Return of the spide…
FOR those who remember him, Spideman is back with the return of Elemental Soup.
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Ulsters Last Stand?: Can Unionism Move Beyond Insurance Policy Politics?
How has Ulster unionism arrived at where it is today – fractured and uncertain, yet dominated electorally by the DUP, a party that tells us it offers unionists sure footing in uncertain times? In his latest book, Ulster’s Last Stand? Reconstructing Unionism after the Peace Process (Irish Academic Press, 2010), Prof. James McAuley from the [...] read our review »
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Stay out of Libya: counterinsurgency doesn’t work
A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the Afghan [...] read our review »
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The Creative Class and Northern Ireland
As part of NICVA’s series of masterclasses from its Centre for Economic Empowerment project, there was a morning seminar on the topic of the “creative class” (as popularised by Richard Florida) and its applicability to Northern Ireland. The agenda was to: Explain Richard Florida’s idea of the “creative class” and the link between economic outcomes [...] 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.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/omalley/120/alien/shanty.jpg
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…