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frogwoman said:
the dietician at the end concluded that anyone following that diet wouldn't get a enough calories anyway. But, a £7 a week diet will result in malnutrition isn't really news, I suppose.
There was another one on the BBC site showing in Most Read stories on "how cheaply could you live" that trotted out all the govt propaganda surronding the benefit cap and then made it into some game of playing house that had me spitting feathers. It tells you so much about the author, editiors and institution that they can churn out endless pro-austerity-lite fluff like this but you'll not see one critique from outside that narrow "feckless poor" framing.
You forgot "...larded with literary cliché...".
In this week's New Statesman column (entitled "Modern life is science fiction - but would you dare go on a one-way mission to Mars?") contains some wonderfully bog standard examples of them, such as "...the unfathomable vastness of space..." nand "the gruelling physical ordeal of the journey".
She also says "The closest I'll get to outer space is watching interstellar cruisers blow each other into glittering bits on Battlestar Galactica. For the life of me, I can't remember that many instances of direct cruiser-on-cruiser action in either runs of it. It was mostly fighter to fighter.
Which seems to mean going to four different supermarkets to get the cheapest of anything, and the nutritionist consulted for the article said it was a good variety of food but not enough calories due to portion sizes.
"@mollycrabapple: needs more cleavage though"
LP: "There are, for instance, far fewer young people trying to change media in the UK. There's no London equiv. of @newinquiry or @jacobinmag"
Seriously WTF? Parodying these people is getting harder and harder.
One week after this, she went on the twitter and made up some rubbish about her friends.
But got run out.
