Urban v's the Commentariat

[brogdale]

it should have all stoped after 'generation x'. I don't mind 'millenials' so much even if its largely used by wanks to write pieces about modern youth culture. It just sounds well futuristic so its fine with me.

She's onto 'millenials' today. Back to crowd-sourcing copy...

 

[andysays]

She's onto 'millenials' today. Back to crowd-sourcing copy...

Wow, that will have the establishment shaking in its shoes...

 

[Bakunin]

She's onto 'millenials' today. Back to crowd-sourcing copy...

All that crowdsourcing and a never-ending stream of bungling sub-editors, my heart bleeds.

 

[agricola]

What is the purpose of the generalisation 'generation'? - like 'nation' or whatever, it flattens out all class, gender etc differences to no good end.

"the generalization generation"

is it too late to copyright this?

 

[The Pale King]

"the generalization generation"

is it too late to copyright this?

If the cap fits...

 

[stethoscope]

Just putting this one here...

 

[Belushi]

Poor Mark and Carol, forced to flog off their dead Mums old clothes.

 

[equationgirl]

Just putting this one here...

What a stupid suggestion - and it has already been studied anyway.

 

[JimW]

They tried but were outbid by a West End production of the Rocky Horror Show.

 

[J Ed]

Just putting this one here...

What I read here: ...as a fellow neoliberal devotee I too wished to bid on the jewellery and clothing so that I, like the other bidders, could masturbate in its presence

 

[DotCommunist]

its like kylo ren collecting Darth Vader relics

 

[rekil]

Scuffles at the fees demo. Anybody from here there? Judging by her twitter machine content, I don't think the urban75 poster and official voice of youth Laurie Penny is. This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[Belushi]

She's getting a bit long in the tooth to be the voice of youth anymore.

 

[DaveCinzano]

She's getting a bit long in the tooth to be the voice of youth anymore.

Check your own yoof priv, Babyface

 

[Bakunin]

Scuffles at the fees demo. Anybody from here there? Judging by her twitter machine content, I don't think the urban75 poster and official voice of youth Laurie Penny is. This is why we can't have nice things.

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It's a measure of her journalistic priorities and Prada-Meinhof posturing if, instead of covering actual issues, she files cod-psychology opinion on James Bond and Harry Potter.

 

[rekil]

She's getting a bit long in the tooth to be the voice of youth anymore.

Still got it, still doing harry potter and playing dress up.

 

[Buckaroo]

Still got it, still doing harry potter and playing dress up.

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She could've got more scary points if she'd blacked up as a pregnant, gay minstrel and then wrote a piece defending herself against accusations of racist, trans-homophobic, gynophobic, misogynistic misanthropy.

 

[Idris2002]

I don't know what she does to the enemy, but she frightens me.

 

[Bakunin]

Can anyone tell me exactly what Harry Potter and Bond have to do with actual issues like welfare reform, Syria, disability and so on?

 

[Buckaroo]

Can anyone tell me exactly what Harry Potter and Bond have to do with actual issues like welfare reform, Syria, disability and so on?

They're all about killing people.

 

[Bakunin]

They're all about killing people.

The difference being that Syria, welfare reform, the persecution of the sick and disabled and suchlike kill actual people, not the products of a scriptwriter's imagination.

Yet our fearless 'voice of a generation' seems to think that said imaginary people are seemingly more worthy of coverage than the real ones dying real deaths in all sorts of places. Doesn't say much for anybody claiming to be a professional journalist that their news sense is that far off-kilter. Either that or they simply don't give a toss about said real issues involving real people. I'm remarkably glad that I don't and wouldn't cover true crime cases in a similarly unfeeling and disinterested fashion.

 

[equationgirl]

She is painfully shallow. More concerned with image than substance.

 

[J Ed]

I don't know what she does to the enemy, but she frightens me.

She is the fucking enemy

 

[Idris2002]

She is the fucking enemy

Thought I'd set you up with an easy one there.

"Straight outta the park".

 

[Bakunin]

Thought I'd set you up with an easy one there.

"Straight outta the park".

 

[Shechemite]

She is the fucking enemy

Ah, the Penny's dropped for you then?

 

[rekil]

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[YouSir]

Alternative Party Conference - Soho Theatre

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Fuck me, would have been unremarkably pointless but for the inclusion of Danczuk and his ilk. Now it's just straight up confusing.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Alternative Party Conference - Soho Theatre

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I'm only going if they get Dan Hodges.

 

[equationgirl]

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Let's go!

I'm only going if Laurie is there -I almost feel miffed on her behalf that she's been left out. Almost. But not quite.