Media Thread 2017/18

[San Tropez]

I certainly don’t consider him to be an intellectual, but I’m not entirely surprised that you do.

I don't think Syed needs you to validate that fact for him. No idea what the second part of your sentence means.

 

[San Tropez]

[QUOTE="BigOscar, post: His articles and opinions on the Eni Aluko saga alone were enough to let you know what sort of person he is.[/QUOTE]

That sounds disgusting if he wrote against her - do you have a link? I have not seen anything he has written in relation to End Aluko.

 

[Leto]

Definitely unfair and illogical. As an intellectual, Matthew Syed writes in a certain way, he couldn't very well write like Jamie Jackson, any more than Jamie Jackson could ever hope to write coherently.

Fixed.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

A classic example of ‘tall poppy syndrome’
Whenever an individual (in this case ,Pep) or a team ( obvious who) rise above the swirling tide of mediocrity that
is the staple diet of these types of underachieving hacks, then it has to be chopped down and stamped on.
It’s the modern equivalent of the pitch-fork wielding, ignorant peasants with their lynch-mob mentality howling outside the door.

And it's all underpinned by a racist anti-foreigner little Englander narrative which we didn't see when Liverpool and United were top of the tree. Most of the media can't wait to get stuck into Pep while he is valued across the rest of the world. It's one of the most worst things about life in the UK. This is an angry country which strangles aspiration and keeps people in their place. Because of this many become envious of success and love to drag people down, all the better if they are foreign.

 

[BigOscar]

[QUOTE="BigOscar, post: His articles and opinions on the Eni Aluko saga alone were enough to let you know what sort of person he is.

That sounds disgusting if he wrote against her - do you have a link? I have not seen anything he has written in relation to End Aluko.

I can summarise it for you. When it first came out he leapt to Sampson defence and blamed Aluko, repeatedly, while claiming that Sampson was the real victim. Then when all the facts came out he refused to apologise and instead continued to defend Sampson. Throughout he played the role of the hatchet man, making sure everyone knew what happens if you speak out.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

No idea what the second part of your sentence means.

The fact it needs explaining to you, underlines my point.

 

[San Tropez]

Fixed.

Lol, love that fix.

 

[San Tropez]

The fact it needs explaining to you, underlines my point.

Still none the wiser but then again I don't speak your vernacular.

 

[urban genie]

That article by syed is a load of shite and proves the theory that being considered (by yourself normally) as intellectual doesn't confirm any actual ingelligence.

 

[San Tropez]

I can summarise it for you. When it first came out he leapt to Sampson defence and blamed Aluko, repeatedly, while claiming that Sampson was the real victim. Then when all the facts came out he refused to apologise and instead continued to defend Sampson. Throughout he played the role of the hatchet man, making sure everyone knew what happens if you speak out.

Oh wow, that's shocking. Syed is dead to me now.

Anyway Syed's work is just a rip-off/rehash of Nicholas Nassim Taleb and Malcolm Gladwell's ideas.

The point I was making previously was specifically about his writing style, nonsense that some people expect him to write like Jamie Jackson or Neil Ashton - something he could not do if he tried to.