Urban v's the Commentariat

[DaveCinzano]

Kids today are all 'Why can't I stream this video to my fridge in full 1080p'.

Video? No, the youth is all about the SQUID, baby.

 

[brogdale]

perhaps it's time to start a thread, 'penny dreadful', devoted to la penny's scribblings

She might start posting again.

 

[Pickman's model]

She might start posting again.

good

hopefully she'd have less time to write her farting piffle for the ns

 

[DaveCinzano]

good

hopefully she'd have less time to write her farting piffle for the ns

Her Harvard jaunt, which I believe starts this month, apparently means that “Any professional work [she undertakes] will be at the discretion of the Nieman Foundation.”

http://laurie-penny.com/some-very-exciting-news/

 

[Pickman's model]

Her Harvard jaunt, which I believe starts this month, apparently means that “Any professional work [she undertakes] will be at the discretion of the Nieman Foundation.”

http://laurie-penny.com/some-very-exciting-news/

perhaps the nieman foundation considers the outlay well worth the price of curtailing her writing.

 

[DaveCinzano]

ALTRUISTIC PHILANTHROPY LIVES

 

[Bakunin]

Her Harvard jaunt, which I believe starts this month, apparently means that “Any professional work [she undertakes] will be at the discretion of the Nieman Foundation.”

http://laurie-penny.com/some-very-exciting-news/

Isn't that likely to cramp the shameless self-promotion, hypocrisy, dishonesty, lightweight writing and lack of professional ethics?

 

[DaveCinzano]

• “Deeds not words. Fewer business lunches, more throwing punches.”
• Getting other people to do your homework/research/job, and calling it ‘crowdsourced’:
  • Pro-abortion activists in Spain
  • Anarchists in Athens
  • Anyone with an opinion on Belgium
• I know the Tommy interview was mentioned, but how about STEAK DINNER?
• The new penitent spiel - ‘I'm trying to do better, please don't cast me out, I'll be a better intersectional ally in the future I promise’
• Smearing someone as a racist, then privately speaking with them on the phone, and agreeing that they're not actually racist, using the ‘misunderstanding’ excuse, but never actually publicly correcting the false accusation

 

[cesare]

What was that thing where she fell out with OJ on twitter then she took him for tea to make it up?

 

[butchersapron]

perhaps the nieman foundation considers the outlay well worth the price of curtailing her writing.

Who says the rich don't have a social conscience. Long this this sort of social-minded philanthropy.

edit: damn, far too late.

 

[ViolentPanda]

starting the journo wankers 'I am in you' twitter affectation. Probably just a bit minor, but by fuck did it annoy me

And what about Saudade?

 

[rekil]

"I was building an ethical personal brand"

Naomi Klein in No Logo more or less predicting the likes of LP, Vice, crabapple and all those horrible new ink-wirry and activism boutique chancers that occupy shat out.



'Hullo editors, I'm the voice of youth, I have an anarchy badge and I've been in a kettle, something something lost generation, *wiggles school tie*, career please'.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Sort of failing your 'A' levels, (like sort've being as near to trans* as you can get without being it), is a little bit communism.

 

[butchersapron]

How'd she get in to oxford then? She probably did them when she was 12 or something such is her cleverocity.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I did wonder about that, having scraped a 'D' and an 'E' second time around and made it to auspicious corridors of the Polytechnic of Central London.

Don't they have entrance exams at Oxbridge? Maybe she did really well in them (trained up for them at the smartest school)

 

[cesare]

How'd she get in to oxford then? She probably did them when she was 12 or something such is her cleverocity.

If she passed the Oxford entrance exam and interview, her A level results wouldn't have mattered too much because Oxford rate their own process higher than that of anyone else.

 

[killer b]

I dunno if it's the same now, but in my brothers' time once you passed the entrance exam you just needed two D's to get in.

 

[butchersapron]

If she passed the Oxford entrance exam and interview, her A level results wouldn't have mattered too much because Oxford rate their own process higher than that of anyone else.

Really? Yet another hidden stitch up.

 

[butchersapron]

You've been anointed - don't worry about the stuff the plebs have to do.

So in fact, she didn't fail her a levels. It was impossible for her to fail them. The play was already fixed from above by oxford. They just didn't matter in her upward progression.

 

[Pickman's model]

I dunno if it's the same now, but in my brothers' time once you passed the entrance exam you just needed two D's to get in.

back in the 80s if you passed their tests you just needed two e's.

i am aware of at least one person who slacked off and didn't even achieve this minimal target

 

[butchersapron]

Oxbridge cunts. Find out some new reason to hate it every day.

 

[cesare]

Really? Yet another hidden stitch up.

More here courtesy of Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-applicants-simply-trained-pass-A-levels.html

 

[butchersapron]

More here courtesy of Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-applicants-simply-trained-pass-A-levels.html

Cheers. It would make sense for them to have a private standard mirroring private education i suppose. I hear they plan on having special fast pavement lanes for their students next term. If non-students step in it they get mocked in the quads.

 

[Pickman's model]

Cheers. It would make sense for them to have a private standard mirroring private education i suppose. I hear they plan on having special fast pavement lanes for their students next term. If non-students step in it they get mocked in the quads.

at which point i hope the offending students get kicked in the quads or similar

 

[DaveCinzano]

I did wonder about that, having scraped a 'D' and an 'E' second time around and made it to auspicious corridors of the Polytechnic of Central London.

Don't they have entrance exams at Oxbridge? Maybe she did really well in them (trained up for them at the smartest school)

Don't forget, there's always crammers (if you have the money)!

 

[cesare]

Cheers. It would make sense for them to have a private standard mirroring private education i suppose. I hear they plan on having special fast pavement lanes for their students next term. If non-students step in it they get mocked in the quads.

Students without an elite background and RP accent get mocked too.

 

[butchersapron]

Students without an elite background and RP accent get mocked too.

Some of them join in the mocking though. That's how they move on up.

 

[danny la rouge]

Sort of failing your 'A' levels, (like sort've being as near to trans* as you can get without being it), is a little bit communism.

Is there no issue that isn't all about her?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Is there no issue that isn't all about her?

She is the Zeitgeist, Danny.

 

[The Pale King]

And what about Saudade?

How could I forget! I can't bear to look at it again though, it was so cringingly bloody awful. I'll wait til it's read out in full (along with everything else mentioned here) at her show-trial.

Perhaps it offers a glimpse of how insulated these media types make themselves though - no-one, from conception to editing to printing, was kind enough to say to her 'this is fucking terrible'. Editorial meetings at the New Statesman must just be one big circle-jerk.