Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[DotCommunist]

I hear this response more and more when bringing up anything to do with politics, the banks, work conditions etc - as if highlighting something and saying that it isn't right and needs to be changed is somehow a naive thing to say or think and that proper grown ups merely accept that it is the natural order of things and get on with their lives. I think it's a very dark way to see the world.

you'll see this no more clearly than when you articulate a non mainstream opinion on politics- you're wolfie smith, you're Russel Brand. You don't understand how the real world works. Its enough to drive someone towards the tactics I mentioned to you in PM. This idea of the grand game, all a magic and light show for a class that never feels the effects of what they do.

 

[weepiper]

"outraged Scots promised to report Carmichael to the parliamentary standards watchdog for bringing parliament into disrepute (ho, ho)"​

The "ho ho", I presume, is along the lines of Sir Malcolm Bruce's "defence" of Carmichael this morning? "All MPs lie. The place would be empty". Ah, well, that's OK, then.

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Speaking of which. Here's Malcolm Bruce a few scant weeks ago, on the topic of an SNP candidate who tweeted some questionable links under a nom de plume:

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm glad Hay didn't win. He's a twat. But it's interesting to compare crimes: he tweeted links to the puerile and crap satirical site "BBC Scotlandshire" while neither an MP nor candidate.

 

[danny la rouge]

Talking of twats, here's a good one. "We need bad MPs to represent bad voters".

 

[J Ed]

Wow. Well, he is saying what they are thinking I suppose...

 

[SpookyFrank]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/27/tea-national-disgrace-beverage-british

Tea is shit. We don’t examine this enough in England. We just putter along, thinking tea is good; but it’s not good. It’s a lukewarm mug of leaf water, presented as a cure-all for life’s ills. “Nice cup of tea,” people say, when you’ve watched a vivid car accident or been given a terminal diagnosis, or gone for a walk and it’s started raining.

Firstly a cup of tea is an excellent (and officially recommended) remedy for shock, hypothermia, emotional trauma and a range of other bad things. Secondly, simply reading half a dozen Charlie Brooker columns then picking a subject at random to witlessly moan about does not a writer make.

 

[Belushi]

I don't even like tea but that article is terrible. They really do publish any old shit.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I write better rants than that in my spare time. Often while stoned. If only my dad worked at the Guardian I'd be loaded by now.

 

[Artaxerxes]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/27/tea-national-disgrace-beverage-british



Firstly a cup of tea is an excellent (and officially recommended) remedy for shock, hypothermia, emotional trauma and a range of other bad things. Secondly, simply reading half a dozen Charlie Brooker columns then picking a subject at random to witlessly moan about does not a writer make.

This fucking cunt of a commentator on that article, jesus fucking christ

If you have had the pleasure of drinking tea in Japan or China or made by a person raised in japanese or chinese tea making ceremony , the point made by the writer here is right: Tea made and served the British/national way is perhaps not a disgrace but just presently unworthy. It has certainly deteriorated in the last decades

 

[SpookyFrank]

How can you be unworthy of putting some leaves in a cup of hot water?

 

[butchersapron]

Did you know they give their children wine with the evening meal - that's why they're not a disgrace to humanity like the british people we see everywhere. And they all eat at a big table. Sometimes outside. In the big old farmhouses they all live in.

 

[ska invita]

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[teqniq]

An article by David Mellor

Fifa’s so corrupt only governments can clean it out

To which I replied in the comments: 'David Mellor writing about right and proper behaviour? Doctor my sides.'

It was deleted by a moderator straightaway.

 

[J Ed]

An article by David Mellor

Fifa’s so corrupt only governments can clean it out

To which I replied in the comments: 'David Mellor writing about right and proper behaviour? Doctor my sides.'

It was deleted by a moderator straightaway.

In some ways you have to sympathise (not really) with FIFA, if they were a bank they wouldn't be getting half the flack that they are.

 

[SpookyFrank]

In some ways you have to sympathise (not really) with FIFA, if they were a bank they wouldn't be getting half the flack that they are.

Or a government for that matter.

 

[eatmorecheese]

Article by Kevin McKenna:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/31/bollinger-bolshevik-with-rightwing-friends

Just utter drivel, so it fits the OP

 

[youngian]

Zoe Williams asks it she is part of an oppressed social class

The metropolitan elite: Britain’s new pariah class
The ‘metropolitan elite’ has become the catch-all term of abuse against Westminster politicians and diverse voices. But is it a real explosion of rage against a broken system, or an easy way to spread intolerance?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/20/metropolitan-elite-britains-new-pariah-class

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Reasonable article and the subhead (which of course Williams wouldn't have written) doesn't capture its tone. What did you dislike about it?

 

[youngian]

Its a bogus victimhood winge from a privileged person who is not widely disliked or even registers among many people beyond right wing newspaper columnists. See also business people who are also upset that Ed MIliband was not paying them enough reverence.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Its a bogus victimhood winge from a privileged person .

It wasn't, really.

 

[butchersapron]

Yeah, the Godolphin and Latymer School then oxbridge educated guardian journo probably didn't have herself in mind when she wrote about anger at 'metropolitan elitism'.

 

[J Ed]

This article about standing at work is amazing

The US secretary of state Donald Rumsfeld, famously, considered this a laughably feeble form of non-torture, scribbling on a Pentagon memo that he stood for up to 10 hours every day – so why should these wimpish prisoners be spared? But after attempting to enact new advice that office workers should stand for four hours every working day, I begin to see what the interrogators were on about.

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Standing to work is not a new thing

 

[Belushi]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/05/professional-northerner-labour-andy-burnham

 

[oryx]

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...es-kennedy-alcohol-problem-britain-alcoholism

Yawn, yawn. 'Brits' and binge drinking again. It's rather disrespectful and I feel that Charles Kennedy's alcoholism, while his cause of death, has been over-played in the light of his being a decent and respected parliamentarian.

Can't believe she didn't get in a bit about continental Europeans and pavement cafes. Just to put the icing on the stereotype cake.

 

[weepiper]

This article about standing at work is amazing

What is that bollocks? Everyone bar the managers at my work stands for 8-9 hours a day, everyday, except for their lunch break

 

[ska invita]

What is that bollocks? Everyone bar the managers at my work stands for 8-9 hours a day, everyday, except for their lunch break

i havent read the article but fuck standing at work - i think its an outrage and feel very sorry whenever i see anyone standing at workplaces - especially bullshit ones where a seat would be fine but some management cunt has made it happen to feel more dynamic or some shit
personally i have flat feet and cant go more than 10mins standing before it hurts

 

[weepiper]

i havent read the article but fuck standing at work - i think its an outrage and feel very sorry whenever i see anyone standing at workplaces - especially bullshit ones where a seat would be fine but some management cunt has made it happen to feel more dynamic or some shit
personally i have flat feet and cant go more than 10mins standing before it hurts

I say stand but it's pretty mobile, there's a lot of walking about/fetching/up and down stairs. It's not standing still at a till.

 

[ska invita]

I say stand but it's pretty mobile, there's a lot of walking about/fetching/up and down stairs. It's not standing still at a till.

yeah some supermarkets have introduced it for people scanning at tills - fucking sadists

 

[Orang Utan]

yeah some supermarkets have introduced it for people scanning at tills - fucking sadists

Why? It's better than sitting.

 

[Libertad]

Why? It's better than sitting.

A choice between the two options would be better though.