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Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

scifisam said:
You said the newspaper doesn't change it all fucking day. Does that mean you think they should republish it as a new article with a slightly changed headline?

What's the "pan" thing? I don't understand what you mean by the use of that word.
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I have repeatedly said that i was not referring to the content of the article, but the content of the headline that they chose to use for their internet front page hours hours and hours after it had been rendered redundant and could have been changed to something reflecting reality with a few seconds thought and work.

Pan? Why the guardian is going down the pan.
 
butchersapron said:
I have repeatedly said that i was not referring to the content of the article, but the content of the headline that they chose to use for their internet front page hours hours and hours after it had been rendered redundant and could have been changed to something reflecting reality with a few seconds thought and work.

Pan? Why the guardian is going down the pan.
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Ah. I count the headline as part of the article. Get you now about the use of "pan," doh.
 
BREAKING NEWS
Front page news:
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Pippa Middleton offers Asian-themed dinner tips in Waitrose magazine debut

First column provides recipes and aesthetic suggestions such as flowers to 'soften angular Asian-style tableware'

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Should there be any lingering doubts as to Waitrose's magazine's commitment to fuelling its readers' most aspirational and farthest-flung fantasies – the April issue coquettishly promises to reveal "India's Delia, Sweden's Nigella and Thailand's Gordon" – the debut musings of its newest columnist, Pippa Middleton, ought to lay them blissfully to rest.

In her first article for Waitrose Kitchen, starkly entitled Pippa's Friday Night Feasts, the 29-year-old veteran of the party-planning scene and sister of the Duchess of Cambridge offers her tips on how to engineer a "relaxed, Asian-themed night in with friends".

Not only does she provide recipes, from hoisin duck rolls to ginger mojitos and tangerine and sake jellies with coconut cream, she also offers the odd aesthetic suggestion. Bright flowers can serve to "soften angular Asian-style tableware", while judicious deployment of paper lanterns, fairy lights or floating candles can "set the mood".

In a brisk and, at times, moving, exhortation to the kind of stick-in-the-mud whose idea of a perfect Friday night is six pints and a curry or a frozen pizza in front of a box-set, Pippa pleads for people to embrace the beginning of the weekend. "Friday night," writes the author of Celebrate, the renowned one-stop guide to entertaining, "is the perfect time to cook.

"Regardless of how tired I might be, the moment Friday lunchtime arrives I get that contagious pre-weekend excitement. Even if I'm feeling exhausted and don't feel like doing anything but watching telly, I can put off being tired till Saturday." After all, Friday – with its liberating "promise of the weekend" and safe distance from Sunday's "pre-Monday melancholy" – is a bit special.

To that end, Pippa recommends going the extra mile: to accompany her oriental twist on the famous Cuban cocktail, she suggests homemade sushi rolls.

Ah, sushi. The mere mention of the Japanese delicacy elicits, madeleine-like, memories of her initiation into its subtle mysteries. "The first time I made sushi was at Edinburgh university," she writes. "I convinced my flatmates to help, promising we'd prepare it in front of the rugby on TV that afternoon.

"The trickiest part was cooking the rice but even that, once we got a feel for the right stickiness, was easy, while the rolling just required patience."

The secret of sushi success, apparently, is to keep your rice layer pretty thin but to be generous with the filling. But you needn't worry about stocking up on the attendant paraphernalia. "If you don't have a bamboo rolling mat," Pippa advises, "just use clingfilm."

She is equally practical when it comes to tackling her delicious but daunting 143kcal pudding. If you don't want to do it all on Friday, why not "get ahead by making the jellies the night before"?

Would that all her dishes were as simple. Her Vietnamese spring rolls, alas, apparently require some "specialist kit". Fortunately, though, said kit is easily snap-upable at a certain well-known and well-heeled supermarket chain.
 
William of Walworth said:
Here we go though :

John Harris : Welfare : Get ready for a war over benefits

(clearly entirely valueless -- he's associated with Compass after all)
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John Harris is dangerous poison in this article he again urges the destruction of the Beveridge allocation by assessment of need in favour of allocation by contribution: "The undeveloped idea of a more contributory system is probably the only way out of the mess"

This is utter lies: "Any kind of textured conversation has yet to start. No one, on the left or right, has much to say about how distant the benefits system is from our ongoing skills crisis, and the idea that people who cannot find work may well be in need of training and education, rather than incessant nudges towards the bottom of the labour market."

