Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Harper Collins - They know good words what are wroted
As has been pointed out in the comments section of this Blog, the mugs that have agreed to publish Anya's book (about her quest to get a book published) seem to have a poor grasp of the English language.
A page on their site dedicated to the upcoming author has the following passage.
So, what will the book be about? Well, no one just ends up living in a car in a laneway, every story has its backstory, and this book ill tell mine about my life growing up, and the parallels with now. Because I have had many privileges along the way, lived a life very different to the one here in the laneway but sometimes, looking back, it feels like I have been homeless always.
Is that good English?
Is that the standard that we can expect from the epic?
I think we can garner a clue from the fact that they also have Jade Goody on their books.
Looks like a match made in Heaven.
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This is a quirky thing - a woman dwelling in a car. I appreciate her determination, it's bizarre she is living in that conditions.
Krishna, Hyderbad, India
Ahh.... the good old days....!
What now? Is she claiming benefit while writing this wretched book? Apparently she may well not be in London at all but back at the family gaff in Truro..... you read it here first!
Truro? How curious.
Ive spend the last few hours reading though the whole WS stuff.
In the first instance i didnt question its authenticity as the main points raised were timings of her posts which can be explained by having access to the hospital libary (She did mention it once) which you can usually access 24/7.
But there are a few things which I question and what I havent seen mentioned. Firstly her Social Security payments. now I know a little about the social system and its very hard to be paid by Giro now.. its all bank transfer.. but she didnt have a bank account due to bad credit..so she had to have Giro .. a feat in its self.. but heres the strange bit to open a new claim you have to provide proof of address (recent bills etc) she said she had been homeless for a 8 months or so wondering around on the south coast before settling in London.. So how the hell did she get a claim opened in the first place? she says she used an old address... if so she couldnt have had any correspondance for that address for at least a year.. they wouldnt aceept that...
The other odd thing is her email address. its @btinternet. BT internet do not provide email only accounts, they provide internet access and since BT sold out to Yahoo a while back and when they did all accounts were set to a 90 day timeout. This means that if you dont actually use a landline and dial into the account it will be closed after 90 days....
Thers more i doubt too . but im lazy and not sure if this will be read . so ill save it.
Regards .. DS
(Sorry for double post.. I commented on the wrong blog:) )
Your questions are all valid ones but the only one that could answer them is Anya herself.
However, she chooses not to post any such doubts or queres on her blog in order to keep the bandwidth for comments of praise.
That's why I started this blog. As a way for people to express those doubts and to present a balanced view rather than the one sided manipulative version that Anya herself would like people to believe.
Sadly most folks would just look at the surface and see the pretty flowery picture that she portrays whereas we dig a little deeper and smell the manure beneath the flowerbed.
OMG! A flowery analogy. GET ME A BOOK DEAL !!
:o)
Probably the next deal will be with Rover.
"This blog is probably all that's keeping me sane right now. This and my car. Without them, don’t know what I’d do." 23th march
"Sometimes, laying there in the car in the cold, in need of so much, it seems crazy - more time in the car...? some help...? More time in the car...? some help...? More time in the car?..."20th march
"Money...I can't accept it...not even as a loan. Yes I can...no I can't...yes I can...no I can't...yes I can...no...I really, really, can't — night after night of it, arguing it out with myself." 20th march
M.
Further to the poinrs made by DS, if you do manage to get the DSS to send you Giro's, they will be sent to the address provided at the initial interview. So, this means tha either, she has been living in a house all along and was never homeless, or, that she uses the address as a Giro drop, which is a criminal offence, as is giving a false address in the first place. Another point. If she couldn't get a bank account due to a bad credit rating, where did the Papal money get paid into?.
Something DS said that I have to dissagree with, Hospital Libraries do not allow members of the public either entry or use of their equipment. Entry requires hospital ID, which she clearly doesn't have, but if she has, she is guilty of yet another criminal offence, identity fraud.
Another thing, you can get a @btinternet email without the ISP, but it costs money, whereas yahoo and hotmail are free. Now, it isn't much money, but when you're homeless, every fuckin' penny counts.
It could be the case that BT provides multiple emails per account (my own ISP does this), and a friend "loaned" her an [email] account, but then hmm... she'd have to be lying about having no friends to help her out.
Lying? What are you suggesting sir?
That's why I started this blog ... to present a balanced view rather than the one sided manipulative version
Ho, ho, ho, pull the other one! You delete comments that disagree with your views. For example the long comment attacking you posted under "Has WS already reached Michael Jackson status?"
