Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

A-grade Photoshop work guys.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2013/aug/13/jeremy-paxman-newsnight-beards-media

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/aug/13/hashtag-pilgrimage-abbey-road-beatles

(was already posted in worst music writing thread)

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/15/drenge-drenge-review

This isn't particularly badly written or hateful or anything, but OMG at the gulf between how excited the writer is by this album and the lyrics/song titles/examples of 'middle-fingered ingratitude' cited as justification.

ehdunno

16 August 2013 9:03pm
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All 380 premier league matches live?? If there are 20 teams playing 38 games each, how is that 380? Or does it mean they are only showing 380, but they will all be live?

38 games a season x 10 fixtures?

Lol, my reading comprehension not up to much tonight.

I have spent the last 12 minutes laughing at the comment quoted in Nilmar's post

it is fucking funny it's true. i quite like implied concept of notional solitary football. performance-based points allocation.

Guardian picks

These comments have been chosen by Guardian staff because they contribute to the debate.

http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/video/2013/aug/21/how-to-dress-grownup-grunge-video

Daniel Dos Santos

21 August 2013 8:31pm
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Britain is a long away off from producing good pizzas simply because people in UK have a passion from frozen food. There is no culture of eating well....by the masses.

You may ass well pour oil onto today's edition of Daily Mail , some tomato source, onion , cheese and minced beef in it and no one would be any the wiser.

he said ass..

was quite keen to read the article "a post-race vegan brunch" this weekend until I realised it was about running

lol

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/07/female-genital-mutilation-tradition-somalia

Although Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities carry out FGM, mainstream spiritual leaders from all three religions have denied that the practice stems from religion. Samira believes the desire to control women's sexuality lies behind it.

What's up with that one then, spell out for dummy pls

the impulse to be even-handed is problematic when it starts inventing facts - FGM doesn't exist in the Jewish tradition.

Ah yeah

I also wonder if 'stemming from religion' and 'stemming from a desire to control sexuality' are necessarily two different things

It has been practised in Christian and animist communities too,[74] including by the Christian Copts in Egypt and Sudan.[80] Judaism requires circumcision for boys, but does not allow it for girls.[81] Shaye J. D. Cohen writes that the only Jews known to have practised FGM are the Beta Israel of Ethiopia.[82]

What human faces might look like in 100,000 years

Picture doesn't disappoint.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/18/human-faces-in-the-future

science

It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism.

Our eyes will grow to Japanese anime-style proportions in the meantime

that whole tech supplement was awful.

So, in other words, not OTM at all.

I for one welcome our new Loris overlords.

It's a shame other places had this story three months ago:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/06/07/how-the-human-face-might-look-in-100000-years/

also a shame it's a spurious load of old bollocks

The media landscape is a vale of shame and old bollocks.

Stephen Fry joins demand to end NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance

lol

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/27/danny-brown-old

As well as trading verses with performers such as southern rap rising stars A$AP and Tech N9ne

Been meaning to come here to say that the Qatar forced labour story is a great piece of investigative journalism.

It is, though the use of similar techniques across the gulf is hardly a secret, it's great to see someone making a big issue of it.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/sep/18/how-to-pick-up-women-with-science

Darwin gets a capital letter, Skinner doesn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVySc2Qu3WI

I don't think I can even piece together the thought process that led to this being created

SKINNER DOESN'T DESERVE A CAPITAL LETTER

Big rusbridger/graun thing in the NYer: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/07/131007fa_fact_auletta?mbid=social_retweet

i enjoyed this ^
there are some perhaps contradictory indications about its paywall but its kinda utopian free-access ideal is pretty nice to read

I know the Guardian would happily liveblog a day in a goldfish bowl, but doing "Later...With Jools Holland" feels like another level of pointlessness altogether.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/oct/01/later-jools-holland-franz-ferdinand-live

that "chat and dave" comment particularly missed the point. i watched it this morning and their chat with jools was all about east end culture and music hall and oral tradition and how the songs would be lost otherwise. and skiffle. but, no, he only live-blogged the dull bits.

(chas and dave documentary on bbc4 recently was similarly interesting. not a fan of the music and that gig footage looked like my idea of HELL but... oh, it also contained the factoid that it's one of chas or dave who was sampled on that huge eminem hit)

lol wait he was liveblogging... from home?

I forgot that Time Jonze was the guy who wrote the Morrissey interview that led to Moz suing the NME, when I googled him just now the third result is a Morrissey forum that has about 20 threads devoted to Tim Jonze character assastionations

Diehard Morrissey fans must be such a good judge of character

Man, imagine if Morrissey had been in Die Hard instead of Bruce Willis.

Every Die is like Sunday

yippee-ki-yay mother, i can feel the soil falling over my head

Morrissey fans go after anyone who disagrees with Morrissey. I think it was probably worse in Tim's case as he's a huge, huge fan of The Smiths and his palpable sense of disappointment was more cutting than a character assassination ever would be.

Yeah, that's pretty accurate. You can really only be referring to Morrissey Solo, which has the curious position of doing shit like that while being completely despised by Morrissey himself.