Comments on: Sand in your shorts?

By: Vee

Vee — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:24:01 +0000

I’m having trouble trying to find the phrase to take offence at: All his descriptions of the popular blogs are fairly accurate.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:46:51 +0000

Yep, Fyodor’s right – its all about the breadth of the comment Church. And the enstoushment opportunities. And above all, those who are just trying to make it through, in good jesting company. Thats the the LP recipe!

Let’s face it, we’re all just over-evolved apes trying to impose form on a meaningless vortex of noise. But some of us are looking at the stars!

By: Paul Hodgson

Paul Hodgson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:25:46 +0000

Steve #60

This thread is probably dead by now but:

“The only problem with your post Paul Hodgson (#50) is Crikey didn’t hire Scott and William to replace Christian, they hired Bernard Keane, who is rubbish”

Where did I say that Crikey replaced Christian with Scott and William? And contrary to you, I think that Bernard Keane is NOT rubbish. I DO think that Christian Kerr was, is, and will always remain rubbish.

By: Nickws

Nickws — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:44:24 +0000

I don’t need you to tell me how good my coffee is. I’m the one who buys it, I know how fuckin’ good it is. When Hilary Bray goes shoppin’, she buys shit. I buy the gourmet expensive stuff ’cause when I drink it, I wanna taste it. But what’s on mind at this moment isn’t the coffee in my kitchen.

It’s the pointlessness of threads about lipsnigers.

By: Mercurius

Mercurius — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:48:43 +0000

Now how about a chorus of ‘Somalian Pirates We’

…duck?

By: TimT

TimT — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:20:00 +0000

It all seems fairly mild to me – from what I read of that Kerr quote he’s just making an observation about the left-leaning tendency on Larvatus Prodeo. It doesn’t sound like criticism, just classification – albeit a classification by means of cliche.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:03:21 +0000

Update [by Mark]: The anti-analysts analysed.

By: Martin Lulzzlewit

Martin Lulzzlewit — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:51:39 +0000

I still think LP is the world-beater for excellence in conversation

Excellent point. LP’s enduring quality has been the high calibre of the contributors and commenters, and thus their conversation. While I tend to agree with the non-hyperbolic parts of Kerr’s description*, he’s failed miserably in identifying what this blog is about. For mine, it’s not about deep left politics, though perhaps some of the contributors and commenters think so, but about conversation, debate, stoush and lipsnigering over the topics de jour.

Naturally, the content of posts frames the conversations, as do the ideological biases of contributors and commenters, but, in the end, this joint really hums when it attracts the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation. Now, personally, I’m a little disappointed that weighty matters like reality TV and Princess Mary don’t get the attention they used to, but you play the hand you’re dealt.

* Yes, IMO the tone and content of LP has veered even more leftwards and greeenwards over the past 2-3 years. TINNAGT.

By: FDB

FDB — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:36:16 +0000

“my filing system is shit-and-twigs compared to the mighty archives of a decent hater like Gerard Henderson.”

I was so sure you’d end that sentence with a ‘C’ and an ‘L’. That you went the Hendo adds to a theory of mine…

By: Well Someone's Got to Do It

Well Someone's Got to Do It — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:05:30 +0000

“collective memory of past injustices…”

Q.: What’s the definition of Irish Alzheimer’s?

A.: It’s when you become so old and feeble that you actually forget one or two of your grudges.