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― RJG (RJG), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

stet: I will print out gf's great masterpiece and arm self with a red pen. Fink chances of a find slim to nil, mind.

grim f: IRL/email, yes.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Monday, 5 December 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Then the direct approach to my ex-sub is ok? I hesitate to do anything because the current CE moved from out of state.

i would always advocate the direct approach. what have you got to lose?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link

zoe: prizes if you spot the mistakes in GF's epic.

not very good ones, i hope. it's fucking riddled with them. aren't most of the x-refs missing?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

yes. but the punctuation's good.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

er, that was me.

― stet (stet), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Then of course there's the move where Drew Barrymore is a copyeditor at a Chicago newspaper with her own office and personal assistant. Oh how I laughed. And cried.)

And the bit in Human Traffic where John Simm pretends to be a Mixmag writer to blag into a club and phones his PA. PA? Oh dear indeed.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link

still haven't seen that. i've been told by one person i don't quite trust that it's great, and by one person with typically sound judgment that it's weak.

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

but yeah, it would be great to have a copy editor love story

"This action has caused the relationship to become detached"

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I liked it when it first came out Jody, but at the time I was going clubbing loads. Now ... I don't think it's dated well, but it still gives me a faint nostalgic pull.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link

"Some relationships were incorrectly attached. If you continue, they will be detached"

(PS: I meant "no prizes" above there. stupid word-dropping sub. O the shame)

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

For those UKILXors desperate for their fix of Drew Barrymore's roffletastic copy-editing skillzors, Never Been Kissed is on ITV2 tonight. I like to think this thread influenced this decision.

Grimly, I've emailed you a vaguely work related question that I would like answered please. A pint will be your reward :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

oooooo, PINT!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

(I'm nicking the money out of petty cash to pay for it - since it's a work-related question I can justify a pint on expenses, I think. I AM TEH CHEAPSKATEDNESS!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i read "pint" as "bint."

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know if I can get one of them on expenses. I could try...

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Surely they're a perk in Paisley? [ducks]

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Grimly, you'll note she didn't specify a pint of what.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Yo, I work in the big city now. I've left Paisley far behind me. And ducking won't do you any good, you lanky git, you'll still be at prime hitting level.

Is this the bit where I start by offering a pint of water and he asks for a pint of tequila and we end up compromising on a pint of IPA? I can't believe I'm even bribing people for favours (the excitement of having a sort of expense account is going to my head).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

NO PRIZES? I was wanting prizes.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

compromising on a pint of IPA?

ding ding ding hurrah IPA glug.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Zoe, you'd bankrupt me. I'll wrench that pint of IPA from GF's lips just as he's about to guzzle it, if you like, and keep it safe for you. That'll teach the young him to fuck the grown-up him over with sloppy mistakes. Or something.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

dude, i've said it many a time: if i could go back to 1996 and hoof my 21-year-old self in the pods, i'd do it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

WHY THE WORLD NEEDS SUBS (part 2344343 in a never-ending series).

Today's Evening Standard, page 43, check the first listing in the second-to-last column.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

ooooooooooooh

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, that is INCREDIBLE

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean, link plz.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 10 August 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Explain for someone who doesn't have a Standard to hand?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

a london paper, yeah?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

IIRC.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

A slightly crude mis-spelling of "Buckingham Palace".

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 10 August 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Results 1 - 10 of about 857 for fuckingham palace.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

LEAVE MY FUCKING STUFF ALONE YOU NAZI CUNTS

-- CharlieNo4 (starsandheroe...) (webmail), November 18th, 2005 4:19 PM. (Charlie) (link)

haha life takes some funny turns, dunnit?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2006/08/11/Fuckinghampic512.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link

when i go mad and decide to quit, i'll do something like that :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

What is this 'when' claim. *runs away*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey

― Pete W, Thursday, 24 July 2008 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link

lol at vanilla midget getting shook

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 24 July 2008 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link

"I have written 350 restaurant reviews for The Times and i have never ended on an unstressed syllable."

Oh the ironing.

To my mind if he only wrote that last graf in order to make a puerile Carry On joke that likely bypassed 75% of his readership, he's lucky it didn't get chopped off altogether.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 24 July 2008 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link

This is a prime example of what I was talking about on the Mercury thread yesterday re. newspaper journalists being given ideas above their station. If I were the editor I'd send him packing. I don't care who his dad was or how many extra readers he gets with the Saturday edition. Or send him to Iraq for the next couple of years and get him to do some proper journalism.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 24 July 2008 11:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Also, Why would you change a sentnece aso that it meant something i didn't mean?

― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 24 July 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Short people ain't got no reason to live

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 24 July 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link

The fact that anybody would get so stunningly butthurt over a change to their sub-Two Ronnies song routine wordplay is quite frankly a damning indictment of the West.

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 24 July 2008 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link

You'd also think this rant would be more effective if shouted over a telephone. Written out, it's a bit green-inkish. Self-important primadonnas take note.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 24 July 2008 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.minorlooneytunes.com/pictures/finster003.jpg

Giles Coren, yesterday

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link

He has no idea how stress works in English.

But A+ for use of swearing.

― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link

What. A. Twat.

would do his sister though.

― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link

I think he has a point.

― Pete W, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link

FITE

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link

lol journalism

― DG, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link

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