Graun really desperate to get some of that lunch money right?
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:18 (seven years ago) link
whilst at the same time making a very convincing case for not giving it to them
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:20 (seven years ago) link
Digital storyteller for @BBCNews: #WorldHacks, @BBCtrending. #mojo evangelist. Creator: #CEOSecrets,
Not simply a life hack but a #worldhack.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:21 (seven years ago) link
#CEOSecrets
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:23 (seven years ago) link
#CEOSecrets 1. paying taxes is for suckers
― Neil S, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:24 (seven years ago) link
a bit of the old trenchant social commentary there
― Neil S, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:25 (seven years ago) link
assumed CEO stood for Cheese, Egg, Onion
― The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:25 (seven years ago) link
One good thing about musicWhen it hits you feel no painSo hit me with musicHit me with music nowHit me with music, hit me with musicLook at that, Trenchant rockI say don't watch that, Trenchant rockIf you big fish or sprat, Trenchant rockYou reap what you sow, Trenchant rockAnd everyone know now, Trenchant rock
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:28 (seven years ago) link
- Bob Marley
the idea came to me as i was tying my shoelaces. why had no one invented shoes without laces, i asked? this report sheds light on the truth - someone has.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:30 (seven years ago) link
a good journalist finds stories all around him!
it could be something as simple as eating a sandwich! not all journalism is woodward and bernstein!
Full disclosure: I was secretly hoping someone who actually does read the Guardian would point out to me they already had done a similar feature.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:31 (seven years ago) link
Although I did find this:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/05/how-to-eat-a-sausage-sandwich
Split your sausages lengthways. This will allow you to build thorough, corrugated sausage coverage.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:34 (seven years ago) link
That Favouritism thing.. is funny.
Father's role in society is to provide help and assistance to their daughters, you can see it in the adverts: Dad buys Daughter a car to help her through uni, she's all "thank you dad you I love" - Sons, at best, get a dad to help them fix the motor that they bought themselves.
That's not meant as a generalisation, that's how it's presented and that's how some are expected to fall into place.
My dad identified so strongly with my sister, it was like every achievement she made or any positive character facet was something that he liked to assign to himself - Not exactly "chip off the old block" but almost more that he modified himself after the event.
Of course, she got a boyf, and all those things came crashing down. Foreign, flashy, all he was after was a passport to live in the UK. (They were hugely similar in a lot of ways, but.) He refused to do anything to do with the Wedding, but he still made the speech, etc. like there was nothing wrong.
Anyway, they had a son, they eventually got divo, they had a hard time of it and a lot of it was their own doing. But that was almost the point where he decided she was less of a paragon of his own virtue, and more a deluded idiot that fell for a flashy swine that had ulterior motives.
Anyway, you'll never guess what happened next.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 10:35 (seven years ago) link
You're right, I can't
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 11:19 (seven years ago) link
that adult-aged correspondent realises that chips are made out of potatoes in the next thrilling instalment. And then he explains why TM is going to be a whizz at post-Brexit negotiations because she actually made a burger from scratch once.
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 11:49 (seven years ago) link
Nah, he 'ran off' with his secretary, and eventually brought her back into England with him...
I've see him twice since our wedding, he's met the kids once, when they were three and one.
Story ends. That's the short version.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 12:49 (seven years ago) link
The point of relating that tale, was that yeah, favouritism sucks, but in my particular case, he loses more than I do.
And now, back to ..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 12:51 (seven years ago) link
I'm finally glad to be an only child. Thanks, ILX.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link
always been kinda jealous of orphans meself
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 May 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link
Shooting fish in a barrel this one...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/may/31/sgt-pepper-at-50-could-the-beatles-masterpiece-unite-brexit-Britain
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:38 (seven years ago) link
gone already?
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Huh, it was on the front page?
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
It is still up, unfortunately. They have just moved it.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
LOL
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
i found it be googling "the guardian pepper"
i found this with the same google, which is more useful: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/29/slavic-cooking-pork-goulash-beef-stroganoff-anna-tobias-guest-cook
― mark s, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
This passage is especially notable:
The story of Britain is the sum of everybody who has lived on these islands. To exclude sections of their culture is to diminish or distort Britain’s true character, and if we wish to be grounded in a sense of place isolationism will not achieve this. You do not find Englishness by kicking away anything that might appear non-English. You find Englishness simply by being in England and interacting with what life has in store.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
i've read the first few pars and it seems like our man is proceeding from the misconception that englishness and britishness are the same thing, is that correct?
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
ooo goulash
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
(xp) Rule rather than exception on 'these islands', I would have thought.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
i read somewhere really recently that the person responsible for getting everyone (halfheartedly to sometimes remember) to say "british" instead of "english" in this circumstance was max aitken, 1st baron beaverbrook
― mark s, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link
Wasn't he Scottish?
