Return of the spide…
FOR those who remember him, Spideman is back with the return of Elemental Soup.
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“It was a trivial problem that… occurs every year”
Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the [...] read our review » -
The Irish political journalist’s problem with partial disclosure…
The nod and wink politics of Ireland’s last two or three decades as practised par excellence by Bertie, Albert and Charlie is ultimately what has the Republic in the stew it’s in. Don’t get me wrong, the effective monitoring of those exercising of power does not demand full disclosure of everything all the time. But [...] read our review »
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Douglas Murray – Bloody Sunday: Truth, Lies and the Saville Inquiry, Book Review
The aftermath of the Saville Inquiry into the events around Bloody Sunday has left me, and I suspect many others, with one enduring image: Prime Minister David Cameron’s apology in the House of Commons, where he says that the actions of the British Army were ‘unjustified and unjustifiable.’ But there’s a lot more to the [...] read our review »
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Why are spides and millies always portrayed as working class people?
I’ve been around enough to know that there are plenty of middle class spides and millies. You can indeed polish turds.
Remember back in the day when Spideman comics used to look like this?
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Another early Spideman comic.
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Hey, this time it’s spide woman…
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/90.1/images/kenny_fig04b.gif
Damien Okado-Gough: I’ve been around enough to know that there are plenty of middle class spides and millies.
It depends on your definition of spide, doesn’t it? There may be culturally deficient parasites in every class, but is that really a complete definition?
This comic strip is dumb and lazy. Hey, look spides,! They sign on the dole and are quite sectarian.
Wow, the artist is really working a vein of dangerously subversive satire there.
Reader,
I suppose it does depend on a person’s definition of the term spide. However, my definition is not class based. Spides have no class, in both senses of the word.
Better still, spidehood (pardon the pun) crosses national boundaries too. I’m a long way from the aul’ turf, but still bump into a few spides once in a while.
Damien OG, you’re right…there’s nothing worse than middle class spides (Andytown an ‘s’Lagmore are full of em). Stuck up millies and chavs who are one generation away from poverty…mind you that ‘Spideman’ is a fair representation of a lot of the scum that I hang out with here in da ghetto…