Did people ever say John Major, who didn’t even proceed to A Levels, couldn’t deal with his red boxes due to a lack of academic qualifications? I find this take on Corbyn fairly tedious.
― suzy, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 11:38 (four years ago) link
I don't get who its for. Its like the last 5 years haven't happened, no one gaf about any of this reading a document shite. The people who spend time reading documents in front of correctly angled cameras are the ones that trashed everything. Such a pointless and tone-deaf line of attack
― anvil, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
this starts off as a comically bad "dystopian post-Brexit future" story then abruptly turns into a half-baked analysis of the Tory leadership electionhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/04/autumn-2020-no-deal-britain-conservative-partyworth every penny of that 6-figure salary!
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 4 July 2019 09:17 (four years ago) link
i almost feel it's a net positive of brexit that so many people have unequivocally shown themselves to be pricks, barmy, stupid or otherwise gaping arseholes. bad with words, bad with thoughts. Tear them for their bad verses. (i think mark s used this recently, but it's also i think my favourite shakespeare line so)
― Fizzles, Thursday, 4 July 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
and by people i mean commentators, op-ed journeymen, pundits, chancers, grifters etc. apologies for any confusion there by using people so indiscriminately.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 4 July 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
I didn't realise that was Shakespeare when mark used it, it's an absolute classic line.
― calzino, Thursday, 4 July 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
timon of athens. iirc it’s a point where he starts becoming unhinged. the moment mental violence breaks out into state sanctioned populist violence and tyranny against a (not v good) poet. both deserved and totally undeserved because of the disproportionate power behind the critical words. something some blue tick fuckers on twitter could afford to learn.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 4 July 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
Climate changeEnough of the climate nightmare. It’s time to paint the dreamEd Miliband
Posting here because it's probably not just a bunch of pictures what Ed done
― nashwan, Thursday, 4 July 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
i cannae actually bring myself to read that
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 July 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
No black women available to write this one, huh https://t.co/MitSjuQdEk— old man bangers (@FindusPancake) July 5, 2019
― gyac, Friday, 5 July 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/04/the-guardian-view-on-classical-music-art-or-status-symbol?CMP=share_btn_tw
couldn't care less about the proms, but is this dickhead actually saying people are listening to the classical canon for the wrong reasons? Anyway it's just more garbage clickbait - but I hate whoever wrote it and couldn't give less of a fuck what they consider "challenging" listening in 2019.
― calzino, Monday, 8 July 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
when adorno coined the term "culture industry" he already included (and indeed was largely animated by and against) stuff very much like the proms and indeed the guardian
it's true that he didn't much like (or necessarily always think clearly abt) pop culture, but the argument that somehow the current situation undermines his position is an excellent example of how and why he was correct: this bad editorial is itself by-the-yard fake seriousness passing itself off as something socially deeper
caveat: except for the bit abt playing vivaldi loudly to drive ppl away, this is good critical science bcz vivaldi is annoying and bad -- his re-entry into the canon was effected in 1939 in italy by a crew that included ezra pound (tbf vivaldi is just boring and bad, he wasn't actually a fascist as he died in 1741)
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
That’s a lazy bunch of bullshit. Last year I was lucky enough to hear one of the most remarkable and refreshing renditions of Beethoven’s 5th at the proms. It may have been part of the cannon but it was very different. People still got in for 6 quid.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 8 July 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
canon: bach, beethoven etc cannon: tchaikovsky 1812 overture and that's it
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
I'm sure Beethoven and Bach's contemporary audiences sat in rapt appreciation at all times and there was no conspicuous consumption or groups of rich twats treating it as a social occasion at all.
― Matt DC, Monday, 8 July 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
I get the feeling the writer would consider Thom Yorke with a banjo and a sequencer avant garde. What really is avant garde is Cannon without any balls!
When i say i don't care about there has undoubtedly been loads good stuff in it over the years at affordable prices.
― calzino, Monday, 8 July 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
*about the proms* i meant
vivaldi is shite, but you said that about mahler as well mark (㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ)
― calzino, Monday, 8 July 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
beethoven's 'wellington's victory' also has parts for cannons and muskets
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Monday, 8 July 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
In their book Men of Music, Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock termed the piece an "atrocious potboiler".
Beethoven had no illusions about its merits, and responded to similar criticism in his own time: "What I shit is better than anything you could ever think up!"[3]
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Monday, 8 July 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
wait what i said mahler arrived in the canon on the back of a fascist stunt? if true i am cancelled for being an idiot
(he is boring though, that's different to being fascist imo)
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
not even got any feelings for no 6?
― calzino, Monday, 8 July 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
"this is tragic stuff" :D
it did inspire some good shade from berg (directed at beethoven): "Es gibt doch nur eine VI. trotz der Pastorale" webern's recently discovered reply: "zu lang, also sehr mimpy (genau wie du, wirklich real zu sein)"
― mark s, Monday, 8 July 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
they're not doing much Mahler at the proms this year, only 1, 5 and Das Lied I think. I couldn't be arsed to book any of those (saw Das Lied earlier this year).
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 8 July 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
In fact it's just 4 and Das Lied. Duh.
