Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[phildwyer]

Don't know/use the LJR, cos the spoons next door to Foyles is just too handy/cheap.

Also too far, for me anyway. I've been going to the Friend at Hand recently, lots of tourists but pretty good food. It was TS Eliot's local too.

 

[brogdale]

Mash has it covered...

CLASSY supermarket Waitrose has completely lost it after everyone took the piss with its free hot drinks.

The company had previously issued a masterfully passive-aggressive statement reminding loyalty card holders to buy a lovely cake if they wanted to linger with their complimentary coffee, which everyone ignored.

A Waitrose spokesman said: “Jesus Christ. It’s a coffee machine, not a metal teat.

“We thought you were reasonable people with nice cul-de-sac homes and an innate sense of decency. But no, you are a tick-like bunch of parasites, bloated on milk and caffeine that we paid for.

“Scum is a strong word but also an appropriate one for you people.

“This is not your second home, it is a supermarket. Drink your drinks and begone. You may stay for eight minutes’ max or we kick them out of your hands.

“If you want somewhere to sit all day wallowing in your own self-loathing we can point you to the nearest Wetherspoon.”

He added: “We created a beautiful supermarket and you have sullied it. It’s like Adam and Eve, except with a latte instead of an apple.

“Anyway it’s all ruined now. We’re locking the doors and all the nice things shall rot inside.”

 

[rekil]

Good shit from former Le Monde editor Natalie Nougayrède. A product of elite schools and all the rest as far as I can make out.

Opposite the Podemos office, there’s a book shop run by some of its activists. Browsing through it feels like you’ve stepped into a time-machine: there are collections of Lenin’s works, and books on the Italian communist thinker Antonio Gramsci and the French 19th-century revolutionary Louise Michel.

Weirdos and their book filled bookshop how are you. Lest we forget, the guardian bookshop was flogging that anti-semitic conspiraloonery until we made them stop.

Iglesias and his close circle of friends in the Podemos leadership have spent time in Venezuela and Bolivia in the last decade, some of them acting as advisers to regimes whose democratic credentials aren’t exactly solid. Questions have been raised in the Spanish media about financial dealings from the regime of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, whom Iglesias has expressed admiration for.

Little bit contra.

 

[Kaka Tim]

This is shockingly bad - and its from one of their foriegn affairs staffers. Its a feeble hatchet job on Podemos where the main crimes seems to be their leaders admiration for Chavez, defended Syriza coalition arrangement and that he was apparently less than enthusiastic about the ukrainian "revolution" (although no details are forthcoming in the article)

But the impression of ideological muddle endures. During the Maidan protests in Ukraine, Iglesias largely came down on the side of Putin’s propaganda. And when Syriza formed a coalition with the antisemitic, far-right Independent Greek party, Iglesias defended it as “a programmatic choice”.

The whole thing reads like shes been passed a crib sheet from podemos' rivals and passed it off as some sort of expert commentary.

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...mos-spain-victory-less-clear#comment-46837747

 

[Kaka Tim]

Good shit from former Le Monde editor Natalie Nougayrède. A product of elite schools and all the rest as far as I can make out.


Weirdos and their book filled bookshop how are you. Lest we forget, the guardian bookshop was flogging that anti-semitic conspiraloonery until we made them stop.

Little bit contra.

Leftwing bookshop sells left wing books shock!!!

Didn't see your post coley - great minds and all that.

 

[clandestino]

the problem is the front page list of stories are all text, no pictures and no headline-to-subtext - it all just turns into a blur of text - i find it impossible to focus on to read
its pandering to phone and tablet users
this isnt just a case of getting used to a new design i dont think
*The Al JAzeera site is all messed up too - theyve gotten rid of the regions from the front page

I agree. I look at the front page now but nothing tempts me to click on the stories to read them. I've started reading BBC for news instead, but that's not a perfect replacement. Any other recommendations for news sites?

 

[ska invita]

I agree. I look at the front page now but nothing tempts me to click on the stories to read them. I've started reading BBC for news instead, but that's not a perfect replacement. Any other recommendations for news sites?

yeah exactly that (though the bbc site is consistently news free on the front pages)
ive ended up on Al jazeera a bit more than normal, also looking more on facebook than i normally do, though ultimately ive been detoxing from news for the last couple of years - gave up on tv news (tv full stop in fact) and think i might just carry it over to the internet too - going to try and waste less time on the net this year i think and the more websites go "phone first" the easier thats going to be

i used to do RSS feeds for blogs but then had to reset my system and lost all the bookmarks - might try and set that up again

 

[Idris2002]

52 reasons not to date an aid worker:

http://www.theguardian.com/global-d...2-reasons-not-to-date-an-aid-worker?CMP=fb_gu

39. When arguing, you will be nicknamed after some dictator you never heard of before, and won’t be able to complain without having to put up with a condescending “What do you mean you don’t know who he is?”

NB, link contains slightly NSFW image.

 

[Lo Siento.]

Leftwing bookshop sells left wing books shock!!!

Didn't see your post coley - great minds and all that.

Presumably when you go to a normal bookshops all their books date from the last five years. Also there will be nothing in the economics section by or about Adam Smith, Ricardo etc.

(Also, the ruling party in Spain has spent considerable amounts of time trying to curry favour with the Chinese Communist Party - which runs an actual dictatorship...)

