surely that shit about grapefruit is ancient news
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 December 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
i am absolutely furious right now.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 December 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
We challenge The Guardian to publish this comment in full
The Guardian newspaper, widely believed to be centre-left liberal and associated with the Labour party...
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 3 December 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
Hello there
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 3 December 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
Could challenge The Guardian to read that comment in full, tbh. Whoever puts out the embassy's press releases needs an editor.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Monday, 3 December 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think even the Grauniad's copy editors would let that through unchanged.
― Neil S, Monday, 3 December 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
lol xp
― Neil S, Monday, 3 December 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
The best bit is when they accuse Alan Rusbridger of engineering the Crimean War. Or something. Alas no response from The Guardian. They should have done one in the style of a Russian Embassy press release for the lols.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 3 December 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
I kind of admire the London embassy's continued defiance of both diplomatic norms and common sense. Apparently a pensioner emailed them to complain about Pussy Riot being jailed so they sent him back lots of hardcore nsfw jpegs of one of the members having sex in a museum as part of a protest action a few years ago. I suspect you don't get that from the Chinese.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
"We challenge The Guardian to publish this comment in full to prove that it is, after all, about reasoned debate and not the search for the weapons of mass distraction, British politics may be in need of."
Sweet pun, Russian embassy guy.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
what is the worst thing you can say about an author on the internet without it being perceived as inciting violence & so illegal
get back to me, i need to comment on this guy's piece
― spottieottiespanakopita (schlump), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/7/21/1279720834731/PatrickKingsley.jpg
― Neil S, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 09:30 (eleven years ago) link
Low point of my guardian reading year was flicking through the G2 a few weeks back and my eyes alighting on Hadley Freeman using the word 'obvs' in her SHIT FUCKING FASHION ADVICE COLUMN.
Can we all agree that the G2 is the thing that annoys most about the Guardian?
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
so glad someone else hates that column. she hasn't got a fucking clue.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 09:43 (eleven years ago) link
I quite like her other pieces but she just doesn't really seem that interested in fashion.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 09:46 (eleven years ago) link
this is the thing, she pretty much is annoyed by almost every item of clothing that anyone ever asks her about. irritated both by trends and by... jeans.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 09:51 (eleven years ago) link
I thought this was a universally recognised truth, Fridays excepted.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 09:54 (eleven years ago) link
i never buy the physical paper so it's sort of hard to tell
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:10 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure that 90% of the matey "I know right?", Guardian We-type lifestyle articles that are linked here are from G2. That sort of writing is terrible in all broadsheets though, I hate the assumption that you all de facto agree with the writer's opinions and share their lifestyle at the same time.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
isn't that the agenda of all lifestyle/culture/commentary-based journalism in general though?
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 11:06 (eleven years ago) link
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, December 4, 2012 9:42 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well there's that and steve bell
― caek, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 11:15 (eleven years ago) link
and martin robbins
A Sideways Look At The News
― Bananaman Begins, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
steve bell is so bad
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
there are bits of G2 I actually quite like. It's a fairly predictable read, but y'know. Steve Bell can go suck a fuck though.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
In a Paris attic apartment decorated like a 19th-century dandy's den, a rottweiler snores on a velvet couch and dozens of candles give out a half-light. Pete Doherty kicks an apple core round the living room rug and chats in broken French to a friend on his cracked iPhone. Balzac novels are stacked high on the window ledge.
This is Paris Pete, the rocker who now sings solo as Peter Doherty, writes poetry, paints and has made his debut as a French arthouse-cinema actor.
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
that was a pretty good piece i thought, not the writer's fault the subject is such a tool
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
Doherty's Old Albion Englishness – the William Blake allusions, the pork-pie hat, the "tickety-boo" expressions – that seemed a bit fantastical at home are lapped up in France. He plays up to the Englishman-in-Paris tag. "I go into the newsagent and say: 'It looks like rain today.' And they're saying: 'You can't talk about the weather, this is the country of revolution!'"
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol "arthouse-cinema actor"
― caek, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/04/russian-embassy-responds-to-guardian
― Alba, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
god there really is no sympathetic side in the Russia vs HM Gov vs The Graun throwdown is there?
― Shane Breen is a gigantic tool (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
No. The Guardian's Russia coverage is absolutely abysmal so it's understandable the embassy is narked but if they stopped publishing outlandish rumours and slanted thinkpieces and just reported what the Russian government was actually up to it'd make Putin look even worse.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
Think I would take the Graun over Russia in this one tbh, annoying as the former often is.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
seconded
― "Hahahaha, nice one, Punchy," I said. (stevie), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't read the piece but i dunno why you'd want to write about Paris Pete in December 2012
― Fortuné's Old Albion Englishness (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
406 comments and 789 Facebook shares, i guess. He's still a draw.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
truly he is our generation's Osbert Sitwell
― Fortuné's Old Albion Englishness (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
Oh Christ this intro
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/dec/05/david-mamet-anarchist-broadway
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 7 December 2012 08:34 (eleven years ago) link
*facepalm*
― jed_, Friday, 7 December 2012 09:48 (eleven years ago) link
That's Mark Lawson-level.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 7 December 2012 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
musta took brass balls to write that
― let's hear it for the women (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 December 2012 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
I was just going to mention Mark Lawson. His tortuous Front Row intros often beggar belief ... but I kind of admire them.
― Alba, Friday, 7 December 2012 10:26 (eleven years ago) link
Ramen: the cult Japanese dish that's big in Britain too
The tasty noodle broth offers a punk rock twist on comfort food – and it's increasingly popular in the UK
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 10 December 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah, that was a good one.
while establishments such as Wagamama, Glasgow and Cardiff's Ichiban restaurants and Birmingham's Woktastic have been offering bowls of ramen-style noodle soups for years, finally, the proper stuff has arrived
It's true that something only can truly be said to have 'arrived' once it reaches London - the (urgh) provinces don't count.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 10 December 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
Fish and chips: the cult British dish that's big in Japan too
The tasty fish supper offers a punk rock twist on tempura – and it's increasingly popular in Japan
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 10 December 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
It's true that something only can truly be said to have 'arrived' once it reaches London - the (urgh) provinces don't count
Wagamama's is in London, plus the point being made is surely that the named establishments don't serve "proper" ramen (whatever that may be). No idea whether this is true or not but the writer's point has nothing to do with London vs. provinces.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 10 December 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
Being a cutting edge ultra-hip guy I have been to two of the capital's newest Ramen wonderestaurants and tbh they are head and shoulders above yr regular wagamama fare.
― ledge, Monday, 10 December 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
which ones? interested
― tpp, Monday, 10 December 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
maybe take it to the london restaurants thread
yh the stuff at yr fancy new ramen places is very different from the "ramen-style noodle soups" you get even in uk japanese restaurants like, e.g., london's Taro. I've never been to an ichiban but from their website they seem to use the same stock for ramen and udon and soba, which very heavily implies they're not doing "proper" ramen.
― c sharp major, Monday, 10 December 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link