Urban v's the Commentariat

[DaveCinzano]

Hit up Glenn Greenwald. He was boasting last month that that he donates money to 'radicals' (Weev lol?). But either he deleted it or I can't find it.

Can you imagine how many soi-disant opsec activists and Occupy Tea Tent type nutters would have been jumping on that faster than blue tits on a fat ball?

 

[butchersapron]

I heard some ruffians set up a fake glenn 'invade iraq' greenwald i will give you money account just so he could give it some largesse.

 

[ViolentPanda]

No one who was a poor country boy would say they were a poor country boy. Only people who want to mug people and laugh up their sleeve when it's printed say that.

Unless they're writing a C & W lyric.

 

[Pickman's model]

Unless they're writing a C & W lyric.

or in queen - "i'm just a poor boy / nobody loves me" from 'bohemian rhapsody' comes close.

 

[rekil]

Most racist essay competition?

 

[butchersapron]

It's trying hard. Good old Oxford.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Most racist essay competition?

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You don't understand: Oxford University the racist institution of privilege is nothing to do with the Oxford University made up of all those smartest boys and girls from very smart schools. Entirely different things.

 

[andysays]

Most racist essay competition?

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(((Oxford)))

I'm referring to the city, where I believe some relatively ordinary and even non-racist people still live, as opposed to the bastion of class and other privilege which is the university (and which LP chooses still to actively benefit from, as distinct to simply benefiting from as an Oxford graduate) obviously...

Edited to clarify (potentially) confusing use of brackets

 

[butchersapron]

Far far too many varieties and use of brackets in that post.

 

[tufty79]

No use of {} though, so not the fullbracketdiversityrainbow.
First they came for the brackets....

 

[rekil]

If this is true, it's weird, if it's not, well why make something like that up.

 

[rekil]

No use of {} though, so not the fullbracketdiversityrainbow.
First they came for the brackets....

Not seeing any "< >" #bracketqueer representation either.

 

[weepiper]

Far far too many varieties and use of brackets in that post.

why do you hate vibrancy? bracketist.

 

[andysays]

Far far too many varieties and use of brackets in that post.

Yeah, sorry about that. I hope it's better now.

In mitigation, I will simply say that I haven't had the benefit of a proper Oxford education and then post-graduate studies in journalism at Harvard like what some people have

 

[andysays]

No use of {} though, so not the fullbracketdiversityrainbow.
First they came for the brackets....

I chose [] rather than {} or <> because they can be rendered without use of the shift key, so are particularly well suited to my one fingered typing style.

What's your point caller?

 

[tufty79]

Wait, what? I need to have a point?
Discrimination. Period.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Pointism.

 

[DaveCinzano]

What's your point caller?

Wait, what? I need to have a point?
Discrimination. Period.

No points, no periods, just FULL STOPS

 

[tufty79]

Pointism.

Disappointism

 

[andysays]

Wait, what? I need to have a point?
Discrimination. Period.

I can see that I've inadvertently strayed into the vexed area of orthographic correctness

Maybe this subject needs a whole thread to itself where we can discuss what is and isn't acceptable in this context, and who are the orthographically privileged who need to learn to be good allies and step up, or back whatever it is, instead of engaging in punctuation-plaining.

Can I leave you to start it though?

 

[butchersapron]

called himself an anarchist too, the molly crab of is day

 

[andysays]

Pointism.

Art that everybody raves about etc thread ------------------------------------>

 

[tufty79]

andysays - you've hit the punctuation kool aid tipping point, my friend

 

[andysays]

Is that two pointilism jokes in a row?

This must be a record, shirley

 

[andysays]

Before we leave this subject, I'd also like to make a pathetic joke about it being the first time I've seen a thread turning into an example of a punch up about the bracket, rather than just someone being offered a punch up the bracket.

<Gets coat and guide to orthographic correctness>

 

[DaveCinzano]

Before we leave this subject, I'd also like to make a parenthetic joke...

CFY

 

[andysays]

 

[equationgirl]

(((Oxford)))

I'm referring to the city, where I believe some relatively ordinary and even non-racist people still live, as opposed to the bastion of class and other privilege which is the university (and which LP chooses still to actively benefit from, as distinct to simply benefiting from as an Oxford graduate) obviously...

Edited to clarify (potentially) confusing use of brackets

Oxford is more town than gown, in my experience. But the university has a huge influence and brand.

 

[J Ed]

If our Laurie is marking those essays then at least we know that Oxford is moving in the right direction, employing a white, upper-middle-class privately educated Oxford graduate currently studying at Harvard with an "ethical personal brand" is the first step towards eliminating all traces of colonialism, privilege and racism at your institution.

 

[equationgirl]

If our Laurie is marking those essays then at least we know that Oxford is moving in the right direction, employing a white, upper-middle-class privately educated Oxford graduate currently studying at Harvard with an "ethical personal brand" is the first step towards eliminating all traces of colonialism, privilege and racism at your institution.

What is a personal brand though, seriously?