Urban v's the Commentariat

[treelover]

The memorable images here are not those of victory and celebration, and the poem does not provide much regarding the feelings of the victors. Instead, the victory is defined by the extent of the waste and devastation, like at the end of action movies when no one has anything to say and no real perspective. "They left behind them to share the corpses / the dark-coated swarthy raven, / horn-beaked, and the gray-coated / eagle, white-tailed, to possess the carrion, / the greedy war-hawk and that gray wild beast, / the wolf in the forest" (60-65). These are the battlefield scavengers who appear repeatedly in early English poetry.

http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/medieval/brunanburg.html

from the Dark Ages, probably as old as warfare, but in this case animals/birds, etc.

 

[andysays]

She's not a "war artist", she's a liberal who makes a living (to borrow a phrase from The Clash) "turning rebellion into money".

But does she wear Burton's suits?

 

[rekil]

Alexander McQueen gowns.

Two weeks ago, I stayed with an impossibly glamorous friend [Crabapple] who insisted upon dressing me up in her latest acquisition, an Alexander McQueen gown.

 

[DotCommunist]

"not going back out there to get arrested just for journalism"

thing with that one was, if she had been nicked it'd be temp visa suspended and next flight home, plus you aren't going to be allowed back ever.

Having that happen would have been principled, but it would get in the way of further thrilling NY reportage about finding a faded Obama campaign jersey.

 

[ViolentPanda]

But does she wear Burton's suits?

She wears a Burtons Trilby, by the looks of it.

 

[DotCommunist]

She wears a Burtons Trilby, by the looks of it.

its no cor blimey hat is it

 

[equationgirl]

This imbecile. Dearie me.

Not the worst post on her feed either.

 

[andysays]

its no cor blimey hat is it

Laurie's claims that her old man is a dustman have now been disproven, but it's worth recalling that it was actually his trousers rather than his hat which she was claiming as being "cor blimey"

 

[DotCommunist]

Laurie's claims that her old man is a dustman have now been disproven, but it's worth recalling that it was actually his trousers rather than his hat which she was claiming as being "cor blimey"

thats right, it was a dustmans hat was it not. But if 'my old man said follow the van(guard)' then surely its an appropriate recruitment song for newer PD cadres

 

[J Ed]

This imbecile. Dearie me.

This bullshit techno-libertarianism is becoming 'common sense' to a lot of people. Punch a google glass wearing cunt in the face.

There's no point striking since machines will just replace you, give blowjobs to data scientists at corporations which avoid taxes while taking in massive subsidies or die by the road side. Anything else is getting in the way of progress.

 

[DotCommunist]

we are all neo-luddites now

 

[butchersapron]

This bullshit techno-libertarianism is becoming 'common sense' to a lot of people. Punch a google glass wearing cunt in the face.

There's no point striking since machines will just replace you, just give blowjobs to data scientists at corporations which avoid taxes while taking in massive subsidies or die by the road side. Anything else is getting in the way of progress.

The thing is, it's capital whose thieved the social/general intellect embodied in technology rather than boffins being white suited angels bringing light to the dark.

 

[ska invita]

Laurie's claims that her old man is a dustman have now been disproven, but it's worth recalling that it was actually his trousers rather than his hat which she was claiming as being "cor blimey"

Ive never forgotten this for some reason
"My old’s man a duke, he wears a dukell hat, he’s never met the working class or seen a council flat"

 

[DotCommunist]

well thats exactly shown by how refinement in process is more valued than direct innovation. Refinements in process can be used to cheapen the labour value of a widget, wheras innovation outside of it challenges existing monopoly. If you see what I mean

 

[Theisticle]

 

[emanymton]

after small and portable items of wealth, or gear better than their own and of the right size. No the term reffered to people, non army affiliated (even loosely a la camp follower) who would loot after dark.

it'll come to me at some point.

The phrase that has popped into my head is bone picker, but I probably just made that up myself.

 

[rekil]

This could be a laugh. It's on at 7:30. It'd be kewl if LP featured.

 

[benedict]

It's all about Laurie, Laurie, Laurie, as usual. Re: the discussion earlier, THIS is her form of radicalism, whatever situates *her* as radical. Hence why she has barely a passing interest in class issues.

Must add though that Frostrup does make a right arse of herself by coming up with shit like this: "If your boyfriend hasn't yet decided what sex to go for, let alone an individual to direct his passion towards, he shouldn't be attempting a long-term union."

 

[weepiper]

All the most interesting people are bisexual and polyamorous.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

All the most interesting people are bisexual and polyamorous.

Bisexuality is boring nowadays it needs the extra edge of polamory

ETA: I used to go to school with a lass called Polly Amery if only we had known when we were ten!

 

[el-ahrairah]

polyamory really gets on my tits. in my day we had open relationships and that was that. *thumps stick on ground*

 

[rekil]

My girlfriends, boyfriends and I are so edgy, we're bored with vanilla polyamory and can only get turned on if we've got weird molds like dictyostelium and about a ton of fruit and veg watching.

 

[el-ahrairah]

if i'you're not doing race play and fisting with three partners and six strangers you're part of the problem.

 

[Balbi]

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS, LIKE A REVOLUBRICANT

 

[Ole]

There was a video on the previous thread that sums her up perfectly. She's giving a talk to some oxford types, government advisers, judges, barristers, in her own words ambitious people. And she says she's a revolutionary socialist. And they give her a little round of applause. And she smiles. It tells you everything you need to know about the role she plays.

Jesus fucking wept!

Cunt!

 

[frogwoman]

there's an arguement on my facebook feed with someone (whose white housemate has dreads) saying it's not OK for white people to have dreads

 

[Belushi]

there's an arguement on my facebook feed with someone (whose white housemate has dreads) saying it's not OK for white people to have dreads

How about black folk with straight hair?

 

[frogwoman]

someone said:

"It is ok to have dreads - grow up"

Her reply:

"says white person to people of colour"

 

[J Ed]

Didn't vikings have dreadlocks?

 

[frogwoman]

On the anelka/dieudonne thing Richard Seymour was on about (cant remember it was here or the other thread), my colleague at work started talking about him today (shes kenyan)

she was absolutely disgusted by him, saying that as a black person he should know what it was like to experience racism, because of what she's experienced here, that it was an insult and disrespectful etc, and that she found it disgusting and that you didn't even have to have been to school to know what it was about

it's so easy on the left to get into this bubble of writing off our friends and workmates who are not into politics as non-political and imagine that most of society need to be "given a lead" when actually it's the left that needs to be given a lead tbh