The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
How does this happen exactly?
Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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Serene
Slightly disgruntled
Repeated reading of it.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I take it for granted you have some knowledge of radicalisation processes?
Serene
Slightly disgruntled
Dont take things for granted.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Good advice
Serene
Slightly disgruntled
Thank you.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
And this is relevant to the guardian how?
rekil
to menny cranks
I had a feeling you'd say this.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I thought I got it from this thread but in retrospect it was from elsewhere. Interview a feminist academic but obviously as soon as she says anything non-Guardian-PC, it's "crikey" and she's been "drinking the Kool-Aid that is Judith Butler, high priestess of gender theory", make your excuses and leave, and apparently you can only deal with the "pedagogic brain ache" via "a very large bar of chocolate".
www.theguardian.com
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elbows
Well-Known Member
From the corrections watch department:
www.theguardian.com
Delta variant renders herd immunity from Covid ‘mythical’
Head of Oxford Vaccine Group rules out overall immunity, but also questions need for booster jabs
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
There is holiday hell and then there is self-catering
No salt and pepper, no spices, not enough loo roll – welcome to your holiday cottage
Particularly enjoyed this middle class holiday hell piece, oh the humanity etc
This person just needs to replace their column with the words, “I have no idea how to plan ahead. It’s amazing that I can find my feet in the morning.”There is holiday hell and then there is self-catering
No salt and pepper, no spices, not enough loo roll – welcome to your holiday cottage
Particularly enjoyed this middle class holiday hell piece, oh the humanity etc
It’s self-catering and they even get surprised by the fact that they have to provide their own food.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Intolerable cruetyNo salt and pepper though
Gasmantell
Member
The leader in Guardian twattery is professional Brummy and squeeze of current editor, K. Viner, Adrian Chiles.
His many examples of verbal flatulence don't need to be read to be believed.
In the Guardian Group annual report reference is made to the fact that cronyism is alive and well (maybe they dont actually put it like that) and on the rise - a specific reference to him and her.
He has been the subject of a couple of mentions in Private Eye (yeah, that'll make a difference) - even a special HackWatch piece.
Moderation on his articles seems even tighter than normal and I challenge anyone to get any kind of criticism of the Sainted Chiles in there.
Shouldn't be surprised I suppose that the Graun is sinking lower - paying the editors boyfriend for a few hundred words of fluff whilst making 100+ journos redundant is typical MSM behavious.
Watch out for more articles like
"How breaking a shoe lace made me realise my self-worth"
" Why coughing when you're farting can be a life changer"
" More ruminations of dog excrement and finding my inner strength"
"I killled a seagull, now I'm not afraid of flying"
etc.
His many examples of verbal flatulence don't need to be read to be believed.
In the Guardian Group annual report reference is made to the fact that cronyism is alive and well (maybe they dont actually put it like that) and on the rise - a specific reference to him and her.
He has been the subject of a couple of mentions in Private Eye (yeah, that'll make a difference) - even a special HackWatch piece.
Moderation on his articles seems even tighter than normal and I challenge anyone to get any kind of criticism of the Sainted Chiles in there.
Shouldn't be surprised I suppose that the Graun is sinking lower - paying the editors boyfriend for a few hundred words of fluff whilst making 100+ journos redundant is typical MSM behavious.
Watch out for more articles like
"How breaking a shoe lace made me realise my self-worth"
" Why coughing when you're farting can be a life changer"
" More ruminations of dog excrement and finding my inner strength"
"I killled a seagull, now I'm not afraid of flying"
etc.
lazythursday
Averagely-Known Member
I know all about the cronyism, but I quite enjoy Chiles' banal columns. They are close to a work of art at times. Much worse things in The Guardian in my view.
Gasmantell
Member
That's as may be - the point being that you shouldnt have to sleep with the editor to get a gig in my view.
lazythursday
Averagely-Known Member
When I worked at the Guardian (non journo role) way back in the 90s it was really common to find that the graduate trainees or various junior staff were related to some long standing Guardian writer. I doubt much has changed. Journalism is rife with nepotism. I don't think it's a good look for the editor to employ her boyfriend but I don't think it's as bad as the way a small section of upper middle class people have a stranglehold on much of journalism. At least Chiles has some existing experience/celebrity/notoriety and is not from north London.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Chiles is probably viewed as the “voice of the red wall”
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
There was one the other day that went something like 'I've been called the worst writer in recorded history and here's why I think that's a good thing'. I think he's just trolling us at this point.
