General Chit Chat

[Athers]

Definitely one of the weirder feminist campaigns to demand that at least one of four people on a banknote is a woman. I hardly think a 10 year old girl will be inspired by whoever is on the tenner... More interested in having a tenner I'll bet.

If I were Mark Carney I'd say that probably some 95% of traditionally 'great' Britons were men, so you won't have a chick on all the time, sorry

[thebish]

Not enough wimmin on the banknotes. Just, bear with me, imagine seeing a banknote with a Dorris' face on it!

there's a woman on every single banknote - and coin and stamp, for that matter!!

[boltonboris]

Is the queens face on every note not enough for bitchez these dayz?

[Gary the Enfield]

[quote="boltonboris"]Is the queens face on every note not enough for bitchez these dayz?[/quote]


Building up for the abdication. Continuity and all that.

Couldn't give a toss who's on the banknote. Very much concerned as to it's value relative to other currencies. Fin

[Prufrock]

Not enough wimmin on the banknotes. Just, bear with me, imagine seeing a banknote with a Dorris' face on it!

there's a woman on every single banknote - and coin and stamp, for that matter!!

Pssst. I know.

[BWFC_Insane]

Not enough wimmin on the banknotes. Just, bear with me, imagine seeing a banknote with a Dorris' face on it!

there's a woman on every single banknote - and coin and stamp, for that matter!!

Is she an actual woman though? I mean has anyone checked? For sure and verified?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Not enough wimmin on the banknotes. Just, bear with me, imagine seeing a banknote with a Dorris' face on it!

there's a woman on every single banknote - and coin and stamp, for that matter!!

Is she an actual woman though? I mean has anyone checked? For sure and verified?

Well she gave birth, and nobody, I mean nobody, would claim Charles as their own unless they actually had given birth to it.

[BWFC_Insane]

Not enough wimmin on the banknotes. Just, bear with me, imagine seeing a banknote with a Dorris' face on it!

there's a woman on every single banknote - and coin and stamp, for that matter!!

Is she an actual woman though? I mean has anyone checked? For sure and verified?

Well she gave birth, and nobody, I mean nobody, would claim Charles as their own unless they actually had given birth to it.

Supposedly. Though I've seen pictures of "her" ankles. I think babies were sourced elsewhere and smuggled through the backdoor of the hospital. Fake pregnancy suit and all.

I mean in those days it would have been even easier.

I still think nobody can be sure. It's like Thatcher was a supposed woman. I'm less than convinced.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Not enough wimmin on the banknotes. Just, bear with me, imagine seeing a banknote with a Dorris' face on it!

there's a woman on every single banknote - and coin and stamp, for that matter!!

Is she an actual woman though? I mean has anyone checked? For sure and verified?

Well she gave birth, and nobody, I mean nobody, would claim Charles as their own unless they actually had given birth to it.

Supposedly. Though I've seen pictures of "her" ankles. I think babies were sourced elsewhere and smuggled through the backdoor of the hospital. Fake pregnancy suit and all.

I mean in those days it would have been even easier.

I still think nobody can be sure. It's like Thatcher was a supposed woman. I'm less than convinced.

I'm with you on the later point. I have said before that Thatcher made me think David Icke might have been on to something, but the Queen was observed and everything; she doesn't even put on her own jammies, she has three chambermaids to do it for her. If it was a conspiracy someone woulda blabbed by now.

[Athers]

They've done it before! Who was it who was the WARMING PAN baby? One of the James' if memories of history GCSE are roughly right

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

F*ck you Darwin. We don't want any more of your sort.

Yeah !!!
Let's put some bint who wrote 6 books in her whole life on there ... especially as they were all more or less identical.

And two hundred years after she wrote them they're still all best sellers. King George the third asked for one of them to be dedicated to him and Jane Austen is still considered one of England's greatest lierary talents today. I'd say that's not bad going.

Most likely the same artsy people that try to tell us paintings like this are deep and meaningful or some other shite, when they are quite patently just shit.



'Experts' in the arts are almost always full of shit. Same as the football experts tell us the latest flavour of the month is the greatest ever after the ball hit their arse and went in the net.

I find this an odd place to make this point.

Jane Austen is 'popular', whatever the significance of that is, and has been for some time. Her reputation is not based on the critical response of a small literary elite.

