Fr Ted creator/writer Graham Linehan Arrested over posts on Transgender issues

She didn't come up in the Google AI search I did, nor in the Wikipedia list. I was surprised at that and I accept the results of the search you posted, which don't invalidate my musings at all. Do you have any examples of Blyton's achievements being denigrated or downplayed by people who didn't share her opinions?

Absolutely, I think my earlier post said exactly that. She was the JK Rowling of her time. I read every Blyton book I could get my hands on as a kid. I think some of her views might get her cancelled nowadays though☺️.

Cheers, as I said I was surprised, I definitely shouldn't have trusted AI. I think I may have just googled most successful authors. Either way it's moot as I wasn't disputing or downplaying her success.

That's a really well expressed and balanced post. You're not wrong about the arrogance either.

Well, when I noticed your post I was waiting for a flight to Malaga, so unless you count passage through security checks taking 10 min instead of the usual 5 as a bit of a mare, I wasn't having a bit of a mare, not even the tip of a tail of a mare😀. I have noticed a pattern of projection in your posting however, and given that in the past week or two you've been all over various threads demonstrating an incapacity or unwillingness to engage with the substance of the arguments, a total inability to lay out a clear position and arguments to support that position, and a tendency to misrepresent the posts of others when you feel that's helpful to your case, and given the fact that several posters have called you out for this behaviour, I'll go out on a limb and say it's you that's having a complete mare.

Let me try to deal with the Enid Blyton thing once and for all: a few posters picked up on my posts so I obviously wasn't laser focussed in what I said. Boggles, you and I could argue until the end of time over whether Blyton or Rowling was the more successful writer - we'd first have to agree on what standards we were going to judge by - but the end result would be that one of them would be agreed to be staggeringly successful, and the other just a teeny tiny bit less successful. The post I was referring to didn't actually mention Rowling at all - it was clear to readers who was being referred to, but the phrase "a writer of children's books" was clearly meant as a substitute for "a person of no consequence". It would be like referring to Rory McIllroy in a similar context but not mentioning his name, and calling him a hitter of golf balls. My point would still hold true if instead of 600 million books, Rowling had only managed to sell 50 million. It would still be a level of success most people could only dream of, and not acknowledging that because the person holds opinions you disagree with is mean spirited in the extreme.

I don't tend to get upset about people saying things that are true - I see you ignored the post where I said I wasn't upset, so you are either choosing to misinterpret my posts or implying that I'm a liar, both pretty underhanded tactics. FWIW I find it ironic and amusing when people call out bad behaviour in others while simultaneously displaying their own petty minded begrudgery.

I've said in the past I like to keep things literal, but regarding the Blyton thing I fear you might literally be taking my posts too literally😁.

Your signature is something from the 5th or 6th century.

Yet your cut off limit for Graham is 8 years?

That's a bit bizarre, no?