I am not sure JRM is especially conservative. https://t.co/qVNsEvCETC— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) October 7, 2017
― calzino, Saturday, 7 October 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
As you must be aware, true conservatism is now the counter culture, so you and Rees-Mogg are slowly gaining rockstar status here in the US— ReaIity Kid (@ReaIityKid) October 7, 2017
― calzino, Saturday, 7 October 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
This Paperchase pearl-clutching is all very amusing
Day 1 of the RW Columnist Paperchase anti boycott boycott. Rod Liddle has had to burn all of his tropical fruit scented pens. His hair smells of molten plastic & mango. Tim Montgomerie is suspected of owning a cactus print A5 academic year planner & is hung as a witch.— Then he went 'eurgh it's me really' & stabbed me (@Scriblit) November 21, 2017
― Neil S, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 09:11 (six years ago) link
Quite an amusing New Statesman article yesterday pointing out that Paperchase presumably know their customers and in any case *this is how the free market they usually love so much is supposed to work*. But I suspect most of this is primal fear of more advertisers following suit and their columns/paycheques disappearing.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 09:36 (six years ago) link
the hypocrisy would be breathtaking if I hadn't lived with it for 40 years
― faked potato (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 09:50 (six years ago) link
I'd find this all more amusing if I didn't know its all going to kill the conversational vibe at family Xmas dinner this year.
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 10:05 (six years ago) link
when you reveal your wrapping paper was from Paperchase?
― Neil S, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 10:16 (six years ago) link
when you reveal your wrapping paper is the Daily Mail?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 10:56 (six years ago) link
when you reveal your rapping granny is chasing paper?
― It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 10:59 (six years ago) link
when you reveal paper granny wrapping frozen elsa pregnant spider man?
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 11:05 (six years ago) link
there it is
― It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link
fped you all FYI
― Neil S, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 11:10 (six years ago) link
with sellotape and knives
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 11:12 (six years ago) link
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/british-journalism-awards-2017-nick-ferrari-is-journalist-of-the-year-full-list-of-winners/
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 06:45 (six years ago) link
British journalism is in a healthy state I see.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:13 (six years ago) link
the envy of the world
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:14 (six years ago) link
Coren counts as a right-wing pundit, no? literally can't imagine a less appealing front page splash than this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQ1ogyRXkAE6uHR.jpg
― soref, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link
Jfc. Coren's insufferable.
Another one of those "writers" making money over their baby's back.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:40 (six years ago) link
*dad's
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:45 (six years ago) link
aye
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:47 (six years ago) link
yeah he's the one thing that puts me off marrying Victoria
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
He's a troll. That's all he is. On some level he must know it, and I hope it causes him deep, profound and insurmountable displeasure.
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
ha, I always thought he came across as oddly thin-skinned and hurt by criticism for someone whose whole schtick is trolling? I sometimes get the impression that he is someone who genuinely has these thoughts and opinions that he knows are considered beyond the pale and is troubled by this, so he tries to exorcise the anxiety by expressing the thoughts/opinions in a faux-trolly way, but his heart is not really in it - imo Coren doesn't actually enjoys riling Libs a la Rod Liddle or Toby Young, he wants to be liked too much.
― soref, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
giles coren is so london
― ogmor, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
every generation gets the samuel pepys it deserves
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
this is slanderous upon London imo
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
manchester offers ample scope for a reprisal tbf
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:51 (six years ago) link
"giles coren is so london" is so manchester
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
nowadays I suppose Samuel Pepys would be regarded as sexual harassment in our politically correct Airstrip One
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
lol at the idea that London isn't Ground Zero for this particular type of cunt tho
tru
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
North London tbf
― Blandford Forum, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link
where else could forge a giles coren
― ogmor, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:01 (six years ago) link
xp very, very tru :D
enjoy wembley btw ;_____;
― Cardi Acs (imago), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
Oxford, where he studied?
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
i'd never have imagined such a paragon of london-awfulness might have gone to oxford
― ogmor, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
Not to be confused with Giles Corey, a defendant at the Salem Witch Trials.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
The British media is so London. In fact, the UK is so London.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
More too London than so London.
