I Question The Location Of The Toilet Roll Holder
“I’ve lost every set of keys I’ve ever owned,” she admits.
Before you say it, yes, I know. I’m veering towards the catty. But the fact that it even exists possibly tells us something:
Laurie—who’s currently in a good place with her mental health and says she’s lucky to have found treatments that work long term—isn’t claiming that everything will be great if you could only just rearrange your house in a particular way. But she knows from experience there are alternative therapies and ideas that can help, in addition to traditional treatments. Including, but definitely not limited to, arranging your house in a certain way.
Specifically,
Laurie has heard that raw wooden surfaces and the presence of wood in the home can lift one’s mood, so she’s made sure to include wooden decor elements, from furniture to twigs, branches, and a dead tree she found on the side of the road she thought looked nice.
Perhaps she’s smashing bourgeois values via the medium of celebrity lifestyle features.
I wonder if she’ll lodge a few homeless people with her, gratis. Cuz principles, right?
Fourth reason for horizontal books: not enough bookends.
When she talks about “low ceilings” I picture something like an Elizabethan cottage where you leave serious amounts of scalp on the beams if you don’t navigate the space with caution. My first house, built in 1927, had 7′ ceilings throughout and I could actually brush them with my fingertips standing flat-footed — I know from low ceilings. And that’s not what I’m seeing in Laurie’s digs. Of course, maybe in her friends/family circles, with 12′ ceilings and all, what she has may seem like Bag End to HER. Poser.
Long time lurker just doing a drive by comment,
I do like it when people de-lurk.
Consider your change bowl tinkled.
Bless you, sir. May you never feel the icy horror of realising that you’ve just put your keys in the same pocket as your phone.
To be perfectly honest, I don’t think the nose-picking image ought to be brought up each time we talk about Laurie Penny.
There’s plenty to criticize about her – the folly of her ideas, the vast gulf between her ideas and the manner in which she lives, the hypocrisy which that gap implies, etc. Being caught by a camera in a moment of indecorum is not one of these, and we ought not to dilute well-justified scorn with puerile mockery.
we ought not to dilute well-justified scorn with puerile mockery.
Oh, I don’t mind. It’s pretty much inevitable. Though I do wonder how Laurie reconciles her breathless rhetoric about riots and political violence, and “war,” and things being “smashed” and “crashing down,” and a post-revolution Britain in which capitalism and the family unit have been rendered unto dust… with her obvious delight in hair dye and lifestyle fashion shoots.
I mean, will she still be admiring her artful bookcase arrangements when bourgeois proprieties are a distant memory, when cars burn in the streets on a nightly basis, and when large parts of the country look like Mogadishu?
…we ought not to dilute well-justified scorn with puerile mockery.
Leftists like Laurie take themselves very seriously, and “puerile mockery” helps to deflate them, while adding to the gaiety of nations.
Laurie artfully arranges her apartment, paints her nails, applies her lipstick and dyes her hair. So I imagine that the photograph of her looking unwashed and excavating her nostril cuts deep.
This. 🙂
I blame Thomas Szasz for Ms Penny. He may be single-handedly responsible for the normalization of insanity and the rise of an increasingly Neo Red Guard left.
This. 🙂
As I’ve said before, following this ludicrous but typical outpouring,
But this is who she is. It’s who all of the Lauries are.
Lauries = NPCs?
…we ought not to dilute well-justified scorn with puerile mockery
Lighten up, Francis.
Alinsky’s Rule 5, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” The left cannot stand it, hence the recent flap over NPC memes, and when they do stupid (not indecorous) stuff like mining for nose gold and eating it (the full clip of which I have spared those with delicate sensibilities) in front of a packed auditorium, or doing absolutely inane things like fondling dead fish wile naked to protest fishing, they deserve all the ridicule, high, low, puerile, and gutter, they can have heaped upon them.
Lauries = NPCs?
I think she’s more articulate, and rhetorically florid, than the typical ‘NPC’. But she has used similar tactics and is titillated by mob coercion, and her conclusions are every bit as predetermined and unearned.
Farmsworth M Muldoon: I emphatically.
To underline David’s comment about the nose-picking Penny Red, there is no point in being nice to viciously unprincipled enemies who are trying to destroy us.
