Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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

xp
yeah and a Turner Prize judge, he is certainly not a historian or a decent writer.

after cementing his place as #1 laughing stock of the art world he's really going all out in his bid for the mainstream

"as a young man i was a serious Marxist who had no idea what the Soviet Union may've been like"

some a+ trolling here:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/12/death-nightclub-murder-dancefloor-teenagers-triumph-nerd-culture

i read that this morning, then god help me i looked at a few of the comments, and these two actions made me decide to try to stop reading the guardian forever

Was gonna post the EVIL MADNESS of the Jonathan Jones piece earlier. Reverse psychology I hope.

We notice you've got an ad-blocker switched on. Perhaps you'd like to support the Guardian another way?

I haven't clicked on them for a while so I don't know if this is a new thing but I thought this kind of thing was the preserve of illegal torrent sites, of course the answer is get fucked and I am upgrading to adblock edge.

channel 4 on demand requires you to switch off ad blocking s/w in order to watch anything.

i really hate sites that have a surrounding advert, 'lo allmusic,p-fork, and yesterday, the guardian.

I wish the Guardian website would go to a subscription model. I would be happy to pay a reasonable amount each month if it meant getting rid of the adverts and (hopefully) some of the loopier BTL commenters.

I might buy this piece of tripe for the first time for the LOLz when (hopefully) Corbyn wins tomorrow.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewzeitlin/the-washington-post-begins-blocking-ad-blockers#.fbomDrXR3

bezos/ios9

http://i.imgur.com/aJq88vJ.jpg

A Fat Duck that is only accessible to a tiny elite is at best a curio, if not a source of resentment. A democratic Fat Duck would be a point of national pride and far more enjoyable for the people who worked there. Who wants to feed the jaded super-rich when you could be serving genuinely excited new customers? So, how could Heston Blumenthal subsidise a new, socially inclusive Fat Duck?

"genuinely excited new customers" are what's wrong with everything.

http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/oct/05/the-avocado-is-overcado-how-culture-caught-up-with-fashion

if you really want to get to grips with the meaning of modern life, look no further than the avocado. Or – to give it its most up-to-date name – the overcado.

It is still on every fashionable cafe menu, but it is now basic. Basic in the Kate-Moss-Easyjet sense of the word, meaning that it aspires to values that are now too generic to be aspirational.

Is the iphone app constantly crashing for anyone else?

Yes

Well great, I'll just have to cross the room to my laptop fml

The website constantly crashes and reloads in Safari and Chrome on my iPad too.

the mobile site is unusable on anything other than an adblock browser

It the app keeps crashing for you, you can do me a massive favour by emailing userhelp at the guardian dot com to complain.

Just tell them what phone you're using, and what version of the app (you can this by going to settings > about. oh, you get to settings by clicking on that 3-line icon in the top left that some people call the hamburger)

The apps team do their best to test, but often only really realise there's something badly wrong when lots of people email. They really welcome crash reports.

Same goes for persistent website crashing too.

The app doesn't stay open long enough the click the hamburger at the moment.

Yikes. Well, try updating the app and if there's no update available then you can just tell them you're on the latest version.