to think that mumsnet are a bunch of Guardian-reading, laptop-wielding harpies

[lordtobyyoung]

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Hi again SWC

Hating Nazis would not be irrational so much as pointless - they are really not a problem in the present day, might as well say you hate those pesky sabre-tooth tigers.

Hating tories on the other hand is completely rational and useful in the present day. To be specific, I hate the Tory government. They must be challenged on every idiotic policy. Tory voters/supporters I see as either misguided fools or selfish millionaires, so you see, I dont hate you at all xx

Yes, I'm talking about this Toby Young. I shouldn't think this thread has improved anyone's opinion of mn, but I don't suppose that matters to anyone here.

As in WTF would I care about what some twatty free school petulant Tory fart thinks, I can't even fit into skinny jeans, go harpies yay.

Yknow.

Maybe I should put quote marks at WTF and yay. I know that otherwise most people will misunderstand.

What is so bad about his Mumsnetter anyway? Apart from calling kids Talullah and Felix that doesn't sound like such a terrible person to me.

Of course I am a 'right on Gaurdianista', typing on a laptop. Not in a Victorian terrace though, not even in the UK. Baby is in a very posh creche (largely thanks to generous allownce from employer and a tax break), she will go to the local primary like ALL Dutch kids. I am mid thirties, have been known to wear skinny jeans (pre baby) and I am university educated. I have a working class background though and my car is an 11 year old Kia Rio. Do I fit or not?

I can be a harpy when the mood strikes, I'm pretty sure I'd be a harpy if I had to listen to that gobshite's halfbaked opinions all day.

I am not the right age group. I am an ageing harpy.

Isn't he the guy who used to go out with Julie Burchill?

Tit.

I don't read the Guardian but I can wield a fecking laptop with the best.
Usually as a deadly weapon.

The article isn't really about saying literally that all MNers have children called Felix and Tallulah, etc. It's more about suggesting that there's a fair amount of leftie groupthink about on MN, and that in a lot of cases that comes with a dose of hypocrisy as the MNers competing for who can be the most right-on are on the whole pretty middle-class.

I have to say, I think I can count the MNers who I've seen admit they voted Tory on the fingers of one hand.

Personally, I loathe the Guardian, think Toby Young's free school sounds like an excellent idea (I couldn't give a toss if he's an arse or not, though it sounds like he quite possibly is) and voted Tory because I couldn't stand the idea of another four years of paranoid, over-regulated market Stalinism. So shoot me.

Oooh I'd love a laptop

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am definitely a harpy. I've got wings and everything! [flap, flap]

OTheHugeManatee - quite, you must've read the scientic papers proving the direct link between socialism and the decline of analytical thinking and/or humour. Those screeching "but my daughter's name is Tabitha and I live in south London" are woefully missing the point - and presumably many, many others.

The only thing Toby got wrong was his assessment of the class system - money does not equal class.

He didn't mean it literally manatee? Really ? Well bugger me....

ladies, stop giving all your vital statistics, you are making his next assignment too easy!

laptopwieldingharpy. First time in 8 years am thinking of taking a new pseudonym.

Interesting to note though that across the two threads, at least four people confess to at least knowing someone who knows ed milliband, and only one David Cameron ;)

smallwhitecat, have not seen that thread. Spot on

Having left wing beliefs does not mean I am humourless. Equally I don't find offence all over the place, I was having a laugh here, I liked seeing the profiles. All us pinko commie liberals are massive point-missers didn't you know that? Or are you too busy closing down hospitals?

Still think Toby Young is an arse.

at laptopwieldingharpy

@OTHM: am very disapointed because this is the first time I namechange in 7 years and would have picked the other name!

Can I be 'Pofacedtwunt' please? If no-one else wants that name?

funny how establishment men always resort to name-calling when women get uppity. 'vacuous hags', 'harpies. Always the way back to' monstrous regiment'. It means we are really getting up their noses. Which had to be a good thing.

40 something, working mum, living in Yorkshire, read The Times, am middle class & am studying at university though (& my weekly shop comes from Ocado)

Should I go home?

Lefty: no
Lap top weilding: has a laptop, doesn't 'weild' it at anyone
upper middle class: don't agree with the outdated English class system and don't understand it either
English: proud to be Scottish
Harpie: had to look this up, no I'm not
SAHM: yes, but also job hunting and studying
Squeezed: no, bloody skint: yes
skinny jeans: own them, can't fit it in them though
G&B's chocolate: sometimes
Floating voter: probably, I vote because I feel I have to but also know my vote won't make any difference
Labour, Lib Dem, Green: never
University degree: yes
Mid 30's: almost
2 kids: 1
Local primary: yes
Felix, Tallulah: no
Victorian house: no
North london: no
Country weekends: days out but don't stay for weekend
Fiat multipla: no, eww what an ugly car and I wouldn't drive a Fiat besides I thought we all drove 4x4's
Ocado delivery: not in Scotland, Sainsburys here

Really, really do not like it being implied that I reperesent 'middle England' when I'm anything but

Forgot about the newspaper, I read The Sunday Times and it lasts all week