unacceptable that airlines are limiting my right to all the gold tophats tickets i might want
― mark s, Friday, 20 September 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
It would've been cheaper for American to just have hired a therapist the reservation number could've routed his calls to.
― Yerac, Friday, 20 September 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
how many gold tophats does it take to exceed your baggage allowance?
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 September 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
Have you booked a free seat under the name of your fictitious son or not?
― gyac, Friday, 20 September 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
it's not hand luggage if it's on yr head tappingtemple.gif
― mark s, Friday, 20 September 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Matt D’Ancona sacked by The Guardian, reportedly for not being sufficiently right-wing.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 22 September 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
announce guido
― stoffle (||||||||), Sunday, 22 September 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
They'll call him back when Ruth Davidson becomes PM
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 September 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
No really, I'd do the gig, for my usual rates.— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) September 22, 2019
― gyac, Sunday, 22 September 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
He’s like those never trumper columnists in the US. Constituencies of, at most, dozens of people but massively over represented in the op ed section of liberal papers. They allow centrists to feel warm and fuzzy about there being adults in the room on “both sides” and nothing changes. 100% fine with him being fired and replaced with someone whose views are consistent with modern mainstream conservatism (I a headbanger).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 22 September 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
A week late, but the tale of the man with his unlimited air pass reminded me a bit of this:https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/sep/14/starting-a-business-has-made-me-a-lot-more-frugal
It's a piece on lawyer and campaigner Steve Wardlaw.
"I might be what some might call “wealthy” but bizarrely I’ve become a lot more frugal since starting my own business a few years ago. I’m more conscious that money has to last. I’m also trying to make sure other people are provided for. I want my nieces to go to university and the cost of that will fall to me....Our Kent property is a converted oast house, which has three chimneys and looks like a cross between a hobbit house and a Disney princess’s castle. It’s lovely, you open the back door and you see nothing but fields. I bought it for £610,000 and it’s probably worth north of £1m now. We spent about £200,000 renovating it, which involved moving a few walls, adding a dog-friendly shower room, and a new staircase....(My partner) also collects Doctor Who memorabilia and Egyptian artefacts. For our wedding we each bought a picture for the other – two of a set of 50 by the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, who took a series of original Goya etchings and over-painted them to look like grotesque cartoons. My mother hates them!"
If this was the internet I would arrange the text into one of those 4Chan "Mr Bones' Wild Ride" montages with DOG-FRIENDLY SHOWER ROOM repeated several times.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 22 September 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
"100% fine with him being fired and replaced with someone whose views are consistent with modern mainstream conservatism (I a headbanger)."
How is this a good thing?
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 September 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
I’m also fine with him fired and not being replaced.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 September 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
I believe caek’s point is that replacing “moderate conservatives” who have no audience other than hate-readers with actual frothing bigots is at least honest.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 23 September 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
Right. If the token conservative is there to “represent the other side” they should at least hold the other side’s views. And the particular views dacona holds are not only representative of almost no one (and wrong), they are also especially comforting and unchallenging to centrists who don’t themselves hold these views.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 September 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
Fair enough. I think the other side is so deranged on some issues that to even see it argued in respectable pages is to see it normalised. Ancona at least pretended to be socially liberal.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 September 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
Otm. Guardian is a fucking mess for even caring about publishing more right wing opinions tbh, when most right wing publications will never publish anyone left of Hugo Rifkind.
― gyac, Monday, 23 September 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
the "comforting carbon monoxide leak" vibe that center right commentators give off to center left people is a huge practical problem in the US (where i live now). it's perhaps a bit less of a problem in the UK, and the danger of platforming the further right opinions might be more salient in that context.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 September 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
"comforting carbon monoxide leak"
^ this is in quotes because i said it. sorry i can't write.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 September 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek),
Its a big problem in UK and a major contributory factor in fracture between public and media. Over-representation of "Tory Remainers", or socially liberal / economically conservative, or whatever you call them - inverse of actual centre ground. Illusion of this group being larger than is actually the case, and having to cater to it, this
Its like the creation of a 'palatable opponent' that you can have polite disagreement with, but to what end? what is the point of this? Give us the real deal or don't bother
― anvil, Tuesday, 24 September 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHzWolWXUAIEtbp?format=jpg&name=large
― gyac, Saturday, 26 October 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
oh lord
― non-euclidean lenin (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 26 October 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
I'm never more aware of my working-class origins than when I remember my mother doing a cleaning job whilst heavily pregnant and then getting very ill and having a miscarriage that nearly killed her.
