Acting like a drunken twat is pretty minor considering the things people will voluntarily do in exchange for being on TV. In any case in what is ostensibly a documentary I don't think you need to obtain explicit consent to broadcast that sort of footage, although you do leave yourself open to legal action after the fact. I've no idea what happens in practice.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 24 January 2016 12:00 (eight years ago) link
That's not right.
The production company gets a permit to film an area, then puts up signage to the effect of 'we are filming People Are Horrible today and by entering this area you consent to being filmed' - and then it works just like when they film a gig, and there's something on the ticket about entering venue = consent to filming.
― jedi slimane (suzy), Sunday, 24 January 2016 12:17 (eight years ago) link
it's not that minor is it? like if my boss sees me getting arrested for pissing down an alley and shouting at a police officer, couldn't i be fired? p serious reputational damage i'd have thought, even for incidents which have no effect on your record.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 January 2016 13:19 (eight years ago) link
they often blur faces on these shows so it's not as simple as that xp
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Sunday, 24 January 2016 13:36 (eight years ago) link
Blurring is sometimes necessary when there are ongoing legal actions that could be prejudiced by showing faces.
The law isn't really settled though, afaik. There is a right of privacy and you can get in trouble if you film without explicit consent and the person specifically asks you not to show the footage but most of the cases I can recall have been around distressing situations, like the deaths of family members, rather than getting drunk in the street. It is a work in progress.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 January 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
remembering working on shoots in london, as far as the place you film goes i think a lot of it depends on the council - like most of london you tend to need a permit from the borough council. maybe you could do it without that and get away with it, but at bbc we always got one as far as i recall.
i guess who you film is another issue.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
the other thing i recall is - on booze britain or whatever - the camera would antagonise some people and they'd get more annoyed because of it. it always felt p wrong.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:51 (eight years ago) link
This fucking guy:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/06/liberals-harsh-truths-help-refugees-syria
― ledge, Sunday, 7 February 2016 08:59 (eight years ago) link
hey, it's a simple enough demand
― Chikan wa akan de. Zettai akan de. (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 February 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
Comments will be open later today
I see The Guardian are avoiding to pay admins some over-time here.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 February 2016 09:55 (eight years ago) link
They're not admins, they're moderators. And yes, there's less cover at weekends.
― Alba, Sunday, 7 February 2016 11:01 (eight years ago) link
Please update resource plans for mods to factor in the inflammatory shit hardsh truth-telling at weekends.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 February 2016 11:10 (eight years ago) link
Nick Cohen took a right-wing stance? Boy, that's going to make me reconsider my position.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Sunday, 7 February 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
a friend of mine is a graun au journo and I asked her about the comment moderation stuff, she said everyone who does it burns out from the dreadful shite they have to can. I couldn't do it.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Monday, 8 February 2016 08:07 (eight years ago) link
there's a thing about this in the current private eye saying they're closing comment threads on articles about race/migration/islam/etc for ^ that reason
― sktsh, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 09:15 (eight years ago) link
FREEZE PEACH THO
― Agents, show the general out. (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
it's annoying when using the app to accidentally 'recommend" horrible CiF posts while scrolling.
― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 15:39 (eight years ago) link
this is more bizarre than bad
http://i.imgur.com/WDmc9jU.png
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 00:40 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/w6vS84I.png
― conditional random jepsen (seandalai), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 00:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/02/cult-of-memory-when-history-does-more-harm-than-good
― FāÆ AāÆ (ā), Thursday, 3 March 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/who-guards-the-guardian-2
― uncle tenderlegdrop (jim in glasgow), Friday, 18 March 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
is the guardian weekly decent? would like a NYT intl subscription but it's really expensive, guardian weekly is cheap!
― niels, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/713132632457011200
this isn't a picture of johan cruyff
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 24 March 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
One long haired Ducth footballer from the 70s is as much like any other tbh
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 24 March 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link
Oeps!
― Madchen, Friday, 25 March 2016 07:04 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/29/football-quiz-around-the-world-in-80-questions
this is a good, but incredibly difficult, football quiz
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
That was fun. 63/80, though quite a few of those were flukes.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
I got something like 41, ha.