I seriously cannot be bothered to read the article. Would rather prefer to sit through a Mahler symphony, even no 8
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 8 July 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/15/theresa-may-legacy-feminist-champion-women
Aw yeah.
Don’t give them the clicks, imo, the url tells you 95% of what you need to know.
― ShariVari, Monday, 15 July 2019 09:52 (four years ago) link
Nah, there's gotta be a good top comment
― imago, Monday, 15 July 2019 09:58 (four years ago) link
Oh sick, it's one of the ones that doesn't have comments
― imago, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:00 (four years ago) link
I presume they are pretending the two child rape clause didn't happen for the sake of a very wrong controp.
― calzino, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:01 (four years ago) link
https://www.theonion.com/women-now-empowered-by-everything-a-woman-does-1819566746
― jou're much too jung, girl (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 July 2019 10:04 (four years ago) link
Theresa May’s positive legacy? She’s a feminist champion | Martha Gill https://t.co/vH0iJ1YaV2— The Guardian (@guardian) July 15, 2019
here are the comments :)
― imago, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:07 (four years ago) link
I guess they got exactly what they wanted. Played right into their hands
― imago, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
The Conservatives look like the party of privilege
Who knew?
Greening setting her stall out for all those who think she had absolutely nothing to do with education "reform" during the last nine years.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:12 (four years ago) link
The Graun posted some right drivel at the the start of May's tenure as well. What a genius gambit by going to the left of Labour via lip service etc...
― calzino, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
Boris Johnson's positive legacy? Latin is once again on the curriculum.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
(did you see what I did there?)
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
"look like" the party of privilege
― jou're much too jung, girl (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 July 2019 10:22 (four years ago) link
won't someone think of the optics?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 July 2019 10:29 (four years ago) link
I can't work out if a paid political journalist, leader writer for various newspapers is actually oblivious to the multiple awfulness of the deeply unpleasant, stagnant shit souffle that May is as a human and a politician. Or she's just been asked to write a risible challop piece about her. Either is bad.
― calzino, Monday, 15 July 2019 10:41 (four years ago) link
Serious question, would Gavin Shukar actually get paid for his article?
I mean, he should, 'cos it's hilarious.
"for one short period back in the spring, it looked as though the formation of the Independent Group might just catalyse the unravelling of both parties of government..."
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 15 July 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
read a piece last week about controversy regarding the singer rosalía releasing a song in catalan which uses spanishisms. the article, from a guardian writer who lives in barcelona, had a link to a tweet in catalan which he identified as being critical of rosalía but was in fact critical of criticism of rosalía. i haven't to barcelona since 2010 or had any contact with the catalan language since that time and i could read the tweet.
made me mad.
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 15 July 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
Are you referring to this one?
de vertitat perdonarem que la rosalia digui "cumpleanys"?
Because the Guardian piece's author doesn't describe it as an instance of criticism.
― pomenitul, Monday, 15 July 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
ah it's been edited. there was another tweet linked in the article previously
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 15 July 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Lol
Toby Young may be terrible and whatever but those indignantly piling on should realise they are mainly doing it for two reasons: 1) it's his turn to be bullied on twitter today and 2) they like bullying people on twitter— Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) January 3, 2018
Let's presume there are equal numbers of straight men and women. 'Redistributing sex' would just mean monogamously pairing off more of them, wouldn't it? I mean, it's v old fashioned, but not sexist, unless you start from the sexist pov that sex is a commodity women give to men? https://t.co/DDGrJgBdE6— Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) May 3, 2018
@thomasknox Newsflash: women are just as sexist as men. Sexism still a problem.— Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) July 16, 2014
None of these points are made in the article. Assuming "more sex for everyone" means "sex should be wrested from women and given to men" itself rests on the sexist belief that women don't like sex and men do.— Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) May 3, 2018
I don't get why this is sexist. Isn't he saying that nowadays dating is a free for all, so the most attractive men and women get all the sex, and the less attractive men and women don't get any. 'Redistribution' would mean returning to olden days where everyone had to be married— Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) May 3, 2018
― gyac, Monday, 15 July 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Publishing this by a man who was one of the key architects of the spurious case for war cynically constructed to justify war crimes on an unimaginable scale is beyond insulting. The Guardian is vile and indefensible. Campbell is a war criminal who should be locked up for life. pic.twitter.com/DG5V7R37ng— Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) July 15, 2019
― gyac, Monday, 15 July 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Xp any relation to eric lol
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 15 July 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
The older I get the more I think Kate Millett was right about everything.
― jou're much too jung, girl (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 July 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
good grief, Martha Gill is so very bad I hope she's embarrassed one day at all this drivel she gets paid to write. It was bad enough when the Spice Girls were declaring Thatcher as a paragon of feminism, but at least they had the excuse of being dim as fuck pop stars, not so called political journalists.
― calzino, Monday, 15 July 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/yaq-t59D9hA this reminds me of this classic clip (0.53 for Thatcher)
― gyac, Monday, 15 July 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
it wasn't all the spice girls! the mels and posh pushed back!
― mark s, Monday, 15 July 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link