yup.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 July 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/10/31/global-britain-can-exist-immigration-time-conservatives-relearnt/
"It’s time to face facts: liberals have lost the battle on immigration. Despite our self-assuring groupthink, where we gather around our almond-milk lattes and grumble about the backlash to our treasured freedom of movement, it’s becoming increasingly clear that most of the country thinks we’re badly out of touch. It appears as though we, in our metropolitan hubs, haven’t clocked the wider effects of immigration on working class people and on individual communities."
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
a series of comment pieces by young people, for young people, to provide a free-market response to Britain's biggest issues
― la bébé du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
One of them's by Liz Truss, 43.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
individual communities under the sea
― nashwan, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
i'm not the world's biggest atrios fan (and was thinking UK-wards when i started the thread) but this:
centrist pundit: elitist liberals and their starbucks-going latte-swilling ways will never play in real americaalso centrist pundit: what real americans in the heartland want is the billionaire guy who made starbucks— Atrios (@Atrios) January 31, 2019
― mark s, Thursday, 31 January 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
Tbf does anyone actually support Schultz’s presidential bid?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 1 February 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
centrist pundits iirc
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 February 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/05/north-london-trail-of-the-liberal-elite
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 October 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
"a journey"
― mark s, Saturday, 5 October 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
Presumably John Harris is stuck in Stoke.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 5 October 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
Stephen Kinnock, married to the former PM of Denmark, is on LBC talking with contempt about "people who go to coffee bars in London."— Frédéric Moreau (@goodclimate) December 18, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 19 December 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
rest assured stephen that your insistence on supporting the status quo will soon lead to the global collapse of agriculture so no-one will be visiting coffee bars ever again, congrats
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 December 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link
Stephen, is that you?https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/02/how-i-eat-stephen-kinnock-mp
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link
Given that there's a 'coffee bar' every 50 yards or so on every street in London, who exactly is he talking about?
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:06 (four years ago) link
he likes a bit of salt-of-the-earth on his chips, after they've been pissed on!
― calzino, Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
I’m a creature of habit – my breakfast is always a bowl of porridge and an orange. I chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it.
god i'd forgotten about this, absolutely cursed content
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link
"... then I put the peel in my mouth and make like I've got orange teeth."
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
Next he'll be saying he rubs oxo cubes on it
― kinder, Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
that whole piece is the diary of somebody who doesn't require human like food
― a very powerful woman in the dog world (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 December 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
“If you want to figure out what characters around Putin might do, or how international criminal gangs might exploit holes in our border security, you don’t want more Oxbridge English graduates who chat about [French psychoanalyst Jacques] Lacan at dinner parties with TV producers and spread fake news about fake news,”
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Friday, 3 January 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
ilx apply for the cummings job
― mark s, Friday, 3 January 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
He is the poster boy for middle class self-loathing.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Friday, 3 January 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
Christ, this muppet is supposed to be a master of the dark arts and he's using "fake news about fake news". What did the chattering classes do to deserve such biting social commentary.
― calzino, Friday, 3 January 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
Just walked past this ugly faux farmhouse type abode with the fake mews. Pretentious bloody croissant munching...
― calzino, Friday, 3 January 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
Is that crazy Dom name-checking Lacan? Looking forward to the Sun explaining him to their readers people who look at pictures
― Kebabs Windsor (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 January 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
he's finally getting back at all those pricks. he'll show them!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 January 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
"The North London polenta-eating intelligentsia can’t cope with a North East accent challenging their preconceptions of what they think is best for the hoi-polloi".
Darren Grimes, still angling for a job at GB News
― calzino, Friday, 4 June 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
where on earth has he got the polenta thing from?
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 June 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
it just sounds fancy, I think.
― calzino, Friday, 4 June 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
Don’t tell me you never noticed how the ruling classes are always wolfing down Italian grits.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 June 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
maybe tom harwood posted a picture of some polenta on his instagram
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 June 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
I was sure this bump would be about the John Harris tweet (in which the croissants were only implied)
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, 4 June 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
polenta doesn't really make much of a meal or snack on its own though
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 4 June 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
Polenta (mămăligă) is the ultimate peasant food in Romania so seeing it cited itt is amusing.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 June 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
I think of it as coarse corn flour, like the first time I bought it was to make some cornbread which is probably a trailer park staple in the US!
― calzino, Friday, 4 June 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
Should have used "LaCroix-sipping" for the rhyme with hoi polloi.
― peace, man, Friday, 4 June 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
Or maybe "bok choy".
― peace, man, Friday, 4 June 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
Hoi polloi means commoners tho
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, 4 June 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
But ppl often mistakenly use it to mean the opposite so it fits itt
i thought this polenta thing was made up today, but it seems to originate from late-90s river cafe menus which have conned a whole generation of right wing pundits into believing that polenta is expensive pic.twitter.com/kCmqfqEdx3— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 4, 2021
― mark s, Friday, 4 June 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
Also Derwood should know that it’s wrong to put ‘the’ before ‘hoi polloi’.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
polenta-eating intelligentsia
Pictured:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYO4e0uHVDk
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 June 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
Oh I missed hoi polloi in the grimes quote, thought peace man was just talking about the thread title
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, 4 June 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
'The hoi polloi' is perfectly fine in English, as is 'chai tea', 'Sharia law' or 'the La Brea tar pits'.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 June 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
"shrimp scampi"
― o. nate, Friday, 4 June 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
scampi fry-crunching cognoscenti
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 4 June 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
polentaful
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 4 June 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
Hoi polloi means commoners tho― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, June 4, 2021 2:40 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglinkBut ppl often mistakenly use it to mean the opposite so it fits itt― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, June 4, 2021 2:40 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, June 4, 2021 2:40 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, I think it's often confused for "hoity toity".
― peace, man, Friday, 4 June 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
"their preconceptions of what they think is best for the hoi-polloi"
― kinder, Friday, 4 June 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link