not the grau but why does david mitchell STILL have an observer column? h8 having to see his smug, sententious face every week.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 March 2011 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i accidentally read it this week too, cuz on the mobile guardian site it just gives the headline of the piece, not the author. s0 unfunny and uninsightful. we should be burning comedians at the stake, not giving them public platforms for their inability to be funny.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 March 2011 10:18 (thirteen years ago) link
can't stand mitchell.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 13 March 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Picked up the Mitchell and Webb book for a quid last month cos I can't help reading bad comedy books, they interest me as historical artefacts as much as anything. They really aren't very funny at all.
― The north-east's Number 2 children's party magician (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 March 2011 10:39 (thirteen years ago) link
would it be frowned upon to c&p an entire thread to 'first world problems'?
― the '' key on my keybord is not working (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 March 2011 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Never read the Observer, don't read newspapers at weekends
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 13 March 2011 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
This is Mitchell's serious column though: he's not trying for the lols, this week anyway. I thought it was ok - picking up on some of Cameron's messages. It could have ben a bit more insightful e.g. how much Cameron continually borrows from Tony Blair.
I've probably avoided Mitchell fatigue though by not watching 10 o'clock live.
― Bob Six, Sunday, 13 March 2011 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
conservative slams into Conservative. great.
― The north-east's Number 2 children's party magician (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 March 2011 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
"The International Atomic Energy Authority website appears to have suffered a meltdown amid a surge in traffic..."
great work chaps
― history mayne, Monday, 14 March 2011 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
some kind of web 3 Mile Island presumably?
― Neil S, Monday, 14 March 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"Unable to cope with the flood of requests, its server literally died"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
when I worked for MLB we were expressly forbidden from using any violent metaphor to describe the action of a game, i.e. "Blue Jays erupt in fifth inning" or "Royals explode for sixteen in Tampa" or "Bucs whip Bosox". It may have been a post-Sep 11 thing or it may have been to avoid unintended juxtapositions like the above. In retrospect I think it's just good practice.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Constantly describing people, sports teams, organisations etc. as "stunned" also falls into that category.
― Neil S, Monday, 14 March 2011 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/3/11/1299865906886/Steve-Bells-If-.-.-.-008.jpg
Really classy stuff here.
― Matt DC, Monday, 14 March 2011 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I get it, he misheard Cameron when Cameron said "go home!" Ha! Ahaha! Hahahaha! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
why is cameron's head a condom?
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Monday, 14 March 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Steve Bell needs a lie down :(
― blvd money (sic), Monday, 14 March 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Judging by many recent headlines I've noticed, perhaps this thread should be called "Are the Guardian worse than they used to be?"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 March 2011 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
can't stand steve bell...that cartoon is a new low though.
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
would anyone pay to read the guardian if they decided to drop a paywall?
I'm not sure I wouldn't actually. would the guardian ever do it tho?
― cozen, Friday, 18 March 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I probably would pay. The website loses a huge amount of money at the moment, as far as i am aware, but i'm not sure whether a paywall would generate any more than advertising revenue does.
― Ha ha ha ha. Jack my swag. (ShariVari), Friday, 18 March 2011 08:44 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe the website would lose less money if say, they sack all the shit writers from it?
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2011 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I paid for the app without even thinking about it.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 March 2011 11:49 (thirteen years ago) link
to read articles that were written in a similar way
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2011 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
glad the hackney tourist board is so keen to pony up but i'm not, seem to remember some smug article abt how paywalls are bad
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 18 March 2011 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.iwradio.co.uk/newscentre/national-news/wootton-bassett-cartoon-sparks-outrage-15954542
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/3/16/1300318427436/Steve-Bell-17.03.11-001.jpg
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I get it now.. is cameron's head a condom because he's a dickhead??
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Or because Bell can't draw him?
― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
are his eyes not in the condom?
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Bell explained it as stemming from Cameron being presented as a 'Safe' Tory.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
dreadful
― Romford Spring (DG), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
it's because he wants to keep out the jonny foreigners
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Not even Bell would use that joke
― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
that's where bell ends and where i begin
― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that a bellend reference?
― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 18 March 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I saw something about it evolving from Bell noticing his curious shiny smoothness when he met him.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Defence Secretary Liam Fox told the Sun: "It's tasteless and offensive. It shows a total lack of respect for our fallen.
"It's cowardly and bad taste which stands in stark contrast to the pride of the people of Royal Wootton Bassett."
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually agree it's offensive. it also isn't even that cutting, it's a fairly confused message.
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
the subject is fair
cartoon is typically shit
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't get it tbh
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it's potentially fair except the lack of a clear punchline or meaning just makes it seem gratuitous. plus you know, d-cam didn't start that war, much and all as i think he's a total cunt.
x-post otm...can anyone explain directly what it means?
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the 'war on language' bit applies to the nhs poster, sort of, but... not the other thing. does it?
― suggest and ban is my favourite combination (history mayne), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Cameron has a condom on his head cos he is head of the condems geddit?
― ka£ka (NickB), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Cameron has a condom on his head cos he is pretending to be one of our mates geddit?
it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a ruddy disgrace!
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/eL3bY.jpg
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha he looks like a chimp! lol! steve bell for prime minister! charlie brooker as chancellor!!!
― Ask Nult What Your Country Can Do For You (Local Garda), Friday, 18 March 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/5316/ffsp.png
HURRRRRR
yeah im not going to click that
― BIG GERTRUDE aka the steindriver (history mayne), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link