Why do we tolerate nutters on the anarchist scene?

[chico enrico]

I remeber when that Ronnie Lee fella had a liberated circus bear in his Hackney garden. Where do we find people like this? Why do we give them the steam off of our piss?

nah man, that's cool. we need MORE of that sort of thing.

remember "The Deadly Bees" room in Duncan terrace? just think how much more mental it would be if you had a fucking bear in a room which you could chuck folk in at parties if they started pissing you off?

 

[TopCat]

Awesome. And at the same time, strangely unsurprising.

It's not another loon banging on the door is it? Before you know it he will pull out a vat of vegan slop from his pocket and will be sleeping in your bed whilst wearing his stinky garb.

 

[butchersapron]

On another occasion, a man in his 30s, smartly coiffured and wearing some rather natty designer specs, told his audience that, if we were serious about over throwing capitalism, we should learn from the determination displayed by those Islamic fundamentalist suicide bombers who were willing to give their lives for what they believed in. Again some nods of approval plus murmurs of agreement ran around the room.

There are worse things than being badly dressed and dirty - Louis MacNeice

We're talking RCP here aren't we? The glasses give it away.

 

[Fruitloop]

It's not another loon banging on the door is it? Before you know it he will pull out a vat of vegan slop from his pocket and will be sleeping in your bed whilst wearing his stinky garb.

Happens most weekends tbf.

 

[TopCat]

A woman selling The Next Step really did offer to have sex with me if I attended her sugested meeting. Fucking loon.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

We're talking RCP here aren't we? The glasses give it away.

No no not RCP...think north of the border, crap bank robbers and of a maoist bent. I'm pretty certain the indiviual in question went on to be in the SSP.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[TopCat]

nah man, that's cool. we need MORE of that sort of thing.

remember "The Deadly Bees" room in Duncan terrace? just think how much more mental it would be if you had a fucking bear in a room which you could chuck folk in at parties if they started pissing you off?

Yeah right. I recollect mad mark having a plague of rats in his house after the stupid bastard liberated them and released them in his own house.

 

[JTG]

Then there was the dickhead in combats with the beard who sold Green Anarchist on the streets. He advocated the death of most humans!!!

Try selling that policy door to door IWCA style.

also agree with this one

 

[Fruitloop]

That's brilliant, stealing recruiting strategies from wacky US cultists.

I met a guy involved in RTS organising three times in quick succession, as he had so fried his brains he was unable to remember the previous introductions.

 

[treelover]

no comment on the sexism, age based power relations, etc on the left, etc, TC,haven't really movedon from the sixties, has it?

 

[Jografer]

Your a bristol city fan no?

... he has yet to see the light.....

 

[TopCat]

also agree with this one

No JTG you can't be advocating a green anarchist solution please? Tell me I have misread this quickly.

 

[TopCat]

no comment on the sexism, age based power relations, etc on the left, etc, TC,haven't really movedon from the sixties, has it?

Try again but think a bit about your point first.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

A woman selling The Next Step really did offer to have sex with me if I attended her sugested meeting. Fucking loon.

My other half was meant to be going to some RCP weekend school thing when we started going out. I vigorously put her off the idea.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[scumbalina]

We were talking about this recently, not so focussed on apperance etc, I think I've met as many loons in "normal" clothing as not, but about the amount of people with a lack of basic social skills Like an inability to just communicate like a human, or be polite or talk to "the public" when on a stall etc without coming across like a mentalist.

iirc a mate of mine got so pissed off about it a while ago that he thought about writing a basic guide to social skills for fuckwits

 

[chico enrico]

yes, twenty years younger than you, i think you have problems CE, if you think old men preying on students is healthy, then again it is par for the course for old activists, i wonder what activist women think of it, the ones i know think this stinks.

uuugh, i wouldn't go near any 'activist' types. why otherwise attractive european girls would want to let their hair go all straggly at the back like Sandy the ea-monster from 'Monkey' and wear ill-fitting combat trousers replete with mandatory 'gegen nazis' patches is beyond me.

 

[butchersapron]

No no not RCP...think north of the border, crap bank robbers and of a maoist bent. I pretty certain the indiviual in question went on to be in the SSP.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

I know an armed robber who was chuckd out of militant for 'collecting' for their fighting fund - (so do you i think, he's locked up again btw if you know who i'm on about).

