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

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'

the fookin thing was around when I first read the music press. Thought it was stupid then too

I remember when the NME started to write the word fuck uncensored. a momentous day. suddenly it felt like we could do anything

were you mad fer it?!?!

Yeah, the fookin thing was always around - as well as other ways of transcribing accent phonetically - especially during Madchester. It did always come across as awfully patronising.

I was a weird teenager who assumed I was on the verge of being interviewed extensively by the NME and Melody Maker, and I was very paranoid about this. I remember taking elocution lessons specifically to ensure I couldn't be done over in this way. The first proper gig I went to was the Manic Street Preachers in Edinburgh in early 1992. Afterwards, me and my friend ended up in their dressing room. No one else: just me, him and the Manics. Dismal times for the Manics no doubt. I had the ear of Richey Manic and all I really talked to him about was whether he felt he had to make a special effort to talk proper to the music press. He didn't.

Is this real?

I genuinely can't tell what is satire in this article and what is for real. I never get most British comedy or puns....minus Fawlty Towers.

I only ever read the NME between '89 and '91 and can't even remember their swearing policy, am sure Swells used to swear a lot, bless his soul.

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

― ۩, Friday, May 2, 2014 6:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Likewise.

Well yeah, imagine saying that. You can't. QED.

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^am given to understand they changed the name to the far more dignified 'The Ferret'

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I forgot about this poll

I don’t mean that tedious “wahey, boobz and bantz!” kind of laddishess.

I mean an old-fashioned, faintly roguish joy in just being a cheeky tearaway who likes football, beer, rock music and male bonding. Let’s have it! Mad fer it! Parklife! Etc.

You couldn't get a fucking fag paper between these stereotypes. Does Liam Gallagher stopping a huge gig and refusing to play until he sees a "bird with her tits out" on the big screen count as "wahey, boobs and bantz" or "roguish mad fer it cheeky tearaway"?

I voted for blood sausage in accordance with my duty as a British ilxor.

If that was the Oasis gig I went to (Wembley, the one on the Video), she had already. Liam asking for something that was already there...

I was going to vote for food, it's always a good idea to have some.

Then I read the 'entry' um....

Great article

mad fer it!

etc

wallop! etc