Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[stavros]

Fit in my 40s: am I fat-shaming my dog if we work out together?

 

[Sue]

Jesus. They don't call her Woe Zilliams for nothing.

 

[Elpenor]

The good, the bad and the monarchy: why we’re still suckers for the royal fairytale | Alex von Tunzelmann

Prince Philip came to understand that the power of royalty lies in its stories – in heroes and villains, twists and turns, says historian Alex von Tunzelmann

www.theguardian.com

Article rejected from Telegraph I assume

 

[redsquirrel]

what pisses me off is all of the Australian content

Biggest liberal new site in Aus (or was when I left in 2017)

 

[DaveCinzano]

what pisses me off is all of the Australian content

Scratch a soft green lib

 

[JTG]

Scratch a soft green lib

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Thank you for reminding me of this incredible tweet from the hapless Mr Hoyt

 

[DaveCinzano]

Thank you for reminding me of this incredible tweet from the hapless Mr Hoyt

Eight years, eight days and fifty-six minutes since that beauty first dropped

 

[TopCat]

Scratch a soft green lib

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What a cunt.

 

[Thaw]

Joined up reporting

‘Insanely cheap energy’: how solar power continues to shock the world | Energy | The Guardian

doesnt mention the whole slave labour angle

Revealed: UK solar projects using panels from firms linked to Xinjiang forced labour | Solar power | The Guardian

 

[JuanTwoThree]

I thought 'Tim Dowling can't be any worse than last time I was stupid enough to peek at his witterings'.

Oh yes he fucking can.

 

[TopCat]

I thought 'Tim Dowling can't be any worse than last time I was stupid enough to peek at his witterings'.

Oh yes he fucking can.

It’s a weird and strangely popular column. Is any of it true? Why is he still married?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It’s a weird and strangely popular column. Is any of it true? Why is he still married?

I can't understand that column at all. I mean I am a boring middle aged middle class man but that doesn't mean I want to read about others and their boring lives. Quite the opposite tbh.

 

[ska invita]

lol

out of interest, anyone know who is currently writing the Guardians editorials? It used to be a remainiac woman whose name escapes me

 

[Thaw]

The Guardian’s first ever edition – annotated | Media | The Guardian

Their 200th anniversary. It turns out the 1st article was using terribly racist and sexist language

 

[stavros]

Trying to excuse their coverage of "Old man dies".

 

[ska invita]

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Looking into this a little , its published by Pluto, not the Guardian, and looks to be a critical take on the paper. How critical I don't know

Doubt its a patch on this though

 

[Santino]

We've all had a bit of fun criticising The Guardian, but I think on its 200th anniversary it's only fair to say that, taking everything into consideration, I wish everyone who runs it would get diarrhoea.

 

[platinumsage]

Did anyone mention their pro-slavery stuff yet?

 

[oryx]

I thought 'Tim Dowling can't be any worse than last time I was stupid enough to peek at his witterings'.

Oh yes he fucking can.

In last weekend's 'Weekend', the article by the woman who knitted items out of pet hair was way more interesting than any of their regular columnists!

(I use the word 'interesting' loosely).

 

[mauvais]

I don't know how someone got this past the committee but they're presumably being shopped out of all the historical office party photos as we speak.

What we got wrong: the Guardian’s worst errors of judgment over 200 years

Fiercely critical of Abraham Lincoln and at times racist, this newspaper’s leader columns did not always get it right

www.theguardian.com

Still no actual structural insight of course, like a 'few rotten apples' is to 'ACAB', from a publication that is institutionally ill-judged.

 

[kabbes]

Asbestos was a very real asset in the home, it just turned out to have down sides. It was used for 2000 years as the best flameproof material we had, though, before people started routinely living past 60 and the downsides became apparent.

 

[killer b]

'few rotten apples'

I dislike how this saying has been disconnected from it's actual meaning - when one says 'a rotten apple spoils the barrel', what we man is that the rot from a single bad fruit spreads to it's neighbours, making all of them inedible. It's about how corruption, if not nipped in the bud, will destroy an entire organisation.

 

[fishfinger]

Asbestos was a very real asset in the home, it just turned out to have down sides. It was used for 2000 years as the best flameproof material we had, though, before people started routinely living past 60 and the downsides became apparent.

Even the Romans knew about the health risks of asbestos:

The negative health effects of asbestos were also known to the Romans. Both Strabo and Pliny also mentioned the sickness that seemed to follow those who worked with asbestos. It was recommended never to buy asbestos quarry slaves as they often "died young". Lung ailments were a common problem to anyone who worked with asbestos fibres. Pliny even made reference to the use of a transparent bladder skin as a respirator to avoid inhalation of the dust by slaves.

Asbestos in the Roman Empire | UNRV.com

 

[Pickman's model]

I dislike how this saying has been disconnected from it's actual meaning - when one says 'a rotten apple spoils the barrel', what we man is that the rot from a single bad fruit spreads to it's neighbours, making all of them inedible. It's about how corruption, if not nipped in the bud, will destroy an entire organisation.

after 190 years i think it's fair to say that not only has the entire barrel become irredeemably fucked, so has the supply chain delivering new apples to the site

 

[billy_bob]

How did the Guardian survive 200 years?

I was totally on board with this article, until it became clear that the headline wasn't a rhetorical expression of dismay and they were actually going to answer it.

 

[Cerv]

http://camdennewjournal.com/article/guardian-offices-attacked-with-pink-paint

I thought the Guardian's coverage of Extinction Rebellion & so on had been pretty sympathetic. but apparently not everyone a fan.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

http://camdennewjournal.com/article/guardian-offices-attacked-with-pink-paint

I thought the Guardian's coverage of Extinction Rebellion & so on had been pretty sympathetic. but apparently not everyone a fan.

He dressed up proper as well.

eta: I am not sure why he is holding a carrot

 

[butchersapron]

He dressed up proper as well.

eta: I am not sure why he is holding a carrot

This is the carrot. Choose wrong and the stick follows.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

He dressed up proper as well.

eta: I am not sure why he is holding a carrot

After he was arrested the cops apparently went round to his house, searched the place, and took his computer. Don't fuck with the Guardian.

 

[Pickman's model]

what's going on here?

how is +0 in the daily deaths an increase?