Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Celyn]

Artisan chocolate should always be savoured

Make time for a Babs Cartland moment on the sofa, says Annalisa Barbieri

www.theguardian.com

"Before I started tasting chocolate for a living ..."
Good fucking grief.

 

[Celyn]

Also, where might I apply for this job?

 

[SpookyFrank]

'Babs Cartland'

Boak

 

[stavros]

Does anyone else get a pop-up appear when they try to leave the Graun site, asking if you're sure you want to go? It seems to happen to me using IE, although not with Firefox and an ad-blocker.

 

[agricola]

Carbon-neutral coffee comes to UK – via sail boat from Colombia to Cornwall

Yallah Coffee’s beans now arrive on a schooner. Has the prospect of wind-powered cargo finally landed?

www.theguardian.com

 

[stavros]

Does anyone else get a pop-up appear when they try to leave the Graun site, asking if you're sure you want to go? It seems to happen to me using IE, although not with Firefox and an ad-blocker.

It even now seems to do this when you click on a link to another part of the site. It's as if they're not familiar with the back button.

 

[D'wards]

This is the stoopidest and must Guardian film review I've seen

I've never seen ... The Blues Brothers

This 40-year-old comedy – repackaging blues for a white audience – in many ways uncomfortably mirrors what is happening in the UK and America right now

www.theguardian.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

This is the stoopidest and must Guardian film review I've seen

I've never seen ... The Blues Brothers

This 40-year-old comedy – repackaging blues for a white audience – in many ways uncomfortably mirrors what is happening in the UK and America right now

www.theguardian.com

I clicked on it and at first thought ‘When did Orang Utan get that gig?!’

 

[FridgeMagnet]

This is the stoopidest and must Guardian film review I've seen

I've never seen ... The Blues Brothers

This 40-year-old comedy – repackaging blues for a white audience – in many ways uncomfortably mirrors what is happening in the UK and America right now

www.theguardian.com

That seems pretty fair actually - it's been ages since I watched the film, but it's definitely a huge mess and nowhere near as funny as people claim it is.

 

[D'wards]

That seems pretty fair actually - it's been ages since I watched the film, but it's definitely a huge mess and nowhere near as funny as people claim it is.

I disagree. It has great music, great gags, great car chases. Landis is a genius and Belushi was a star.
I watch it at least once a year

 

[two sheds]

And the nun scene .....

 

[D'wards]

And the nun scene .....

The way she delivers the damning verdict then slides backwards and the door slams by itself

 

[Orang Utan]

That seems pretty fair actually - it's been ages since I watched the film, but it's definitely a huge mess and nowhere near as funny as people claim it is.

it's not a good film, despite some funny moments. fine when you're 18, but doesn't hold up well. and the article makes a good point about the cultural appropration

 

[D'wards]

it's not a good film, despite some funny moments. fine when you're 18, but doesn't hold up well. and the article makes a good point about the cultural appropration

Cultural appropriation is such a trite observation when the case in point is done with care, skill and reverence, as the Blues Brothers clearly is.
You will hear very few black people complaining that Eminem has appropriated black culture and certainly no other rappers

 

[Artaxerxes]

The only really badly aged bit is Belushi offering money for the women and children.

But even then it’s explicity him taking the piss out of what would be called a male Karen these days and indulging in class war.

The film was never really about the gags I think, it’s clearly an excuse to play the blues

 

[D'wards]

In the article it states they drive a car at anti fascist protesters. This is such a guardianista willful manipulation of the facts to serve a point.
They drive their car at fucking nazis causing them to jump off the bridge.

How can any music fan be unmoved by this performance

 

[two sheds]

it's not a good film, despite some funny moments. fine when you're 18, but doesn't hold up well. and the article makes a good point about the cultural appropration

which bit is that?

I'd agree with animal house not holding up well - has a few iffy scenes - but Belushi is a joy (in both of them tbh).

 

[D'wards]

which bit is that?

I'd agree with animal house not holding up well - has a few iffy scenes - but Belushi is a joy (in both of them tbh).

I wonder what Ghostbusters would have been like if he had not got too "hopped up on goofballs" and checked out

 

[two sheds]

watchable perhaps

 

[Orang Utan]

which bit is that?

I'd agree with animal house not holding up well - has a few iffy scenes - but Belushi is a joy (in both of them tbh).

The whole thing

 

[D'wards]

which bit is that?

I'd agree with animal house not holding up well - has a few iffy scenes - but Belushi is a joy (in both of them tbh).

Animal House and I think Weird Science both have dodgy scenes when our hapless white heroes stumble into a black bar and shit themselves.

I'm sure other 80s films have it too - well in Vacation they stumble into a black neighbourhood and shit themselves.

"Hey can you tell me how to get back on the freeway?
"Yo fuck yo mamma"
"Thank you very much"

 

[two sheds]

The whole thing

what, the hats and the suits and the nun and all the music type things?

 

[Orang Utan]

what, the hats and the suits and the nun and all the music type things?

Have you read the article?

 

[two sheds]

ah no, just going from my memory of the film, will take a look

 

[two sheds]

seems overly cynical to me. I'd perhaps listen if it was a black writer saying it was cultural appropriation. White Guardian writer taking exception though, not really convinced. Bit of cultural appropriation on his part perhaps .

 

[D'wards]

seems overly cynical to me. I'd perhaps listen if it was a black writer saying it was cultural appropriation. White Guardian writer taking exception though, not really convinced. Bit of cultural appropriation on his part perhaps .

Even then it would be a hard sell. The Blues Brothers is packed with black artists doing performances of their own songs.
The Blues Brothers only do four and a bit songs, and two of those are Stand By Your Man and the Rawhide theme , and the bit being the intro to Gimme Some Lovin by the Spencer Davis Group

 

[krtek a houby]

Animal House is really dubious, rapey and has aged badly.

Still love The Blues Brothers, you could drive a car through the amount of wrongness in the article.

 

[two sheds]

Yes as you say with Animal House. Would be a good film without all that. Short, but a good film.

Of that era I tried several times to download American Graffiti as I remember enjoying that, particularly the bit with the police car and the lamp post, but there was always a virus in it

 

[Orang Utan]

Still like the acoustic guitar smashing scene

 

[kabbes]

It had never crossed my mind before that anybody could watch Blues Brothers and find it anything but brilliant. Just goes to show there is nothing so good that somebody won’t dislike it.