Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[DaveCinzano]

A third article on how to cook toast!

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/09/how-to-make-toast-the-jamie-oliver-way

And don't worry - readers can get involved too!

 

[belboid]

And don't worry - readers can get involved too!

Are you refined enough for a toast rack?

Personally, I will only ever eat toast that has been browned over an open fire, made up of a combination of hickory and pine, with a sprinkling of heather on top.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Are you refined enough for a toast rack?

Personally, I will only ever eat toast that has been browned over an open fire, made up of a combination of hickory and pine, with a sprinkling of heather on top.

Sometimes I like to break out the toast rack and teapot, because it makes me feel like I'm having breakfast in a seaside B&B.

 

[brogdale]

..but this toast article is well edgy....

In the past, I have turned the toaster on its side, put cheese on bread and slid it in so it toasts on one side and melts on the other. It’s a bit of a jiggle but it works [see footnote].

Spoiler: which service do you require?

Footnote: We strongly don’t recommend turning your toaster on its side to make cheese on toast or anything else, as it is a fire hazard. See this warning from the London Fire Brigade.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Spoiler: which service do you require?

Footnote: We strongly don’t recommend turning your toaster on its side to make cheese on toast or anything else, as it is a fire hazard. See this warning from the London Fire Brigade.

“I never thought I’d have to give this advice as it’s painfully obvious...”

 

[brogdale]

This is genuine.

Plastic bags and slogan tees: the best looks so far from London Collections: Men
Felt hats, slogan t-shirts and fun faux fur - the first two days of the London Collections: Men proved that menswear is alive with wit and innovation

A model wearing a plastic bag on the catwalk at the Christopher Shannon show
Photograph: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images

 

[DaveCinzano]

This is genuine.

A model wearing a plastic bag on the catwalk at the Christopher Shannon show
Photograph: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images

 

[butchersapron]

You make me bleed sick:

Warning: this article contains the image of the magazine cover, which some may find offensive.

 

[Celyn]

A third article on how to cook toast!

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/09/how-to-make-toast-the-jamie-oliver-way

Oh, this is so sad.

There is a divide in our family about how to make toast on an Aga

That must make life terribly stressful. Poor Jamie.

 

[Nylock]

Oh the humanity!

 

[ska invita]

“I never thought I’d have to give this advice as it’s painfully obvious...”

Best is to make sausages in a toaster

 

[ska invita]

Sometimes I like to break out the toast rack and teapot, because it makes me feel like I'm having breakfast in a seaside B&B.

does anyone have those really small tea cups at home?

 

[Lo Siento.]

“I never thought I’d have to give this advice as it’s painfully obvious...”

Jamie must clean his toaster thoroughly every time he makes cheese on toast, otherwise the breadcrumbs from the bottom and going to fall on the element and your house will smell of incinerated toast forever more.

 

[cantsin]

am sure no one comes to this thread to see Monbiot getting smoke blown up his jacksie, but his various TTIP pieces are sharp, incisive, informative : http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...de-deal-transatlantic-trade-investment-treaty

of course it's all a bit frustrating that he can't/won't overtly place all this, and the necessary fight against TTIP, in a wider "Be realistic, Capitalism's fucked, lets' head for the alternative, + sharpish" context, but it's Monbiot, in the Graun, thats how it goes down.

 

[Chick Webb]

Monbiot's an idiot on most things, particularly the things he feels most qualified speak about, but that was a pretty good article.

 

[DaveCinzano]

does anyone have those really small tea cups at home?

Ahhh... OJ glasses the size of eggcups, jumpers for goalposts etc

 

[rekil]

Neel Mukherjee’s top 10 books about revolutionaries

A common theme in most of these books is how revolutionary action is foredoomed to failure and revolutionaries are either deluded, or wrong, or both; at worst, they are psychopaths and criminals. Idealism seems to be vitiated the moment it is translated into (usually misguided) action.

This is, needless to say, a highly selective and subjective list.

You can say that again m8.

 

[butchersapron]

I remember when private school oxbridge types like Nel were lining up to join/run the CPGB. Did we let them down somehow?

 

[Bakunin]

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more banal, a crisp sandwich recipe:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...onroe-presents-aunty-helens-potato-sandwiches

 

[brogdale]

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more banal, a crisp sandwich recipe:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...onroe-presents-aunty-helens-potato-sandwiches

Doesn't say which way round I put the toaster.

#toastypanicattack

 

[Bakunin]

Doesn't say which way round I put the toaster.

#toastypanicattack

 

[belboid]

Doesn't say which way round I put the toaster.

#toastypanicattack

didn't you read the Nigel Slater??!! You never make toast with a toaster

 

[brogdale]

didn't you read the Nigel Slater??!! You never make toast with a toaster

aaarrggg! more #toastypanicattack

 

[brogdale]

Slow news day?

 

[brogdale]

Spoiler: NSF mouth full of coffee over keyboard

 

[rekil]

Slipknot puff piece.

Surfacing (“Fuck it all! / Fuck this world! / Fuck everything that you stand for!”) confirms that there is substance and soul behind the cartoonish masks and outsider bravado.

 

[treelover]

Revealed: thousands of Britons on benefits across EU
• At least 30,000 Britons on unemployment benefit in EU, Guardian research shows
• Unemployed Britons in richer EU states outnumber claimants from those countries in UK

• Helen Pidd searches for the only Briton in Poland claiming benefits
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/-sp-thousands-britons-claim-benefits-eu

The Guardian has spent some considerable resources on identifying there are more UK born claimants receiving higher rates of benefit in the other EU countries they are now living in, than there are EU citizens claiming here. I'm not sure why they have done this, I think its to show up the Tories and their attacks on migrants here, but it will only bring attention to U.K nationals claiming abroad which will include disabled people who leave for medical purposes, better climate, etc.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Spoiler: NSF mouth full of coffee over keyboard

In my head she now sounds like Kathy Beale.

 

[brogdale]

In my head she now sounds like Kathy Beale.

Hey. I'm no fan...but a northerner she ain't; she's a Croydon girl, innit?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Hey. I'm no fan...but a northerner she ain't; she's a Croydon girl, innit?

What are you on about?