Urban v's the Commentariat

[DaveCinzano]

Look forward to the addendum, “Does anyone know any English-speaking people in Brussels who can do my homework for me?”

 

[J Ed]

Look forward to the addendum, “Does anyone know any English-speaking people in Brussels who can do my homework for me?”

You'd think with all that expensive private education you'd get some MFL knowledge.

 

[Idris2002]

Owen Jones just tweeted this, apparently:

From Owen Jones twitter feed

Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84 2h

Just turned up at the @guardian. “Are you here for work experience?”
asks the receptionist

 

[Bakunin]

Getting sources and tips is one thing. Asking twitter to help you every time you have an article is another.

Nothing wrong with sources and tips. Nothing wrong with querying possible clients about article ideas, either. Repeatedly asking people to do most of her job for her is another matter.

 

[SpackleFrog]

You'd think with all that expensive private education you'd get some MFL knowledge.

You'd think Mummy and Daddy would know a few EU high-ups really. Must be nouveau riche, not proper money.

 

[SpackleFrog]

I hope LP dies at the hands of the teenage intersectionalistas her ilk breed. Not sure how that could happen but I hope it does.

 

[DotCommunist]

steady on

 

[J Ed]

Death by a thousand tumblrs..

 

[DotCommunist]

I mean she's an annoying fauxscialist but death? there are many who live that deserve death. And many dead who deserved life. Can you give it to them, SpackleFrog? Do not be so quick to deal in death as judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends

 

[andysays]

Owen Jones just tweeted this, apparently:

From Owen Jones twitter feed

Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84 2h

Just turned up at the @guardian. “Are you here for work experience?”
asks the receptionist

Poor Owen. Do you think he still gets asked for ID in pubs?

 

[SpackleFrog]

I mean she's an annoying fauxscialist but death? there are many who live that deserve death. And many dead who deserved life. Can you give it to them, SpackleFrog? Do not be so quick to deal in death as judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends

I'll take it I've just been lectured by the very wise then. Ta for the pearls of wisdom.

 

[DotCommunist]

I cast them before swine etc

no but thats a gandalf quote above, apt though it may be I can't claim it as mine

 

[weepiper]

Ugh. No need to wish death on her, I can't stand her but that's unnecessary

 

[DotCommunist]

Poor Owen. Do you think he still gets asked for ID in pubs?

his youthful visage is a privilege as checked as his shirts

 

[Pickman's model]

I hope LP dies at the hands of the teenage intersectionalistas her ilk breed. Not sure how that could happen but I hope it does.

on a plane. it crashes in the mountains in south america. lp captured by cannibal teenage intersectionalistas with a yen for bbq'd members of the commentariat.

or

on a plane. it crashes in the mountains in south america. lp captured by lost tribe of incas. freed by teenage intersentionalistas among the incas who find their idol lp not what they had imagined. it's up the sacrificial pyramid with her and the last thing she sees is her still-beating heart ripp'd from her chest.

 

[Pickman's model]

his youthful visage is a privilege as checked as his shirts

give it ten years and he'll have a drinker's ruddy complexion.

 

[SpackleFrog]

on a plane. it crashes in the mountains in south america. lp captured by cannibal teenage intersectionalistas with a yen for bbg'd members of the commentariat.

or

on a plane. it crashes in the mountains in south america. lp captured by lost tribe of incas. freed by teenage intersentionalistas among the incas who find their idol lp not what they had imagined. it's up the sacrificial pyramid with her and the last thing she sees is her still-beating heart ripp'd from her chest.

They're both so beautiful... Ideal wedding gift material.

 

[J Ed]

One way I could see Laurie Penny dying at the hands of teenage intersectionalists is if she went to one of those weird white guilt plantation things in America where white liberals get black people to whip them while they are in chains because they have a fetish to rid them of their white guilt.

Thinking about it, with the rise of intersectionalistas here, setting one up might be a good way to make a few quid here...

 

[equationgirl]

I hope LP dies at the hands of the teenage intersectionalistas her ilk breed. Not sure how that could happen but I hope it does.

That's well out of order. Whatever she's done, death threats however 'humourous' are not on.

 

[equationgirl]

on a plane. it crashes in the mountains in south america. lp captured by cannibal teenage intersectionalistas with a yen for bbq'd members of the commentariat.

or

on a plane. it crashes in the mountains in south america. lp captured by lost tribe of incas. freed by teenage intersentionalistas among the incas who find their idol lp not what they had imagined. it's up the sacrificial pyramid with her and the last thing she sees is her still-beating heart ripp'd from her chest.

Not cool Pickman's. No need for death threats, she's done nothing to deserve that.

 

[andysays]

That's well out of order. Whatever she's done, death threats however 'humourous' are not on.

I thought (or maybe hoped) that it was metaphorical rather than literal, like "dying a death", but if it was meant literally then yes, it's well out of order.

 

[Pickman's model]

Not cool Pickman's. No need for death threats, she's done nothing to deserve that.

no death threats here, just some mild imagination

 

[treelover]

Stand by for Laura interjection!

 

[Nigel Irritable]

Those aren't death threats. They miss the crucial "threat" part.

That said, I think we can do without that stuff.

 

[SpackleFrog]

That's well out of order. Whatever she's done, death threats however 'humourous' are not on.

Not a threat, as noted. I'm a bit surprised by this reaction to be honest.

 

[equationgirl]

Not a threat, as noted. I'm a bit surprised by this reaction to be honest.

There's been stuff related to LP and acts of violence being wished on her before. Some were clearly humourous, others not so much, and I know it's imaginary but there's been a sort of guideline for a while where we only discuss her work, and the death stuff is pretty much unnecessary.

I'm sure she gets a lot of abuse online as it is, we know she reads this forum and I don't think we should contribute to the abuse she gets.

 

[Pickman's model]

if i'd wanted to be abusive, believe me i'd have been abusive

 

[equationgirl]

if i'd wanted to be abusive, believe me i'd have been abusive

I know you would have been, I just don't think imaginary deaths are appropriate on this thread.

 

[Pickman's model]

I know you would have been, I just don't think imaginary deaths are appropriate on this thread.

better than real one we'll all meet too soon tho. and most real deaths are banal.

 

[tim]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed 14h
So I am going to Brussels next month to dig around in European politics before the elections. Who's around, who should I talk to?

We're crowdsourcing an article again...