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

[equationgirl]

For fucks sake. who in their right mind would think penny was a hero?

Her thousands of followers?'

 

[Firky]

whose the fuck-haired third contributor?

Musician. Thinker. Occasional poet.

thmsbsh is the guise by which Thomas Bush goes when on the internet. A lack of vowels makes everything quicker, even if it never quite works phonetically.

Educated at the University of Leeds and Goldsmiths, University of London, he spent four years and a lot of money learning how to write music, but has not quite worked out why to do such a thing.

Tom likes to write in the third person. He was once on University Challenge.

 

[frogwoman]

Her thousands of followers?'

but loads of people press follow on twitter it doesn't mean they give a shit about what the person is saying. not me btw, i dont have penny on twitter

 

[sihhi]

For fucks sake. who in their right mind would think penny was a hero?

To answer your question, people "who write poetry on each other's arms and care more about fucking than being fuckable"

 

[frogwoman]

To answer your question, people "who write poetry on each other's arms and care more about fucking than being fuckable"

I bet loads of people do that and they've never heard of Laurie Penny

 

[sihhi]

I bet loads of people do that and they've never heard of Laurie Penny

People - young or young at heart - who are left-liberal, middle class, and literature fans.

 

[frogwoman]

People - young or young at heart - who are left-liberal, middle class, and literature fans.

My mum fits those categories, i bet you a tenner that she's never heard of laurie penny though let alone consider her a hero (if she has it's probably because i was going on about it). She doesnt write poetry on her arm tho and I doubt she'd consider her a hero though

 

[J Ed]

Writing poetry on your arm is seriously fucking narcissistic

 

[Delroy Booth]

Writing poetry on your arm is seriously fucking narcissistic

Mate they were calling each other Heroes earlier on. Y'know Super-Heroes who's martyrdom and hard work (and elite eduction) is going to save the poor from the Tories single-handedly. We're way beyond a bit of narcissism

 

[ViolentPanda]

whose the fuck-haired third contributor?

Some sad arselicker.

 

[love detective]

Mate they were calling each other Heroes earlier on. Y'know Super-Heroes who's martyrdom and hard work (and elite eduction) is going to save the poor from the Tories single-handedly. We're way beyond a bit of narcissism

we're at the stage of tattooing a line from Nietzsche over our cunts

 

[sihhi]

My mum fits those categories, i bet you a tenner that she's never heard of laurie penny though let alone consider her a hero (if she has it's probably because i was going on about it). She doesnt write poetry on her arm tho and I doubt she'd consider her a hero though

'hero' means 'great fellow' in this kind of 'banter'.

I doubt Owen Jones would big up LP any more than Lezard would.

Where are you going with your stab against her popularity?
She has just been considered one of the world's top 50 feminists by Susie Orbach, that's pretty good going.

 

[Idris2002]

To answer your question, people "who write poetry on each other's arms and care more about fucking than being fuckable"

4 Real.

 

[Delroy Booth]

Fucking hell the roll-ups! Why the roll-ups? What do they want a fucking "true prole" medal or something? You'll get your fucking true prole medal when you're dead from lung cancer at 35.

 

[rosecore]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed

5 Apr​

It's worth reminding that not only is @OwenJones84 doing Labour's work for them, he's doing it ON HIS OWN, with no team behind him. #hero

She makes the classic mistake of assuming Labour speak for the working classes. They don't. They haven't done for a long time. When did the left have such an identity crisis that its come down to this?

 

[rekil]

The Lez In A Fez. In waitrose apparently. Skint no more?

 

[Bakunin]

She makes the classic mistake of assuming Labour speak for the working classes. They don't. They haven't done for a long time. When did the left have such an identity crisis that its come down to this?

When the new leftie Twitterati became a bunch of Islington-centric teenagers with minimal experience of actual struggle, the ability to say absolutely nothing of any real substance (but say it loudly enough to drown out anybody who actually knows what they're talking about) and started displaying the collective political knowledge, wisdom and articulacy of a boiled potato.

 

[eatmorecheese]

kleenex fodder for the masses

1. 1. Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 5 Apr
      It's worth reminding that not only is @OwenJones84 doing Labour's work for them, he's doing it ON HIS OWN, with no team behind him. #hero
   1. Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84 5 Apr
      @PennyRed Ah come off it. You're a hero. But I genuinely feel more optimistic than ever - reckon we can win this with enough determination x
   
   Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 5 Apr
   @OwenJones84 *hug* do you really think so?
2. 1. - ∷ = ∴ -∵ ∷ ∴ ‏@thmsbsh 5 Apr
      @PennyRed @OwenJones84 you guys are BOTH heroes to us all xxx

Fuck Yeah.

 

[frogwoman]

Fucking hell the roll-ups! Why the roll-ups? What do they want a fucking "true prole" medal or something? You'll get your fucking true prole medal when you're dead from lung cancer at 35.

Malboro Lights are the true sign off those who can afford to smoke made fags, and lucky strike are the sign of the cunt.

American Spirit baccy is hippy smokes.

Of course cutters choice, as smoked by Laurie and Lezared in that pic is not that much cheaper than real fags.

It is of course all part of the boho artist edgy cunt image. Some of us buy our baccy smuggled and rejoice that a 50g pouch costs only 7-8 pounds on the black (lunged) market

it's the prole chic that extends as far as smoking choices and artfully dropped aitches and calling their cushty london flat 'the hovel'

five weeks on a proper estate eating own brand museli and pasta for these scum! Its like the salt mines option but kinder.

