If Tim Dowling was Tess Dowling but wrote the same pieces I'd still find her funny.
― there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:53 (ten years ago) link
why cant you type 'porn' btw, do you have an aversion to the word? is it a 'quirky' stylistic thing? does my nut in.
― online hardman, Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
Isn't the female Tim Dowling just Lucy Mangan over the page? She's a bit less cringe I guess. imagine having so profoundly little to say about the world, and so thuddingly dull a way of saying it, as dim owl ting
― lex pretend, Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:43 (ten years ago) link
Yeah that's why you shouldn't ever attempt humour lex
― online hardman, Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Lex, it's dim low ting.
― baked beings on toast (suzy), Saturday, 12 April 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link
has anyone here read Tim Dowling's novel, 'The Giles Wareing Haters' Club'?
Giles is a freelance writer of amusing articles for a national newspaper. One day, feeling particularly fortyish, he happens to type ‘Giles Wareing+unfunny’ into a search engine. And that’s when he discovers the thread. The thread is called ‘The Giles Wareing Haters’ Club’, and is entirely devoted to holding everything he has ever written up to excoriating criticism and ridicule. As Giles becomes obsessed with the thread, with tracking down its participants, his angst begins to focus on one particularly scornful contributor, and it soon becomes clear that things are going really quite badly wrong . . . A tragedy, a farce and a detective story, The Giles Wareing Haters’ Club is an absorbing, hilarious and razor-sharp look at the modern male in all his dysfunctional glory.
― soref, Saturday, 12 April 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
There is a fine line between "write what you know" and "so autobiographical as to be utterly unfunny to anyone outside of your tiny soap bubble world."
(Assuming that is not an actual parody as opposed to thinly veiled self parody.)
― Branwell Bell, Saturday, 12 April 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
He has a new book out later this year:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Yp0jezNzL._.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 12 April 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
there's this as well, but I think it's a different Tim Dowling?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NRxBhLNpL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_SX385_SY500_CR,0,0,385,500_SH20_OU02_.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 12 April 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
also looks like it's saying Tim Dowling is the nation's worst problem
Is the is the guardian worse than it used to be thread worse than it used to be?
― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 April 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/03/max-clifford-meeting-him-morality-media-sexism
― cardamon, Sunday, 4 May 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
This headline/standfirst combo is basically everything the Guardian points/laughs at when other papers do it:
Amal Alamuddin faces a very different engagement in Libya trialGeorge Clooney's fiancee is fighting to be able to defend Muammar Gaddafi's enforcer at a trial in which both Libya and the international criminal court are coming under attack
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Sunday, 4 May 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
Observer, though.
― Alba, Sunday, 4 May 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
oops wrong thread
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Sunday, 4 May 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
There's something i find insufferably smug about this:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/may/05/first-dog-nigeria-girls
It doesn't appear to be a consciousness-raising exercise, as anyone reading the Guardian is likely to be familiar with the story, rather an effort to shame (largely female?) others for not caring enough to do anything about it. idk.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Monday, 5 May 2014 08:15 (ten years ago) link
More than 200 Nigerian girls are still missing after having been abducted by extremists, and you spend most of your days drawing dogs.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 5 May 2014 09:36 (ten years ago) link
not as heinous as I was expecting, seems to be portraying the bleak futility of squaring quotidian life with the colossal horrors existing in some nebulous 'out there'
― imago, Monday, 5 May 2014 10:02 (ten years ago) link
Englanders not getting Firstdogonthemoon is one of life's current joys.
― Enola Ghey (King Boy Pato), Monday, 5 May 2014 10:05 (ten years ago) link
in terms of reducing me to incoherent rage, The Guardian succeeds far better with absolute fucking shit like this
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/quiz/2014/apr/29/quiz-how-good-taste-films
http://www.theguardian.com/film/quiz/2014/mar/18/how-highbrow-is-your-film-taste
― imago, Monday, 5 May 2014 10:22 (ten years ago) link
those really are shameful
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 5 May 2014 10:29 (ten years ago) link
Guardian columnist Tim Lott now writing irritating commentary in the Indie:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/tim-lott-crime-down-good-things-on-the-up-youve-got-to-admit-its-getting-better-9287706.html
― Sausage Party (Bob Six), Monday, 5 May 2014 11:19 (ten years ago) link
I just took the first film quiz.
It was odd. Lots of the choices were mainly blockbusters or films that have always sounded terrible and overrated.
