Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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.

this is quite good tho

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/06/london-blitz-bomb-map-september-7-1940

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!

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

take it to the pulp thread, see what happens

that blitz thing is good

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

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

Hongro Horace

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

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

dun darraghmac

Luna Jetman

dammit I wanna use those

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.

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

xxxp where are these coming from?

ah spectrum games? u guys.

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

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/index.html

xpost to nakh

Well yeah quite:

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

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

mercenary!

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

Mercenary is fucking dope btw but not a Speccy exclusive.

Excellent de-rail btw guys.

Must download this actualy

are video games worse than they used to be

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

Yeah obviously

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

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.

Chaki Egg

Matt Dizzy

Albatman

Albatman: The Caped Crusader

Albatman: The Movie

xhuxk e. egg

HI DERE Encounter

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

Super Cars-mody

PineFoxx Fights Back

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

racist indie stars

DG's Quest for Tires

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

The life and career of Normski

My 80s was basically first third = footie down the park, second third = SPECCY SPECCY SPECCY, third third = ACIEEEEED, occasional uni tutorial

Some crossover between thirds

That good old acid + football combination.

just going to interrupt to harrumph over a lil bit of dumbing down: "The tea fields of Ceylon [as Sri Lanka was then known in the UK] are as true a monument to courage as is the lion at Waterloo."

why not put "[the battle not the station derp]"?

*goes out to buy telegraph*

Presumably the writer or the sub was frightened that using the historically appropriate name might make the readership get a bit testy.

The lion at Waterloo

Sounds like a pub to me. What lion anyway?