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
he doesn't tweet much so i'd put my money on 'doesn't react on twitter, shits out an "i got ratioed for truth-telling" column' next week
― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
That half page advert wrapped around the guardian today is a ballache. Can't pick the paper up without it flapping, can't throw it away because the crossword's on the back of it.
― koogs, Saturday, 18 November 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
Maybe you could put it to one side.
― Alba, Saturday, 18 November 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
How to drink wine: a quick guide for Theresa May
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/24/the-guardian-view-on-taylor-swift-an-envoy-for-trumps-values
This would be embarrassing on a Blogspot page, it’s astonishing in an editorial.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 25 November 2017 10:49 (six years ago) link
it's an envoy for the Graun's values
― who says no to mentals? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 November 2017 11:12 (six years ago) link
Her new album, Reputation, is not available on Spotify – anyone wishing to hear it must buy it.
Ideally she would give it away for free while debasing the content and interrupting you every two verses with a begging note.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 25 November 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
fair play to them, they understand their comment section regulars at least
― who says no to mentals? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 November 2017 11:13 (six years ago) link
lol sv
― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Saturday, 25 November 2017 11:16 (six years ago) link