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― Munter S Thompson (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
myerson should read his own paper:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/28/ukcrime.forensicscience
"I suspect most people imagine that all DNA profiles obtained emanate from blood, semen, or some other clear stain. But often there is no visible stain at all, and the profile is a mixture. Mixtures create the potential for more difficulty. By way of illustration: if I have profile AB and you have profile CD, our mixed cells would have a profile ABCD. However, the same profile could be produced by two people with profiles AC and BD, or AD and BC. If this mixture was found at a crime scene, we now have six "suspect" profiles. If the person with the BD profile is unlucky enough to live in the area where the crime was committed, BD now needs to explain why he has no association with the material found at the scene. In fact, a mixed profile could generate about 60,000 suspects."
― joe, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
now usually i don't do this btut:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/05/observe-and-report-rapeYou know, people of the UK, I often wonder why you put up with folks from the United States. Think of what you have given us, in terms of entertainment, over the last few years: Lily Allen, Sasha Baron Cohen, Idris Elba, Daniel Craig as James Bond - the list goes on. Yet what has America given you in return?
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Add to that list: Ricky Gervais, Hugh Laurie, her off Eastenders in the Bionic Woman. Good luck USA!
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Julie Bindel is the new Tanya Gold: She's had a crush on an Avon lady, but Julie Bindel has never been tempted to wear makeup. As the iconic cosmetics company turns 50, she braves a makeover.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Idris Elba
You gave us Ultraviolet, and all we could offer you in return was The Wire! You sure put one over on us, Teh Britain!
― rebel without a cape (sic), Thursday, 7 May 2009 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
for a lifelong feminist it seems that there an awful lot of things she hasn't thought through. If only I'd been in time to offer a 1,000 word comment. :'(
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/may/11/contemporary-art-drawing
"Drawing is suddenly everywhere in contemporary art – Damien Hirst and Paul Klee are just two of the artists jumping the bandwagon."
that bandwagon-hopping Klee, when will he stop.
― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
that article about 'observe and report' is SASSY.
the screening i went to people also laughed at the scene when rogen (spoiler) shot a man with the intention of killing him.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost lols at yasmin
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
so it's publishing part of its content in chinese now, in order to facilitate tanya gold zings in two languages. bound to be a censorship row at some point too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/chinese
really it just reminds me of a former editor of mine who went on to head up a paper in reading and launch an edition in polish. not really a details man - there was a (small) libel payout on a story of mine because he didn't understand the distinction between "sham" and "shambles" in writing the headline - he was then editing a paper without understanding a single word. (it was a success.)
― joe, Monday, 18 May 2009 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
*shoots self*
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Monday, 18 May 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i've just seen this now. What. The. Fuck.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Monday, 18 May 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I've heard that Albrecht Durer is very hot in the art drwaing scene right now.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Monday, 18 May 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
drawing!
Website Q&A gone wrong
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 13:14 (fourteen years ago) link
skip to the end...
have just had a chat with NYR.
Unfortunately, despite previous assurances that they would be participating in this blog post, I've now been told they 'will not be taking part in the debate'.
― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Neals Yard running a mile on that one. Seemed to be quite some vitriol in some of the comments there.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
can't really blame Neal's Yard Remedies for running miles at the sight of those comments mentalists xp
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
wait you're calling the commenters the mentalists? radical switcheroo there. i know people get excited when they get to pick on homeopathy but can y'blame them? also they were fairly well behaved for the most part.
― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
my bus has crashed - I've got a compound fracture in my right leg, the bone is sticking out from under the skin and is wedged into the 'Used Tickets' receptacle, my skull has had a good old thump against the seat in front and is impersonating a boiled egg after the first thump with the teaspoon, and my ribs have been broken into bits like a packet of smokey bacon crisps someone has stood on.
What herbs and aromatic oils would you recommend?
― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
(xp) I dunno, there was quite a display of Dawkinsishness. By which I mean, sure they're right, but telling us once each might've been enough.
But then again NY is not some misunderstood underdog, no, and it is pretty hilarious that this was in the "ethical living" section, and speaking out against profiteering at the expense of public health is obviously a good thing... just please don't ever be in the same pub as me, thanks folks.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
We really need a 'Rolling Self-Inflicted PR Clangers For Companies Who Don't Understand The Internet' thread. See also the Telegraph's Budget Twitterfail.
― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Whatever one thinks of NYR (I'd never even heard of them before today, don't give a shit about them based on the little I have read) the sheer pomposity of a lot of those comments is headache-inducing! Some real "when did you stop beating yr wife" level "debate", eh.
― m9ndfukc 0f0003 (Pashmina), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a bit like rolling up at Barney the Dinosaur's website and laughing at 4 year-olds for believing he's real.
