i love cooking - like i couldn't live without it - but my office last year had a baking rota and it was this horrible intense thing, it also meant eating lots of food i wouldn't normally eat and feeling like shit.
i'd been thinking this had gone too far for a while and then suddenly it's like you have to spend your free time outside the office baking a cake, due to duress. it does all feel kind of tory too.
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:05 (nine years ago) link
being baked is the most awesome
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:05 (nine years ago) link
baking your kids is a delight
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:06 (nine years ago) link
How do you eat yours
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:06 (nine years ago) link
seems more to do with the oppressive conditions of the modern workplace than baking
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:07 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, I don't find my office too oppressive to be honest - it's mostly pretty positive. But when I have, baking and chocolate do seem to be tools of the oppressor.
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:10 (nine years ago) link
^^^^
and yes, enforced baking and also the union jack bunting on the great british bake-off are both terrible. though i do love the actual show itself, as baking is actually a FASCINATING area of cooking (yeast and suchlike are the work of magick) and its vibe is so much more gentle and goodnatured than the awful rote repetition and painfully false narratives of say masterchef
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:12 (nine years ago) link
chocolate the delicious, delicious tool of the oppressor
look do we even know if homemade creme eggs involve baking will someone read the article and report back please
― conrad, Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:15 (nine years ago) link
you have to warm up the chocolate at least (i read the article! there were some gently funny bits in it!)
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:17 (nine years ago) link
Sorry ithappens - occupational hazard round here of criticising something someone else reposted here with no context. I get that this sort of stuff is essential to running a website and never intended to be Pulitzer-worthy.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:23 (nine years ago) link
No worries. It's not the piece I'm proudest of.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:55 (nine years ago) link
could've integrated the cooking the kids' tea thing to make it into a surefire ilx hit
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 19 March 2015 12:29 (nine years ago) link
Perhaps they should replace it with an article in which Zoe Williams reads solemnly from Doktor Faustus, a child on each knee, pointing out the parallels to the rise of fascism.
realise this is sarcasm but i am prepared to own this point of view
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
otm
― Junior Dictionary (LocalGarda), Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:20 (nine years ago) link
wtf is this
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/03/lent-earthly-vice-40-days-sacrifice
― soref, Friday, 3 April 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
they shd run that same piece every day with a different topic
"So you're off to Glastonbury? You realise there are people starving, right?""So you're watching the FA Cup final? You realise there are people starving, right?""So you bought your family Christmas presents? YOU BASTARD, I HOPE YOU HATE YOURSELF"
― week of 'puter action (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 April 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/M56djPs.jpg
― pissbaby nobody in the corner (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 4 April 2015 08:29 (nine years ago) link
that dave bry piece is some scorched earth of journalism shit
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Saturday, 4 April 2015 09:02 (nine years ago) link
xp are you complaining that the text differs from the graphic? if so read the article again.
or are you complaining about something subtler to do with the data. would be glad to hear what you have in mind, since i ... *cough*.
or are you complaining about the guardian writing about twitter, in which case fair enough.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 4 April 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
the article btw http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/apr/03/why-do-fewer-women-tweet-political-party-hashtags
I posted this horror a few days ago: http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/31/country-music-image-problem-bro-country-sexist
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 April 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
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I like Stewart Lee's writing, but it's always the comments that provide the main interest. The section is always populated mainly by readers who have seemingly taken Lee at face value and assumed, for example, that he needs people to cook his steak, and by smug readers who celebrate their superiority over the other readers because they understand the joke.
So far so good, but then I wonder if the readers who were slagging Stewart off were in fact just joking so they could get a rise out of the earnest types. Then I worry that the earnest types are also just joking, and they understand full well that everyone gets the joke, and are just playing their part. Then I wonder if this is all obvious and I'm being the only idiot by even imagining that anyone is being serious with their comments.
Now I'm worried I'm spoiling the whole pantomime by just writing this comment.giantmoth's avatargiantmoth5 Apr 2015
― Albanic Kanun Autark (nakhchivan), Sunday, 5 April 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
There's a particularly uninspired Geoff Dyer comment is free article today, "Underground culture isn’t dead – it’s just better hidden than it used to be".
