Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Rob Ray]

He's the Basic Left Perspective Guy, no point in hating him really he just fills a role the media reckons it needs. Singsongfun on the other hand has sympathies for Suella Braverman, so their perspective on who is or isn't a complete cunt is, to put it mildly, somewhat suspect.

 

[Pickman's model]

Apparently people on £32k plus are middle class Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes

 

[Chz]

Apparently people on £32k plus are middle class Revealed: the huge climate impact of the middle classes

If there's one thing I've learned living here for 20 years, it's that class and income aren't directly related.

That being said, that's minimum wage 40hrs/wk/48 wks a year (roughly £20k)+ 50%. Not a bad place to start at.

 

[belboid]

It's a worldwide figure, not specifically UK, for the top 10% of earners. The actual top 10% in the UK is £59k

 

[Pickman's model]

If there's one thing I've learned living here for 20 years, it's that class and income aren't directly related.

That being said, that's minimum wage 40hrs/wk/48 wks a year (roughly £20k)+ 50%. Not a bad place to start at.

It surprised me - at some places library assistants are paid more than that, for a job only demanding gcses and a levels.

 

[belboid]

32k is less than the average UK wage. Which makes the statement both a bit daft and one that shows up the almost worthlessness of the expression 'middle class'

 

[Chz]

I couldn't find up to date data (I didn't look very hard, TBF), but:

In 2021, the average annual salary for men and women aged 30–39 was £34,210 and £30,540, respectively

Been a lot of inflation since then though. Wages haven't quite kept up, but they've gone up a fair bit.
40-49 was a smidge higher (like £1k), other age brackets were lower.

 

[savoloysam]

It's all relative isn't it? £32k in London is nothing, in most places up north it's half decent.

 

[Raheem]

There a verb shortage at the Guardian.

 

[tim]

I have nothing on Owen Jones in the being a cunt stakes.

Anyone who watches Sky News is a cunt.

 

[equationgirl]

Looks like they used a random word generator Raheem

 

[singsongfun]

Anyone who watches Sky News is a cunt.

You seem to be confusing Sky News with GB News.

 

[scifisam]

Anyone who watches Sky News is a cunt.

You know only Sky in Australia is still owned by Murdoch, right? He's had nothing to do with Sky News for years

 

[singsongfun]

When I feel like being a complete cunt, I enjoy watching Bloomberg TV.

 

[savoloysam]

We have a new attic room – and promptly fill it with old junk

Mark the builder has finished the loft conversion. Now I need to figure out how to use the ladder without killing myself

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dystopiary]

PR puff piece for landlords masquerading as a news article

Landlords sell up in Great Britain as buy-to-let market sours

Owners sell to offset losses from tax changes and rate hikes, meaning fewer homes to rent and thus higher rents

www.theguardian.com

I pity the poor landlord
Who wishes he could keep his homes
Who uses all his power to do evil
But in the end is always left so alone
That man whom with his fingers cheats
And who lies with ev’ry breath
Who passionately hates his life
And likewise, fears his death

There's more "poor landord" shite in today's Guardian:

[Sajjad Ahmad, a buy-to-let landord] says landlords find it too difficult to regain possession of their properties. The pending but delayed ban on “no-fault” evictions could make that harder.

Ahmad started as a landlord aged 18 and he recalls how they used to be able to get their properties back “no questions asked”. Now, he says, “lurking in the corridors of the courts is Shelter”, the housing charity that advises tenants how to defend themselves from evictions and, says Ahmad, “scupper the rights of the landlord”.

‘I want to get out’: two landlords on the ‘broken’ property rental market

 

[Santino]

There's more "poor landord" shite in today's Guardian:



‘I want to get out’: two landlords on the ‘broken’ property rental market

This very obvious parody is over-the-top and literally incredible.

 

[Dystopiary]

This very obvious parody is over-the-top and literally incredible.

It's absolutely not a parody.

 

[JimW]

Started as a landlord at 18 having pulled himself up by his own bootstraps on one of the most arduous paper rounds in Britain, no doubt.

