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

[Belushi]

The number 2 libertarian blogger in the UK too, apparently.

That's a bit like being Britain's second tallest midget tbf though

 

[cesare]

He looks as though he's trying to present himself as part of Anonymous. I wonder if they know

 

[Nylock]

What a truly horrendous person http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/coons-and-muslims.html

The number 2 libertarian blogger in the UK too, apparently.

"number 2" is right... And wtf are 'viscous jack russels'?

 

[butchersapron]

Nine days ago, Margaret Thatcher died in a suite at the Ritz and the country lost its wits. Her political legacy lives on and it's that legacy that is really being debated in the escalating frenzy around who gets control of the funeral narrative. This isn't about Thatcher. It never really was: not the parties, not the screeching pundits, not the ludicrous battle to get the song 'Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead. Actually, it's about us. It's about Britain and about the battle for control of the national narrative. Thatcher's death has become the occasion for a grand psychodrama of a vicious and divided nation.

So pick a fucking side.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Bloody hell, I leave this thread for a few days and it takes me a whole evening to catch up

Can't believe I missed LP turning up on the thread again. It seems I am more likely to meet her in real life than on here. I must work on that wind-up spiel of mine.

 

[weepiper]

So pick a fucking side.

It's not ours.

 

[butchersapron]

It's not ours.

It's not, and from the tone of her recent things, she's starting to understand that. Not that she'll do anything about it.

 

[ska invita]

Can't believe I missed LP turning up on the thread again.

what post # was that ?

 

[cesare]

what post # was that ?

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...cebook-handbags.266196/page-529#post-12154893

 

[killer b]

Vicious & divided. Britain, a country of contrasts...

 

[butchersapron]

Vicious & divided. Britain, a country of contrasts...

London/NYC/Brighton a city of contrasts. She did proper journo school too.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Slightly OT, but one of the most amusing thing of the past few days was LP's mates - Stavvers, Johnny Marbles et al - all proclaiming their pleasant surprise at not being "lifted by the pigs" in advance of Thatcher's funeral, e.g.


Another Angry Woman ‏@stavvers

17 Apr​

Hey everyone, i didn't get dawn-raided!

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As if writing a few articles for the Independent put you in the MI5 category of 'dangerous seditionist'

 

[JimW]

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...cebook-handbags.266196/page-529#post-12154893

Turned up for twenty minutes and left when she found we don't have a KFC. Shame as we needed another posh journo for our Wicker Man this Spring Rite burning.

 

[cesare]

Turned up for twenty minutes and left when she found we don't have a KFC. Shame as we needed another poh journo for our Wicker Man this Spring Rite burning.

Not FWC enough

 

[cesare]

London/NYC/Brighton a city of contrasts. She did proper journo school too.

I'd love to run some of her purple through some plagiarism software

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Also picked up a few new words this week:

"threadjacking" - when someone disagrees with you
"hetsplaining" - when someone straight disagrees with you

 

[butchersapron]

I'd love to run some of her purple through some plagiarism software

We'll get her yet, just waiting for the balloon to hit the right size...it's coming.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

So pick a fucking side.

4000 words and she still manages to sit on the fence. Lots of implicit criticism of people being too young to remember Thatcher - despite the fact she was born in 1988 and wouldn't remember her either. Wierd.

The thing that annoyed me most about that article was her assertion that someone was giving out "quarter pints of milk" - what the fuck is a quarter pint of milk?

 

[butchersapron]

Slightly OT, but one of the most amusing thing of the past few days was LP's mates - Stavvers, Johnny Marbles et al - all proclaiming their pleasant surprise at not being "lifted by the pigs" in advance of Thatcher's funeral, e.g.


Another Angry Woman ‏@stavvers

17 Apr​

Hey everyone, i didn't get dawn-raided!

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As if writing a few articles for the Independent put you in the MI5 category of 'dangerous seditionist'

That Pat Finucane never had to deal with this level of oppression.

 

[butchersapron]

4000 words and she still manages to sit on the fence. Lots of implicit criticism of people being too young to remember Thatcher - despite the fact she was born in 1988 and wouldn't remember her either. Wierd.

The thing that annoyed me most about that article was her assertion that someone was giving out "quarter pints of milk" - what the fuck is a quarter pint of milk?

A 142ml bottle of milk. Which doesn't exist. Maybe she has a cow/pony she milks?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

what post # was that ?

She turned up, chucked a couple of comments in, then ran away. Just like last time.

 

[Bakunin]

As if writing a few articles for the Independent put you in the MI5 category of 'dangerous seditionist'

You know they're properly interested in you when Customs pull you on your way out of the UK.

Which was a tad curious.

 

[equationgirl]

4000 words and she still manages to sit on the fence. Lots of implicit criticism of people being too young to remember Thatcher - despite the fact she was born in 1988 and wouldn't remember her either. Wierd.

The thing that annoyed me most about that article was her assertion that someone was giving out "quarter pints of milk" - what the fuck is a quarter pint of milk?

She must have meant half pint surely...

 

[butchersapron]

4000 words and she still manages to sit on the fence. Lots of implicit criticism of people being too young to remember Thatcher - despite the fact she was born in 1988 and wouldn't remember her either. Wierd.

Yep, 4000 words to say that the protests are really against thatcherism and then to fail to support them. Tells us and the people in the pic below all they need to know about Laurie Penny

 

[weepiper]

4000 words and she still manages to sit on the fence. Lots of implicit criticism of people being too young to remember Thatcher - despite the fact she was born in 1988 and wouldn't remember her either. Wierd.

The thing that annoyed me most about that article was her assertion that someone was giving out "quarter pints of milk" - what the fuck is a quarter pint of milk?

School milk came in third of a pint bottles.

 

[cesare]

There were some normal pint cartons around but she's making a reference to the little glass bottles that used to be free for school kids. But they were a 1/3 not a 1/4 of a pint.

edit: weeps beat me to it

 

[Brixton Hatter]

She must have meant half pint surely...

There's not even half pints nowadays - these are pints:

She's obviously a Waitrose 2 litre kinda gal


E2A: this is a really important point. Milk. Paging PD.....

 

[butchersapron]

But no one was giving them out. It's AN ERROR!!! Indicative of general rubbishness - and it took her all week to write it.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

A 142ml bottle of milk. Which doesn't exist. Maybe she has a cow/pony she milks?

She's certainly milking something....

 

[cesare]

School milk was fucking revolting, it used to be left out in the playground in the sun until the milk monitor gave the fucking rancid stuff out and you were made to drink it. Ungrateful wretch.

edit: and (my personal aversion to the stuff aside) no-one ever mentions that Wilson snatched it first.