Worst Thing In This Daily Telegraph "10 ways Britpop changed modern manhood" Article

I should just stop reading hack prose like Hogan's. On a medical level, it’s not good for my blood pressure and I’m under doctor’s orders to eliminate or minimise all stress factors in my life (easier said than done, but you do what you can). All stuff like this does is annoy me and makes me go AARGH and the worst thing is that it’s kind of the point to annoy people like me. Not only is the piece deliberately stupid, but its stupidity is ladled on with relish, and that’s what really stinks about it. But yes, I just need to learn to ignore/disregard this stuff and, if I can’t, stop getting so annoyed about it.

xp fair point, should probably hand back all my paychecks I got for posting here

The ubiquitous, artfully distressed gastropubs of today owe a debt to “The Mixer”.

keep coming back to read this because it's probably the most innocuous statement in the whole thing, yet also the most astonishingly hit-the-corner-flag inaccurate

Yeah, it was always "a pub", wasn't it?

The way to spot a 'fake-punter' was if they 'complained' that they were doing "souvenir t-shirts" over the counter there (apparently, they always did).

(Never went there, although I used to go to Camden a lot)

to briefly lower discussion to his kind of level...

Apparently mine was “a proper big old man’s one”, whereas his was “patchy ginger bumfluff”. I pooh-poohed this, obviously – I’m not a complete monster – but was secretly delighted. We even exchanged tweets the following morning, comparing hangovers, and he again mentioned his “serious beard envy”.

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nah.

This guy had me at "cool, exciting new stuff...Friends"

i can't stop laughing at number 8. the notion that britpop and foodie culture are somehow connected through that well-known britpop pinup, jamie oliver, is one of the craziest things i've read in ages

TBF Jamie Oliver was the Britpop chef.

seeing his wretched little pubic trimmings stuck to his giant shiny penis head like that makes me think he had a point with the beard/penis comparison, even if it only applied to him.

"Why black-frame glasses are the new Porsche"

I used to go to Camden a lot

This is where I get all misty-eyed and rhapsodise about the Good Old Days of Rhythm Records, Compendium Books, Rock On and MVE. And Marine Ices before it was sold and lost every single factor that made me want to go and eat there. Even that Goth place near the Lock that sold CDs in the basement. Love’s Secret Domain by Coil for a fiver? That’s where you went.

Now I can’t think of a single reason to go there. Out On The Floor? Not what it was. Charity shops? More hit and miss than they used to be.

The reasons I go there is that the kids love it there. And, yeah, it's nice etc..

(And I do remember all the things you mention there, apart from Marine ices, guess I missed out there)

there there there etc.

let's have it! mad fer it! parklife!! etc.

look at this badboy! wallop!! pukka! etc/

From Three Lions to the Gallaghers' Man City shirts, the beautiful game became linked with the music scene for the first time since George Best.

This is complete bollocks isn't it? Chas'n'Dave & Spurs, Rod Stewart & Celtic, Elton John & Watford etc

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Mark E Smith is a big football fan too right?

he's mad fer it! parklife! etc.

maybe he just meant 'since George Best by the Wedding Present'

even then, 'World In Motion' was from 1990 right?

Remember 'Luv'd Up' being a phrase.

the thing i love is that the whole article's point is basically "Britpop made it okay for young white men to act like drunk assholes and like sports!"

like wooow yeah that's so novel

Are there any complete sentences that actually are true?

pukka!

wallop!

etc.

There wasn’t just a Britpop band called Menswe@r (doesn’t that “@“ date them?):

It was short for Menswe@britpop.com

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All of you mithering about a transparently and incontrovertibly moronic listicle aren't contributing constructively to any discourse, merely indulging in ILX's favourite sport

Actions, not words. Egg Hogan's house. Protest outside The Telegraph's offices. Publicly burn copies of Parklife. Of course, none of this shall be done, so it is as though we are yelling into a preposterous void through which Hogan's paycheck flutters unconcernedly

The other option would be to mercilessly spam his Twitter feed. You all seem to have the time. To it, soldiers.

smh i BEEN yelling at him and his racist mate john niven on twitter already

you are an honourable exception :D

none of this shall be done, so it is as though we are yelling into a preposterous void through which Hogan's paycheck flutters unconcernedly

― imago, Friday, 2 May 2014 16:57 (20 minutes ago)

this is as it should be

its a cold world out there and people do worse things than michael hogan in order to feed their children in n16

though gotta say im intrigued about whether he /does/ get paid

he liveblogs about the most worthless of tv shit in the telegraph, he writes the odd article for its website (this got 7 comments last time i checked), his twitter and cursorily checked internet presence don't suggest he does a whole lot

is this a viable program for a sustained existence? idk, maybe the barclay brothers routintely write blank cheques to anyone who can come up with shit like

Michael Hogan @michaelhogan

Weirdly, Tamiflu Stockpile is my porn name

sixteen retweets.....this along with his lavatorial sensibility and paeans to the merits of class a drugs don't even suggest he is a neat fit for telegraph media group

what is he even doing?

Torygraph: what are the main avatars of britpop according to an expert on shit reality tv
Hogan: nose, Best

(ilxor: nooooo, &c)

Telegraph Media Group editor in chief Jason Seiken has outlined his vision for creating a "digitally native" news organisation which can thrive in a new "golden age" for journalism.

Speaking at the Newsworks conference in London (read full address here) he said: "The pessimists say we are living in desperate times...We are actually living in a golden age of journalism".

He said that historically "disrupting technology" has led to "better choices for consumers and better economics for producers".

and representatives of the scott trust have also contracted with him to haemorrhage content 114 times in the last couple of years, cf

A recent spoof news story claimed that Oasis will stage a comeback later this year under the new name of Noelgallagher: "Sources close to the Manchester band said the music will sound the same in every conceivable way but with a slightly deeper and less annoying voice." Elsewhere on satirical site The Daily Mash, God responds angrily to Noel's claims that he is an Oasis fan. "I'd never actually heard of them until yesterday," says the bearded deity. "Having had a quick listen, I'd say it's a load of derivative, sub-Beatles tosh fronted by divs. I'm more into harp music."

This summer's a biggie for Brand Britain. Not only does Queen Gawdblessherbeth II celebrate 60 years of waving, but there's some sporty thing called, like, the Olympics? To capitalise, the combined UK tourist boards are launching a £5m campaign called "Make it a GREAT 2012". The shouty caps are theirs. It's the written-down version of a Brit raising his voice to make Johnny Foreigner understand he wants A PROPER CUP OF TEA.

Talking of tea, the ad opens with Stephen Fry sipping some. What could be more British than Twitter's top walking thesaurus wielding a cup and saucer like a tweedy Lady Gaga?

mad fer it!

wallop!

etc

I never met anyone that said mad fer it. Not once.

Nice having some bantz w you marcos :)

wahey! etc.

'fucking' written phonetically as 'fookin' something that predates britpop?

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voted for #8 cuz i can't think of any cuisine less appetizing than that made by a britpop stan

He is worse than just a harmless britpop stan, behind the fake perky everybloke front he is quite a bigoted prick.

let's have it!

'fucking' written phonetically as 'fookin' something that predates britpop?

― the final toasting before making a dash for the frigid regions upstairs (soref), Friday, 2 May 2014 20:04 (26 minutes ago)

theres a thinkpiece somewhere abt this saying it infantilizes the north to print that but not 'fuck'