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The fact is he has a grotesquely distorted head.

Rapsputin (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link

facts don't care about Brendan's feelings

Neil S, Thursday, 18 June 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link

i have a beautifully shaped head btw

plax (ico), Friday, 19 June 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link

thought the one on the right said "Fenian Chungus" for a minute

Ivan Scampo (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 June 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link

LOL Brendan's new nickname.

Rapsputin (Tom D.), Friday, 19 June 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link

it's Gaelic for mini-Brendan!

calzino, Friday, 19 June 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link

"you know waht they call Brendan O'Neill in Paris?" "Le Massive Main"

calzino, Friday, 19 June 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link

📢📢 WORLD CUP OF BRENDANS, ROUND TWO 📢📢 pic.twitter.com/h5Lq1xrGAC

— 🎶 you would cry too if it happened to you 🎶 (@RavenholmCLP) June 19, 2020

calzino, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link

You know, I have to say I think it* has really gone too far now.


*the featureless fleshy gap between his hairline and his eyebrows

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 19 June 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link

clearing out ancient document boxes of misc tat i unearthed a promotional card for EASYNET, which was the service provider associated with CYBERIA, which was the pioneering internet cafe associated with LIVING MARXISM and the RCP in the mid-90s lol

i never entered cyberia, nor did i sign up for easynet, but i did know a few members of the RCP in those years -- digital capability and the freedom to offend were their open sesames, as i think i've mentioned elsewhere. they weren't the worst ppl i worked with -- they were often actually p good at IT stuff -- but even then they were kind of exhausting. i may even have a copy of the issue of LM they got sued for, which shd have bankrupted them and stopped them but somehow didn't. there was a LOT of vc capital washing around them at that time (tho not for their "provocative" opinions on the war in yugoslavia)

mark s, Saturday, 20 June 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link

five months pass...

You knew it was coming, but nevertheless here it is. pic.twitter.com/XES0buaywe

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) December 6, 2020

calzino, Sunday, 6 December 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link

Of course, the anti-working-class left and the NuFootball commentariat (who love the beautiful game but loathe its ugly fans) instantly found the Millwall fans guilty of racism.

Schrödinger's culturally working-class football fans that are middle class enough to be able to afford the season tickets and still working class enough to be legit nazis for the sake of Brendan's arguments.

calzino, Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link

just shooting bald fish with horribly distended bald heads in a barrel here

calzino, Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link

Brendan not able to get it into his grotesquely distended head that it's only Millwall fans who have booed taking the knee - though I supposer Brendan might argue they're the only working class football fans left in the UK, if not in the world.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Monday, 7 December 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link

Oops two distendeds there.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Monday, 7 December 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link

booing at West Ham and Colchester as well apparently, although not on the same scale

imago, Monday, 7 December 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link

West Ham. Well there you go.

ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Monday, 7 December 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link

anyway always fun when bastions of liberality side with an act of political symbolism that's unmistakably far-right

imago, Monday, 7 December 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link

the scare quotes around liberality should be implicit obv

imago, Monday, 7 December 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

Enjoying the idea that Joe Biden, who is a 100 year old liberal, is "obsessed with genderfluidity" pic.twitter.com/D9rG2OsdY8

— Rob Palk (@robpalkwriter) January 21, 2021

calzino, Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link

listen here, jack. we're gonna abolish gender. you're a gender critical feminist? come on, man!

Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 January 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link

Brendan's Irish peasant sensibilities have been shaken by the auld yin.

Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link

heaven forbid that there should be divisiveness in US politics

Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Friday, 22 January 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Amusing(?) myself at lunchtime by leafing through today's Daily Mail, thinking, "Jesus Christ, can you believe there are cunts who get handsomely paid for writing this shite?" when I come across a full page opinion piece by former editor of the Revolutionary Communist Party's official newspaper, Mick Hume. The bold Mick, who is holding forth on Partygate, starts his piece by saying, "I'm not concerned with defending Mr. Johnson" and, I think you can guess what's coming, proceeds to spend the entire article defending Mr. Johnson. Not quite the entire article because a lot of it is spent lambasting the BBC for criticizing Mr. Johnson as part of their policy of promoting the "woke agenda of Left-liberal urban elites". The main target of his ire being, wait for it, well known Left-liberal wokester, Nick Robinson. As I said, this cunt is getting paid for this shite.

Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Friday, 14 January 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link

This is really the best version of the mohicaned cunt who shouted at you about SWSS at uni turning up as your bank manager 20 years later

Khafre's clown (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 January 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link

absolutely, though I struggle to see how these kinds of shenanigans are helping to advance the Leninist vanguard

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 14 January 2022 14:39 (two years ago) link

he's advancing the class struggle, but doing it t'other way round against the proletariat. sort of like the Kriss Kross of the revolutionary vanguard. You aren't understanding this correctly from a Living Marxism viewpoint!

calzino, Friday, 14 January 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link

that's the worry that keeps me up at night: am I correctly grasping Frank Furedi and friends' Hegelian dialiectics?

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Friday, 14 January 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link


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