yh i still don't really get @ing restaurants to be like "just ate here!!!", i mean i've tried it but then when they RT'd it because it was praise i felt kinda cheap.
― c sharp major, Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
We really need a thread of appreciating dreadful corporate Twitter accounts.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
the one for the new 'craft beer' pub-in-a-box in Paddington is a masterpiece of mediocrity
― c sharp major, Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
FYI I would NEVER tweet a pic of my restaurant meal. Home cooking efforts, though, definitely.
Today I have also used Twit to gee up an interview subject, so yeah I suppose I do employ it to feel I've done *something* when a victim of beyond-my-control lateness.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
i always get the urge to Facebook my Just Eat orders but there's a convenient little button right there on the page
― soma dude (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
Finding out about restaurants and bars is one of the main things I use Twitter for, and so I sort of like tweeting @ somewhere just to spread the word, I know at least some of my friends would also be mildly interested in where I'd been, and vice versa.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
Fuck tho, would never tweet a pic of my meal, can't get into that at all. I feel like a twat for even taking a photo on my iPhone in public.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
would like to see a Readers' Kebabs thread on ILX
― soma dude (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
"French dip jus is not 'gravy', it's un-thickened stock sieved from the pan scrapings ie. 'pre-gravy'. Sorry to be such a sticking pedant about this."
To be more of a pedant, UK gravy can often be exactly this, unthickened pan juices, scrapped off with the help of hot water. Flour to thicken is often used too, but not always.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
i'll tweet about somewhere i've eaten if it was particularly good (or particularly bad and i was grumpy). i like seeing restaurant recommendations from the people i follow, it's one of the most useful aspects of twitter. any time i've asked for recommendations in a particular area it's always been v fruitful. i don't usually care whether the restaurant itself sees the tweet although if they're new it's nice if they feel encouraged.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
considers changing display name to "Jus did 9/11"
― soma dude (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
As a boy, I enjoyed kicking a can down a road.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/03/us-europe-can-kickers-leaders
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
Different times.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 3 January 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
this was good though
aw god lex i love you but this was rubbish, worst thing in the mag that weekend.
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Friday, 4 January 2013 08:18 (eleven years ago) link
More pedantary for anyone interested: saying a slider is a mini-burger is like saying that an omelette is just a fried egg. The difference is the preparation - a slider is a meat pattie which has been steamed on a bed of fried onions. By the way, I'm a North American hipster who enjoys most of the food mentioned and is probably disliked by this writer.
― everything, Friday, 4 January 2013 09:49 (eleven years ago) link
Don't think that exclusive preparation technique has made it over the ocean - think it just means "mini-burger" over here. I have a feeling I've had things in the US called sliders which were not steamed either, but wouldn't swear to it.
― Tim, Friday, 4 January 2013 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
The real, original slider:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mayeanrvHv1qhfyymo1_500.jpg
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Friday, 4 January 2013 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
god, white castle... one element of american culture that truly doesn't live up to the hype. vile things.
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Friday, 4 January 2013 10:59 (eleven years ago) link
not grilled, not fried, they're... STEAMED!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 January 2013 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
Steamed Hams all round!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/8bafd9d4c68b4ea390fd26b34a3079af/tumblr_mesd4h4BWG1qzcrdxo1_500.jpg
― Neil S, Friday, 4 January 2013 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
I am fairly sure slider is being used in they broader sense in the US too, based on reading Serious Eats, though maybe I'm wrong.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Friday, 4 January 2013 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
In that broader sense
See, we had this term 'mini-burgers' to describe small non-slider, non-White Castle hamburgers before some hipster arsehole in America decided All Must Be Sliders. I will eat White Castle as whimfood (my mom will drive to one, buy $10/$20 worth, and then we all go through them like a cartoon swarm of termites on a log) but they must be the cheeseburger version.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Friday, 4 January 2013 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW
― Angel Haze is my hero (DJP), Friday, 4 January 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
THEY GAVE ME THE HECTIC SHITS DAN P, I REFUSE TO TAKE THAT BACK!
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Friday, 4 January 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
then you have truly experienced the gamut of White Castle
go in peace, my son
― Angel Haze is my hero (DJP), Friday, 4 January 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/brain-flapping/2013/jan/08/alcohol-friend-foe-consequences-health
posted here to solemnly note that a passing mention of the drug crack in the article is hyperlinked to the wikipedia entry for crack
― die bis scum (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Is that an SEO thing*? The articles often seem to hyperlink individual words for no obvious reason.
