Rants of the week 09/01/2009

Some of the comments have been edited for space or grammatical reasons.

Funniest rant of the week

,Story: The Vote - Terry Christian, ambassador or embarrassment?
Where we asked you to judge Manchester’s man with the words from the Word on Celebrity Big Brother.

Anonymous says: He is a dick.

Editorial says: Can we have a bit more intelligence in the rants than the first one here please?

Tom says: He's a clever dick.

Twisted museum rant of the week

Story: Hermit for Manchester Museum.
Manchester Museum is looking for an artist to live as a hermit and these were your thoughts.

BB says: Can we wall up the whole cast of half-famous Celebrity Big Brother in there and then brick it up and take away the cameras? That way we'd just have their desperate faces squashed against the tower windows as they starve. Proper reality. Forget the TV. Liven up the bus journeys along Oxford Road.

Best gracious acceptance of awful review

Story: Great Kathmandu review.
This is where Jonathan Schofield was very critical of a famous Manchester restaurant particularly the service. This is the reply, on the site, from the owner. Now why can’t everybody be like that?

Buda says: Thanks for the review. I am glad that you have highlighted the issues you have experienced and I for one would like to say that all of your points have been noted. We are currently undergoing a major revamp and I feel that with the constructive criticism of our patrons we can only improve the level of service and cuisine that we have become renowned for. The problems stem from the expansion of the restaurant to incorporate a second floor. We are aware of this and we are looking at ways of improving the situation. Please feel free to provide feedback to any of our members of staff. Many customers are unwilling to let us know what they really think no matter how small it might be. This can lead to complacency - how can you address an issue if you don't even know it's there? Once again thank you for highlighting the key points in your review.

The rant that addresses the great issues before mankind

Story: Great Kathmandu review.
In which Jonathan Schofield laid into the West Didsbury favourite.

Is it just me who wondered about the spelling says: Papadam, papaddam, papadom, papadum, papodam, papodum, popadam, popadom, poppadam, poppadom, poppadum, poppodam, puppadum, puppodam, puppodum. However, there is nothing to say that you cannot use the unlisted spellings papodom, popadum, poppodom, poppodum, puppadam, puppadom, and puppodom. Take your pick. ”

The seriously thought through rant of the week

Story: Bye bye black sheep.
This was the story about the way the older fairy tales are being superseded by new less ‘graphic, violent and old fashioned’ stories such as The Hungry Caterpillar.

Thoroughbred Manc says: Oh dear God. Is this where we're headed as a culture? No, it's not even culture. Culture is supposed to cultivate humankind's inner nature by means of the imagination. Fairy tales aren't supposed to be translated literally - they're symbolic - metaphors - for crying out loud. They're not supposed to be literalised and reduced to surface appearance alone: they speak to the deeper levels of the human psyche from where they originated. Stories are storehouses - they make a community of symbols and are psychodiagnostic. We find ourselves in stories. Are people really so obtuse? Is this how one-dimensional society really is? Ooh, this stuff infuriates me. For anyone interested, Marie Louise von Franz (a student of psychologist Carl G. Jung) has a book called 'The Interpretation of Fairy Tales'. It's heady, but provides a fascinating psychological insight into many of the traditional fairytales.