Generally only happens when the articles are linked on the front page. You get a lot of people who don't usually comment on the music sections.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Friday, 13 January 2012 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
normally the comments are really good
― caek, Friday, 13 January 2012 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
Well, you don't get people coming along to say 'WHO? I have never heard of them!" all the time.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Friday, 13 January 2012 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah usually they would just blame pandemics on THE JEWS
― nakhchivan, Friday, 13 January 2012 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
You're thinking of Oi VeyVod
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Friday, 13 January 2012 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
Oy not Oi obv
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Friday, 13 January 2012 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
lol caek
― tumblr white's secret kool-aid drinker (DJ Mencap), Friday, 13 January 2012 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
The Guardian's picture editors, at least, are getting better:
http://twitpic.com/87r4fh
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 16 January 2012 08:12 (twelve years ago) link
Wikipedia will be joined in its 24-hour protest by top news sharing site Reddit and the popular Cheezburger websites, which attract 16.5 million visitors a month to look at funny cat videos and photos.
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
so I actually quite like the new G2 film & music format. It's much more tube-friendly. Had a good chortle at Marina. However I did shed a tear due to the lack of my Friday dose of Private Lives & Pamela Stephenson page - I shall miss reading "my son is masturbating to gay porn" and "my teenage son is rank and is going to Cambridge but I want him to leave now" etc. Perhaps it's some ploy to get me buy the monday editions as well.
― danzig, Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
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― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 28 January 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
i actually think its kind of cool that the graun deletes the more batshit racist/sexist/homophobic shit on their comments page but ymmv
― dave cool it (stevie), Sunday, 29 January 2012 09:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/29/ting-tings-nowheresville-interview
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 29 January 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2012/jan/29/pass-notes-brooklyn-3115
― oppet, Monday, 30 January 2012 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
I’ve had a blog for a long time but only started to take it seriously a couple of years ago when I published a series of photos of Londoners wearing hats in their ordinary lives.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 5 February 2012 10:41 (twelve years ago) link
"some sweaty bopping in a Smiley T-shirt to "Ebeneezer Goode" in the 1990s"
has Barbara Ellen always written in that horrible Littlejohn-esque 'one sentence per paragraph' fashion btw
― bs and 'Why Do You Listen To Frog?' (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 5 February 2012 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
she's always been the Happy Shopper Julie Burchill so yeah
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 February 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
one cliche i wish would die - photographers taking photos of photographers, cameras pointed at cameras.
― koogs, Sunday, 5 February 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 11 February 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
^ subeditor
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Saturday, 11 February 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
Call me a luddite, but just as I like getting my vegetables delivered in a box direct from a farm in Devon, I love knowing that the puppets in War Horse are handmade in a workshop in Cape Town.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/12/revenge-muppets-puppets-kermit-war-horse
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 February 2012 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
"luddite" wdn't be my first choice word
― dayove cool (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 February 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
yes, i can think of a few others
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 February 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh...
― The Invisible Superstars (dog latin), Monday, 13 February 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
Scream, Clueless, films like that were just as sly and arch in their message as new films such as Juno and Superbad, but without the irony.
;/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/feb/11/90s-revival-music-culture
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 13 February 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
In fairness that is a quote.
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 February 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
"For me, the 1990s doesn't seem that long ago"
Maybe cos it's not?
― Number None, Monday, 13 February 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
i don't dj much anymore but am pretty much guaranteed to play luchini whenever i do (and always have done).
― and the answer is: Opinions differ. (stevie), Monday, 13 February 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
― Number None, Monday, February 13, 2012 2:52 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha i just described 2006 as "basically ancient history" in an email to my editor
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 13 February 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
lol. every musical comparison in that article is so horrible
― Number None, Monday, 13 February 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
Terrible interview with Sophie Kinsella today by the Aitkendickhead - "but my friends have problems with shopping debts!," "but my friends don't see that as feminism" NOTE: OTHER PEOPLE ARE NOT "YOUR FRIENDS" DEAL WITH IT
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 13 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Keep coming across broken links on the website. Their innocentese-404 page has the title 'Opps'. Never change.
― Les Tressle (useless chamber), Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
Weird stuff happening on the Guardian home page?
― Madchen, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, and the site was down for me a few minutes ago
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Guardian nowbetter than it used to be...
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 February 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
I was bit surprised to get this email from the Guardian:
Guardian investing is a new service for readers of the Guardian and Observer, provided by our specially-chosen partner, Skipton Financial Services (SFS).
