Greedy landlords rub their hands with glee as Londoners queue in the cold to buy flats

[kabbes]

So Diamond thinks it is wrong to use the word "epileptic" to describe something with epilepsy but that it is okay to use the word "lame" to describe something that's shit.

And then he wants to make insinuations of hypocrisy in others.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Seems legit.

 

[Spymaster]

Insiuates xenophobia ...

No he didn't. He questioned why the overseas investor was seemingly misquoted to exaggerate the avaricious element of the purchase. And by The Independent rather than the editor, although he challenged ed for quoting the misquote suggesting that it fits with his dislike of buy to let, which it does.

Personally I see no reason why the editor and others are getting worked up about this (well I do; it's an opportunity for a good old U75 tear-up over "insinuations of racism"). If you find the idea of UK based landlords purchasing property that they'll never live in, as investments, galling; isn't the same doubly true of overseas speculators who also inflate prices and exploit UK renters whilst having no intention of even living in the same country and who may not even pay tax on the money they rip out of the market?

Diamond has made a load of other shit points but he didn't insinuate racism in the way it's been suggested here.

 

[ddraig]

ah! Diamond you have a saviour!!

 

[Spymaster]

ah! Diamond you have a saviour!!

Ah, monkey boy!

Where've you been?

 

[ViolentPanda]

There's no categorical conclusion on that but he is usually referred to in academic circles, especially when I studied him, as King Cnut.

But good point, well made and valuable contribution etc...

Ah, you studied history in academic circles, did you?
Is this along with economics and law?

Or did you mean that you were fed the story of Canute/Cnut/Knut/Knuta/Knud at school, like everyone else?

 

[butchersapron]

No he didn't. He questioned why the overseas investor was seemingly misquoted to exaggerate the avaricious element of the purchase. And by The Independent rather than the editor, although he challenged ed for quoting the misquote suggesting that it fits with his dislike of buy to let, which it does.

Personally I see no reason why the editor and others are getting worked up about this (well I do; it's an opportunity for a good old U75 tear-up over "insinuations of racism"). If you find the idea of UK based landlords purchasing property that they'll never live in, as investments, galling; isn't the same doubly true of overseas speculators who inflate the market and exploit UK renters whilst having no intention of even living in the same country?

Diamond has made a load of other shit points but he didn't insinuate racism in the way it's been suggested here.

I think that you need to read a bit closer than that. Actually, it doesn't take any close reading at all - maybe focused reading is what i meant:

And, I think it is rather bizarre that we're focusing on Mr Chiu in our discussion when there were numerous other applicants quoted in the original article - is it maybe because he is foreign and what does that imply?

The insinuation is that the editor is picking on the 3rd example because he's foreign. It then asks what doing such a thing implies. It implies that the person doing so is a racist. It's couched in this two faced bollocks speak that diamond uses to abuse and smear without taking responsibility for doing so (if i was minded to / Are you and they cunts - maybe, maybe not - it probably depends on the definition).

 

[ViolentPanda]

I have sciatica so find it quite offensive but not as offensive as someone with a serious leg injury obviously.

I have a serious leg injury and sciatica, so I'm WAYYY more offended than you!

 

[DotCommunist]

Diamond has made a load of other shit points but he didn't insinuate racism in the way it's been suggested here.

pattern of previous I'm afraid, and for removal of doubt he raised the unholy name of UKIP in a follow up post. Just so it was clear what he was saying out the side of his mouth.

 

[cesare]

Weasel words innit

 

[Pickman's model]

I have a serious leg injury and sciatica, so I'm WAYYY more offended than you!

not intersectionality

 

[ViolentPanda]

But that's beside the point - there is a clear sense of posters closing ranks here. Finding any excuse to cosh the one so targeted.

It's usual for a poster who's talked shite and been called for it to start mumbling about being victimised. Often, if the poster is a total rectum, they even give their imagined persecutors a name such as "the cunt collective".

It's pretty weird to be honest and would be scary if this were not occuring at such a distance, which in turn is presumably the underlying disassociative logic that allows people to come up with such hateful content.

1) It's "dissociative", not "disassociative".
2) The logic isn't dissociative. That would imply your interlocutors avoiding taking responsibility for what they say.

