Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

fine, speculate away

It's so hard to believe that this was done in the name of the religion of peace

oh ffs

A car explosion that occurred outside of a synagogue in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles was caused by a mechanical failure

so hard to tell whether this update will relieve or disappoint Mordy

I'm very relieved! The need to impute fantasies psychotic violence on the part of ppl who disagree with you is probably projection?

you said it mate

It's not actually that bad a read, but running an article by John Harris about the resurgence of vinyl is just pandering to this thread:
www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/07/-sp-vinyls-difficult-comeback

Stopped reading once he got onto the tossers sitting in a room listening reverently to Dark Side Of The Fucking Moon

I enjoyed reading about the pressing plant people but yeah the rest is beyond worthless.

thought it was not actually that bad a read myself

that john harris piece is just great

i enjoyed that article.
i actually met john the evening before the listening session in lulworth that he mentions.
i had intended to go along, but hey, hangovers, and suchlike.
(was part of the camp bestival set up).
we chatted a bit re his infamous funk article.
for all the hate he invites, he was good company and very easy to have a chat with.

He has that tag of "He is a rubbish writer I could do better, signed Various Writers" on anything he does, really.

Found this sentence oddly hilarious: "Blechman founded Maharishi - named after the Hindu word for guru - in 1994, after time spent working in the army surplus trade. "

Perhaps the Guardian could start a spin-off talking heads blog named after the Hindu word for pundit.

Hindu word for pundit = pandit

Pandit Pran McNulty

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The Guardian, Wednesday 21 January 2015 15.19 GMT

There comes a moment when a trend or meme becomes too irritating to ignore. For me, that moment has come with “negging”.

lol no way

Retaliation from the rightwing twittersphere was swift and violent, as Khalek documented in an exhaustive (and exhausting) post at Alternet. “Move your America hating ass to Iraq, let ISIS rape you then cut your cunt head off, fucking media whore muslim,” wrote a rather unassuming-looking mom named Donna. “Rania, maybe we to take you ass overthere and give it to ISIS … Dumb bitch,” offered a bearded man named Ronald, who enjoys either bass fishing or playing the bass (we may never know). “Waterboarding is far from torture,” explained an army pilot named Benjamin, all helpfulness. “I wouldn’t mind giving you two a demonstration.”

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/21/the-clash-paul-simonon-gauche-biker-art-betrayal-punk

bit harsh and borderline personal

Totally Mexico! How the Nathan Barley nightmare came true

Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris’s 2005 TV series was a comedy about a ludicrous ‘self-facilitating media node’ in east London. But 10 years on, it looks more like a documentary about the future

But that's actually a really good piece?

yeah, strapline actually gets the article completely wrong

it's an absolutely shit piece and it fits the strapline. hipsters this hipsters that. it says "haircuts" how many times? gimme 1000 dayglo hipsters over brooker and co encouraging anyone who reads the guardian to stand up and applaud themselves every fucking day for liking 6music and jarvis cocker, and decade old tv shows. honestly - the guardian on culture is like your granddad plus 970 words and minus a sense of humour.

Yes - far too self-congratulatory a piece. ...2005 was already well into Shoreditch/Hoxton era and NB was was actually quite bland and only occasionally hitting the target.

Or the pub that had been bought out by club promoters, but “to confuse people” they’d kept the downstairs bar unaltered and given all the regulars membership. “All the normal people had been turned into these weird props.”

this is so fucking absurd - so they should have just booted out the regulars cos to keep allowing them in was voyeurism by default? you can't win with the "o they're at it again" morons in the guardian. heaven forbid a few people in a big city did some silly things in the name of art - let's all fucking throw a wooly jumper at them and listen to "sorted for es and whizz".

strapline actually gets the article completely wrong

ehh well there's a v long section in the middle abt how it predicted this and that using examples that are cherrypicked to the point of daftness. calling happyslapping a post-Nathan Barley phenomenon... come on now

http://www.theguardian.com/profile/the-guide

was looking for an online copy of the exhibition listings that appears in the guide on saturdays, got the above, which is just an archive of the populist listicles. pah.

Omar El-Hussein, the 22-year-old Danish man shot dead by police after supposedly carrying out the worst attack on Danish soil for decades, was a petty criminal with a past seemingly full of contradictions. He was a smart student but reportedly had a short fuse and was prone to violence. He was a talented kick-boxer and yet appeared to have suffered from anxiety and used cannabis.

he liked to drink coca cola yet sometimes appeared to have purchased lemonade

"and yet appeared to have used cannabis" ffs

Smart but violent? This is unprecedented!

"No one who speaks German could be an evil man."

http://i.imgur.com/HpmOJ57.png

didn't google glass already bomb a few months ago?

that vs http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-stereotype-map-of-britain-according-to-north-londoners--g1ES8x4Y3g

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Don't knock it till you've watched it! This week's 'watch me date' features one of my friends.

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not watched the dating video yet, but the piece in the weekend mag is generally a highlight

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/mar/04/revealed-boris-johnson-duplicitous-handling-garden-bridge-london

An important story, no doubt, but the picture gave me pause for thought...

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/3/4/1425506267901/cc654aa1-0e6d-4e52-85df-4d1f755e2218-1020x612.jpeg

saw that earlier and kept thinking of that fan art picture of Macho Man elbowdropping Jesus from heaven

ffs Scotland is full of inbreds according to the guardians cartoonist now. How did this get past the editor? who the hell thought it was ok?
Their sales in Scotland will drop even further now,

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-940/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/3/6/1425656930878/0d4f335a-e056-4cea-bac4-114cf1ff5d70-bestSizeAvailable.jpeg

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/mar/09/steve-bells-if-

from the same cunt who did
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/nov/13/steve-bells-if-nicola-sturgeon-scotland

When did The Guardian turn into the Daily Mail?

Steve Bell is just not funny.

as 'satire' goes it's pretty bad. It may well be a paraphrase of a quote (that no bugger knows) but it's not even funny.

I don't blame anyone for misunderstanding Steve Bell cartoons because they're obtuse and unfunny but you've seriously misunderstood this one if you think he's saying Scotland is full of inbreds and bears any resemblance to the Daily Mail.

Re-make/Re-model - could you please take a moment or two to explain it because if it's not gratuitous mockery of Scottish people then it makes no sense to me whatsoever. I get that "try anything once except incest and morris dancing" is a known expression but other than that I'm at a loss.