 

[STFC]

Quality thread! It might go some way to explaining why most ordinary people want nothing to do with The Left.

 

[scumbalina]

Thinking about it though, maybe a lot of people were a bit saner before they got involved in politics, I know quite a few folk who've totally burned themselves out and got a bit...odd...for a while, I do think it always ends up being the same people doing all the graft which doesn't help...but maybe that's cos everyone else is a nutter

 

[scumbalina]

uuugh, i wouldn't go near any 'activist' types. why otherwise attractive european girls would want to let their hair go all straggly at the back like Sandy the ea-monster from 'Monkey' and wear ill-fitting combat trousers replete with mandatory 'gegen nazis' patches is beyond me.

maybe they're more interested in sticking to a style they feel comfortable in than appearing attractive for you

 

[frogwoman]

Thinking about it though, maybe a lot of people were a bit sam=ner before they got involved in politics, I know quite a few folk who've totally burned themselves out and got a bit...odd...for a while, I do think it always ends up being the same people doing all the graft which doesn't help...but maybe that's cos everyone else is a nutter

i'd agree with this ...

and yep i've met some mad animal rights nutters before ... i know exactly the sort of people you guys mean

quality thread btw

 

[frogwoman]

uuugh, i wouldn't go near any 'activist' types. why otherwise attractive european girls would want to let their hair go all straggly at the back like Sandy the ea-monster from 'Monkey' and wear ill-fitting combat trousers replete with mandatory 'gegen nazis' patches is beyond me.

whats wrong with that I like that look tbh!!

 

[chico enrico]

Yeah right. I recollect mad mark having a plague of rats in his house after the stupid bastard liberated them and released them in his own house.

i remember meeting some freaks from leeds or somewhere once who were all covered with little red spots. i asked them what it was and they said their dogs had fleas but that it was unethical to get anti-flea powder. folk like that just need put in a magnolia painted room with a single slickering strip light have some sense slapped into them by characters who look like Tosh Lines off The Bill.

 

[frogwoman]

i remember meeting some freaks from leeds or somewhere once who were all covered with little red spots. i asked them what it was and they said their dogs had fleas but that it was unethical to get anti-flea powder. folk like that just need put in a magnolia painted room with a single slickering strip light have some sense slapped into them by characters who look like Tosh Lines off The Bill.

oh my god

WHY????

my already dwindling faith in humanity is being sapped

 

[Spion]

A woman selling The Next Step really did offer to have sex with me if I attended her sugested meeting. Fucking loon.

A mate of mine copped off with Claire whatshername that used to be a bigwig in them. When they got back to her place she made him wait until she'd prepared some notes for a meeting the next day

 

[scumbalina]

i remember meeting some freaks from leeds or somewhere once who were all covered with little red spots. i asked them what it was and they said their dogs had fleas but that it was unethical to get anti-flea powder. folk like that just need put in a magnolia painted room with a single slickering strip light have some sense slapped into them by characters who look like Tosh Lines off The Bill.

Poor doggies

 

[Louis MacNeice]

I know an armed robber who was chuckd out of militant for 'collecting' for their fighting fund - (so do you i think, he's locked up again btw if you know who i'm on about).

I do know who you mean and I'm sad to hear it; I wouldn't think that more time spent in prison was going to do him any good.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

p.s. on the fighting fund...I was at the Ally Pally Rally when someone pledged a substantial chunk of money from the sale of their house and a child promised the proceeds from their newspaper round (you know a real one from a newsagent...sorry dennis!). I also seem to remember large Trotsky backdrops and a live telephone linkup to one the great man's descendents.

 

[chico enrico]

whats wrong with that I like that look tbh!!

I don't. I like women who dress like Adriana La Cerva from The Sopranos. Each to their own...

 

[frogwoman]

I don't. I like women who dress like Adriana La Cerva from The Sopranos. Each to their own...

lol

i refuse to have my tastes conform to your body fascism

 

[butchersapron]

I do know who you mean and I'm sad to hear it; I wouldn't think that more time spent in prison was going to do him any good.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

p.s. on the fighting fund...I was at the Ally Pally Rally when someone pledged a substantial chunk of money from the sale of their house and a child promised the proceeds from their newspaper round (you know a real one from a newsagent...sorry dennis!). I also seem to remember large Trotsky backdrops and a live telephone linkup to one the great man's descendents.

Colin Toogood gave £10 000 - twice.