shit that looks like a Resistancehole article but isn't
― Pardew to Megson: "you've stolen my New Orleans bounce" (DJ Mencap), Friday, 1 June 2018 10:43 (five years ago) link
Denim, "Best Song in the World"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE8sl5slQLE
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 June 2018 11:10 (five years ago) link
Oops wrong thread!
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 June 2018 11:11 (five years ago) link
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.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 15 June 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
She’s been a lamer ever since she took money for writing a YA book called Diary of a Chav.
― suzy, Friday, 15 June 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
where's the gloating article?
― kinder, Friday, 15 June 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
The restaurant column on Saturdays (I'm guessing)
― koogs, Friday, 15 June 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
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.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 15 June 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
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.
― kinder, Friday, 15 June 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
hang on, she went to this place for her job?
― kinder, Friday, 15 June 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
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?
― suzy, Friday, 15 June 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
'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?
'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?
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
Biffy Clyro eccentric? What the actual fuck?
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
you would have to be fairly eccentric to enjoy their work
― The Savic Detectives (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
well, i've never heard them but i agree.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
i wouldn't've done if they hadn't turned up to spoil the Big Weekend last year
― The Savic Detectives (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
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.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
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.
― The Savic Detectives (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
Lord Rockingham's XI not Scottish despite being mentioned several times there. Vocalist of Hoots Mon was not actually in the band.
― everything, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
what the hell is this. From Stonehenge to Iceland's Arctic Henge, by motorbike – photo essayit 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.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 21 June 2018 08:35 (five years ago) link
When I relocated to Iceland from London in 2015 to write a book
We've all done it.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 June 2018 08:54 (five years ago) link
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.
― Tim, Thursday, 21 June 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
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.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 June 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Thursday, 21 June 2018 09:05 (five years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 21 June 2018 09:09 (five years ago) link
They drove past farmhouses.
― Tim, Thursday, 21 June 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link
And cornfields.
To an ancient Icelandic henge that has stood since 1996.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 June 2018 09:22 (five years ago) link
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.
― oder doch?, Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
I thought that was going to be a Thirty Years' War link!
― calzino, Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:27 (five years ago) link
Getting quite riled up by this today - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/14/identity-politics-right-left-trump-racism
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 14 July 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
Can't believe a middle class white person has issues with identity politics
― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 July 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Friday, 31 August 2018 09:22 (five years ago) link
I remember when rock was youngMe and suzie had so much funHoldin hands and skimming michael white tweetsHad an old gold chevy and a place of my own
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 31 August 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
https://s33.postimg.cc/40w1fdm8f/image.png
what a load of shite
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 31 August 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
lmao that cannot be real
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
Huge fuckin knee
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
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
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
Deadlines are a hell of a drug
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
Big knee or tiny hand?
― Tim, Friday, 31 August 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
Once seen, the giant knee on the cover of the strokes' debut album cannot be unseen, and for that I am grateful.
― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
hi, i'm ledge and i've never seen a knee before
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 31 August 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
"I see asses everywhere now, where before I saw knees."
?
― Tim, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
Where was she seeing all these flexed knees that now look like asses to her?
(also of course she sees asses everywhere, she's working for the Guardian culture section lol)
― Tim, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
Have to say I think this article is a bit of harmless Friday goofery made to be clowned on by bored idiots like us, I enjoyed it but thought it a shame she bothered filling it out with all that rough version boringitude.
― Tim, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
wanted to post something to the effect of this being a place with a several hundred-post thread about whether a Loverboy album has a man's or woman's ass on the cover and as such not truly entitled to poke fun
except the thread seems to have vanished
― still wackford after all these squeers (DJ Mencap), Friday, 31 August 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
There was a whole deal with that thread and google iirc
― coetzee.cx (wins), Friday, 31 August 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
it's v enjoyable to see everyone rip into them on twitter & their total inability to defend themselves suggests they know they're full of it
your disgraceful bias has lost you hundreds of readers a day yet you persist in it because you apparently consider your idealogical role as hit squad for the capitalist class more important than actually being a successful capitalist corporation— David Graeber (@davidgraeber) September 26, 2018
― ogmor, Friday, 28 September 2018 11:05 (five years ago) link
It’s tempting to think that the the influx from the Evening Standard and Buzzfeed, etc, has changed the nature of their reporting over the last few years but then Michael White pops up on Twitter talking about Fenians and you remember they’ve been appalling for decades.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 28 September 2018 11:20 (five years ago) link
as have Liberals
― Leon Carrotsky (Noodle Vague), Friday, 28 September 2018 11:24 (five years ago) link