the fact that they had put the staples, such as bread, in the deepest part of the shop, is just one of the many tricks designers use to break your will and draw you into the "supermarket experience".
― gyac, Saturday, 15 February 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
I would rather my daughters took MDMA than started smoking30 Aug 2013: Tim Lott: What worries me is not so much illegal drugs, which mostly seem to cause a relatively low level of harm compared with cigarettes and alcohol. What worries me is addiction430 comments
― gyac, Saturday, 15 February 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
so let me get this straight, they give him space on a popular website to post this shit?
― the undersea world of jacques kernow (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 15 February 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
mdma might help w the supermarket
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 15 February 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
I'm hearing an attempt for a tone of John Peel-style whimsical helplessness in Tim Lott's article, but it not quite succeeding.
― mohel hell (Bob Six), Saturday, 15 February 2014 20:14 (ten years ago) link
if it's formal ambition you want, you want this one
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 15 February 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
six kinds of strawberry jam is a fairly small number, really. he must have gone to tesco metro.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 15 February 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
"At times, channel hopping through the endless, yet universally unedifying cable tv options, it feels like there are 57 channels, but nothing on"
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 15 February 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
He needs to watch Magaluf Weekender
― cardamon, Saturday, 15 February 2014 23:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/07/valentines-day-more-like-tax-love
Valentines Day - it's a bit commercial. Stunning insight there, mate.
― ailsa, Sunday, 16 February 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link
Oh, that was already noted. As you were.
― ailsa, Sunday, 16 February 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
valentines-day-MORE LIKE
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Sunday, 16 February 2014 01:41 (ten years ago) link
wait until he sees the water aisle - he'll explode
― koogs, Sunday, 16 February 2014 10:59 (ten years ago) link
Wow that guy is terrible.
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, 17 February 2014 02:29 (ten years ago) link
It is disconcerting how much he looks like Woody Allen.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 17 February 2014 10:28 (ten years ago) link
ghost written by adnan januzaj
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Monday, 17 February 2014 11:51 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/NSmPID6.png
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 21 February 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
guardian weighs in on scottish independence http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/19/scottish-independence-76-things-apologise
― conrad, Friday, 21 February 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Who are "we"?
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 21 February 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
the british guardian
― conrad, Friday, 21 February 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
will sir chris hoy and sir alex ferguson etc lose their knighthood? surely this cannot be allowed to happen
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Friday, 21 February 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
can we stop referring to james vi as james i
― conrad, Friday, 21 February 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Such content, many wow**
For one week, we will share our perspectives on the media, globalisation, sex and pop culture, as well as the bare necessities of housing, food and employment. These are some of the pieces we will be bringing you:
• 30 under 30 – our picks of the brightest young global media stars. (We trust you to disagree with our choices rabidly in the comments)
• Buzzfeed's Beastmaster explains the cat thing
• Rage at how economically screwed this generation might be, then find answers in pages of life-hacks and not-so-scary facts
• Online dating? You're doing it wrong
• Everything you wanted to know about trans sex lives and were rude enough to ask
• Original political cartoons from international graphic artists.
• Why all roads lead to Drake
• Why Clueless defines Gen Y better than any other single cultural artifact
― fedora the implorer (nakhchivan), Friday, 14 March 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
Surely Clueless is firmly Gen X?
― The Whittrick and Puddock (dowd), Friday, 14 March 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah clueless is gen x
― balls, Saturday, 15 March 2014 00:30 (ten years ago) link
THAT'S Y IT'S NEWS
― j., Saturday, 15 March 2014 00:36 (ten years ago) link
the inevitable live blog of people writing live blogs
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/17/generation-y-takeover-as-it-happens
― PONOPONOPONO (seandalai), Monday, 17 March 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
The trend for including yesterday's "internet sensation"/wacky Youtube clip on website front pages (happens a lot on both The Guardian and Independent websites) seems a bit tragic. Makes me like both sites less than I would do otherwise. There's a skill to being click-baity - I clicked on Suzanne Moore's piece on Clarissa Dickson Wright earlier (someone I have close to no interest in) and was glad I had done.
― djh, Monday, 17 March 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
no fucking way am i ever reading this:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/25/michael-gove-chap-hop-favourite-genre-mr-b
― emmeline skankhurst (NickB), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 13:36 (ten years ago) link
gave up at "My name is Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer."
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
toes curled so hard i thought my shoes would split
― emmeline skankhurst (NickB), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
I hope everyone involved is sacked on the spot.
