Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

adblocking is killing music

i really could do without seeing a finely-detailed photo of polly toynbee's face in the middle of EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE i read in the guardian app.

if I had 24 hours to live I would click on every one of those weird grainy listicle ads. right now I'm scared of the consequences

If you click on the ads you die within 24 hours so it's win-win.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/am-i-a-hipster-google

Amazing.

even if I'm just using some random computer for a few minutes, Ima install adblock. Afraid that any business model that depends on my tolerance for online adverts is gonna need a bit of rethinking.

the whole tweed trousers ww2 moustache plus bowtie thing, has anyone seen more than like 1 or 2 of this chimerical figure, ever? maybe 4/5 years ago? the weird thing when people talk about "hipsters" in the uk is that splinters of the hundreds of strange mini-trends that might be swept together in a thinkpiece seem to have spread outside london, creating some warped vision. like deep fried pickles or whatever are like in provincial hotels. craft beer is in weatherspoons. like it's always been a meaningless catch-all, but the word hipster in the uk now seems to be associated with a heaving weight of things, as evidenced by that article. it feels like "hipster" things have become so mainstream that there's now some kind of self-hatred/misanthropy at work, like everyone dismissing a thing even as a byron burger opens up on every street.

essentially some of the greatest fucking idiots in britain are the ones who are really confused about what the word "hipster" means, but very angry about it too.

was more peeved about claiming plaid shirts and Arcade Fire albums as "normal" tbh

there are prob like 40 irritating things in there

Do I have to read that?

it speaks to a deep existential lostness seething away

or maybe it is just a bit of fun

I'm not sure what kind of fun

just banter

at this point I wd quote the bit in Ulysses where Bloom reads that short story on the bog but I'm not sure I can be bothered to do the work

i just don't really understand the centre point of society from which the writers of these kind of pieces purport to speak.

Quietly he read, restraining himself, the first column and, yielding but resisting, began the second. Midway, his last resistance yielding, he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. Hope it’s not too big bring on piles again. No, just right. So. Ah! Costive. One tabloid of cascara sagrada. Life might be so. It did not move or touch him but it was something quick and neat. Print anything now. Silly season. He read on, seated calm above his own rising smell. Neat certainly. Matcham often thinks of the masterstroke by which he won the laughing witch who now. Begins and ends morally. Hand in hand. Smart. He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of three pounds, thirteen and six.

I thought why not?

i'm not a hipster. no way. not like those other lames

I envy kindly Mr Golby

toiling away to make a living out of observing the social minutiae others might overlook, or just marking time, refining that prose style, holding it together until the great London novel is complete

Look at this hipster twat, I arsk you...

https://thebaffledkingcomposing.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/jamsey.jpgp

http://larepubliquedeslivres.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Joyce_James_1926.jpg

Great hair Jimmy had.

it feels like "hipster" things have become so mainstream that there's now some kind of self-hatred/misanthropy at work

Good !

how bout those hipsters huh

The author is one of those UK Vice twats who all write the same article in exactly the same way over and over again, right?

Seems sub-Vice if that's even possible.

“Iceland knows everything about English football, we are English football crazy. I don’t think we need analyse them much but I don’t think they know too much about Iceland players. I could count all the players [as being dangerous] it is a creative team a little bit different the English tea than before as before, RH deserves credit for that – there are a lot of threats in England team.”

this is presumably what all jamie jackson content looks like before being chopped into something resembling english prose

this might be the worst thing I've ever read in the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jul/10/robert-lang-photography-camden-town-london

I was waiting for someone to post that.

PerfumedPonce
6h ago
These poshos can do one as far as I am concerned.

It definitely lacks a pic with one of them wearing a traffic cone on her head.

it's possibly the platonic ideal of Guardian articles which appear to have been commissioned with the specific goal of getting commenters to queue up and hurl abuse at the paper. plus they've paid people to write, sub and place it online. essentially they're in a findom relationship

https://twitter.com/nadiakhomami
from the journalists twitter profile -
"I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry."
her pinned tweet is asking for people to pay and support guardian journalism.

So, her article is mediocre poetry?

"Dear Milkman

Please Leave Me

One Pint.

Don't leave me

That's not what I

mean"

It's from This Side Of Paradise.

Its weird, the AU Guardian has been very good - I've stopped reading Fairfax and replaced it with the Graun/au. None of this rubbish on our side of the site. those photos are shite.

A set up looking to repeat some of that Max Gogarty click-magic?

Its weird, the AU Guardian has been very good - I've stopped reading Fairfax and replaced it with the Graun/au. None of this rubbish on our side of the site. those photos are shite.

If they can filter out all the British crap then why does the app persist in the delusion that I'm interested in Australian football and reviews of random Brisbane indie bands?

i'm glad i'm not the only one!!

TBF it doesnt filter ALL of it out, just mostly off of the front pages.

for some time i've been a fan of looking at this page and reading all the headlines as fast as possible: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/experience

so i decided to compose a poem using only headlines i gathered from it: https://soundcloud.com/ronan-fitzgerald/i-was-attacked-by-a-seal

Ha, that's great

:)

It is good; also, surprised at how many of these i remember.

Lovely