Poverty tourism gap year and shit like that
by Will, 15 February 2008
Check out this fucking garbage and wank.
Now I dare you. Tell me I’m wrong for wanting these people summarily shot on the spot. Go on. I fucking dare you. These scumbags are the sort I had to mix with at university while I had to shoplift cans of beans to survive.
nep·o·tism (nĕp‘ə-tĭz‘əm)
n. Favouritism shown or patronage granted to relatives, as in business.
[French népotisme, from Italian nepotismo, from nepote, nephew, from Latin nepōs, nepōt-.]
nepotist nep‘o·tist n.
nepotistic nep‘o·tis‘tic or nep‘o·tis‘ti·cal adj.
(Sombrero aloft to The Bone)
Bit Of An Update: (new information posted in comments)
Friday 15 February 2008 at 1:22
The comments are a delight:
His dad (Paul Gogerty) must hate the brat something rotten.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 1:31
Or maybe it is, as a few commenters have suggested, merely viral marketing for this “Skins” thingy, whatever that is.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 1:35
‘Skins’ is some godawful wank produced by wankers for wankers. The trailers for it (that seemingly never fucking end) tell you everything you would not want to know about the shite.
Kill them. Kill them all.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 2:36
facebook page of nathans jaunt here!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=577395717
Friday 15 February 2008 at 6:48
They are considered to be scum in South East Asia. One always does one’s bit…
A young travel agent and I once entered into a spontaneous and unspoken agreement to fuck up the week of some gapistas. It was in Mersing, waiting for the boat to Pulau Tioman, they were giving it large about what a shithole they thought Malaysia was, and said worse about Thailand. The travel agent lad offered to cash traveller’s cheques for them, but they sneered that they would get a better rate ‘on the island’. He agreed that they were undoubtedly right and I kept my trap shut. There were no currency exchange facilities on Tioman.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 8:55
seems to be going all ‘viral’ now:
http://technorati.com/search/http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/travelog/2008/02/skins_blog.html
Friday 15 February 2008 at 11:15
If it is a viral campaign its creators are a bit dim, and the laugh is on the Gogartys. May Max Gogarty’s gap year for ever be associated with Paul Gogarty Communications. Tossers the lot of ‘em.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 12:16
These ‘gap year’ fuckfaced little cunts with their skinny jeans and their famous sunglasses are Conor Foley’s “new international brigade” - glad I’m not in the trenches with the fuckers.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 13:22
Nathan Barleys.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 13:33
see the listing at 7.00 Cunt
Friday 15 February 2008 at 14:54
What Will said, but I feel he’s holding back for a change.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 16:25
> These ‘gap year’ fuckfaced little cunts with their skinny jeans and their famous sunglasses > are Conor Foley’s “new international brigade” - glad I’m not in the trenches with the >fuckers.
With their PLO scarves they are rather the (post)modern equivalent of Franco’s regulares or the grand mufti’s hordes - glad I’m on the other side of the barricade.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 16:28
The gapistas are loathed for their patronising condescension, for trying to get away without paying for anything, and for their general filthiness–not only do they have poor personal hygiene, but they treat South East Asia like a rubbish bin.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 17:27
New revelation: that the great Max has edited his comprehensive secondary school’s Wikipedia entry to make note of himself, under alumni, as a “Top Guardian Travel Columnist.”
Unfortunately, the accusations and smears have had their effect on Max’s sensitive soul. As his father Paul Gogarty has issued this missive to the Guardian’s readership:
I have nothing to add. Humanity has drowned a god in its own shit and bile. Oh, what could have been..what could have been. Sorrows now engulf me so utterly and completely.
Fuck it — another thing…
To quote Peter Wilby in the Guardian….
Friday 15 February 2008 at 17:42
please leave Max alone. He hasn’t actually done anything wrong
… apart from being a posh little bastard, for whom poverty is a spectator sport.
Can I just say, I’ve been feeling a particularly high level of class hatred–and concomitant revolutionary vigour–these past few weeks.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 18:11
“The gapistas are loathed for their patronising condescension, for trying to get away without paying for anything, and for their general filthiness–not only do they have poor personal hygiene, but they treat South East Asia like a rubbish bin.’
Exactomondo. I’ve always hated these dirt cheap, stingy, scavenging bastards who swan about SE Asia like colonial overlords. The worst scumbags are the ones who use the oportunity to buy and export cheap sweatshop t shirts while they’re over there to make a quick buck. Real fucking pricks who deserve a real fucking kicking.
