Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

i think the thing about the guy in the coffee shop is perfectly okay! the problem with it is the (presumably a sub's fault, or something) headline that suggests it is a criticism of "bloggers" and not "a guy in a coffee shop". sadly that is probably in the top 18%, say, of this week's guardian columnist's efforts

Bring back "Powerblogger" Tony Naylor and Ruth Fowler's Daddy Issues

I believe an anti-blogger clause has recently been inserted into the Guardian's Code of Conduct.

Is that Ruth Fowler facebook group still going?

Ah, there's a different one now. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24256040691

HAHAHA, here's a rum thing. I have a mutual friend with her. This mutual friend is the boss of the modelling company who gave me a day as an extra on a Bollywood set. Looks like Ms. F's been doing some saucy stuff on the sly.

A statue of Vishnu is not an "extra", show some respect man

I'm only four degrees of Facebook seperation from RFDI

i know suzy who knows everyone

who is worst columnist in the guardian then? I can't decide if I'd nominate Zoe Williams or Laura Barton. Actually it's prob hard to beat Barton, that "shit poetry" style of music writing is really sickening.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/aug/01/popandrock1

As if on cue. (+ I didn't even see Ronan's post till I'd posted that.)

i know suzy who knows everyone

Par exemple

His (Tom Parker Bowles) sister is nice, but at a party I once told him that something he was saying was the most smug thing I'd heard in a month of Sundays, although I can't remember what it was now (I posted about this party at the time). This is probably because immediately to our right I was spooked by my friend Dan arriving to same party in a group comprising some artphags and David Furnish.

My favourite Suzy quote to date..

They paid her to write that?

who is worst columnist in the guardian then? I can't decide if I'd nominate Zoe Williams or Laura Barton.

i love zoe williams. i don't know what's not to love about her. i think she was at her best documenting pregnancy craziness. i guess that writing about childy family kind of stuff might put her in with the fifty best ecological half term holiday day trip supplement kind of guardian filler stuff, but i think she's entertaining.

that's Independent filler stuff, by definition

For the love of god can they ditch this "we sent our SPORTS journalist out to mow a lawn/drink a beer/have a bath" thing they have going at the moment.

It is so lame and is exposing how bad the writers are. EG the Olympic Sports one with pieces beginning "It was a sunny day in East London" etc...it's woeful!

They had a resident feminist the other day demanding that, at the end of their sentence, released female prisoners should get the same kind of support given to the likes of Barry George

Jesus fucking christ, new depths of unfunny plumbed here

Funny pictures made unfunny by Guardian trying to be hip.

HOW DO I SHOT GUARDIANZ

"lolcats" have never been funny

lolhacks, morelike

When's the Graun gonna get on the Blingee craze is what this observer wants to know.

blingee was funny, unlike lolcats, but that was over a year ago, prob more. i lost my blingee pictures when my laptop died earlier this year but i was awesome in them, paris T-shirt and everything

Has David Cameron got in on lolcats yet?

As a cat owner, I really like lolcats. I do not like lolbush.

One problem with the online edition is that rubbish like that is just one click away from the front page. If that were in the printed edition, it would thankfully be buried somewhere in one of the weekend supplements.

today's student essentials in the pull out guide thing includes a £20 panini press. (which, apparently, is a device for burning stripes onto the tops of sandwiches).

essential

and long-sleeve t-shirts

Um, I have a panini press, and it is fucking fantastic, I must say. £35 from John Lewis, mind.

they've remove the witty comments on the tv-guide, from movies they obviously hate.

I never go out in long-sleeved T-shirts anymore unless they have stripes burned into them.

are panini presses the new toastie machine? every student had one when i was in uni (and those WERE great)

"What would Will Hodgkinson look like if we slammed his face into a panini press and switched it on? We decided to find out..."
(cover story for this Saturday's Weekend...)

or a "breville" as one would call it

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I binned the student guide w/o reading it. There was a decentish article about people using blogs to serve out spam & install malware in the technology section, I thought.

http://politicalbetting.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/guardian-voodoo-poll.jpg

So Guardian readers are much more likely to be Tory voters than the public.

I trust Max Gogarty

I know the Graun website is full of Tory trolls but that has all the hallmarks of a poll that four people have voted in.

Yeah, I'd say it's probably the same four Tory trolls who always turn up on HYS, Labour Home and suchlike.

The cartoon they're currently running on the back of the G2 on a friday is perhaps the most unfunny, ametuerishly drawn strip I've seen in actual print.

The most unfunny strip in print is still Chris Roy Taylor's "The Omnipresent", available in every edition of thelondonpaper. Every single one seems to have been carefully designed to be as completely shit as possible. I mean it actually feels deliberate; that's how bad it is.

(looks at back of G2) god it is crap, isn't it.

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Hahaha oh god that sucks.

I've seen many many shitty internet comix that crap all over it.

That Guardian one is beyond bad. Has she even seen a human face before?

is this the "karine frischmann" or whatever one?

it's not just the drawings, the "jokes" are horrendous. each one seems to have no punchline except "I was a weird quirky child!!!" when there's not even anything weird about the stupid stories.

can we get a dom p thought on these?

online link?

thanks for warning me about this dudes