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
Hannah Jane Parkinson is a writer on pop culture, music, tech, football, politics and mental health. She lives in Camden, London, and previously lived in Russia, Oxford and Liverpool. She likes reading, sauvignon blanc, laughing and Liverpool FC. You can follow her on Twitter
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
HannahJane Parkinson @ladyhaja · Jun 29
I am drinking leftover amaretto from when @stuheritage did an Oscars drinking game. We liveblogging #Glastonbury
HannahJane Parkinson @ladyhaja · Jun 28
We're live blogging #Glastonbury in the office. We got hungry but couldn't find Chiellini so we went with pizza.
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
someone's got a new cruuuush
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
.....
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
haha nah she's fucking terrible of course but what do you expect from the fucking guardian
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
all of these things seem almost aleatoric? like that writer with the britpop thing hogan or whatever he was called, there doesnt seem to be any sort of organizational/discriminatory intelligence at work, random proletkult / news / content signifiers thrown together, every single one of them will have tweeted some variation of suarez & food this week, how would one even go about hiring someone writing in this genre
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
Michael Hogan @michaelhogan Jun 25
Dunno why Suarez is getting so much grief. Who hasn't fancied a bite to eat and opted for an Italian? #WorldCup
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
this is pure SEO-as-reportage, the dismal final frontier of journalism
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
the lowest common denominator of comment. these people are simply machines of the news agenda at its most brutalistic
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah im glad there are still people ready to get upset about content under late capitalism or whatever you but im more just drawn to how little specialist aptitude is required for a writer on pop culture, music, tech, football, etc, surely 80% of the white people in london 22-40 could do this work
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
these people sucked the right cocks, went to the right schools, knew the right m8s, and probably had (very) slightly more sophisticated content published in some guise at some point (university magazines lol)
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
we kinda need suzy to explain tho
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
i mean, there's the possibility they worked incredibly hard to build up blogging/article portfolios & networked like fuck to achieve these positions no matter their background, so well done them, now look what they're required to do, regression to pigshit, idk
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
doesn't keep me up at night
lj i think your latterday male feminism is slightly undermined once u suggest female journalists get their jobs from prostituting themselves
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
I would imagine a lot of it is down to having the patience and confidence to keep pitching ideas until one gets accepted. If I had the time and inclination to propose this stuff to a variety of national newspapers five times a day, 365 days a year, knowing that the vast majority of the time it would be knocked back, I could be making that £82 a week too, but it is a hard grind.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
its not like u could argue there is some underprivileged person who could do their work better than them because there is no level of achievement here, they are all exactly as competent as each other
and yeah sharivari probably gets it with the £82.....most of these people presumably dont earn very much at all so the question of who works in this field is either who is psychotically committed to content farming or who has other income streams
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Rhiannon Cosslett still talks about temping to make ends meet. Even the successful bloggers are going to have irl jobs, for the most part.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
the sad thought is that it's probably mostly ppl who grew up w/ journalism aspirations who still long to be intrepid correspondents in a world where the press has utterly collapsed
― Mordy, Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
like it's kinda a calling
― Mordy, Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
the question of who works in this field is either who is psychotically committed to content farming or who has other income streams
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 3 July 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:49 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh i was talking about michael hogan here too, while alluding to the overly patriarchal nature of newspaper journalism
and it's a metaphor of course ;)
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
slightly affronted u called me on that tbh
― which was retweeted by (imago), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
that wasn't the post I fpd u for ITT fwiw xxx
― cpt navajo (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
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― Mordy, Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:00 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this sector doesn't really have anything to do with anything that highminded
doesnt seem likely that stuart heritage decompensates in a panic during his oscars drinking game liveblog wishing he was writing about the sri lankan civil war
even if he does, cultural pessimism arguments don't seem that persuasive after that very lengthy and grave coates reparation article got record pageviews and serious traction all over the place
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
Aleatoric.Aleatoric?Aleato-ric?Alea-tor-ic?
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 4 July 2014 04:08 (ten years ago) link
Lucy Rhiannon Cosslett is probably the worst writer in history
― online hardman, Friday, 4 July 2014 08:57 (ten years ago) link