/DC

 

[sihhi]

A few months to go, early July Lezard's new book - Bitter Experience Has taught me - Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury comes out.

Penury = being poor. Publisher's blurb:

"In 2007, Nicholas Lezard was kicked out of his home, for reasons we need not go into here. Since then he has been obliged to muster whatever scant internal resources he has - and to pay child support - while maintaining an entirely essential wine habit. From being the adult father in a household with three children he has had to relearn the art of being just one member of a shared home, as if he was a student all over again. His housemates have included his great friend Razors, the psychopath with a heart of gold, and Laurie Penny, the brilliant feminist journalist and campaigner who still would prefer not to empty the bins. He hopes this account of his adventures and misadventures in love, alcohol and games of Night Cricket played against the wall of the local church will be a comfort and an inspiration to all feckless male dolts in similar positions. And an Awful Warning for those who are, as yet, not."

 

[J Ed]

She makes the classic mistake of assuming Labour speak for the working classes. They don't. They haven't done for a long time. When did the left have such an identity crisis that its come down to this?

Think less 'is this logical?', think more 'what can I convincingly say that would make me look cool at a party?'

 

[DotCommunist]

Musician. Thinker. Occasional poet.

thmsbsh is the guise by which Thomas Bush goes when on the internet. A lack of vowels makes everything quicker, even if it never quite works phonetically.

Educated at the University of Leeds and Goldsmiths, University of London, he spent four years and a lot of money learning how to write music, but has not quite worked out why to do such a thing.

Tom likes to write in the third person. He was once on University Challenge.

aaarg

 

[Idris2002]

Malboro Lights are the true sign off those who can afford to smoke made fags, and lucky strike are the sign of the cunt.

American Spirit baccy is hippy smokes.

Of course cutters choice, as smoked by Laurie and Lezared in that pic is not that much cheaper than real fags.

It is of course all part of the boho artist edgy cunt image. Some of us buy our baccy smuggled and rejoice that a 50g pouch costs only 7-8 pounds on the black (lunged) market

it's the prole chic that extends as far as smoking choices and artfully dropped aitches and calling their cushty london flat 'the hovel'

five weeks on a proper estate eating own brand museli and pasta for these scum! Its like the salt mines option but kinder.

/DC

Or you could just, you know, give up smoking.

 

[Bakunin]

Malboro Lights are the true sign off those who can afford to smoke made fags, and lucky strike are the sign of the cunt.

American Spirit baccy is hippy smokes.

Of course cutters choice, as smoked by Laurie and Lezared in that pic is not that much cheaper than real fags.

It is of course all part of the boho artist edgy cunt image. Some of us buy our baccy smuggled and rejoice that a 50g pouch costs only 7-8 pounds on the black (lunged) market

it's the prole chic that extends as far as smoking choices and artfully dropped aitches and calling their cushty london flat 'the hovel'

five weeks on a proper estate eating own brand museli and pasta for these scum! Its like the salt mines option but kinder.

/DC

You don't think dickhead media whore hipsters would go so far as to be seen puffing on roll-ups in public and then spend their private moments enjoying perfumed Sobranie tailor-mades while hoping nobody will get a mobile phone pic of them doing so, do you?

Would they really descend that far into the abyss of the pretend-proletariat?

 

[DotCommunist]

The Lez In A Fez. In waitrose apparently. Skint no more?

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I see he is looking at the actimel range rather than going for the special order monbiotic range

 

[DotCommunist]

Or you could just, you know, give up smoking.

You're not my real dad

 

[Sue]

A few months to go, early July Lezard's new book - Bitter Experience Has taught me - Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury comes out.

Penury = being poor. Publisher's blurb:

"In 2007, Nicholas Lezard was kicked out of his home, for reasons we need not go into here. Since then he has been obliged to muster whatever scant internal resources he has - and to pay child support - while maintaining an entirely essential wine habit. From being the adult father in a household with three children he has had to relearn the art of being just one member of a shared home, as if he was a student all over again. His housemates have included his great friend Razors, the psychopath with a heart of gold, and Laurie Penny, the brilliant feminist journalist and campaigner who still would prefer not to empty the bins. He hopes this account of his adventures and misadventures in love, alcohol and games of Night Cricket played against the wall of the local church will be a comfort and an inspiration to all feckless male dolts in similar positions. And an Awful Warning for those who are, as yet, not."

Well this truly is the thread that keeps on giving.

 

[DaveCinzano]

A few months to go, early July Lezard's new book - Bitter Experience Has taught me - Adventures in Love, Loss and Penury comes out.

Penury = being poor. Publisher's blurb:

"In 2007, Nicholas Lezard was kicked out of his home, for reasons we need not go into here. Since then he has been obliged to muster whatever scant internal resources he has - and to pay child support - while maintaining an entirely essential wine habit. From being the adult father in a household with three children he has had to relearn the art of being just one member of a shared home, as if he was a student all over again. His housemates have included his great friend Razors, the psychopath with a heart of gold, and Laurie Penny, the brilliant feminist journalist and campaigner who still would prefer not to empty the bins. He hopes this account of his adventures and misadventures in love, alcohol and games of Night Cricket played against the wall of the local church will be a comfort and an inspiration to all feckless male dolts in similar positions. And an Awful Warning for those who are, as yet, not."

'Obliged' to contribute to towards the kids he himself "bred" - outrageous!

 

[Idris2002]

You're not my real dad

 

[Idris2002]

'Obliged' to contribute to towards the kids he himself "bred" - outrageous!