Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Pickman's model]

Utter utter bollocks.

Yes, I know, guardian etc, but takes no account of hair type other than a vague mention of afro hair towards the end, water softness/hardness and so on. To think people get paid for writing such tripe.

you learn more about washing hair from the back of a johnson's shampoo bottle

 

[equationgirl]

you learn more about washing hair from the back of a johnson's shampoo bottle

I'm more likely to trust the info label on the back of a Johnson shampoo bottle than guardian shite.

 

[TopCat]

They will have an article on how to dribble soon

 

[equationgirl]

They will have an article on how to dribble soon

I fully expect a series on how to breathe, how to blink, how to sleep, the patronising twats.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

They will have an article on how to dribble soon

There's one already: How to pitch an article to Guardian Opinion | Kira Cochrane

 

[Nine Bob Note]

John McCririck obituary
Written by a man who himself died five years ago

 

[JuanTwoThree]

John McCririck obituary
Written by a man who himself died five years ago

What were the odds?

 

[DaveCinzano]

John McCririck obituary
Written by a man who himself died five years ago

RED RUM! RED RUM!

 

[belboid]

The Guardian deigns to report on a Tranmere match! Played at Prenton Park. But they can't even be arsed to name our squad, let alone refer to any of our players on the whole 1000 words.

Rhian Brewster braces for lift-off after helping Liverpool hit Tranmere for six

 

[butchersapron]

**

 

[stavros]

"Yet, even though Jo has a first-class maths degree, doing that research [into the affectiveness of vaccinations] has proved difficult."

Quite an interesting article. However, why being a maths graduate should enable easier access to medical research perplexed me.

 

[kabbes]

"Yet, even though Jo has a first-class maths degree, doing that research [into the affectiveness of vaccinations] has proved difficult."

Quite an interesting article. However, why being a maths graduate should enable easier access to medical research perplexed me.

A very good article, to be fair.
It’s true that the writer is conflating the fact that a maths graduate will understand statistical evidence better than most people with ease of access to research in the first place. A fallacy but not unforgivable in the context of the article as a while.

 

[Sue]

Hold onto your hats, folks...

How to chew your food properly

 

[killer b]

John McCririck obituary
Written by a man who himself died five years ago

he also postumously wrote this one, a year on from his own death.

Sir Peter O’Sullevan obituary

(it's fair enough tbf - I guess they have stuff like this on file, and there's no need to commission a new one just because the author is dead)

 

[equationgirl]

"Yet, even though Jo has a first-class maths degree, doing that research [into the affectiveness of vaccinations] has proved difficult."

Quite an interesting article. However, why being a maths graduate should enable easier access to medical research perplexed me.

Depends if the maths was applied or pure, and exactly what they were trying to break into. But maths does not equal statistics, so even with a first they would not necessarily be the first or best choice for such a study. They might be successful at medical mathematics but would likely need to have a PhD in the subject.

 

[equationgirl]

She's probably looking in the wrong places on the Internet, efficacy of vaccines is a big field in mathematical modelling.

 

[hash tag]

I read a story in yesterdays Observer and a paragraph was repeated verbatim with a bit of fluff in between. I sadly cannot remember what the story was now.

 

[rekil]

More culty shittery.

'We stay pure in our little bubble': the Glastonbury couple who avoid the music

Call me a hippie.

Hippy cunt.

You might think that it would be hard to access that deeper consciousness with the sound of the festival, but we lead people into it quite artfully – even if I say so myself

Sleazy hippy cunt.

But it doesn't get guardianer than this. Shamima Begum - dream dinner party guest.

RSVP Nina Simone and Shamima Begum: a dinner party for our times

Offering someone hospitality is a way of letting them rest and recuperate and eat with you – and it’s important she’s with people who aren’t attacking her.

 

[brogdale]

Performance art level of naiveté

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Two above-the-fold items on that most pressing of modern political issues - the Lib Dem leadership contest - with a follow-through hagiography piece titled Jo Swinson: youthful veteran long seen as natural heir to Vince Cable

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Oh fucking hell

The fightback for liberal Britain begins here. Jo Swinson can lead it | Timothy Garton Ash

 

[kabbes]

Why are you torturing yourself?

 

[SE25]

Oh fucking hell

The fightback for liberal Britain begins here. Jo Swinson can lead it | Timothy Garton Ash

if there is a lord please bless us with tears from these idiots come the next GE

 

[Poi E]

"The great unrepresented liberal Britain, that is, that people around the world admire and miss."

They don't care, Timothy. They really don't.

 

[TopCat]

How to chew your food properly

 

[FridgeMagnet]

How social media echo chambers fuelled the rise of Boris Johnson | Suzanne Moore

Mysteriously pointless article by Suzanne Moore until you realise that it means "people who slag off nice liberal journalists like me on the internet are the real problem" (she gives the game away halfway through). I guess Boris is our fault then, everyone

 

[Poi E]

Think they'd be happy now Swinson will save us all.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

'Faux guacamole' raises alarm for taco lovers as avocado prices soar

Don't think this one needs any explanation.

 

[Proper Tidy]

'Faux guacamole' raises alarm for taco lovers as avocado prices soar

Don't think this one needs any explanation.

If guacamole made from squash not avocado tastes the same then who gives a fuck, it's not like slyly feeding people cats or something

 

[Sprocket.]

If guacamole made from squash not avocado tastes the same then who gives a fuck, it's not like slyly feeding people cats or something

O/T my mum said during the war cats were called Roof Rabbits.