CiF redeems itself
by Shuggy, 10 April 2008
Truth is, Comment is Worthless is a godsend to the blogger. Short of something to vent your spleen about? Simply follow the link above and within about forty-five seconds you’re sure to find something. But a reassessment is in order because here’s Ruth Fowler having a pop at “puritan bourgeois liberals”:
“[M]isinformed and bigoted hatred is also a trait peculiar to the humourless bourgeois liberal. By singling out people, including themselves, on the basis of race, class and economics - traits that they simultaneously and hollowly decry as utterly unimportant - they perform a spectacular feat of unintentional postmodern irony, or what can be more commonly termed wankerism.”
I have to say, living and working in Glasgow I never come across the sort of puritan liberals she describes.
There are two possible explanations for this:
1) They exist but have already wisely decided that talking to me is a complete waste of time and potentially a traumatic experience.
2) The few that existed have all been killed.
Perhaps they live in Edinburgh, in which case Will can take care of them.
Anyway, how fabulous is Ruth Fowler? Pretty goddam fabulous, in my view. Here’s some info:
“Ruth Fowler was born in 1979 and grew up in the mountains of North Wales. She received a first class BA (Hons) in English Literature from Cambridge University in 2000. She is sure they let her in as the token comprehensive school northerner.”
Hmmm - 1979? Bit of an age difference here, but not insurmountable… Did I mention my grandfather was Welsh? First class honours? Hey, I’ve got one of those too. (Is there no end to the things we have in common?) Means slightly less than fuck all - but you knew that already because you’re just so gorgeously intelligent. Tokenism? No, no, no - apart from the usual mundane shit you need to get into the university of your choice, this was because you are an angel, a veritable goddess.
What an improvement to Comment is Bullshit! Why, her very presence even induced that rarest of things - a funny comment on a CiF thread:
“Julie Burchill and Christopher Hitchens had a baby.It was a girl.”
Funny - yet disturbing: while I enjoy both of these writers from time to time, frankly the idea of them doing the deed that leads to procreation puts images in my mind that I don’t want to be there. Furthermore, while I intend no disrespect to either of them, I doubt very much whether the fruit of their loins would end up looking like this:
What - you find all this vulgar, un-PC and altogether too laddish for your taste? Ah, but herein lies the point, comrade sister, comrade brother: if so, her article’s about you.
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 6:14
Push off Will, Wales reclaims its dai-alectical daughter. Her Cymru Rouge ap-plication form is being slotted into the cleft stick as my scribe writes this.
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 6:42
Welsh comrades, estimable as they are, may be many things, but northern surely isn’t one of them. What next? Residents of Luton with flat caps and whippets?
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 8:50
Given that Miss Fowler is being hyped, and is hyping herself, to the eyeballs, I don’t feel at all bad about being so negative about the lass. So here goes…
Article designed for Cif - writing by numbers - contrarian - straw men by the shed load - faux vitriol - faux angst - genuine middle class sensibilities - box-ticking - has own comments deleted (edgy!!) - pretentious - unoriginal - Julie Burchill without the content - Maximilian Gogerty 10 years on and still clueless - come hither eyes - PR creation - will probably achieve some success in guardianland.
Cif’s still crap.
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 11:00
Does the photo show her writing the essay using her backside? That would explain a lot.
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 11:21
I know I shouldn’t encourage you, but you do know she has a twin sister? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Fowler_%28Filmmaker%29
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 11:48
Welsh comrades, estimable as they are, may be many things, but northern surely isn’t one of them.
Well, North Wales - perhaps she was being parochial? Ok, so geography’s not her strong suit but still…
Article designed for Cif - writing by numbers - contrarian - straw men by the shed load - faux vitriol - faux angst - genuine middle class sensibilities - box-ticking - has own comments deleted (edgy!!) - pretentious - unoriginal - Julie Burchill without the content - Maximilian Gogerty 10 years on and still clueless - come hither eyes - PR creation - will probably achieve some success in guardianland.
Possibly accurate yet superfluous criticisms. That’s you crossed off the guest list for the wedding…
I know I shouldn’t encourage you, but you do know she has a twin sister?
Identical, do we know? I just fainted there…
[no it isn’t. stop dropping links here to that fucking turd or i will personally hunt yee doon and fucking slit your throat]
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 16:34
Sounds like you have been indulging in a bit of “wankerism” yourself. But over CiF?? Pull yourself (pun intended) together man.
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 17:26
Did you see the bit on the bio on her website that claims she is “not too bothered about female genital mutilation” ? Seems she’s not above a bit of wankerism herself, and is more than qualified for CiF. I couldn’t care less that she’s using her body to sell the contents of her mind, but when those contents are so worthless and glib, I have to question it.
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 17:52
G studied physics and philosophy at Leeds (tick!), with extra-curricular concerns focusing around Buddhism (tick!), Tibet (tick!), animal cruelty (tick!) and global warming (tick!). She graduated and took a master’s at Cambridge in environmental science (tick!). Then she left, lived in France for a year learning French (uh-uh) and took another master’s in journalism (tick!), and worked on an environmental newsfeed service for a year (tick!), before deciding her true calling was taking two years out travelling around the world on a bicycle (uh-uh, though points for the eco-friendly mode of transport) - to “highlight global warming” (TICK!)
I do not recognise this world–but apparently if you do these things, you are ‘left wing’, which is something to do with some seating arrangements in 1791. Sounds a lot easier than worrying about workers’ rights and all of those difficult and sometime tedious things.
Thursday 10 April 2008 at 18:12
Sounds like you have been indulging in a bit of “wankerism” yourself. But over CiF?? Pull yourself (pun intended) together man.
Ha ha - sadly, the days when I was that easily stimulated have long gone. But the thing is, it’s so unexpected to find such delight at CiF.