oh Mordy how are we defining "best" here?
― the SI unit of ignorance (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 July 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
i'm voting for al-hayat
― Mordy , Thursday, 18 July 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link
The series on Hindi pop-cinema is enjoyable:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/series/100-years-of-indian-cinema
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Friday, 26 July 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
everytime this thread appears in sna the mantra 'yes, the guardian is always worse than it used to be' crosses my mind
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 26 July 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
idk if it is true or not
i should probably try to get a 1976 copy
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 26 July 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/z3jnxCq.jpg
Alan Rusbridger taking part in the Reddit AMA
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
to answer original groove : c'mon.the fact is that the guardian is the best of a bad bunch.life without it would be a fucking bad place .. there are faults with it. but still .. tis all about degrees of crapness .. and i, for one, am very glad the guardian is around.fuck the hate.
― mark e, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
^ yeah, this.
― djh, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
Can;t remember the last time I read something so badly written.http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2013/aug/01/one-direction-fans-gq-abusive-tweets
― Studied keyboard mash (tsrobodo), Friday, 2 August 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/aug/02/mind-your-language-nouveau-cockney
thanks for the email fwd dad
― I was wearing a liturgy t shit and i noticed your liturgy tattoo (DJ Mencap), Friday, 2 August 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/9/16/1284648628589/gary.jpg
― r|t|c, Friday, 2 August 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:guardian.co.uk&tbm=isch&source=lnt&tbs=isz:ex,iszw:140,iszh:140&q=site:guardian.co.uk+profile
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 3 August 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/07/10-rules-managing-penis-sexting-wine-toaster
Jesus fucking Christ get a load of this shite.
Suzanne Moore used to be a good columnist when she was the voice of sanity at the Mail but she's been awful since moving to the Guardian.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 August 2013 10:03 (ten years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Lifeandhealth/Pix/pictures/2007/01/15/jh.jpg
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, 8 August 2013 10:13 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/08/dread-daughter-poos-smaller-girl-conform?INTCMP=SRCH
Am I wrong to be aghast at this? I mean, the central point about girls feeling increasing pressure to be self-effacing as they grow older is a legit and important one- but I can't help a gut reaction of horror when I turn to the op-ed section of the guardian and a third of the page is taken up with a writer describing their daughter's bowel movements. It brings some real 'the modern world is terrible and awful' feelings in me, but i sort of feel like this is some reactionary, Peter Hitchens-ish response that i should try and work past?
― Eight Model Play, Saturday, 10 August 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
I think i reacted to it more strongly because I saw it in the physical copy of the paper, and most of the people I see reading the hard copy of the Guardian are 60+. Like, it's the same reaction I had as a teenager when I was with my grandparents and we would accidentally catch some of a youth tv programme or a rap single or something, that i normally might of enjoyed, but I could tell they were bemused and slightly upset by the whole thing, and I just felt ashamed for my generation and the modern world generally.
― Eight Model Play, Saturday, 10 August 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
Also feel preemptively sorry for this woman's daughter for when one of her classmates discover the article on google in 12 yrs time
― Eight Model Play, Saturday, 10 August 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
not rly into sophie heawood joints but i noticed how the print edition of her editorial content carries the 'sophie is a columnist for vice' disclaimer
― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 10 August 2013 13:47 (ten years ago) link
if the guardian is going to print v lightweight columns then i'm happy for them to be about 'whopper turds'
― ogmor, Saturday, 10 August 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
Incredible that someone thought that piece was interesting.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Saturday, 10 August 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
The Guardian app has some terrible bugs which they seem to have no desire to fix. Top grumble at the moment is captions in the picture galleries, which are covered in code, presumably fed through from the website where links and bold text actually work.
Rising up the annoyance list: stories written for an Aussie audience randomly popping up in the UK version.