…there is no point in being nice to viciously unprincipled enemies who are trying to destroy us.
Exactly, the “Gentlemen don’t use spies”, “Submarines are unsportsmanlike”, mindset didn’t work at the start of WWI, and the “If we act like them, we become them”, sort of nonsense is the best way to get steamrolled by your adversaries.
…there is no point in being nice to viciously unprincipled enemies who are trying to destroy us.
Yes. The fact of the matter is, the Laurie Pennys of the world are more than happy to engage in “puerile mockery” when in suits their purpose. We did not start this war of incivility. It was thrust upon us by people for whom concepts like “civility,” “decorum” and “tradition” can be easily ignored when necessary in order to attain and maintain power. The examples are legion.
There are no rules anymore. We didn’t destroy them. Laurie Penny and her fellow travelers did.
(BTW, the line, “Lighten up, Francis” is one of the most glorious in cinematic history.)
We didn’t destroy them. Laurie Penny and her fellow travelers did.
I suppose now’s a good time to revisit Laurie’s infamous and rather telling exchange with the historian David Starkey. She interrupts his answer to a question with a gratuitous personal smear – an immensely self-satisfied claim about racism and tax avoidance. He responds and points out how nasty and dishonest she’s being, which makes her illusion of piety rather difficult to sustain in front of the audience. Laurie is then reduced to a mix of fury, humiliation and pretentious, rambling victimhood.
Inevitably, the debate, supposedly about national character, becomes all about her: “I really don’t appreciate being stood on stage to be personally attacked,” says she in a comically whiny voice. The fact that she started the personal attacks, needlessly, thinking it would be clever, and then lied, repeatedly, and was promptly repaid in the manner she initiated, is somehow proof of her victimhood. And it’s all because she’s a woman, of course, and so terribly, terribly brave.
Are we sitting comfortably? Yes.
Are we going to sit and write snide articles for the lefty media slagging off people who work hard and save to sit comfortably but don’t want it taken from them by ‘socialist values’? Oh yes we are!
…there is no point in being nice to viciously unprincipled enemies who are trying to destroy us.
Case in point. Reason, appeasement, playing nice, all have failed with this lot. Unfortunately, they really don’t know what they are asking for.
And another thing …
Puerile as our enjoyment of Penny nose-picking in public may be, make no mistake. Had the same write up been done with a young NKIP voter in a “Better Homes & Gardens” type mag, such would send Penny and her acolytes into fits of indignation the likes of which we could not imagine. Of course, it’s not bourgeois when she does it, that bint.
She can bugger off.
“While the end result is a beautiful, well-designed home”
Not quite how I see it and the toilet roll placement, confirms my belief that it is all a Woman and Home editorial..
“I bet Sam has a motor bike.”
You take that back! Motorbicycles, indeed. They don’t have enough wheels. It ain’t natural.
“…there is no point in being nice to viciously unprincipled enemies who are trying to destroy us.”
Precisely. They demand civility from us, but refuse to return the favour.
Precisely. They demand civility from us, but refuse to return the favour.
It’s not just the left themselves but the “grown-ups in the room”. I blame them more that the (mostly unthinking) leftists. Especially the street level ones. It’s what’s behind the bullying “problem”. Were it not for those who go extralegal, dilettantes would have to deal with evil themselves. Fortunately for them it hardly ever comes to that. Until one day it does. Then when there’s no one else left standing between them and evil they change their tune. Or succumb. But they are quite comfortable remaining “above it all” until their asses are on the line. In many ways they contribute to the problem by heaping scorn upon the real innocent parties for fighting back. Only when the innocent party fights back and wins decisively does a new social and/or legal order prevail.
Also….this has been bugging me more than the toilet paper thing. I feel somewhat stupid here (somewhat, heh) but wth is that thing mounted on the wall between the two windows that appears to be holding an arranged collection of crafted, notched slats? Does it/they serve some function or is it some sort of “art”?
Does it/they serve some function or is it some sort of “art”?
It is for holding breadsticks taken from Olive Garden for handy snacking.
wth is that thing mounted on the wall between the two windows…?
