Is there a derogatory slang term for post-modernists?

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A friend and I were discussing them the other day and we really needed one. He suggested 'posties', used in conjunction with an expletive.
Has anyone heard of any word along these lines?

― cprek (cprek), Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Pomofo

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Pomo Chuckle Heads

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus.

― hstencil, Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd come up with an invective to describe Post-Modernists, but i believe that "Post-Modernists" is insulting enough.

Mad love to Monty Python...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Pomofo covers it round my way too.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

To me a pomofo implies a bad ass postmodernist, which is not derogatory.

― cprek (cprek), Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Wankers.

Oh, damn, I couldn't help myself. Be gentle.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

haha goddamnit hstencil

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Pomus?

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

pointless

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

asshats. snobs. they-who-live-in-their-own-ass.
sophomores

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

cockfarmers?

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The Most Photographed Barns in America?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I've already used "posties" five times since that convo Cprek!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

psuedo-intellectuals

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Psuedo-intellectuals" will become "pseudints" which will be misheard as "students" and thus being a "student" becomes an insult.

Fuckin student. ;-)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Where I come from, "student" already is an insult.

"Hey student, you better get it through your head..."

― hstencil, Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Momus wuz a Modernist.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

He wuz, now he's post all that

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Gee, I thought I might be trampled for the 'wankers' thing. And I usually don't have the courage of my convictions.

Isn't all this just another instance of people wanting to latch onto some belief/philosophy that has some kind of 'intellectual' cred, and in other words, provides a nice warm place where other people have already done all the thinking for you?

Or maybe it's just me.

I do like the idea of a derogatory description, anyway. (Wanker just happens to be one of my more favoured insults.)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i like pomofo.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

pomofo sounds like poor motherfucker, which is accurate, but not specific enough

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Post-erior, maybe.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

terrorist sympathizer, apparently

― s fish, Friday, 4 April 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Is there derogatory slang for people who sneer at "post-modernists"?

"ihatefundamentalists"

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 4 April 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jody"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a postmodernist!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

apologists

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I always wondered what pineappleheads were.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

reactionary anti-futurists

nostalgists

'apologists' is good though

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 April 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I was reminded of this thread reading the self-satisfied and muddled assault on Richard Rorty in the current issue of 'Prospect' magazine during my lunchbreak just now(you can find the piece by fiddling around here.)

In a rather lovely instance of shooting oneself in the foot, the writer uses the accuracy of train timetables as part of his assault on "relativism". He evidently has never travelled on SouthWestTrains at evening rush hour.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 4 April 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

'the accuracy of train timetables as part of his assault on "relativism"'

HE ACTUALLY DID THAT? hahahahahahaha! Are you sure that was 'Prospect' and not the 'Onion'?

― dave q, Friday, 4 April 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I misremembered - it was plane timetables (so I could I ask a moderator to revise my earlier post to read "He has evidently never travelled on RyanAir")

But at this point the unconverted ought to complain, loudly, that the opposition between coping and copying totters and falls. The map enables us to cope, indeed, but we also know why. It enables us to cope precisely because it represents the landscape correctly. It enables us to anticipate what we shall find. Similarly, if Rorty is to catch a plane, he will look up the time of departure in a timetable. That enables him to cope better. But it does so just because the times written in the timetable represent the intended times of departure. It is not a miracle that the timetable helps Rorty cope. It would indeed be a miracle if there were no stable way of reading the figures on the page. But there is, and timetables beat tea leaves and crystal balls as a result. Science too offers us its own explanation of why it works, and there is none better. It works because it identifies the powers of things and the physical forces that make stuff happen. That enables us to harness those forces and adjust them, and make different stuff happen. That is how we cope.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

As a big fan of Postmodernism, just call me a PoMoHo.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 April 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"MCM students"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 April 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

PoMoHoMo? (not directed at you Martin)(or anyone else for that matter)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 4 April 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Decosheds!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 4 April 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Faux hipsters

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

That's do for me too, Oops.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 April 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

argh, I have a class in MCM. Pomo central! I am gonna join the cult of Deleuze now.

― daria g, Saturday, 5 April 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

pomo homo

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 5 April 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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