*i have no idea how SEO works.
― Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
cyalis angel dust angel haze facebook mediafire hagel guess papers
― things that are jokes pretty much (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
No, not an SEO thing. Just an overenthusiastic/inexperienced sub.
― Alba, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/13/julie-burchill-suzanne-moore-transsexuals
I nevertheless felt indignant that a woman of such style and substance should be driven from her chosen mode of time-wasting by a bunch of dicks in chicks' clothing.
um, wow. (jaw too agape to have read beyond that point so far, i admit.)
― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 13 January 2013 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
Given how much has already been written about this incident, and how much anger and division it's generated, I can't see any possible value in publishing this column. In internet shitstorm terms this is what Burchill is doing:
http://relapsereviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/butch_cassidy_and_the_sundance_kid.jpg
― Deafening silence (DL), Sunday, 13 January 2013 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 13 January 2013 01:27 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
comments will be switched on later today
― tsrobodo, Sunday, 13 January 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-sFohRgxOBI/SyTPKMvZnLI/AAAAAAAAJAw/HrXYaBiQh2g/s320/slim.pickens+%26+bomb.jpg
Julie Burchill thoughtfully ponders transphobia (above)
― Deafening silence (DL), Sunday, 13 January 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
leftist brit twitter is alight already, quality trolling jules, quality.
― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 13 January 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
It is literally hatespeech. Fuck the Guardian.
(btw this is what Moore did http://storify.com/stavvers/suzanne-moore-s-transphobic-meltdown ...and the commentariat enthusiastically defended her)
― ey, Sunday, 13 January 2013 06:26 (eleven years ago) link
It makes me so fucking annoyed that they keep hiring her back. It's barely different to the Mail running Jan Moir pieces for clicks.
― Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Sunday, 13 January 2013 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
The reaction of the trans lobby reminded me very much of those wretched inner-city kids who shoot another inner-city kid dead in a fast-food shop for not showing them enough "respect".
Wretched.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Sunday, 13 January 2013 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
Inner city kids love their fast food shops
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Sunday, 13 January 2013 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
It makes me so fucking annoyed that they keep hiring her back
I know there's a shared website, but she's not been hired back by the Guardian – she writes for the Observer. Completely separate editors.
― Alba, Sunday, 13 January 2013 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
Amazing that back in 2001, this could run without even having the justification of her fighting for a friend:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2001/jan/20/weekend.julieburchill
― Alba, Sunday, 13 January 2013 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
That one is really hateful, it goes so deep into hatred and prejudice - amazing an editor didn't stop it.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Sunday, 13 January 2013 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
You're absolutely right. The Guardian has generally been quite good on trans issues. I thought she was at the Observer before as well but possibly not.
― Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Sunday, 13 January 2013 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
She really doesn't like the black and white mistrels, does she?
― clive mendonca's big soccer (NickB), Sunday, 13 January 2013 11:06 (eleven years ago) link
With friends who say things like that while purporting to defend her, Suzanne Moore doesn't need enemies. Twitter's already turned into The Birds over this, and I don't think CiF have turned on the comments on JB yet. Until quite recently, I had no idea (beyond Germaine Greer) that old school feminists-with-transphobia was a thing, but apparently so? One of the hardest parts about being a (public) feminist is how you handle the way the discourse moves on from what it was when you first engaged with feminism, and how that newer form of feminism reacts to the relative privilege of older feminists (whether or not they are figureheads for anything).
Anyone who wants to lodge a complaint about the Burchill piece should take it up with John Mulholland, the Observer's editor - or take it to the Observer's Comment editor, who is most likely the commissioner of the article and the person who let it run. Their Readers' Editor is also a good person to contact.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Sunday, 13 January 2013 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
Comments were turned on about twenty minutes ago. 108 so far, "mostly wtf were you thinking in running this?"
― Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Sunday, 13 January 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah - saw that. Was writing post before 11, didn't hit submit until well after.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Sunday, 13 January 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
Burchill has always flaunted her ugly prejudices and people keep hiring her back. She isn't actually a particularly good writer and she comes across as a terrible person at virtually all times.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 13 January 2013 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
the "defending a mate" bit makes it even worse, imo.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Sunday, 13 January 2013 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, for the cringey story of their silly lives as much as anything else.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Sunday, 13 January 2013 12:56 (eleven years ago) link