Who on earth are these ubiquitous btl posters? Thegreatronraffterty, the Thunderbirds avatar guy, several others who are first to comment? I don't understand how they can live their lives and post and post and post. I mean it's not easy to be the first commenter so I just do t understand the logistics never mind the mentality.
This has probably already been asked and answered.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Saturday, 24 June 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
I mean, as an addicted person it makes me feel a wee bit better to see others' posts. It's the logistics of it that I don't understand.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Saturday, 24 June 2017 01:27 (six years ago) link
There was an article yesterday on what books to bring to Glastonbury. Heh I wonder has the writer even been to a music festival, you're not going to get much reading done
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Saturday, 24 June 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/series/brexit-shorts
hey garda whats ur fave
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Jesus dunno if I can watch these...
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
48% nation lol
― The Adventures Of Whiteman (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 30 June 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
A L Kennedy's is genuinely great, I think. The language is wonderful. There's something almost Shakespearean about it. And Scott Reid is terrific, IMO.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-interactive/2017/jun/19/brexit-shorts-permanent-sunshine-al-kennedy-scott-reid-video
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Saturday, 1 July 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jul/15/living-in-a-caravan-mobile-homes-interiors-small-spaces
In favour, I'm massively in favour of people exploring alternative living spaces, but the tone of this article...
One day in early 2016, Ashim spotted a contract as a locum psychiatrist in a hospital in Bermuda. We let out our house, arrived in April, and for six months I drank a lot of rum swizzle, and Ashim had one of the world’s most beautiful commutes. It got us thinking: there is a shortage of senior psychiatrists everywhere, and locum jobs pop up in the most interesting places. ]’m turning my PhD (on the influence of sculpture on contemporary British ceramics – a guaranteed conversation-stopper) into a book, so can work anywhere. We could live a rich life, in lots of different places. And we decided to do it in a caravan.
We leave Cork in August, and after a trip in the van to France and Spain, we are planning to head to New Zealand for the winter. We will have to abandon our van on Ashim’s sister’s drive, but we’re not done with tiny homes. We are learning to sail and are hoping to live on a boat for our next posting. After our 17ft van, we won’t know what to do with the space.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 16 July 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2017/jul/22/letter-to-my-younger-self-money-squat-dont-panic-logan-hall-rebel-hack-studios
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 22 July 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
LOL fuckin' bawbag.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 July 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
has there ever been anyone who did this open letter to my younger self thing without seeming like a complete twat?
― calzino, Saturday, 22 July 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
Mary Bell
― In Search of the Turricle's Navel (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 July 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
Did she make a killing with the sale of her London house? Oops, getting her mixed with a smug graun hack!
― calzino, Saturday, 22 July 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Hitler
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Saturday, 22 July 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
'When good TV goes bad: how Game of Thrones became a throng of dire old vice'that's appalling
― kinder, Monday, 24 July 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
Not a complaint by any means but interesting to see a Bill-Gates-sponsored article attacking a Bill-Gates-sponsored chain of schools:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/aug/03/uk-urged-to-stop-funding-ineffective-and-unsustainable-bridge-academies
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 4 August 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
Yeah. Sponsored Content is still editorially independent (though I wouldn't be surprised if editors get jittery and self-censor).
It's Paid Content (in a different font) that's the advertorial stuff.
― Alba, Friday, 4 August 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
Simon Jenkins tries to outdo Jonathan Jones in the ignorant clickbait stakes:
'Ignore the panic. There’s little point learning languages at school.'
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Friday, 25 August 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
From Andrew Graham-Yooll's A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina's Nightmare (as mentioned on the current what are you reading thread), from his time in exile in the UK, in 1979:
I went to work at The Guardian, where liberals are conservatives who counsel readers to vote Labour
― Fizzles, Saturday, 2 September 2017 10:43 (six years ago) link
How times have changed
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 September 2017 11:16 (six years ago) link
That's marvellous
― Alba, Saturday, 2 September 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
Alastair Campbell and @OwenJones84 have a bit of a The Thick of It moment. Watch the full encounter: https://t.co/0FONZmHiuR pic.twitter.com/gd66pNgOr7— The Guardian (@guardian) September 19, 2017
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
we can all laugh about it now
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
that's another good one for my expanding Can't fucking stand Owen Jones dossier.
