the view in the US seems to be that the irish gene is dominant
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
A little unsure where the break would be presumed to be between irish diaspora of catholic origins and those of the other sects tbh
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
yes i concur.
although it is funny to think about the scots-irish peple whose ancestors were peep o day boys turning over in their graves when they donated to NORAID
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
Ive eaten at the restaurant beside the huguenot graveyard here in town and tbh i dont see what the fuss is about the soup
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
My Irishes emigrated to Ontario before every single male child of theirs went to America armed with a medical degree, to serve in various backwaters with hospitals.
― scampopo (suzy), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
tbf a lot of them were rebels who hated the English, so not all bad
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
Im actually lost bit lookit
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
Funny how they're far less likely "Hey, I'm German!" even though there's more with German ancestry than Irish.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 2:49 AM (eight hours ago)
gabbneb???
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
Remember when Patrick Maguire used to write for the bad NS? Awful awful content
The just slightly too enthusiastic Biden joy amongst the blue ticks is the dawning realisation that they have collectively fucked it into the heart of the sun, IMO pic.twitter.com/a03sNQDUxG— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) January 21, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:02 (three years ago) link
TERFs are confused
I am SO happy that Biden won and Trump lost. But this is terrible https://t.co/meJ2OskCtv— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) January 21, 2021
― Ů©(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link
Thoroughly normal people.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:45 (three years ago) link
O THANK YOU, Uncle Joe, for taking away women's sex-based rights, which those before us fought so hard to win! Would you like to wipe your bum on we giggling gals of your fan-club next? It's OUR PLEASURE!— Julie Burchill (@BoozeAndFagz) January 21, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:46 (three years ago) link
Julie Burchill fought for women's sex-based rights? When?
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:51 (three years ago) link
fishhook theory confirmed again
― calzino, Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
No, no, it was those before her! Are you accusing her of egotism?
― up-the-arts corner (Matt #2), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
Poor Julie, between this and Joe being a proud Fenian, it must have been such a hard day for her
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
Those before her did the fighting - Charles Shaar Murray, Nick Kent.
― mahb, Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:01 (three years ago) link
Getting sonned by a bookshop, you love too etc
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:07 (three years ago) link
Hi yes, we are an American bookshop in London. Owned by an American. She is the sole-proprietor. Pays taxes in America and Britain. Thank you. https://t.co/NmUzZkpwSR— The Second Shelf in Second Lockdown or Third or? (@secondshelfbks) January 21, 2021
I do have to wonder how someone so thick with no discernable writing talent has managed to have such a successful career in journalism
― Ů©(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:32 (three years ago) link
It's almost as if it's who you know not whether you're any good or not
― Un tranquillo posto di scampagna (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:37 (three years ago) link
"all the worst parts of the Equality Act"
― nashwan, Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link
Jobs for life.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:44 (three years ago) link
inherited wealth
― plax (ico), Sunday, 24 January 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
second shelf is an excellent little bookshop, well worth a visit if you’re in soho, fantastic range of women’s and gender diverse writing.
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 31 January 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link
yes i saw that. hadley freeman also covering herself in glory lashing out at the excellent women’s and gender diverse bookshop the second shelf is good timing as well. not sure how much of a choice you get but ew, do not want to read anything by hadley freeman even if it’s about My Favoruite LRB HERO Patricia Lockwood She Can Do No Wrong. (i haven’t read priest daddy and have no particular urge to - should i?)
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 31 January 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
RONG thread
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 31 January 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
no it’s not
― Left, Sunday, 31 January 2021 13:15 (three years ago) link
A happy(?) accident.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 January 2021 13:18 (three years ago) link
patricia lockwood's books/poetry are not as good as you might hope. i think there's something ultimately ephemeral about her writing that doesn't work in those forms. i have one of her collections of poetry and i enjoyed it at first but its much more conservative in outlook than i would have hoped and i felt very underwhelmed by it.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
there was a poem that was very 'honoring our troops' that made me do a face
plax you're not the first person to have said that, and despite my general enjoyment of Lockwood in the LRB as a good counterweight, i'm not feeling a huge urge to go into the wider works.
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Monday, 1 February 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
oh that's interesting, i hadn't actually encountered that said about her. disappointingly nobody i've seen writing about her has really done her the courtesy of engaging with her writing beyond 'poet laureate of twitter' laziness. i do enjoy her as a 'breath of fresh air' lol
― plax (ico), Monday, 1 February 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
just in case of any doubt that wasn't a 'plax why are you repeating that old saw about her being not as good as you might hope,' just that i've heard from other people something similar, and my response was 'ah right, yes, another person i trust basically saying this' (I haven't seen it much out in the wild as an opinion tbh).
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Monday, 1 February 2021 16:23 (three years ago) link
pouring one out for Darren "Grimesy" Grimes who is leaving London to go back to his mum's house, RIP big man
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Friday, 19 February 2021 10:55 (three years ago) link
On 13 December 2020 I made defamatory statements about @AyoCaesar, which I sincerely regret and retract and have undertaken not to repeat. I have agreed to pay substantial damages to Ash Sarkar and her legal costs. Here is my full and wholehearted apology. Please retweet pic.twitter.com/tc2aUKbCOK— Julie Burchill (@BoozeAndFagz) March 16, 2021
u loves to see it
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:14 (three years ago) link
Lol was just coming here for this
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:19 (three years ago) link
will this affect her glittering Fleet Street career? The signs are... it won't.
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:23 (three years ago) link
would be funny if she could be made to retract all the other terrible things she's written in the same style, I do note that her anti-woke book is due to be published again though.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link
the most normal paper on normal island
At the time, when Julie Burchill was sending me abusive and defamatory tweets, I tried to contact her editor Allister Heath at the Sunday Telegraph both on Twitter and via email.He never replied.— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) March 16, 2021
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:53 (three years ago) link
God, Allister Heath, that guy is a horror.
― Woke For Luck (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:56 (three years ago) link
weird how these things just keep happening to Julie through no fault of her own
Amazing 48hrs for Julie Burchill. pic.twitter.com/i26rHCiEmy— The Trashies (@TheTrashiesUK) March 17, 2021
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
can't wait for the book about the book
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
still haven't got over hearing Julie's weird voice tbh
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
wouldn't be a good "narrated by author" option for audible
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 14:54 (three years ago) link
Not a journo more of a twitter grifter being utterly deranged
A very lovely man and a brilliant journalist.— nicole lampert (@nicolelampert) May 8, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 10 May 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
astonishing that a published obituary or various commentators on twitter would omit to mention that his "lovely guy" murdered his wife
― calzino, Monday, 10 May 2021 13:51 (two years ago) link
He was a kind man though and he murdered his wife out of kindness - how could she have wished to live without him after his subsequent suicide (which he failed to accomplish at six times of trying)? Good thing they didn't have children! They'd have been murdered too. What a vile fucking misogynist, as is everyone tweeting about what a wonderful fella he was.
― I'm not eating that foreign muck *pulls face* (Matt #2), Monday, 10 May 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
She’s definitely a journo for the Mail but ISTG spends most of her time on FB journo groups pretending she’s not part of Gnasher.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Monday, 10 May 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
Very sad news. I had the pleasure to work alongside John as he made the world worse to enrich an awful Australian billionaire. I remember him once joking at the Wapping St canteen: “this reminds me of that time I held my wife’s head under water until she died”— The Magician’s Breakfast (@MagiciansDinner) May 9, 2021
― Neil S, Monday, 10 May 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link