Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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 (Historical reference-Hipsters please Google-but steel yourself my dears, it concerns a time when extreme violence to ethnic groupings whom we -the 'British' dear-were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.

the going madness of political correctness is a serious concern for us all

that wasn't even a 24hr-outrage piece, that was a pretty interesting and well-researched history lesson that taught me things i didn't know before

Yeah, I was braced for something about cultural appropriation and guilt but it's not that at all. It's straight-up informative.

not a peep about the cruelty of animal slaughter & consumption though

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jul/21/teacher-parents-report-racism-school-onesie

a classic of the genre

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/21/labour-rebellion-harriet-harman-man-welfare-vote?

seems to have gone unnoticed that the writer of ^that piece is literally on work experience at the Guardian this week

haven't read it, i noticed a lot of men disparaging it

"I know long multiplication was taught in a radically different way back in the 70s. My own parents have told me. But please at least try to adopt the way it’s taught in today’s classroom when supporting your child at home"

wait, they've changed multiplication now?

are they talking about logarithm tables maybe?

Long multiplication is indeed taught differently now. it involves some kind of grid.

apparently in the 70s they taught multiplication as repeated addition. the way i learnt it was the current way (despite that having been the 70s. lol, i r old.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/multiplication/read/4/ oh, is this what you mean? seems error-prone to me

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/multiplication/read/5/ the PROPER way

then there's this
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Multiply-Like-Chinese-the-easy-way-Fast-/

George Osborne ruined my yoga retreat

Beyond parody tbh.

That new way of multiplying stuff seems like madness. I mean, I can see how it would simplify the idea of it to people who are scared of numbers, but it's still just WRONG.

Charlotte and I have the same yoga teacher, who ran the retreat in Italy over two weeks (I was there in week one, Charlotte in week two).

The retreat was lovely - well organised and taught by a very dedicated teacher. Shame it had this tripe written about it - her anecdote of a practice promoting a 'kinder' self put in that context is a low point, particular to me and how I heard this talked about in a class. One of many low points, which are easier to point out. xp

they fucked up adding too fyi xp

that yoga thing is fine, Charlotte Higgins is a perfectly fine writer, p sure she wrote it equipped with the self-awareness that the thick, boring twats btl were born missing

haha i just looked up the grid method and it's just a spatially intuitive way of diagramming the same shit? that's fine!!

number bonds can get bent tho