Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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People take far too many antibiotics. Then when they *really* need them, the drugs don't work.

duchy of Pornwall (suzy), Thursday, 12 August 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Fair enough, but 'apocalypse' not being hyperbole?

there are so few places i can wear my jester costume (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link

People take far too many antibiotics. Then when they *really* need them, the drugs don't work.

This isn't really the problem. The problem is people taking them for things that they are useless for (viral infections and the like), not taking enough of them (take every last pill in that bottle, folks, even if you feel fine), and taking the wrong ones (another reason to finish that prescription and not save them for later). Places like Mexico that have them OTC have much, much higher rates of antibiotic resistance than we do.

Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 13 August 2010 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/18/hiv-nadja-benaissa-law

i know a lot of the guardian cif writers are blatant trolls but this is really appalling.

prolego, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

holy shit

i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link

n e ways, came here to post this, without reading it, just on grounds of concept...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/sep/06/daybreak-chiles-bleakley-liveblog

i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link

taliban recruitment advert

caek, Monday, 6 September 2010 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Don't tell Eric Pickles they're running those as well as those local government 'Ethnic Divervsity LGBTI Waste Procurement & Middle England Offence Causation Officer' job ads.

James Mitchell, Monday, 6 September 2010 09:34 (thirteen years ago) link

WTF@ the comments on that daybreak live blog piece (which is conceptually atrocious in every way imaginable) people taking such meaningless fluff seriously, WTF. For god's sake, get a grip Guardian readership!

mc banhammer (Pashmina), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link

Taking meaningless fluff seriously is pretty much the number 1 class signifier in 21st Century England.

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link

take it to the pulp thread, see what happens

k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link

that blitz thing is good

i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Actual economic impact of carpet bombing during WWII seriously over-estimated in the general public consciousness iirc.

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link

[lame joke based on the idea you meant 'bombing carpets']

i am legernd (history mayne), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link

Hongro Horace

A+ btw

vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Thank you :D I might see the year out with some old school Speccy shouts

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link

brb, off to form a chillwave band called Nodes of Yesod

vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 6 September 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link

dun darraghmac

former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Luna Jetman

Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:07 (thirteen years ago) link

dammit I wanna use those

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:07 (thirteen years ago) link

Taking meaningless fluff seriously is pretty much the number 1 class signifier in 21st Century England.

― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:39 (19 minutes ago)

Aren't the Guardian all about a 'sardonic', 'off kilter' approach to sleb culture? Unlike the poor stupid people who all take it really seriously and Heat 'in some ways can be seen' as replacing religion or other sources of meaning in their lives.

no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Dun Darach is more or less my fave Spectrum game ever, alongside those other Gargoyle adventures.

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link

xxxp where are these coming from?

k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:09 (thirteen years ago) link

ah spectrum games? u guys.

k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link

"Dun Darach", "knight Lore" and "Highway Encounter", a 3-way tie for 1st place.

mc banhammer (Pashmina), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link

xpost to nakh

Well yeah quite:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/ill-try-anything-with-a-detached-air-of-superiorit,10679/

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Target Renegade narrowly beat Barry McGuigan Boxing for me (training mode on the latter was a game-changer imo)

k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link

mercenary!

former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link

I had Jim Watt Boxing. You jabbed pointlessly for 4 rounds then went in with the heid and finished it in the 5th.

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link

Mercenary is fucking dope btw but not a Speccy exclusive.

Excellent de-rail btw guys.

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link

Must download this actualy

k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link

are video games worse than they used to be

k¸ (darraghmac), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link

exclusive to me, i never had a c64, they're the enemy xxp

former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah obviously

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link

When you loaded a game the stupid C64 tape machine didn't even make an awesome noise

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link

Well yeah quite:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/ill-try-anything-with-a-detached-air-of-superiorit,10679/

― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 13:10 (2 seconds ago)

Ha yeah but the comments kinda give lie to that. Some bored civil servants ardently responding to a livebloggah detailing the voodoo coronation of the Chelmsford Ceaucescu's fluoresecent fuckbuddy and one of Business Lunch's foremost alumni. So it cuts across class lines I guess.

no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Chaki Egg

Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Matt Dizzy

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Albatman

former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link

Albatman: The Caped Crusader

former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link

Albatman: The Movie

former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link

xhuxk e. egg

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link

HI DERE Encounter

(It was that or Dan HI DERE: Pilot of the Future)

vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Super Cars-mody

former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link

PineFoxx Fights Back

former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link

Didn't they have any other sources of meaning in their lives in the 1980s apart from Spectrum games?

no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link

racist indie stars

former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link

DG's Quest for Tires

Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link


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