Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

that's humanity's problem

Yeah I mean arms dealers and people who run private militias and what have you are almost certainly worse human beings and on that even Thom Yorke would agree but those guys didn't cause a global financial crisis that's impoverished millions of people and for which no one has yet been bought to account. Pretty sure Yorke wasn't crazy about bankers before the crash but, y'know, there are legitimate reasons why people fucking hate them.

there are legitimate reasons to hate them - but the word "bankers" has also just become something people say in anger, rather than use as part of an actual political argument.

only okay to hate them if you are up for armed insurrection imo

"bankers" is pretty much what "fat cats" was a few years back now

and yeah it is a non-story

tbh, my 'non-story really' post was a direct copy and paste of your post re: the Suarez story, but this is a bit of a non-story.

i know it was! that's why i agreed with it.

6. Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey

A band that have been around since 1983, split in the late 90s but are back together and still touring. Be sure to check out their distortion-laden Upside Down as well.

7. Lush – Sweetness and Light

One of the most prominent shoegaze bands of the early 90s. This song has all the classic hall markings of the genre: ethereal vocals, distortion breakdown and shimmering, layered guitars.

Nrrrgh that shoegaze story was so limply done. The Horrors, ffs.

This song has all the classic hall markings of the genre: ethereal vocals, distortion breakdown, shimmering, layered guitars, dead drummer

ouch.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jan/27/users-guide-international-art-english

I Hate Thought, #1253 in a series

transversal, so hot right now? wahoo i'm gonna get rich.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/09/relationship-economist-william-nicolson

'Relationship Economist' worst pick up artist nickname yet imo

“When I first tried testing this theory, I approached a girl in a club, only to leave her mid-conversation to return to my friends. I thought I had played it perfectly, but I found her later chatting up someone else.“

No. Shit.

This guy in the club, going up to a girl and saying: "Hi, I believe you are essentially worthless, and are valuable only to the extent that I think you are. In short, you are prey to the opinions and demands of the market."

"When I regained consciousness..."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/feb/12/state-of-the-union-reading-level

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3970
http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/congress-may-be-getting-dumber-but-grade-levels-dont-prove-it/

Eugh, even if it wasn't shit it'd still be moronic. The time invested in a five-year relationship might be a sunk cost, yes, but it (hopefully) created an "asset" which is (again hopefully) worth retaining. You have goodwill, shared IP, all the goodies of a going concern oh god I hate this whole concept too much to keep typing. Bin this guy along with The Game-ers.

I think this is the death knell of the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/21/oscar-week-diary-michael-haneke

rip that is awful everyone involved should be ashamed

he's pretty funny on Twitter, that's a hard read though.

it's pretty easy not-read.

^a

When approaching a band's debut album, one should of course bear in mind the sage advice of George Michael and Listen Without Prejudice.

lol he is not funny on twitter

I will unfollow forthwith, thx for correcting me.

The Guardian and the Observer lost £44.2m last year as investment in digital publishing – including iPad, Facebook and Android apps – contributed to a deepening of losses at the national newspapers that could not be offset by double-digit growth in digital revenues.

aftr i landid i went 4 dinnr with harvey winesteen who is a film produser and also he sed he is a self tort film editor 2!!1! 1stly he gayve me 1000 austrian dollrs 2 tell every1 that he actualy prodused my film amour. such a niys gestchur!!1!

Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the titles, said the newspapers would aim to save £7m from editorial expenditure in order to help reduce the deficit, while the publisher will seek between 70 and 100 journalist redundancies from a workforce of about 650 via a reopened voluntary programme.

deer diary, 2dai i had 2 meet with lotsof designrs who wantd 2 dres me 4 the Oscars!!1! i felt like i was in an episode of austrias nxt top model but i didnt evn hav 2 go on a diet of cabage and bein sick. yaaay.

In a briefing for staff, Rusbridger said the Guardian and Observer – collectively Guardian News & Media (GNM) – "will be smaller" and that the newspapers "will do less, less of what's called commodity journalism, so that we can do more on our core purpose and the type of journalism that we're here to do".

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21 February 2013 10:13pm

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if you've come here and don't know about haneke's as highbrow as it gets reputation, and hollywood's dumber end, you won't get it. excellent on twitter.

^quintessential guardian comment

i was gonna say earlier, if the joke of this is that Haneke is the most serious director they can think of then cheesus lol watch moar flims lol!?!?!?

I tend to pick them up from an African grocer on the outskirts of Exeter after a visit to a nearby gun shop with my elder son, to stock up on ammunition so he can continue his campaign against our local grey squirrel population

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/22/bananas-plantains-recipes-ice-cream

Going pretty overboard on the Bruce Reynolds obits, both in tone and volume.

Bruce's son is good friends with a LOT of Guardian people. He used to bring Dad to warehouse/Idler parties at Tardis Studios, until recently right beside Farringdon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/27/hilary-mantel-duchess-of-cambridge

wtf is this total shit?

Re: five days ago, I know that gunshop. Not sure about the grocer, though; can buy plantains in center of town, practically.

Without reading it, that looks like a copy of the kind of thing you find in Private Eye.

if the joke of this is that Haneke is the most serious director they can think of then cheesus lol watch moar flims lol!?!?!?

I watch a lot of films and Haneke is still the most serious director I can think of.

That most recent link is completely unreadable. In that I am actually finding it impossible to read.

exactly, i just can't even process it. it's not even unfunny (though i'm sure it is) because i can't actually read a line of it. starting with the stupid, stupid, headline.

I guess the premise is that SC is somewhat educated but also an airhead and this is an attempt to capture a syntax reflective of that. the only problem is there doesn't seem to have been an attempt to add in anything (jokes, subject matter etc) that anyone would want to read

Who writes these bits? Tim Dowling?

It says Catherine Bennett there.

Apologies, didn't read it. Sack her. Sack them all.

didn't read it. Sack her. Sack them all.

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, March 1, 2013 3:42 PM (1 minute ago)

otm. a creed to live by.

I watch a lot of films and Haneke is still the most serious director I can think of.

lol watch better films

(guess i shd've used "highbrow" rather than "serious" but ugggh)

Today's G2 features a full-page comment from Helen Pidd, the Guardian's new northern editor, bemoaning the "Londoncentricity" of much of the paper's output. It's immediately followed by a four-page feature on air pollution which focuses largely on... London.

stu-Pidd, just stu-Pidd

nice headline

really stuck out to me too - all the child murder news you need in bite-size 140 character chunks