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[Brighton] Rod Liddle's opinion of Brighton
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Like I said not proven at all, press complaints commission judgement isn't proof at all....and you know it.
keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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Really depends on your definition of interesting and boring. I find " I will say anything to get attention" pretty boring
I enjoy some of his articles and they can be quite amusing as long as you don’t take the content too literally or seriously.
I am not in the slightest surprised at the reaction of some on here to his description of Brighton. Don’t take it too seriously, people.
He’s got a point about the weirdos, but as others have said, that is what makes Brighton what it is. Love it or hate it.
I used to love the place when I was younger, but I wouldn’t want to live there now.
As far as Liddell the person, I don’t think he would be my cup of tea. I shall leave it at that.
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I didn’t mention or mean the poster, I meant the person in the thread title.
How do you mean unproven? They looked at the stats and ruled it was inaccurate. Who else do you want to prove him wrong if not the PCC?
Have you read the report you posted ? A typical whitewash,no.pun intended.
Yeah, I read it. Seems fair enough based on the available data.
Liddle's blog post was designed to stir up prejudice and he exaggerated in order to do so. What's difficult to understand here?
faoileán
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- Jan 29, 2021
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Depends what you mean by weirdos; yes for sure a large proportion of people in Brighton don't dress from M&S and Primark, and is vegetarianism still considered weird? As for perverts, I presume he is referring to Brighton's gay population. You would have to be right unreconstructed old Nazi to still think of gay people as perverts.
Saladpack Seagull
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Not knowing who Rod Liddle is I assumed he was going to praise us for only playing one at the back against Man City
Yeah, I'd never heard of him either. From what others have posted about him, I don't think I was missing much.
A paragraph from an article he published in the Spectator in 2019. Here we see racist, woman beater, Rod Liddle insulting a domestic abuse survivor and advocating we deny Muslims the vote. Those who support this fool, or consider his articles humorous are on the whole, not very nice people.
“It was principally the student vote that won Canterbury for the sobbing and oppressed Rosie ‘#MeToo’ Duffield. Please don’t let that happen again. My own choice of election date would be a day when universities are closed and Muslims are forbidden to do anything on pain of hell, or something. There must be at least one day like that in the Muslim calendar, surely? That would deliver at least 40 seats to the Tories, I reckon.”
Even the assistant editor of The Spectator, Isabel Hardman condemned this article. However The Spectator knows there is a baying mob of right wing and intolerant readers who despite their claims that woke culture is taking over the UK, are actually a large and growing demographic.
In August 2018, Liddle wrote an article in The Spectator in support of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's controversial comments regarding burkas. The article included the subheading 'My own view is that there is not nearly enough Islamophobia within the Tory party"
His homophobic credentials are also fairly well self-documented. Here he is on the reaction to banning amyl-nitrate;
So, Crispin Blunt MP feels hurt because laws proscribing amyl nitrate [sic] (or 'poppers') would criminalise the entire gay community. ... I would have thought that the requirement for amyl nitrate to relax the sphincter muscle and lube to accommodate entry was God's way of telling you that what you're about to do is unnatural and perverse. Or your body's way of telling you – your call. So eeeeuw. ... Crispin and others can always use a jemmy instead.[70]
Columnists like Liddle and Taki (Taki, a columnist with a decades-long history of plastering bigotry across the Spectator’s pages, has: suggested that black people have lower IQs, written a column originally headlined “In praise of the Wehrmacht” and faced a police investigation for a piece in which he claimed that Enoch Powell was “tough on the causes of crime") have raised the readership of TS substantially. There are a lot of people who lap this stuff up.
Their readership, as has been seen on this thread, claim they read the columns because they are humorous, a chucklesome, sideways swipe at the "wokey cokey" generation and the loony left. However, that veil is rather transparent. It's clear to level headed folk that the readership, although I'm sure chuckle at his racist views, are actually in full agreement with his racist, misogynistic hate-speech.
If the rightfully defunct Bear Pit showed us anything, it's that we have our share of these types on NSC. Two of the worst didn't last five minutes on the big board before being handed bans.
