i actually started reading it but my blood pressure was getting dangerous by the end of the first paragraph so i bailed.
― Carry On Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 November 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
it finished before it even got started. was 4 paragraphs of luke-warm takes which felt more like SEO or shilling for disney+ than something you'd pay money to read.
― koogs, Monday, 30 November 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
So sad that her teenage daughter just isn't into that film where Ben Stiller wanks onto his ear lobe.
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
lol just weird what people consider 'classic' movies *in this day and age*
― plax (ico), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
Yes, ZW is nearing 50 and thinks THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998) is a great film?
Has anyone sensible every thought that was a great film? You couldn't even charge £1 for it in a charity shop at this point.
― the pinefox, Monday, 30 November 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
guardian, still sore about backing iraq now signal boosting the rants of unhinged twitter *presence* oz katerji having a go at robert fisk.
Great piece by @OzKaterji, hard to read even having heard all similar stories about Fisk. Like so many, he was inspiring to me as student & so depressing the evidence that he fabricated so much and how he was so badly on wrong side of history on Syria https://t.co/aZjQMoNmJ0— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) November 28, 2020
lol @ this in particular
Case in point by the great @Burke_jason https://t.co/szoThcYWjU— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) November 28, 2020
like what is the underlying insinuation here? that like there *were* weapons of mass destruction...?
― plax (ico), Monday, 30 November 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
Liberal hawks have been lying to themselves for so long I don't think they have any sense of what truth is any more
― Carry On Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 November 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
The jason burke post is especially interesting bc nobody can point to the subsequent fisk article implied in the tweet
― plax (ico), Monday, 30 November 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
THE CRITIC is a deliberately very right-wing magazine, isn't it -- the kind of thing that would choose to publish Toby Young or Rod Liddle?
Without recalling details, I've definitely heard that the Oz Katerji person is bad and dangerous - not just some kind of silly liberal but much worse than that - is that correct?
This leads me to say: Plax (ico) OTM. This is shocking stuff.
― the pinefox, Monday, 30 November 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
He’s an extremely aggressive and unpleasant advocate for war in Syria who has harassed countless opponents and he has aligned himself with a bunch of militia groups who would be considered extremely questionable if they weren’t fighting Assad but he also couldn’t hold down a job writing online filler for the Daily Mail for more than a few days without getting fired for being rude to Peter Hitchens so it’s hard to think of him as ‘dangerous’ in any meaningful political sense.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 30 November 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
Can These Blurry Glasses Stop Me Perving Over Women?If it's working for Orthodox Jews, why can't it work for me?
by Oz Katerjihttps://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/166a886b2ec9d572654032f5634e8f4f.jpg
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when he finally turns up itt after name searchinghttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/10/08/110681398_Mcc0072830__Jeremy_Corbyn_was_interrupted_several_times_as_he_gave_a_speech_at_The_Stop_Th_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqZTGkdds8SWJRzcZ4ZecXrXdJc07HAYL41V_gkWNKJsI.jpg
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He’s also the cunt who splashed the Corbyn/Jewdas seder to the Mail - someone he knew was there and informed him?
― scampopo (suzy), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
he's an awful twit and a huge eejit
― plax (ico), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
So the Elgot person does seem like an idiot for boosting and praising him.
― the pinefox, Monday, 30 November 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
she is a v senior journalist at the guardian
― plax (ico), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
and yes
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoGqYAnWMAAbq9F?format=jpg&name=medium
Guardian covers where you feel like someone should be holding up a "A Joke" sign like in that monty python sketch.
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:17 (three years ago) link
A 'blow' that will ensure that Johnson's COVID plan continues as it was going to.
Helen Pidd using a Quentin Letts column to trash Starmer's Labour for opposing the deportation of people who came to the UK as children.
A common complaint i hear about Labour in the former red wall seats is that the party spends too much time debating and defending issues which have little resonance there. A case in point: trying to stop criminals being deported to Jamaica. Look who lined up to support removals: pic.twitter.com/DA1DUJbJsF— Helen Pidd (@helenpidd) December 1, 2020
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:21 (three years ago) link
when all the worst MPs in Britain are for something, then it only makes sense for Labour to support it too!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
so wholeheartedly going all in on hostile environment is a redline that Kieth currently wouldn't cross, bloody hell he's a radical lefty after all!
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
A common complaint from people who saw what 9+ years of Tory MPs was doing elsewhere and thought yeah let's have some of that at last.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:41 (three years ago) link
And now half my twitter feed is about this stupid tweet...