Very odd but know this, I won't back down, I have no interest in complying with the general body of opinion and every interest in independently defending my own, even if that is alone.

I suspect that "the general body of opinion" has no interest in you complying with it.

 

[ViolentPanda]

diabolism also often used to mock people.

Vade retro Satanas!

 

[ddraig]

Ah, monkey boy!

Where've you been?

uh? where's that come from? not been nowhere guv

 

[ViolentPanda]

Oh god.

You called, mortal speck of dirt?

 

[Pickman's model]

Weasel words innit

(((weasels)))

 

[cesare]

(((weasels)))

Much maligned

 

[ViolentPanda]

he has forsaken us.
Last seen in slovenia I heard

Good slivovitz in Slovenia. G-d is probably pissed as a fart on that evil but lovely-tasting stuff.

 

[Pickman's model]

Good slivovitz in Slovenia. G-d is probably pissed as a fart on that evil but lovely-tasting stuff.

good call. YHWH must be a spirits spirit, permanently on the calvados and slivovitz.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The first granted, that would have solved a lot of this nonsense derail. The second, I'm not sure too many people really are offended by that common usage. FWIW.

In response to equationgirl.

I tend to react bluntly to deliberate or accidental use of derogatory terms, even if I don't personally believe they're particularly insulting. I do this because I know just how easy it can be for society to slide from being somewhat "disability-aware", to being ravening shitbags cussing out disabled people for daring to be disabled. For me it's not "political correctness", it's about schooling people in the fact that their comment, whatever their intention, might offend others. If they choose to carry on using it, that's their look-out, but they shouldn't be surprised if they continue to get pulled up on it. It's not much of a step from "lame" to "workshy disabled scrounger", as the government has proven.

 

[ViolentPanda]

good call. YHWH must be a spirits spirit, permanently on the calvados and slivovitz.

I admit to being a sucker for the occasional nip of slivovitz myself. I don't drink a lot of it (I last bought a bottle in 2011, and it's still 1/3 full), but it does have a uniquely-warming flavour and sensation to it!
I avoid calvados, though, ever since I saw someone depth-charging shots of it into Gaymer's Olde English cider, who then became bonelessly, incontinently drunk after 4 pints.
I've no doubt that Jehovah was laughing and calling her a lightweight.

 

[phildwyer]

ah! Diamond you have a saviour!!

Oh no, it's apeman.

 

[ddraig]

Oh no, it's apeman.

teaming up with Spy now?

Spy and Dwyer, defending the 'underdogs' against the baying mob since 2002!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Much maligned

Weasels and ferrets are.
Stoats, on the other hand, are malignant little bastards, passing off their many crimes as being done by weasels and ferrets, shitting on their mustelid brethren for the LOLs.

 

[editor]

No he didn't. He questioned why the overseas investor was seemingly misquoted to exaggerate the avaricious element of the purchase. And by The Independent rather than the editor, although he challenged ed for quoting the misquote suggesting that it fits with his dislike of buy to let, which it does.

Personally I see no reason why the editor and others are getting worked up about this (well I do; it's an opportunity for a good old U75 tear-up over "insinuations of racism"). If you find the idea of UK based landlords purchasing property that they'll never live in, as investments, galling; isn't the same doubly true of overseas speculators who also inflate prices and exploit UK renters whilst having no intention of even living in the same country and who may not even pay tax on the money they rip out of the market?

Diamond has made a load of other shit points but he didn't insinuate racism in the way it's been suggested here.

Thanks for your opinion. I'll be sure to treat it with the same respect as most of the other opinions you post up here.

 

[cesare]

Weasels and ferrets are.
Stoats, on the other hand, are malignant little bastards, passing off their many crimes as being done by weasels and ferrets, shitting on their mustelid brethren for the LOLs.

Putting the v in ermine

 

[Spymaster]

You called, mortal speck of dirt?

I'd have spelled it g-d if I meant you.

 

[ViolentPanda]

teaming up with Spy now?

Spy and Dwyer, defending the 'underdogs' against the baying mob since 2002!

I don't know about , it's way more , and not in a good way!

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'd have spelled it g-d if I meant you.

You dial the number, you get whoever picks up the phone, mush.

 

[phildwyer]

teaming up with Spy now?

Spy and Dwyer, defending the 'underdogs' against the baying mob since 2002!