Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[BigMoaner]

and i pick up on things, something pics my interest. i don't really get this on social media. occasionaly it happens. but from a half hour sit with it in the garden, i read about a terrible murder, richard fords new book, an interview with rick astley, a book review about the history of selfie culture, teh heat wave thing spreading across the oceans.

it has somethign to do with the medium itself and the way conciousness interacts with it. maybe it's person specific. but a newspaper suits me as a news medium. it's also easier to get more comfortable with it, can hold it in a different way, doesn't cause heat on the hand etc.

 

[two sheds]

How far away is this car park if he needs ten minutes to get there?

The vol-au-vents weren't quite done.

 

[stavros]

‘Wanky chef is moody to rich cunts’

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[TopCat]

With the disclaimer that I have never been to Leith, that article contains every Guardian travel bingo buzzword:
'Natural' wines
Artisan bakery
Sustainable café
Food blogger
Craft breweries
Cultural hub

Best of all are 'Edinburgh's La Rambla' and the area having one of the highest numbers of Remain votes.

I mean I always check which way a place voted in the 2016 referendum before going anywhere - doesn't everyone?

Leith? Really? LEITH!!??

 

[DaveCinzano]

‘Wanky chef is moody to rich cunts’

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[Pickman's model]

With the disclaimer that I have never been to Leith, that article contains every Guardian travel bingo buzzword:
'Natural' wines
Artisan bakery
Sustainable café
Food blogger
Craft breweries
Cultural hub

Best of all are 'Edinburgh's La Rambla' and the area having one of the highest numbers of Remain votes.

I mean I always check which way a place voted in the 2016 referendum before going anywhere - doesn't everyone?

Why do you stop at the 2016 ref?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Why do you stop at the 2016 ref?

Year Zero for the cadres of Wangkar

 

[Pickman's model]

Year Zero for the cadres of Wangkar

And year three?

 

[DaveCinzano]

And year three?

Year Zero v4.0

 

[Serge Forward]

Why do you stop at the 2016 ref?

Agreed. I need to know what side they were on in the Civil War. If they were royalist, they can fuck the fuck off. And if they were Parliament, they can fuck off too (*unless they were Leveller, Digger or Ranter strongholds at the time).








*And that's why I now live in a millionaire gaff in St George's Hill

 

[Chz]

bought it today. not as good as the observer. love sitting down with the paper, still feels like my brain is kinda in its natural state instead of being manipulated by multibillion pound hyper addictive software owned by cunts.

yes, i know it is a biased neoliberal exemplar and full of life style tat and middle of the road shite, but it still has value. alwasy loose myself in it for a while. esp the book reviews, etc.

You remind me of when I first moved here, 20 years ago, and one of the springtime pleasures I had was to buy the Saturday Guardian and take it to read in Waterlow Park or whatnot and enjoy the sunshine. Wouldn't consider such a daft thing today.

 

[xenon]

Leith? Really? LEITH!!??

Leith means Leith…

 

[Sue]

Life lessons for us all.

The pet I’ll never forget: Troy the puppy stole my pizza, shamed me – and showed me how much I could love

The first few months were hard, but I finally made my peace with that little bundle of untrained energy. I think it will make me a better mother

www.theguardian.com

 

[TopCat]

Life lessons for us all.

The pet I’ll never forget: Troy the puppy stole my pizza, shamed me – and showed me how much I could love

The first few months were hard, but I finally made my peace with that little bundle of untrained energy. I think it will make me a better mother

www.theguardian.com

They had to Google about shouting at a puppy. Good luck with the kid.

 

[Sue]

'Have a goal. The best reason to go to a party is to make connections and connect people with each other, says Truda Spruyt, party fan and a managing director at PR agency Four Communications.'

Clearly 'having fun' is old hat.

Flex your social muscles – and stick to one drink: 10 ways to be much more confident at parties

Have you become more stressed about big gatherings since the pandemic? You’re certainly not alone. Here is how to leave fear behind and have a great time

www.theguardian.com

 

[TopCat]

'Have a goal. The best reason to go to a party is to make connections and connect people with each other, says Truda Spruyt, party fan and a managing director at PR agency Four Communications.'

Clearly 'having fun' is old hat.

Flex your social muscles – and stick to one drink: 10 ways to be much more confident at parties

Have you become more stressed about big gatherings since the pandemic? You’re certainly not alone. Here is how to leave fear behind and have a great time

www.theguardian.com

Have one drink and suck up to the hosts. What happened to shagging in the hosts bed and looting grandma’s mogodon tablets from the bathroom?

 

[Sue]

Have one drink and suck up to the hosts. What happened to shagging in the hosts bed and looting grandma’s mogodon tablets from the bathroom?

