Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Also a lot of Sven hassel about the stupidities of Nazism
Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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Argonia
Happy go licky
Just ventured on to the Grauniad website for the first time in nine years and was pleased to see 13 homelessness charities are having a pop at Robert Jenrick
www.theguardian.com
Police bill risks criminalising homeless people, warn UK charities
Exclusive: letter to Robert Jenrick says urgent changes needed to bill to avoid threat of jail for rough sleeping
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Promising for sure.Just ventured on to the Grauniad website for the first time in nine years and was pleased to see 13 homelessness charities are having a pop at Robert Jenrick
Police bill risks criminalising homeless people, warn UK charities
Exclusive: letter to Robert Jenrick says urgent changes needed to bill to avoid threat of jail for rough sleeping
Argonia
Happy go licky
Reminds me of the 1981 letter by 364 economists to Thacther to tell her her monetarist revolution was going to be a failure and cause 3 million unemployed
Argonia
Happy go licky
Good news. They're being flooded with letters.
More than 100 scientists and medics sign a letter to The Lancet accusing ministers of acting irresponsibly by lifting all Covid rules
www.telegraph.co.uk
More than 100 scientists and medics sign a letter to The Lancet accusing ministers of acting irresponsibly by lifting all Covid rules
‘Premature’ Freedom Day is a dangerous and unethical experiment, doctors warn
More than 100 scientists and medics sign a letter to The Lancet accusing ministers of acting irresponsibly by lifting all Covid rules
www.telegraph.co.uk
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Which assumes the government read and give a shit about the Lancet.Good news. They're being flooded with letters.
More than 100 scientists and medics sign a letter to The Lancet accusing ministers of acting irresponsibly by lifting all Covid rules
‘Premature’ Freedom Day is a dangerous and unethical experiment, doctors warn
More than 100 scientists and medics sign a letter to The Lancet accusing ministers of acting irresponsibly by lifting all Covid rules
Argonia
Happy go licky
The government are illierate like 1 in 5 people in this country. They have never ever heard of the Lancet.
Argonia
Happy go licky
Poor old Shalamov in Kolyma. Mike Palin met a former guy from the gold mines and went there for his travels. Bet Katharine Viner the editor of the Grauniad would put his memoir in a waste paper backet in the office in Kings Place and set fire to it while Marina Hyde, William Keegan, Owen Jones, Johnathan Freedland and Rafael Behr danced like witches in a coven singing "Rule Britannia" and "God Save the Queen's Cunt"
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rekil
to menny cranks
A piece of shit who was convicted of being an informer for the occupation in Denmark and promoted the clean wehrmacht myth.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i've never thought the wehrmacht came out of his books particularly well.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Nice guidance to induce minority ethnic pregnancies earlier condemned as racist
I suppose that’s better than nasty guidance.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
It should be NICE National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidance...Nice guidance to induce minority ethnic pregnancies earlier condemned as racist
I suppose that’s better than nasty guidance.
Acronyms written improperly irritates me greatly.
it's a stylistic choice
top trolling for them to include the obviously incorrect "pin number" redundancy as an example
top trolling for them to include the obviously incorrect "pin number" redundancy as an example
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
it's a stylistic choice
top trolling for them to include the obviously incorrect "pin number" redundancy as an example
AKA Stylistic Suck.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
It's awful.it's a stylistic choice
top trolling for them to include the obviously incorrect "pin number" redundancy as an example
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I think it looks better than all caps
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Naah it’s one of the few things they get right. Unicef looks much better than UNICEF, imo. And they are pronounced as a word so it makes sense to spell them that way. There are probably a couple of others that may make for momentary confusion, but they’re the exceptions.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
No one writes LASER do they?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
God no, that’s horrid!
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
It wouldn't be beyond the wit of humankind to add an exception for cases where there's confusion with another noun. Or to simply rewrite the headline so it's not the first word.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Lasers are generic. UNICEF is a specific organisation. It makes sense to me for the former to be uncapitalised while capitalising the latter.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
(Tries to defy urge to point out the alternative meaning of ‘nice’ isn’t a noun. Fails)
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
word then
I don't get paid for this, I can be as crap as I like
I don't get paid for this, I can be as crap as I like
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Unicef itself writes it out as Unicef. (Which is another guardian style guide rule, follow the organisations usage)
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Unicef is fine because the number of people who know what it is (UN children’s thingy) vastly outnumbers the number of people who know what each letter stands for. It’s also not an actual word.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Guardian goes up the pan slightly, I received a reply:
Dear Platinumsage, thank you for your email.
"Nice" is the correct way of referring to the body, as per our style guide, which advises that only the initial letter is capitalised for acronyms (abbreviations that themselves are spoken as words - eg Nasa, Unicef, Rada).
However, I think our editors should use common sense in this specific case, and Nice should not be used at the beginning of a headline or subheading, as these are the only places where the acronym could be confused with the word "nice", devoid of further context provided by the body text.
I passed this query on to the relevant production editor, who arranged for it to be changed.
Dear Platinumsage, thank you for your email.
"Nice" is the correct way of referring to the body, as per our style guide, which advises that only the initial letter is capitalised for acronyms (abbreviations that themselves are spoken as words - eg Nasa, Unicef, Rada).
However, I think our editors should use common sense in this specific case, and Nice should not be used at the beginning of a headline or subheading, as these are the only places where the acronym could be confused with the word "nice", devoid of further context provided by the body text.
I passed this query on to the relevant production editor, who arranged for it to be changed.
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