I mean, I guess Webb is kind of a lightweight when compared to the full on tossitude of Parsons and Amis and Gill and Botton and Fry. But give him 20, 30 years and I'm sure he'll get there.
― Jacques Lacan let me rock u; let me rock u, Jacques Lacan (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 11 October 2014 21:52 (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
beat the spread by a good 15 years
― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
Only ONE vote for Matthew Parris, ILX I am not angry with you, just very disappointed.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
anyway this is a great nostalgia trip back to a long bygone age where these threads would attract a host of disingenuous "what's wrong with Scumbag X?" posts
― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
"He's got the whole world, in his hands.. he's got the whole world.. in his hands.."
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
"Not the biggest Baddiel fan but "snivelling 'liberal' apologist for ladbantz bollocks" was his schtick 20 years ago, not now."
yes he's somehow been even almost worse than he was then, but he did stop doing blackface tbf
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
I'm amused that I didn't even know who Matthew Parris was at the time of this poll. Happier days of ignorant bliss! Bragg is a wanker but I still consider In Our Time a decent program and I guarantee whichever cunt replaces him when he succumbs to dementia will be a thousand times worse than him.
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
Was gonna say, Webb and Baddiel would have gotten way more votes this time 'round.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 30 September 2021 10:09 (two years ago) link
And Alain de Botton way less.
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 September 2021 10:30 (two years ago) link
Did everyone forget who Will Self was?
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 September 2021 10:35 (two years ago) link
45 years ago today (4 November 1977), the New Statesman published this article about divisions in the Communist Party of Great Britain. It is the first written use that I have found of the term ‘tankie’ to describe someone who (uncritically) supported the Soviet Union. pic.twitter.com/plCY3gk9Ge— Evan Smith (@evansmithhist) November 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 November 2022 12:05 (one year ago) link
This is a very … peculiar framing, but I do wonder where all the Statesman’s sugar daddy money has gone. The magazine’s professional irritants (and Will Lloyd, who commissions the worst of them) can’t be that expensive to run. pic.twitter.com/gLn4cK157g— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 18, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 November 2023 15:14 (six months ago) link