The left has repeatedly - if not continually - argued in favour of retraining on full pay - after any sort of redundancy or unemployment or fully paid training programmes for unemployed school-leavers- he's just a liar.
 
Let's yah-boo the Lib Dems by smearing the sole sensible policy they ever sort of had - scrapping Trident. "Labour is right to support Trident A nuclear disarmament policy might look fine on a Lib Dem leaflet but it would cost our party and the country dear"

Hey, Hollande, make France competitive! "Mr Hollande, it turns out, did not really have anything much resembling a project for government. His administration seems absent of ideas about how to make France more competitive. His economic policy is muddled."

"I do believe it has been hard, and I hope the charity gig goes well. But you must not come back and try to rule over me and my family, while you don't even know that charity begins at home." The frig?
 
sihhi said:
John Harris is dangerous poison in this article he again urges the destruction of the Beveridge allocation by assessment of need in favour of allocation by contribution: "The undeveloped idea of a more contributory system is probably the only way out of the mess"

This is utter lies: "Any kind of textured conversation has yet to start. No one, on the left or right, has much to say about how distant the benefits system is from our ongoing skills crisis, and the idea that people who cannot find work may well be in need of training and education, rather than incessant nudges towards the bottom of the labour market."

The left has repeatedly - if not continually - argued in favour of retraining on full pay - after any sort of redundancy or unemployment or fully paid training programmes for unemployed school-leavers- he's just a liar.
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I've just read that article, its dreadful, an apolgia for the L/P and Milliband and I suspect in parts untrue, I simply don't believe that no one he has spoken to on his travels has not pointed out that benefit fraud is actually quite low.
 
Just found this, its from 2011 but still

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/18/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations

"A preemptive strike would be particularly likely in the early phases of our expansion because a civilisation may become increasingly difficult to destroy as it continues to expand. Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilisational expansion could be detected by an ETI because our expansion is changing the composition of the Earth's atmosphere, via greenhouse gas emissions," the report states.
"Green" aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet. "These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems. It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets," the authors write.
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:facepalm:
 
ska invita said:
BREAKING NEWS
Front page news:
dy3986.jpg

Pippa Middleton offers Asian-themed dinner tips in Waitrose magazine debut

First column provides recipes and aesthetic suggestions such as flowers to 'soften angular Asian-style tableware'

Pippa-Middleton-in-Waitro-009.jpg



Should there be any lingering doubts as to Waitrose's magazine's commitment to fuelling its readers' most aspirational and farthest-flung fantasies – the April issue coquettishly promises to reveal "India's Delia, Sweden's Nigella and Thailand's Gordon" – the debut musings of its newest columnist, Pippa Middleton, ought to lay them blissfully to rest.

In her first article for Waitrose Kitchen, starkly entitled Pippa's Friday Night Feasts, the 29-year-old veteran of the party-planning scene and sister of the Duchess of Cambridge offers her tips on how to engineer a "relaxed, Asian-themed night in with friends".

Not only does she provide recipes, from hoisin duck rolls to ginger mojitos and tangerine and sake jellies with coconut cream, she also offers the odd aesthetic suggestion. Bright flowers can serve to "soften angular Asian-style tableware", while judicious deployment of paper lanterns, fairy lights or floating candles can "set the mood".

In a brisk and, at times, moving, exhortation to the kind of stick-in-the-mud whose idea of a perfect Friday night is six pints and a curry or a frozen pizza in front of a box-set, Pippa pleads for people to embrace the beginning of the weekend. "Friday night," writes the author of Celebrate, the renowned one-stop guide to entertaining, "is the perfect time to cook.

"Regardless of how tired I might be, the moment Friday lunchtime arrives I get that contagious pre-weekend excitement. Even if I'm feeling exhausted and don't feel like doing anything but watching telly, I can put off being tired till Saturday." After all, Friday – with its liberating "promise of the weekend" and safe distance from Sunday's "pre-Monday melancholy" – is a bit special.

To that end, Pippa recommends going the extra mile: to accompany her oriental twist on the famous Cuban cocktail, she suggests homemade sushi rolls.

Ah, sushi. The mere mention of the Japanese delicacy elicits, madeleine-like, memories of her initiation into its subtle mysteries. "The first time I made sushi was at Edinburgh university," she writes. "I convinced my flatmates to help, promising we'd prepare it in front of the rugby on TV that afternoon.