― the pinefox, Monday, 5 May 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
15.Pick a film about a boat
Titanic Battleship Potemkin
― cardamon, Monday, 5 May 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
https://medium.com/p/7f4f88ade648
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 12 May 2014 12:10 (ten years ago) link
^ A lot of people I know who live the North East have been unimpressed with Andrew Beckett's "The north-east of England: Britain's Detroit?" article.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 12 May 2014 12:12 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/profile/zico
this is a bit of a coup
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
And that column is good like the interview too:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/13/zico-brazil-world-cup-nation-team-football?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 May 2014 09:54 (ten years ago) link
also this isn't bad at all: http://www.theguardian.com/football/series/25-stunning-world-cup-moments
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 May 2014 09:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-blog/2014/may/15/claudia-winkleman-fringe-politics-michelle-obama-strictly-come-dancing
― ۩, Thursday, 15 May 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/quiz/2014/may/20/which-years-did-cher-wear-these-fashion-quiz
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Pets in the workplace: share your photos, videos and storiesDoes your workplace have a pet? Share your photos and videos via GuardianWitness
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
Crepy headline
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/08/damon-albarn-and-sister-jessica-special-relationship
― Alba, Sunday, 8 June 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
"'Jessica was more popular and sociable than I was': Jason Albarn with his sister."
― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Sunday, 8 June 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
treeship's assailing (darraghmac) wrote this on thread OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever? on board I Love Music on 19-Mar-2014
its 2014 ffs have we not gotten over mansplain
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Monday, 9 June 2014 23:41 (ten years ago) link
the plural of cannon is cannon
― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Ahaha that was literally the only thing I took from that story
― kinder, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
the person who wrote the headline clearly did not get that from the story
― caek, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/11/passport-office-holiday
Now, I'm the first to admit I am bleedin' useless at filling in forms. So is my partner. We are so useless that we left Maya's passport until pretty much the last moment because we know the Passport Office is a stickler in the extreme, would joyously return the form with a big cross through it, highlighting all the errors, we'd have to start again, and it would result in a minor existential crisis.
― gyac, Sunday, 15 June 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
Liveblog!http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/19/facebook-down-global-outage-website-and-apps
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Thursday, 19 June 2014 08:47 (ten years ago) link
Users worldwide were unable to access the social network for 20 minutes
fuck's sake
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 19 June 2014 08:50 (ten years ago) link
can definitely see the appeal of producing content purely to annoy the angry-at-everything cross-eyed morons that make up most of their commenter base but it also seems like it would feel like shooting fish in a barrel by now
― Kiss Screaming Seagull Her Seagull Her (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 19 June 2014 09:13 (ten years ago) link
Why I, a 15-year-old grammar pedant, took on Tesco
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
Can't believe the Guardian would devalue their liveblogging brand with that FB thing.
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
defend the indefensible: Whose idea was this?
― kinder, Saturday, 21 June 2014 12:31 (ten years ago) link
Might have been a bit more interesting if it wasn't 100℅ smug snark. At least the ILX threads only run at 50-60℅.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Saturday, 21 June 2014 12:36 (ten years ago) link
Cameroon infighting update. Former Cameroon coach Winfried Schaefer expected African sides to do better at the World Cup but was not surprised with the squabbling in his former team's camp, it says here. Was anyone surprised? Really?
"It's always about money," said the German. " It's always ahead of big tournaments. They work hard for four years and then they destroy everything over silly fights over money. "
Schaefer, who in a four-year spell coached Cameroon to the 2002 African Nations Cup title and took charge of them at the World Cup in Asia the same year, said the current squad lacked unity.
"It's like a cage of lions and they need a manager who disciplines them and is a strong leader. I've spoken to Samuel Eto'o and told him 'you don't play if you are not part of the group'. But in general the boys are good boys. The team is split in two groups. Eto'o and [Alex] Song. They need a strong group."
http://i.imgur.com/TiWhU7F.jpg
In disarray they stand. Photograph: Robert Ghement/EPA
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Saturday, 21 June 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/3bABCG0.png
This week's bestsellers
[How to be a Husband] 1. How to be a Husband
by Tim Dowling £8.99
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
i feel compelled to say this every time this is brought up, i have no problem with people hating tim dowling, i just want the world to hear that i really enjoy his useless silly columns
― The Littlest Boho (stevie), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
What rhymes with disaster? Robin Thicke trolled hard in Twitter Q&A
Singer most famed for his Beetlejuice suit and misogynistic lyrics of Blurred Lines took to Twitter for a Q&A – in an epic PR fail
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― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link