Pandit Pran McNulty
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 11 January 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Fox News gaffe: Twitter reacts
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 12 January 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
The Guardian@guardianTop stories, special features, live blogs and more from http://theguardian.com
― NyQuil Made It (imago), Monday, 12 January 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link
Peter Bradshaw The Guardian, Wednesday 21 January 2015 15.19 GMT
There comes a moment when a trend or meme becomes too irritating to ignore. For me, that moment has come with “negging”.
― hot takes: audit in progress (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
lol no way
― wat if lermontov hero of are time modern day (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Retaliation from the rightwing twittersphere was swift and violent, as Khalek documented in an exhaustive (and exhausting) post at Alternet. “Move your America hating ass to Iraq, let ISIS rape you then cut your cunt head off, fucking media whore muslim,” wrote a rather unassuming-looking mom named Donna. “Rania, maybe we to take you ass overthere and give it to ISIS … Dumb bitch,” offered a bearded man named Ronald, who enjoys either bass fishing or playing the bass (we may never know). “Waterboarding is far from torture,” explained an army pilot named Benjamin, all helpfulness. “I wouldn’t mind giving you two a demonstration.”
― Hayat Boumkattienne (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/21/the-clash-paul-simonon-gauche-biker-art-betrayal-punk
bit harsh and borderline personal
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Thursday, 22 January 2015 00:04 (nine years ago) link
Totally Mexico! How the Nathan Barley nightmare came true
Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris’s 2005 TV series was a comedy about a ludicrous ‘self-facilitating media node’ in east London. But 10 years on, it looks more like a documentary about the future
― hot takes: audit in progress (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
But that's actually a really good piece?
― a cake of three ingredients (stevie), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
yeah, strapline actually gets the article completely wrong
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
it's an absolutely shit piece and it fits the strapline. hipsters this hipsters that. it says "haircuts" how many times? gimme 1000 dayglo hipsters over brooker and co encouraging anyone who reads the guardian to stand up and applaud themselves every fucking day for liking 6music and jarvis cocker, and decade old tv shows. honestly - the guardian on culture is like your granddad plus 970 words and minus a sense of humour.
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
Yes - far too self-congratulatory a piece. ...2005 was already well into Shoreditch/Hoxton era and NB was was actually quite bland and only occasionally hitting the target.
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:24 (nine years ago) link
Or the pub that had been bought out by club promoters, but “to confuse people” they’d kept the downstairs bar unaltered and given all the regulars membership. “All the normal people had been turned into these weird props.”
this is so fucking absurd - so they should have just booted out the regulars cos to keep allowing them in was voyeurism by default? you can't win with the "o they're at it again" morons in the guardian. heaven forbid a few people in a big city did some silly things in the name of art - let's all fucking throw a wooly jumper at them and listen to "sorted for es and whizz".
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
strapline actually gets the article completely wrong
ehh well there's a v long section in the middle abt how it predicted this and that using examples that are cherrypicked to the point of daftness. calling happyslapping a post-Nathan Barley phenomenon... come on now
― hot takes: audit in progress (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/profile/the-guide
was looking for an online copy of the exhibition listings that appears in the guide on saturdays, got the above, which is just an archive of the populist listicles. pah.
― koogs, Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
Omar El-Hussein, the 22-year-old Danish man shot dead by police after supposedly carrying out the worst attack on Danish soil for decades, was a petty criminal with a past seemingly full of contradictions. He was a smart student but reportedly had a short fuse and was prone to violence. He was a talented kick-boxer and yet appeared to have suffered from anxiety and used cannabis.
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Monday, 16 February 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
he liked to drink coca cola yet sometimes appeared to have purchased lemonade
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Monday, 16 February 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
"and yet appeared to have used cannabis" ffs
― Mordy, Monday, 16 February 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
Smart but violent? This is unprecedented!
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 16 February 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
"No one who speaks German could be an evil man."
― english fatuus (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 February 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HpmOJ57.png
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 21 February 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link
didn't google glass already bomb a few months ago?
