Urban v's the Commentariat

[Orang Utan]

Charlie Brooker once said that Rod Liddle looked like 'a failed Womble who's just been shaken awake in a shop doorway'

Time for a repeat of the above quote

 

[chilango]

Where's this article then? I want to read it.

The cafe I stop in for a mug of tea (and occasional sausage sandwich when I'm supposed to be in the gym, shhh) stocks The Sun. I'd persuade them not to but it's useful to read it from time to time....

 

[rekil]

Geography, in contrast, was a decent paper. You needed to know your stuff, but there was nothing engineered to make you cry.
The option question, the big one that everyone worries about, was actually quite nice. The subject of racial and ethnic mixing was a happy question for all of us who do geography in Adamstown. There are 60 different nationalities in this school and we all get on famously.

Dunno what the actual question was but what's going on in Adamstown? Imagine the carnage if intersectionalistas were let loose there. "Ok class, we have a treat for you today. Please welcome our special guests Richard Seymour of sex chair fiasco fame, Stavvers from twitter and Laurie Penny from Brighton College, Oxford, and Harvard; all places which might as well be the fecking moon for the likes of you..."

Looks like there's some serious whitesplaining going on here.

Some of the boys wear their uniform with long hair and beards

Beards.

 

[J Ed]

 

[rekil]

Nick Cohen got hundreds of RTs out of that. "Everything that's wrong with the British Left "

 

[J Ed]

That's almost as stupid.

 

[rekil]

He is a terrible terrible cunt.

 

[killer b]

I watched that 'we are many' doc the other night. It was pretty awful, but always good to be reminded what a truly disgusting human tony Blair is.

 

[emanymton]

I watched that 'we are many' doc the other night. It was pretty awful, but always good to be reminded what a truly disgusting human tony Blair is.

In what ways was it awful?

 

[killer b]

In what ways was it awful?

Just felt a bit pointless I suppose - there was an air of it wanting to be some kind of celebration of triumph over adversity, which didn't really work considering what happened. I suppose the weird tenuous connection it tried to make with the arab spring was attempting to create and uplifting finish... That bit about Richard Branson's last minute mercy flight with Nelson Mandela was just fucking laughable. John Rees weeping, Damon Albarn... the whole thing was a mess.

 

[butchersapron]

As big a mess as this?

 

[rekil]

As big a mess as this?

Barry Mainwaring has chipped in with a helpful suggestion.

 

[Idris2002]

18 hours a day? You're doing it wrong, Seymour.

 

[emanymton]

As big a mess as this?

Is he having some sort of breakdown?

 

[emanymton]

Just felt a bit pointless I suppose - there was an air of it wanting to be some kind of celebration of triumph over adversity, which didn't really work considering what happened. I suppose the weird tenuous connection it tried to make with the arab spring was attempting to create and uplifting finish... That bit about Richard Branson's last minute mercy flight with Nelson Mandela was just fucking laughable. John Rees weeping, Damon Albarn... the whole thing was a mess.

Wow, fucking Branson.

Still you got to see Rees cry so not a total loss.

 

[DotCommunist]

Is he having some sort of breakdown?

its the bad punk fanzine 'salvage marxism' style he seems to have hit upon

 

[frogwoman]

Oh god.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/06/09/the-secret-to-putin-its-all-right-on-his-face/

 

[ViolentPanda]

Oh god.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/06/09/the-secret-to-putin-its-all-right-on-his-face/

That really is a very badly written piece of crap.

 

[Idris2002]

http://www.thebaffler.com/blog/flakes-alive/

"The real comedy comes from panels like Dangerous Scapegoating of Islam: Exacerbated by the Left’s Silence About Controlled Demolition on 9/11. I counted this as one of three Truther panels this year, but these guys clearly had the best angle: Only a racist would believe jet fuel can melt steel beams!"

 

[Nigel Irritable]

http://www.thebaffler.com/blog/flakes-alive/

The US Left Forum, paradise of cranks.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Is this the right thread for this?

Caroline Criado-Perez - journalist. For services to equality and diversity.

That's Caroline Criado-Perez OBE, now.

 

[frogwoman]

https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=65f92d6a1356676b15f8ee74eccdf664&oe=562D4534

This pic was in response to anarchists and anti fash driving neo nazis out of a town and preventing them from marching btw. butchersapron

 

[J Ed]

https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=65f92d6a1356676b15f8ee74eccdf664&oe=562D4534

This pic was in response to anarchists and anti fash driving neo nazis out of a town and preventing them from marching btw. butchersapron

I've ran into this sort of thing before... doing anything but a simple A to B march behind coppers is misogynistic cos violence is just for men

 

[butchersapron]

Violence is for everyone.

I feel a range of prol-dem greetings cards coming on.

 

[rekil]

Good to see the Dublin hitman community embracing intersectionality.

Locals at the scene suggested the gunman was dressed in women’s clothing when he approached the men and opened fire using an automatic weapon.

Not so good that they're bagging the wrong people.

Gardaí believe he was not the killer’s target but was fatally wounded in a case of mistaken identity. He was shot in the head.

I can't remember who it was on here that suggested that the state should just let the gangs shoot it out but this latest case of innocent people being killed illustrates why that's not a particularly helpful solution.

 

[rekil]

I was at the Cervantes institute during the week (doing activism) and 3 or 4 Bolivian child miners appeared from nowhere, pressed a flash drive into my hand, whispered '¡Viva Posadas!' and then vanished. The contents turned out to be #inspiring.

 

[butchersapron]

That 'we' and the cut to the harman and the african clothes woman and made even better by the sheer illogical banality of her ten to one percent (wtf is ten toone percent?).

Great work.

 

[Libertad]

Muy buen.

 

[butchersapron]

Good work on nailing watson too.

 

[Theisticle]

Kudos on the video.