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yeh i know that's what made me laugh. the article is funny cos y know littlejohn but also cos i find hari's tone unintentionally amusing. like last week he was attacking ziziek and declaring postmodernism useless and evil.

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

I think about gay sex much less than Richard Littlejohn - and I am gay.

This is a pretty great zing, Hari or no.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 18 May 2007 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

otm, i find him quite irritating (hari that is - i try not to think about littlejohn) but that made me chuckle.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

That article was published in the future. Did it have the racing results as well?

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno you go take a look at the stuff kingfish posts and littlejohn seems kinda risible. there's a sort of lack of real conviction, the american right wing pundits have scary evangelical zeal whilst british ones just have ugly middle english resentment.

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

I always think the British stuff has a sort of pathetic street corner ranting crazy guy aspect to it, whereas the American stuff comes from more of a dominant position and is thus scarier/more depressing.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

well thats kinda what i was trying to get at before, theres a feeling that the british ones dont really believe what they are writing, other than in a kind of "pfft" middle aged white man 'its not even music' type feeling of being pecked at

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

actually thats kind of it, all brit rightwing journos all seem kind of, well, HENPECKED.

and that they are really writing displaced barbs about their wives

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

wives who probably have a spanish lover

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

littlejohn is kinda like an uncle who thinks it's funny to declare whn you mention that yr going to brighton: "you better watch out going there it's full of gay"
the american pundits are more like a lynch mob.
though the right wing press were a lot scarier a few years back when asylum seekers and peediefiles where all over the shop. i mean they were stirring up actual, real mobs back then.

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Did that thing with the lynch mob attacking the paediatrician's house actually, really happen? I mean, it was reported, but every now and then I remember it and think nah, that's an urban myth, or it's been heavily embellished, at least. Probably wishful thinking.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

heavily embellished is correct: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4719364.stm

― ledge, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ah yeah, just read that. Sad to see the citizens of the noted international centre of commerce Portsmouth being unfairly labeled as monobrowed doctor-bashers.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

yeh i seem to remember seeing the pictures, they'd thrown paint at the gold plaque outside the surgery. i love the idea that peedumfilez would advertize themselves in such a manner. i remember looking at the NOTW that sunday they printed the name of EVERY PEED IN BRITIAN and just thinking; "this is a really, really bad thing to do".

i think it's a nice thing that the kaiser chiefs have come up with a stinging response 7 years later. maybe they'll tackle the miners strike on their next lp.

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

i remember looking at the NOTW that sunday they printed the name of EVERY PEED IN BRITIAN and just thinking; "this is a really, really bad thing to do".

I feel like you should say this on an I Love 2000 type program.

What was the Kaiser response called? I made passing reference to lynching a paediatrician in an aborted song once.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

littlejohn likes the word "poovery", i recall. one article i read by him used it about three times.

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

their last album was called "Yours Truly Angry Mob". i have not heard it but a review i read indicated that it was very much about that period. i think some people have thrown the "hating on the working class" criticism at them.

talking I Love 2000, remember the FUEL CRISIS? them truckers blockading shit cos of tax or something. crazy times.

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Was 'poovery' invented by Private Eye or does it predate that?

― DJ Mencap, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

i think the hating working class accusation at KC is incorrect btw

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure ILM managed about 700 posts on that in 2005

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

not all working class people wear tracksuits and attack you as you get in a taxi etc.

― blueski, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

for reference: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=45386

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Good blimey, is it time for the 2000 revival time already? Remember those lovable ruffians Daphne and Celeste? Lucy Porter COMEDIAN does!

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

I really wanna buy a Brideshead Revisted style blazer, but KCs have ruined that look for fat guys.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

thing is they did I Love 1999 in 2001. wherein people talked in the past tense about such lost pleasures as buying a vodka red bull. i think that was on the weekend or so after 9/11.

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Lesbian parents: Our sons don't need a dad
Anna Lloyd and Jane Harvey could be any middle-class mothers strolling with their sons in their local park. But behind their everyday appearance lies a story of a highly unconventional family - for they are lesbian partners.