Still their one saving grace is that they help to instill a healthy dose of class hatred like no other.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 20:44
On the subject of nepotism at the Grauniad, Editor Rushbriger’s daughter walked out of Uni’ and in to a job on the paper’s website. However, she did have the good sense to use her mother’s surname, so it wouldn’t be too obvious.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 21:39
One of the things I’m most proud of in my career is refusing to give a job to the son of the late and very unlamented Linda Lee Fucking-Potter, former Daily Mail columnist, on the grounds that the little twat wasn’t going to need my help in gertting a post in journalism and I’d rather give an opening to someone who didn’t have parental contacts. I was not surprised to discover that Lee Puker junior managed to find a place on the Newcastle Journal soon after I told him to piss off …
Friday 15 February 2008 at 22:15
“Still their one saving grace is that they help to instill a healthy dose of class hatred like no other.”
Oh - I dunno ’bout that — just a peep at Location Location Location and I’m filled with so much rage that I’m up for hanging the oligarchy and their tosspot lickspittal bootlickers from the cooncil supplied street illuminations at the drop of a hat.
PS. My telly is scared of me.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 23:07
“You may like or dislike the blog but the cruelty is shocking if quintessentially British.”
Really? I’m a rebel colonist, and I must say I feel the same way.
Friday 15 February 2008 at 23:23
Will: no one is scared of you. I am sure that they back away from you for a completely different reason.
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 0:05
Fuck.
Foley you are a boring twat without a sense of humour.
Gerra a fucking grip man.
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 0:14
PS. I am starting to grow fond of Foley.
Don’t ask me why — I don’t fucking know.
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 0:15
Foley: Suits you sir.
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 0:24
A wee song to make Conor feel at home:
Come all you young rebels
And list’ while I sing
For the love of one’s country
Is a terrible thing.
It banishes fear
With the speed of a flame,
And makes us all part of
The Patriot Game.
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 2:13
Pour les cousins Canadiens, c’est la biche Tory Kirsty Allsopp:
Tory filth and scum.
Kill them. Kill them all.
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 2:17
Don’t get me started on Location Location Location.
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 2:21
Grant Shapps MP.
Horsefaced cunt.
Shut up you douchebag. You dirty little douchebag wonky faced cunt — “This is one reason I have got Kirsty in”.
Awwwww fuck offffff!!!!!!!!!
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 2:23
This is one reason I have got Kirsty in
Does the other reason have to do with a binbag and an orange?
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 17:23
Writing a play at 19?
Did no-one tell this pretentious idiot that he has to have some life experience before he writes, or he is going to look like, well a pretentious idiot? OK some people have written well when young, but it is an incredibly rare talent, usually borne of a hard upbringing, often in illness, neglect or poverty, far more life experience than youth would normally bring. Exactly the opposite, then, of the upbringing of a nepotist Guardian writer’s son.
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 21:51
The word “nepotism” used to have a more interesting origin, someone once told me. It referred to the euphemistic “nephews” of priests, who couldn’t admit to having sons because they were forbidden to marry.
It may be a linguistic urban myth but it makes sense. And it takes for granted that we will try to get jobs for our sons and daughters, adding the note of concealment.
Saturday 16 February 2008 at 23:57
‘Nephews’ were sons or (former) altar boys, depending on the proclivities of the cleric.
Sunday 17 February 2008 at 11:45
‘Skins’ is some godawful wank produced by wankers for wankers. The trailers for it (that seemingly never fucking end) tell you everything you would not want to know about the shite.
Ah … the trailers. They must constitute a ‘gap year’ in themselves.
Sunday 17 February 2008 at 12:07
2 Ms 2 Gs
Sunday 17 February 2008 at 18:15
Yes, yes yes, Exactly wot Hakmao said.
I remember having to restrain myself from slapping a gap year veteran (Manc, manky) who was complaining about how tight fisted Indian villagers were because he couldn’t haggle a discount on a £2 room and how ungrateful they were for various allegedly wonderous things he did for them while there. Playing his fucking guitar mainly.
And that tropic of capricorn programme on BBC2 will give you a clue to where the gapista’s will be heading this summer.
Sunday 17 February 2008 at 20:16
that tropic of capricorn programme on BBC2 … where the gapista’s will be heading this summer
They can go and watch fat Boer vigilante scum rounding up kids on the Zimbabwe border…
Tuesday 19 February 2008 at 15:47
“These scumbags are the sort I had to mix with at university while I had to shoplift cans of beans to survive.”
Blimey Will. Where and when did you go to university? Yorkshire, circa 40 years ago?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsWd5QC7K5E