do despair with the guardian sometimes. saw one of their writers on the bbc politics show on sun discussing the great cameron speech and she basically agreed more or less perfectly with the guy from the sun. what was the point?
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Was it Julian Glover?
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't 'get' that guy and his hilarious little lord fauntleroy byline pic being in the guardian alongside seamus milne. reminds me of the independent, incoherence-wise.
― the most revered deity in the universe (history mayne), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Is he any relation to, errrrr, Julian Glover?
― Tom D (Lenin's his feir and Liebknecht's his mate) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Even the Mail employs a token leftie or two so I assume he's the Guardian's designated coalition cheerleader in the interests of balance. Still aggravating though, because he tends to appear as the man from the Guardian rather than an outlying columnist.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing is as egregious as the indy's continued employment of bruce anderson
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Glover is civil partnered with Matthew Parris, of course. So I wouldn't expect a massive philosophical divergence.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
This Giddens fellow must be regretting writing this?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/09/comment.libya
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Saturday, 26 February 2011 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Piece is some pretty boneheaded stuff even w/o taking "current events" into account.
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Saturday, 26 February 2011 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/26/darin-strauss-car-crash-kira-cochrane
obv a v tragic event for the writer, but like...who commissioned this? it really is a long winded and conceptually weird article. load of rubbish.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i worry about how classist i am sometimes. i stopped reading when i got to "gleave".
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i am middle-class, but i'm from the west of scotland, my da was a refugee, we were poor when i was a wean, etc. fucking "gleave".
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:37 (thirteen years ago) link
tibalt.
like if she met the guy whose car hit her brother, then that'd be one thing. but as it is it's like the author is kinda offering basic human consolation which anyone really could put forward.
also...doing 40mph in a 30mph zone and hitting a child who was on the side of the road at dusk is more in the realms of tragic rather than heinous. it's not like he was drunk or something.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i managed to finish it and aye, it's a horror.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
what a fucking mess.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:52 (thirteen years ago) link
XP Giddens' articles are generally interesting in that they're almost always in line with the positions taken by Tony Blair, whether those positions are articulated in public or not. It does sound like he genuinely believed that Libya was on the path to reform - i wonder whether Blair shared that view.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 27 February 2011 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
this sycophantic Strokes article irritated me:
saviours of rock and roll
― Bob Six, Sunday, 27 February 2011 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
haha yeah, glad u thought the same way >>
anyone else see this article in The Guardian yesterday and think it's the band we've been waiting for?
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 27 February 2011 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/26/darin-strauss-car-crash-kira-cochraneobv a v tragic event for the writer, but like...who commissioned this? it really is a long winded and conceptually weird article. load of rubbish.― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, February 27, 2011 11:32 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, February 27, 2011 11:32 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
― odd future wolves GM trade them all (bernard snowy), Sunday, 27 February 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Kira Cochrane is the Women's Editor - she probably volunteered to write about it and nobody said no.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Sunday, 27 February 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i hate to rag on one writer or whatever but almost everything she ever writes is utter rubbish, so narrow.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 27 February 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/03/chocolate-hazelnut-spread-taste-test
i can think of one they're missing. wankers.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
It's pieces like that that show quite how far the Guardian has fallen. Back in my day it was all Michael Foot eating Nutella on the West Bank.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
guardian is amaze u herbs
― this odyssey that refuses to quit calling itself (history mayne), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
imagine paying a tenner for chocolate spread? i am as big a food wanker as anyone but seriously....A TENNER. you could buy a fucking steak for that.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
at least you can reuse the jar
― just sayin, Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Arguably the finest accompaniment for pancakes
if you are a revolting barbarian, or 3
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
£6
http://i8.goodness-direct.co.uk/d/672408b.jpg
what do you guys use? i like jam myself..
never madly into maple syrup
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
for pancakes? lemon, sugar.
― ledge, Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Perhaps you've never had real maple syrup? The stuff pictured isn't actually pure. I still like the diluted stuff though.
I like butter + plain yogurt + maple syrup
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
or butter and jam
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
love maple syrup on us pancake, would never put on crepe.
― ledge, Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Chocolate spread, honest answer.
― ka£ka (NickB), Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Chocolate spread and slices of banana like they give you in PARIS.
― trishyb, Thursday, 3 March 2011 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2011/mar/03/rupert-murdoch-bskyb-win-damage-coalition
Obviously I'm a Murdoch hata but the first para of this is o_0.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 March 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 March 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
xps - and what is wrong is lemon and sugar I ask you? GET US OUT OF EUROPE NOW.
― I'm sorry, I did not create the cosmos, I merely explain it. (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 3 March 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yeesh xp
― caek, Thursday, 3 March 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Wanted to buy some maple syrup when home for Xmas but it was superduper expensive - just have to wait for a Canadian friend to bring me some.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lemon or lime and sugar or fo tbh
will settle for Suzette stylings if I'm somewhere froufrou
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the pure stuff is always really really pricey (but a little goes a very long way)
xpost
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
actually I had cherries and rum once that was pretty fucking A
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 March 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
banana fried in rum, and chocolate ice cream
― forest zombie (Vasco da Gama), Thursday, 3 March 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I've got some amazing fig preserves that when 'syruped' with melted butter do OK for pancakes.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Thursday, 3 March 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
You can get first-rate Canadian maple syrup for about £4.75 out of any big Sainsbury’s (and quite a few of the “Local” ones as well). Not cheap but it lasts and pays for itself a dozen times over.
Didn’t know about that “Canada Store” in Covent Garden – I ought to go and investigate but the problem with me is that even after 26 years in the capital I can’t go into Covent Garden without getting lost.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 4 March 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Lay a trail of string behind you (and hi Marcello! btw)
― ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 4 March 2011 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been to this place many times due to my uncle's proximity to it -
http://www.sugarshackvt.com
and actually in the scheme of things $35 for a half gallon of 100% pure maple syrup is a pretty good deal! (though you'd have to pay for shipping, erk)
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 March 2011 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link