― nashwan, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link
Thank you Helen for raising awareness of the issue.
fwiw it looks like Starmer is not actually opposing the deportations, just some Labour MPs.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 09:55 (three years ago) link
lol I had a feeling that the very reconstructed tory knight of the realm that thanked the night courts for their hard work during the London riots wouldn't be too violently opposed to HE
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
KKKeir SStarmer
― Left, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
Keir StarmerAngela RaynerAnneliese DoddsNick Thomas-SymondsLisa NandyEd MilibandJon AshworthRosena Allin-KhanDavid LammyJess PhillipsRachel ReevesWes StreetingYvette Cooper
^^the great set of PLP lads + lasses who don't oppose hostile environment - the usual suspects
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
nice one ed
― Left, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 10:17 (three years ago) link
yeah lol at "red" Ed and fucking Lammy getting totally neutered by Keith.. pathetic excuse for opposition party MPs.
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
more people should be explicit about how specifically anti black this is and how serious a problem it is in this party (/country). and about how central anti black racism is to sir fuckface's new direction (and to british liberalism in general). online left media hasn't picked up on this enough imo
― Left, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 10:35 (three years ago) link
the guardian really hates black people
― Left, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
Appalling from Pidd.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link
Anti black racism is a vote winner in this country. What else is there to say?
― scampus fugit (gyac), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link
i missed all the bru-ha-ha over the sainsbury's christmas advert, only catching the ch4 pushback during one ad break. was quite shocked when i heard. then surprised that i was.
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 11:54 (three years ago) link
Is Private Eye worse than it used to be?
Private Eye has named the Guardian trans activist 'misogynist' who Suzanne Moore complained about (a complaint that wasn't dealt with), because he called her an insecure bigot after she asked him if they could be civil with each other. His name is Owen Jones pic.twitter.com/GRW5pIEaxY— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) December 2, 2020
― discogs marketplace of ideas (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 December 2020 08:59 (three years ago) link
sorry for rt-ing this individual, can't see where else the Private Eye article is being shared
― discogs marketplace of ideas (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:00 (three years ago) link
One of many reasons why my Private Eye subscription is not being renewed for the first time in a decade.
― scampus fugit (gyac), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:24 (three years ago) link
just copy the image address and post as IMG if you don't want to give a twitter shit-poster more attention than they deserve. I think the Eye has always been bad, we just didn't used to notice as much or maybe when we were less online and perhaps more starved of "political satire" type content.
― calzino, Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:28 (three years ago) link
the typeset is so small, last time I bought a print edition I was struggling to read it with my reading glasses on.
― calzino, Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:31 (three years ago) link
Ugh, don’t read the replies. Only one of these people has a reputation for getting blootered and aggressive at media parties and it ain’t OJ. Also: who is enough of an egoiste to email another freelancer before a party demanding civility? AFAIK neither were previously horrible to one another in social settings, so I can only deduce SOMEONE had an idea to get pissed and confrontational, and refer back to this email to ‘prove’ some kind of olive branch was not taken up.
― scampopo (suzy), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:39 (three years ago) link
I have some back issues of Private Eye from the mid-1980s and it has a horrible sneering anti-left tone to it under Ingrams which isn't familiar from when I read it in the 90s and early 2000s. Haven't read it in a long time, but had heard it was doing some good investigative journalism in last decade.
― discogs marketplace of ideas (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:41 (three years ago) link
Talking of aggressive drunks, only one of them got beaten up by some as a result of being a hate figure in the right wing media.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:44 (three years ago) link
Still a few cracked ribs is nothing compared to being unable to find any paid work for half an hour.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:45 (three years ago) link
does private eye always have awful ‘serious’ pieces like this in between the racism, gay jokes and pleb bashing? I’ve never read it
idk how to respond to this shit but really anything would be self defence at this point. this country is so horrible and its media keeps making it worse every day
― Left, Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:48 (three years ago) link
The 'loos not being flushed' thing...could this possibly be to do with just fewer people having been in the office over the last few months for some reason?
― nashwan, Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link
xp it has various news sections with a "sardonic" tone, political cartoons, full-page parodies of different newspapers / columns, a letters page full of in-jokes and a wacky classifieds section at the back (I'm guessing it hasn't changed in the last couple of decades)
― discogs marketplace of ideas (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:54 (three years ago) link
It has always been bad and has probably got worse
― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:57 (three years ago) link
It's about where you'd expect, politically, for a magazine that has employed Nick Cohen to write anonymous columns bitching about his colleagues and The Left for over a decade.
There's about three pages of genuinely important news / journalism per issue, which is three more than most 'serious' papers can manage, but not worth trawling through.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
― scampus fugit (gyac), Thursday, 3 December 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
xp the In the Back section is still an outlet for serious investigative journalism in the spirit of Paul Foot, and does redeem it somewhat
― Neil S, Thursday, 3 December 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link