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co-op said:
There are a lot of people who are right on the borderline of mentally ill in modern normal society, why wouldn't there be? Extreme individualism is a state of great insecurity and constant competition and comparison. What we know about climate change and the coming chaos alone is enough to mean that we live in a culture which is genuinely suicidal, let alone all the other abuses and violence that we have to learn to condone or ignore. To be "sane" in modernity is to be able to successfully ignore the most important things that are happening. The best way to do that is to just join in the mainstream as best you can. But if you're unable to do that because you are alienated from the mainstream for whatever reason - your personal need to be "different" or important in some way, probably a consequence of your elite upbringing, then a retreat into obsessive, narcissistic, endlessly self-referring halls of mirrors is as good a way as any. There are loads of people like this obsessing about their facebook likes or the neighbours car or whatever, modernity is mass-producing them, the Sam Ambreens are just the 'political' version.

It's ironic than in her Grand Vision of freedom from kyriarchy and patriarchy and all the rest of it, she's reduced herself to obsessing over the the tiniest minutiae of correctitude and propriety and thus merely re-enacting an old stereotype of obsessively privatised female behaviour, it's like obsessing over shoes and ribbons. Or diet etc etc.



Reminds me of the conspiraloon industry. If I was going to make sure that any weirdness about - say 9/11 - was never going to get taken seriously, I'd get straight on to setting up a Truth Industry. Once it's up and running there is enough genuine paranoia, fear and obsession out there to keep the whole thing alive all on its own - and anyone with a grip on reality will be instantly alienated.
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That's a post that deserves thinking about. Thank you. Back on it later.
 
seagulling is widely known as the practise of spunking in your palm and flinging the results out at random. Like that wrong un from Silence of The Lambs who was in the cell next door to Lecter.
 
DotCommunist said:
seagulling is widely known as the practise of spunking in your palm and flinging the results out at random. Like that wrong un from Silence of The Lambs who was in the cell next door to Lecter.
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Is it widely known? It's the first I've ever heard of the term and practice, if it is indeed a practice. I like to think I'm a bit of a perv too :hmm:
 
TruXta said:
Is it widely known? It's the first I've ever heard of the term and practice, if it is indeed a practice. I like to think I'm a bit of a perv too :hmm:
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It's less unpleasant than the practice known by American convicts as 'gassing,' to be fair. Gassing is when a convict keeps a bucket of shit and piss, lets it brew for a few days and then lobs the lot over the next guard to walk past his cell bars. Not that seagulling is exactly non-vile, obviously.
 
Bakunin said:
It's less unpleasant than the practice known by American convicts as 'gassing,' to be fair. Gassing is when a convict keeps a bucket of shit and piss, lets it brew for a few days and then lobs the lot over the next guard to walk past his cell bars. Not that seagulling is exactly non-vile, obviously.
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But that's not a sexual thing.

I hope.
 
Theisticle said:
Seriously good piece. Makes for an embarrassing comparison as I'm sure the author of that turgid piece is actively promoting an urban legend as fact. Fact. It's a fact.
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He's quite explicitly writing against that other shovel of shite too, surprised CIF even published it seeing as Rhiannon whatserface is getting quite high profile.
 
TruXta said:
He's quite explicitly writing against that other shovel of shite too, surprised CIF even published it seeing as Rhiannon whatserface is getting quite high profile.
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Checked out her Vagenda bollocks blog and she obviously writes for the NS also. Laughable they are even journalists. It's like the writings of a 15-year-old Cosmo reader.
 
This piece by the same author is even worse. No, really. The first paragraph alone is execrable

Remember when, in 17somethingorother, Napoleon described England as a nation of shopkeepers? Of course you don't, you didn't exist, and it any case he nicked the phrase from Adam Smith's 1776 magnum opus The Wealth of Nations, but the point is that the man was wrong. Unsurprising when you consider that Napoleon was wrong about lots of things, such as being really tall, invading Russia and speaking clearly on his deathbed so that those in the vicinity could make an accurate note of his comments for posterity, but in this case he was dreadfully, spectacularly wrong. Here's the hard truth: we are not a nation of shopkeepers, but a nation of shoplifters.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ion-of-shoplifters-supermarket-self-checkouts
 
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S☼I said:
This piece by the same author is even worse. No, really. The first paragraph alone is execrable



http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ion-of-shoplifters-supermarket-self-checkouts
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Wow. That's so painful to read.

Also, calling out this as bullshit once again:
This is someone who once stole a three-bedroom house's worth of furniture from Ikea by bypassing the checkouts but still arranged to have it all delivered by them, personally, to her door.
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