Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[mauvais]

The Guardian reviews protests now, as 'art'. Three stars.

The Trump Baby Blimp review – triumph of protest art or big bag of wind?

 

[planetgeli]

'I think they were very lucky': Peterborough locals react to Labour win

Guardian not being bitter at all towards Labour.

I’ll paraphrase for you.

They only scraped through. In a contest where it’s about who gets the most votes wins.

Bloke went down the bookies (and obviously lost backing odds on favourite BP)

They were lucky.

Some bloke who used to work for Onasanya so is obviously tainted.

Repeated trope about relying on Muslims, though Guardian make sure they quote a Muslim because they’re not racist, oh no not us.

Some people voted Tory but if they hadn’t and had voted BP instead, Labour would have lost.

Good grief Charlie Brown.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Less than 700 votes is really close tbf.

Imo it's telling that labour vote (as per this by election, as per polling aside from a few of more recent ones) appears to be holding up while Tory vote tanking but 683 votes from a constituency of 95k is narrow whichever way you cut it.

Obviously the guardian are libdem pret cacao wankers but it's no less dishonest a take than some of the 'we beat them on the streets we beat them on the beaches' stuff either

 

[planetgeli]

Less than 700 votes is really close tbf.

Imo it's telling that labour vote (as per this by election, as per polling aside from a few of more recent ones) appears to be holding up while Tory vote tanking but 683 votes from a constituency of 95k is narrow whichever way you cut it.

Obviously the guardian are libdem pret cacao wankers but it's no less dishonest a take than some of the 'we beat them on the streets we beat them on the beaches' stuff either

‘Scraped’ and ‘lucky’ is deliberately ignoring any context. The Tories held this seat until 2017, the Brexit Party were supposedly rampant, the last (Labour) incumbent was jailed. To ignore this for what they’ve printed is entirely disingenuous.

 

[Proper Tidy]

‘Scraped’ and ‘lucky’ is deliberately ignoring any context. The Tories held this seat until 2017, the Brexit Party were supposedly rampant, the last (Labour) incumbent was jailed. To ignore this for what they’ve printed is entirely disingenuous.

Yeah fair

 

[stavros]

The magazine had a wrap-around for Uber today.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Experience: I killed my classmate with a javelin on sports day

 

[Poi E]

Yeah, that was to the point.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Experience: I killed my classmate with a javelin on sports day

In my early 30s, I went travelling for a year and a half. On a beach in India, someone gave me reiki and I had what I would call a spiritual awakening. I retrained as a life coach, focusing on being positive.

:vomit:

 

[emanymton]

In my early 30s, I went travelling for a year and a half. On a beach in India, someone gave me reiki and I had what I would call a spiritual awakening. I retrained as a life coach, focusing on being positive.

:vomit:

I'm really sorry about the girl I killed but I'll give her death meaning by using it to flog my shit book.

 

[Steel Icarus]

The magazine had a wrap-around for Uber today.

Genuinely read that as reach-around. Probably not inaccurate tbf

 

[scifisam]

I'm really sorry about the girl I killed but I'll give her death meaning by using it to flog my shit book.

Yeah, that really is pretty shit. She could have told the story without including the ad.

Also, she had a loving mum that she lived with and she got given a council flat in sixth form? Um, no, that doesn't happen. Teenagers who've never been in care and aren't estranged from their parents would be lucky to get a hostel, let alone a flat, even in the 80s. I'm sceptical about the whole thing.

 

[Proper Tidy]

The javelin bit is defo true (3rd one down)

North West Film Archive | BBC News Archive

 

[Pickman's model]

Yeah, that really is pretty shit. She could have told the story without including the ad.

Also, she had a loving mum that she lived with and she got given a council flat in sixth form? Um, no, that doesn't happen. Teenagers who've never been in care and aren't estranged from their parents would be lucky to get a hostel, let alone a flat, even in the 80s. I'm sceptical about the whole thing.

I became sceptical when the javelin suddenly swung to the right with no reported gust of wind

 

[BryanLuc]

Probably a reflection of the diminishing support for Labour in general

 

[Proper Tidy]

Probably a reflection of the diminishing support for Labour in general

It's a libdem paper you bell

 

[Idris2002]

The magazine had a wrap-around for Uber today.

Grauniad Uber alles

 

[hot air baboon]

The Grauniad's vision of our future prospects under late-capitalism - being an uber driver or a "life-coach"

 

[ViolentPanda]

Experience: I killed my classmate with a javelin on sports day

My sports day achievement was nowhere near as grim. I broke several bones in my PE teacher's foot when putting a shot. Laugh? I nearly died of asphyxiation, I guffawed so much!

 

[Pickman's model]

i see the guardian's standard of spelling and grammar is high as ever

 

[Admiral Fitz]

Guardian hack thinks they shouldn't make a second series of 'Russian Doll', because it might be difficult for them. Clearly the creative talent behind the programme should heed his advice and not try anything at all. "Loved your first novel Mr. Dickens, no need for any more it might be too hard for you."

russian-doll-second-season-netflix

 

[8ball]

The Guardian reviews protests now, as 'art'. Three stars.

The Trump Baby Blimp review – triumph of protest art or big bag of wind?

I don't see anything wrong with that. Comes neatly enough under the category of "protest art" - hardly a new thing.

 

[mauvais]

I don't see anything wrong with that. Comes neatly enough under the category of "protest art" - hardly a new thing.

And the rating?

3/5 - "certainly a moving work (ha ha) but suffers from low-budget production and ultimately offers no closure"

 

[8ball]

And the rating?

What 3/5 for the Trump blimp?
I'd probably have given it 3 and a half.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Theresa May could yet give us the ultimate parting gift: a Brexit referendum | Polly Toynbee

Theresa May might call a second referendum before she leaves. Says a non-desperately-flailing Toynbee.

 

[redsquirrel]

Theresa May could yet give us the ultimate parting gift: a Brexit referendum | Polly Toynbee

Theresa May might call a second referendum before she leaves. Says a non-desperately-flailing Toynbee.

Jesus even for Toynbee this is batshit insane cobblers.

 

[steeplejack]

Still remember Toynbee’s ‘exclusive’ undercover working as a minimum wage cleaner in parliament around the turn of the century. She was hurt most by being blanked by Peter Mandelson whilst working in disguise.

 

[Celyn]

If she were not Polly Toynbee, failing the "eleven plus" might have meant her doing minimum wage cleaning as her real job. The horror!

 

[kabbes]

It’s amazing how somebody so often manifestly wrong can keep on having a job giving us her reckons

 

[Pickman's model]

Theresa May could yet give us the ultimate parting gift: a Brexit referendum | Polly Toynbee

Theresa May might call a second referendum before she leaves. Says a non-desperately-flailing Toynbee.

That's worse than posting while pissed, that's obvs something written while maudlin at 3 in the morning