 

[butchersapron]

52 reasons not to date an aid worker:

http://www.theguardian.com/global-d...2-reasons-not-to-date-an-aid-worker?CMP=fb_gu

39. When arguing, you will be nicknamed after some dictator you never heard of before, and won’t be able to complain without having to put up with a condescending “What do you mean you don’t know who he is?”

NB, link contains slightly NSFW image.

I.e 52 chances to point out that i'm part of an elite globe-trotting humanity saving bubble and that i'm fantastic. I'm better than you in fact. And you. And i juggle this with a family life. You're all cunts compared to me.

Look at this actual line:

Angélica Arbulu has been a humanitarian for over 12 years.

 

[frogwoman]

I.e 52 chances to point out that i'm part of an elite globe-trotting humanity saving bubble and that i'm fantastic. I'm better than you in fact. And you. And i juggle this with a family life. You're all cunts compared to me.

Look at this actual line:

Angélica Arbulu has been a humanitarian for over 12 years.

To be honest i know a couple of aid workers who have lived in different countries, long term, proper aid work rather than eu based volunteering like i did a few years ago and that list is absolute bollocks.

 

[rekil]

She's a bureaucrat ffs.

How does one get into this racket.

Strategic Analysis on best practices & Lesson Learned through the MDG Fund

UNDP

September 2013 – March 2014 (7 months) Greater New York City Area

In charge of synthesis and analysis on achievements by thematic window and lessons learned of the MDG Fund programmes. In charge of drafting executive summary and three chapters from the final report. (September 2013- April 2014)

 

[rekil]

A while ago I found myself beside a bloke in the pub who described himself as "a bohemian".

Anyway, Timothy Garton Ash is horny for war with Russia.

Only when Ukrainian military defence can plausibly hold Russian offence to a stalemate will a negotiated settlement become possible. Sometimes it takes guns to stop the guns.

Won’t such arms supplies further nourish a Russian paranoia of encirclement? Yes, but Putin is feeding the paranoia already, untroubled by the facts.

 

[butchersapron]

Nice to see the sports section editors got their priorities right:

 

[DaveCinzano]

A while ago I found myself beside a bloke in the pub who described himself as "a bohemian".

Hope you told him to Czech his privilege

 

[belboid]

Nice to see the sports section editors got their priorities right:

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well, Katy Perry is at least more popular here than American bloody Football - which nobody gives a shit about

 

[killer b]

She's a bureaucrat ffs.

How does one get into this racket.

A rhetorical question, I presume?

 

[SpookyFrank]

52 reasons not to date an aid worker:

http://www.theguardian.com/global-d...2-reasons-not-to-date-an-aid-worker?CMP=fb_gu

39. When arguing, you will be nicknamed after some dictator you never heard of before, and won’t be able to complain without having to put up with a condescending “What do you mean you don’t know who he is?”

NB, link contains slightly NSFW image.

Christ on crutches that's the most smug thing I've ever read.

e2a: Looks like she's one of the people who get paid a small fortune to sit in an air-conditioned office issuing twattish memos about produtivity while the volunteers are out doing all the getting shot at and contracting malaria type stuff.

 

[rekil]

A rhetorical question, I presume?

Well yeah, I had a look at the route. V.expensive unis -> financial sector multinationals -> UN gravy train.

 

[DotCommunist]

well, Katy Perry is at least more popular here than American bloody Football - which nobody gives a shit about

it disrupts the american mediocre shows schedule and leaves me with nothing that weekend

 

[Idris2002]

Look at this actual line:

Angélica Arbulu has been a humanitarian for over 12 years.

With a name like "Arbulu" you expect it to continue "and bathes every morning in the blood of young virgins".

 

[treelover]

Cities in culture: has Sheffield finally shaken off its Full Monty image?
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...field-finally-shaken-off-its-full-monty-image

There is some good stuff in the G recently, but some rubbish including this lazy article about Sheff, it is nothing like the F/M now, it has its problems but cultural provision has never been better, don't think it even mentions Tramlines. Even in the summer when the students were away, there were events all the time. Though of course, they are right about unemployment, inequality and poverty and other stuff can be just surface deep, Look at cities like Liverpool, once you leave the shiny city centre/Liverpool One, etc, you see real decline, even as close as Lime St,by the Adelphi,story of most neo-liberal regional economies really.

 

[weepiper]

Some amount of anti-working-class pish been written about the Celtic-Rangers game yesterday, including this fine example in the Guardian:

Middle class bedwetting

And here is my reply to Libby Brooks.

 

[treelover]

How popular is your blog?, just interested

 

[weepiper]

How popular is your blog?, just interested

how long is a piece of string? I'm not sure how to compare it.

 

[Pickman's model]

how long is a piece of string? I'm not sure how to compare it.

just say it's very popular with people who read it

 

[rekil]

C'mere, and there's more.

Tell us your reasons to date an aid worker

There may be 52 reasons not to date an aid worker, but there are also at least that many arguments for becoming romantically involved with those courageous, compassionate and slightly crazy characters.

Steady on.

Other persuasive justifications are that you’ll never be bored by an aid worker

Wtf. Wanna bet?

 

[Indeliblelink]

Going down the pan indeed, just make sure you're sitting.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/06/take-a-stand-against-the-urinal?CMP=fb_gu

 

[Orang Utan]

Going down the pan indeed, just make sure you're sitting.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/06/take-a-stand-against-the-urinal?CMP=fb_gu

Here here. I agree with all of that. Glad that someone else thinks standing up to piss is daft.

 

[butchersapron]

I want get a dig at the independent - they had a headline which said 'puniched' for a good few hours yesterday.