― Madchen, Sunday, 11 August 2013 08:43 (ten years ago) link
A-grade Photoshop work guys.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2013/aug/13/jeremy-paxman-newsnight-beards-media
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/aug/13/hashtag-pilgrimage-abbey-road-beatles
(was already posted in worst music writing thread)
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/15/drenge-drenge-review
This isn't particularly badly written or hateful or anything, but OMG at the gulf between how excited the writer is by this album and the lyrics/song titles/examples of 'middle-fingered ingratitude' cited as justification.
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Friday, 16 August 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
ehdunno
16 August 2013 9:03pmRecommend0
All 380 premier league matches live?? If there are 20 teams playing 38 games each, how is that 380? Or does it mean they are only showing 380, but they will all be live?
― Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 16 August 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link
38 games a season x 10 fixtures?
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 16 August 2013 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Lol, my reading comprehension not up to much tonight.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 16 August 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
I have spent the last 12 minutes laughing at the comment quoted in Nilmar's post
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
it is fucking funny it's true. i quite like implied concept of notional solitary football. performance-based points allocation.
― Fizzles, Friday, 16 August 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
Guardian picks
These comments have been chosen by Guardian staff because they contribute to the debate.
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/video/2013/aug/21/how-to-dress-grownup-grunge-video
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 12:40 (ten years ago) link
Daniel Dos Santos
21 August 2013 8:31pmRecommend31
Britain is a long away off from producing good pizzas simply because people in UK have a passion from frozen food. There is no culture of eating well....by the masses.
You may ass well pour oil onto today's edition of Daily Mail , some tomato source, onion , cheese and minced beef in it and no one would be any the wiser.
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 22 August 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
he said ass..
― Mark G, Friday, 23 August 2013 10:41 (ten years ago) link
was quite keen to read the article "a post-race vegan brunch" this weekend until I realised it was about running
― transmisogyny express (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 25 August 2013 10:41 (ten years ago) link
lol
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Monday, 26 August 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/07/female-genital-mutilation-tradition-somalia
Although Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities carry out FGM, mainstream spiritual leaders from all three religions have denied that the practice stems from religion. Samira believes the desire to control women's sexuality lies behind it.
― Mordy , Monday, 9 September 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
What's up with that one then, spell out for dummy pls
― cardamon, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
the impulse to be even-handed is problematic when it starts inventing facts - FGM doesn't exist in the Jewish tradition.
― Mordy , Tuesday, 10 September 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
Ah yeah
I also wonder if 'stemming from religion' and 'stemming from a desire to control sexuality' are necessarily two different things
― cardamon, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
It has been practised in Christian and animist communities too,[74] including by the Christian Copts in Egypt and Sudan.[80] Judaism requires circumcision for boys, but does not allow it for girls.[81] Shaye J. D. Cohen writes that the only Jews known to have practised FGM are the Beta Israel of Ethiopia.[82]
― 2 ℜ 4 u (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
What human faces might look like in 100,000 years
Picture doesn't disappoint.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/18/human-faces-in-the-future
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 11:00 (ten years ago) link
science
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 11:06 (ten years ago) link
It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism. It's conjecture, but also more than armchair futurism.
― you will not expect her to say, “Yea, cause you are the bomb. (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 11:13 (ten years ago) link
Our eyes will grow to Japanese anime-style proportions in the meantime
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 11:13 (ten years ago) link
that whole tech supplement was awful.
― Holy Shirt! (stevie), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 11:14 (ten years ago) link
So, in other words, not OTM at all.
― aldi young dudes (suzy), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 11:15 (ten years ago) link
I for one welcome our new Loris overlords.
― Marvel's Agents of S.O.U.T.H.S.H.I.E.L.D.S (sktsh), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 11:30 (ten years ago) link
It's a shame other places had this story three months ago:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/06/07/how-the-human-face-might-look-in-100000-years/
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
also a shame it's a spurious load of old bollocks
― Neil S, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
The media landscape is a vale of shame and old bollocks.
― Alba, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link