Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Numbers]

It's true, though. Lads in Ireland isn't seen as derogatory or dismissive towards women. It's certainly not meant to be and pretty much all my women mates use it.

Same here, any/everyone I know, from young to old use it.

 

[campanula]

'You lot' in general, 'sweetheart or lovelies' for friends, fam or people in shops who look fed up. Suspect I would sooner stab myself in the eye than use 'guys', 'lads or such...but I am guilty of mate ing a bit.
Have had furious daughter on the phone, this morning, raging about the ;genderbread' drivel being poured into the ears of 9 year olds at school so yeah, feeling a bit enraged that in the whole curriculum teaching material, there wasn't a mention of patriarchy, not once....but loads of regressive stereotyping with a blatant capitalist narketing flavour (yep, it's the Barbie/G I Joe menu FFS).. Had to wonder what gender 'goth' might be...since afaics, it's still basically tribal preferences and constructed cosplay being given an essentialist twist. Slipping backwards to 1950. Course, what do I know. Too old, too dense, too fucking angry. Time to play with flowers and give humans a swerve.

 

[JTG]

It's true, though. Lads in Ireland isn't seen as derogatory or dismissive towards women. It's certainly not meant to be and pretty much all my women mates use it.

Now, that could be our generation. Maybe the younger are changing this and it will become a thing of the past...

But Irish culture and language won't be dictated to by British sensibilities. Change, if needed, will come from within.

Same here, any/everyone I know, from young to old use it.

My thanks for these contributions. Obviously context is everything and while there's a whole discussion to be had around it (I've been having an entertaining and informative one elsewhere all day) clearly this place won't be having it.

 

[JTG]

I CAN'T be sexist. I'm NICE!

If I may say (and I will anyway) I won't take lectures on equality from someone whose transphobic views have stood out to me whenever I've dipped into those threads.

 

[Santino]

Maybe apologise or at least reflect on how your actions might be understood, rather than flail around trying to start a different argument.

 

[JTG]

While I regret the arsey nature of my posting sometimes, I don't particularly regret noticing a usage of language that has since been confirmed by other posters.
I shall not be apologising, I am completely comfortable with my attitude towards women and I shall not be taking lectures from you on the subject for the reasons outlined.

 

[Flavour]

Can this thread not go down the pan please, and remain focused on how our mutual enemy, the guardian, is

 

[Santino]

While I regret the arsey nature of my posting sometimes, I don't particularly regret noticing a usage of language that has since been confirmed by other posters.
I shall not be apologising, I am completely comfortable with my attitude towards women and I shall not be taking lectures from you on the subject for the reasons outlined.

It wasn't noticing things though, was it? It was your instinctive reaction to tell women to shut up and deal with it.

 

[JTG]

Can this thread not go down the pan please, and remain focused on how our mutual enemy, the guardian, is

Fair enough and I will apologise for that. Unintentional.
Enough

 

[Edie]

Fucking the fuck sake

‘A career change saved my life’: the people who built better lives after burnout

Chronic stress at work can lead to listlessness, fatigue – and a much higher risk of stroke and heart disease. But there are ways to save yourself before it’s too late

www.theguardian.com

Pretty much all of them should jump into the sea. Signed off ‘with stress’ so I became a breath-coach. Or yoga teacher. Or business advisor. Or wellness coach. Into the sea you go you fucking chancers.

 

[Pickman's model]

Fucking the fuck sake

‘A career change saved my life’: the people who built better lives after burnout

Chronic stress at work can lead to listlessness, fatigue – and a much higher risk of stroke and heart disease. But there are ways to save yourself before it’s too late

www.theguardian.com

Pretty much all of them should jump into the sea. Signed off ‘with stress’ so I became a breath-coach. Or yoga teacher. Or business advisor. Or wellness coach. Into the sea you go you fucking chancers.

yeh let them become long-distance swimmers. south georgia to west falkland, say

 

[planetgeli]

Error 503 Service Unavailable​

Service Unavailable

They can't even run a website.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Reddit’s down as well

 

[killer b]

lots of sites are - bandcamp is too

 

[Santino]

Is Urban ok though?

 

[rekil]

Workers Girder still up.

 

[magneze]

Is Urban ok though?

No, it's down too

 

[Raheem]

No, it's down too

Shit. Where am I going to post this message now?

 

[killer b]

according to an article I just read,

Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify, and news outlets CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, BBC and Financial Times are currently facing an outage.

Something to do with a service provider called Fastly

 

[two sheds]

Independent too, BBC's up though

 

[mauvais]

bbc.co.uk is up, bbc.com not so much.

 

[Santino]

bbc.co.uk is up, bbc.com not so much.

Brexit dividend

 

[hitmouse]

I am sorry to report that the teams meeting I'm currently attending still seems to be working.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I am sorry to report that the teams meeting I'm currently attending still seems to be working.

Just making some hissing noises then turn it off.

 

[hitmouse]

My connection to the meeting has now gone down! This will continue etc.

 

[Santino]

Just making some hissing noises then turn it off.

That's your answer for everything.

 

[DaveCinzano]

That's your answer for everything.

Well, it works everywhere except at the serpentophilia support group

 

[SpookyFrank]

shrugs is top ten in the 'annoying shit dickheads say on the Internet' charts btw

I always wondered where you got your material from.

 

[killer b]

shrugs

 

[planetgeli]

Meta meta something.

Massive internet outage hits websites including Amazon, gov.uk and Guardian

Technical problem traced to network run by Fastly brings some sites down entirely

www.theguardian.com

Fourth paragraph.

As well as bringing down some websites entirely, the failure also broke specific sections of other services, such as the servers for Twitter that host the social network’s emojis.