 

[Santino]

It's absolutely not a parody.

sigh

 

[redsquirrel]

There's more "poor landord" shite in today's Guardian:



‘I want to get out’: two landlords on the ‘broken’ property rental market

However do they cope

 

[SpookyFrank]

However do they cope

By skull-fucking the working class, primarily.

 

[two sheds]

I particularly liked this bit:

Adrian Foster-Fletcher, who owns six rental properties in Berkshire, has made more than £1m from rising house prices in his portfolio. The operating profits are less spectacular. He says he makes £84,000 a year in rent from the six homes and has about £20,000 in costs. It is in effect a net return of 4.3% on the combined £1.5m value of the homes – less than the return on a fixed-term savings account.

So they actually cost him £500,000 so it's not really a net return of 4.3% on his port-fo-lio (aka 'homes' for the people who live there). More like 13% which is a pretty fucking spectacular return. Plus the million the nice Mr Foster-Fletcher's made from the rising house prices.

Penury really.

 

[xenon]

I particularly liked this bit:



So they actually cost him £500,000 so it's not really a net return of 4.3% on his port-fo-lio (aka 'homes' for the people who live there). More like 13% which is a pretty fucking spectacular return. Plus the million the nice Mr Foster-Fletcher's made from the rising house prices.

Penury really.

He could you know get a job. Radical I know.

 

[xenon]

It’s coming to something when you can’t even make a living off of doing fuck all.

 

[two sheds]

That nice little piece was entitled ‘We get a really bad rap’ by the way. And afterwards Mr. Foster-Fletcher commented: “The government thinks private landlords are making a lot of money and we’re not,” he says. “We keep getting new laws that are complex and expensive.”

And which the worst of the fuckers ignore so people are living in unhealthy damp houses

 

[Rob Ray]

I know it's an entertainment feature but this simpering bollocks with noted Trump voter, habitual cheater and general dickhead Kelsey Grammer is crap even by the standards of that cursed genre. Catherine Shoard is about as tough as damp loo roll.

‘I cast a long shadow’: Kelsey Grammer on Frasier, fame and why God is the best therapist

Ahead of his reboot’s climax, the emotional star talks about being ‘filthy rich’, his love-fest with Nicholas Lyndhurst – and hearing from Marty via a medium

www.theguardian.com

 

[May Kasahara]

Arrive 15 minutes late, wear flats, and skip the fish canapes: 32 ways to smash the Christmas party season

From red wine spillages to a fuss-free exit, experts share their top hacks for surviving festivities

www.theguardian.com

This is one of the biggest loads of bollocks I've ever read. Taking fancy bread and butter to a dinner party doesn't make you clever, it makes you look like ypu don't expect to get fed anything nice by the host so have brought your own And wearing socks under tights? Sensory nightmare!

 

[belboid]

Arrive 15 minutes late, wear flats, and skip the fish canapes: 32 ways to smash the Christmas party season

From red wine spillages to a fuss-free exit, experts share their top hacks for surviving festivities

www.theguardian.com

This is one of the biggest loads of bollocks I've ever read. Taking fancy bread and butter to a dinner party doesn't make you clever, it makes you look like ypu don't expect to get fed anything nice by the host so have brought your own And wearing socks under tights? Sensory nightmare!

'On arrival, always pick up two drinks' is good though. And not just for the reason they give.

 

[Dystopiary]

Arrive 15 minutes late, wear flats, and skip the fish canapes: 32 ways to smash the Christmas party season

From red wine spillages to a fuss-free exit, experts share their top hacks for surviving festivities

www.theguardian.com

This is one of the biggest loads of bollocks I've ever read. Taking fancy bread and butter to a dinner party doesn't make you clever, it makes you look like ypu don't expect to get fed anything nice by the host so have brought your own And wearing socks under tights? Sensory nightmare!

More affiliate links in that one article than minging posh canapés Guardian staff'll get through this season. A lot of the shoes they've linked to have sold out already, wonder if it's cos they didn't do due diligence, or readers have had a stampede already.

If you don’t love your outfit, try the table-topping dressing trick: draw eyes upwards by adding big earrings and a headband. Then finish with bold red lipstick.

Or maybe change into some clothes you like.