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
lol alastair remember when you played a leading role in condemning hundreds of thousands of people to death haha okay anyway let's sit down and have a chinwag
― Mr. Eulon Mask, urging the UN to ban the "homicide robot" (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
just a couple of lads from the north in london together!!!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
Isn't it the most infuriating thing to watch someone who is broadly right being so intellectually outclassed by somebody who is fundamentally wrong? And yes, the rubbish Iraq joke followed by chummyness with *millions* dead and nobody held to account for it, fucking hell Owen, I'm done defending this debating society prick.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
This guy writes for the Guardian I think. This isn't any more than averagely bad but it's interesting seeing good tweeters come unstuck at length.
https://theguyliner.com/2017/10/05/the-trouble-with-nostalgia/
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 6 October 2017 09:02 (six years ago) link
managed a sentence and a half
― The Walter Mittyville Horror (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 October 2017 09:05 (six years ago) link
same
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 October 2017 09:08 (six years ago) link
"So I try not to live in the past. It’s a murky, gloomy, weird mix of swamp and ocean, replete with sinkholes, dangerous currents and hands grasping at you, trying to drag you deeper and deeper into mawkish sentimentality, rose-tinted fantasy sequences and dreary bygones."
makes u think
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 6 October 2017 09:08 (six years ago) link
the tyranny of content production
― The Walter Mittyville Horror (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 October 2017 09:19 (six years ago) link
otm
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 6 October 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
paid by the adjective.
― Ludo, Friday, 6 October 2017 09:28 (six years ago) link
my regular mailout where subscribers receive new writing by me before anyone else. It’s not a newsletter; I never have any news. Just writing
He realised there was a scarcity of words in series on the internet.
― calzino, Friday, 6 October 2017 09:29 (six years ago) link
it must be horrible to get up every day and think "gotta opine about something"
― The Walter Mittyville Horror (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 October 2017 09:41 (six years ago) link
I mean Turrican seems to enjoy it, but otherwise
― The Walter Mittyville Horror (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 October 2017 09:42 (six years ago) link
I'd have some sympathy for the writer if there was a sense that it was as painful for them to make this content as it is to read. But we're all stocked up on banal inanities wrapped up in fake jauntiness/smugness etc, thank you very much.
― calzino, Friday, 6 October 2017 10:02 (six years ago) link
Well, The Graun is for sure.
― calzino, Friday, 6 October 2017 10:03 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/oct/26/together-we-are-safeguarding-the-guardians-independent-journalism?CMP=share_btn_tw
The Graun is on the up + up. They defeated Trump with their progressive journalism and now their paywall revenue outstrips advertising income. So obv now they are going to abandon clickbait and the all ads masquerading as journalism type shite. And give Deborah Orr a payrise for her services to Hot Takes.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 October 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
as long as there's still plenty of lifestyle and thinkpieces that reflect my on-trend, cosmopolitan centrist Dadism then keep on keeping on I say
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 October 2017 10:42 (six years ago) link
luv2support independent journalism (and occasionally enjoy entire sections of advertorial about how wonderful azerbaijan or saudi arabia are)
― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 October 2017 10:59 (six years ago) link
bg, where did the “luv2verb” thing come from?
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 26 October 2017 11:02 (six years ago) link
i guess must have picked it up somewhere but honestly i have no idea where that would have been - all i know is that i'm committed to getting myself 51'd by using it constantly
― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 October 2017 11:07 (six years ago) link
luv251 hang on
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 October 2017 11:22 (six years ago) link
@hambeef love too get a bite on that. thank you for sharing— wint (@dril) December 8, 2009
^^^i believe it began with this fella tho i only starting seeing it in bulk this year
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
everything circles back to @dril eventually
― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 October 2017 11:35 (six years ago) link
martin kettle offers a blazing-hot take on the list of alleged tory sexual harassers, gets instantly ratioed
If I worked for Putin, I'd think that Tory spreadsheet was a good day's work.— Martin Kettle (@martinkettle) November 1, 2017
― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
anybody who claims harrassment is an enemy of the state
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
2/1 Doubles down on this4/1 Feeble non-apology8/1 "Please ladies, help me to be a better man"10/1 "Somebody hacked my Twitter"16/1 "It's Corbyn's fault"200/1 "I've behaved like a cunt and will retire from public life immediately"
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 12:56 (six years ago) link