Urban v's the Commentariat

[el-ahrairah]

bang to rights

is it ok to be turned on by that post?

 

[Pickman's model]

is it ok to be turned on by that post?

yes as long as you 'like' it.

 

[el-ahrairah]

*likes*

i feel dirty now.

 

[frogwoman]

Is that real?

 

[Pickman's model]

Is that real?

yes. of course it's real

 

[DaveCinzano]

Is that real?

What a peculiar question. Is what real? Is that hand-drawn pie chart real? Is the “women's website” on which it featured real? Or is there real research underpinning the 30% boner stat?

 

[frogwoman]

What a peculiar question. Is what real? Is that hand-drawn pie chart real? Is the “women's website” on which it featured real? Or is there real research underpinning the 30% boner stat?

I meant was it meant seriously or were they taking the piss out of what people who think up those pie charts are like?

 

[barney_pig]

yes. of course it's real

Everything's real

 

[goldenecitrone]

Everything's real

Except fiction.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Except fiction.

that's real too. it's real fiction.

 

[TruXta]

True lies.

 

[goldenecitrone]

that's real too. it's real fiction.

 

[barney_pig]

also real

 

[phildwyer]

I'd forgotten what a poisonous turd Dalrymple is.

Aye. He can't even see the contradiction here:

"I remember thinking, as a young man, such absurd thoughts as that baldness in men was a physical sign or consequence of having compromised in cowardly fashion with the demands of the world for the sake of peace, quiet and comfort. One’s hair fell out as a result: it was the sign of a guilty, or at least unquiet, conscience. Now that I have gone bald myself, I know different."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10459224/Joanna-Dennehy-The-call-of-the-underworld.html

 

[ViolentPanda]

Aye. He can't even see the contradiction here:

"I remember thinking, as a young man, such absurd thoughts as that baldness in men was a physical sign or consequence of having compromised in cowardly fashion with the demands of the world for the sake of peace, quiet and comfort. One’s hair fell out as a result: it was the sign of a guilty, or at least unquiet, conscience. Now that I have gone bald myself, I know different."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10459224/Joanna-Dennehy-The-call-of-the-underworld.html

He's never been one for self-reflection. I picked up a book of his for 50p once (called "If Symptoms Persist", a collection of his Spectator columns), read it and binned it. It was obvious that the author was "...a psychopath of the first water!".

 

[TruXta]

Imagine having that dick as your psychiatrist - "ffs just get over it"....

 

[ViolentPanda]

Imagine having that dick as your psychiatrist - "ffs just get over it"....

You'd be wanting to punch his sanctimonious phizzog within about 2 minutes of the consultation starting.

 

[frogwoman]

I wonder what any of these idiots would do in Ukraine? What would they do if they got attacked by a nazi? Ask them to check their nazi's privilege? Is there an intersectional pie chart that we can look at?

 

[andysays]

I wonder what any of these idiots would do in Ukraine? What would they do if they got attacked by a nazi? Ask them to check their nazi's privilege? Is there an intersectional pie chart that we can look at?

I'm hopeful that lauriepenny is on her way to Kiev at this moment, and we'll be reading her report from the front line in the next issue of Workers' Girder

 

[rekil]

I wonder what any of these idiots would do in Ukraine? What would they do if they got attacked by a nazi? Ask them to check their nazi's privilege? Is there an intersectional pie chart that we can look at?

If fractionMan is kind enough to have a go at the priv-off app, it should include a neo-nazi card.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I'm hopeful that lauriepenny is on her way to Kiev at this moment, and we'll be reading her report from the front line in the next issue of Worker's Girder

Sorry, guys, but I'm not going back out there today. Really don't want to be arrested and deported just for journalism.

 

[andysays]

Sorry, guys, but I'm not going back out there today. Really don't want to be arrested and deported just for journalism.

In war, truth is the first casualty

 

[DaveCinzano]

I'm looking forward to Laura joining forces with Amanda Palmer, Jacobin Nambla and the #MonetiseWallStreet bunch to organise the ‘BanderaAid’ charity single.

Do they know it's extreme right-wing Orthodox Christian nationalism again?

Crowdfund it and they will come.

 

[Obnoxiousness]

You've probably heard the ATOS news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26287199

But why are the BBC News Channel not covering it? The story was available online this morning but when I went to look for it on the TV..... nothing. The BBC Saints & Scroungers programme, an infomercial for the Tories, suggests to me that the BBC is in their pocket to some degree.

 

[J Ed]

You've probably heard the ATOS news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26287199

But why are the BBC News Channel not covering it? The story was available online this morning but when I went to look for it on the TV..... nothing. The BBC Saints & Scroungers programme, an infomercial for the Tories, suggests to me that the BBC is in their pocket to some degree.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-bias--on-the-right-not-the-left-9129639.html

I remember when Spain watchers used to look disparagingly at Spain in regards to the state broadcaster, they laughed at how each party would put their boys in positions of power and the bias would be obvious. Well, we have it too now.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

Flavia "intersectional or bullshit" Dzodan served up a twitter rant about those racist old Marxists. You'll get the tone from one example:

@redlightvoices: White Marxist dudes, if you are "revolution", I rather stay in this shit.When you are in charge, it'll be as awful minus pumpkin spice latte

 

[DaveCinzano]

Flavia "intersectional or bullshit" Dzodan...

Who?

I am a writer, public speaker, media maker, ideas instigator, content creator and facilitator living in Amsterdam.

Oh.

 

[rekil]

Also, and to be clear, I want NOTHING to do with these conceptions of "revolution" that always imply some form of violence

It is not because I am a lovey dovey pacifist but because violence is all we've had for centuries. "Revolution" for me is something else

Hmmm.

it's easy to say "race doesn't matter" when its not your children dying from white supremacy

That long awaited intersecionality analysis of Syria seems further away than ever.

 

[rekil]

Who?



Oh.

You left out "business developer".

 

[andysays]

Flavia "intersectional or bullshit" Dzodan served up a twitter rant about those racist old Marxists. You'll get the tone from one example:

@redlightvoices: White Marxist dudes, if you are "revolution", I rather stay in this shit.When you are in charge, it'll be as awful minus pumpkin spice latte

If I can't have pumpkin spice latte, it's not my revolution...