However, I digress. Liddle is a massive C and anyone who takes his guff seriously is to be regarded as a fool.
As for his thoughts on Brighton? Who cares what that twerp thinks about something he knows **** all about?
“It was principally the student vote that won Canterbury for the sobbing and oppressed Rosie ‘#MeToo’ Duffield. Please don’t let that happen again. My own choice of election date would be a day when universities are closed and Muslims are forbidden to do anything on pain of hell, or something. There must be at least one day like that in the Muslim calendar, surely? That would deliver at least 40 seats to the Tories, I reckon.”
Even the assistant editor of The Spectator, Isabel Hardman condemned this article. However The Spectator knows there is a baying mob of right wing and intolerant readers who despite their claims that woke culture is taking over the UK, are actually a large and growing demographic.
In August 2018, Liddle wrote an article in The Spectator in support of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's controversial comments regarding burkas. The article included the subheading 'My own view is that there is not nearly enough Islamophobia within the Tory party"
His homophobic credentials are also fairly well self-documented. Here he is on the reaction to banning amyl-nitrate;
So, Crispin Blunt MP feels hurt because laws proscribing amyl nitrate [sic] (or 'poppers') would criminalise the entire gay community. ... I would have thought that the requirement for amyl nitrate to relax the sphincter muscle and lube to accommodate entry was God's way of telling you that what you're about to do is unnatural and perverse. Or your body's way of telling you – your call. So eeeeuw. ... Crispin and others can always use a jemmy instead.[70]
Columnists like Liddle and Taki (Taki, a columnist with a decades-long history of plastering bigotry across the Spectator’s pages, has: suggested that black people have lower IQs, written a column originally headlined “In praise of the Wehrmacht” and faced a police investigation for a piece in which he claimed that Enoch Powell was “tough on the causes of crime") have raised the readership of TS substantially. There are a lot of people who lap this stuff up.
Their readership, as has been seen on this thread, claim they read the columns because they are humorous, a chucklesome, sideways swipe at the "wokey cokey" generation and the loony left. However, that veil is rather transparent. It's clear to level headed folk that the readership, although I'm sure chuckle at his racist views, are actually in full agreement with his racist, misogynistic hate-speech.
If the rightfully defunct Bear Pit showed us anything, it's that we have our share of these types on NSC. Two of the worst didn't last five minutes on the big board before being handed bans.
However, I digress. Liddle is a massive C and anyone who takes his guff seriously is to be regarded as a fool.
As for his thoughts on Brighton? Who cares what that twerp thinks about something he knows **** all about?
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Indeed.
Weird can be used to describe things in several different ways; sometimes meaning sinister and sometimes funny or unusual, offbeat, eccentric etc.
I reckon Brighton has a fair sprinkling of the funny, unusual, offbeat and eccentric etc. and I dare say, in common with most large conurbations, it has its share of less desirable weirdos. As for perverts, I completely agree with you.
A paragraph from an article he published in the Spectator in 2019. Here we see racist, woman beater, Rod Liddle insulting a domestic abuse survivor and advocating we deny Muslims the vote. Those who support this fool, or consider his articles humorous are on the whole, not very nice people.
“It was principally the student vote that won Canterbury for the sobbing and oppressed Rosie ‘#MeToo’ Duffield. Please don’t let that happen again. My own choice of election date would be a day when universities are closed and Muslims are forbidden to do anything on pain of hell, or something. There must be at least one day like that in the Muslim calendar, surely? That would deliver at least 40 seats to the Tories, I reckon.”
Even the assistant editor of The Spectator, Isabel Hardman condemned this article. However The Spectator knows there is a baying mob of right wing and intolerant readers who despite their claims that woke culture is taking over the UK, are actually a large and growing demographic.
Columnists like Liddle and Taki (Taki, a columnist with a decades-long history of plastering bigotry across the Spectator’s pages, has suggested that black people have lower IQs, written a column originally headlined “In praise of the Wehrmacht” and faced a police investigation for a piece in which he claimed that Enoch Powell was “tough on the causes of crime") have raised the readership of TS substantially. There are a lot of people who lap this stuff up.
