someone give me £5k and I'll get on a plane to the states and batter Malcolm Harrris personally
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this is who he reminds me of
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I'll come with you to hold your coat
I'll come with you to hold your coat
Nah I actually need someone to do the whole "he's not worth it" thing whilst holding me back coz I reckon he'd probbably have me. Yorktown and stuff.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
In which case I'll sort him out while you hold my coat. I could take him for sure.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Its not worth it, he would throw tea into the sea and everything.
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
The way things stand, polpots gonna look like a fucking Salvation Army Sunday school compared to the mountain of soi dissant skulls we're going to build when our nice revolution happens
I bet he's got a bodyguard the little wretch
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I really don't want to be worse than pol pot
SpineyNorman
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I'll do it for £500 - sneak onto a container ship or something.
Kickstarter? I've never been to America (believe it or not just jumping on a plane to New York isn't like getting the bus to town for us mere normals) I'd love to go there one day. I'd do it for a day out in New York doing all the touristy shit and to help combat my deeply engrained parochialism.
Fuck their scene. It's just a vanity project. New inquiry my arse. I was on a train back from sheffield tonight with a shitload of barnsley fans all singing "Who the fuck is maggie thatcher" they got the whole bastard train to join in. Even the guy collecting tickets was loving it. It was fucking brilliant. Then the train had to stop coz someone was running around in the train tracks and everyone was laughing their heads off at the police chasing him around. And coz we were stuck the conductor let everyone off for a cig. No-one got arsey. Everyone was actually having too much of a fucking laugh to care.
I see more things in my everday life that gives me hope for working-class people and radical politics in little funny events like that than I've ever got from shitty vanity journals like the New Inquiry or the fucking weasels who exist in that bubble. They're fuck all. I suppose the good news is chancers and charlatans like that are going to struggle in the future now the standard press model is collapsing, behold the last generation of the intelletual vanguard, hahah fucking chumps
I see more things in my everday life that gives me hope for working-class people and radical politics in little funny events like that than I've ever got from shitty vanity journals like the New Inquiry or the fucking weasels who exist in that bubble. They're fuck all. I suppose the good news is chancers and charlatans like that are going to struggle in the future now the standard press model is collapsing, behold the last generation of the intelletual vanguard, hahah fucking chumps
SpineyNorman
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Yeah that sounds very nice and everything but the real attraction is the opportunity to give Malcolm Harris a slap.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Two slaps. Each. Let's not waste the opportunity for fucks sake.
It's SlapBet 2013, people.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
If malcom harris wants to write extremely dodgy Harry Potter slashfic I'd thank him to keep it to those niche sites where such things exist and don't have to offend mine eyes.
Slashfic is a fucking menace. Last time I went looking for unpublished have-a-go Doctor Who fiction I stumbled across a massive Who slashfic site. I didn't 'get' the vibe untill I started reading one story where captain jack was bumming david tennant over the Tardis console while the time rotor wheezed and groaned, rising and falling in time to the thrusts
thankyou very fucking much, internets.
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
I really don't want to be worse than pol pot
i want to be better . For example i dont immediately assume that anyone wearing glasses is a foppish intellectual . Some of them arent .
Casually Red
tomorrow belongs to me
ive relatives in the filth over there...bung me 8 grand..theyll get half..sorted
seventh bullet
sovietwave
He wore glasses himself, and there is no evidence that anyone was killed for simply wearing glasses. It's just one of those silly myths about them repeated for decades.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
What a fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking moron. An imbecile, a complete vacuum of knowledge and understanding, a pustulous wart on the face of humanity, due a shitload of tea tree oil and sandpaper scrubbing, or preferably, fire.
He's got as much knowledge of the teaching and learning process as I do of his rich kids club for proper anarchists.
The snivelling little cunt.
The book he bases his grand fucking misconception on is from 1958, the theory from 1977. The theory's got some fascinating bits on social, cultural capital from a quick flick through - but he's just ignored about forty years of pedagogical, educational and psychological progress in teaching and learning. He's a fucking windbag.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Hmmm an interesting take on that. Setting aside his attention seeking post title etc., I think that he does restate some genuine critiques of the role of homework within the pedagogic process. Maybe he is ignorant of some theory and research, but the reality for most kids in our education system is one of more, not less homework, and at earlier and earlier stages of their compulsory education. In my experience a surprising number of parents, let alone kids, resent the relentless and onerous imposition of extra tasks set by teachers that often appear to have been done so just to cover their ass.
I think that for most schools serious consideration and evaluation of homework is almost a taboo subject. It just has to happen, (according to the policy that will be inspected by Ofsted), and that's that; end of debate.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
Depends on what end of the spectrum you're at - homework down my end of the school is reading with your child, working on phonics and the occasional bit of art/design work. All of it involves the child, and the parent, working together. The further you get up the system, the more independent the child - but homework where I am rarely takes the form of 'sit and do 100 sums' or 'write down x y and z' any more. Because that's ineffectual in most cases. Harris is critiquing a system that's been changed, because teachers are trying to make use that work at home is useful work.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Fair enough, but I suppose that makes the point that we're all attempting to generalise from the specific.
As a parent of older, (now adult) offspring, I can honestly say that our experience of homework was rarely as positive as the situation you are enjoying. Hence, I felt that your reaction to Harris' post was rather harsh.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
I fucking hate homework. But my kids' school is full of pushy middle class parents (we usually lose quite a few kids in primary 5 or 6 to the local private schools) so there's pressure on the teachers to set lots of homework. As an example my seven year old has reading twice a week, a reading task worksheet, a set of spelling words to copy out three times and write a sentence containing each word, and a maths worksheet. He's seven for crying out loud.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Comrade Dr, I'm shocked that you would waste one of the Peoples' Bullets on such an unpromising specimen of white male privilege.
Surely the caress of the Peoples' Entrenching Tool is more apposite for such parasitic scum?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Regardless of the ins and outs of the argument, artie isn't making them to forward a social critique of teaching etc but to simply to be naughty, to say look at me everyone, i'm arguing something the opposite of the mainstream view.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Exactly; and it just gets worse and worse....in our experience.
The reality for most teachers is that they are compelled to operate in pretty feudal cultures of fear; and the majority will set 'work' because the policy/"line manager" says they have to. Needless to say Gove's 'reforms' will only compound this process.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
It was on the internet.
SpineyNorman
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Zero tolerance on this Dennis Pennis lookalike cunt
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Excellent new take on "Don't you know who I am?" with "Do you know all the people I named?"
No, sorry - didn't go to school/college/tea/parties with them
Laura obviously sang "I'm Every Woman" to herself so many times as a kid that she ended up believing it.
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