zing

yep, I hear ya.

Hi, I was responsible for much of that Morrissey coverage in the Guardian. Yes, much of it is a search for clicks - but that's because people want to read it. And while it's easy to say we shouldn't hunt clicks, the fact is it's really hard to make money in newspapers and every click brings in a little bit of ad revenue. And the more ad revenue we can get from doing Morrissey stories, the more money we can invest in serious reporting: that's the absolutely crucial point (also, as I say, a lot of people did want to read the stories; no one's forcing those who don't). The overnight news stories, well … you're not going to get Martha Gellhorn when someone who's done a full day goes home for three hours, then goes back into the office to work through the night reading and filleting the book.

The unfunny preview blog was mine, too. Not my finest hour. Alone on the music desk this week, having to do a shedload of stuff, and some suffered. More pleased with Savage's piece on what Morrissey represented in 1983, which I commissioned.

― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:36 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"And the more ad revenue we can get from doing Morrissey stories, the more money we can invest in serious reporting"

this argument is vulnerable to reductio ad comment is free.

― caek, Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:52 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Apparently I'm a massively intolerant wanker.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 25 October 2013 14:59 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa dude you say that like it's news

― little busquets made of tiki-taka (imago), Friday, 25 October 2013 15:01 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the kind of lazy cheapshot that not so long back consistently drove you mad as a recipient iirc imago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwSKkKrUzUk

i do think there's a huge swath of people who think of lou reed as some guy who had one memorable ditty (walk on the wild side) once upon a time, like he was david essex or something.

This is me, pretty much. I've never cared for classic rock or punk rock, so I couldn't really name any other song by the dude than "Walk on the Wild Side" (which I prefer as the Finnish-language cover version done by the great jazz/pop singer Lasse Mårtenson) and "Perfect Day" (which I wouldn't know if it wasn't for Trainspotting). I'm not trying to be willfully ignorant, and I recognize that a lot of people were influenced by Reed, but IMO in the year 2013 his legacy is so far in the past, and/or heard in such marginal genres, that even someone quite knowledgable in pop music might not know him for anything else than those two hits, unless he was specifically into the specific subgenres of rock where he might still be valued highly.

That said, I've nothing against the dude, just wanted to point out that people who know him for only one or two tunes aren't necessarily ignorant. RIP.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, October 30, 2013 4:04 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p

― buzza, Wednesday, October 30, 2013 4:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow tell us more about not liking rock music tuomas never heard that before what a fascinating posting style keep up
the good work

― buzza, Wednesday, October 30, 2013 4:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Friendships are a bitch.

I want to end this 'friendship' with this girl because, basically, well, not to sound all superficial and like an insensitive gross jerk, but I just wanted to get in her panties.

I realised one outing too late she only likes me as a 'friend'. That's cool.

So, I start flaking out on her and I'm super brief and vague and tell her stuff like 'sure just give me a call whenever'. I come back from a trip and she hadn't contacted me all week and I thought, 'Yes...finally, get out of my life'. Then last night she says "Happy Halloween! How have you been? :)'.

ARGHHHHHH. Go away. I was playing along because I have already invested enough time and have performed some of my magic on her to just let her go so easily, just in case.

Ya, I'm stringing her along until she gets tired of trying, because I view this relationship as disposable.

I feel it's important for me to clarify that if I consider you my friend, or best friend, I will do just about anything for you. But if I don't, I am a totally different person.

Plus, I sense she is using me for my knowledge of the English language, because she has asked me to help her with her homework.

(And she just sent me a text...)

― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, November 1, 2013 7:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is time for her to let go of your friendship

― schlump, Friday, November 1, 2013 7:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*hugs* we're here for you if you need us

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, November 1, 2013 7:32 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can someone forward her this thread? Maybe she'll get the hint.

― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, November 1, 2013 7:32 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how old is she?

― nachomon real (nakhchivan), Friday, November 1, 2013 7:35 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

....homework......

― nachomon real (nakhchivan), Friday, November 1, 2013 7:35 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

24

― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, November 1, 2013 7:37 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So yeah, I have nothing helpful to say - only that you're not alone.

― luna (luna.c)

― buzza, Friday, November 1, 2013 7:38 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and she is on a student visa or something?

― nachomon real (nakhchivan), Friday, November 1, 2013 7:39 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry to say this crimonhexagon but i feel like you might have been exploited and deceived here by someone whose apparently good natured company is nothing more than a crude wish to exploit your extravagant capabilities with the english language

― nachomon real (nakhchivan), Friday, November 1, 2013 7:41 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zing certification... denied

you want the department of japery, let me transfer you

decent cumulative zing imo even if hexy's doing all the work

there's no such thing
as a cumulative zing

hexagon: friendzoned! case closed http://www.vgchat.com/images/smilies/judge.gif

wonder what sort of defect of personality could be denying ole hex access to "her panties"

frigidity obv

no admin privs

lack of respect for his privilege

Just a crimson hexagon
with ample lexicon
trying to see you
with no panties on

done

I'm still unclear why a 24 year old has English homework -- is she an ESL student?

hexagon have you tried rapping to her

Hmm I read that incorrectly.

don't scare me like that lag∞n

xp!

whoa you guys freudian misreading much

you might also want to try rapier wit.

lol

re onion av club:

what do you call this genial descriptive house style

― socki (s1ocki), Friday, November 1, 2013 6:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Josh in Chicago

― 乒乓, Friday, November 1, 2013 6:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LOL

idgi

okay that hex/nakh thing imago just c/p'd might be many things but it's not even the weakest of zings

its definitely zingy imo

it could have come more quickly

the dude straight up says hes only talking to her bc of potential sex, then indicts her for using him for help with english homework. "extravagant capabilities" puts it over the zing fence

it's too protracted, 'zing' as onomatopoeia demands a certain pithiness

xxp yeah

i agree, i wish i came directly after the OP

i wish IT came

hmmm

legendary typo

idk

wario stephen ilxor brings another hot thread

― r|t|c, Sunday, November 17, 2013 4:05 PM (2 hours ago)

so good

http://jezebel.com/so-are-you-going-to-stop-posting-your-selfies-to-twitte-1469039497

hah selfie war goes deep

100% clean hit

ha wow

the pope is dope

this is a nice counter-zing (after accusations that she edited the piece post-zing)

http://i.imgur.com/Erk8Bhr.png

idgi! plz 2 explain [i am not Pope Alexander btw]

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/original/bart-the-hall-monitor.jpg

ahhhh! tq nv

the ability to make up a bunch of bullshit opinions about whatever topic people happen to be talking about has its advantages and its drawbacks. you can easily lose track of what you actually know and what you've made up and say a bunch of half-baked bullshit that irritates people who actually know/care about the topic at hand. it seems like a talent of the bloviated spielers more so than the quickwitted, who are often pretty judicious about what things they actually talk about.

― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Thursday, 28 November 2013 06:09 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you for that practical demonstration.

― estela, Thursday, 28 November 2013 06:18 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink