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

[Spanky Longhorn]

This lad was certainly a pedigree chum

 

[rekil]

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Revenge of the polar-tariat.

heh? Heh? Had it being done yet?

I've pimped your pun. Polarbeariat, pawsterity etc.

 

[rekil]

should we blame the parents?

Single mum probably. Huge housing benefit bill etc

 

[ViolentPanda]

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.

He obviously didn't realise that the ultimate heroism is to give up your life for your friends.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I was in a pub the other year with someone who - by virtue of position - you'd expect to have a certain amount of decorum, who suggested loudly that the fact it took the polar bear a couple of swipes to kill him shows just how thick the skull of the average public school kid is.

Not nice IMO. Class absolutely is relevant - most of us wouldn't get opportunities anything like what he had - but Jones is right that it's a bit less than humane to laugh at him. Not a way I'd care to go out.

I'd prefer to die under the claws of a polar bear, than die the slow death the neoliberals have planned for me.

 

[Roadkill]

I'd prefer to die under the claws of a polar bear, than die the slow death the neoliberals have planned for me.

Doubtless, but I can't really see what that has to do with a kid being killed by one, no matter how privileged his background.

 

[Favelado]

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.

You thought Grizzly Man was boring? It had this in it!

 

[Pickman's model]

I'd prefer to die under the claws of a polar bear, than die the slow death the neoliberals have planned for me.

why not write to them and see if they can alter their plans?

The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP
Secretary of State
Department for Work and Pensions
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9DA

 

[Pickman's model]

This lad was certainly a pedigree chum

could trace it back to the norman conquest no doubt. so at least there was a clear audit trail for the polar bear to follow if he had been concerned about the origin of his meal.

 

[Pickman's model]

He obviously didn't realise that the ultimate heroism is to give up your life for your friends.

shurely 'to make someone else give up their life to save your mates'

 

[fogbat]

I'd prefer to die under the claws of a polar bear, than die the slow death the neoliberals have planned for me.

London Zoo trip? I'd love to see a panda fight a polar bear.

 

[chilango]

shurely 'to make someone else give up their life to save your mates'

As Scott did to Oates (also an Old Etonian).

 

[DexterTCN]

As Scott did to Oates (also an Old Etonian).

And they exchanged rugs. I mean hugs. Hugs.

 

[George & Bill]

Oh dear, this thread seems to have gone south - I fear there's Norway back from here

 

[rekil]

"We're going to be the party
Yeah, and they're going to be the game

It's the right to arm bears
Who's going to eat you when you're dead?"

 

[ViolentPanda]

why not write to them and see if they can alter their plans?

The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP
Secretary of State
Department for Work and Pensions
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9DA

He's stopped taking my letters. Apparently the civil servants at the DWP are delicate flowers who are rattled by icily-polite sarcasm.

 

[ViolentPanda]

shurely 'to make someone else give up their life to save your mates'

True, but friends are so selfish nowadays....

 

[ViolentPanda]

London Zoo trip? I'd love to see a panda fight a polar bear.

That's because you're a pervert, young fogbat.

 

[Grandma Death]

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.

Yeah Ive seen some of his rhetoric on FB. He accused those left in the SWP of being rape apologists-when someone pointed out that the party he's in started a war in Iraq does that make him a war monger.

I like Jones but his over reliance on hyperbole grinds somewhat.

 

[weepiper]

Any polar bears in Fiji? *crosses fingers* monitor lizard maybe.

 

[Grandma Death]

I do think however we all have our own sliding scale when it comes to death. Simply put some people are wanky oxygen thieves and I dont care when they day-I may even celebrate. Jones spoke out against those on the left who celebrated Thatchers death and I really cant be arsed by this hand wringing shit. It's almost like death should erase the bad things people have done and that death affords them automatic respect.

Mind this SWP article was a bit infantile and sounds like it came straight from the pen of Rik Mayall when he was in The Young Ones.

 

[mauvais]

It's almost like death should erase the bad things people have done and that death affords them automatic respect.

Good point, well arcticulated.

 

[DrRingDing]

 

[J Ed]

BTW this is the poster

 

[Frances Lengel]

You thought Grizzly Man was boring? It had this in it!

Good point - Puts me in mind of an episode of Gentle Ben in which GB's fighting with a non-gentle wild bear. Anyway me, my brother and sis were watching it and my sis who was four or maybe five at the time went, apropos of nothing "Come on, Roger" - In support of the other bear who she'd named Roger. Me and my bro were (who were in our teens at the time) were massively impressed with her for instinctively cheering on the baddie. It's in the blood, man.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Oh dear, this thread seems to have gone south - I fear there's Norway back from here

Who reversed the polarity?

 

[Celyn]

London Zoo trip? I'd love to see a panda fight a polar bear.

I don't think London Zoo has a panda these days. Best go to Edinburgh.

 

[Celyn]

Any polar bears in Fiji? *crosses fingers* monitor lizard maybe.

Oh no! That story can NOT be true, surely? Given that the Daily Mail is not famous for its closeness to the truth, I really do hope that story is false.

 

[youngian]

The offending article was very puerile but if I had my life mapped out for me like an Etonian with a fat trust fund to fall back on if life does go wobbly you could call and wish what the hell you like on me I wouldn't give a damn.

 

[rekil]

Shut the school for sending kids to remote areas with genuine don't give a fuck dangerous wild animals.