hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
If only there was some figure of speech which could express how quickly they sold.
London Anarchist bookfair 2020
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Hot take!
Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
Like shit off a shovel
danny la rouge
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Fucking hell. Sorry to hear all of that.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Grim. Sorry bill 
danny la rouge
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If I picked it up wrong about AK/PM/Active, then I apologise for passing on faulty info.
This kind of thing would be prevented by open and honest communication between comrades though. Which is what anarchists are supposed to believe in.
This kind of thing would be prevented by open and honest communication between comrades though. Which is what anarchists are supposed to believe in.
Fozzie Bear
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LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Irrespective of the issues discussed above I've just been looking through the Bookfair Twitter account, and it really does give the impression of a much more firmly subcultural thing than other years. Lots of music stuff, some of the language just reads weirdly to me (fully aware it's maybe a youth thing a bit), and the tone of many of the stalls, talks, and tweets seem much more scene-ey than 2017 and before. Was it like that there at the Bookfair itself, or is it just someone tweeting giving that impression?
danny la rouge
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I haven’t looked through the Bookfair Twitter feed, but it’s certainly the case that I don’t understand a lot of what goes on in young person Twitter. I had to unfollow a young ACG comrade because it was just a flood of incomprehensible (to me) references, language and inexplicable memes. He’s a lovely guy, but I couldn’t fathom anything he was on about. And there was a lot of it.
It’s a bit of a problem if people can’t get past the codes.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
It was always very scene-ey, though anarchist groups had a good presence. Still, it does look as though this one has outdone itself with all things weird and "bohemian" while banning yer actual anarchists.
danny la rouge
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While I’m here, a while back somebody posted this at me. Several people liked it. I didn’t respond because I had no idea what it meant. At first I thought it was just random. But then it got likes. Anyone know what the message was?
danny la rouge
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LynnDoyleCooper seems to know. I literally have no idea.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
No, that tweet makes absolutely no sense to me. The nearest I can get is that it's what we probably look like trying to understand it.
I was generally laughing at our collective bafflement at the youngsters of today and their chosen ways of communicating.
I do know it's one of those meme things, or me-me things as I like to call them.
Given I'm in my 40s I'm a bit terrified of how everything is going to seem to us in another 30 years.
I was generally laughing at our collective bafflement at the youngsters of today and their chosen ways of communicating.
I do know it's one of those meme things, or me-me things as I like to call them.
Given I'm in my 40s I'm a bit terrified of how everything is going to seem to us in another 30 years.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
danny la rouge
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The world is weird.
danny la rouge
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It may well turn out that this is what’s been happening between the Bookfair and the ACG trying to work out what the other is saying and getting it wrong.That actually makes it no clearer at all. Are you in your 20s or something hitmouse?Write it in a fucking sentence for god's sake!
danny la rouge
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What I have to learn is nothing at all. I’m just as happy being baffled.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
I'd hazard a guess that it's a jab at angry white older men with glasses, but you'd have to be part of the in-crowd to know for sure. That's the thing about a lot of me-mes (thanks LynnDoyleCooper), they're in-jokes targeting out-groups, so mainly worthless and reactionary.
danny la rouge
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Hear the song of my people. As the youngsters say.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
It's more often used as an image by people on the fashy/alt-right end of things to mock people who they see as not living up to proper standards of masculinity. But is made more confusing by the fact that lots of things start out in that space and then get used more broadly (at least, more broadly within the world of insular incomprehensible internet subcultures) by people who are being ironic, or just copying it without putting much thought into it, or whatever.
danny la rouge
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It’s funny because I wouldn’t qualify as “white” in some circles, and some histories. I recently overheard a woman in a coffee shop saying she’d been away from Glasgow 20 years and the biggest change she’d noticed was “middle-class Catholics”. (Meaning people of Irish descent). The tone of voice said “just imagine!”
danny la rouge
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I was in Hyndland.
I’m not sure this speculation is helpful. So obviously I will now add to it.
AK, Active and PM are based outside of London afaik. So they may not have been invited cos of wanting to cut down on travel / COVID exposure, which is something the organisers have said they were doing. Unless anyone knows different.
(We know there was disquiet about the Active banner in the past but they are also under new management now.)
ACG and Martin are based in London (Or have members here rather for ACG). So that is different. Probably there are more though. (Dunno if HSG applied for a stall or not).
just to mention that HSG doubled down on backing Helen after 2017, so I wouldn't expect them to have bothered applying.
There was a strong "don't come from far away because COVID" thing going on, and of course a lot of other events on Saturday, and a lot of the traditional stalls took that on board. Still a great stall turnout for what was after all a very small venue. And a really high level of sane mask wearing.
Personally - I had an awesome time even without Veggies, and that's saying something.
Conway Hall is a lovely small venue, the space in the square was excellent, the usual "BANNED FROM THE BOOKFAIR" crowd immediately outside the door did a lovely trade in everything they wanted to, and the weather played a blinder.
was that the very drunk comrade who was sitting on a bench ranting on the phone about being grassed up for not wearing a mask inside?
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