Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Johnny Vodka]

i'm not racist, i love curry

Is curry a work of art now?

(Silly comment, not arguing with you any more in this thread.)

 

[seventh bullet]

Insecure people wanting to appear 'intellectual' by telling you or showing you that they read books, lol.

 

[killer b]

Amateurs. I leave copies of the LRB lying casually round the house instead.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

no, it shows that i like to have something in common with the people i get close to, that's all.

The books someone reads is not an important part of whether or not you are able to love them (I'm speaking more broadly here, and not about sex). Does everyone in your life have to conform to this ideal? It just strikes me as really weird.

I've got friends that have entirely different tastes and world views than me, but I love them to bits because they are loyal and supportive. Half my family don't read much or listen to music, but I don't reject them for it. I just don't understand your position.

 

[JimW]

Amateurs. I leave copies of the LRB lying casually round the house instead.

Does it work if you have their blog open on the laptop?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

The books someone reads is not an important part of whether or not you are able to love them (I'm speaking more broadly here, and not about sex). Does everyone in your life have to conform to this ideal? It just strikes me as really weird.

I've got friends that have entirely different tastes and world views than me, but I love them to bits because they are loyal and supportive. Half my family don't read much or listen to music, but I don't reject them for it. I just don't understand your position.

Must admit, I do like a good nose at someone's book/music/film collection if I go back to theirs (for this reason, I hate the move towards digital storage), but I don't think it would get in the way of a friendship.. or a shag.

 

[killer b]

Paper copies are best, but the blog will do if you get lucky unexpectedly and don't get time to lay them out.

 

[butchersapron]

Waters is great and playing a self-publicists role in that quote. Get him on proper baltimore working class self-organisation and he's brilliant. I'm not joking.

 

[xenon]

God, I read the comments. Never read the comments.

Or the articals...

 

[xenon]

Anyway what if they, potential shag has a kindle or simalar? Demand to see their library? Sexy

 

[Orang Utan]

The books someone reads is not an important part of whether or not you are able to love them (I'm speaking more broadly here, and not about sex). Does everyone in your life have to conform to this ideal? It just strikes me as really weird.

I've got friends that have entirely different tastes and world views than me, but I love them to bits because they are loyal and supportive. Half my family don't read much or listen to music, but I don't reject them for it. I just don't understand your position.

i like talking about them, and i would want to talk about them with a partner. that's all. i also like films, would find it disconcerting to go out with someone who had no interest in them. shared interests are important. it's why online dating profiles often have sections about films, books, music etc.

i was talking about potential partners, not friends or family btw

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Anyway what if they, potential shag has a kindle or simalar? Demand to see their library? Sexy

why do you think OKCupid and all the others want to know what books and films you like? The judgement (which I don't have a problem with - is someone who likes Pynchon more attractive to me? Hell yes.) is simply moved to the digital realm just like everything else.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

i like talking about them, and i would want to talk about them with a partner. that's all. i also like films, would find it disconcerting to go out with someone who had no interest in them. shared interests are important. it's why online dating profiles often have sections about films, books, music etc.

i was talking about potential partners, not friends or family btw

hah beat me too it. yep.

 

[butchersapron]

why do you think OKCupid and all the others want to know what books and films you like? The judgement (which I don't have a problem with - is someone who likes Pynchon more attractive to me? Hell yes.) is simply moved to the digital realm just like everything else.

To sell your interests to advertisers.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

To sell your interests to advertisers.

of course, but they couldn't do it if we didn't want to know and want other people to know.

- did your missus fall for the massive room full of pamphlets?

 

[butchersapron]

of course, but they couldn't do it if we didn't want to know and want other people to know.

- did your missus fall for the massive room full of pamphlets?

I think we all did. And yes. My bestest scam.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

why do you think OKCupid and all the others want to know what books and films you like?

It's a wonder people who judge others solely on their taste in films/music/books can't meet someone irl.

(And before you get on my case, I 'do' those sites. )

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

ironically my partner who is by far my longest lived relationship only had nine books on her shelf when I went back to hers of which 7 were Harry Potter, and one was a big glossy book of photos of puppies and kittens, and the nineth was that Peter Kilfoyle book about how Militant fucked up Liverpool.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a wonder people who judge others solely on their taste in films/music/books can't meet someone irl.

And who does that? You have a reading comprehension problem.

 

[xenon]

Commidification of relationships.

why do you think OKCupid and all the others want to know what books and films you like? The judgement (which I don't have a problem with - is someone who likes Pynchon more attractive to me? Hell yes.) is simply moved to the digital realm just like everything else.

Something to talk about. No bookshelf, no shag. Snobby judgemental nonsense.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

It's a wonder people who judge others solely on their taste in films/music/books can't meet someone irl.

(And before you get on my case, I 'do' those sites. )

I have done but met her indoors at a festival...

also who said solely you div? someone's tastes are part of a panoply of things that serve to make them more or less attractive - if I went back to someone's house and their bookshelves at a complete run of Usdaw's Arena magazine and a couple of slim volumes of Cambodian mass grave photos they would have to pretty special in other areas for me to want to hang about too long...

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Commidification of relationships.
Something to talk about. No bookshelf, no shag. Snobby judgemental nonsense.

why is it snobby? don't working clarse people read books other than Rags to Ritchie?

 

[xenon]

Interlectual snobbery.

 

[Orang Utan]

Commidification of relationships.
Something to talk about. No bookshelf, no shag. Snobby judgemental nonsense.

you said that. no one else. so how is it snobby judgemental nonsense?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Interlectual snobbery.

what you're saying makes no sense - are you claiming that people's tastes play no role in making them attractive or not?

 

[xenon]

Im just arguing for the sake of it TBF. I

 

[seventh bullet]

I have done but met her indoors at a festival...

also who said solely you div? someone's tastes are part of a panoply of things that serve to make them more or less attractive - if I went back to someone's house and their bookshelves at a complete run of Usdaw's Arena magazine and a couple of slim volumes of Cambodian mass grave photos they would have to pretty special in other areas for me to want to hang about too long...

Well done. I actually own Chinese propaganda, but it's not on display.

 

[xenon]

what you're saying makes no sense - are you claiming that people's tastes play no role in making them attractive or not?

Just hate apherisms. Crappy guardianista coppy and paste sneary ones esp.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Just hate apherisms. Crappy guardianista coppy and paste sneary ones esp.

If I got back to someone's house and discovered they were a Guardian columnist I might think again

 

[AC14]

I have done but met her indoors at a festival...

also who said solely you div? someone's tastes are part of a panoply of things that serve to make them more or less attractive - if I went back to someone's house and their bookshelves at a complete run of Usdaw's Arena magazine and a couple of slim volumes of Cambodian mass grave photos they would have to pretty special in other areas for me to want to hang about too long...

What's Usdaw's Arena?