hah fair enough. I hereby rescind my nomination.
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Thursday, 28 May 2015 10:16 (nine years ago) link
'I start to feel it in my knees' – working for hours while standing proves a tall order
With new research suggesting workers be on their feet for half of their working day, Esther Addley set out to meet the target. But four hours of standing is no easy task
Standing to work is not a new thing: Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill and Vladimir Nabokov are all said to have done it. Philip Roth wrote his novels on his feet, while James Murdoch, now chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox, is a self-confessed “big believer” in standing while you work.
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link
I mean, I realise this means people standing in an office, but at no point does it even seem to realise shopworkers, waiting staff, bar staff, police, I mean, how many people stand all day at work? Dunno how you could write that and not think about just working in a shop even in your teens or whatever.
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 12:50 (nine years ago) link
Karl Marx famously did this too but only because he was plagued with boils on his arse, so that probably doesn't count.
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 12:53 (nine years ago) link
those blokes at Covent Garden who have painted themselves gold
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
priests who are uncomfortable with movement
― bureau belfast model (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 13:01 (nine years ago) link
Liveblogging the relaunch episode of TFI Friday.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 12 June 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
I'm being forced to watch it and tbf it's deserves to be liveblogged, though not in the way I imagine the Guardian's doing it.
― Madchen, Friday, 12 June 2015 20:37 (nine years ago) link
I'm watching it too a bit. I can't believe Chris Evans decided that's what he'd wear for the show.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 12 June 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
Doesn't Chris Evans have all the money? I can't imagine wanting to do this again.
― Rouge Trooper (dowd), Friday, 12 June 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
Went to guardian website using my phone. Hit the search button at the top. But it uses some fancy web 2.0 thing instead of a proper text form. And my phone doesn't bring up the keyboard so I can't type anything.
Hit 'request desktop site', get exactly the same page.
I try scrolling down to the bottom to see if there's an option there, but it loads me content as I scroll. It's also very hard to scroll without touching something that wants to open a new page.
Progress...
― koogs, Saturday, 20 June 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
Had a look at it. When you click on the search button it shows a proper text form for me. How old is your phone?
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 21 June 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
Nexus 4, KitKat, Firefox is up to date.
I tried it again and sometimes I get redirected to a custom google page, but half the time I just get a pseudo text box pop up, no cursor, no keyboard.
― koogs, Sunday, 21 June 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
Seems random. Might be google not responding in a timely fashion. (That redirected search page has a google domain but does a site search against guardian.computer)
― koogs, Sunday, 21 June 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/08/dread-daughter-poos-smaller-girl-conform
― goole, Thursday, 2 July 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
It is from two years ago, so still few years to go before her daughter is in therapy.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 July 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
oh lol
― goole, Thursday, 2 July 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
I am so glad I'm working from home so I can cackle like a fiend at that article
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Thursday, 2 July 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
This irritated me:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/07/craft-coffee-is-becoming-the-province-of-chin-stroking-joy-thieves
It just seemed so *lazy*.
― djh, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
YAY! WOOWOO! As people seem to say on that other achingly boring bore-platform Facebook. Thank you Mr Binns for being the Pathfinder and dropping the flares onto the target. (Historical reference-Hipsters please Google-but steel yourself my dears, it concerns a time when extreme violence to ethnic groupings whom we -the 'British' dear-were 'fighting'-and-steel yourselves again-the only men who wore beards were real men who risked their lives in Corvettes and Destroyers and other vessels - in the constant fear of dying in the freezing waters of a cruel sea). I have absolutely no idea what a 'latte' is, and cannot work out why anyone would want to name a cup of coffee a 'frappe'. Doesn't that mean 'hit' in French? Oh pur-leese. When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country.WOOW-WOOW! YAY!
― West Hartlepool's "wildest" beat group (soref), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country.
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country. When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country. When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country. When asked how I would like my coffee I reply 'Strong and Black like me' which confuses the hell out of most people as I'm average build and white. But I love to see the confusion and supressed panic on the faces of people who are desperate to fall into line and conform with the herd mentality that hurries people into the sheep-pen of political-correctness that stunts our country.
also, kinda lol but mostly sad comment from an Australian clearly struggling with British, and particularly CiF mores:
I am surprised by the appalling negativity of many people here about the tastes and interests of others - just because you don't care or can't be bothered developing an interest in something, why put hate on others who do? People are passionate about many things in life - doesn't that make the world a better place? People don't have to be the same as you.
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 09:29 (nine years ago) link
i thought i recognised the person in the pretentious berlin coffee shop but then i realised they just look like everyone i know
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 12:12 (nine years ago) link
4008 shares. is that good? who are these people who are doing this? i don't understand
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
i am confused about the mental processes required to internalise this disapproval such that he feels it even when he is sitting in a starbucks
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
i mean he lives in the provinces though so whatever
http://somuchguardian.tumblr.com/
― kinder, Friday, 10 July 2015 11:55 (nine years ago) link
useful reminder that even at its absolute worst this paper is never as bad as the people who comment on its articles
― and she's baconing like she's never baconed before (DJ Mencap), Friday, 10 July 2015 12:55 (nine years ago) link
I can think of several totalitarian dictatorships that were never as bad as the people who comment on Guardian articles.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 July 2015 13:13 (nine years ago) link
Say what you like about Idi Amin at least he didn't go to his grave thinking that BLIAR still represented witty and incisive social commentary.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 July 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
More like FIBBI AMIN
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Friday, 10 July 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
I'm so sorry
that is one shitty tumblr
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Friday, 10 July 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
This has been pretty goodhttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/inspect-a-gadget
― Hikikomori Povich (tsrobodo), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
telegraph will always be worse than the guardian:https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/621300211097464832
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:11 (nine years ago) link
xp good grief, the eggmaster
― cod latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:15 (nine years ago) link
Don't click on that Telegraph article in the Caroline Lucas link, they know exactly what they're doing with that one.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:35 (nine years ago) link
hoping to ensnare legions of Colonel Bufton-Tuftons ready to wank themselves into a froth, no doubt
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
Well that and attract millions of clicks from furious lefties.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
yup
lol if you think the target market for the telegraph website is people who buy the telegraph newspaper
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 July 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
lol if you think it's over
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 July 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/04/barbecue-american-tradition-enslaved-africans-native-americans
Barbecues are racist.
― arbiter of sorrow (aldo), Monday, 20 July 2015 07:06 (nine years ago) link
imo the issue with pieces like this and other 'lol we've reached PEAK GUARIDAN!!1' things is less the assertion put fwd (although that seems at best questionable) and more that it's being published with the intention of getting racists to come and comment
― and she's baconing like she's never baconed before (DJ Mencap), Monday, 20 July 2015 07:47 (nine years ago) link
Michael Twitty is an excellent writer and his pieces are never less than interesting. If the only take away people are getting from that one is "barbecue is racist" i don't know what to say.
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Monday, 20 July 2015 08:17 (nine years ago) link
the going madness of political correctness is a serious concern for us all
― Live Aid: JFC (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 July 2015 08:43 (nine years ago) link
that wasn't even a 24hr-outrage piece, that was a pretty interesting and well-researched history lesson that taught me things i didn't know before
― lex pretend, Monday, 20 July 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I was braced for something about cultural appropriation and guilt but it's not that at all. It's straight-up informative.
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 20 July 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
not a peep about the cruelty of animal slaughter & consumption though
― example (crüt), Monday, 20 July 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jul/21/teacher-parents-report-racism-school-onesie
a classic of the genre
― regret it? nope. reddit? yep. (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link