Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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

(notwithstanding any issues w/ the ethics of the practice, which are outside my field of knowledge)

the way of learning to spell by fonetic letter pronunciation is probably based on smart science, but when i hear my nephews say the letters as like "ooo" or whatever, i'm just like "ffs what have we become"

One day, when I've left the Guardian, I shall offer my views on every single Guardian journalist named on this thread, for good or bad …

> it's just a spatially intuitive way of diagramming the same shit? that's fine!!

the final adding up needs you to copy all the info from the result boxes. the 'old' way they were all already aligned nicely to add up there and then.

It is a prejudice of ours, for sure, but we expect bands featuring transgender musicians to be fringe sorts who make an avant-garde racket.

uh yes that is indeed a prejudice

He is so awful. So, so awful.

my favourite thing about P Lester is that he shares an amalgamated amazon author page with the writer of erotica such as this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414S351rnhL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

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

― and she's baconing like she's never baconed before (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 July 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everything is fine.

What does btl mean?

below the line, ie comments

I was thinking of Buy to Let!

Bacon, tomato, lettuce.

... that was on Channel 4 earlier this year I think.

I don't even get what or who P. Lester has in mind wrt that line abt stereotypical trans music (which is about two years old for anyone who looked for it on today's page like I did)

cindytalk or genesis p-orridge would fit his imaginary stereotype i guess?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/03/analysing-the-balance-of-our-jeremy-corbyn-coverage?CMP=share_btn_tw

Turning back to the concerns of those who have complained to the readers’ editor’s office and commenters below the line, I read or viewed 43 pieces of journalism published between 21 and 30 July. This is not a scientific piece of research – we don’t have the resources – but an attempt, led by some of the readers’ comments, to gain a snapshot of the coverage.

Telling me you couldn't get a couple of office temps to go through a few weeks' worth of back issues in a week?

Not that I wondered but I didn't know The Guardian supported the Vietnam war "for a while". Doesn't surprise me in the least.

Ho Chi Minh wd've rendered the Viet Cong unelectable

have heard BBC News pundits casually describe Corbyn as a "Hard Left" candidate so you know, maybe that is a purely descriptive term with no connotations or editorializing involved

the Guardian's columnists collectively shitting themselves b/c the terrifying spectre of a SocDem has been hilarious.

The box and chinese multiplication thing is interesting - just provided me with 30 mins of excellent work procrastination - thanks

Jonathan Jones is streaking ahead in the race to be the most embarrassing 'asset' the paper has.

http://www.donotlink.com/g9nb

i'd despair but y'know, people like that are crying out to be exterminated tbh

That article is vile.

Karl Marx was a gentle man

A former 'serious and committed Marxist' who appears to know nothing about Karl Marx, for a start.

Jones was brought up in North Wales. Both his parents were school teachers and the family visited Italy in the summer holidays which developed his interest in art. He read history at Cambridge University, but it is unclear if he graduated.

I was about to say, isn't this guy an art critic?

more anti-corbyn articles should just be an extended gripe about how wrong the author has been in the past