'Was I an absolute prince,' he would say, pulling up his breeches with both his hands, as he rose from his arm-chair, 'I would appoint able judges, at every avenue of my metropolis, who should take cognizance of every fool's business who came there;—and if, upon a fair and candid hearing, it appeared not of weight sufficient to leave his own home, and come up, bag and baggage, with his wife and children, farmer's sons, &c. &c. at his backside, they should be all sent back, from constable to constable, like vagrants as they were, to the place of their legal settlements.
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
According to the law at the time, a person who refused to plead could not be tried. To avoid persons cheating justice, the legal remedy for refusing to plead was "peine forte et dure". In this process the prisoner is stripped naked, with a heavy board laid on his body. Then rocks or boulders are laid on the plank of wood. This was the process of being pressed:[10] ...remanded to the prison from whence he came and put into a low dark chamber, and there be laid on his back on the bare floor, naked, unless when decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight as he could bear, and more, that he hath no sustenance, save only on the first day, three morsels of the worst bread, and the second day three draughts of standing water, that should be alternately his daily diet till he died, or, till he answered.As a result of his refusal to plead, on September 17, Sheriff George Corwin led Corey to a pit in the open field beside the jail and in accordance with the above process, before the Court and witnesses, stripped Giles of his clothing, laid him on the ground in the pit, and placed boards on his chest. Six men then lifted heavy stones, placing them one by one, on his stomach and chest. Giles Corey did not cry out, let alone make a plea.After two days, Giles was asked three times to plead innocent or guilty to witchcraft. Each time he replied, "More weight." More and more rocks were piled on him, and the Sheriff from time to time would stand on the boulders staring down at Corey's bulging eyes. Robert Calef, who was a witness along with other townsfolk, later said, "In the pressing, Giles Corey's tongue was pressed out of his mouth; the Sheriff, with his cane, forced it in again."[11]Three mouthfuls of bread and water were fed to the old man during his many hours of pain. Finally, Giles Corey cried out "More weight!" and died. Supposedly, just before his death, he cursed Sheriff Corwin and the entire town of Salem.[12] He was 81.
...remanded to the prison from whence he came and put into a low dark chamber, and there be laid on his back on the bare floor, naked, unless when decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight as he could bear, and more, that he hath no sustenance, save only on the first day, three morsels of the worst bread, and the second day three draughts of standing water, that should be alternately his daily diet till he died, or, till he answered.
As a result of his refusal to plead, on September 17, Sheriff George Corwin led Corey to a pit in the open field beside the jail and in accordance with the above process, before the Court and witnesses, stripped Giles of his clothing, laid him on the ground in the pit, and placed boards on his chest. Six men then lifted heavy stones, placing them one by one, on his stomach and chest. Giles Corey did not cry out, let alone make a plea.
After two days, Giles was asked three times to plead innocent or guilty to witchcraft. Each time he replied, "More weight." More and more rocks were piled on him, and the Sheriff from time to time would stand on the boulders staring down at Corey's bulging eyes. Robert Calef, who was a witness along with other townsfolk, later said, "In the pressing, Giles Corey's tongue was pressed out of his mouth; the Sheriff, with his cane, forced it in again."[11]
Three mouthfuls of bread and water were fed to the old man during his many hours of pain. Finally, Giles Corey cried out "More weight!" and died. Supposedly, just before his death, he cursed Sheriff Corwin and the entire town of Salem.[12] He was 81.
The realest of England
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
gonna give that one to the USA tbf
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
't Was British North America iirc but fair
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
Coren isn't a troll per se, just yet another dude with nothing worthwhile to say* (except perhaps about restaurants) who has nevertheless decided to make a living from opinion journalism.
*Or at least an opinion about everything and insight into nothing.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
who has nevertheless decided to make a living from opinion journalismassholism.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
worthwhile comments about restaurants sounds like a category mistake.
― Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
I dunno it's good to know which McDonalds's are clean
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
i mean say what u like about yelp reviewers but at least they never throw their toys out of the prank because a sub-editor ruined their terrible joke about blowjobs
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
er, out of the pram obv
Was not aware of Liddle's poetry before.
Philip Larkin's mouldering poetic corpse discovered in rancid bin-bag of Rod Liddle's mind, pic.twitter.com/2ptyS6spIw— david wheatley (@nemoloris) December 15, 2017
― woof, Friday, 15 December 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link