Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Damning read on Rusbridger's spendthrift ways http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/guardian-editor-alan-rusbridger-rupert-murdoch

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/29/the-guardian-view-on-londons-mayoral-race-elect-citizen-khan

... the chaotic charisma of Boris Johnson ... the socialist swagger of Ken Livingstone ...

the competent drum work of Caroline Pidgeon

The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner etc

oops, meant to say Zac Goldsmith there. Dammit.

Rusbridger taking over as chairman of the Scott Trust has been nixed. Katharine Viner was reportedly opposed to it and the board failed to agree to his appointment yesterday. They were due to meet again today but the reports suggest (correctly or otherwise) that he has decided to step aside to resolve the impasse.

I sort of want to say.... thank fuck?

this thread will be going when every original ilxor is dead

reckon we'll outlast the guardian tbh

i would hate not to see my 40s

How many articles about Top Gear ffs

Irritating: from the plugging of nephew, to the crap ideas, and the general privileged view that people have parents in large houses to move into..to just about everything in the article really.

Living in boxes (and thinking out of them) might solve our housing crisis

The tldr extract to give a flavour of this is:

Aviva estimates that by 2025 3.8 million people aged between 21 and 34 could be living with their parents (compared with 2.8 million in 2015).

What’s most surprising about this is that people don’t even seem to mind that much.

entirely reasonable if you're ignorant that the rest of the world exists

https://i.imgur.com/ojXEDll.png

it's no "and here's why", but I feel that "I can't believe I have to say it" has potential as a clickbait headline formulation

That aside I completely agree with him.

There is a woman in the comments who says without question 10 times over she'd save the gorilla over a child. WTF, humanity.

oh, I don't disagree that a human life is worth more than a gorilla's, was just amused by the combination of silly headline and reproachful byline photo.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/contributor/2016/1/20/1453280306466/Dave-Bry-L.png?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=588921b9a0dbf5f04a9e32fc4c318d9c

I don't think tits particularly irrational or gross to say that the gorilla's life was worth more than the child's there being something like 7 billion humans and around 100,000 lowland gorillas and just over 600 (!) mountain gorillas. Of course it's not about maths and I wouldn't strongly hold this view myself, but I think the they are equally valuable is what I would say. I don't know how I would feel if Harambe had been a mountain gorilla, for example, or whether the figure of 600 or so of those would give the gorilla's life priority.

lol @ "reproachful byline photo"

trying to find a cartoon of Harambe and Cecil the Lion chilling together in heaven, but I'm not coming up with anything.

this slate article seems pretty sensible to me:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/05/harambe_s_death_is_not_a_reason_for_moral_outrage_it_s_an_opportunity_to.html

We should look at Harambe’s death as an unfortunate consequence of what essentially amounts to a freak accident and invest the time and money being spent mourning him into doing things that actually matter for gorilla survival. Unfortunately, these things—preserving their habitats, stopping poaching, slowing climate change—are much more difficult and complex endeavors than advocating that child protective services investigate whether the 4-year-old’s parents acted negligently.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/contributor/2016/1/20/1453280306466/Dave-Bry-L.png?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=588921b9a0dbf5f04a9e32fc4c318d9c

Surely something can be done along the lines of a certain US NFL team and hat-cat, say with the word "gorilla"?

woah, so louis ck really likes gorillas then

I can't believe I have to say it: I don't think tits particularly irrational or gross

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjvOrbUWkAAr5oi.jpg:large

lol you made that right

xp hahaha

The little ad boxes pretending to be articles we're egregious enough without me spending the whole day wondering what this bafflement inducing fuckery is supposed to mean and and what it could possibly have to do with lifehacks.
http://i.imgur.com/y3cmxvw.png

I dont believe it

Spoiler alert: it's the Americans.

get those adblockers updated, every penneth of revenue you deprive them of is a small victory.

adblocking is killing music

i really could do without seeing a finely-detailed photo of polly toynbee's face in the middle of EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE i read in the guardian app.

if I had 24 hours to live I would click on every one of those weird grainy listicle ads. right now I'm scared of the consequences

If you click on the ads you die within 24 hours so it's win-win.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/am-i-a-hipster-google

Amazing.

even if I'm just using some random computer for a few minutes, Ima install adblock. Afraid that any business model that depends on my tolerance for online adverts is gonna need a bit of rethinking.

the whole tweed trousers ww2 moustache plus bowtie thing, has anyone seen more than like 1 or 2 of this chimerical figure, ever? maybe 4/5 years ago? the weird thing when people talk about "hipsters" in the uk is that splinters of the hundreds of strange mini-trends that might be swept together in a thinkpiece seem to have spread outside london, creating some warped vision. like deep fried pickles or whatever are like in provincial hotels. craft beer is in weatherspoons. like it's always been a meaningless catch-all, but the word hipster in the uk now seems to be associated with a heaving weight of things, as evidenced by that article. it feels like "hipster" things have become so mainstream that there's now some kind of self-hatred/misanthropy at work, like everyone dismissing a thing even as a byron burger opens up on every street.

essentially some of the greatest fucking idiots in britain are the ones who are really confused about what the word "hipster" means, but very angry about it too.

was more peeved about claiming plaid shirts and Arcade Fire albums as "normal" tbh

there are prob like 40 irritating things in there

Do I have to read that?

it speaks to a deep existential lostness seething away

or maybe it is just a bit of fun

I'm not sure what kind of fun

just banter

at this point I wd quote the bit in Ulysses where Bloom reads that short story on the bog but I'm not sure I can be bothered to do the work

i just don't really understand the centre point of society from which the writers of these kind of pieces purport to speak.

Quietly he read, restraining himself, the first column and, yielding but resisting, began the second. Midway, his last resistance yielding, he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. Hope it’s not too big bring on piles again. No, just right. So. Ah! Costive. One tabloid of cascara sagrada. Life might be so. It did not move or touch him but it was something quick and neat. Print anything now. Silly season. He read on, seated calm above his own rising smell. Neat certainly. Matcham often thinks of the masterstroke by which he won the laughing witch who now. Begins and ends morally. Hand in hand. Smart. He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of three pounds, thirteen and six.

I thought why not?