Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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All the gardens here have been paved, every house has a satellite dish and some of them (residents) even smoke. The fucking opulence.
How to get thrush in one easy lesson.
Didn't you witness a lad in your year buggering a dog on tooting beck common too? Dunno what they put in the water round there...
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Didn't you witness a lad in your year buggering a dog on tooting beck common too? Dunno what they put in the water round there...
Darren the dogbummer.
It wasn't any dog, either, it was his family dog.
I still reckon that he'll never turn up for any class reunion-type event because he knows he'd be greeted with barks and questions about what pets he has.
E2A: It wasn't just me who witnessed it, it was about half a dozen classmates and a couple of non-school acquaintances!
love detective
there's no love too small
#I'm not the best-read person I know by any means, but because of the way I read I'm one of the widest-read#
Does she mean widest-read of the people she knows...or like,one of the widest read people, full stop?
Is she widely-read? I genuinely don't have a clue. How would you even tell?
Does she mean widest-read of the people she knows...or like,one of the widest read people, full stop?
Is she widely-read? I genuinely don't have a clue. How would you even tell?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
if its all of Pratchett's oeuvre you could do that in a year with change spare to fit in harry potter.
ViolentPanda
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How to get thrush in one easy lesson.
Yep!!!
rekil
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Just wow.
The toxic fucking fraud.
Although, now I think about it, I'm one of the widest-read of all the people I know...and the best at dominoes..and Sean Connery impressions...and my education cost fuck all (at point of delivery)
ViolentPanda
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To me, "widely-read" has always meant "reads across a wide range of subjects", as opposed to "reads a lot of authors". My dad reads a lot of authors, but the range of subjects is narrow - thriller books are all he'll read, pretty much.
She doesn't say 'widely', she says 'widest'...I thought she was talking about the number of people who read her stuff...erm, i mean 'work'..no?
Possibly not...that'd be a bit presumptuous...even for for.
Although, if she was talking about breadth of reading rather than size of readership,...why wouldn't best-read mean 'widest-read'?
Does she put a premium on specialisation?...strange kinda judgement for a free-wheeling, eclectic anarchist?
Does she put a premium on specialisation?...strange kinda judgement for a free-wheeling, eclectic anarchist?
Until I was 24 the only book I read had 6 2nd class stamps in it
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Well, I'm taking "widest read" to be the equivalent of "I've read across considerably more subjects than yow!", as a claim for her own writings to be the most widely read among her peers would probably get caught up on Owen Jones' bigger book sales and equally-read articles.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
What sort of bohemian dilettante down your ends could afford a book of six, eh?
ViolentPanda
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Back in the hoary mists of antiquity when I got my state education, "well-read" or "best read" meant "they've read the literary and historical classics", pretty much.
ViolentPanda
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Someone whose dad was on the game?
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
I read everything I could get my hands on as a kid but I don't recall exploding into life when I got a shitey minimum wage job at Olympus Sport tbh. Or even once I got to university and started working in a bike shop. I still read tons of stuff. It doesn't make me any better or more successful than people who don't.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I hated The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists cos I am a smug liberal middle class cunt and thus got bogged down in such issues as style, sentimentality and readability.
(Since we are all talking about books randomly)
I also know that I will never read Capital cos it's just too damn hard.
(Since we are all talking about books randomly)
I also know that I will never read Capital cos it's just too damn hard.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
And mine. I've barely read any of the literary greats like Chekov. It's just not my thing. But I read widely in that I read across a wide range of subjects. I've been reading more political stuff recently so I don't make an idiot of myself on this and other politics threads.
One thing I think you need when reading is an open mind - to be accepting of new ideas and information, of different views and viewpoints - and I'm not convinced laurie penny's writings demonstrate that she does.
imposs1904
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I remember that book. Pinkish cover?
I preferred Colin Ward's Steaming In. Who knew Britain's most famous anarchist could be so tasty at the Clock End?
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Or whose Dad had won a ton down the bookies
Athos
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Don't be too hard on yourself. Laurie won't read it either, and she's the voice of the left.
rekil
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You see the vid of her trolling David Harvey? Amazing scenes.
Check your privilege so-called professor.
Harold Wilson used to boast about not having read it, but having read Hayek. It does get a bit like wading through treacle in your wellies. I never finished it.
Athos
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You see the vid of her trolling David Harvey? Amazing scenes.
Check your privilege so-called professor.
No. Got a link?
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