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Saturday, 21 February 2015 23:57 (nine years ago) link
that vs http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-stereotype-map-of-britain-according-to-north-londoners--g1ES8x4Y3g
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 February 2015 00:02 (nine years ago) link
(x-post)Don't knock it till you've watched it! This week's 'watch me date' features one of my friends.
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Sunday, 22 February 2015 00:04 (nine years ago) link
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― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 February 2015 00:05 (nine years ago) link
not watched the dating video yet, but the piece in the weekend mag is generally a highlight
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Sunday, 22 February 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/mar/04/revealed-boris-johnson-duplicitous-handling-garden-bridge-london
An important story, no doubt, but the picture gave me pause for thought...
http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/3/4/1425506267901/cc654aa1-0e6d-4e52-85df-4d1f755e2218-1020x612.jpeg
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Thursday, 5 March 2015 11:33 (nine years ago) link
saw that earlier and kept thinking of that fan art picture of Macho Man elbowdropping Jesus from heaven
― The Crucifixion Of Sean Bean (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 5 March 2015 11:57 (nine years ago) link
ffs Scotland is full of inbreds according to the guardians cartoonist now. How did this get past the editor? who the hell thought it was ok?Their sales in Scotland will drop even further now,
http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-940/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/3/6/1425656930878/0d4f335a-e056-4cea-bac4-114cf1ff5d70-bestSizeAvailable.jpeg
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/mar/09/steve-bells-if-
from the same cunt who didhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/nov/13/steve-bells-if-nicola-sturgeon-scotland
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
When did The Guardian turn into the Daily Mail?
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Steve Bell is just not funny.
― nuumerykah (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
as 'satire' goes it's pretty bad. It may well be a paraphrase of a quote (that no bugger knows) but it's not even funny.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
I don't blame anyone for misunderstanding Steve Bell cartoons because they're obtuse and unfunny but you've seriously misunderstood this one if you think he's saying Scotland is full of inbreds and bears any resemblance to the Daily Mail.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
Re-make/Re-model - could you please take a moment or two to explain it because if it's not gratuitous mockery of Scottish people then it makes no sense to me whatsoever. I get that "try anything once except incest and morris dancing" is a known expression but other than that I'm at a loss.
― everything, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
I'm guessing Bell is the kind of old school leftie who is actually opposed to the SNP out of a mistrust of nationalist politics (see also: bobby gillespie)
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
nothing says "firmly opposed to nationalism" like national stereotype jokes
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Another funny one!http://my.mutterings.co.uk/images/politics/repository/scotland-should-itself
― everything, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
I'm not entirely sure what Bell is saying by riffing on the old "try anything once" line but I can't work out what the people who think the cartoon is anti-Scottish think he's saying. Is incest a national stereotype?
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
It is simply considered to be a general term of abuse.
― everything, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
eg. calling Steve Bell an unfunny motherfucker is not a reference to his national identity.
― everything, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
also "incest" gags frequently levelled at hicks/rubes/yokels take yr pick lol provincial politicians etc
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
ts: characterizing yokels as incestuous vs zoophiliac
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
for an allegedly leftist newspaper the guardian in its coverage of scottish politics really has only paid lip-service to the reality that the majority of yes voters were young, urban, leftist internationalists. they mainly point and laugh at the provincials for their perceived petty, small-minded nationalism.
a lot of new labourite content where the columnist tries to explain why labour is the much better choice for the left-wing scot but cannot have recourse to mentioning the policies of the two parties to justify this because obv labour is really awful.
snp prob quite populist and opportunist in a lot of its choices, but the yes movement, and the glut of young people who joined the party post-referendum are going to irrevocably move the party to the left for good.
― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
chose the wrong time to emigrate :/
― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
this wd be the same Graun that backed the Lib Dems at the last election anyway
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
also lol Mordy gotta be a poll
i had actually forgotten that about the lib dems, fuck me.
clegg did a photo-opportunity outside my old office for the lib dem pledge not to raise VAT (lol). then he performed well in one debate and the press were talking about a 3 party election for a couple seconds. heady days.
― Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
and if anything the Lib Dems' trad vote was as rural as SNP iirc?
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
tbf Steve Bell is probly still on some SWP steez or something
― daed bod (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
He's riffing on that well-worn Erich Fromm quote, "nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity".
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link