Yknow that kind of totally fucking myopic middle class bullshit makes me want to kick something to death. Really it does. Whinging about the Welcome Basket of a UK holiday home cos you can’t go abroad. That’s the summary of the article. With literally fuck all awareness that most people can’t afford a holiday full stop.There is holiday hell and then there is self-catering
No salt and pepper, no spices, not enough loo roll – welcome to your holiday cottage
Particularly enjoyed this middle class holiday hell piece, oh the humanity etc
But the thing that really fucking boils me up is the hyperbole and hysteria that the Guardian pumps out daily about about the NHS and covid. It’s all very dressed up as objective middle class news, but underneath it’s an agenda driven shit show of worst case scenario combined with emotive pathos. And it pisses me RIGHT OFF.
The Guardian is a middle class tabloid masquerading as serious news and I passionately hate it every time I see it.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
I'm 100% with you on the entitled middle class idiot and the self-catering holiday with no herbs
but interested to know what you think the Guardian's agenda is re the NHS and Covid.I really dislike and am irritated by a lot of their editorial and lifestyle stuff, but (considering the cesspit that is most of the British media) don't find their news coverage all that bad compared to some.
I thought I got it from this thread but in retrospect it was from elsewhere. Interview a feminist academic but obviously as soon as she says anything non-Guardian-PC, it's "crikey" and she's been "drinking the Kool-Aid that is Judith Butler, high priestess of gender theory", make your excuses and leave, and apparently you can only deal with the "pedagogic brain ache" via "a very large bar of chocolate".
Amia Srinivasan: ‘Sex as a subject isn’t weird. It’s very, very serious’
With her debut book, The Right to Sex, a 36-year-old Oxford don is dazzling everyone. She discusses porn, gender dysphoria - and why her students are no snowflakes
Thanks for that, I wouldn't have read it if you hadn't posted it. I hadn't heard of the academic interviewed, but she sounds right up my street - I'm going to try to read some of her writing now.
What you say about the article is spot on as well! Such a sudden, lurching, change of tone in the final paragraphs! Lol
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
it’s self-catering ffs. you’re supposed to bring your own comestiblesNo salt and pepper though
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
Personally, I'd ban the submission of anything from the Graun's lifestyle section from this thread as too below the belt. I'm as middle-class petite bourgeoise as they come (or at least I am for a northener) but the sheer po-faced self-indulgence and tin-earedness and other overly-hyphenated adjectives of the lifestyle section makes me throw up a little every time. The news is frequently well put together (although I'll concede Edie's point about a lot of overly emotive folderol being crowbarred in) but much of their other output is risible.
And no, I've no idea why anyone would expect self-catering accommodation to include a full cruet set and spice rack.
For what it's worth, those of you using ublock can use a simple filter like so to omit the lifestyle section from the front page entirely.
And no, I've no idea why anyone would expect self-catering accommodation to include a full cruet set and spice rack.
For what it's worth, those of you using ublock can use a simple filter like so to omit the lifestyle section from the front page entirely.
Code:
www.theguardian.com###lifestyle
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
They could at least have provided salt and pepper though
not too much to ask.
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
They could at least have provided salt and pepper though
I went to a self-cater AirBnB in Austria once that had a bunch of condiments in the kitchen. But the salt wasn't even shade-grown and the pepper wasn't first-pressing. Not being able to communicate my feelings through overpaid and overwrought column inches, I left a mindful upper-decker in the cistern and a sustainably strangled stray dog in the wardrobe.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
is it? bet people steal them. it’s self catering so people are expected to bring what they needThey could at least have provided salt and pepper though
All self-catering cottages I’ve been to since Covid started have removed anything that could provide any hint of pathogen transmission. That includes emptying the cupboardsThey could at least have provided salt and pepper though
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