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
Scots-Canadian, to be accurate.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
born, raised and lived in canada until he was 30-ish -- pals with the canadian BONAR LAW anyway i was a bit surprised, just bcz his paper was the daily express, which is i believe not currently in this same camp
― mark s, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Tbf "I read the news today oh boy" sums up p much everything Britain nowadays. Visionaries, them scousers.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
england and english were used interchangeably with britain and british until the second world war. ajp taylor's english history 1914-1945 famously is actually a history of britain.
scottish people were also referred to as scotch up until around the same time
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
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http://rs902.pbsrc.com/albums/ac225/animal02/I-Am-English_1.gif~c200
― soref, Thursday, 1 June 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
This piece rehashes a lot of the same shit as before although it gives a different spin - which doesn't entirely scan - on why The Guardian are so hostile to Corbyn.
The answer is complicated. Its about territory and identity. As projects, New Labour and The Guardian have a lot in common. Ever since I worked there, The Guardian has been on the move, not just physically but mentally. It moved from Manchester to London. The M25 became the boundaries of its new metropolitan world and it lost interest in Scotland and for much of my time there did not even have a correspondent based there.Then it discovered America and seriously thought it could capture part of Google's digital advertising. The Guardian is like that. It only has two gears - arrogance and blind panic. Hundreds of millions of pounds later, The Guardian found itself stranded off the coast of New Jersey. Now the ship is plodding its way back to Manchester, the pilgrim that never got to the New World.New Labour harboured the same ambitions to leave a constituency behind in search of a new world and never quite made it. Corbyn dispossessed New Labour of its last vestiges of power.New Labour was not merely about policy. It was an attempt to permanently change the landscape of the left, hence its concentration on power and leadership. It had a devastating effect on both the party and its concept of leadership. This was why its only response to Corbyn was to go for the man, obsessing about his lack of qualities as a leader - as if the Iraq War, the Libya intervention and the banking crash were examples of sound leadership.
Then it discovered America and seriously thought it could capture part of Google's digital advertising. The Guardian is like that. It only has two gears - arrogance and blind panic. Hundreds of millions of pounds later, The Guardian found itself stranded off the coast of New Jersey. Now the ship is plodding its way back to Manchester, the pilgrim that never got to the New World.
New Labour harboured the same ambitions to leave a constituency behind in search of a new world and never quite made it. Corbyn dispossessed New Labour of its last vestiges of power.
New Labour was not merely about policy. It was an attempt to permanently change the landscape of the left, hence its concentration on power and leadership. It had a devastating effect on both the party and its concept of leadership. This was why its only response to Corbyn was to go for the man, obsessing about his lack of qualities as a leader - as if the Iraq War, the Libya intervention and the banking crash were examples of sound leadership.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 June 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
Rumoured to be going tabloid. I really liked the Berliner format, though obv can't remember the last time I bought one. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/06/11/guardian-go-tabloid-abandons-berliner-presses-print-deal-trinity/
― stet, Sunday, 11 June 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
dude they just bought those presses like 15 years ago!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 June 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
It probably would have been cheaper to set up their own coffee processing plant! I think unlike the Graun, the Berliner format is pretty classy tbh.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 June 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
Berliner format a good answer to an irrelevant question. Does this leave the Telegraph as the last daily broadsheet?
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 12 June 2017 09:21 (seven years ago) link
there's also the herald up here in scotchland
― alcohol aficionado zane lamprey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 June 2017 09:25 (seven years ago) link
The contract will also allow the newspaper to scrap or sell its three Berliner presses, which cost £50m in 2005. It spent a further £30m on printworks in London and Manchester.
say what u like about the graun, it's never afraid to just hurl money straight down the shitter
― alcohol aficionado zane lamprey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 June 2017 09:26 (seven years ago) link
given the presses are bigger than the new format, can't they just be used for the new format? (or is the expense of *running* the presses the reason they are moving on?)
― koogs, Monday, 12 June 2017 09:38 (seven years ago) link
i imagine that is a massive part of it. iirc they were hoping that other pubs would go berliner and rent the presses from them, making the whole operation more sustainable but that never happened.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 June 2017 09:44 (seven years ago) link
britain has this habit of ploughing massive amounts of money into projects in a spasm of optimism without making allowances for what will happen if they don't get lucky. cf straford "international" train station. cf brexit.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 June 2017 09:46 (seven years ago) link
guardian has long had a habit of swinging between absurd over-confident world-striding visionary expansion and compete panic -- it is in a bad way currently financially and seems also to be having trouble stepping away from various recent political commitments that were bad not good
it could really REALLY do with a major pundit sweep-out, obviously -- and could perhaps actually make shift to move towards picking up the potential (quite complex) readership revealed by the emerging realignment? (obviously they have some of them)
― mark s, Monday, 12 June 2017 10:20 (seven years ago) link
it is in a bad way currently financially
short of the auto trader sale a while back it's hard to think of a time in the modern era where the graun wasn't explosively haemorrhaging cash tbh
― alcohol aficionado zane lamprey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 June 2017 10:25 (seven years ago) link