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

[frogwoman]

Innit

 

[sihhi]

Less conciliatory language!

"The European Parliament has just passed a resolution on human rights. As usual, its report was a litany of nagging demands about abortion law, same-sex unions, the status of asylum seekers and so on." Daniel Hannan

"16 trillion dollars is an inexpressible sum I just do not have the vocabulary to begin to convey the seriousness of that figure... it's therefore to me quite extraordinary as a friend of America and of American democracy to come here and find people talking about gay marriage and Todd Aiken* and all these kind of, I'm not saying these might not be important issues at another time but given the immediacy and urgency of this issue [the US national debt]" Daniel Hannan

https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/89703066806390784

Well exactly. @HackneyAbbott is a pro-choice advocate and comrade; I respectfully believe the language needs to be less conciliatory

*Todd Aitken is the rightist Hannan ally who carried on defending his position that victims of "legitimate rape" would instinctively "shut down" any possible pregnancy, hence avoiding the need for any abortion procedure. Hence on this basis every medical figure assisting in abortion was a "terrorist".

 

[seventh bullet]

we still need some new Jack Common's though.

And less Owen Joneses.

There'll be a fair few about, but sadly won't be heard in the mainstream media.

 

[Nylock]

not the only one

Jenny Jones ‏@GreenJennyJones
Now here's an unusual group of wonderful ppl: @DanHannanMEP Kate Hoey, me, Mark Seddon. http://twitpic.com/c8xoj2

tbf anyone who includes themselves alongside shitweasels like Dan Hannan as part of a group of 'wonderful people' ought to be strung up by their entrails... Dan Hannan is not a 'wonderful' person, he is a 'terrible' person, in fact he is one of the 'very worst' people

 

[ViolentPanda]

where the fuck have they been tarted up like that (*nb "tarted up" is used as a gender neutral non-derogotary term)

"Spruced up" or "given a respray" would be more gender-neutral.

 

[ViolentPanda]

yer but i'd have thought traitorous corrida loving racist dan hannan would be a bridge too far.

You know how sometimes, just seeing a picture of a person makes you feel antipathy toward them, even though you know nothing about them? Hannan provoked that from me the first time I saw a picture of him. Then, having heard his weird squeaky voice and the crap he spoke in it, I knew I was justified in my desire to set about his balding dome with ping-pong bat studded with nails.

Skidmark Murray, too.

 

[ViolentPanda]

they're all mates. university debating society innit.

All spunking onto the same biscuit.

 

[ViolentPanda]

And less Owen Joneses.

There'll be a fair few about, but sadly won't be heard in the mainstream media.

"Fewer", not "less", ffs!

 

[Idris2002]

All spunking onto the same biscuit.

Such exquisite imagery.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Such exquisite imagery.

Trying to make any public school-types feel at home, that's all.

 

[seventh bullet]

"Fewer", not "less", ffs!

How anal.

 

[Orang Utan]

Less is better than fewer and a perfectly acceptable substitute!

 

[ViolentPanda]

How anal.

Nope, anal would have been explaining the difference between "less" and "fewer", and why "fewer" is correct.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Less is better than fewer and a perfectly acceptable substitute!

Only if you're a northerner, ginger or are a shaved simian masquerading as human.

Blimey, 3/3 OU!

 

[seventh bullet]

I'll make a note of asking for your help when getting round to reading Marx's Capital.

 

[seventh bullet]

Nope, anal would have been explaining the difference between "less" and "fewer", and why "fewer" is correct.

Just a general observation.

 

[Orang Utan]

Only a cunt would insist on saying, 'ten items or fewer'

 

[ViolentPanda]

Only a cunt would insist on saying, 'ten items or fewer'

You're right.

Thing is, I'm not saying that "fewer" should replace "less" in every context, just in the context of seventh bullet's post, so why would I want to insist on saying "ten items or fewer"?

 

[seventh bullet]

People innit.

 

[Firky]

Some quotes from 10 pages back.

IIRC correctly from the wiki article I just read and am now about to impart on you. If that doesn't work I will quote what you said and slightly reword it or make a pedantic and unnecessary alteration to make it look like you were wrong and I was right.



A predictable response will follow.

 

[treelover]

''Radical Feminist ‏@RadicalFeminist
Male thugs brought in to end @Reclaim_it occupation of Women's Library. Brutality is the fundamental tool of male politics #IWD #whatmendo''


From an occupier of the now evicted protest at the Womans Library, like the 70's/early 80's again, very unhelpful comment imo...

 

[Bakunin]

''Radical Feminist ‏@RadicalFeminist
Male thugs brought in to end @Reclaim_it occupation of Women's Library. Brutality is the fundamental tool of male politics #IWD #whatmendo''

Incisive, intelligent reportage from the Twatterati as ever.

 

[Firky]

Incisive, intelligent reportage from the Twatterati as ever.

I unfollowed Helen Flanagan because all she talks about is shoes, lipstick, footballers :/

Serves me right for watching I am a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here.

 

[Favelado]

"Fewer", not "less", ffs!

Usage is king. Less is now fine.

 

[Idris2002]

People innit.

They're the worst.

 

[Buckaroo]

Usage is king.

King Usage is a fucking parasite.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Why does a mouse when it spins? because the higher the fewer.

FWIW, I never thought "tarted up" was a wrong thing to say. Mind you, I once said "Paki" & got bollocked for it.

 

[ymu]

Tarted up is fine, context-dependent, IMO.

Paki can be, but rarely is.

 

[JimW]

What about "done up like a pox-doctor's clerk"? Always liked that.

 

[Frances Lengel]

What about "done up like a pox-doctor's clerk"? Always liked that.

"Up and down like a bride's nightie"?