butchersapron
Bring back hanging
No, i've used it solely about you. A 29 year old man so enraged at being banned off a board that he acts like you have for the next week. Enjoy your martyrdom.
Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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Johnny Canuck3
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p.s. Should I ever visit England again, you'd be one of the first I'd seek out, with a bottle of tequila under my arm - you do drink, don't you? I figure that at the end of that meeting, we'd emerge either with a warm handshake, or with black eyes and bloodied teeth. Either way, it would definitely be a memorable couple of hours.
When was that? When it supported the South in the American Civil War? recommended voting out the Attlee Government? Supported the foundation of Israel? Blamed the victims of Bloody Sunday? Supported the SDP? etc etc etc.
Johnny Canuck3
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I'll even bring flowers with the tequila. What's your pleasure - roses, or daisies?
Johnny Canuck3
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butchersapron You aren't responding: are you big enough to share a pint, should the opportunity arise?
Well quite. The Guardian gets this big kicking, mostly deserved I might add, but really - would you rather read the Times, the Independent or the Telegraph?
On a thread that slags off something, I don't think it's unreasonable for people to say it's the best of bad lot.
I am still waiting for someone to suggest a less terrible national newspaper.
On a thread that slags off something, I don't think it's unreasonable for people to say it's the best of bad lot.
I am still waiting for someone to suggest a less terrible national newspaper.
I think the Telegraph is a better newspaper. Sometimes nicknamed the Torygraph, it is clear where it stands on economics and politics and although it has dumbed down a bit it is still a fairly serious newspaper. I enjoy the letters pages. I am on the left and prefer to read a solidly right wing paper so as to be up to speed on what they think. The Guardian is just tedious and too vaguely Liberal to be of interest to me.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Winter said:
On s thread that is designed to do a) I'm sitting here waiting for it to do b) and complaining that it only does a).
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Why oh why won't someone say the Guardian is relatively the best paper.!!
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Its coverage of middlebrow television is second to none.
_angel_
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Yeah I'd take the Telegraph.
The Independent is another due a good kicking tbf.
I thought this thread was supposed to be about the Guardian being shit, not about how it is the least worst paper or about weird fantasists being bannned for 4 hours?
cemertyone
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Brillant......
I met him after a full saturday of walking around Andystown in the rain. . . by that point I was more or less zombified. . .
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Is that a quote from somewhere? Because it makes no sense otherwise. I can't see any anger from anyone except you here, by the way. "Tantrum," heh.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Context is all sam. If you ain't got it you ain't got it.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
i thought canuck was in his 50s.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Will Self demands real tories.
Which is the best condiment in a shit sandwich?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
That sort of depends on whether you believe that the politics they propagate make "the best of a bad lot". If you do believe that The Guardian does so, then obviously your faith in what they say will be undimmed. If you look beyond their liberalist view of the world and their accommodation of neoliberalism, then the only conclusion that you can arrive at is that The Guardian is much of a muchness with the rest of "the bad lot", the difference being in the language they couch their accommodationism in.
I'm not at all opposed to people reading The Guardian (or any other newspaper), but I'd like to think that their readership were capable of a little reflexivity as to why it's their preferred "journal of record".
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
He got banned for being a cunt. If he can't accept that, it's a reflection of his inability to be honest with himself, let alone others.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Think of our modern-day newspapers and broadcast news media as competing retail outlets who are all compelled to buy their "supplies" (stories) from the same wholesaler. This is the actual situation most of our mainstream news media exist in.
Given the above, "better" becomes a matter not of veracity or commitment to political or journalistic ideals, but purely a matter of presentation. The Guardian is "better" than The Times for some readers because it presents the news differently to The Times, and vice versa.
89 Til Infinity
Apparently a "Well-Known Member"
Anyone know why you can comment on some articles but not on others? Is it for legal reasons?
Wow, I knew none of that, started reading in the mid eighties, kept me sane in the Thatcher years tbh...
p.s. Should I ever visit England again, you'd be one of the first I'd seek out, with a bottle of tequila under my arm - you do drink, don't you? I figure that at the end of that meeting, we'd emerge either with a warm handshake, or with black eyes and bloodied teeth. Either way, it would definitely be a memorable couple of hours.
Maybe it'd be throbbing, petroleum jellied sphincters and an entirely new perspective rather than black eyes or bloodied teeth.