"The trickiest part was cooking the rice but even that, once we got a feel for the right stickiness, was easy, while the rolling just required patience."

The secret of sushi success, apparently, is to keep your rice layer pretty thin but to be generous with the filling. But you needn't worry about stocking up on the attendant paraphernalia. "If you don't have a bamboo rolling mat," Pippa advises, "just use clingfilm."

She is equally practical when it comes to tackling her delicious but daunting 143kcal pudding. If you don't want to do it all on Friday, why not "get ahead by making the jellies the night before"?

Would that all her dishes were as simple. Her Vietnamese spring rolls, alas, apparently require some "specialist kit". Fortunately, though, said kit is easily snap-upable at a certain well-known and well-heeled supermarket chain.
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I can't remember where I read it, but someone journalist tried to recreate Pippa's feast and they didn't eat until 1am. Food was not that special either. I'll see if I can find it.
 
First of all an alien civilisation which was advanced enough to create industrial processes which led to space travel would have to have manipulated the environment in a similar way to what we have, they would have had to have mined various metals etc, and to have created the technology to actually reach earth (which we have never done btw) let alone try to destroy it they would have probably have to have fucked up their own planet even worse than we have :facepalm:
 
frogwoman said:
First of all an alien civilisation which was advanced enough to create industrial processes which led to space travel would have to have manipulated the environment in a similar way to what we have, they would have had to have mined various metals etc, and to actually reach earth let alone try to destroy it they would have probably have to have fucked up their own planet even worse than we have :facepalm:
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It's an odd value judgement in any case. Maybe super-rational aliens would think, "There's some insignificant cosmetic damage here, but these human cunts will be gone sooner or later and within a few million years the earth will look totally fucking different anyway - so whatever. Let them coat it in plastic and rape it dry. Not our problem!"
 
equationgirl said:
I can't remember where I read it, but someone journalist tried to recreate Pippa's feast and they didn't eat until 1am. Food was not that special either. I'll see if I can find it.
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You can't make sushi with just cling film and a bamboo rolling mat costs a quid or less. Bizarre thing to say. Is this shit all made up?
 
Apologies, it was in the Mail -I was checking advertisers in the online edition recently and must have gotten distracted :D

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...AIL-verdict-cooks-recipe-column-Waitrose.html
Had the finished results looked anything like the delicacies on the glossy pages of Waitrose magazine I wouldn’t have minded. But in reality, my Vietnamese spring rolls looked like flaccid seafood Femidoms, my sushi (if I dare honour it with the name) was sloppy and bursting at the seams and the cocktails - which Pip suggests garnishing with red chillis - were so fiery they should have come with a health warning.
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Favelado said:
It's an odd value judgement in any case. Maybe super-rational aliens would think, "There's some insignificant cosmetic damage here, but these human cunts will be gone sooner or later and within a few million years the earth will look totally fucking different anyway - so whatever. Let them coat it in plastic and rape it dry. Not our problem!"
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Yeah well when we discover an intelligent life form I doubt our first reaction will be "look how badly they've fucked up greenhouse gas emissions, we have to kill them now to save whatever moon they're living on" :facepalm: "They've got the CO2 well below target, we're going to have to exterminate them all now"
 
8ball said:
You can't make sushi with just cling film and a bamboo rolling mat costs a quid or less. Bizarre thing to say. Is this shit all made up?
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Probably - but if you've never made sushi before, clingfirm is a logical if impractical solution.
 
8ball said:
If you've never made it before, clingfilm is surely a guaranteed fail. :confused:
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Yes, because it's too flexible. But most people won't have figured that out.They'll be thinking they need something like a flat sheet they can roll.
 
equationgirl said:
Yes, because it's too flexible. But most people won't have figured that out.They'll be thinking they need something like a flat sheet they can roll.
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It would never have even occurred to me to give sushi a bash without either asking someone or looking it up. Really easy if you know how but I imagine a nightmare to work out on your own.

Then again, my culinary repertoire is pretty restricted.
 
8ball said:
It would never have even occurred to me to give sushi a bash without either asking someone or looking it up. Really easy if you know how but I imagine a nightmare to work out on your own.

Then again, my culinary repertoire is pretty restricted.
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You should get the magazine, give it a go :D
 
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