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

[rekil]

Just got off the bus. 40A route, never change.

 

[co-op]

Top work these last few pages everyone. Proper LOLs.

I haven't got a mobile so I'm protected from this tweeting shite but jesus there are some self important people out there. Mind you I hate to think what I might have become if I'd had these kind of sweeties and jollies thrown in front of me when I was 20. Heh, luckily none were thrown my way.

 

[Orang Utan]

Not having a mobile doesn't protect you from Twitter. Join in the fun!

 

[co-op]

Not having a mobile doesn't protect you from Twitter. Join in the fun!

Well really I should be blessing twitter bcause this thread has been an eye-opener and it's mostly the little throwaway comments that are the ones that are really revealing. I'm a bit embarrassed by the extent to which I've been a naive consumer of "left-wing" journos in the past.

 

[Orang Utan]

Me too!

 

[cesare]

I have now been in my GP. Erythromycin, get ready for me.

 

[ViolentPanda]

You can imagine how their Mother's Day cards read.

Oedipally?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Oedipally?

Interesting that that was how you chose to interpret it

 

[ViolentPanda]

Interesting that that was how you chose to interpret it.

Having tried to read Sunny Hundal's interminably self-referential "journalism" previously, I'd long since figured he was some sort of motherfucker.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Having tried to read Sunny Hundal's interminably self-referential "journalism" previously, I'd long since figured he was some sort of motherfucker.

Here's hoping Mère Hundal is extant. Nobody wants a Savilised commentariat.

 

[Bakunin]

I have now been in my GP. Erythromycin, get ready for me.

Plymouth lasses, I've been in you.

Which explains the painful pissing and where all that pus comes from.

 

[cesare]

Plymouth lasses, I've been in you.

Which explains the painful pissing and where all that pus comes from.

Ewww!

 

[Bakunin]

Ewww!

My own fault, really. I should have taken the words of a local bootneck as a warning and not as a means to enhance my social circle. As he so quaintly put it:

'Stonehouse is the best part of town if you're looking for a bit of gluebox.'

 

[cesare]

My own fault, really. I should have taken the words of a local bootneck as a warning and not as a means to enhance my social circle. As he so quaintly put it:

'Stonehouse is the best part of town if you're looking for a bit of gluebox.'

There's not a lot you can say to that Fortunately my maladies are less ... contagious

 

[DaveCinzano]

Fortunately my maladies are less ... contagious

Is that a typo?

 

[cesare]

Is that a typo?

Are you referring to the seemingly superfluous "ma"?

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[articul8]

Ewww!

If I had said that I'd have been lynched!

 

[killer b]

shocking double standards. you should be ashamed cesare.

 

[cesare]

If I had said that I'd have been lynched!

Why? What did you think he meant?

 

[Bakunin]

If I had said that I'd have been lynched!

Probably.

But I do have the unfair advantage of being universally acknowledged as an idiot and a loon that most Urbanites either ignore or tune out, thereby affording me the option of simply typing whatever I like without all that great a fear of censure owing to the fact that most think I'm too dim and/or barmy to really know what I'm typing.

It's one of the few perks of being mental.

 

[cesare]

Probably.

But I do have the unfair advantage of being universally acknowledged as an idiot and a loon that most Urbanites either ignore or tune out, thereby affording me the option of simply typing whatever I like without all that great a fear of censure owing to the fact that most think I'm too dim and/or barmy to really know what I'm typing.

It's one of the few perks of being mental.

Oh, were you being offensive to me then? I thought you were recounting about catching an STD yourself, not suggesting that I had one.

 

[Bakunin]

Oh, were you being offensive to me then? I thought you were recounting about catching an STD yourself, not suggesting that I had one.

I'm absolutely sure that neither of us either is, or indeed has ever been, a pox-ridden, pus-dripping old shagbag.

Welcome to the joys of attempting jovial humour, Aspie-style.

 

[cesare]

I'm absolutely sure that neither of us either is, or indeed has ever been, a pox-ridden, pus-dripping old shagbag.

Welcome to the joys of attempting jovial humour, Aspie-style.

There ya go. I thought you were just having a laugh, with no offence intended. And I was right, thank God.

Don't know why articul8 interpreted it any differently, but he's already on the list on that account so I don't suppose I should be surprised.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm absolutely sure that neither of us either is, or indeed has ever been, a pox-ridden, pus-dripping old shagbag.

Welcome to the joys of attempting jovial humour, Aspie-style.

I enjoy your humour.

Does that make me mental and/or Aspie?

 

[redsquirrel]

I have now been in my GP.

Surely he/she should be up before the GMC for that!

 

[phildwyer]

I enjoy your humour.

Does that make me mental and/or Aspie?

Yes.

 

[articul8]

Don't know why articul8 interpreted it any differently, but he's already on the list on that account so I don't suppose I should be surprised.

that's the point - I meant nothing personally by it. But others appear to indict or acquit people for remarks on a personal basis not on the content of what's said. I haven't *literally* (yet?!) invoked the mental image of Deborah Orr to stop myself ejaculating. It was a joke, although I do admit to finding her smug expression distinctly unsexy (does anyone disagree!?). But for this I had the lynch mob out. Whereas you can have a good old chuckle about giving women painful sexually transmitted diseases such that they emit an unpleasant discharge, and this is OK. I don't think it would've been if I'd said it, even if I was clearly "having a laugh".

 

[cesare]

that's the point - I meant nothing personally by it. But others appear to indict or acquit people for remarks on a personal basis not on the content of what's said. I haven't *literally* (yet?!) invoked the mental image of Deborah Orr to stop myself ejaculating. It was a joke, although I do admit to finding her smug expression distinctly unsexy (does anyone disagree!?). But for this I had the lynch mob out. Whereas you can have a good old chuckle about giving women painful sexually transmitted diseases such that they emit an unpleasant discharge, and this is OK. I don't think it would've been if I'd said it, even if I was clearly "having a laugh".

1) You were expressing wank fantasies in a demeaning way about a specific woman - Bakunin wasn't.
2) Bakunin's humour was self deprecating about his *own* piss and pus and how he caught it, not about anyone else's.
3) Bakunin's humour was aimed at the possibility of catching STDs from sex workers, which is a risk depending on the type of sex worker. And as such was aimed at the people that use sex workers, not at the sex workers themselves.
4) If any was needed (and I don't think it was) Bakunin does have some leeway for Aspie-style humour because he has explained this before, and we take notice.
5) You are attempting to justify (1) again, rather than accepting that it was unacceptable.

 

[Random]

that's the point - I meant nothing personally by it. But others appear to indict or acquit people for remarks on a personal basis not on the content of what's said. I haven't *literally* (yet?!) invoked the mental image of Deborah Orr to stop myself ejaculating. It was a joke, although I do admit to finding her smug expression distinctly unsexy (does anyone disagree!?). But for this I had the lynch mob out. Whereas you can have a good old chuckle about giving women painful sexually transmitted diseases such that they emit an unpleasant discharge, and this is OK. I don't think it would've been if I'd said it, even if I was clearly "having a laugh".

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