Never has 'underground culture sounded' so dull, nor does he give any indication that he has any sense of what's going on. Don't know why he's so complacent.
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Sunday, 5 April 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
xpost That reads like what Syd would write for Jugband Blues for the modern day.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 10:46 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure 'giantmoth' is Stewart Lee
― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 11:21 (nine years ago) link
Whole piece feels like a framework on which to prop the gag about feeling like a big-shot author because his books aren't in the determindley obscurantist bookshop.
― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
the whole Geoff Dyer piece
― their fantastic and relevant debut single, ‘Times Are Hard’ (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 11:26 (nine years ago) link
Don't know why he's so complacent.
He's a fkn idiot.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 12:21 (nine years ago) link
I've enjoyed some of his writing in the past, though more his novels than his journalism.
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 12:43 (nine years ago) link
the Guardian view on...
― courtney barnett formula (seandalai), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:43 (nine years ago) link
I’m a Facebook baby bore. If you don’t like it, log off
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 April 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
On this fourth #EdBallsDay, has the hype become too much?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 12:44 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/04/royal-baby-hypocrisy-quick-toast
― nakhchivan, Monday, 4 May 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
I can't help thinking they may have shot themselves in the foot with this prince Charles letters thing. Maybe it's just that it seems to me like prince Charles writing letters to ministers about homeopathic medicine, or whatever, is the least of the country's worries right now but it seems more like a convenient (though accidental, timing wise) distraction and actually seems fairly ridiculous when related to the actual breaking apart of our civil rights that's imminent. I realise the timing is out of their control but I feel like the meagre notes they are trumpeting seem ridiculous w/r/t what is actually happening to us.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 14 May 2015 01:16 (eight years ago) link
I know I'm not much of a deep thinker but this is more frustrating, to me, than helpful tbf.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 14 May 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
Nick, Michael, Lex, any other Guardian types who hang about this thread...
Who would I pitch to, a piece detailing the failures of a tech-giant not only to fail to protect their users by enforcing their own terms of service WRT stalking/doxing, but also giving out downright dangerous official advice in responses to complaints?
I don't know if that would be Tech or Women or Comment Is Free, but any suggestions as to who to pitch at?
― The Hauntology of Celebrity (Branwell with an N), Sunday, 24 May 2015 08:29 (eight years ago) link
Possibly any of those. Email me at albaba at gmail.com and I can be more specific.
― Alba, Sunday, 24 May 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Cheers! Sent.
― The Hauntology of Celebrity (Branwell with an N), Monday, 25 May 2015 06:21 (eight years ago) link
Joel Golby writes about general stuff for VICE and the Guardian Guide
― glad baller (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
nakh that really was the worst thing I've ever read
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
the rest of his articles look like they could provide some competition if you have the will to go through them
― glad baller (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
I don't
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
checked out this lad's twitter earlier and he could be the millennial Michael Hogan we were all waiting for
― pull blart, maul cops (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
he has someway to go before creating anything as bad as thishttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jan/12/mel-giedroyc-sue-perkins-funniest-moments
― soref, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/szpdL9l.jpg
switched from fhm to vice several months ago but hasnt updated his pic for something a bit more dorke
https://twitter.com/joelgolby/status/602196573121081345
― lex merk a tory ya? (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
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― lex merk a tory ya? (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
too easy perhaps, but for the record http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/28/snoop-dogg-feminist-sexist-lyrics
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Thursday, 28 May 2015 09:05 (eight years ago) link
this is at least the third time Julie Bindel has written essentially this article about Snoop
"I own no fewer than four of his CDs" made me lol but general sentiment seems fine to me
― pull blart, maul cops (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 28 May 2015 09:39 (eight years ago) link
the revelation that she watches re-runs of Carry On films was also a bit o_O. The broader point she is making is fair enough, granted.
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Thursday, 28 May 2015 09:44 (eight years ago) link