Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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My mother was brought up in the Midlands near to a steelworks. She recalled how at night it lit up the sky with red light and made a loud crashing sound at intervals. She says that when she was young she didn't realise that the noise was part of the steel making process but thought that it was something that the sky did.
The39thStep
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Wasn't it mark smith who when asked what touring in east Germany with the Fall was like said ' it was dirty and depressing it reminded me of living in Middlesbrough '?
Middlesbrough grows on you. Takes a while but it has its charms...just keeps them well hidden.
The39thStep
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I used to live in Darlington as a teenager , occasionally went to Ayrsome park and Middlesbrough crypt . Hartlepool was worse .
bluestreak
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comrade, the suspicion of racism is enough.
you can't knock Seaton Carew though
I think the best bet is just to assume everyone's a misogynist and racist until Laurie penny gives them the all clear.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Didn't he write the Fu Manchu novels?
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
if there is a better way to work out what i should i approve of, twitter has yet to provide it to me.
Were you a member of the youth wing of Darlo WSM?
Or the Bongo
Me and Citizen66 are going to go down the Cowpen together soon, to see the pole dancers
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I've been in Middlesborough only once, years ago, to speak at a public meeting during the anti-poll tax campaign. All I can remember of the landscape is that it was flat, bleak and desolate, like someone had just come along and planted houses on long abandoned industrial wasteland... Apologies to those who come from there and love the town, but it was one of the most miserable looking places I've ever been to. The folk who lived there were nice though. I hope it's been improved since then.
I couldn't wait to get back to Glasgow!
Misogynist
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i was thinking more racist
The39thStep
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founder member of the under 14s External faction .
I was in a scooter gang called the Hurworth Hen and Hatchet Gang though
You know the fuckin worst thing about all this. I've only seen two mentions of Southbank in the msm...despite its status as economic basketcase and all round hellhole... first one was the Asbo boy 'scandal'...remember the 9 year old lad who broke the record?
Then this piece of shite...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/23/britain-not-working-unemployment-middlesbrough
It's by the Guardian's 'social affairs correspondent'...an impeccable liberal...who happens to be married to the Tory MP for Orpington, ex merchant banker and brother of Boris Johnson.
Basic message of the piece is: it's a bit shit round here...they should all get on their fuckin bikes and open designer cup cake shops in Cheltnam.
Then this piece of shite...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/23/britain-not-working-unemployment-middlesbrough
It's by the Guardian's 'social affairs correspondent'...an impeccable liberal...who happens to be married to the Tory MP for Orpington, ex merchant banker and brother of Boris Johnson.
Basic message of the piece is: it's a bit shit round here...they should all get on their fuckin bikes and open designer cup cake shops in Cheltnam.
I remember that vile shit, she should be strung up the cunt
cesare
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Wasn't she on University Challenge earlier? Button snarled summat about someone being Boris's sister.
Yeah...but I'm sure Laurie and her talented artist friend will be up there any minute blogging their 'take' on things. They don't just do sunny and newsworthy places...they'll tackle any location that's been left bereft by capitalism. I'm sure if she's reading this, i'm sure she'll soon be tweeting to find digs at the local polygendered anarchist housing coop. It's just behind the Princess Alice.
Amelia Gentleman....
I wonder whatever gave the impression that this lady might also be a cunt?
Fuckin hell...will this misogyny never end...it's like a buzzing in my head.
dunno but she's not Boris's sister
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Ah, OK
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
There's some scenic views around Eston.
Ahh! The green green gas of home! Love this picture, love this thread. Read the bloody lot without comment or prejudice. Started work on a tapestry, gonna stitch in every post. Frankie Boyle was asked about the closest he had ever come to death and he said 'Middlesbrough'. But he's a cunt and so is Dave (Davina Spart) IMO. Happy to take on the world and let everyone know about it but bottle it here. Fucking shameful. Man up Dave or is that misogynist? The allegations thrown at people here are disgraceful. And the cartoon was a big disappointment, from the way you went on I expected to see some graphic depiction of an Identity Politics Warrior getting a kicking off racists and sexists but it wasn't even about you. Just your stage name put in a caption in a cartoon about something else.
Anyway what I really want to know concerns the letter from the man who wrote to you. The man who was suicidal because of the threat of disability cuts and who wrote to you because he admired your writing, which I find hard to believe. So, how is he? Is he still alive? You must know because you wrote about him and published his letter and your reply and I know you wouldn't have done that without asking his permission. At this stage I'm sure you have some kind of ongoing correspondance with him because you're a compassionate person, you're a 'carer'. If you haven't kept in touch then you're a cunt, if you don't know how he is you're a cunt and if 'he' is a fabrication, a 'device' if you will to showcase your credentials then you are the lowest of the low. You said the Samaritans advised you so I'm sure you're still in touch with them regarding this matter. Is he still alive? Answer this if nothing else.
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Fucking hell, just got back from the pub. Think this one might have to wait till the morning!
I'd love to see a Molly Crabapple (anyone else hear that as Bart's teacher's surname?) graphic novel about bohemian social workers fighting poverty and crime in tha boro
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