― If You Lived Here You'd Be SB'd By Now (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I had some NYR moisturiser that was OK. It smelt of violets.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I was browsing in Neal's Yard once and overheard the sales guy talking to another customer, talking about some non-"natural" products and saying "no wonder there's so much cancer in the world" with a sigh. I never went back in there. Also that stuff with the malaria remedy is indefensible.
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
agree with the criticisms but these dawkinsist/"i read bad science" people are such fucking ultra-bores.
― Local Garda, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I ws talking about this w/my wife, she had some vague memory of buying neal's yard organic sultanas from holland & barrett but as it turned out they weren't quite proper organic in some way. the details are vague. iirc they tasted nice, but sultanas usually do.
― f1f0 (Pashmina), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/02/bnp-far-right-local-elections
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 07:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Above the former lingerie shop, the curtains are half-drawn and patterned with a Wedgwood pottery design. Next door stands the old Spode Works. Once famed for creamware and pearlware, for bone china and blue underglaze, last year the company went into administration after nearly 250 years. Today the paint is peeling around the windows of the old factory shop; peer through the dusty glass and the room sits dark and quiet, its shelves empty.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 07:29 (fourteen years ago) link
It's no Spectator.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there anywhere on the net I might be able to find Melanie Phillips' oldskool 'liberal' Guardian writing? I don't think I've ever seen any of it.
Answering the initial thread question eight years too late, my suspicion is that there has always been a lot of bad writing in the Guardian and we are just in more of a position to notice it now.
― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 09:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, dear. If you are going to puff this book at least mention some of the devastating responses from other scientists. That would be the intellectually rigourous thing for a lay person to do.
Well done that man.
― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 09:47 (fourteen years ago) link
There is simply nothing left of it when he has finished – and he does so from the perspective of real science which the theory has so shockingly betrayed.
Oh really? Melanie Philips not an expert on science shocker.
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Or what Matt said.
Telegraph no better:
First cut a strand of hair from your head. Next, fill in a questionnaire about your state of health and send it, with your hair, to an address on the other side of the country.
Then sit back and, while not exactly by return of post, you will in due course receive relief from whatever ailment is troubling you. It could come in the form of a pill or a potion, but it's just as likely to come in the form of healing vibrations, transmitted from the person to whom you've sent your hair.
What is it? Magic? Witchcraft? A load of twaddle? No, it's radionics, the largely unexplained art of healing someone you've never met, who is hundreds, even thousands of miles away.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/wellbeing/5356013/Radionics-can-a-lock-of-hair-hold-the-key-to-health.html
― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
o_0
― Norwegian Wood Smash (stevie), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
It must be great not to believe in climate change. The worst thing that's ever happened to the planet Earth, the problem of such a scale that it dwarfs all others and requires us to change our whole way of life (not that we are capable of doing so, hence certain catastrophe of one level or another) -- this problem just doesn't exist.
Maybe that's why MP has so much anger to expend on other, lesser things.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
It helps her to sleep peacefully at night, her mind entirely at rest <---- LOL
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
ummmm... pretty sure she believes in climate change.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
But it wasn't us wot dun it
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Amusing to note that one of the sources cited approvingly in that book (which is a waterfall of bullshit, obv) is MP herself.
― caek, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 12:42 (fourteen years ago) link
go go reader mailbag —
In France, only cases where investigation by the presiding magistrate reveals significant evidence that points to a high probability of prosecution will be put forward to the court. Hence the 25% conviction rate. The great majority of cases go no further than the investigative phase.
Writing as someone who was falsely accused of rape in the UK by a disturbed and evil scorned woman that I'd known for five years and never even kissed or touched, I can only applaud French scepticism.
Let's have another article, pointing out that hard evidence is required for a rape conviction: certainty, not probability, nor likelihood, nor possibility. Perhaps that is the real message that women (and men) need to carry with them into situations where they find themselves alone in private with potentially predatory males.Chris H, via email
― thomp, Friday, 5 June 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Worth noting that Andrew Sparrow and Martin Kettle, doing the website's live-updating news and analysis pages on the results and the reshuffle, have been actually rather good: the latter certainly better than the paper's recent standard of comment on party politics
― thomp, Friday, 5 June 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
iirc, melanie phillips wrote most of her 'liberal' pieces for the observer rather than the guardian (well before both papers shared the same owner)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 5 June 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/09/battle-orgreave-miners-strike
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
C'mon Pinefox you really should let people have the joy of the first line without having to click through...
Dark and damp and deep, the earth gives up its secrets: scraps of metal, furls of plastic, rubble and pebbles and clay. Among them lie shards of coal, brittle and black and glistening. Rain speckles the soil, the mounds of earth, the stationary diggers. This is all that is left of Orgreave opencast mine.
― ned trifle is not working for you (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Ever so slightly out of her depth there
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
alternately, not buried deep enough
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link