― calzino, Saturday, 26 October 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
For the Evening Standard, not the Guardian, but Grace Dent wrote the most cringeworthy paragraph of all time. pic.twitter.com/8BUbiHrYcY— Dril Kafka (sicko mode) (@RuairiWood) October 26, 2019
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
that's..... incredible.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
That's not even the most cringeworthy paragraph in that piece:
I am working class. Oh yes I am. Don’t make me play Working Class Top Trumps with you because I’ll win. I’ve owned a Staffordshire bull terrier (Bess), I’ve holidayed in Tenerife, I have silver fillings. My godfather was a Geordie called Uncle Bob who sold sewing machines. I went to a comprehensive school — OK, when I could be arsed. There was no literature in my home aside from Jackie Collins smut from car-boot sales and a News of the World part-work on the Moors Murderers. In my youth I dated hot boys who lingered in young offenders’ institutions (oh, come on, those were the best ones). My teenage schoolfriends had babies with lads called Teabag, Gozzy and Bello.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
you don't reckon grace dent is probably in on the joke here?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
what does it mean to be in on a really shitty jokerly makes u think
― non-euclidean lenin (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
it reads differently if it's supposed to be 'in character', i have never got what she's about tbh
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
people moan about Mao murdering too many people, but at least he worked out that if there ain't no food then all the restaurant critics die as well!
― calzino, Saturday, 26 October 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
petition to get calzino onto the guardian's writing staff
― imago, Saturday, 26 October 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
Morrissey says
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/27/morrissey-performs-in-la-wearing-fuck-the-guardian-t-shirt
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 27 October 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
Puzzled by the Dominican Republic line. Where is that anyway?
I met Grace Dent once. She was very bad - mendacious, secretive, tricky. Probably not the way her writing seeks to come across.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 27 October 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
Lol I read the guardian way more than I would like and have never heard of grace dent before, nor have I noticed a single story about Morrissey except the occasional "great British albums" boring bollocks they do. Certainly not any "anti Morrissey" stories. Also the smiths are really boring.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 27 October 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
Oh right she does the restaurant reviews.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 27 October 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
Who are the only good restaurant critics, or former ones apart from Meades?
― calzino, Sunday, 27 October 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
bought £1 pack of Haribo Starmix. Worst weets ever in history of my life, rubbery, tasteless, disgusting. "Happy world of Haribo" Bollocks— Michael Winner (@MrMichaelWinner) June 24, 2012
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
that one guy left twitter always retweets
rayner/o'loughlin are rightly lauded but maybe too fbpe for current ilx?
― imago, Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
riphttp://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tumblr_inline_mgzn1gvBZY1r2qscg.gif
― non-euclidean lenin (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
Jay Rayner is a mensch, and Marina O’Loughlin is generally spot-on (and -bonus- is a Glaswegian Italian).
I’ve never met Grace Dent and never want to, because she has a big ‘puts on airs’ vibe that may once have been ironic, and is now evinced by Botox and an underbite. Disclosure: my mum, a single parent, hired her older friend Una to come in one morning a week to do the cleaning jobs (floors etc) she couldn’t manage herself after working 60-hour weeks. Una worked full-time as a cleaner and my sister and I did have to tidy before her visits.
― coup de twat (suzy), Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
i've never ready anything by jay rayner but i know what he looks like and he beat me to a lovely cast iron skillet at a stall in the lambeth the country show and for that I will never forgive him.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
It's half of a Caribbean island. The other half is Haiti.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
JR is good mates with a friend of mine from high school, and she invited us out for drinks to meet one another a few years ago. I like him a lot - he reminds me and my school friend of guys our age from our town - sorry he beat you to a good skillet.
― coup de twat (suzy), Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
it was very unusual and reasonably priced
― plax (ico), Sunday, 27 October 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
At an event once I told someone 'Jay Rayner' was a pen name and his real name was 'Ray Jayner' and he overheard me and told the person that it was true. Legend— JC (@jmsclee) April 25, 2019
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 27 October 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
Jay Rayner often reviews restaurants local to me (he lives round here) and it’s a very useful service.
― Madchen, Monday, 28 October 2019 07:48 (four years ago) link
Jay Rayner looks like Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen. If there's one aspect of broadsheet journalism that the internet should have killed off it's restauarant criticism.
― fetter, Monday, 28 October 2019 08:34 (four years ago) link
this is the first time I've ever heard anyone say they didn't think he was a revolting cunt
― ogmor, Monday, 28 October 2019 08:38 (four years ago) link
He lives locally so I see him walking around -- always seemingly out of breath -- about once a month.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 28 October 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
― ogmor, Monday, 28 October 2019 08:38 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
tbf i get the feeling you'd say this about each & every member of a certain media caste, namely the 'flamboyant speaker of one's truth'
which is kind of ironic because
― imago, Monday, 28 October 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link