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

[Fruitloop]

NZ seems to be where people go when they've totally f-ed it up here, a la Barrymore. Expect Hari to pop up writing for the Herald any day now.

 

[sihhi]

Seeing as Penny seems to think it's OK to sponge off actual activists, does that mean that when I go to Le Mans next year I can scab a few nights on the sofa of some French Green campaigners while telling them I'm doing an expose of the dreadful environmental consequences of motorsport?

Because that would make things a lot cheaper.

I agree she should share her journalism or family wealth with the movement- but we have no evidence that she is poncing - she may have given something in exchange for her stay. Staying with other activists' places/rooms/floors has always been there, avoiding hotels is no crime.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I agree she should share her journalism or family wealth with the movement- but we have no evidence that she is poncing - she may have given something in exchange for her stay. Staying with other activists' places/rooms/floors has always been there, avoiding hotels is no crime.

Yep, we really need to focus here people, what has she actually done wrong? There's plenty of examples!

 

[temper_tantrum]

Laurie's flatmate is a bit upset about Tintin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/oct/18/how-could-do-this-tintin

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Laurie's flatmate is a bit upset about Tintin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/oct/18/how-could-do-this-tintin

"Spielberg makes film that is not very good" shocker. What's he doing reviewing films anyway? Isn't he meant to be reviewing books in his "edgy" abode and drinking wine at 4am whilst not wearing trousers?

 

[DotCommunist]

and guzzling oysters. Lets not forget his oyster habit, the boho borgois twat.

 

[kavenism]

and guzzling oysters. Lets not forget his oyster habit, the boho borgois twat.

Oh no no! it is said oyster's conjunction with a radish that is the real story there.

In other Penny related news this is how she starts her latest New Statesman bilge on sex education:

“When I was in Year 8, if you went to a certain field behind the school and shouted a certain code-word halfway up a certain tree, a pulley would be lowered, at the end of which you would be allowed to glimpse, for a few wicked seconds, a picture of Anna Kournikova's bottom.I know this because my superior spatial reasoning skills were enlisted in the design of the pulley system, in return for which I didn't get orange juice poured into my rucksack for a whole month.”

Sadly her superior spatial reasoning skills have as yet failed to allow Laurie to return to whatever planet she went to school on.

 

[killer b]

jesus christ.

 

[binka]

“When I was in Year 8, if you went to a certain field behind the school and shouted a certain code-word halfway up a certain tree, a pulley would be lowered, at the end of which you would be allowed to glimpse, for a few wicked seconds, a picture of Anna Kournikova's bottom.I know this because my superior spatial reasoning skills were enlisted in the design of the pulley system, in return for which I didn't get orange juice poured into my rucksack for a whole month.”

Sadly her superior spatial reasoning skills have as yet failed to allow Laurie to return to whatever planet she went to school on.

i know writers like to invent things to make their work sound better but that's properly mental. id love it if someone who was lucky enough to go to the same school as her called her out on it. its a completely pointless lie

 

[DotCommunist]

In this case I think she was genuinely being humorous. The rest of the article is littered with tongue in cheek asides.

 

[binka]

you may be right

 

[JimW]

Sad state for a 'writer' when we can't tell difference any more.

 

[kavenism]

Reading the article though I do agree (mostly) with what she says about the problem of pornography being inherent in its "industry" rather than the products themselves. Shame she didn't develop this line of thought in her awful Meat Market book.

 

[DotCommunist]

Reading the article though I do agree (mostly) with what she says about the problem of pornography being inherent in its "industry" rather than the products themselves. Shame she didn't develop this line of thought in her awful Meat Market book.

for once I think she found her stride and wrote a mildly amusing (if preaching to the choir) piece without recourse to outright made up bollocks like internationale sing-songs around burning copies of the socialist worker.

Ther might even be a half decent writer somewhere in there struggling to get out from behind the reams of crap she comes out with.

and no I don't just fancy her now she's done her hair pink you massive assumers

 

[TruXta]

Sad state for a 'writer' when we can't tell difference any more.

It is? I don't mind a bit of ambiguity myself.

 

[redsquirrel]

Oh no no! it is said oyster's conjunction with a radish that is the real story there.

In other Penny related news this is how she starts her latest New Statesman bilge on sex education:

“When I was in Year 8, if you went to a certain field behind the school and shouted a certain code-word halfway up a certain tree, a pulley would be lowered, at the end of which you would be allowed to glimpse, for a few wicked seconds, a picture of Anna Kournikova's bottom.I know this because my superior spatial reasoning skills were enlisted in the design of the pulley system, in return for which I didn't get orange juice poured into my rucksack for a whole month.”

Sadly her superior spatial reasoning skills have as yet failed to allow Laurie to return to whatever planet she went to school on.

Does anyone actually believe this story?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

When I was at school, I built a lever/ratchet system that would take somebody all the way to the top of the Faraway Tree. Where there was a Polaroid of Marcus Brigstocke's nutsack.

So, yes.

 

[eoin_k]

From metaphorical handbags to literal ones for Laurie:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/21/designer-handbags-it-bag

 

[Bakunin]

And the descent into unaware self parody continues unabated:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/10/movements-protest-conventional

I don't know where to start with this. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear...

 

[rekil]

A piece about the music of 'the movement' that mysteriously fails to identify a single tune. Apart from one by up and coming indie popper Willy Guthrie. Top research.

 

[kavenism]

"That regular gig at the Guardian is further away than ever. What has got into this woman lately? If Mills and Boon did 'radical' social commentary it would look like this."

From the comments attached to that music of the movement piece. Spot on I think. I was down at St Paul's on Thursday and all I could hear was the standard fare of drumming and horns that you find at any protest. Some of the banners were well pants too. And someone had a gazebo.

 

[DotCommunist]

on a porn-related note I see harriet harbls of anti-page three and husbands taxpayer funded dirty films fame has been appointed shadow culture sec.

Didn't seem worthy of its own thread but LOL

 

[rekil]

From metaphorical handbags to literal ones for Laurie:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/21/designer-handbags-it-bag

You're not able to run with a handbag in the same way as you are with a rucksack, which is what I normally have.

You're not able to run around RIOTIN' an' dodgin' the PIGS with a handbag in the same way as you are with a rucksack, which is what I normally have (in a RIOT)

Fixed that for la pennyionara.

 

[manny-p]

Laurie Penny

She was at the anarchist bookfair, seen her talking to Heather Brooke outside.

 

[LLETSA]

She was at the anarchist bookfair, seen her talking to Heather Brooke outside.

You should have got her to autograph a selection of photos of herself-you could have sold loads on here.

 

[DotCommunist]

laminated

 

[manny-p]

You should have got her to autograph a selection of photos of herself-you could have sold loads on here.

Was more thinking along the lines of punching her face in

 

[LLETSA]

Was more thinking along the lines of punching her face in

What, some minor journalist who's little more than a schoolgirl? Get a grip.

 

[manny-p]

What, some minor journalist who's little more than a schoolgirl? Get a grip.

It was a joke you dafty

 

[LLETSA]

It was a joke you dafty

I know-people are always talking about punching somebody or killing somebody on here. It seems to fulfil a need.