Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

just banter

at this point I wd quote the bit in Ulysses where Bloom reads that short story on the bog but I'm not sure I can be bothered to do the work

i just don't really understand the centre point of society from which the writers of these kind of pieces purport to speak.

Quietly he read, restraining himself, the first column and, yielding but resisting, began the second. Midway, his last resistance yielding, he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. Hope it’s not too big bring on piles again. No, just right. So. Ah! Costive. One tabloid of cascara sagrada. Life might be so. It did not move or touch him but it was something quick and neat. Print anything now. Silly season. He read on, seated calm above his own rising smell. Neat certainly. Matcham often thinks of the masterstroke by which he won the laughing witch who now. Begins and ends morally. Hand in hand. Smart. He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of three pounds, thirteen and six.

I thought why not?

i'm not a hipster. no way. not like those other lames

I envy kindly Mr Golby

toiling away to make a living out of observing the social minutiae others might overlook, or just marking time, refining that prose style, holding it together until the great London novel is complete

Look at this hipster twat, I arsk you...

https://thebaffledkingcomposing.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/jamsey.jpgp

http://larepubliquedeslivres.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Joyce_James_1926.jpg

Great hair Jimmy had.

it feels like "hipster" things have become so mainstream that there's now some kind of self-hatred/misanthropy at work

Good !

how bout those hipsters huh

The author is one of those UK Vice twats who all write the same article in exactly the same way over and over again, right?

Seems sub-Vice if that's even possible.

“Iceland knows everything about English football, we are English football crazy. I don’t think we need analyse them much but I don’t think they know too much about Iceland players. I could count all the players [as being dangerous] it is a creative team a little bit different the English tea than before as before, RH deserves credit for that – there are a lot of threats in England team.”

this is presumably what all jamie jackson content looks like before being chopped into something resembling english prose

this might be the worst thing I've ever read in the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jul/10/robert-lang-photography-camden-town-london

I was waiting for someone to post that.

PerfumedPonce
6h ago
These poshos can do one as far as I am concerned.

It definitely lacks a pic with one of them wearing a traffic cone on her head.

it's possibly the platonic ideal of Guardian articles which appear to have been commissioned with the specific goal of getting commenters to queue up and hurl abuse at the paper. plus they've paid people to write, sub and place it online. essentially they're in a findom relationship

https://twitter.com/nadiakhomami
from the journalists twitter profile -
"I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry."
her pinned tweet is asking for people to pay and support guardian journalism.

So, her article is mediocre poetry?

"Dear Milkman

Please Leave Me

One Pint.

Don't leave me

That's not what I

mean"

It's from This Side Of Paradise.

Its weird, the AU Guardian has been very good - I've stopped reading Fairfax and replaced it with the Graun/au. None of this rubbish on our side of the site. those photos are shite.

A set up looking to repeat some of that Max Gogarty click-magic?

Its weird, the AU Guardian has been very good - I've stopped reading Fairfax and replaced it with the Graun/au. None of this rubbish on our side of the site. those photos are shite.

If they can filter out all the British crap then why does the app persist in the delusion that I'm interested in Australian football and reviews of random Brisbane indie bands?

i'm glad i'm not the only one!!

TBF it doesnt filter ALL of it out, just mostly off of the front pages.

for some time i've been a fan of looking at this page and reading all the headlines as fast as possible: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/experience

so i decided to compose a poem using only headlines i gathered from it: https://soundcloud.com/ronan-fitzgerald/i-was-attacked-by-a-seal

Ha, that's great

:)

It is good; also, surprised at how many of these i remember.

Lovely

https://i.redditmedia.com/St9NDD2bOPvISfh5LkLXZmp1x1T82Dt-fAQOXLWEmd0.jpg?w=430&s=385a363c9a1e5d832a81d9719a9264c0

o_O

I had to read that 3 times before I realised they *weren't* saying the body was to be used for beach volleyball.

when life gives you a mutilated body - play beach volleyball with it

This is the plot of Swiss Army Man

great to see it isn't just the usual perfect bodies in olympic volleyball

as it makes me miserable whenever I read it, what other sources of news does ilx recommend?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/17/olympics-hysteria-britain-turned-soviet-team-gb

I actually agree with bits of this, but...

the funding system feels very wrong and jingoism is bollocks so i agree

That's the bits I'm alongside with too.

Agree with all of that, it's not exlusively a GB thing either.

Yeah that's a great article

i mainly agree - the olympics is infested with weird politics, the whole concept of "team gb" sounds like what the tories will call the country after scotland fucks off.

I mean, the Olympics are aesthetically a load of shit at this point. I was stuck for things to do last night so I tuned into a men's handball quarter final, and discovered my favourite Olympian of 2016 this way (not a difficult position to attain given I've basically avoided the lot) - the Danish second-choice goalkeeper, Jannick Green, who wasn't any sort of flag-draped musclebound Perfect Athlete but a lanky long-haired guy with about as much sporting talent as me (decent amateur soccer goalie fyi), who did an extravagant celebration every time his prancing saved a shot, often directed at the benched first-choice goalkeeper but mostly at the viewing public. At one point he failed to save a shot and in a fit of angst flung himself feet-first at a pitchside hoarding, denting it. Throughout, he and his mane fully embodied the absurdity of Olympic sport. I envisaged a Games populated by none other than his kin. But then I probably wouldn't watch that either.

Handball is better than I thought it'd be, though