quote:Conservative MP and editor of The Spectator Boris Johnson was criticised last year after commenting in the magazine that Liverpudlians were "hooked on grief".
I think I'm a bit hooked on grief recently. Or at least getting into cycles of sadness or guilt for being alive. It's damn addictive stuff.
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Gosh! That came out much worse than it sounded. What I meant to say is that I actually felt sad at the thought of my girlfriends knitting unravelling after all the effort she'd put it. Which is of course completely spacky and therefore funny as fuck.
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I sent this to OJ yesterday. I love Liverpool. Everytime someone attempts to defend it it simply ups the ante and does something even more cliched than ever before.
quote:Originally posted by ralph: no, i'm my usual amount of stupid.
I dunno, I've just been reading the thread where you chastise roys American history by saying that the white folks were insulted by the black folks using their buses. So really, knowing this Martin Luther King could have probably saved himself the effort of the 381 day boycott that led to making segregation on buses illegal in the state of Alabama.
Was that so hard? Was it? And where was I trying to show how much I know? I'm fairly certain I was admitting my lack of knowledge on the topic by asking for an answer in the first place.
Would it be ok if I stalked you for a bit, omikin? I don't currently have a stalkee, as I can no longer bring myself to torment Endemic.
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quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: That is a pretty strange thing to happen. Is that just Liverpool though? And how does a city develop a 'mentality'?
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also, the "shows how much you know" bit was not a reference to your ignorance of the skag = smack thing (although there are three year olds rolling their eyes at that one), it was a response to your name-calling remark. like i'd ever said name calling was the answer. i didn't call you a name, i merely asked if you'd been punching yourself in the face.
if i'd been name calling, i'd have said something like "ralph you knob-shiner" or "ralph you splitarse".
something like that.
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quote:Originally posted by omikin: like i'd ever said name calling was the answer. i didn't call you a name, i merely asked if you'd been punching yourself in the face.
if i'd been name calling, i'd have said something like "ralph you knob-shiner" or "ralph you splitarse".
something like that.
You called me stupid. How is that not name calling?
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quote:Originally posted by Endemic: I sent this to OJ yesterday. I love Liverpool. Everytime someone attempts to defend it it simply ups the ante and does something even more cliched than ever before.
Fair do's - Manchester certainly pulls its weight in the 'reinforcing stereotypes' department.
quote:Five boys and a girl, all aged 15 and 16, were charged with the murder [...]
All were armed at some point with either a spanner, stick or bottle.
The youths were also armed with weapons, including a garden spade, a garden hoe, sticks, a branch and large wooden stakes.
quote:Defence advocate Jane Farquharson told Lord Abernethy they would contest the claim that DNA found on the student's clothes matched Robert Greens.
"Another explanation for the DNA may be that it is his identical twin brother because, of course, twin brothers share the same DNA," she told the court.
quote:Defence advocate Jane Farquharson told Lord Abernethy they would contest the claim that DNA found on the student's clothes matched Robert Greens.
"Another explanation for the DNA may be that it is his identical twin brother because, of course, twin brothers share the same DNA," she told the court.
Ben, you've lost me. Liverpool has a reputation for public displays of grief. That's a least a part of it's stereotypical reputation. I don't see how those seemingly randomly selected news stories are reinforccing stereotypes of Manchester and Scotland? For a start the first one you reference is about a murder which actually took place in Wigan. Surely if this was all about reinforcing stereotypes you'd have picked a story about pies and piers? I'm not sure if that was a throwaway post in the middle of a busy afternoon but it did seem to be saying ha! other places conform to their stereotypical images! in a rather random fashion, given that at no point did I actually say hmm, let's laugh at Liverpool, the only place in the world where the people behave in a predictable fashion and wholly according to their outside image. :confuzzled:
quote: Five boys and a girl, all aged 15 and 16, were charged with the murder [...]
All were armed at some point with either a spanner, stick or bottle.
Three of my friends were chased by an armed mob (armed with pipes, bats etc) on Saturday, near Hackney. They fled down an ally, over a very high wall and across a few gardens. The sight three hysterical 'youth' in his garden caused one old man to have an epileptic fit. Having established that they were no threat (by holding a note saying armed gang chasing us - help!) the old couple took them into the house in order to call the police. Meanwhile the gang could be heard roaming up and down the road outside. The police did not arrive after an hour so they got a taxi to a friends house.
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