It would appear that the checklist for posts to get past the moderated stage on wanderingEGO's site is getting greater by the day:
1. Must contain PROFANITY/ SNIDE REMARKS.
2. Must not contain any seeds of doubt whatever ABOUT EGO'S OWN AGENDA.
3. Must contain thanks for W-EGO even ALLOWING US POOR MORTALS TO POST ON HER BLOG.
4. Must not question the "Queen of the BITCHES" on any matter at all (this is an absolute - DON'T YOU FORGET IT!)
Methinks YOUR ego has expanded far beyond THE limitations OF YOUR IQ! GET A BOOK, MAYBE WANDERINGSCRIBE'S!
:)
I THINK THIS READS EVEN MORE TRUE WITH REGARDS TO YOU AND YOUR SICKO 'FANS'!!!
how long will this post be here I wonder?
CUE: The Phantom deleter!
Quite. There's a job waiting for this miserable, execrable fleck of sputum in the Inland Revenue. A man on a mission to uncover the fraudulent behaviour of shysters, while protecting the naive, exploited unfortunates that he despises, from the embezzlement of their meagre earnings by a charlatan and her web of deceit. Palpable bollocks.
Blind-man-with-three-eyes,
Read again... slowly, you must be illerate, hence the confusion for you! And as for the comment following yours, did you even read my previous posts or are you just sniffing the Blind-man-with-three-eyes arsehole? I said I neither condemed or condoned! Read it, slowly! Might be then you will understand what has been written!
But then again, maybe not!!!?
It obviously doesn't like having it's spelling corrected. I can just picture it stamping it's little feet.
Anonymous said...
Blind-man-with-three-eyes,
Read again... slowly, you must be illerate, hence the confusion for you!
illerate?
I think the confusion happens when anonymous posters use words that don't appear in the English language.
I must admit to a small glow of schadenfreude when seeing our ranting little chums deperately trying to correct others and displaying their own intelligence or lack thereof.
Perhaps the mysterious "Anonymous" posts are all from the same person.
Sadly no.
I have monitoring software online that captures not only IP's from posters (yes, even our French Canadian friends!) but every last little thing you do whilst perusing these hallowed pages and so you are never truly anonymous on the internet.
:)
As for deleted posts, if you have something to say and are not ranting and foaming at the mouth then feel free to post away, after all, you do not get that option on wanderingscribes site and I have made a deliberate decision not to hinder or impede posters from leaving any comment at all.
However, if it's just a load of meaningless waffle and insults then you will be shown the door.
Does that sound fair?
Does that sound fairer than the treatment that posts get on wanderingscribes site?
You bet your bippy it does !!
:)
Hugsss....
If that's the case then where am I?
Is this an existential question or can you just not find your way back to the shelter?
And they wonder why some anonymous dingbat posts are deleted .......
:)
I can't see how Harper Collins will ever give you a job. Not even as a cleaner. Next time you go to sign on, look for a position in the shit hole where yo belong.
You can monitor all you like WE, I can see you too!
You have double-standards - I am not the only one that knows it, because everything is cool when everyone agrees with you, without question...
I have noticed of late, that WE has been leaving 'nice messages of thanks' on people's blogs who have left messages on WS's... with the link to this site... isn't that called hijacking?
What is the truth about you WE?
Hijacking?
That's when you take control of an aircraft by force and force it to fly somewhere against the pilots will.
Whereas what I do is visit peoples blogs and leave a comment. (I think that's why the feature is there on blog sites)
I can see how the confusion arose though with those two being so very similar. :)
Just don't make eye contact, dear readers, just back away slowly from the nutter who is holding the English language hostage with his slender grasp on reality.
I realise that things are quite dire in Nottingham but if you work hard and improve your literacy skills you could move out and be accepted in society.
Just think about it, honey.
For me.
Hugssssss.........
I'm not in Nottingham. Just one more thing you don't know for sure!
Of course not.
I'd have bet a safe fiver that you'd have said that matey.
In the end, who cares.
Well, you do obviously cus you come here so often.
I feel so cherished......
Hugsss........
WS
I am glad you feel cherished, I wouldn't want you feeling any other way.
You see, unlike you, I don't massage my ego or derive some sort of self-worth by breaking down another! Using such dirty tactics as leaving messages in other people's blogs, using her name, with a link that usurps her visitors and brings them here.
Why don't you promote your blog legitimately? You have a right to your opinions, but you should play fair!
))))I don't want a hug, thanks!((((
You do seem though to want so desperately to post on this blog.
I think that says a lot about you.
Why do people post anonymously?
You can't take any comment posted anonymously seriously or even give it any credence.
Some people have no backbone.
What's backbone got to do with it?
Yet again you are denigrating cripples.
Yet again?
Please to be so kind as to point out the first time.
Unless you are talking out of your bottom.
Anonymously of course ........
I really enjoyed looking at your site, I found it very helpful indeed, keep up the good work.
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I think you are pathetic and need a life of your own so that you can stop being jealous of others.
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