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I'll push her off a roof for £30, even chuck in some advice on how to flap your arms.

That's so tasteless.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/23/oxford-union-boycott-israel

Scroll down to the last paragraph.

I really wish I hadn't, only do so if you can accept how skewed our world is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/23/oxford-union-boycott-israel

Scroll down to the last paragraph.

Burning fifty in front of a homeless person is instacunt behaviour, but the firework thing is atrocious after that Brazilian nightclub tragedy the other week.

It was probably only a fiver and a sparkler. These things get blown up out of all proportion. It's the politics of envy, that's what it is.

Been on the floor polish?

More shock revelations about what bears do in the woods

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/23/cardinal-keith-o-brien-accused-inappropriate

Stolen Banksy withdrawn from sale despite complaints from art dealer that it's not fair

That whole story is more mad than banksy couldve come up with himself, like for his film "exit through the gift shop"

Thats what the film was about. You seen "Exit through the gift shop" ?

The whinging Swiss born wierdo art dealer is what annoyed me; insolently saying "some people in england" are being unfair to him. Like he wonders why "some people in england" would be bothered, everyone else is fine about it.

Yeah, legally you can do it, but it's still cunty to remove a piece of street art from public view to sell it, clearly contrary to the artist's intention. Either be a cunt about it, or don't do it. "This isn't fair" is pathetic and entitled.

Of course Banksy's selling it himself right? Everyone knows that. Der.

Of course Banksy's selling it himself right? Everyone knows that. Der.

omg, its just clicked. So it is exactly like the film. He is making some kind of attention whore statement like in the film.

I am struggling to believe that anyone would pay £460k for it, seems like total BS. If it was really was going to sell for that much because of crazy 'merican suckers for the hype. It would be quite the remarkable feat. But that figure seems like he got the auctioneer to make it up.

I was joking. Regardless of whether it's a stunt or not, there's guaranteed to be a plethora of dicks claiming to be the authority in the room.

does this fifty quid really compare in importance with the middle east, and galloway's aresholery? jesus.

You are right. And I really wish I hadn't said it did, I really wish that hadn't been the point I was making.
Oh, wait, it wasn't.
I bet you were in to straw men when they were anonymous and off the cuff weren't you, Brian?

he was slightly witty when nobody knew who he was. he was very irritating as soon as he was famous. someone has taken one of his ham fisted satire-for-dummies doodles off the wall. so what- they were only interesting when they were new. if he had any brains he would have guessed that becoming a well known induvidual would undermine every bit of street art he ever did, make it saleable and therefore stealable. .I genuinely liked his stuff when it was anonymous and off the cuff. sadly he was too dumb to know that 'off the cuff' and 'anonymous' were the only things that stopped it from being rubbish.

A friend managed Banksy up until a few years ago. By all accounts he is very savvy and knows how to play the game. He ended up buying out his own management company, so I doubt he is as stupid as you believe. So you liked Banksy before he was cool? "I genuinely liked his stuff when it was anonymous", well done Mr Bitter Hipster.

Pfft. Modern street art. Roman street art is where it's at.

Where are your spray cans now?

lol, no i think he was always rubbish, but the novelty of his work masked this. I'm sure he's clever in a business sense, he's been very good at milking the gimmick.

what about "I genuinely liked his stuff" or do you like rubbish?

It was probably only a fiver and a sparkler. These things get blown up out of all proportion. It's the politics of envy, that's what it is.

At least he didn't bite the tramp.

I found it amusing. Yes, rubbish can be amusing. "ha ha look someone put a banana on a poster", genuinely amusing. But only because you dont know who did it or why, because it is random and absurd. As soon as he starts trying to make a political point, giving the works a signature, for me it all became irritating and self conscious.

i think i would find your posts irritating and self conscious rather than amusing, even if they were anonymous.

you repeatedly contradict yourself, and yet when the same lines of argumentation are applied back to your posts (in a reductio ad absurdum style) take it as a personal attack. given the nature of my responses it should be clear that i do bother to think about your posts

um, nope. quite prepared to be told I'm an ill-informed, opinionated twit
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william - hush now.

The Smiths- William, it was really nothing - YouTube

"At Least Horsemeat Does not Cause Anal Leakage: US Firms Mislabel Toxic Escolar as Tuna"

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/438268/20130222/tuna-mislabelling-horsemeat-scandal-escolar-snake-mackerel.htm

Fucking hell. Remind me never to choose fish when I go to the US.

"The worst species for mislabelling was in snapper, where 87 percent of samples were not the fish it claimed to be."

^ Is that^ related to Banksy?