Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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?

i *think* it's outside the entrance that leads sort of diagonally on to the concourse?

Napolion Bonapurrte

lol actually this has opened a whole can of worms... the waterloo lion (the one at the station, not the one on the battleground), was MOVED in 1966 (a few years before sri lanka was so named) to somewhere NEAR waterloo station

You confused me by making it seem as if there were lions present at the Battle of Waterloo, led around on chains by Mamelukes no doubt

you mean the stone lion that's now on westminster bridge?

http://www.moodmapper.com/idx_result.asp?mood=199&place=113

never heard of the lion brewery before tbh

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lJclA8pn1kw/TDSZqQWDlVI/AAAAAAAADnY/LK0blzwi14M/s1600/lion+waterloo.jpg

not sure what it represents, exactly. not 'what a tragic waste of life' tho, clearly!

King William I of the Netherlands ordered the construction of this monument in 1820, to commemorate bravoury of his son, the prince of Orange, who was wounded here during the battle.

another typical monpolisation of history by the ruling classes then.

Can tell it's a Dutch lion and not an English one by the way it has expertly trapped that cannonball with its paw

ha

nice

A+ tom

The great question now, ostensibly, is whether her "brand" is strong enough for her to "go it alone".

ilx for beginners really

So sang Steven Patrick Morrissey in the unbearably sad I Know It's Over, from an album titled The Queen Is Dead – the Smiths' masterpiece, released in 1986.

Lot of background filling there. Reads like Dan Brown.

what a dreadful piece...so lacking in actual points. and the final insult, indie is too white cos people didn't want to go and see GORILLAZ

99% Caucasian males, limply strumming away, in endless tribute to the same old white-bread influences.

That reminds me, I haven't been to a folk gig in a while

Why do I read the comments on Guardian articles? :(

or maybe

Why do I read the comments on Guardian articles? :(

so few people seem interested in the creative cross-pollination it might inspire

If the creative cross-pollination it inspires sounds like the Gorillaz then they're right not to be interested.

John Harris has been blinded on the road to Damascus and all you miserable gits can do is mock him.

fuckim i'm sure he's got private health

In keeping with his catholic tastes, Albarn – a passionate fan of the music of west Africa – was performing alongside Bobby Womack, the rap trio De La Soul, and Snoop Dogg

Didn't know Snoop was Cameroonian tbh

didn't know albarn was catholic tbh

the rap trio De La Soul

that explains that snoop dogg track about always going to half five mass on a sunday because your parents would forget you hadn't been

C'mon, Albarn wrote a song called "Popescene" ffs

popescene but not heard

might take harris more seriously if he sorted out his shit 1978 grange hill haircut

anyway don't read the comments, don't read the comments, aaaaaaaaargh i read the comments

jesus...can't stand kira cochrane, it's like she sat down one day and realised she had nothing to write about so would beat the drum for the most obvious takes on "women's issues" imaginable...