Definitely one of the weirder feminist campaigns to demand that at least one of four people on a banknote is a woman. I hardly think a 10 year old girl will be inspired by whoever is on the tenner... More interested in having a tenner I'll bet.

If I were Mark Carney I'd say that probably some 95% of traditionally 'great' Britons were men, so you won't have a chick on all the time, sorry

I actually disagree with you for a change. I too doubt there is much potential for a banknote to do anything as grand as 'inspiring' a 10 year old girl in itself, but a culture in which the visibility of women being celebrated for achieving things is very low only goes to perpetuate the (unhelpful) imbalance that makes your 95% a conservative estimate.

[Beefheart]

There are just a lot more women in British history more deserving of being on a tenner than one who wrote a few books. In fact, on that criteria alone J K Rowling is more deserving.

[TANGODANCER]

Most likely the same artsy people that try to tell us paintings like this are deep and meaningful or some other shite, when they are quite patently just shit.



'Experts' in the arts are almost always full of shit. Same as the football experts tell us the latest flavour of the month is the greatest ever after the ball hit their arse and went in the net.

Not the best comparison A.T. I like Jane Austen's works from a historical point of view. Not equally, I'll admit and Pride and Prejudice is way ahead of the rest. She filled in a historical chapter in literature. Dickens did Victorian grit and poverty as did Catherine Cookson a little later, the Brontes a sort of dark halfway world and Jane Austen the privelleged upper/middle class, but her views poked fun at a lot of it whilst highlighting some serious issues like property entailment and class snobbery . Whilst she used romance as a background theme, she was no pink nonesense author. Austen was pure black and white. To be fair, you can only censure her if you've read her stuff thoroughly. I have. I confess no shame in having a copy of Pride and Prejudice never far away. Takes all sorts.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I find this an odd place to make this point.

Jane Austen is 'popular', whatever the significance of that is, and has been for some time. Her reputation is not based on the critical response of a small literary elite.

I was responding to TD's assertion that Austen is considered one of the literary greats. Who put her on that pedestal other than the literary elite?

[boltonboris]

Jade Goody for the fiver!

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Most likely the same artsy people that try to tell us paintings like this are deep and meaningful or some other shite, when they are quite patently just shit.



'Experts' in the arts are almost always full of shit. Same as the football experts tell us the latest flavour of the month is the greatest ever after the ball hit their arse and went in the net.

Not the best comparison A.T. I like Jane Austen's works from a historical point of view. Not equally, I'll admit and Pride and Prejudice is way ahead of the rest. She filled in a historical chapter in literature. Dickens did Victorian grit and poverty as did Catherine Cookson a little later, the Brontes a sort of dark halfway world and Jane Austen the privelleged upper/middle class, but her views poked fun at a lot of it whilst highlighting some serious issues like property entailment and class snobbery . Whilst she used romance as a background theme, she was no pink nonesense author. Austen was pure black and white. To be fair, you can only censure her if you've read her stuff thoroughly. I have. I confess no shame in having a copy of Pride and Prejudice never far away. Takes all sorts.

Each to their own Tango. I can respect the fact people like her books, but I don't think her a literary great and certainly way down the list of women from history that deserve recognition. I find the arts being more about bandwagon jumping than owt else when it comes to the elite. The real greats are the ones change the way we think, view or do things. I don't believe Austen has done that.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

I find this an odd place to make this point.

Jane Austen is 'popular', whatever the significance of that is, and has been for some time. Her reputation is not based on the critical response of a small literary elite.

I was responding to TD's assertion that Austen is considered one of the literary greats. Who put her on that pedestal other than the literary elite?

Popular opinion!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Jade Goody for the fiver!

She'd be on the Pound Note - lower class, and defunct.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I find this an odd place to make this point.

Jane Austen is 'popular', whatever the significance of that is, and has been for some time. Her reputation is not based on the critical response of a small literary elite.

I was responding to TD's assertion that Austen is considered one of the literary greats. Who put her on that pedestal other than the literary elite?

Popular opinion!

Who though? Who has pronounced this popularity? Was there a survey? Did I miss it?

[thebish]

in 2012, Jane Austen didn't appear in the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries - nor did any of her books appear in the top 250 most-borrowed books from UK libraries...