Jorge...anyone know how to switch off twitter notifications for an individual

[SWv2]

I miss him, too. However, I think we could only tolerate one another when politics weren’t as febrile as they are now.

Well yes politics were always the flashpoint.

When he went all football hipster on us we could easily shut that down but between Brexit and Corbyn and snap elections I think it all got too much.

[Burney]

Well yes politics were always the flashpoint.

When he went all football hipster on us we could easily shut that down but between Brexit and Corbyn and snap elections I think it all got too much.

It's a shame. He was amusing company in many other respects. Probably still is, for all I know. His politics were always sophomoric, though.

[World's End Stella]

It's a shame. He was amusing company in many other respects. Probably still is, for all I know. His politics were always sophomoric, though.

I always saw him as a tragic figure. Put aside his politics, the bloke spent his life on the internet and had all sorts of phobias and conditions which suggest he isn't all there.

I mean, he didn't seem to be intellectually bereft yet he held views that could only be supported if you were.

[Burney]

I always saw him as a tragic figure. Put aside his politics, the bloke spent his life on the internet and had all sorts of phobias and conditions which suggest he isn't all there.

I mean, he didn't seem to be intellectually bereft yet he held views that could only be supported if you were.

He has no sense of smell, which seems to have made him particularly susceptible to bullshît.

[redgunamo]

He has no sense of smell, which seems to have made him particularly susceptible to bullshît.

Fascinating point. I'd put it down to being an only child of an ambitious single parent (I seem to recall him mentioning it). Spoiled, used to getting their own way/unused to having views challenged properly during the crucial formative years. That sort of thing.

[World's End Stella]

Fascinating point. I'd put it down to being an only child of an ambitious single parent (I seem to recall him mentioning it). Spoiled, used to getting their own way/unused to having views challenged properly during the crucial formative years. That sort of thing.

Yes, that makes sense.

Clearly your parent's vocation has worn off on you, red. Have you figured yourself out yet?

[redgunamo]

Yes, that makes sense.

Clearly your parent's vocation has worn off on you, red. Have you figured yourself out yet?

Of course. There's nothing to work out, that's the whole idea.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

I always saw him as a tragic figure. Put aside his politics, the bloke spent his life on the internet and had all sorts of phobias and conditions which suggest he isn't all there.

I mean, he didn't seem to be intellectually bereft yet he held views that could only be supported if you were.

I must take issue with you slyly disparaging Jorge's intellect. He had a fine intellect, even if he was a little prone to embrace even the most esoteric of liberal orthodoxies. I always found his posts interesting and amusing and his intellect is at least equal to your own and quite possibly more refined.

[redgunamo]

I must take issue with you slyly disparaging Jorge's intellect. He had a fine intellect, even if he was a little prone to embrace even the most esoteric of liberal orthodoxies. I always found his posts interesting and amusing and his intellect is at least equal to your own and quite possibly more refined.

Right. I'd agree with that. So I just tried to make the point that rather than a question of intellect, it was more a matter of environmental genetics/conditioning.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Jorge had if I recall his account correctly, idealistic parents (parent singular? not sure) who sent him to a North London comp where white kids were minority and were subjected to some quite dreadful bullying. I think it is to his eternal credit he emerged from that experience with his values and ethics in tact.