Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Poi E]

What's the controversy with them?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Why do so many people in the column say this? Has anyone here ever been ‘scared off’ by a date's friends? As opposed to, say, just thinking that they're arseholes, perhaps, or not really having any strong opinions because you don't really know them?

(There's also a subset of ‘I have shit friends’)

E.g:

Would you introduce him to your friends?
Most of them. I’m afraid he’d be scared by some of my friends.

Blind date: ‘He had the best brows going’

Would you introduce her to your friends?
No way – my friends are a nightmare!

Blind date: ‘He probably thinks I’m looking for an Irish passport’

Would you introduce her to your friends?
God, no – my friends are a nightmare.

Blind date: ‘There was loads of laughter, which is always good, right?’

Would you introduce him to your friends?
I think he would find them overwhelming.

Blind date: ‘I’d happily sing along to Hey Jude again’

Would you introduce him to your friends?
Probably not. Tom has never been to Surrey, which wouldn’t go down well.

Blind date: ‘He dropped the C-bomb a couple of times’

 

[Poi E]

Sterling work there

 

[equationgirl]

I think those responses say a lit about the people that go one a guardian blind date, to be honest.

 

[Celyn]

I think those responses say a lit about the people that go one a guardian blind date, to be honest.

How does it work? Does the "Guardian" pay for these wonderful "dates"?

I mean, can anyone apply, and get quite a nice free dinner out of it? It's not as though the person to meet would really be expecting wedding bells, so it would be sort of fun.

Sort of.

I wonder whether these lovely blind dates have to happen in any particular area. For those of us not in London, for example, would it be all right to apply saying, "Dear "Guardian", I am Celyn and I would very much like to meet a gentleman from Craiglang"?

 

[Idris2002]

 

[crossthebreeze]

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Darts plural - better off than Bros were

 

[DotCommunist]

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I swear they do this on purpose

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

I swear they do this on purpose

I reckon they have a competition in their office when thinking up headlines, to see if they can make it onto the great Urban 'down the pan' thread. It's the only explanation that makes sense.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Still trying to make talentless reprobate Pete Doherty happen.

Important update here - Pete Doherty cuts finger on hedgehog Pete Doherty hospitalised following hedgehog injury

 

[rekil]

Important update here - Pete Doherty cuts finger on hedgehog Pete Doherty hospitalised following hedgehog injury

It's just a reworded press release isn't it.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's just a reworded press release isn't it.

Glad it's that Pete Doherty and not the artist of the same name late of the coach and horses and tally ho

 

[Kaka Tim]

you'd think the CHUK would be a satirists dream - especially their strategy of bringing about a 2nd ref by keeping the tories in power for as long as possible. But not - it seems - if you are John Crace - who can barely manage a mild ribbing.

Breaking the mould? Change UK struggles to make an impact | John Crace

 

[andysays]

Important update here - Pete Doherty cuts finger on hedgehog Pete Doherty hospitalised following hedgehog injury

I hope the hedgehog is also receiving medical attention, no telling what ill effects it might suffer after contact with that vile individual

 

[emanymton]

It's just a reworded press release isn't it.

Like the vast majority of modern 'journalism'.

Also I can't help but wonder if this isn't of some relevance to this sudden news story.

The Libertines songwriter, who is gearing up to release an album

 

[eoin_k]

EU election results 2019: across Europe
Apparently, Change UK is a 'prominent' example of a party in the European Parliament categorised as 'other' because they have yet to affiliate to a group. Seems like honest balanced journalism, apart from the fact that they haven't, never have had and show no prospect of ever having an MEP elected.

Others - Others

Example leader
Heidi Allen
This includes parties who are new to the parliament, and members of groups which are too small to qualify.
Prominent parties: Change UK (UK)

 

[Pickman's model]

EU election results 2019: across Europe
Apparently, Change UK is a 'prominent' party in the European Parliament categorised as 'other' because they have yet to affiliate to a group. Seems like honest balanced journalism, apart from the fact that they haven't, never have had and show no prospect of ever having an MEP elected.

They will never have so much as a councillor elected

 

[eoin_k]

They will never have so much as a councillor elected

They might manage a parish councillor, if they can find an uncontested seat somewhere before they implode.

 

[brogdale]

In 'Politics Live':

 

[Mr Moose]

In 'Politics Live':

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Crikey, is there a person with a more sizeable ego than her in the country right now?

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Crikey, is there a person with a more sizeable ego than her in the country right now?

Just that Sargon fella from tinterwebs.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Forget Boris Johnson. The Tory leader could come from the centre | Martin Kettle

It's ok everyone! Those lovely Tories are going to elect a nice sensible centrist. Phew.

 

[Poi E]

Labour needs a reboot – and it could start with bringing back Ed Miliband | Owen Jones

 

[Proper Tidy]

Gosh

 

[Rob Ray]

I feel like Owen Jones calling for Ed Miliband to be brought in from the cold as a fixer is one of those watershed moments pundits will use in later years to pinpoint when the Labour left started to chew off its own face.

 

[Pickman's model]

I feel like Owen Jones calling for Ed Miliband to be brought in from the cold as a fixer is one of those watershed moments pundits will use in later years to pinpoint when the Labour left started to chew off its own face.

for me the best thing about ed miliband is no one's heard from him in years

 

[Rob Ray]

Hey Ed's running the 23rd most successful politics podcast on iTunes UK and has more than 13,500 followers on Twitter, if that doesn't say "the hero Labour needs right now" I don't know what does.

 

[billy_bob]

Owen Jones appears to have now fully inhabited the character of the professor Kent Brockman is interviewing in this clip:

 

[Artaxerxes]

Eds great since he stepped down as leader, he keeps trolling the shit out of the conservatives and Cameron.

Owen Jones remains shit.

 

[Rob Ray]

Fuck me who's on the Guardian picks today?