Dunno about that - There's something about her appearance that makes me think that if she'd been in the bathroom for a number two, you'd be well advised to give it a fair bit longer than ten minutes before going in after her.
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Dunno about that - There's something about her appearance that makes me think that if she'd been in the bathroom for a number two, you'd be well advised to give it a fair bit longer than ten minutes before going in after her.
I can see that, yup. It started life as Owen Jones but I changed it to LP because of the simple fact she irks me a lot more!
I can see that, yup. It started life as Owen Jones but I changed it to LP because of the simple fact she irks me a lot more!
Let it go. Nobody's heard of her.
For a thread dominated by those who put the working class at the centre of their politics, there's a fascination with Laura and her ilk that's completely perplexing when you consider that 99% of working class people (and most other people, too, actually) will live and die without ever hearing about Laura Penny.
Random
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The fascination is mostly because her career is a living example of how class power works. I don't expect this to convince you, though, since you've posted the same complaint several times about how you're all confused and perplexed.
I'm not confused really... But why does this matter when her kind only influence each other and a relative handful of online obsessives?
And people say that the internet isn't, on the whole, politically debilitating.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
penny wanked
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Same old same old. You're boring.
Random
Ethnic nalgocrat
See what I mean about the 40 pages of complaining? "What are you all hanging around here for? it's really boring."
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Let's go to the ice-rink!
I'm not bothered really. It's just fascinating. In a small way.
But I'll never understand why she's supposed to matter when nobody has heard of her and never will. Least of all the working class.
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If we're penny wanking you're the ones picking up the kleenex and sniffing it.
lauriepenny
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Good grief, I've just discovered this. I'm not sure whether to be flattered or weirded out that you've all spent 208 pages on it. I've no idea why you care so much about my appearance and toilet habits.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
As if.
lauriepenny
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Seriously. I mean, 208 pages? Why?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
As if.
TruXta
tired
Twitter update, laurie?
lauriepenny
Member
Check @pennyred.
I think you should be weirded out to be fair
lauriepenny
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I am! Weirded out, that is.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
"so-called lefties" - check.
a))how you really cannot find a better example of the use of cultural capital based on privilege to extend and transmit that privilege into the future
b) how certain people attempt to recuperate social movements for their own careerists ends (some journos) and how other groups of people help/make this happen (editors, media bosses) and
c) how politics is reduced in this game to just another fashion, this years fad. In short how the media and the culture they create and reflect works
d) personal annoyance at the sort of barely disguised pushy middle class self-obsession that we've all seen in our social or work lives being (self) promoted as the voice of a generation (without even going into the infantile divisions this sort of crap assumes).
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