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

[Hocus Eye.]

I have just looked up Julie Burchill on Wikipedia. I don't think I will be adding her to my Christmas Card list.

PS. Having noticed the red squiggly line under 'Wikipedia' I checked the spelling. It gave me 'windpipe'.

 

[Greebo]

<snip>PS. Having noticed the red squiggly line under 'Wikipedia' I checked the spelling. It gave me 'windpipe'.

Sorry, sometimes you have to take your amusement wherever you can find it.

 

[Bakunin]

She should also get herself a better hairstyle with a natural looking colour. Make the most of herself while she's still young.

And start calling herself Laura again-it's nicer. Who the fuck's called Laurie anyway? Has anybody ever met a Laurie?

Well, there was Laurie Lee. But Laurie Lee is somewhat different from LP in that he actually went to Spain and fought, whereas she would have encouraged others to do the actual fighting and would have filed 'frontline' reports from some swish hotel in a safe area while bemoaning the lack of her favourite lattes, the shortage of arty types ('Well, if they will insist on all that tiresome warfare') and the lack of a Blackberry signal if she should accidentally happen to end up near some actual fighting.

Laurie Lee could also string a decent sentence together.

 

[Nice one]

and this fella

 

[butchersapron]

 

[rekil]

 

[LLETSA]

I meant in real life.

 

[rekil]

I know a Laurie. She's from New Zealand and works as a mental health nurse. There.

 

[Bakunin]

Great political debates that never happened:

VS

Entertaining? Probably.

Foregone conclusion? Definitely.

Watching him eat her for breakfast? Priceless.

 

[rekil]

Tumbrils not tumblr

This would've been a contender if you'd left it smiley free.

 

[LLETSA]

Great political debates that never happened:

It isn't possible to take seriously somebody with maroon hair. I don't care what anybody says.

 

[rekil]

More posho purée, fewer tarot reading reiki cleansing party girl chorizo choux puff canapés.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Orang Utan]

It isn't possible to take seriously somebody with maroon hair. I don't care what anybody says.

I think she's got great hair. I'll give her that .

 

[LLETSA]

I think she's got great hair. I'll give her that .

Why am I not surprised?

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a great colour. Attack her for her writing, but she has a nice barnet

 

[ViolentPanda]

She should also get herself a better hairstyle with a natural looking colour. Make the most of herself while she's still young.

And start calling herself Laura again-it's nicer. Who the fuck's called Laurie anyway? Has anybody ever met a Laurie?

Yes, a bloke, and it was his given name, rather than a shortening of "Lawrence". Never met a woman with the name, though.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's a great colour. Attack her for her writing, but she has a nice barnet

She's got emo-hair. For that alone she should be burned at the stake (along with one of my nephews)!!!

 

[LLETSA]

It's a great colour. Attack her for her writing, but she has a nice barnet

It depends on whether you and her want to join the grown-ups.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Well, there was Laurie Lee. But Laurie Lee is somewhat different from LP in that he actually went to Spain and fought, whereas she would have encouraged others to do the actual fighting and would have filed 'frontline' reports from some swish hotel in a safe area while bemoaning the lack of her favourite lattes, the shortage of arty types ('Well, if they will insist on all that tiresome warfare') and the lack of a Blackberry signal if she should accidentally happen to end up near some actual fighting.

Laurie Lee could also string a decent sentence together.

And he didn't need a private education to be able to, either.

 

[LLETSA]

After 13 years I'm just getting used to living next to a student ghetto. Yet still, when one of them walks into the pub with a silly hairstyle or inappropriate piercings I feel a little stab of hatred.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

 

[Orang Utan]

It depends on whether you and her want to join the grown-ups.

She's got emo-hair. For that alone she should be burned at the stake (along with one of my nephews)!!!

You're a right pair of grandads.
Adults dye their hair too anyway.

 

[rekil]

I met him once. A true gent.

 

[Orang Utan]

After 13 years I'm just getting used to living next to a student ghetto. Yet still, when one of them walks into the pub with a silly hairstyle or inappropriate piercings I feel a little stab of hatred.

That's cos you're a hateful prick

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Also Roseanne's sister's real name.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

That's cos you're a hateful prick

No it's because students are the worst neighbours you can have, selfish, ignorant, noisy, dirty little scrotes every man jack and woman jill of them.

 

[ViolentPanda]

After 13 years I'm just getting used to living next to a student ghetto. Yet still, when one of them walks into the pub with a silly hairstyle or inappropriate piercings I feel a little stab of hatred.

They're students. It's to be expected. It's like state-sanctioned rebellion time for most of 'em.
It's when they've left that behind and are still doing it while working for "the man" that they provoke my ire.

 

[LLETSA]

Adults dye their hair too anyway.

It's okay if it's a natural colour. If it's something dayglo or lurid it's usually in lieu of personality.

 

[ViolentPanda]

You're a right pair of grandads.
Adults dye their hair too anyway.

I just hate emo-hair. Those floppy emo-fringes just activate some primal hatred in my psyche. I loved The Human League when I was young, but Oakey's hair always annoyed the fuck out of me. I was well-pleased when he chopped it off.