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There's nothing more boring than someone telling you their disjointed "weird" dream. Lacking in all the significance in which it appeared to them that night.
 
Just happened to notice last night that as twitter etc was going into meltdown about the eviction of Occupy London from Finsbury Square, Penny was tweeting about laundromats in New York.

(I really should stop posting on this thread. Bad BH. But it's just so easy and enjoyable to take the piss...)
 
Random said:
There's nothing more boring than someone telling you their disjointed "weird" dream. Lacking in all the significance in which it appeared to them that night.
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You won't want to hear about me nicking Glen Hoddle's credit card details then? :(
 
flypanam said:
Seems like Pens is taking the sword of truth to Game of Thrones now, how she sleeps at night when all there is tyranny...

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2012/06/game-thrones-and-good-ruler-complex
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Thank goodness she's around to explain it all to us: I'd nearly fooled myself into thinking that it was just some escapist fantasy entertainment. I'm off to see 'Prometheus' this evening: what's the key message from 'the man' there? I hope Laurie will take some time out to tell me...
 
Laurie Penny slating Game of Thrones for being unsubtle, lords fucking save us.

She seems to miss the fact that it has some of the best female roles in any tv or film, maybe she is soo stupid that she thinks showing sexism and general cruelty is to approve of it, when anyone with wit would see that the treatment of women and the general cruelty of the world is more mourned and meant to drive home the point that the Game of Thrones is an amoral game.

Nor does she seem to pick up on the fact it's the outcasts and the marginalised amongst the cast who provide what little moral compass there is.

I suppose what you can take from a text is largely dependent on what you can bring to it and in her case it's the usual black and white hysterical pseudo moralistic shite.
 
revol68 said:
Laurie Penny slating Game of Thrones for being unsubtle, lords fucking save us.

She seems to miss the fact that it has some of the best female roles in any tv or film, maybe she is soo stupid that she thinks showing sexism and general cruelty is to approve of it, when anyone with wit would see that the treatment of women and the general cruelty of the world is more mourned and meant to drive home the point that the Game of Thrones is an amoral game.

Nor does she seem to pick up on the fact it's the outcasts and the marginalised amongst the cast who provide what little moral compass there is.

I suppose what you can take from a text is largely dependent on what you can bring to it and in her case it's the usual black and white hysterical pseudo moralistic shite.
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I think Penny Red should have her rate of pay per word tripled. That way she could reach her income target with more economical use of verbiage. Don't they teach them to précis at Oxbridge?
 
revol68 said:
Laurie Penny slating Game of Thrones for being unsubtle, lords fucking save us.

She seems to miss the fact that it has some of the best female roles in any tv or film, maybe she is soo stupid that she thinks showing sexism and general cruelty is to approve of it, when anyone with wit would see that the treatment of women and the general cruelty of the world is more mourned and meant to drive home the point that the Game of Thrones is an amoral game.

Nor does she seem to pick up on the fact it's the outcasts and the marginalised amongst the cast who provide what little moral compass there is.

I suppose what you can take from a text is largely dependent on what you can bring to it and in her case it's the usual black and white hysterical pseudo moralistic shite.
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Indeed the irony here is that GoT is a liberal left critique of fuedal barbarism.
 
Ole said:
I didn't know what else to do with this other than post it here.
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This'll be the inevitable Lib Dem revolution will it - when the concerned middle-class masses rise up to ensure that Tarquin doesn't have to pay too much for a university education and isn't saddled with a lot of student debt, and that Nescafe only get their raw materials from Fairtrade sources? When Penny 'La Passionata' Red stands on the barricades, and the oppressors of the huddled not-as-well-off-as-they-used-to-be are put up against the wall for a stiff talking-to?
 
Ole said:
I didn't know what else to do with this other than post it here.
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saw this and thought hang on wouldn't nights after the revolution be full of endless meetings badly chaired by some junior Trot with a permanent section of ism types making constitutional points about standing orders or suggesting that we all sit in a circle?

Mind you I suppose these are what night after the revolution would be if there were trendy loft spaces and cheap cocktails ,the heady smell of Pink Pepper * and a cab home.

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"Pink Pepper is appropriate for these challenging times because it's uplifting and has a certain optimism to it,
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Her friend done a picture of her as Leviathan

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