Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Favelado]

where then?

Am I being daft? Isn't it PD's Eurovision analysis lazily ripped off?

 

[DotCommunist]

Am I being daft? Isn't it PD's Eurovision analysis lazily ripped off?

ah yes, there is a girderesque quality to it.

 

[rekil]

where then?

PD's eurovision or chuckle brothers things?

 

[Favelado]

Will Letizia Ortiz shake up royal style in Spain?
At first glance, the new queen of Spain's wardrobe is rather predictable, but there are hints of a sleek and practical point of view that is very much her own.

This about the abdication in Spain as well. Horrid.

http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/...l-letizia-ortiz-shake-up-royal-style-in-spain

 

[Favelado]

PD's eurovision or chuckle brothers things?

Yeah them. You know what I mean right?

e2a this. I don't think this was a coincidence.

http://proletariandemocracy.wordpre...cracy-eurovision-song-contest-preview-part-2/

 

[rekil]

Wouldn't mind that much, but it's even less funny than the eurovision stuff.

 

[DotCommunist]

of course the appropriation of PD house style is bound to be doomed in the hands of a fabian journo

 

[Favelado]

There is the opportunity to write something from a faux-Posadist perspective about Stuart Jeffries that might annoy him.

 

[SpookyFrank]

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jun/07/house-price-london-move-countryside?commentpage=1

An article about how middle class white people from London are selling their homes at a huge profit and moving to the countryside. No mention of the social and economic implications of this sort of behaviour on the places they move to, nor the plight of non-homeowners in London as property prices spiral further and further out of control.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

middle class white people .

Quite how did you get to that from the article?

 

[DotCommunist]

we've all seen escape to the country

 

[teqniq]

we've all seen escape to the country

but I never saw the final episode, did they get away?

 

[killer b]

but I never saw the final episode, did they get away?

it ended on a cliffhanger, with the zombies breaking through the back door.

 

[teqniq]

 

[ViolentPanda]

can't they just stick to the fucking murrays mound and pimms stuff

The middle classes have been appropriating football from the working classes for more than two decades now, unfortunately. Not that I disagreed with the findings of the Taylor Report, but all-seaters basically removed one source of middle class fear with regard to going to a league match - the fear of having to stand with the great unwashed while they indulged in their "football hooliganism".

 

[Belushi]

Quite how did you get to that from the article?

Err, because they're all white in the photographs and the accompanying text describes their professional jobs and the hundreds of thousands of pounds they'd spent buying London homes in the first place?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Err, because they're all white in the photographs and the accompanying text describes their professional jobs and the hundreds of thousands of pounds they'd spent buying London homes in the first place?

They are not all photographed.

 

[butchersapron]

I'm sure that it is entirely non representative.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Quite how did you get to that from the article?

It had something to do with all the pictures of middle class white people.

 

[Santino]

A Johnny Vodka for the middle classes

 

[J Ed]

I see that Victoria Coren shares my view that Kirstie Allsopp is actually a deep undercover Maoist secret agent whose endless promotion of buying to rent and gilding pears at Christmas is a very clever way of exposing the decadence of capitalism

 

[DaveCinzano]

Words that chill:

...As I reported in my 2012 book...

...and...

...is a daily columnist for the Guardian US...

 

[Idris2002]

we've all seen escape to the country

"You'll work harder with a gun at your back"

 

[gabi]

Good god. How in gods name does shit like this get published in a national paper

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/10/sleeve-tattoos-hipster-habit-unartistic-art

 

[ViolentPanda]

"You'll work harder with a gun at your back"

Frankly, I prefer the "then your head's skewered on a stake" part of the equation.

 

[J Ed]

This article manages to patronise people who wear football shirts as a form of identity while oozing with the 'I don't watch football how cosmopolitan am I' to demonstrate that the author has a particular (very annoying) identity http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/jun/16/world-cup-football-shirts-style-own-goal

 

[DaveCinzano]

'I don't watch football how cosmopolitan am I'

Though 8 out of her last 11 articles have been about the World Cup.

 

[Sprocket.]

But by using the word 'soccer' she makes any other mention of football she has made or makes irrelevant.

 

[Dogsauce]

Drivel, maybe one to file under 'middle class problems'

http://www.theguardian.com/theobser...nts-are-discarded-at-festivals-and-i-know-why

 

[ViolentPanda]

Drivel, maybe one to file under 'middle class problems'

http://www.theguardian.com/theobser...nts-are-discarded-at-festivals-and-i-know-why

I'm sure I remember an Urbanite who did stewarding at a festie saying they picked themselves up a nice nearly-new tent because of this!