What happened to Robin Carmody?

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nigga dont need to read his posts back like dis nigga dont listen to go niggaz 2 in tha wesside swindon. that nigga b-squared andrews fucked dat shiznit up with his small black cock yo yo yo

dont be messin with tha xtc krew or yo gonna be crushed with tha orangez and lemonz

I will try and post fairly regularly to Run Away Home from now on (I probably have more abandoned mega-projects than Orson Welles and Paddy McAloon put together).

I'll try and post something every day there from now on.

There is much more rejoicing about one who returns than one who is consistently here and that.

But, I'll crack on regardless...

http://70struth.blogspot.com/

Robin Carmody apparently everything that's wrong with the youth of today, say old people.

Ugh.

robin is still going strong (if not exactly daily, not that that's a criticism) on lj by the way.

i think the 70s truth lot might have got hold of the wrong end of the stick a bit, bless them...

i sort of admire that 70s blog. it's right on a lot of things, but harping on about space hoppers being introduced in the late 60s SO NOT A 70s THING NANANANA is a bit daft.

Does Mr Carmody really think "Daily Mail" readers are racists and homophobes? What a generalisation!

No, he said "The Daily Mail", not its readers.

wb

what the

arrrrrrrrrr!

He was one of our more intelligent and articulate posters on the board, with an impressive knoweledge of political history. Is he on sabbatical or has he gone now for good?had it with these motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane.
-- Heathrow Airport, Saturday, 15 April 2006 13:07 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Fixed.

Oh, I get it now...

ILX is the plane, and us posters are either the passengers or the snakes.

And One of the posters is Samuel L. Jackson.

However, how many posters *think* they are Samuel L. Jackson?

I'm the camp flight attendant who turns out to have a girlfriend at the end of the film!

those frosted tips put everybody off the scent. or do they?

Robin is a man who amazes me and puzzles me in equal measure: how does he write with such authority and erudition about things that happened before he was born? Ah, yes, you might say, there are plenty of historians out there, but with Robin you got the impression that he was actually living through the things he was describing...I can't remember the moment when I found out the guy was actually a good decade or more younger than me but it was a real "omigod!" moment for me.

It's amazing to think the the Robin Carmody of the 2030s will be some kid who wasn't even _born_ when Snakes On A Plane came out.

Snakes on a Plane is Gay?

But at least the above was genuinely important in its time. One of the episodes on Paramount 2 last night climaxed with a song about how all members of the then Cabinet were fat, and how the likes of Ian Gilmour and Francis Pym had been exiled because they were too thin. I'm not denying that us 90s kids were spoilt by The Day Today, in a way our 00s equivalents haven't been (and it's difficult to see how they could, now that everything is so far beyond parody), but was this kind of thing ever, ever funny?

this from Robin's latest post on his live journal. Have to say that I think Spitting Image and the Day to Day were catering for -- and reaching -- a different audience with SI being a lot more mainstream...yes they *are* both funny but in different ways and at different levels. So whilst SI was occasionally satirical it also was funny to people who would never understand the satire of the Day to Day, Brass Eye etc.

Although kids watching SI => students watching The Day Today but then Sunday evening ITV was always going to get a bigger audience than midweek BBC2.

Unless ITN passim is long-term ironic extension of Day Today template in the same sense that DMail might be 100-year exercise in Trojan Horse LOOK HOW ABSURD THEY REALLY ARE socialism.

my favourite SI moment was prolly when Cecil Parkinson returned as Energy Minister - sktech involved the other govt ministers smirking and saying stuff like "Ooh, I hear you're going to be ENERGY minister...blocking dangerous emissions *smirk*". they go on along those lines for a bit and then Parkinson gets really cross & shouts at them and the last line (from Hurd iirc) is something like "he thought we were talking about bonking!" i.e. really OBVIOUS for the people who don't get it. A perfect illustration of how SI is where the worlds of Brass Eye and Little and Large (say) collided.

If there was a thread that I'd pay money to see, it would be any thread involving Robin Carmody and Louis Jagger. I'd fucking pay good money for that meeting of the minds.

i thought you quit too.

You're thinking of Heath Ledger

No, I need to insult random people on the internet. Makes me a nicer guy in real life.

You're thinking of Heath Ledger

RIP Big Man

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carmody > buttez

he should listen to talksport less, he'll give himself a hernia

1:36 am
so last night there was this drunk bloke
about 2am, and he was doing the usual: on the surface a very *white*-lumpen set of threats, "you're gonna get your fucking head kicked in", even invoking the Pompey chimes ...

... *except* there was one particular noise, beyond language, utterly free of even the slightest *knowledge* of articulation, which sounded irresistibly grime-esque

and suddenly I realised how much the genie is out of the bottle, and (by extension) just what certain people are so scared of