Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[two sheds]

There's fuel costs, too. Gas if you're lucky, oil less so and electricity even less.

a three oven no-hot-water Aga uses about 340 KW a week

elsewhere says 190W but still

perhaps he's included taking out a mortgage for fuel costs.

Eta - that's going to be on all day costs I presume. I've got a battered old wood burning rayburn and I only normally have it on for three or sometimes four hours a night even in winter.

 

[killer b]

That takes a perfectly reasonable point about the disconnect between Guardian writers and its everyday readership and ruins it with hyperbole. “25-45k” is not a “realistic cost” buying an Aga. And you won’t need French doors either. Aside from anything else, you can buy a single oven width Aga (ie the same width as a normal single oven), which costs about £7000. But is it not already stark enough just to say that this “solution” will cost you £7000?

the guy is criticising a readers letter to the graun, not a piece by a guardian writer (the letter is in response to this article: £70 to run an oven for a week?! How the fuel crisis has Aga owners ripping out their stoves)

 

[killer b]

(russ in cheshire is one of the very worst people on twitter btw, a tedious hustler and outrage-merchant.)

 

[kabbes]

the guy is criticising a readers letter to the graun, not a piece by a guardian writer (the letter is in response to this article: £70 to run an oven for a week?! How the fuel crisis has Aga owners ripping out their stoves)

In that case, I don’t really know what is being argued here by anybody!

 

[killer b]

In that case, I don’t really know what is being argued here by anybody!

it's just a twitter hustler relying on people not actually reading the thing he's using as a launchpad for his manufactured outrage for clicks.

 

[DaveCinzano]

russ in cheshire is one of the very worst people on twitter btw

 

[Indeliblelink]

I did quite like this from that twitter thread though.

 

[brogdale]

 

[Pickman's model]

The palace is dripping in diamonds, so why bring out the disputed Koh-i-noor? | Catherine Bennett

The jewel in the last queen consort’s crown was plundered from India. Camilla doesn’t have to wear it

www.theguardian.com

You'd be waiting a long long time for a 43 to crouch end, it doesn't go there

 

[Pickman's model]

...

So now 26 years is half a century

The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees | John Naughton

The question of whether social media firms should be responsible for content recommended to users is set to be re-examined – and not before time

www.theguardian.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

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So now 26 years is half a century

The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees | John Naughton

The question of whether social media firms should be responsible for content recommended to users is set to be re-examined – and not before time

www.theguardian.com

He's counting in cat meme years

 

[belboid]

I never knew this was on me doorstep

 

[DaveCinzano]

I never knew this was on me doorstep

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Well, it has been pretty windy of late

 

[Sue]

I never knew this was on me doorstep

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You've clearly not been paying attention or something.

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[MickiQ]

I never knew this was on me doorstep

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Looks just like the one I saw on Salisbury Plain there must be two of them.

 

[hash tag]

The last time I saw it, it was in Maryhill, Oregon

 

[DaveCinzano]

The last time I saw it, it was in Maryhill, Oregon
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Pretty sure that's the London Bridge Orbital

 

[Calamity1971]

Don't forget to leave your heating on though!

 

[Elpenor]

Don't forget to leave your heating on though!

I saw that article the other day and knew it would turn up here

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

So basically what the Guardian is saying here is that they don't generally wash their own dishes, they get the help to do it. Perhaps if they washed their own dishes they wouldn't need to wave a bucket at you everytime you click on one of their articles.

‘His humility is genuine’: Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law, the billionaire who does the dishes

Narayana Murthy drives a small car, cleans his own loo and likes nothing more than to read

www.theguardian.com

 

[_Russ_]

A good opinion piece (imo) and part of the reason why there wont be a revolution in the UK

Disastrous cuts loom, but the Tories have a secret weapon – our weary fatalism | John Harris

 

[scifisam]

So basically what the Guardian is saying here is that they don't generally wash their own dishes, they get the help to do it. Perhaps if they washed their own dishes they wouldn't need to wave a bucket at you everytime you click on one of their articles.

‘His humility is genuine’: Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law, the billionaire who does the dishes

Narayana Murthy drives a small car, cleans his own loo and likes nothing more than to read

www.theguardian.com

No. There's nothing wrong with paying people a reasonable wage to do housework for you. It's a job. And any billionaire that does it is a fucking weird control freak who wants everyone to work except when they're asleep, and would prefer it if they didn't sleep too, and will penny-pinch every single item in their household.

From that article:

'“I would be in the office at 6.20 every morning till I retired. That sent an indelible message to youngsters about reaching the office on time,” Murthy said in an interview with the Economic Times in July''

That's the kind of message terrible bosses want to send out because they want slaves who will die at 45 of a heart attack and they'll say they just weren't cut out for it.

 

[Brainaddict]

A good opinion piece (imo) and part of the reason why there wont be a revolution in the UK

Disastrous cuts loom, but the Tories have a secret weapon – our weary fatalism | John Harris

Dunno, seems to me you risk a self-fulfilling prophesy by talking like that. The problem with a lot of the 'left' guardian columnists is they aren't really involved in social movements and that affects how they talk.

 

[brogdale]

Ooooh er, missus...

 

[Cerv]

In an piece about Schiphol airport.

This article was amended on 6 November 2022. The annual cap of 440,000 announced by the Dutch government related to the number of flights, not passenger numbers as a previous version said.

Only out by a couple of orders of magnitude then.

Climate activists arrested after blocking private jets in Amsterdam airport

Sitdown protests are part of a day of demonstrations in and around Amsterdam airport

www.theguardian.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

I'm sorry but fucking nope.

How to turn brown bananas into a zingy vinegar | Waste not

Banana vinegar is rich, aromatic and a fine way to save brown bananas from the food waste bin – simply leave to ferment in the daylight

www.theguardian.com

 

[two sheds]

In an piece about Schiphol airport.


Only out by a couple of orders of magnitude then.

Climate activists arrested after blocking private jets in Amsterdam airport

Sitdown protests are part of a day of demonstrations in and around Amsterdam airport

www.theguardian.com

Is that photograph of a private jet? It's fucking enormous, I thought private jets were smallish type things.

 

[stavros]

Channel 4's 40 best shows, ranked.

No Crystal Maze, Countdown at a lowly 40, Father Ted not even the top ranked sitcom.

 

[belboid]

All ‘ranked’ articles are wank. Nobbut clickbait