Urban v's the Commentariat

[rekil]

Second rule - get Geoffrey Palmer

I'm a doctor and I want my sausages.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I'm a doctor and I want my sausages.

Very few sitcoms could not be improved by including this

 

[DaveCinzano]

One for the veterans of the OG Callinocos/Penny handbags & Commenting on the Commentariat threads, when I saw that Oor Malky had a new book coming out I was a bit until I saw the title, and then I was more

(Fortunately the subtitle mitigates things slightly.)

 

[redsquirrel]

One for the veterans of the OG Callinocos/Penny handbags & Commenting on the Commentariat threads, when I saw that Oor Malky had a new book coming out I was a bit until I saw the title, and then I was more

(Fortunately the subtitle mitigates things slightly.)

Maybe it's just me but that link doesn't seem to work, think you might have some stuff at the end. Looks great anyway.

Gripping, mercilessly argued, deeply informed, and moving fluidly between critical theory, political policy, and pop culture, Kids These Days will wake you up, make you angry, and change how you see your place in the world. This is essential reading-not only for Millennials, but for anyone ready to take a hard look at how we got here and where we're headed if we don't change course fast.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Maybe it's just me but that link doesn't seem to work, think you might have some stuff at the end. Looks great anyway.

Cheers - have fixed.

 

[Bakunin]

Fucking hell, that makes Penny's stuff look like Tolstoy.

And this is even worse:

Simon Danczuk quits Labour because he's finally had enough of Jeremy Corbyn's antics

 

[Beats & Pieces]

I don't lnow what sort of splianing it is but its splaining.


fashsplaining?

Poshsplaining.

Must be the red hair and the shit politics.

 

[rekil]

Absolutely delighted that Urban75 poster and revolutionary socialist from the autonomist tradition Laurie Penny still has it. Is this an ironic RT? I can't tell anymore.

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Brainaddict]

I saw that and was impressed she managed to be wrong in about five different ways in a single tweet. I can't even be bothered to analyse all the ways - it's just shite.

 

[killer b]

Ha, I was just coming here to post that. the comments are pretty glorious.

 

[Orang Utan]

Ha, I was just coming here to post that. the comments are pretty glorious.

 

[killer b]

'You look absurd'

 

[CNT36]

Iirc it was her holiday. "Life".

 

[J Ed]

Nothing says disadvantage like taking a minimum wage job to write about it rather than to you know... survive.

 

[Shechemite]

Didn't Polly send her kids to private school? Was that before or after the min wage job?

 

[J Ed]

Who hates ordinary people more - the staff at the Spectator or the New Statesman?

 

[Orang Utan]

Who hates ordinary people more - the staff at the Spectator or the New Statesman?

probs the latter, as the former have the excuse that they've probably never consorted with them and some people at the New Statesman probably once spoke to a pov

 

[J Ed]

I love how much these people are obviously actually wound up by being called slugs and Jolyons. They really, really hate it.

 

[J Ed]

They just want to swoon over pictures of Trudeau and Macron while talking about the inevitability of union bashing, privatisation and endless war in peace. Then these horrible kids come along and basically have them summed up exactly.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Who hates ordinary people more - the staff at the Spectator or the New Statesman?

I honestly get the two mixed up on a regular basis. People tweet links to NS articles and I remember them as being from the Spectator, or vice versa. I'm not even being satirical.

 

[Orang Utan]

I love how much these people are obviously actually wound up by being called slugs and Jolyons. They really, really hate it.

I know a Jolyon in real life. He used to work for the Labour party and quit when Corbyn got in

 

[Orang Utan]

They just want to swoon over pictures of Trudeau and Macron while talking about the inevitability of union bashing, privatisation and endless war in peace. Then these horrible kids come along and basically have them summed up exactly.

Speaking of Macron: My thoughts are 'too complex' for journalists, says Emmanuel Macron

 

[emanymton]

Speaking of Macron: My thoughts are 'too complex' for journalists, says Emmanuel Macron

To be fair the thoughts of a hamster are probably too complex for most journalists.

 

[equationgirl]

One for the veterans of the OG Callinocos/Penny handbags & Commenting on the Commentariat threads, when I saw that Oor Malky had a new book coming out I was a bit until I saw the title, and then I was more

(Fortunately the subtitle mitigates things slightly.)

Christ, that sounds like a massive whingefest about why the milennials can't have nice things, from the summary. I did wonder what he had been up to though...

 

[killer b]

Oh gosh. Toynbee joined in to that Helen lewis clusterfuck last night - this shit writes itself...

 

[killer b]

Click through for an avalanche of on point replies.

 

[J Ed]

Why would someone who is best known for splitting from Labour say that?

 

[killer b]

I don't know. Maybe she's trolling?

 

[The Boy]

From now on, "Where is *your* book on [subject]?" will be my stock response to anyone who disagrees with me on anything.