SFS is one of the UK's leading financial advisory companies and has been providing professional, impartial advice to thousands of clients nationally - since 1988. They've been carefully selected by the Guardian and Observer due to their expertise and knowledge in the financial services industry and they can assist you with all your financial planning needs - now and in the future....
― Bob Six, Saturday, 25 February 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
the Telegraph uses them too
― gyac, Saturday, 25 February 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/26/among-the-asexuals
― the pinefox, Sunday, 26 February 2012 12:09 (twelve years ago) link
seems like the way forward
do you think the piece was badly written or that the subject shouldn't be covered in the guardian? because i disagree with you on both counts.
― face depalma (stevie), Sunday, 26 February 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
wd have liked to hear from some chill positive asexuals to balance out the sound of axes grinding
― FPocalypto! (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 26 February 2012 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. I know two people who have never had a sexual partner are are likely never to have one and that suits them fine. Of course they're outside the mainstream and they have to deal with that, but they do.
For people who want to be defined by something other than sexual partners or their sexuality it seems like the people profiled in the piece are actually doing the opposite, right? Not that there's uh, anything wrong with that. But actually it sort of seems like they have sex on the brain.
Something about it reminds me of nudists who are like no no, nudism has nothing to do with sex, it's just that your genitalia must be displayed at all times
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 26 February 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Attitudes like this might be part of the problem of why asexuals find it so hard to talk about themselves in the first place?
It doesn't remind me of nudists, but Tracer, you are reminding me of people who say "I've got nothing against the Gays, but why they gotta be talking about their homosexuality all the time, can't they just get on with it?"
I've spent quite some time in various asexual communities, for lack of a better word. It's a problem, the same as it's a problem for any marginalised group of people - the world is so set up around the assumption of compulsory sexuality, that it's often problematic for people who think they might be damaged, or wrong, or broken, because they're not even aware that it's not a problem, it's just A Thing.
And it's actually quite a brave thing to come forward and actually say, erm, this is A Thing, can we talk about it? Because you will get invasive questioners (no offense against Rosie Swash) but people asking, why are you like this, are you a repressed gay, were you raped or abused, is there something wrong with your hormones or your genitals? And what looks like "having sex on the brain" is actually *society* having sex on the brain, and all the questions you are being asked, all the time are "why are you not having sex, like everyone else?" so all the answers that get printed are going to make you seem defensive and weird and like you have to justify your asexuality, rather than just get on with it.
The article was better than most, but it did seem fairly superficial, and concentrating on individuals (human interest, I guess) rather than on what is known about asexuality as A Thing. For instance, not mentioning the fact that it's generally considered to be a spectrum, kind of like straight - bi - gay, rather than an on / off dichotomy. And it's problematic to drop a word like "panromantic" into a piece like that without going into the very concept of romantic orientation and what that means - and how it does and doesn't differ from sexual orientation. But again, the article would probably have had to be twice as long if she hadn't left it out.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 26 February 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't have any great problem with the article
I think the idea is interesting
like I say, seems like the way forward
a life in which no one could betray you by having sex with someone else
sounds good
― the pinefox, Sunday, 26 February 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
ah - apologies then pinefox, i thought you were linking it in the 'is the graun worse' thread as evidence
― face depalma (stevie), Sunday, 26 February 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
no it's just that this is the main Guardian thread really !
― the pinefox, Sunday, 26 February 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
I did do a little lol when I misread the name of the researcher in asexuality Mark Carrigan as 'Mark Corrigan'.
― kinder, Sunday, 26 February 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/mar/12/london-olympics-security-lockdown-london
The imminent Olympics will take place in a city still recovering from riots that the Guardian-LSE Reading the Riots project showed were partly fuelled by resentment at their lavish cost
I love science.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/12/kenny-dalglish-kit-deals-liverpool
website front page: "Dalglish: kit deals as good as points"headline: "Kenny Dalglish: 'Kit deals and a happy club are as good as points'"quote: "There are many ways you can judge a season and the best way is progress at the football club as a whole. I don't think it necessarily relates to trophies or points.
"You can measure it by how the club has progressed and where it is, from the first team to the kids. Off the pitch, especially, the club is a lot stronger than what it was. You go off the pitch and see how much money we are getting through sponsorship and kit deals [the club signed a deal with US-based Warrior Sports in January worth a potential £300m over six years]."
― Sylv_ebanks (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:05 (twelve years ago) link
hate that weaselly tabloid shit so much
― Sylv_ebanks (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:06 (twelve years ago) link