Urban v's the Commentariat

[Idris2002]

Has Paul Mason "lost it"?


If they'd had Max Keiser shouting at them about bitcoins they would've done a bit better?

If the miners had had smartphones, Thatcher would have made texting illegal.

 

[andysays]

I'm reliably informed they pay per hit on cif. You can imagine the effect this might have on the kind of journalism people therefore submit...

Brainaddict posting that link has probably earned Seymour a few quid then, as we all go to check out his latest musings...

 

[Brainaddict]

if only they had used social media they might have won. Like the time anon toppled muburak singlehandedly

Mason periodically writes stuff like this. I read it as him selling himself to editors etc as being down with the kids, edgy, relevant...

 

[Brainaddict]

Brainaddict posting that link has probably earned Seymour a few quid then, as we all go to check out his latest musings...

Imagine what this thread has added to Laurie Penny's personal bank balance then.

 

[The Boy]

As commemorated in song by the great Amanda Palmer herself.

I haven't washed my left tit since she signed it outside a gig a few years back. Her signature is long gone, but y'know...

 

[Idris2002]

I haven't washed my left tit since she signed it outside a gig a few years back. Her signature is long gone, but y'know...

Like you need an excuse for not washing.

 

[rekil]

Brainaddict posting that link has probably earned Seymour a few quid then, as we all go to check out his latest musings...

This then, if it works - www.donotlink.com

 

[andysays]

This then, if it works - www.donotlink.com

Good shout

 

[Belushi]

Has Paul Mason "lost it"?

some of the Welsh miners who slept on my living room floor in Leicester in 1984 had never eaten a samosa.

 

[frogwoman]

Has Paul Mason "lost it"?


If they'd had Max Keiser shouting at them about bitcoins they would've done a bit better?

 

[DotCommunist]

there were no firebox takeawway vans in those dark days

 

[Belushi]

I'm hoping for a new big budget British comedy where a group of Welsh Miners are led out into the daylight and introduced to ethnic food for the first time.

 

[PoorButNotAChav]

If the miners had possessed smartphones and Twitter instead of there being collections of money and food for miners and their families there might have been trending hashtags and the miners and their families would have starved to death.

I believe Paul Mason when he talks about economics. When he talks about politics and technology I believe he's deluded.

 

[Sue]

I'm hoping for a new big budget British comedy where a group of Welsh Miners are led out into the daylight and introduced to ethnic food for the first time.

....and I can think of just the ex-London Mayoral candidate for the job...

 

[Plumdaff]

If the miners had possessed smartphones they could have phoned for a takeaway.

 

[Plumdaff]

I'm hoping for a new big budget British comedy where a group of Welsh Miners are led out into the daylight and introduced to ethnic food for the first time.

"'Half and Half" is a heartwarming tale for all the family......

 

[PoorButNotAChav]

If the miners had possessed coal-powered smartphones they could have tweeted for days because when they ran low on power they could have blown on their phones to get more power or tipped a teaspoon of nutty slack in the back.

Although they would have been wise not to put the chimney on their smartphones near their mouth or nose.

 

[DaveCinzano]

If the miners had possessed smartphones they could have phoned for a takeaway.

Being Welsh miners, I'm sure they wouldn't even have needed to phone, they could've just used an ap.

 

[Idris2002]

Being Welsh miners, I'm sure they wouldn't even have needed to phone, they could've just used an ap.

OK, we're done here people.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Has Paul Mason "lost it"?


If they'd had Max Keiser shouting at them about bitcoins they would've done a bit better?

I can really imagine Owen and Laurie and going off to Yorkshire or Durham to hang around with working class people.


Have either of them ever been seen further north than Oxford?

 

[Idris2002]

Have either of them ever been seen further north than Oxford?

Only on nights when the moon is full.

 

[el-ahrairah]

I can't imagine either of my parents, born and bred in East London, could have identified a samosa, in 1984. And I don't think my parents were weird in that respect. My grandma lived the first 80 years of her life in East London and probably couldn't identify a samosa today.

Just to put that bloke's weird fucking idea into context.

 

[rekil]

I can really imagine Owen and Laurie and going off to Yorkshire or Durham to hang around with working class people.


Have either of them ever been seen further north than Oxford?

OJ is from Stockport and he *does* go up and down the country. He even says he was in Ireland last year, scolding the ultra left for not being in Labour maybe.

 

[DotCommunist]

Only on nights when the moon is full.

beware the journoman when the moon is fat

 

[Nigel Irritable]

OJ is from Stockport and he *does* go up and down the country. He even says he was in Ireland last year, scolding the ultra left for not being in Labour maybe.

He was speaking at an event organised by the Socialist Party in Dublin! He was pretty good too from what I remember. To be fair, he doesn't automatically advocate that people in other countries should join their local labour/soc dem party.

 

[el-ahrairah]

OJ is from Stockport and he *does* go up and down the country. He even says he was in Ireland last year, scolding the ultra left for not being in Labour maybe.

i would have thought someone from stockport would have grown up too sensible to be owen jones. you live and learn. well, you might, i try not to. now i imagine the boy jones, dreaming of islington, where the streets were paved with lattes and the labour club was full of dashing young blades.

 

[rekil]

He was speaking at an event organised by the Socialist Party in Dublin! He was pretty good too from what I remember. To be fair, he doesn't automatically advocate that people in other countries should join their local labour/soc dem party.

Ganging up with the local winning side is a little bit communism.

 

[Idris2002]

i would have thought someone from stockport would have grown up too sensible to be owen jones. you live and learn. well, you might, i try not to. now i imagine the boy jones, dreaming of islington, where the streets were paved with lattes and the labour club was full of dashing young blades.

But father, we must all live our lives according to our lights.

 

[DaveCinzano]

80s LARPing for middle class kids from the home counties. DM boots, donkey jackets, living in ex-council flats in formerly run-down inner cities, doing smack and listening to the specials. reading laurie penny articles because it's the closest thing they've got to radical angry political firebrands.

Quoted because I can't find the retro Miners' Strike chic fashion tumblr so this will have to do as a temporary placeholder

 

[DaveCinzano]

Quoted because I can't find the retro Miners' Strike chic fashion tumblr so this will have to do as a temporary placeholder

FOUND IT!!!

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...cebook-handbags.266196/page-610#post-12197334

Gone but not forgotten...