Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Mearly OK that should read.

Damnit, you know what I mean.

Luckily beer-wise a Craft Beer Co has opened just near where I work, for all my insanely strong IPA needs.

As a session beer or like, a craft brewery whose prodcts you can buy in Tesco (which they now are) I am delighted with the quality. They are nicer than all of the London pale ales for me, except Kernel.

Brewdog beer, is that?

yeah

i also like some of the seemingly gimmicky ones, they are actually good. the really strong ones like tokyo dark star are really good as an after-dinner drink if you have some mates around.

Punk IPA. I once met somebody who proudly proclaimed his life values were encapsulaed by the label copy on that beer.

John Lydon?

bloody pricey though, non?

you met mahatma gandhi?

That label works perfectly if you imagine it as read by VS Naipaul.

it still amazes me that aung san suu kyi is such a fan of punk ipa

Re Tonkotsu ramen Ronan, do you mean the place called that in Soho? I made it there for their soft launch. Great noodles and egg, but the broth was far too thin compared to the Tonkotsu I had on my trip to Japan, and which I've made a few times myself, but I got the feeling they were having some teething problems. What's it like now, and do you know any other aces which do Tonkotsu?

Places. Sorry, I'm touch screen typing today.

i took it to the london restaurants thread:

london restaurants

Boycotting Starbucks? What's the best-tasting alternative?

Where should you head if you're unhappy with the company's policy on corporation tax? Our reporter samples the options

in which the guardian send some dork to buy coffee at mcdonalds

They always smile at you in Pret. I smiled back this time, and a lady called Mia refused to charge me for the drink. I insisted. We compromised and I put the cost of the coffee into the charity box. (I'd heard that Pret do this, but it's never happened to me before. It's called a "joy giveaway", alarmingly.)

wait, really?

My colleague proudly walked into the office with her free Pret coffee just the other day.

i happened into pret yesterday and found it a bit awkward as the cashier didn't seem capable of sentences longer than two words. "take out?" "receipt?" no charming innocent-esque joy giveaways for me.

dunno how to break this to u but u got joy takeawayed blud

my tesco has been doing a 4-bottles-for-6-pounds deal of brewdog's 9% "American IPA" for what seems like months now and it has turned me into a docile addict of their product

I am pretty sure i saw Gerry Adams in Cafe Nero last week. Not sure if that boosts its leftist credentials or not.

my tesco has been doing a 4-bottles-for-6-pounds deal of brewdog's 9% "American IPA" for what seems like months now and it has turned me into a docile addict of their product

Sparky punky free-thinker, surely?

I get the impression that those people really are a wunch of bankers, fwiw. In this case iw not very much really but the point remains.

the supermarkets do have great deals on brewdog. think 660ml punk ipa bottles are about £1.80 or something.

i was going to say that this whole conversation was off-topic but i looked at the thread title again and, y'know

A few months ago, I got 2 free "choco-wafflewafer' things given, for the kids. Nice of them, but they were not good...

Ronan, as far as I can remember, that price is for the 330ml bottle (at least it is in Sainos).

The coffee thing in the G2 infuriated me. It's coffee. Just coffee. Who cares*.

* I am fully aware that I should stop taking the G2 into the toilet with me at work, it only enrages me. Maybe I'll read Monocle instead. LOL!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/dec/15/becca-bland-estranged-parents

read this through three times now and it doesn't say anything about why the author is estranged from her parents, or even hint at it. which makes it really puzzling to try and get a handle on

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/16/kraftwerk-at-tate-modern

haha this surely was specifically commissioned to earn a place in 'Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?'

read all the way to the end

should point out that that was actually in the comment section of the print edition of the Observer today - it's not just some CiF thing

Yeah, take it to the "Is the Observer worse than it used to be" thread, EK!

"It certainly gave me a few wry chuckles; and I feel much better now about not getting tickets. They sound like a modem! Ouch! Take that, electronic music!"

Where have all these so-called Kraftwerk fans come from? Fuck off and go and watch Mumford & Sons, you cunts!!!!!!!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/labout-address-migration-impact-britain

This is pretty infuriating.

Deliberately dishonest, factually inaccurate tosh that sees pushing even further to the right than Blair / Brown / Straw / Blunkett as 'opening a dialogue that wasn't previously being addressed' or similar nonsense. Ugh.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/dec/20/tv-review-young-apprentice

Patrick's idea is this: a choir of middle-aged women, singing Lady Gaga's Poker Face, in a shopping centre... They wander out among the shoppers. They sing about their poker faces.

Or, as I believe the young people call the song, 'Bad Romance'. Which is jam packed with references to poker faces.

I tell a lie, they had a second go at it which was Poker Face.

Is aldo worse that he used to be?

Yes. Yes, he is.

It happens to us all. :/

anyone heard anything about the print edition going saturdays only next year?

how successful is the ipad edish?

DL keeps the trolls fed and reading the paper: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/01/pop-music-sick-2013-revival

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@ladivina69 - totally concur with your comments. The majority of the current pop music is merely background filler!

When was the last time people actually made the effort to listen to an album?

You write about chart pop in the Guardian you get the cranks and their thinly veiled racism, although this thread's faring better than most to be honest. I've only been called a middle-class white hipster once.

At least 20% of the comments left on the Guardian website each month come from only 2,600 user accounts, who together make up just 0.0037% of the Guardian’s declared monthly audience.

http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2012/12/guardian-comments-part-1057.php

That doesn't surprise me -- it seems like most newspaper commenters are made up of a dedicated group of trolls and/or right wing fanatics.

I'd be surprised if it was less than 50℅, particularly on CIF.

Sliders

Mini-burgers, as that nice man off Spooks explains on the M&S advert. First imported from New York, as most things are, by Soho restaurateur Russell Norman. Like the three-thirds-of-a-pint beer "tasting stick" – you've seen one of those, surely? – this is either a great way to taste several different burgers at once, or a ploy to make us pay over-the-odds for minuscule meat patties.

I have no idea what this could possibly mean.

First imported from New York, as most things are

!!!

Like the three-thirds-of-a-pint beer "tasting stick" – you've seen one of those, surely?

wtf?

French dip

Not a euphemism for a sexual peccadillo (see also, pulled pork), but an LA export gaining a foothold in London. And little wonder. We're talking a meat sandwich

And little wonder. this article contains some of the worst writing i've seen in print.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/03/hipster-food-glossary-french-dip-burnt-ends

Like the three-thirds-of-a-pint beer "tasting stick" – you've seen one of those, surely?

It means three small glasses of beer, each 1/3 of a pint. Different beer in each one obviously. But that sentence is appalling and a needlessly complex and confusing way of describing three small burgers lined up next to one another.

I think he's also giving Russell Norman credit for importing most of New York's food ideas, not claiming that most things are imported from NY. The former claim would be pretty dubious in its own right, the latter would be too nonsensical even for this piece.