Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

this is at least the third time Julie Bindel has written essentially this article about Snoop

"I own no fewer than four of his CDs" made me lol but general sentiment seems fine to me

the revelation that she watches re-runs of Carry On films was also a bit o_O. The broader point she is making is fair enough, granted.

this bloke got married apparently http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/28/a-moment-that-changed-me-james-rhodes-marriage-proposal

TBF any British person with a Bank Holiday hangover watches marathons of Carry On films at some point.

I like the Julie Bindel piece.

hah fair enough. I hereby rescind my nomination.

'I start to feel it in my knees' – working for hours while standing proves a tall order

With new research suggesting workers be on their feet for half of their working day, Esther Addley set out to meet the target. But four hours of standing is no easy task

Standing to work is not a new thing: Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill and Vladimir Nabokov are all said to have done it. Philip Roth wrote his novels on his feet, while James Murdoch, now chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox, is a self-confessed “big believer” in standing while you work.

I mean, I realise this means people standing in an office, but at no point does it even seem to realise shopworkers, waiting staff, bar staff, police, I mean, how many people stand all day at work? Dunno how you could write that and not think about just working in a shop even in your teens or whatever.

Karl Marx famously did this too but only because he was plagued with boils on his arse, so that probably doesn't count.

those blokes at Covent Garden who have painted themselves gold

priests who are uncomfortable with movement

Liveblogging the relaunch episode of TFI Friday.

I'm being forced to watch it and tbf it's deserves to be liveblogged, though not in the way I imagine the Guardian's doing it.

I'm watching it too a bit. I can't believe Chris Evans decided that's what he'd wear for the show.

Doesn't Chris Evans have all the money? I can't imagine wanting to do this again.

Went to guardian website using my phone. Hit the search button at the top. But it uses some fancy web 2.0 thing instead of a proper text form. And my phone doesn't bring up the keyboard so I can't type anything.

Hit 'request desktop site', get exactly the same page.

I try scrolling down to the bottom to see if there's an option there, but it loads me content as I scroll. It's also very hard to scroll without touching something that wants to open a new page.

Progress...

Had a look at it. When you click on the search button it shows a proper text form for me. How old is your phone?

Nexus 4, KitKat, Firefox is up to date.

I tried it again and sometimes I get redirected to a custom google page, but half the time I just get a pseudo text box pop up, no cursor, no keyboard.

Seems random. Might be google not responding in a timely fashion. (That redirected search page has a google domain but does a site search against guardian.computer)

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/08/dread-daughter-poos-smaller-girl-conform

It is from two years ago, so still few years to go before her daughter is in therapy.

oh lol

I am so glad I'm working from home so I can cackle like a fiend at that article

This irritated me:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/07/craft-coffee-is-becoming-the-province-of-chin-stroking-joy-thieves

It just seemed so *lazy*.

YAY! WOOWOO! As people seem to say on that other achingly boring bore-platform Facebook. Thank you Mr Binns for being the Pathfinder and dropping the flares onto the target. (Historical reference-Hipsters please Google-but steel yourself my dears, it concerns a time when extreme violence to ethnic groupings whom we -the 'British' dear-were 'fighting'-and-steel yourselves again-the only men who wore beards were real men who risked their lives in Corvettes and Destroyers and other vessels - in the constant fear of dying in the freezing waters of a cruel sea). I have absolutely no idea what a 'latte' is, and cannot work out why anyone would want to name a cup of coffee a 'frappe'. Doesn't that mean 'hit' in French? Oh pur-leese. When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country.
WOOW-WOOW! YAY!

When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country.

When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country. When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country. When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country. When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country.

also, kinda lol but mostly sad comment from an Australian clearly struggling with British, and particularly CiF mores:

I am surprised by the appalling negativity of many people here about the tastes and interests of others - just because you don't care or can't be bothered developing an interest in something, why put hate on others who do? People are passionate about many things in life - doesn't that make the world a better place? People don't have to be the same as you.

i thought i recognised the person in the pretentious berlin coffee shop but then i realised they just look like everyone i know

4008 shares. is that good? who are these people who are doing this? i don't understand

i am confused about the mental processes required to internalise this disapproval such that he feels it even when he is sitting in a starbucks

i mean he lives in the provinces though so whatever

http://somuchguardian.tumblr.com/

useful reminder that even at its absolute worst this paper is never as bad as the people who comment on its articles

I can think of several totalitarian dictatorships that were never as bad as the people who comment on Guardian articles.

Say what you like about Idi Amin at least he didn't go to his grave thinking that BLIAR still represented witty and incisive social commentary.

More like FIBBI AMIN

I'm so sorry

that is one shitty tumblr

This has been pretty good
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/inspect-a-gadget

telegraph will always be worse than the guardian:
https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/621300211097464832

xp good grief, the eggmaster

Don't click on that Telegraph article in the Caroline Lucas link, they know exactly what they're doing with that one.

hoping to ensnare legions of Colonel Bufton-Tuftons ready to wank themselves into a froth, no doubt

Well that and attract millions of clicks from furious lefties.

yup

lol if you think the target market for the telegraph website is people who buy the telegraph newspaper

lol if you think it's over

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/04/barbecue-american-tradition-enslaved-africans-native-americans

Barbecues are racist.

imo the issue with pieces like this and other 'lol we've reached PEAK GUARIDAN!!1' things is less the assertion put fwd (although that seems at best questionable) and more that it's being published with the intention of getting racists to come and comment

Michael Twitty is an excellent writer and his pieces are never less than interesting. If the only take away people are getting from that one is "barbecue is racist" i don't know what to say.