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

[The39thStep]

for fucks sake

I did the same last week , turned out to be the Big Lebowski with some minor improvements

 

[Kid_Eternity]

AFAIK it's based on the custom (at one time) for women to cover their hair if in a church - men OTOH were required to bare their heads.

I see...wouldn't surprise me tbh.

 

[SpineyNorman]

If only she had had that dream 30 years ago. Great to dream like great people dream

That's what you get from a voice of the left and smartest kid in a smart school - a higher standard of dream. The rest of us have to make do with that dream where you're in a very public space, with everyone looking at you, and suddenly realise you've got no trousers on. That's why I'll never write for the new ink wirry.

 

[frogwoman]

That's what you get from a voice of the left and smartest kid in a smart school - a higher standard of dream. The rest of us have to make do with that dream where you're in a very public space, with everyone looking at you, and suddenly realise you've got no trousers on. That's why I'll never write for the new ink wirry.

that wasn't a dream - that's why you're on the register

/dotcommie posting

 

[Frances Lengel]

I had a dream that Alan Turner off Emmerdale Farm was sheltering from a napalm-strafing helicopter in an abandoned tin bath on an allotment with a tarpaulin pulled over himself. He ended up getting burnt beyond recognition and being stretchered off by the red cross and was heard to ask "What the hell happened?". Upon which my dad, who didn't feature in the dream apart from supplying the voiceover, was heard to remark that Turner sounded "Surprisingly lucid". Then I woke up and I'd done a white wee wee.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I had a dream that Alan Turner off Emmerdale Farm was sheltering from a napalm-strafing helicopter in an abandoned tin bath on an allotment with a tarpaulin pulled over himself. He ended up getting burnt beyond recognition and being stretchered off by the red cross and was heard to ask "What the hell happened?". Upon which my dad, who didn't feature in the dream apart from supplying the voiceover, was heard to remark that Turner sounded "Surprisingly lucid". Then I woke up and I'd done a white wee wee.

A sure fire contender for Post of the Year.

 

[Firky]

That's what you get from a voice of the left and smartest kid in a smart school - a higher standard of dream. The rest of us have to make do with that dream where you're in a very public space, with everyone looking at you, and suddenly realise you've got no trousers on. That's why I'll never write for the new ink wirry.

The going to school in your pyjamas dream.

 

[SpineyNorman]

The going to school in your pyjamas dream.

Sometimes mine had an added twist too. I'd go and find some trousers to put on but as soon as I did I'd find that trousers had magically appeared on my legs. But the second the other trousers were out of sight they'd vanish again, so I was doomed to be trouserless

 

[Firky]

Sometimes mine had an added twist too. I'd go and find some trousers to put on but as soon as I did I'd find that trousers had magically appeared on my legs. But the second the other trousers were out of sight they'd vanish again, so I was doomed to be trouserless

As well as the pyjamas at school dream I have a reoccurring dream where I am driving a car naked and can't get home. My clothes are beside me on the passengers seat but when I go to stop and get changed I can't, and the clothes aren't there. It is at that point I usually wake up

 

[Firky]

Penny Laurie ‏@PennyShred
I feel like the Jaime Oliver of politics. Going into schools and trying to change peoples attitudes for their own good.

On my way to the BBC to pitch for a new talk show called 'Penny For Your Thoughts'.

Each week I interview a famous socialist while sucking abstractedly on an electronic fag.

There'll be some features too...I haven't worked out what yet, as we're still in the planning stage. Any ideas please pitch.

 

[equationgirl]

Cheeky mare, asking people for ideas so she can pitch them to the BBC for a paid show.

 

[frogwoman]

didn't somebody on here say they'd thought she'd soon be presenting programme with that title

 

[Libertad]

Cheeky mare, asking people for ideas so she can pitch them to the BBC for a paid show.

Not so. Look a little closer.

 

[tufty79]

i was absolutely taken in for a minute...

penny shred?

 

[goldenecitrone]

Penny Lame. Laurie Penny discusses the ATOS regime with Oscar Pistorius.

 

[equationgirl]

Not so. Look a little closer.

Ah, I see...

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[Firky]

i was absolutely taken in for a minute...

penny shred?

It's great

Starbucks still doing their eggnog latee, or was that a xmas special? Gonna find out. Will use their wireless to tweet #ukuncut updates.

If you have withdrawal from the sound of my soothing voice, try tinnitus.

It's a warzone here. Going to take cover in Wokinabox and have some noodles.

 

[Firky]

I'm brushing Morocco oil into my hair. I like to do my bit to keep the Arab Spring alive.

Some of the others are a bit sus.

 

[love detective]

pretty shit parody imo

 

[equationgirl]

pretty shit parody imo

Oh I don't know, it's quite accurate and funny. How long before she kicks off about it though, and accusing them of being misogynistic?

 

[love detective]

each to their own but i don't think it's either accurate or funny

and when the thing being parodied is Penny (and company) there is not much point in parodying it, parody is redundant/superfluous

 

[Firky]

How long before she kicks off about it though, and accusing them of being misogynistic?

Some of the posts on the account or a bit sus'

There's a couple of fake LP accounts out there. There used to be a good (well it made me laugh) one of Stewart Lee but I can't find it now.

 

[mrs quoad]

1. 15 hrs Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
   I'm not going to tell you who it is because all your guesses are giving me ideas for future interviews.
   
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2. 15 hrs Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
   I am so excited for the person I'm interviewing tomorrow you would not believe.

 

[Firky]

Money has its own gravity:when it disappears, it takes everything with it​

​

Nicholas Lezard's "Down and Out" column​

​

I head along to the cashpoint, as one does, it tells me that my account has insufficient funds for the transaction I’d suggested. I’d wanted to take out £30. Well, I thought, that’s happened a little earlier in the month than I’m accustomed to. Much earlier, in fact.

So that was the end of my evening out. And when you find that you cannot even afford to buy a copy of the Big Issue you think: just how substantial is the difference between the vendor and yourself? Not as much as you’d like, is the answer – which in itself is not a helpful or healthy thought.​

Nicholas Lezard ‏@Nicklezard
On being middle-class broke. I hope you don't find this self-pitying, dear Twitter. Not meant to be. Just how it is.




http://www.newstatesman.com/lifesty...vitywhen-it-disappears-it-takes-everything-it

 

[weepiper]

Fuck off and die in a hole, Nick Lezard. Love, someone who actually lives that shit.

 

[Firky]

Fuck off and die in a hole, Nick Lezard. Love, someone who actually lives that shit.

Steady, he's not so far off being one of those homeless people who stand in foul weather all day selling a shit magazine and being looked down upon. Poor little lamb, his pay doesn't last the month. The horror

It's fucking unbelievable that he can even write that piece. He apologies at the end for no jokes. It is a joke. The cunt.

 

[Firky]

When one is locked into a consumer society, as people of my class and upbringing are, however much one affects to despise consumerism and avoid its seductions, this drip-drip of anxiety leads to shame.

You have no shame.

 

[weepiper]

When one is locked into a consumer society, as people of my class and upbringing are, however much one affects to despise consumerism and avoid its seductions, this drip-drip of anxiety leads to shame.

You have no shame.

It doesn't lead to anxiety and shame for my sort, because we're brought up to expect it, of course

 

[Firky]

He can't go to see Zero Dark 30 - that's an example he gives of being poor. The best example he can think of.

What a cock.