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

[butchersapron]

In pk world lol

 

[Idris2002]

So? TCD is still one of the best unis in the world.

I know someone at home who has a colleague whose son failed to get into TCD - he got into DCU instead, which is a perfectly respectable institution (as Irish unis go).

Apparently this brat has decided to blame his failure to clear the TCD hurdle on the JOOZ, and is now a keen fan of anti-semitic internet conspiracy theories.

I'm not making this up. I wish I was.

 

[equationgirl]

I know someone at home who has a colleague who's son failed to get into TCD - he got into DCU instead, which is a perfectly respectable institution (as Irish unis go).

Apparently this brat has decided to blame his failure to clear the TCD hurdle on the JOOZ, and is now a keen fan of anti-semitic internet conspiracy theories.

I'm not making this up. I wish I was.

No way

 

[Idris2002]

No way

Way.

 

[Firky]

Uh, uhhh, yeah, cummun, this for the Gs n hustlas

Penny Penny Penny can't you see
Sometimes your words just hypnotise me
And I just love your flashy ways
Guess that's why they broke, and you're so paid

 

[Firky]

If you want a vision of the future of discourse in politics go and have a lurk on 4chan.

It's mad to think that sites like 4chan have actually influenced some people's personality. Yet when I think about it isn't. Urban's probably had quite an impact on me, in fact I know it has - for better and worse. Posted here throughout my provincial university years, work years, dole years, and then banned for four

 

[el-ahrairah]

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[el-ahrairah]

vomvomvom

 

[butchersapron]

My mates just finished his phd on the 80s riots, he reckons bus drivers and taxi drivers figured prominently in the circulation of info there - as did pirate radio in some places.

I learnt last night also that the boys on the milk floats were key info circualtors. No that they were doing it, but that they were a key part of that night time economy that means that you're out the door at four and seeing lots of people as the day goes.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Fresh off the tweeter, and much to butchers chagrin another isolated quote from Penny:

so i emailed a friend to test the veracity of this story.



Hey you, is it possible to spend years at oxford without knowin about the union?

response:

"I don't think so. They're pretty prominent even if you intentionally have nothing to do with them because they're Tory scum (like I did)."

make of that what you will.

 

[butchersapron]

She was well into the extra-curricular side as well - loom at her pantos for example.

 

[DotCommunist]

can't believe they had assange adress them vi video link. Its just surreal- our student union got a gig from Richard Blackwood (who was allegedly funny once). International fugitive from rape charges beats that like rock beats scissors

 

[butchersapron]

They allowed galloway in the front doors.

 

[Libertad]

can't believe they had assange adress them vi video link. Its just surreal- our student union got a gig from Richard Blackwood (who was allegedly funny once). International fugitive from rape charges beats that like rock beats scissors

Richard Blackwood has never been funny.

 

[butchersapron]

REVOL was ok.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Richard Blackwood has never been funny.

The shit-sieving thing was moderately amusing.

 

[Delroy Booth]

can't believe they had assange adress them vi video link. Its just surreal- our student union got a gig from Richard Blackwood (who was allegedly funny once). International fugitive from rape charges beats that like rock beats scissors

We got Bez from the Happy Mondays "DJ-ing" that's about the best celeb Salford uni managed to attract

 

[DotCommunist]

and a shortage of E's was reported in the salford area on that day

 

[butchersapron]

Other way round.

 

[el-ahrairah]

In pk world lol

the world's angriest theme park.

 

[Delroy Booth]

The Laurie Penny bullshit-o-meter started ringing today as a routine response to this article http://www.newstatesman.com/politic...gainst-iraq-war-and-i-learned-lesson-betrayal

In particular this sentence - "For me, at the age of 16, there were a lot of firsts on 15 February 2003: first truancy" which is all well and good until you remember than 15th of February was, er, a Saturday. But then it was pointed out "she might've gone to boarding school" aah ok. Did she? Here would appear to be the place to find out. I thought she only had the £6k-a-year minimum access wristband, not the VIP one. Could anyone clarify

Anyway quick note on the article - It reminded me of the Slavoj Zizek reviews of action/apocalypse films like Deep Impact, where essentially the whole world has to die so that some white middle-class American family can be together (with another subtext, that the only thing that can lead to some sort of all-encompassing global solidarity is for the whole world to perish, but I digress). All those Iraqi kids had to die so that Laurie could go on her voyage of personal growth and enlightenment. Pathological narcissism, honed by years of elite education and media indulgence, that's my diagnosis.

 

[butchersapron]

She wasn't there'

 

[butchersapron]

Bad democracy!

 

[butchersapron]

The bus to London from the centre of town...

You don't know the famous place that they go from?

 

[butchersapron]

I bagged a seat at the back alongside some older students who chatted about the first Gulf war and the international oil lobby.

No you didn't,

 

[butchersapron]

One of them, I remember, was carrying a handmade placard with a picture of a woman’s pubic triangle luxuriously adorned with real, glued-on human hair and the legend “The Only Bush I’d Trust Is My Own”.

No you didn't, that's you using a real thing that happened elsewhere and suggesting that it happened to you.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

everything she says is lies it's like reading a Hari article in stereo

 

[butchersapron]

Oh god, an editor let this through:

As London began to materialise out of its dowdy, drawn-out suburbs

Then i went to headmasters office.

 

[co-op]

Editor's note: This piece originally stated that Nato went to war in Iraq. The error has been corrected.

 

[co-op]

As London began to materialise out of its dowdy, drawn-out suburbs

Blatant disrespect for Saarf London and all Crystal Palace fans.