Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Pickman's model]

It's not just a whole page article on a television programme but it's a programme on a subscription only channel
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like it's the first time it's ever happened fucking oceans of ink were spilled writing about game of thrones, which was also on a subscription only channel, far more than this single page. yet that's rarely mentioned and got was much more popular than borgen

 

[strung out]

It's not just a whole page article on a television programme but it's a programme on a subscription only channel
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All these reviews of movies you have to pay for at the cinema too

 

[Pickman's model]

All these reviews of movies you have to pay for at the cinema too

and books you have to buy to read not to mention restaurants you have to pay to eat at

 

[hash tag]

But the article wasn't in the reviews bit, it was in the main body of news

 

[stavros]

It's not just a whole page article on a television programme but it's a programme on a subscription only channel
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There were seven pages in yesterday's sport section, plus one in the main section, on a football match only available on subscription telly. The Champions League final, between the, er, runners up from England and Spain last year.

 

[Edie]

This entire article is enraging

Euan Blair: from PM’s son to £700m business and an MBE

Co-founder of Multiverse believes ‘obsession with the academic’ is holding some people back

www.theguardian.com

“I often say to people: ‘I started my career in investment banking structuring corporate debt and derivatives, armed with a degree in ancient history and a master’s in international relations that did not teach me how to do the job,” says Euan Blair.

Blair’s life mission, he says, is to “make sure the best jobs the next decade don’t just go to the same people who got the best jobs for the last decade”.

He was a mere apprentice, making his own way in the world with sheer grit, meritocracy and a millionaire family

 

[stavros]

I watched a press review on France24 earlier, where they described the Graun as Britain's "only republican paper", yet the Windsors still get half the front page today, and are still dumping Ukraine down to second place on their homepage.

 

[TopCat]

Polly Toynbee waving her flag and raising her glass of Pimms.

 

[billy_bob]

The Guardian view on deportations to Rwanda: cut out the stunts​

The second part of this headline, especially with Oberfuhrer Patel beneath it, is almost but not quite a fantastic spoonerism.

 

[two sheds]

stut: "to have no concern with"

 

[Serene]

These Railways strikes are going to be very annoying, and for Guardian readers, agreeing with the principle of Industrial action is going to be deeply awkward.

 

[srb7677]

The Guardian likes to pretend to be all lefty and progressive but it is actually the bible of affluent middle class-home owning liberals. Anything even mildly threatening to the Thatcherite economic status quo their readers do so well out of personally is automatically viewed as far left or extreme left. The paper is incorrigibly Blairite on economic matters, but more Lib Dem liberal on social ones.

 

[Pickman's model]

The Guardian likes to pretend to be all lefty and progressive but it is actually the bible of affluent middle class-home owning liberals. Anything even mildly threatening to the Thatcherite economic status quo their readers do so well out of personally is automatically viewed as far left or extreme left. The paper is incorrigibly Blairite on economic matters, but more Lib Dem liberal on social ones.

i think you'd do well to read the thread

 

[Pickman's model]

Polly Toynbee waving her flag and raising her glass of Pimms.

after a glass or two she'll be waving her pimms and raising her flag

 

[Sue]

after a glass or two she'll be waving her pimms and raising her flag

Does she need that glass or two...?

 

[platinumsage]

this is the most tl;dr interview I’ve seen in a while:

Pete Doherty on swapping crack for camembert in France: ‘It’s easier to be clean here – even for a scoundrel’

Twenty years after the Libertines’ narcotics-fuelled heyday, has the singer really put the chaos behind him?

www.theguardian.com

 

[Rob Ray]

People are going to starve, lol.

 

[billy_bob]

TBF, noodle prices rocketing is quite a serious issue if you're East Asian...

 

[Rob Ray]

TBF, noodle prices rocketing is quite a serious issue if you're East Asian...

I'm aware, this is why I highlighted the tone of the headline.

 

[billy_bob]

I'm aware, this is why I highlighted the tone of the headline.

Sorry, I misread your tone as sarcastic, i.e. why are they making a fuss about ramen, it's not like anyone will starve.

(Edit: probably didn't help that I still don't get 'Ramen a leg' - I've been saying it in my head in every possible intonation and I can't make a pun out of it )

To atone for my error, a Guardian gem. One poor man who thought he was getting £360 worth of single malt for £25 is furious about his gross mistreatment:

Morrisons mistakenly lists £2.50 whisky​

“Now the offer has been retracted I feel cheated. We are going away to a yurt in the Lake District this weekend and that would have topped the weekend off.”

 

[Cerv]

“Arm and a leg”
Because it costs a lot more now.
As puns go, it’s not a good one.

 

[billy_bob]

“Arm and a leg”
Because it costs a lot more now.
As puns go, it’s not a good one.

That really is poor work. Isn't there meant to be a double meaning? 'Ramen a leg' is just gibberish.

 

[8ball]

That really is poor work. Isn't there meant to be a double meaning? 'Ramen a leg' is just gibberish.

It’s a sub-editor trying to do a Japanese accent pun with plausible deniability due to the institution’s fine tradition of normally leaving that sort of thing to the tabloids. In the 1980s.

 

[brogdale]

strike chaos

 

[TopCat]

strike chaos

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Always support the bosses class that paper does.

 

[SpookyFrank]

NASUWT are threatening to maybe think about striking in November, so not the most urgent thing to panic about right now.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Can't say I get this excited about my "utility room".

‘It’s a middle-class dream come true!’ How the utility room became the new status symbol

Once they were grim spaces to stash away the mop. Now they’re must-haves for the rich and aspirational. What’s fuelling the desire for laundry-room luxe?

www.theguardian.com

 

[Pickman's model]

Can't say I get this excited about my "utility room".

‘It’s a middle-class dream come true!’ How the utility room became the new status symbol

Once they were grim spaces to stash away the mop. Now they’re must-haves for the rich and aspirational. What’s fuelling the desire for laundry-room luxe?

www.theguardian.com

but it's a middle class dream come true

 

[MickiQ]

Last line of the article says it all:

As one utility room owner reminds me: “It’s just another room to throw crap in, regardless of how nice it looks when you snap the first Insta pic.”

Welcome to Chez Q

 

[mx wcfc]

Utility rooms are a necessity in these days of “open plan” living.

Try watching the telly with the washing machine on in your bijoux open plan living space.