Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[imposs1904]

did it give you food for thought?

only one in ten board members will get that reference.

 

[love detective]

Teenage kids of color from Brooklyn. Passionate, inspiring

look at them all

 

[articul8]

sounds like a Benetton ad

 

[The39thStep]

sound like an E4 remake of the Lindsey German Diaries

 

[butchersapron]

Teenage kids of color from Brooklyn. Passionate, inspiring

I wear scarves because I hate jackets. With my outfits I can go into a crack den in the morning, then to an expensive dinner at night. The kids like my scarves so they're always disappearing. They sleep with them sometimes. I often have to send word out that I've run out of scarves!

 

[butchersapron]

Oh fantastic, what were these Teenage kids of color from Brooklyn. Passionate, inspiring - up to that inspired such passion and admiration from Laura?

they were behind me in the coffee shop.

 

[Ole]

Oh fantastic, what were these Teenage kids of color from Brooklyn. Passionate, inspiring - up to that inspired such passion and admiration from Laura?

they were behind me in the coffee shop.​

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Is that real?

A million miles beyond parody.

 

[butchersapron]

​

Is that real?

A million miles beyond parody.

Yep - in full:

When I say 'stumbled across', I mean 'they were behind me in the coffee shop'. Teenage kids of color from Brooklyn. Passionate, inspiring.

 

[DotCommunist]

american spelling as well

 

[el-ahrairah]

jesus wept.

 

[DotCommunist]

its a funhouse mirror version of met a black man

 

[discokermit]

You're reading into it something that isn't there. I've worked with middle-class people and the exact same frustration applied there too. Plenty of cretinous vapid people work in middle-class jobs. I wasn't making a point about class, it was you who assumed on my behalf that "the ability to hold a converation = middle class" coz that's not something I said, or even implied. I just would like to work in any job where you can have a decent conversation with your workmates, coz the last few jobs I've had that's been in really short supply. And I'm well entitled to have whinge about it as well.

I know one or two journalists also. They barely qualify as middle-class as it happens, at least going on how much they earn. Not every journalist earns what Laurie Penny earns, not these days anyway.

I am slowly turning into Roland off Paul Calf's video diaries though I freely admit it.

you callin my car a queer?

 

[the button]

What a cunt she is.

(That is all )

 

[butchersapron]

you callin my car a queer?

I saw that - you had the bit where he was talking to John hanna

 

[the button]

Lest we forget....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/26/asa-kids-company

 

[discokermit]

I saw that - you had the bit where he was talking to John hanna

oh bollocks. i got my characters mixed up. had to watch it again.

 

[U N Arrator]

look at them all

When you use the terms 'passionate' or 'inspiring,' you're only one step away from saying 'going forward', and then all hope really is lost.

I bet when she goes to a cafe she says 'Can I get a coffee?'

And this is the person you're all taking seriously.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm just laughing tbf. In a really serious way, obvs.

 

[U N Arrator]

The Telegraph has her at number 55 on their "influential lefties" list.

Definitive proof that the UK left exists only in the minds of right wing and left wing anoraks.

 

[U N Arrator]

I'm just laughing tbf. In a really serious way, obvs.

It really isn't funny. When older people started mimicking their stupid children and saying, 'Can I get...?,' instead of 'Can I have...?,' it became obvious that Spengler had been right all along.

Some people did issue warnings when everybody started ending statements with a questioning intonation.

 

[Orang Utan]

When you use the terms 'passionate' or 'inspiring,' you're only one step away from saying 'going forward', and then all hope really is lost.

I bet when she goes to a cafe she says 'Can I get a coffee?'

And this is the person you're all taking seriously.

twat.
saying 'can i get a coffee' betrays nothing of a person's qualities

 

[Orang Utan]

It really isn't funny. When older people started mimicking their stupid children and saying, 'Can I get...?,' instead of 'Can I have...?,' it became obvious that Spengler had been right all along.

Some people did issue warnings when everybody started ending statements with a questioning intonation.

nobber

 

[Frances Lengel]

twat.
saying 'can i get a coffee' betrays nothing of a person's qualities

Yes it does. To say "Can I get..." is to relinquish any claim to be treated with anything other than contempt.

 

[U N Arrator]

twat.
saying 'can i get a coffee' betrays nothing of a person's qualities

'Can a get...(anything)', when you mean 'Can I have...' betrays the personality of a twat.

 

[butchersapron]

Can you get to fuck, why yes sir/madam you can.

 

[U N Arrator]

Yes it does. To say "Can I get..." is to relinquish any claim to be treated with anything other than contempt.

Orang's just sore because he's realised that it's what he says.

People are so impressionable.

 

[Orang Utan]

'Can a get...(anything)', when you mean 'Can I have...' betrays the personality of a twat.

does it fuck. objecting to it does.

 

[cesare]

twat.
saying 'can i get a coffee' betrays nothing of a person's qualities

"Can I get" invites the response "no. Tell me what you want and I'll get it for you". Or "Go on then, the coffee machine's over there, help yourself". Either way, they look a fool.

 

[Orang Utan]

Orang's just sore because he's realised that it's what he says.

People are so impressionable.

I may say it occasionally, but not habitually. there is nothing wrong with it

 

[U N Arrator]

does it fuck. objecting to it does.

And he's genuinely annoyed about it.