― online hardman, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
i read it and now i'm not sure if i'll ever stop squirming.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:10 (ten years ago) link
presume this was commissioned off the back of the zingy profile thing yesterday which basically and correctly said that this music is garbage and anyone who likes it is a shitlord. every single one of Mr B's awful fanbase signed up to comment squeakily with their own name and photo
― From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
So I bought the Guardian today to get the men's fashion special, to lookit the suits.
This has a 6-page spread on a footballer's hairstyle.
The Guardian is just trolling me at this point, right?
(It's not even his haircut, to be honest.)
― Branwell Bell, Saturday, 12 April 2014 08:49 (ten years ago) link
The Guardian has seen the UK cultural zeitgeist and embraced it.
― mohel hell (Bob Six), Saturday, 12 April 2014 08:59 (ten years ago) link
which footballer?
― online hardman, Saturday, 12 April 2014 09:28 (ten years ago) link
?
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/apr/12/footballers-hair-scott-parker-tim-dowling
― Number None, Saturday, 12 April 2014 09:44 (ten years ago) link
There's an online piece with Ken Loach, Reggie Yates and a dude from Matches critiquing various managers / players on their fashion choices, which seems OK. I have no problem with looking at sports people as 'fashion icons' in the same way as pop stars, generally. Many cultivate a look, they're hugely influential and managers are often a guide to 'adult' fashion for kids.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 April 2014 09:52 (ten years ago) link
Why does Tim Dowling even exist. Why.
Yes, that "football managers in suits" article is also in the same issue. Also there's another article about sports presenters' style choices. I feel like I have fallen into some bizarro world I no longer understand.
― Branwell Bell, Saturday, 12 April 2014 09:56 (ten years ago) link
I suspect that is how most people normally feel when reading style sections.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 April 2014 10:19 (ten years ago) link
I don't know about that. I've been reading men's style sections since I was 9 (the New York Times used to do a really amazing one, OK?) and it's not like it requires particularly specialist language or knowledge? No more so than reading a supplement on architecture or a supplement on science requires specialist language?
Don't you ever feel vaguely... patronised when reading things aimed at men, and this presumption of being a colossal oaf with limited interests? Like it has to be ~bloked~ up with a bunch of football signifiers to make it palatable? I don't disagree with the assertion that football players can be and are fashion icons. But 6 pages of "Tim Dowling gets a footballer's haircut" is really an appallingly bad idea, clumsy and also bizarre.
But I do recognise that this probably has a great deal to do with my loathing of both Tim Dowling and football. I don't want either of these things besmirching my suit pr0n, so both of them together is just... extra special ugh.
― Branwell Bell, Saturday, 12 April 2014 10:56 (ten years ago) link
I really enjoy Tim Dowling's column, I realise this is a minority opinion but he often makes me laugh.
― there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Saturday, 12 April 2014 10:58 (ten years ago) link
If Tim Dowling were a female Guardian columnist writing about the banal, navel-gazing tedium that Tim Dowling writes about, he'd be ripped to shreds.
"Oh no, the Big Dog has eaten my son's shoes! I'm getting a footballer's haircut. I'm a helpless American who doesn't understand grass!" There, column filed.
― Branwell Bell, Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:03 (ten years ago) link
Err, yeah, cause female columnists get so much easier a time than male ones.
― Alba, Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:05 (ten years ago) link
Sorry – just woke up. Reading failure. As you were.
― Alba, Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:06 (ten years ago) link
Wait, that's not a Tim Dowling column because I haven't mentioned my banjo playing or put in a free plug for my band! Now I can file. Where's my paycheque?
― Branwell Bell, Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:10 (ten years ago) link
If they made a habit of bloking up fashion coverage it would annoy me but most, in the Guardian and elsewhere, does tend towards 'aspirational' and if you aren't in your mid thirties and in the market for £100 jumpers, £250 blazers and £700 suits will quite possibly look like bizarro world.
idk, I think there is still a tendency on both sides to look at a lot of young men who care about their image and like nice clothes as 'not fashion'. The occasional feature that makes fashion more relatable seems fine.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link
If Tim Dowling was Tess Dowling but wrote the same pieces I'd still find her funny.
― there was a definite cool-factor in tupac's hologram (stevie), Saturday, 12 April 2014 11:53 (ten years ago) link
why cant you type 'porn' btw, do you have an aversion to the word? is it a 'quirky' stylistic thing? does my nut in.
― online hardman, Saturday, 12 April 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link