Brickbat: Monkey Do

Rept0n1x / CC/SA

A British court fined Rowan O'Connell £275 and ordered him to pay costs of £115 after finding him guilty of sending a communication of an indecent or offensive nature. O'Connell posted on Reddit that Mzee Mohammed, who died in police custody, was "a good for nothing, spice smoking, Toxteth monkey."

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

If it weren't for the single word monkey, we would not be here.

But monkey was the only word I understood!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I wasn't even sure about monkey.

[Florida Hipster]

I watched a clockwork orange yesterday. I think I understood about 12 words.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

It was written in British. It really needed subtitles.

"Pull your motor to the curb, put a few coppers in the box, ring up the Clark and see if you can set this kerfuffle straight before there's a cock up"

[Florida Hipster]

I watched it on prime, but the CC didn't work. I learned gulliver is a head/mind. Also, no fucking way that movie would get made today or at least no way it gets any positive reviews.

[Rich]

Even with the ol' ultra-violence?!

[Florida Hipster]

More it doesn't get made because it shows the government in a poor light. If it did get remade today, it would be some corporation brainwashing people.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Meh, they made B for Bendetta, which showed George W bush in a negative light.

[invisible furry hand]

it's in Nadsat, not English slang

[Florida Hipster]

Interesting fact. Thanks/cheers

[Citizen X]

"-Nadsat" being the Russian equivalent of the English numerical suffix "-teen." In other words, Nadsat is a Russian-derived slang for young people. For instance, "gulliver" is a mispronunciation of golova, which means "head," "moloko" is milk, "viddy" is the imperative form of "to see," etc.

[Wizard4169]

You misspelled "kerb".

[geo1113]

Then you did viddy well.

[Florida Hipster]

I do like a bit of the cinny.

[geo1113]

At least the ole in-out works in our language too.

[straffinrun]

"I make it clear that any racial offence that comes before the court will be severely dealt with."

This cracker never lies.

[Adans smith]

Morning, it's biscuit across the pond .

[Adans smith]

Calling a wog a monkey just isn't cricket I guess.

[Radioactive]

can we call them crickets then?

[(((Renegade)))]

I'm still curious about the "spice" part.

[Crackers Boy]

K2 man. Try to keep up.

CB

[UnCivilServant]

That was "Spice smoking". Instead of simply putting food products in their smokers, they doused them in spice mixtures.

Wait, that's not what they meant?

[Adans smith]

The man was obviously a Fremen.

[Princess Trigger]

God created England to train the faithful.

[(((Renegade)))]

That was my first thought, but I'm naive and old.

[Jerryskids]

Look, all I said to my wife was "That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah."

[UnCivilServant]

*thorws stone*

[Florida Hipster]

Who threw that?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Who Thor that?

[invisible furry hand]

Loki

[AlmightyJB]

Do they have right to trial?

[invisible furry hand]

"Trolling always has a victim. As Mr Archer has pointed out that Reddit is a national website, so there are more opportunities for victims."

A chicken in every pot, a victim in every home, even if that victim is dead.

[Lee Genes]

If that's the worst they could come up with on reddit. They' weren't really looking.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I wake up this morning to a CNN headline about Trump 'losing the campaign narrative'. I didn't read the article. Is this over the tax thing, or is it just wishful thinking on cnns part?

[Lee Genes]

Who the hell knows? It's all spin from every media outlet, all of the time.

[Libertarian]

I assume they're talking about his spending time talking about a 20 year old Miss Universe issue -- at 3 in the morning! If I were a Trump fan, he'd be driving crazy -- worse than Gary Johnson drives his fans crazy.

[Wizard4169]

Best I can tell, most Trump fans are True Believers. He can do no wrong, and every gaffe and contradiction is just another clever stratagem.

I like to think libertarians are immune, or at least more resistant, to this, since we don't expect politicians to be elected messiahs. Therefore, we're more likely to call out even candidates we generally support when they go seriously off-course.

[Rich]

If they strike him down, he shall become more powerful than they could possibly imagine.

[Lord Humungus]

You know who else lost the narrative...

[Libertarian]

Hadley Hemingway?

[invisible furry hand]

Samuel Coleridge?

[dschwar]

David Foster Wallace?

[Agent Cooper]

Finite Jest.

[Libertarian]

I miss England.

[Rich]

But your aim is improving?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Yeh. I have no idea who took its place because that ain't England. Or shouldn't be anyway.

[Adans smith]

Being back the Pics and Celts I say.