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

otm. i think they do what they do as a 'job' -- house style and all that -- not a mission.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

melanie phillips is fucking insane thou

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i was saying elsewhere: she really does mean it. but that's ex-lefties for ya.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

and i imagine boris johnson means it.

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

also remember the crazy ronhaldino bottle opener thread, the general upshot of which seemed to be "lol britishers don't understand racism", i was wondering if british right wing pundits can possibly get away with more dodgy racial stuff than americans can.

― acrobat, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Conservatives appoint ex-tabloid editor

LONDON (Reuters) - Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, who quit in the wake of a royal phone-tapping scandal, has been appointed the Conservatives' director of communications, the party announced on Thursday.

He stepped down from Rupert Murdoch's tabloid, Britain's biggest selling newspaper, after its royal affairs editor admitted having plotted to intercept phone messages left for royal aides.

The 39-year-old, who previously edited The Sun newspaper's Bizarre gossip column, will take up his new job as director of communications and planning on July 9. He said he was "delighted" to be joining David Cameron's team.

The party leader said: "Andy is a hugely experienced journalist. He will make a formidable contribution as a senior member of my team in building the most effective strategy and operation to win the next general election."

Coulson was regarded as a high-flier in Murdoch's newspaper empire before his resignation in January.

The former Royal Editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for four months for listening to mobile voice mail messages left for the press secretary of Prince Charles and two officials who worked for Princes William and Harry.

Coulson was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Press Complaints Commission, which said neither he, nor anyone else at the paper, was aware of Goodman's illegal activities.

― acrobat, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Coming soon

http://i2.digiguide.com/up//1184007600000-609038-TheWaronBritainsJews-1183392030569.jpg

The War on Britain's Jews?The War on Britain's Jews?
C4 Mon 9 July 2007, 8pm
Richard Littlejohn argues that antisemitism, once the preserve of the extreme right, now has a foothold among other sections of society.

― acrobat, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

haha -- i saw the trailer, and i was all 'welcome to 2002', and then it said PRESENTED BY RICHARD LITTLEJOHN!!! and i was all "DELETE CHANNEL 4".

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Littlejohn:anti-semitism::K-Punk:class war

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

you couldn't make it up. i was so angry i put my foot through a yamulkah and sent the bill to ken livingstone.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

Trust Littlejohn to take a stand against bigotry.

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

What if the Jew was also a prostitute though, huh? DILEMMA FOR LILJON

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i'd seen it, kind of.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 08:29 (eighteen years ago)

Was he sporting any Spurs merch?

― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

"women who worked as Jews, and also prostitutes"

― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

For the first ten minutes all he said was "You've got an ology, you're a scientist!"

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

i saw it, it didn't seem too bad altho the biggest issue of where criticism of Israel becomes anti-semitism wasn't nailed (un-nailable perhaps).

the footage of the MPAC (or whatever they were called) dude goading the Labour woman after she lost her seat was extraordinary.

― blueski, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm, that might explain this...
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/3837/34/

I watched a bit but really his tone is unbearable.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

'non-violent Jihad' has made my day already.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

Thing was itv had an indepth expose of SKINS PARTIES on at exactly the same time. Apprently teenagers are using "MYSPACES" to advertise house parties leading to "DRUG CRAZED VANDAL GATECRASHERS". The best thing was all teh reconstructions. Kinda like the trailers for Skins as reimagined by 999 Lifesavers.

― acrobat, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

Apropos of nothing, here's hoping James Delingpole gets clawed by a polar bear.

And also that's he's got Google Alerts set up for his name, and that he reads this, the silly troll.

― James Mitchell, Monday, 22 March 2010 22:38 (sixteen years ago)

ooh having been reading the Standard recently, smh @ matthew d'ancona, ffs @ sam leith and LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL @ sarah sands

― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 22:58 (sixteen years ago)

liz jones II: quicksands of destiny

― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Monday, 22 March 2010 22:58 (sixteen years ago)

they're all ex telegraph xp

― nakhchivan, Monday, 22 March 2010 22:59 (sixteen years ago)

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