Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Pickman's model]

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.

i hope our smilies server never goes offline

 

[Sue]

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.

Broken Britain.

 

[hitmouse]

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.

 

[equationgirl]

i hope our smilies server never goes offline

The consequences don't bear thinking about.

 

[Raheem]

It would be no matter.

 

[Pickman's model]

it's the snakes you don't find till too late that ruin the holiday. if you find them before you go, as it were, then it's not a disaster

 

[DaveCinzano]

i hope our smilies server never goes offline

Time to break open the emergency longdog rations

 

[krtek a houby]

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it's the snakes you don't find till too late that ruin the holiday. if you find them before you go, as it were, then it's not a disaster

If you find them on the plane, it's a disaster movie

 

[stavros]

The Peequal: will the new women’s urinal spell the end of queues for the ladies’?

 

[equationgirl]

The Peequal: will the new women’s urinal spell the end of queues for the ladies’?

Spoiler alert: NO

 

[Sue]

My sister and I are creatives marooned in the family home. Our parents want us to get real jobs | Leading questions

There is nothing wrong with accepting enthusiastically offered assistance, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But is that the case here?

www.theguardian.com

 

[xenon]

They sound obnoxiously precious and out of touch. But the advice is reasonable...

 

[rekil]

I heard that he's done a bit of the soccer but yeah what a weirdo.

The Portugal captain is a renowned health fanatic and made it clear what he thinks of the carbonated soft drink.

Removed: article

www.theguardian.com

 

[NoXion]

Move a bottle out of camera shot = 4 billion dollars disapoofed.

Capitalism, the "rational" way of doing things.

 

[stavros]

The share prices dived... and were subsequently given a yellow card after a VAR review.

 

[killer b]

seen in context, it's not exactly bombing (I wonder what happened at the start of the year - a full 5% drop then...)

 

[two sheds]

The importance of showing the full y-axis

 

[kabbes]

seen in context, it's not exactly bombing (I wonder what happened at the start of the year - a full 5% drop then...)

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The S&P overall dropped by about 3% over the last few days of last year so it was probably mostly just that overall sentiment

 

[belboid]

I cant quite decide if it’s the Guardian or Starmer who is more likely to be completely fucking stupid.



(it’s the guardian, btw)

 

[two sheds]

Urban Dictionary: Stong

A poker for a Marijuana water pipe. Bong+stoker

www.urbandictionary.com

 

[Pickman's model]

The importance of showing the full y-axis

It's clearly not showing the full y axis, nothing there below 48

 

[two sheds]

Exactly importance of showing the full y axis plus importance of showing historical data which that graph did.

 

[Dystopiary]

FFS.

Thank goodness someone was there to rescue him from a stray city that'd escaped from Staffordshire.
If only they had proofreaders.

 

[Skim]

My sister and I are creatives marooned in the family home. Our parents want us to get real jobs | Leading questions

There is nothing wrong with accepting enthusiastically offered assistance, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But is that the case here?

www.theguardian.com

Haha… excellent responses from both columnist and commentators here.

 

[Skim]

 

[hash tag]

No mention of today's front cover yet.

 

[fieryjack]

New Guardian NFT-related article
...opens with this paragraph/link:

The photographer Jeff McCurry’s favourite Harambe memes are the ones where the dead gorilla is in heaven, Photoshopped alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, Tupac and Muhammad Ali. “It’s like: wow,” says McCurry. “What greater spot can you be placed in? Harambe’s at the top of the hill, waiting to meet you there.”

The link goes to a sub-reddit called "okbuddyretard", which you'd think would be a warning flag of sorts, as if the undercurrent of stink around Harambe memes in general wasn't already a sign.

Anyway, the heavenly alumni in the linked picture appear to include Hitler and Jeffrey Epstein

*e2c my usual Jeffrey/Brian error

 

[Pickman's model]

It's fucking risible seeing the guardian now claim the referendum was brexit

 

[CNT36]

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I hope she is not a bleeder.

 

[belboid]

‘Leave your knickers at home’: Guardian readers’ top holiday packing hacks

Whether you’re off to the Balearics or Bournemouth, here’s how to keep your luggage as light as possible – while still taking everything you’ll need

www.theguardian.com

There are many worse pieces than this, but I’m having it anyway.

one and a half sound pieces of advice (duct tape - excellent idea, rolling up clothes/ sound but already well known) but far more awful ones, going knickerless seems awfully popular.

I think the dumbest is the ‘vacuum pack’ one, who recommends you decide what you are going to wear every day, then put each days wear into a labelled ziplock bag after being spritzed with an appropriate perfume. If I had the time and money (and wardrobe) to do that I wouldn’t need to go on holiday.