Pseuds Corner

According to the myspace page linked from the end of the article, she's nineteen. A quick google reveals she's a media/comms undergrad.

To be fair, she has cojones to try to get something like this published. But quite clearly, she's read a lot of semiotics-inspired mumbo-jumbo and is well on the way to learning how to speak like one of those irritating advertising people who make a lot of multisyllabic noises without actually conveying any meaning whatsoever. And equally clearly, the bar for getting an article published in that magazine is very, very low.

If I were actually contemplating engaging with the article I might observe that she appears to be nostalgic for something that probably never existed - a popular revisionist trick used when people want to harken back to a purer society (which they define as excluding everyone they don't like). In popular culture it was amusingly satirised in the likes of Human Traffic, but it's also the same trick used by nationalist ideologues, from the relatively benign to the virulently fascist.

But that'd be giving far too much time to what is, after all, just a freshman brainfart.

heee!! awww.. I feel a bit for her - she is only 19... it's more the fault of the editor here for slapping it on the site un..er, edited.

fuck me people, there are only two words that describes riding a bike in london..
freedom, mobility.. anything else worth writing is pure wank.. IMHO..

um... is "transport" too wanky?