Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

the fact that they had put the staples, such as bread, in the deepest part of the shop, is just one of the many tricks designers use to break your will and draw you into the "supermarket experience".

I would rather my daughters took MDMA than started smoking
30 Aug 2013: Tim Lott: What worries me is not so much illegal drugs, which mostly seem to cause a relatively low level of harm compared with cigarettes and alcohol. What worries me is addiction
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so let me get this straight, they give him space on a popular website to post this shit?

mdma might help w the supermarket

I'm hearing an attempt for a tone of John Peel-style whimsical helplessness in Tim Lott's article, but it not quite succeeding.

if it's formal ambition you want, you want this one

six kinds of strawberry jam is a fairly small number, really. he must have gone to tesco metro.

"At times, channel hopping through the endless, yet universally unedifying cable tv options, it feels like there are 57 channels, but nothing on"

He needs to watch Magaluf Weekender

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/07/valentines-day-more-like-tax-love

Valentines Day - it's a bit commercial. Stunning insight there, mate.

Oh, that was already noted. As you were.

valentines-day-MORE LIKE

wait until he sees the water aisle - he'll explode

Wow that guy is terrible.

It is disconcerting how much he looks like Woody Allen.

ghost written by adnan januzaj

http://i.imgur.com/NSmPID6.png

guardian weighs in on scottish independence http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/19/scottish-independence-76-things-apologise

Who are "we"?

the british guardian

will sir chris hoy and sir alex ferguson etc lose their knighthood? surely this cannot be allowed to happen

can we stop referring to james vi as james i

Such content, many wow**

For one week, we will share our perspectives on the media, globalisation, sex and pop culture, as well as the bare necessities of housing, food and employment. These are some of the pieces we will be bringing you:

• 30 under 30 – our picks of the brightest young global media stars. (We trust you to disagree with our choices rabidly in the comments)

• Buzzfeed's Beastmaster explains the cat thing

• Rage at how economically screwed this generation might be, then find answers in pages of life-hacks and not-so-scary facts

• Online dating? You're doing it wrong

• Everything you wanted to know about trans sex lives and were rude enough to ask

• Original political cartoons from international graphic artists.

• Why all roads lead to Drake

• Why Clueless defines Gen Y better than any other single cultural artifact

Surely Clueless is firmly Gen X?

yeah clueless is gen x

THAT'S Y IT'S NEWS

the inevitable live blog of people writing live blogs

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/17/generation-y-takeover-as-it-happens

The trend for including yesterday's "internet sensation"/wacky Youtube clip on website front pages (happens a lot on both The Guardian and Independent websites) seems a bit tragic. Makes me like both sites less than I would do otherwise. There's a skill to being click-baity - I clicked on Suzanne Moore's piece on Clarissa Dickson Wright earlier (someone I have close to no interest in) and was glad I had done.

no fucking way am i ever reading this:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/25/michael-gove-chap-hop-favourite-genre-mr-b

gave up at "My name is Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer."

toes curled so hard i thought my shoes would split

I hope everyone involved is sacked on the spot.

i read it and now i'm not sure if i'll ever stop squirming.

presume this was commissioned off the back of the zingy profile thing yesterday which basically and correctly said that this music is garbage and anyone who likes it is a shitlord. every single one of Mr B's awful fanbase signed up to comment squeakily with their own name and photo

So I bought the Guardian today to get the men's fashion special, to lookit the suits.

This has a 6-page spread on a footballer's hairstyle.

The Guardian is just trolling me at this point, right?

(It's not even his haircut, to be honest.)

The Guardian has seen the UK cultural zeitgeist and embraced it.

which footballer?

?

http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/apr/12/footballers-hair-scott-parker-tim-dowling

There's an online piece with Ken Loach, Reggie Yates and a dude from Matches critiquing various managers / players on their fashion choices, which seems OK. I have no problem with looking at sports people as 'fashion icons' in the same way as pop stars, generally. Many cultivate a look, they're hugely influential and managers are often a guide to 'adult' fashion for kids.

Why does Tim Dowling even exist. Why.

Yes, that "football managers in suits" article is also in the same issue. Also there's another article about sports presenters' style choices. I feel like I have fallen into some bizarro world I no longer understand.

I suspect that is how most people normally feel when reading style sections.

I don't know about that. I've been reading men's style sections since I was 9 (the New York Times used to do a really amazing one, OK?) and it's not like it requires particularly specialist language or knowledge? No more so than reading a supplement on architecture or a supplement on science requires specialist language?

Don't you ever feel vaguely... patronised when reading things aimed at men, and this presumption of being a colossal oaf with limited interests? Like it has to be ~bloked~ up with a bunch of football signifiers to make it palatable? I don't disagree with the assertion that football players can be and are fashion icons. But 6 pages of "Tim Dowling gets a footballer's haircut" is really an appallingly bad idea, clumsy and also bizarre.

But I do recognise that this probably has a great deal to do with my loathing of both Tim Dowling and football. I don't want either of these things besmirching my suit pr0n, so both of them together is just... extra special ugh.

I really enjoy Tim Dowling's column, I realise this is a minority opinion but he often makes me laugh.

If Tim Dowling were a female Guardian columnist writing about the banal, navel-gazing tedium that Tim Dowling writes about, he'd be ripped to shreds.

"Oh no, the Big Dog has eaten my son's shoes! I'm getting a footballer's haircut. I'm a helpless American who doesn't understand grass!" There, column filed.

Err, yeah, cause female columnists get so much easier a time than male ones.

Sorry – just woke up. Reading failure. As you were.

Wait, that's not a Tim Dowling column because I haven't mentioned my banjo playing or put in a free plug for my band! Now I can file. Where's my paycheque?

If they made a habit of bloking up fashion coverage it would annoy me but most, in the Guardian and elsewhere, does tend towards 'aspirational' and if you aren't in your mid thirties and in the market for £100 jumpers, £250 blazers and £700 suits will quite possibly look like bizarro world.

idk, I think there is still a tendency on both sides to look at a lot of young men who care about their image and like nice clothes as 'not fashion'. The occasional feature that makes fashion more relatable seems fine.

If Tim Dowling was Tess Dowling but wrote the same pieces I'd still find her funny.

why cant you type 'porn' btw, do you have an aversion to the word? is it a 'quirky' stylistic thing? does my nut in.