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

[frogwoman]

Mingers of the world unite

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Cillian Murphy

I like him normally but found him really irritating in that, almost a transphobic caricature

 

[Firky]

I like him normally but found him really irritating in that, almost a transphobic caricature

I have only seen the trailer but he instantly reminded me of...

He is a good looking woman is wor Murphy.

 

[DotCommunist]

Mingers of the world unite

thats the UN Security Council that is

 

[Athos]

Mingers of the world unite

.

 

[butchersapron]

Rock stars. I mean, have you ever looked at Roxy Music, for instance? Or the Faces?

And footballers. Look at Rooney for fuck's sake.

Top-poster on the thread now. Round of applause for harry.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

glass bead game?

 

[butchersapron]

Not distracting you from the Great Struggle from the kitchen table, is it?

Nope. You might get 1000 by feb if this pathetic rate of personal decline holds.

Well done.

 

[goldenecitrone]

I like him normally but found him really irritating in that, almost a transphobic caricature

Did you ever see him in Retreat? Odd little film, but not bad for a tight budget.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Did you ever see him in Retreat? Odd little film, but not bad for a tight budget.

no must say I haven't

 

[butchersapron]

Personal decline? I haven't stopped washing or eating or anything.

Have you ever thought that you might take some stuff a bit too seriously?

Yes I have. Now this thing where you say the same thing over and over?

 

[goldenecitrone]

no must say I haven't

Lots of twists and turns and has a good ending, if you ever get the chance to see it. May be a bit hard to track down though.

 

[butchersapron]

Sorry, I keep forgetting that you're in charge here.

Why? Free

 

[8115]

I don't even really understand this thread. It's like watching Waiting for Godot.

 

[Firky]

I don't even really understand this thread. It's like watching Waiting for Godot.

Who's the misanthrope? O_O

 

[Athos]

I don't even really understand this thread. It's like watching Waiting for Godot.

That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.

 

[Das Uberdog]

you forgot to put a trigger warning with that

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Lots of twists and turns and has a good ending, if you ever get the chance to see it. May be a bit hard to track down though.

I'll keep an eye out, cheers.

 

[The39thStep]

I used to have nightmare about Bryan Ferry when I was a kid.

I thought he looked very suave for the first three albums, so much so I was lying in bed with a woman who I had met and she asked me 'who would you want to be if you weren't you' and I said somewhat naively ' I wish I was Bryan ferry' and she said 'so do I .'

I thought to myself 'she's a bit odd wanting to be a bloke.'

Then five years later it clicked one night in the pub.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I thought he looked very suave for the first three albums, so much so I was lying in bed with a woman who I had met and she asked me 'who would you want to be if you weren't you' and I said somewhat naively ' I wish I was Bryan ferry' and she said 'so do I .'

I thought to myself 'she's a bit odd wanting to be a bloke.'

Then five years later it clicked one night in the pub.

 

[One_Stop_Shop]

The woman in the picture is presumably Russian. I saw a documentary not that long ago about how hard life is for most working class people in Russia, with the near total collapse of a lot of the welfare state, with whole towns and villages been reduced to a handful of people. Along with this has been a huge rise in alcholism.

A hard life does take it's toll, as someone said above. I'm not sure how funny it is putting a picture like that up and taking the piss out of them is.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

The woman in the picture is presumably Russian. I saw a documentary not that long ago about how hard life is for most working class people in Russia, with the near total collapse of a lot of the welfare state, with whole towns and villages been reduced to a handful of people. Along with this has been a huge rise in alcholism.

A hard life does take it's toll, as someone said above. I'm not sure how funny it is putting a picture like that up and taking the piss out of them is.

fuck off you miserable cunt

*and for what it's worth Tim Curry is not a Russian woman

 

[One_Stop_Shop]

I'm not feeling that miserable at the moment to be fair.

 

[butchersapron]

One more weekend of forcing myself do a false log-in about stuff that no one cares about so i can tell them that i don't care about them not caring about it. I don't know why i bother sometimes.

 

[smokedout]

A hard life does take it's toll, as someone said above. I'm not sure how funny it is putting a picture like that up and taking the piss out of them is.

its funny to laugh at chavs when they're old and foreign

 

[One_Stop_Shop]

You what butchersapron?

 

[butchersapron]

Not you ffs

 

[One_Stop_Shop]

Fair enough. I'll go back to being miserable.

By the way what was the result of the SWP vs Laurie Penny?

 

[butchersapron]

You and LETTSA +900. Well done.

 

[Athos]

The woman in the picture is presumably Russian. I saw a documentary not that long ago about how hard life is for most working class people in Russia, with the near total collapse of a lot of the welfare state, with whole towns and villages been reduced to a handful of people. Along with this has been a huge rise in alcholism.

A hard life does take it's toll, as someone said above. I'm not sure how funny it is putting a picture like that up and taking the piss out of them is.

You're right; I've removed it. And I apologise.

Whilst it wasn't posted with malice, it doesn't behove a man who has had the privilege of a lifetime of NHS dental care to mock the teeth of a worker who has not.

A nudge from someone effectively saying "you might want to rethink that" seems a sensible way to deal it. Contrast that to the all too frequent screams of "check your privilege" that some would have employed. And then used to avoid engaging in debate.