Good rant against Banksy from Brendan O'Neill imo >>>

[Ashberto]

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/banksy-the-mast er-of-middle-class-misanthropy/17336#.VeWXP5fY9C4 (http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/banksy-the-master-of-middle-class-misanthropy/17336#.VeWXP5fY9C4)

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Berni]

form posturings of that c**t Banksy. He's just another way for the culurally illiterate to say they like 'art'.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

What a time to be alive.

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

[Berni]

like. I find such labels reductive.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

cup cakes, crumbly candy bars ....

[Classic Jorge]

generalising the working class as feral, feckless and cretinous? Carry on

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

'no foreign policy at all.'

[Ashberto]

A significant component of the elite have a hatred for the masses as being stupid - often referring to them as the great unwashed and so on. Banksy echoes this with his sneering at consumerism, eating at MacDonalds and going to the zoo. Hence Banksy, for all his supposed radicalism is only echoing the contempt for ordinary people as traditionally held by the snobby spastic classes.

[Ashberto]

If we all went around bombing people we didn't much like the place would be a dreadful mess imo. Good for business, though, in Redg's case. Less good for most of our businesses though.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Having the ability to bomb someone is often enough.

[Ashberto]

It's whataboutery. :rolleyes:

[Berni]

contemptible, after all. However, I hold someone who feels the need to make a statement as obvious as 'Theme parks are for c**ts' so witlessly in just as much contempt. And don't get me started on the sort of c**t who'd go to such a thing in order to laugh 'ironically' - they need shooting in the small intestine. In short, it's nothing to do with class and everything to do with being or not being a c**t.

I'm more your equal opportunities misanthrope, see?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Don't. That would be my advice.

[Ashberto]

I am indeed associating 'militarism' in this case with aggression. If this rendered things unclear I apologise.

I went the air museum yesterday, btw. Place was very busy, and the car park was full so we parked on the road with Mon-Sat restrictions assuming, like many others, that sunday parking applied. Not so, according to the Brent's fascist dispensers of parking tickets. :-( They must have made an absolute killing on rows of cars at 55 quid a pop (generously reduced from 110 is you pay in 14 days). Way to ruin a good day out for scores of families.

[Berni]

downstairs and like a riot in a Borstal upstairs.

[Berni]

of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure."

In other words, you can't have one without the other. As it were.

[Ashberto]

It was raining, and we were rather drunk, so we didn't walk. Our fellow passengers were fine. Even for South London.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

regulation. *******s.

Did you enjoy the aeroplanes? I must say I'm not so keen on the place when it's busy - a Tuesday morning in term-time in November is ideal, you'll have the place to yourself. :cloud9:

[Ashberto]

that hating people just because they go to theme parks, rather than just non giving a damn what harmless things poeople do, marks one out as being a bit of a c**t?

Or are you saying that because you basically agree with Banksy (without needing to say so), who represents a great swathe of the guardian-reading, dinner party bothering, lefty chattering class elite, you are in effect, one of them.

[Pokster]

and you didn't always have to pay :tightnorthernstereotype:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I very much enjoyed the ride but was scared of my fellow travellers. Several may have been under the influence of alcohol or drugs, legal or illegal. It was hard to say.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Classy.

[Ashberto]

and not yet learned in the ways of quiet public transport decorum.

[Berni]

One may feel contempt for someone's actions without feeling hatred for them.

In fact, I am saying that I feel contempt for vast swathes of the population because of their personal tastes and the unoriginal thought processes they display and rather bovine choices they make and tastes they have. I believe that applies as much to going to theme parks as it does to being a 'fan' of Banksy or Banksy himself.

So am I a snob? Yes, absolutely. But I would consider my snobbery to be a cut above that of both the groups described here.

[Berni]

Look, old chap, just because you live in St Paul's Cray and have some Irish heritage, I don't think you need to start identifying as one of them.

[Ashberto]

If anything they've set it all out a little too well, Clive. Last time I went, years ago, there was more space and the Lancaster looked amazing. Its style was somewhat cramped this time by all the stuff around it. The Vulcan was breathtaking though.

The ones with the insignia of two swords and a cricket bat raised a smile. Oman, apparently. Generally I enjoy the airyplanes but the bombs make me feel a bit queasy.

[Pokster]

there isn't an honesty bucket on them you know

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You don't have to explain yourself to me, p. If it's still on your conscience you could write them a cheque.

[Pokster]

will they accept green shield stamps?

[Berni]

I was late for the train, so jumped on it because I didn't have time to queue for the machines. I was fully prepared to take my lumps and pay the penalty fare had it arisen, but it didn't. There was no-one at the other end I could have paid, either.

What should I do so that I don't go to hell for theft? :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I miss cheques, quill pens and wax seals.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Easy.

[Pokster]

[Pokster]

[Berni]

away with it because the ref didn't see it. That's their bonus if they catch me imo.

How about I just buy two tickets home tonight? Will that do it?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

These people had been drinking beer, and apparently popping Valium.

[Berni]

He'd probably have let me off with a Novena and a quick handjob.

[Berni]

I don't remember ever needing a passbook, though.

[Pokster]

poor old George Cole would never have done the adverts if he'd known