#brokenbritain

 

[Pickman's model]

Have one drink and suck up to the hosts. What happened to shagging in the hosts bed and looting grandma’s mogodon tablets from the bathroom?

my mate Paul, his ma went on holiday. So he threw a party. And another party the next night. And the night before she was due back he threw a clean-up party. And the place was spotless. Till we all started drinking again. His mum came back to find a biker in her bed. In leathers. The place a tip. Paul had promised to pick her up from Heathrow, overslept and made himself scarce. She chucked him out the house for that

 

[Dogsauce]

my mate Paul, his ma went on holiday. So he threw a party. And another party the next night. And the night before she was due back he threw a clean-up party. And the place was spotless. Till we all started drinking again. His mum came back to find a biker in her bed. In leathers. The place a tip. Paul had promised to pick her up from Heathrow, overslept and made himself scarce. She chucked him out the house for that

It was the condom wrapped around the heads of the VHS player that got my friend in trouble for hosting one of those ‘parents away on holiday’ parties. And we worked really hard to hide all the other evidence.

 

[DaveCinzano]

It was the condom wrapped around the heads of the VHS player that got my friend in trouble for hosting one of those ‘parents away on holiday’ parties. And we worked really hard to hide all the other evidence.

Did you find a french polisher?

 

[xenon]

Chris Morris dinner party et cetera I mean,
, says Truda Spruyt, party fan and a managing director at PR agency Four Communications.'

Where is the fucking rope.

 

[Pickman's model]

It was the condom wrapped around the heads of the VHS player that got my friend in trouble for hosting one of those ‘parents away on holiday’ parties. And we worked really hard to hide all the other evidence.

My friend Simon found it hard to hide the smashing of every breakable in his parents house at a party he threw, at which he began the destruction and urged others to join in.

 

[ska invita]

this was a classic yesterday
Jeremy Corbyn posted a verse from Rise Like Lions on twitter and many a cunt with an account laid in to him for his "shit poetry" not realising it was Shelley

Twitter rips into Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘pretentious’ poetry – except it’s actually by Shelley

The former Labour leader posted the famous ‘Rise like lions’ verse to promote his poetry anthology – but Twitter users thought it was his own, and weren’t impressed

www.theguardian.com

The guardian take from Stuart Jeffries " Guardian feature writer":
"Perhaps Twitter has a point. The scansion is poor and the references elsewhere in the poem to then prime minister Lord Castlereagh are hardly topical. Moreover, the poem is the predictable go-to for lefties dreaming of a revolution that never happens. In 1980 the Jam quoted these lines on their album Sound Affects but I don’t recall the British people rising up to oust Margaret Thatcher. Perhaps we need new poems for new times. “Poetry,” WH Auden wrote, “makes nothing happen.” Good point. You can count the number of revolutions started by poetry on the fingers of no hands.
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a lot to unpick there, but lickspittle covers it

 

[TopCat]

This is the best article I have read in the Guardian in years and years. Top stuff.

There are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with 'diversity training' | Arun Kundani

While liberal antiracists argue over vocabulary, radicals take direct action – which is the only way to change the system, says author Arun Kundnani

www.theguardian.com

 

[two sheds]

Yes I thought it was impressive. I was going to quote bits but the whole thing is worth reading I think.

 

[Serge Forward]

This is the best article I have read in the Guardian in years and years. Top stuff.

There are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with 'diversity training' | Arun Kundani

While liberal antiracists argue over vocabulary, radicals take direct action – which is the only way to change the system, says author Arun Kundnani

www.theguardian.com

Pardon me, but the thread isn't Why the Guardian is not going down the pan.

 

[ska invita]

This is the best article I have read in the Guardian in years and years. Top stuff.

There are two kinds of antiracism. Only one works, and it has nothing to do with 'diversity training' | Arun Kundani

While liberal antiracists argue over vocabulary, radicals take direct action – which is the only way to change the system, says author Arun Kundnani

www.theguardian.com

not written by a staff writer though - a one-off token rogue comment piece promoting a Verso book

What Is Antiracism?

Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and anthropologist Ruth Benedict called for teaching people, especially poor people, to be less...

www.versobooks.com

 

[andysays]

Pardon me, but the thread isn't Why the Guardian is not going down the pan.

Not sure there's much need for a separate "why the Guardian isn't going the pan" thread just yet though...

 

[Serge Forward]

Indeed, it'd just be that Arun Kundnani article, some stuff by Kenan Malik... and not much else.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Not sure there's much need for a separate "why the Guardian isn't going the pan" thread just yet though...

Oh good, because I thought this was bang on too:

What’s behind Saudi Arabia’s answer to Glastonbury? The power of popwashing | Michael Hann

At events such as Riyadh’s Soundstorm festival, pop music is the new frontier in reputation-laundering for repressive regimes, says former Guardian music editor Michael Hann

www.theguardian.com