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Damning read on Rusbridger's spendthrift ways http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/guardian-editor-alan-rusbridger-rupert-murdoch
― stet, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/29/the-guardian-view-on-londons-mayoral-race-elect-citizen-khan
... the chaotic charisma of Boris Johnson ... the socialist swagger of Ken Livingstone ...
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 April 2016 11:49 (eight years ago) link
the competent drum work of Caroline Pidgeon
― some men just want to watch the world Bern (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 April 2016 11:56 (eight years ago) link
The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner etc
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 April 2016 11:59 (eight years ago) link
oops, meant to say Zac Goldsmith there. Dammit.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 April 2016 12:00 (eight years ago) link
Rusbridger taking over as chairman of the Scott Trust has been nixed. Katharine Viner was reportedly opposed to it and the board failed to agree to his appointment yesterday. They were due to meet again today but the reports suggest (correctly or otherwise) that he has decided to step aside to resolve the impasse.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 13 May 2016 11:28 (eight years ago) link
I sort of want to say.... thank fuck?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 13 May 2016 12:09 (eight years ago) link
this thread will be going when every original ilxor is dead
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 13 May 2016 13:55 (eight years ago) link
reckon we'll outlast the guardian tbh
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 13 May 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
i would hate not to see my 40s
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 13 May 2016 13:57 (eight years ago) link
How many articles about Top Gear ffs
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 07:10 (eight years ago) link
Irritating: from the plugging of nephew, to the crap ideas, and the general privileged view that people have parents in large houses to move into..to just about everything in the article really.
Living in boxes (and thinking out of them) might solve our housing crisis
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 07:43 (eight years ago) link
The tldr extract to give a flavour of this is:
Aviva estimates that by 2025 3.8 million people aged between 21 and 34 could be living with their parents (compared with 2.8 million in 2015).Whatās most surprising about this is that people donāt even seem to mind that much.
Whatās most surprising about this is that people donāt even seem to mind that much.
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 07:50 (eight years ago) link
entirely reasonable if you're ignorant that the rest of the world exists
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 07:54 (eight years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ojXEDll.png
it's no "and here's why", but I feel that "I can't believe I have to say it" has potential as a clickbait headline formulation
― soref, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 23:25 (eight years ago) link
That aside I completely agree with him.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 01:38 (eight years ago) link
There is a woman in the comments who says without question 10 times over she'd save the gorilla over a child. WTF, humanity.
oh, I don't disagree that a human life is worth more than a gorilla's, was just amused by the combination of silly headline and reproachful byline photo.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/contributor/2016/1/20/1453280306466/Dave-Bry-L.png?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=588921b9a0dbf5f04a9e32fc4c318d9c
― soref, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link
I don't think tits particularly irrational or gross to say that the gorilla's life was worth more than the child's there being something like 7 billion humans and around 100,000 lowland gorillas and just over 600 (!) mountain gorillas. Of course it's not about maths and I wouldn't strongly hold this view myself, but I think the they are equally valuable is what I would say. I don't know how I would feel if Harambe had been a mountain gorilla, for example, or whether the figure of 600 or so of those would give the gorilla's life priority.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 02:01 (eight years ago) link
lol @ "reproachful byline photo"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 02:10 (eight years ago) link
trying to find a cartoon of Harambe and Cecil the Lion chilling together in heaven, but I'm not coming up with anything.
this slate article seems pretty sensible to me:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/05/harambe_s_death_is_not_a_reason_for_moral_outrage_it_s_an_opportunity_to.html
We should look at Harambeās death as an unfortunate consequence of what essentially amounts to a freak accident and invest the time and money being spent mourning him into doing things that actually matter for gorilla survival. Unfortunately, these thingsāpreserving their habitats, stopping poaching, slowing climate changeāare much more difficult and complex endeavors than advocating that child protective services investigate whether the 4-year-oldās parents acted negligently.
― soref, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 02:14 (eight years ago) link
Surely something can be done along the lines of a certain US NFL team and hat-cat, say with the word "gorilla"?
― ghosts that don't exist (Neil S), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 06:35 (eight years ago) link