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

[U N Arrator]

and advertising doesn't work on him. just like laura, his look is his own, unfettered by any influence, except of course, not being one of THEM.

Look, just because you might be a clone, it doesn't mean everybody is-nor that everybody who isn't is like Penny Laura. Just try waking up in the morning and thinking 'Don't be a clone today!' Although it seems it may be already too late.

 

[Orang Utan]

OK, we all stop talking about this starting ....

NOW

Aw, this thread was getting boring. This has been fun.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Look, just because you might be a clone, it doesn't mean everybody is-nor that everybody who isn't is like Penny Laura. Just try waking up in the morning and thinking 'Don't be a clone today!' Although it seems it may be already too late.

 

[Frances Lengel]

as a speaker of estuary english, i dispute that severely.

Estuary and West Country have to be serious contenders for the title of worst accents in the UK. Bradford's probably my favourite.

 

[el-ahrairah]

that's your name in the book, sunshine.

 

[weepiper]

She's just cleaned out a deep fat fryer in the name of 'Sandy aid' and she wants us all to know. So we can club together and get her a medal, I expect.

 

[love detective]

from kebab bum finger for a change

We're at a bar commemorating Abraham Lincoln. The management are all white. The waiters are all black. There's a metaphor there.

 

[articul8]

from kebab bum finger

 

[DotCommunist]

She's just cleaned out a deep fat fryer in the name of 'Sandy aid' and she wants us all to know. So we can club together and get her a medal, I expect.

I bet she did a crap job of it as well. And disposed of the fat in a manner that contavenes local waste disposal regulations.

These people. Stick to handing out rolls and failing to give blood.

 

[Orang Utan]

"Long day! Estimate served 500 hot meals to people in the Rockaways- for most first hot food in days. How's the election doing?"

 

[rekil]

Ellie Mae O'Hagan ‏@MissEllieMae
Hooray! We're doing shots then heading to the White House to party!

 

[rekil]

Progressive.

Activists.

 

[love detective]

Ellie Mae O'hagan

3am in DC. Party atmosphere winding down. Home, bed, and now Romney's out of the way, back to pursuing meaningful left-wing politics

 

[cesare]

See also burn-out thread

 

[love detective]

meant to ask, what did delroy post in error?

 

[TruXta]

meant to ask, what did delroy post in error?

A guy with a rotating dildo up his anus. Quite graphic it was too.

 

[U N Arrator]

Ellie Mae O'hagan


"Party atmosphere winding down...meaningful left wing politics blah, blah..."

Reminds me of when all the Trots were celebrating Blair's win in '97 or Thatcher being replaced by, er, another Tory leader.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

A guy with a rotating dildo up his anus. Quite graphic it was too.

Jesus christ

 

[DotCommunist]

They really don't like hotlinking, hence the drilldo

 

[el-ahrairah]

who did he try and hotlink to? fucking 4chan or something...

 

[rekil]

In other news, Bragg now appears to back the war in 'Stan because Obama is "waging war against people who murder girls that want to go to school" and when asked if this signalled a Kid Rockesque direction in his career, he responded by boasting that he enjoys "picking holes" in PD's "black and white view of the world".

e2a: might have got this wrong actually, he seems upset at the suggestion that just because he supports obama, then that means he supports the drone strikes

He supports Obama apart from just about all the stuff done by his admin.

 

[butchersapron]

Must be bored sitting around on his own in that huge lib-dem palace in dorset.

 

[rekil]

He was in Australia, pretending to be woody guthrie.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Still adamant that the UK is a classless society? And that's a fact.

 

[Bakunin]

Still adamant that the UK is a classless society? And that's a fact.

Unfortunately, her understanding of the precise meaning of the word 'fact' is as barely extant as the quality of her prose.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

I was on about Billy Big Conk. He stated that 'fact' in his book. PD asked him about it.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Ellie Mae O'Hagan ‏@MissEllieMae
Hooray! We're doing shots then heading to the White House to party!

Ellie Mae O'Hagan ‏@MissEllieMae
Even amidst the Obama euphoria I'm still incredulous that he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Hayrr X ‏@Hayrr
all ellie maes are bastards #aemab
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[Captain Hurrah]

leftsplainers

Is this activist speak?

 

[BigTom]

Is this activist speak?

mansplainer = a man telling a woman what feminism is / what's sexist so leftsplaining must mean, um, lefties telling other lefties what being a lefty means? But somehow the leftie that is telling other lefties what being a lefty means is in a privileged position that means they can't really understand what being a lefty means/aren't really best placed to say. Which makes no sense.

e2a oh no, I think if this has come from laurie/ellie/etc then it's indicative of their opinion that they are better activists than other people.. who are you to tell me what being a lefty means? I know what being a lefty means, I'm more of a lefty than you because of who I am, stop leftsplaining me ..

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

actually mansplaining is a legitmate description of any time a man tells a woman something she already knows, especially in too much detail.

bonus points for when it's about driving or politics