Um, some kind of flimsy holder for (dried) flowers? A collection of oversized emery boards? It’s hard to care. Unlike the aberrant toilet roll positioning.
If it’s a basement apartment, how does it have 2 windows level with the floor?
It’s hard to care.
But some of them are not in their supposedly designated slots. True, most of them are, but a couple are all helter-skelter. And sticking up above the others. It’s quite disturbing. I can deal with order and I can deal with chaos but this halfsies stuff, especially the more than halfsies but not quite right stuff, is just plain wrong. Maybe she’s trying to tell us something?
But some of them are not in their supposedly designated slots.
I don’t have time for this nonsense. I’m busy checking my toilet roll holder is optimally positioned and correctly orientated. Does anyone have a spirit level?
If it’s a basement apartment, how does it have 2 windows level with the floor?
Perhaps it is one of those English vs. American things things like boot=trunk, bonnet=hood, lift=elevator, basement=ground floor, low and dark=photos taken with copious natural light when 6 foot high plantation shutters are open.
WTP: sticks in vases is a modern designer thing. It shows you are in touch with nature, without all the hassle of actually having to deal with anything actually alive. Ikea even will sell you the sticks, so you can be hip for zero effort.
I’m guessing the object is a glass vase surrounded by sticks. The sticks against the wall aren’t leaning, so stand higher than the others, despite all being cut to the same length.
CD: Now you’re trying to gaslight me. What glass vase? You see a glass vase? This isn’t funny, you guys. I think Laurie is trying to tell us something. It’s a cry for help. Lives could be at stake…no pun intended…ooh, maybe that’s the clue. They’re stakes. Now we put that with the reversed cushion…hmm….
She calls that “teeny tiny”? I lived in an efficiency on Oahu in the 1980s that made her apartment look like Trump Tower by comparison. And I was paying almost a thousand dollars a month for the privilege.
But they are quite comfortable remaining “above it all” until their asses are on the line.
I believe Matt and Trey had an entire monologue on this subject in Team America: World Police. A rather extended metaphor involving bits of genitalia, as I recall.
Re Farnsworth’s Case in point.
Wonder what that sounded like in the original Russian discussing the Kulaks?
Wonder what that sounded like in the original Russian discussing the Kulaks?
You’re all slowly coming around to the notion of helicopters. I told you.
I blame Thomas Szasz for Ms Penny. He may be single-handedly responsible for the normalization of insanity
Can you elaborate on that? I consider myself a Szaszian, in that I don’t believe in “mental illness” absent an underlying organic cause. Although our understanding of what those underlying organic causes can be, such as with complex PTSD, is much more sophisticated than in Szasz’ day.
Have you considered that perhaps she sits at the toilet facing the tank? That way she can lay her head down and take a nap.
I don’t have time for this nonsense. I’m busy checking my toilet roll holder is optimally positioned and correctly orientated.
Feng shui?
If it’s a basement apartment, how does it have 2 windows level with the floor?
There could perhaps be very large window wells, but I doubt it.
There could perhaps be very large window wells, but I doubt it.
If they are, they are the first containing rolling fields of wildflowers…
Guess I should have gone through all the photos!
We have some horizontal books at home for the last reason.
My one book which has to go horizontal is a pictorial history of the Waffen SS.
You lot don’t own enough books.
Indeed, Surreptitious. Most of my books are horizontal, but that’s because I don’t have enough bookcases for them. Which is driven by the fact that I don’t have enough space for said bookcases…
One can never own enough books.
I quite agree. My parents, however, think otherwise.
In the 21st century, I don’t understand the continued fetishization of books. I hold the Library of Infinity in my hands right this very minute. Additionally I can interact in real or near real time with (English speaking) people from all over the world. Two way conversation with people who stand on the sholders of giants who had no such advantage/privilege. Additionally many, many more of those long dead giants are available to me, indexed in the most efficient manner possible at a moment’s notice via the same device. Far more readily available to me than before I had to downsize back when I had stacks of books. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy reading hard, physical pieces of paper and such. But even those are readily available via a vast system of libraries. In my current location they will even deliver the books to your door. No dusty, musty storage in my home.
In the 21st century, I don’t understand the continued fetishization of books.