Marina Hyde: saving grace of t'Graun?

[teqniq]

I have laughed at her takedowns in the past but lately they have felt somewhat formulaic.

 

[shifting gears]

I grudgingly enjoy her column occasionally, that's as far as I'll go though.

this is basically my take on her column, too. The last one I remember really made me laugh was this, which I remember forwarding to my mum:

Chris Grayling's track record? There is no longer a track: just a stretch of scorched earth | Marina Hyde

His career has been a series of breathtaking failures. Yet he’s just been made chair of the intelligence committee, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

reading it back now, knackered, it doesn’t tickle me so much but the last musing “quote” in the first paragraph had me snorting with laughter on first read

I was gonna say that writing a weekly satirical political column must be tricky without resorting to tired cliches but then there really is boundless ammunition with these plasticine-faced cunts that are stealing a living

 

[DaveCinzano]

I would say the opposite way round - Hyde is massively laboured and predictable, it's just a question of which Issues she's seen on Twitter are going to be forced into jokes along the way, and you know that if you've been unfortunate enough to be reading Politics Twitter over the last week.

It's like The News Quiz or The Now Show only harder to avoid if you are online

 

[DaveCinzano]

But I have grown to enjoy Hadley Freeman.

 

[nogojones]

I like her. I also like John Crace.

I just don't know what to say.

Whenever I see him or start to read a few of his lines, I just get an urge to slap him. With a big bit of timber repeatedly.

 

[killer b]

I just don't know what to say.

Whenever I see him or start to read a few of his lines, I just get an urge to slap him. With a big bit of timber repeatedly.

innit - the idea of liking John Crace is something that's totally alien to my understanding of the universe. It's like finding out someone votes Lib Dem.

 

[Smangus]

They never replaced Simon Hoggart's wit.

 

[oryx]

They never replaced Simon Hoggart's wit.

I've tried with both Hyde and John Crace, but can't stand either of them.

Now Simon Hoggart, he really was funny.

 

[bmd]

Hadley Freeman should never have been on the list, mauvais . She is the worst. Marina Hyde is just a posh dickhead but Hadley Freeman is a really massive knob like omg can you imagine if you had to talk to her like if you got into a car accident and she was the first on the scene to come and help you out and she started asking you dead weird and irrelevant questions and giving you funny looks? no thanks Hadley, just call the ambulance please

I like her too. She was in danger of getting her own thread as well.

I can't stand Piers Morgan though so I'm still ok with my choices.

 

[TopCat]

Formulaic

 

[bmd]

I think this is going rather nicely. We just need one more page before we start in on how shit The Guardian is in general and then some poster gets a kicking and everyone glares at everyone else.

 

[TopCat]

It’s a shit paper. Full of liberals who won’t stand for the Lib Dem’s but instead call on labour endlessly to do their bidding, no matter for the destruction this causes to working class people.

 

[bmd]

It’s a shit paper. Full of liberals who won’t stand for the Lib Dem’s but instead call on labour endlessly to do their bidding, no matter for the destruction this causes to working class people.

We're not at page 3 yet ffs!

 

[planetgeli]

Is this the "I have a certain amount of time for those old patrician noblesse oblige Tories" thread?

Oh no, that'll be next week.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

It’s a shit paper.

Written, almost exclusively, by middle class oxbridge wankers

 

[killer b]

Written, almost exclusively, by middle class oxbridge wankers

This isn't true at all.

It's written by upper class oxbridge wankers.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

This isn't true at all.

It's written by upper class oxbridge wankers.

That’s really unfair to Owen Jones and others. He is most definitely a middle class oxbridge wanker and not a upper class oxbridge wanker.

other than that, fair enough...

 

[bmd]

Ok, well, we can start on page 2 if you insist.

I like the Guardian but, like R4, I will probably just wake up one day and think "what the fuck am I doing with my life?"

 

[Maggot]

I think Ms Hyde is one of the finest columnists around, and seeing the class hatred on here just makes me like her even more.

This one of her better columns.

Matt Hancock, could you honestly think of no one better to run test and trace? | Marina Hyde

With the system in chaos, Dido Harding says the increased demand could not have been predicted. Yes, really, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

His own ma and pa clearly hopelessly overindulged Jacob Rees-Mogg, but millions of other parents just will not feel minded to take it from this rejected Charlie and the Chocolate Factory character. If there were any justice, Jacob would have been stretched into a mile-long liquorice lace by vigilante Oompa-Loompas as they sang one of their trademark cautionary songs.

 

[killer b]

seeing the class hatred on here

do you not think actual aristocrats dominating public life in the UK is a bit shit?

 

[bmd]

do you not think actual aristocrats dominating public life in the UK is a bit shit?

It's massively shit. Still, she's not bad at writing, you've got to give her that. The posh cunt.

 

[killer b]

Incredible that the daughter of a baronet who went to an expensive private school and read English at Oxford might be able to string a nicely formed sentence together.

 

[Maggot]

do you not think actual aristocrats dominating public life in the UK is a bit shit?

In terms of the government it is, of course.

But in other areas, such as columnists, I judge them on merit and don't care which school they went to.

 

[killer b]

In terms of the government it is, of course.

But in other areas, such as columnists, I judge them on merit and don't care which school they went to.

It's the same thing though. Unless you think that somehow the dominance of privately educated posh people in the media and arts is down to merit, but in politics it's down to nepotism?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

In terms of the government it is, of course.

But in other areas, such as columnists, I judge them on merit and don't care which school they went to.

What effects and outcomes do you think the media, culture, arts, education and politics being dominated by a particular class might produce?

 

[Supine]

It's massively shit. Still, she's not bad at writing, you've got to give her that. The posh cunt.

Could you be any more offensive against the woman? Language like that should not be acceptable.

 

[bmd]

Is this the "I have a certain amount of time for those old patrician noblesse oblige Tories" thread?

Oh no, that'll be next week.

I've put it in the calendar for Wednesday afternoon.

 

[bmd]

Could you be any more offensive against the woman? Language like that should not be acceptable.

I'll give it a go but it might not be today.

 

[Idris2002]

Incredible that the daughter of a baronet who went to an expensive private school and read English at Oxford might be able to string a nicely formed sentence together.

Baronet is probably the shittest posh title though - the kids don't inherit it or anything.

 

[killer b]

Baronet is probably the shittest posh title though - the kids don't inherit it or anything.

I think they do - her dad is the son of the former baronet, and her uncle is next in line (according to the internet)