is at least 66 pages long are slim to none

[.Williamson. 81,994]

[graeme_4 34,350]

Just now, stu43rigger said:

Cheers for the recommendation but I can't be fucked reading posts on here that are more than 5 lines long so the chances of me reading a book that I know is at least 66 pages long are slim to none

Got halfway through this and gave up. Technology and social media have a lot to answer for given it’s impact on my attention span. 

[RaoulDuke66 20]

20 minutes ago, heathen fish boy said:

Fact check

That's journo speech

Damn it! My paymasters at Reach Plc will be most displeased. 

[graeme_4 34,350]

1 minute ago, .Williamson. said:

The Jackson one  

[.Williamson. 81,994]

1 minute ago, graeme_4 said:

The Jackson one  

Aye, fuck knows what that has been about

[superallysbears 7,572]

1 hour ago, The Dude said:

Exactly. At least if he'd said someone like Stale Stensaas or Gary Bollan he'd have weeded out some of the younger ones.

🤣

[RaoulDuke66 20]

4 minutes ago, stu43rigger said:

Cheers for the recommendation but I can't be fucked reading posts on here that are more than 5 lines long so the chances of me reading a book that I know is at least 66 pages long are slim to none

Nae bother. You can cheat and watch the movie mate.