Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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Tom clearly never truly crossed over to ILE, as he would've mentioned groovypanda.gif instead

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jiggly panda that is

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/01/brexit-shrek-messy-complicated-bad-tempered

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Brexit is like Shrek: shit

hnnnnnnnnnggggghhhhhhhhhhh

Shrek, a cartoon character known for his complexity

brb gonna claw every inch of my own flesh from my bones

If you're trying not to look like an out-of-touch elitist it's probably best not to reveal that you've clearly only seen one film in the last 15 years.

shit that looks like a Resistancehole article but isn't

Denim, "Best Song in the World"

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Oops wrong thread!

i absolutely loathe grace dent. didn't she used to be okay when she wrote that soap column? now she's all gloating about mulberry handbags and how expensive the trinkets are at persham nurseries in order to make it known that she goes there in the first place while superficially making out that she disapproves of people who shop there. she makes me sick.

She’s been a lamer ever since she took money for writing a YA book called Diary of a Chav.

where's the gloating article?

The restaurant column on Saturdays (I'm guessing)

Friday (today). I can't find the one where she was going on about her £800 handbag. Today, conversely, it's frowned upon to spend £800 on a garden feature but only so readers know that you've been there many times because you like *that* kind of life.

xp I'm assuming it's the one mentioned upthread where she mentions the name of her handbag in that brand-referencing style she does.
I'm no Grace stan, and 'Diary of a Chav' sounds horrendous, plus I have no idea what a Persham nursery is, but women are constantly policed re spending money on things viewed as frivolous by serious males.
I'd never even contemplate spending £900 or whatever it is on a handbag but ffs no-one pulls up blokes for mentioning (gloating about) their Arsenal season ticket or ridiculous Audi or limited edition trainers or whatever else they enjoy and can afford. Of course it's obscene and won't somebody think of Darfur but it's nearly always one-sided.

hang on, she went to this place for her job?

It’s Petersham Nurseries , the posh one’s just outside Richmond and is very bunting/shabby chic-oriented; the review was of the ‘branch’ of the restaurant in Covent Garden (no gardeny shite there).

Banging on about the cost of a handbag is very non-U (Petersham Nurseries people have wellies and Daunt Books holdalls FFS) but what do you expect from somebody who badly channels Elsie Tanner as part of her (cough) personal brand?

'We like a party!' – why is Scottish pop so potent?

It all started 60 years ago with the line: ‘There’s a moose loose aboot this hoose!’ But is the eccentric spirit that unites Biffy Clyro, Orange Juice and Ivor Cutler dying out in the age of Calvin Harris?

Biffy Clyro eccentric? What the actual fuck?

you would have to be fairly eccentric to enjoy their work

well, i've never heard them but i agree.

i wouldn't've done if they hadn't turned up to spoil the Big Weekend last year

Was that on BBC4? That was the first time I'd heard them too and I couldn't work out what they were supposed to be - a heavy rock band with no riffs or a pop band with no tunes.

me and Hannah went to it, it was on telly too. we had to endure that shite so's we could get a good spot for Katy Perry.

Lord Rockingham's XI not Scottish despite being mentioned several times there. Vocalist of Hoots Mon was not actually in the band.

what the hell is this.

From Stonehenge to Iceland's Arctic Henge, by motorbike – photo essay

it contains the line “Germany is full of surprisingly green fields”. as someone pointed out it reads like a well-written Year Seven holiday assignment.

also unless i’ve missed something it’s not really a photo essay. i mean it’s got some photos in sure.

it’s an hour or so since i read it and i’m still laughing at “surprisingly green fields”. i’m not sure whether they meant germany is surprisingly full of fields and they are green, or if it was the fact the fields were green that came as a surprise, or the sheer vividness of the green hue came as a shock. all are equally strange.

When I relocated to Iceland from London in 2015 to write a book

We've all done it.

There is something Marilyn Hagerty-ish about it, prose so flat and detail so random you can only assume there's some subtext or other.

Actually I know someone who went to live in Iceland, years before it became in any way fashionable, and fathered several children there before coming back to Scotland, throwing an abandoned shopping trolley into the hitherto calm Icelandic gene pool and confusing genealogists for generations to come.

I want to relocate to somewhere to write my exhaustive study of the history of m-cat 2006-2009, gizza posh flat, I could do that!

i think the subtext is some commissioning person met this person while high on icelandic volcano fumes and thought they had an interesting story to tell. idk then they got hexed or something to force them to publish it.

They drove past farmhouses.

And cornfields.

To an ancient Icelandic henge that has stood since 1996.

i’m not sure whether they meant germany is surprisingly full of fields and they are green, or if it was the fact the fields were green that came as a surprise, or the sheer vividness of the green hue came as a shock.

I thought that was going to be a Thirty Years' War link!

Getting quite riled up by this today - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/14/identity-politics-right-left-trump-racism

Can't believe a middle class white person has issues with identity politics

skimming michael white tweets I'm struck by what a joke its going to seem in years to come that the guardian was the most leftwing broadsheet in the country

I remember when rock was young
Me and suzie had so much fun
Holdin hands and skimming michael white tweets
Had an old gold chevy and a place of my own

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what a load of shite

lmao that cannot be real

Huge fuckin knee

hi, i'm elle hunt and i've never seen a knee before, btw who looks at album art now in this streaming-centric world of ours anyway, okthxbye

Deadlines are a hell of a drug

Big knee or tiny hand?

Once seen, the giant knee on the cover of the strokes' debut album cannot be unseen, and for that I am grateful.

hi, i'm ledge and i've never seen a knee before