Haha thank you Matt. I'll need you to sit beside me on train journeys from now on, I think.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
Looks like bad subbing imo - Dorling's books are very good.
Maybe they were just edited well ...
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of editing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/24/twitter-ryan-giggs-social-media
― Romford Spring (DG), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
Clearly, they are going to have to introduce a delay mechanism so that content can be checked before it goes up. There will have to be a completely different structure, which will be difficult when the whole thing about Twitter is its spontaneity.
robble. "clearly they are going to have to do this impossible thing which will completely remove their raison d'etre."
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Richard Hillgrove is a business and political public relations consultant
ah well then
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
the cif editors obviously know that article is completely moronic and are publishing it for the impressions. yay the guardian.
― caek, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/may/28/alexis-petridis-daughter-music-critic
AP's article, though dire, actually better than his colleagues' in this series.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 28 May 2011 08:49 (twelve years ago) link
Why dire?
― We need to talk about Bevan (DL), Saturday, 28 May 2011 08:57 (twelve years ago) link
Can our columnists' children do a better job than them? Tim Dowling and son Johnnie find out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle
okay i'm sure these are lovely kids but ffs what a terrible concept
― Suggest Banter (Local Garda), Sunday, 29 May 2011 09:04 (twelve years ago) link
Given the paper's issues with nepotism, it's a bit of an open goal. We only have to wait ten or fifteen years until they're staff writers to see if they can do a better job than their parents.
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Sunday, 29 May 2011 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
Although, i thought Alexis Petridis' article yesterday was sweet.
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Sunday, 29 May 2011 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
they are really going in hard on the palin e-mails thing.
― stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
this seems like such bullshit; two thousand e-mails kept back is so many e-mails.
(i know this isn't news, btw, but i am being sucked in as much as you get sucked in when something is front page)
― stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Friday, 10 June 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
It's pretty funny that they're being released on paper
― Number None, Friday, 10 June 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
the guardian is going far far bigger on this than any us paper, including the alaskan ones. feel like they are really "winning the special olympics" on this one.
― caek, Friday, 10 June 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
it sounds like the other papers are making similar efforts to scan & check out the material, it's just that the guardian is the only one that's keeping a pre-revelations liveblog going, detailing the technology its staff are using to scan & upload facsimiles of the documents.
― stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Saturday, 11 June 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
it feels weirdly over the top and sort of frenzied. is it that interesting? i'm not so sure.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Saturday, 11 June 2011 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
It's not
― the pinefox, Saturday, 11 June 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
it is like the news is a moose, and the guardian is a helicopter, and they want to be the agency that dramatically scoops the news by machine gunning it from a great height
― stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Saturday, 11 June 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
It is a joke. The Guardian has been running about 3 Palin stories a day for weeks now. Are writers getting free trips to the US for every story printed? There must be other things happening in other places but The Guardian's obsession with the minutia of American politics is sending me to other news sources now. Aren't there elections coming up in France? In Thailand and other places at the moment? I am aware that the US has a major influence on the world and a British paper should cover its politics, but Palin seems to be irrelevent and can probably only have her postition strengthened by this, as it is starting to look like an obsessive witch hunt. Her emails, front page all day, for god's sake.RANT OVER, just wanted to read the morning papers with a cup of tea, and it is all sodding palin and has been for days
― Proger, Saturday, 11 June 2011 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
agree, bs coverage of SP is grist to her mill, people should talk about her less
― the pinefox, Saturday, 11 June 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
Reading the Cash section in The Observer today and a very familiar face on 1/4 page photo, no less than Ken C of this parish, although I noticed they spelt yr name wrong dude. Great picture though!
― Bill A, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I have just had Kevin drawn to my attention and that is an awesome photo. Huge!
― Neil O'Jism (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, have also just had this pointed out to me. What is context please, for those of us too lazy to go to a shop?
― ailsa, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Article about pensions, with our lad "Kevin" asked for comment.
― Bill A, Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
A photo of the photo
Online version of article
― Neil O'Jism (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
― Bill A, Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:57 (10 minutes ago)
lol
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
I refuse to believe that ken c is 31. Then again I'm in denial about being 31 myself.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I'm going to pretend that was a typo too. Sorry Ken.
― ailsa, Sunday, 19 June 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
it was my/kevin's birthday just last week, if that helps..
i can't believe how big they printed that pic.. my face is pretty and all but still
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Monday, 20 June 2011 08:17 (twelve years ago) link
front page of today's guardian
Gay Girl in Damascus hoaxer accused of defending himself with new personaTom MacMaster says complimentary anonymous commenter in online forum using same IP address was friend who was visiting
― caek, Monday, 27 June 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
There's probably something about Glastonbury in there today as well.
― the pinefox, Monday, 27 June 2011 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
I almost felt a glimmer of jealousy about not being at Glastonbury, until I remembered the mudAnd while staying at home, I learned that BBC2 sometimes still shows Pages from Ceefax
i thought this was going to be a clever 'i was at glastonbury and was envious of people who were not!' thing, but not even.
― where ilxor ends and markers begins (history mayne), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
that was oddly formatted
they had it on in the pub last night. gosh young people's music is rubbish nowadays.
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
pretty sure young people don't like coldplay
'you have to be rich and old to go to glasto nowadays' - an embittered 90s guy
― where ilxor ends and markers begins (history mayne), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
i don't hate coldplay, but i didn't enjoy the 8 or 9 suited-up Joy Div-alikes that seemed to be on all night.
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
the 8 or 9 suited-up Joy Div-alikes
see i stopped caring in about 2005 but this comment would have made sense even then...
― where ilxor ends and markers begins (history mayne), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
it's like tunes and hooks are dead unfashionable. Jesse J is a bit of a disaster but getting that kid up to sing was quite cute. Our Han would've gone nutso.
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
the assassination of jesse j by the cowherd noodle vague
― tipper gore (nakhchivan), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
oh she is a Jessie with an i. i see. that pricetag song is a wee bit ironic considering how many adverts she's in.
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
According to 16 yr old son, 'Coldplay were awesome'. He's such a disappointment sometimes.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
dear me
at least in the 90s we liked sucky bands which were also new
― where ilxor ends and markers begins (history mayne), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol billy
― tipper gore (nakhchivan), Monday, 27 June 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
Fertility worldwide dropped but UK population rose by 470,000 in 2010 because, say experts, less educated had more children
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
entry level trolling http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/30/rupert-murdoch-monopoly-news-corp
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
McKenzie's not a troll, he's a cunt
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
the guardian is the troll
'cunt' is too good for mckenzie really
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
he is in my top 3 of blokes i'd like to meet in a lift whilst i'm carrying a lump-hammer
― SB OK (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
that's odd because he's in my top 3 of people who'd be markedly improved by being set on fire
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Thursday, 30 June 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link