Limmy reacts to Lloyd Cole and BBC Radio 4's review of his book

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  @potbelliedfool · 5 years ago (edited)

  Lloyd and Limmy both had to master the nuances of Macromedia Flash around the same time. There's an unbreakable bond there.

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  @SchwickySchwack · 2 years ago

  There’s a part very early in the book where Limmy describes a childhood memory.<br>Two kids one after the other walking past a window smile and wave at the adults inside. The adults smile and wave back both times. Kid Limmy thinks this is great, it made him happy to see, so Limmy walks up and smiles and waves. The adults expression drops and they stop waving. <br>Limmy feels like there must be something inherently wrong with him that he didn’t deserve this same affection, as a bit of a loner and feeling like a square peg on top of this he carries this through his early life and always has a feeling that he might be a bit of a freak, inferior or made wrong in some way. <br><br>In hindsight Limmy realises the adults were probably just the parents of the kids and didn’t know Limmy assumed he was waving at someone behind them, after all why would a kid wave at someone else’s parents.<br><br><br>Now a father, Limmy waves to his son when he drops him off at school, and sometimes he sees that other kids are waving and smiling in his direction (probably at their parents).<br>Everytime, even after his son turns around and walks towards school, he carries on his smile and wave a few seconds longer just in case a kid is waving at him by mistake, just in case there’s a kid like Limmy in that crowd and he wouldn’t want them to ever feel the hurt that he felt, he waves longer so that kid knows they’re okay just the way that they are, that they matter…<br><br><br><br><br>And these classist, ignorant, emotionally limited, misanthropic scumbags say there’s nothing in the book they can empathise with or find any sympathy with Limmy.

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• WE

  @WeHaveExplosive · 5 years ago

  I had to look up Lloyd Cole. Someone updated his Wikipedia page to reflect his Macromedia Flash credentials 🤣

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• SE

  @sese182 · 5 years ago

  The woman is shocked by the description of violent scenes, and that&apos;s without being exposed to Limmy&apos;s Minecraft content.

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• SA

  @Sam-tx1tn · 3 years ago

  ‘Intelligence of a certain kind’ is the gift that keeps on giving.

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• JM

  @Jmcinally94 · 4 years ago (edited)

  &quot;He suffers with depression, is suicidal.... anyway I didn&apos;t like him. I found him utterly without charm. There&apos;s an intelligence of a certain kind, but this autobiography documenting his life is too self-centred and linear&quot;.<br><br>All you need for a job reviewing on Radio 4 is a posh enough accent it seems.

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• KL

  @klyro_pp · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s a class thing. Lloyd was probably raised in a very soft middle class environment and went to a nice university filled with other soft middle class people. He can&apos;t come to terms with the fact that working class people are just as smart as him.

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• TO

  @tobytyke308 · 5 years ago

  Lloyd&apos;s tone makes it sound &nbsp;like he&apos;s talking about a fictional character, rather than a real person.

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• CA

  @cartmanofsp · 4 years ago

  “This long suffering woman called Lynn.” <br><br>Hahahahaha

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  @thefunkybeautiful · 5 years ago

  &quot;He has an intelligence of a certain kind&quot;. Ohh! The stench of privilege and arrogance. Classic Radio 4. The hilarious thing is that they actually think they ARE superior. Christ. haha Loved the listing of Lloyd Cole&apos;s failed musical releases.

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• TE

  @Tengolengo99 · 5 years ago

  “Looking forward to your next album Lloyd Cole………. better be good”<br>that absolutely killed me off 😂

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  @rossparkhead4871 · 5 years ago

  The improv story at the end of this video is fantastic. Shows an intelligence, of a certain kind.

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