Mocking an Eton boy's death is the worst politics of envy - Owen Jones

[littlebabyjesus]

Poor bloody woman, fancy being saddled with a name like that.

I'm guessing she wasn't so poor...

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm guessing she wasn't so poor...

i suppose that if you're rich it's easier to bear being saddled with a crap name.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

i suppose that if you're rich it's easier to bear being saddled with a crap name.

The money is a solace. And you can have anyone smirking whipped.

 

[Athos]

this is snow laughing matter

Ice see what you did there.

 

[Pickman's model]

The money is a solace. And you can have anyone smirking whipped.

even if they're wearing a smirking merkin they can be whipped

 

[littlebabyjesus]

For £100k, I'll change my name to anything anyone on here wants me to.

Every time someone smirks, I'll treat myself a bottle of champagne.

 

[treelover]

The SWP piece was puerile and out of order, but Owen is certainly settling some old scores in that article, Bone, etc.

never liked 'the hospitalised copper' in CW either

 

[Cid]

Some of these puns are a bit cold tbh. It's no wonder urban can get such a frosty reaction.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Does that mean no one on the left is a real socialist then?

apparently just owen jones and laurie penny, neither of who ever ever criticise other socialists. ever.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

apparently just owen jones and laurie penny, neither of who ever ever criticise other socialists. ever.

What is the context in which he told you that socialists should not criticise other socialists?

 

[tufty79]

I pointed out to Owen Jones on his facebook thread shilling this piece that he told me that real socialists don't criticise other socialists, and he accused me of being a rape apologist.

so there you go people.

blimey

 

[chilango]

Thing is, there ARE class issues right at the very heart of Horatio Chapple's death. To do with the access rich public school kids have to adventure/sport and extra-curricular experiences that most kids will never ever have. To do with why, by and large, it's rich ex-public school kids that get to have the experiences as grown ups and are lauded as heroes for it (Bear Grylls, Ranulph Feinnes etc.). To do with how these notions of heroism and so on play into nationalistic/patriotic narratives that are used in the interests of the ruling class (Scott being used to inspire w/c kids to charge to the deaths in WW1. And so on and so on.

Neither Socialist Worker nor Owen Jones appear to have a clue about this though, preferring cheap posturing about fuck all really.

 

[Balbi]

apparently just owen jones and laurie penny, neither of who ever ever criticise other socialists. ever.

Yeah, but you see, they're not criticising socialists because they are, by OJ's definitions, not what socialism is about. Self-fulfilling flatulence sniffing.

 

[ViolentPanda]

That sort of bear.

Stop ursine around!

 

[Frances Lengel]

Some other cunt that isn't you getting eaten by a bear's hilarious. Regardless of what school he went to.

I sat through that boring as fuck Werner Herzog film about that trumpet who had no mates, so went to be mates with the bears - And they ended up scranning him , just in the hope that it'd include a recording of what he was saying/screaming while the bears were doing him in (coz apparently, that footage does exist, Herzog just didn't include it in the film - The prick). He must've been going "No please, not me, I'm your mate, no, no, not me". Or something. Probably. that's how I like to picture it anyway.

 

[Frances Lengel]

Alex Callinicos' mum - "the Hon. Ædgyth Bertha Milburg Mary Antonia Frances Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, was the daughter of the 2nd Lord Acton"

how do you pronounce that stuck together AE thing?

 

[DotCommunist]

ayedgyth

 

[Wilf]

how do you pronounce that stuck together AE thing?

Wor eggie

 

[Spymaster]

how do you pronounce that stuck together AE thing?

dp

 

[Spymaster]

how do you pronounce that stuck together AE thing?

"EE" I think.

That looks like a weird spelling of Edith.

 

[weepiper]

That looks like a weird spelling of Edith

It is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadgyth

 

[Wilf]

"EE" I think.

That looks like a weird spelling of Edith.

I had an Auntie Edie. Strangely she didn't pronounce her name in a way that sounded like she was out of Lord of the Rings.

Maybe Callinicos' mam picked up all the bits of his name that Tony Benn discarded over the years.

 

[Dogsauce]

See, this is where the ruling classes fuck up.

For you or I, it's pretty easy for someone to shout 'Oi! Jenkins! Watch out for that bear!', yet for some poor Quentin Hetherington DeBeauvoir-Symthson they've been fully scoffed before you've even finished calling out their name.

 

[Libertad]

See, this is where the ruling classes fuck up.

For you or I, it's pretty easy for someone to shout 'Oi! Jenkins! Watch out for that bear!', yet for some poor Quentin Hetherington DeBeauvoir-Symthson they've been fully scoffed before you've even finished calling out their name.

Nominative determinism innit. Chalk one up for the class war.

 

[Wilf]

See, this is where the ruling classes fuck up.

For you or I, it's pretty easy for someone to shout 'Oi! Jenkins! Watch out for that bear!', yet for some poor Quentin Hetherington DeBeauvoir-Symthson they've been fully scoffed before you've even finished calling out their name.

'There's a bear coming!'
'Quick, send him a text to warn him'
'Erm, can't find him, will he be under his first name or his second name - or his third name, or his fourth...'

 

[el-ahrairah]

What is the context in which he told you that socialists should not criticise other socialists?

he was banging on about ed miliband and i suggested that voting for the bosses and hoping they'd they give us something pretty in return wasn't the most historically successful political tactic.

 

[Pickman's model]

he was banging on about ed miliband and i suggested that voting for the bosses and hoping they'd they give us something pretty in return wasn't the most historically successful political tactic.

if i'd been in your shoes i'd have asked why he was playing truant.

 

[Bakunin]

if i'd been in your shoes i'd have asked why he was playing truant.

If he was then he'll have a pretty convincing sick note for the teacher.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Svalbard Workers Party?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

'There's a bear coming!'
'Quick, send him a text to warn him'
'Erm, can't find him, will he be under his first name or his second name - or his third name, or his fourth...'

'There's a bear coming!'
'Well that's me one step closer to the Tory party leadership then.'