Their readership, as has been seen on this thread, claim they read the columns because they are humorous, a chucklesome, sideways swipe at the "wokey cokey" generation and the loony left. However, that veil is rather transparent. It's clear to level headed folk that the readership, although I'm sure chuckle at his racist views, are actually in full agreement with his racist, misogynistic hate-speech.
If the rightfully defunct Bear Pit showed us anything, it's that we have our share of these types on NSC. Two of the worst didn't last five minutes on the big board before being handed bans.
However, I digress. Liddle is a massive C and anyone who takes his guff seriously is to be regarded as a fool.
I was one of those who said that some of the articles he writes can be amusing, but I will qualify that by saying I only read the column he writes in the Sunday Times. I have never read the Spectator or any other publications that he may contribute to and I would be very surprised if the average Sunday Times reader is in favour of racist, misogynistic hate speech.
I am certainly not and I do agree that his articles should not be taken seriously.
JC Footy Genius
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- Jun 9, 2015
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A paragraph from an article he published in the Spectator in 2019. Here we see racist, woman beater, Rod Liddle insulting a domestic abuse survivor and advocating we deny Muslims the vote. Those who support this fool, or consider his articles humorous are on the whole, not very nice people.
“It was principally the student vote that won Canterbury for the sobbing and oppressed Rosie ‘#MeToo’ Duffield. Please don’t let that happen again. My own choice of election date would be a day when universities are closed and Muslims are forbidden to do anything on pain of hell, or something. There must be at least one day like that in the Muslim calendar, surely? That would deliver at least 40 seats to the Tories, I reckon.”
Even the assistant editor of The Spectator, Isabel Hardman condemned this article. However The Spectator knows there is a baying mob of right wing and intolerant readers who despite their claims that woke culture is taking over the UK, are actually a large and growing demographic.
In August 2018, Liddle wrote an article in The Spectator in support of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's controversial comments regarding burkas. The article included the subheading 'My own view is that there is not nearly enough Islamophobia within the Tory party"
His homophobic credentials are also fairly well self-documented. Here he is on the reaction to banning amyl-nitrate;
So, Crispin Blunt MP feels hurt because laws proscribing amyl nitrate [sic] (or 'poppers') would criminalise the entire gay community. ... I would have thought that the requirement for amyl nitrate to relax the sphincter muscle and lube to accommodate entry was God's way of telling you that what you're about to do is unnatural and perverse. Or your body's way of telling you – your call. So eeeeuw. ... Crispin and others can always use a jemmy instead.[70]
Columnists like Liddle and Taki (Taki, a columnist with a decades-long history of plastering bigotry across the Spectator’s pages, has: suggested that black people have lower IQs, written a column originally headlined “In praise of the Wehrmacht” and faced a police investigation for a piece in which he claimed that Enoch Powell was “tough on the causes of crime") have raised the readership of TS substantially. There are a lot of people who lap this stuff up.
Their readership, as has been seen on this thread, claim they read the columns because they are humorous, a chucklesome, sideways swipe at the "wokey cokey" generation and the loony left. However, that veil is rather transparent. It's clear to level headed folk that the readership, although I'm sure chuckle at his racist views, are actually in full agreement with his racist, misogynistic hate-speech.
If the rightfully defunct Bear Pit showed us anything, it's that we have our share of these types on NSC. Two of the worst didn't last five minutes on the big board before being handed bans.
However, I digress. Liddle is a massive C and anyone who takes his guff seriously is to be regarded as a fool.
As for his thoughts on Brighton? Who cares what that twerp thinks about something he knows **** all about?
Considering you received a ban on here for using racially abusive/derogatory language but claimed it was meant to be humorous I would have thought you would be a bit less judgemental ...
Considering you received a ban on here for using racially abusive/derogatory language but claimed it was meant to be humorous I would have thought you would be a bit less judgemental ...
The bear pit is closed and I have no desire to engage in your bollocks on the BB, or to justify myself . Especially as it was something said in jest, over ten years ago
Therein lay the problem, there are clearly people out there who read these types of articles ( see DM and plenty of other publications, and do take them seriously, then vote accordingly.