Probably a liveblogging artifact but this paragraph is something:
Besides the US, the 227 nations in the EU and the UK, the statement was co-signed by Albania, Argentina and Australia, as well as Brazil, Canada and Chile. Colombia, Costa Rica and Ecuador were also signatories, as were El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Added to them were North Macedonia, New Zealand and Norway, as well as Paraguay, Senegal and Switzerland.
― in a bar, under the (seandalai), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
love to liveblog on amphetamines
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
lol
― "Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
This is pathetic even by Guardian middle-class whinge standards
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/aug/14/there-is-holiday-hell-and-then-there-is-self-catering
Holiday Hell = having to provide your own condiments and travelling 20 mins to the nearest Tesco. Jesus
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Saturday, 21 August 2021 09:39 (two years ago) link
"Needless to say, the nearest Tesco is 20 minutes’ drive"
sympathy rating zero
― calzino, Saturday, 21 August 2021 09:53 (two years ago) link
shit it used to be a half hour walk to the nearest Tescos in Newquay, but it was a fun walk - because you are on holiday!
― calzino, Saturday, 21 August 2021 09:54 (two years ago) link
and bringing lots of wine, beer and horrible readymeals back to the caravan feels good.
― calzino, Saturday, 21 August 2021 09:57 (two years ago) link
the worst thing for me about this for me is (and I suspect many others) that I haven't had a holiday since 2010 and really don't want to see performative whinging by smug m-c pricks.
― calzino, Saturday, 21 August 2021 10:01 (two years ago) link
"20 minutes’ drive"
They have a car! Incredible.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 August 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
if it's all about convenience then just stay at home, or get an air B n B that is in a flat above a Onestop.
― calzino, Saturday, 21 August 2021 11:06 (two years ago) link
― kinder, Saturday, 21 August 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
the guardian published some really shitty sentences about afghanistan over the last couple of weeks, though i suppose everyone else did, too
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 21 August 2021 12:26 (two years ago) link
Suzy on the politics thread pointed out a Guardian interview with Apsana Begum MP. I've now seen it.
I don't have a general view on the case, but Suzy was entirely correct to note how the interviewer spends a lot of time harassing ms Begum for living in a council house.
This is very bad as:a) it fails to understand principles and benefits of universal provision (one of which is that policymakers should live in council housing and then might care about it more)b) the interview is about how ms Begum was harassed about her home, and proceeds to ... harass her about how she should leave her home!
It's outrageous.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link
Leftwing outsider Sharon Graham elected as Unite union leaderKeir Starmer likely to be pleased with union’s choice of successor to Len McCluskey
Sure, Graun
― nashwan, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 11:41 (two years ago) link
hah hah trying in vain to distance Kieth from the stench of defeat
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
It's Orwellian, somebody should write a book
― pings and noodles (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
The Road to Cope Pier
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 11:54 (two years ago) link
"it fails to understand principles and benefits of universal provision"
the only universalism they really approve of is universal poverty so they can write insincere hand-wringing bollocks about it to make themselves look progressive
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 12:06 (two years ago) link
Isn't ms Graham the leader most likely to withdraw Unite funding from Labour?
KS likes trashing his own party's finances.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
she has said there must be a review into Labour funding, but I don't know how that will end. Also she said ‘Keir Starmer is failing working people’ so he is trying to put a brave face on his man being the wooden spoon, despite apparently having the biggest campaign war-chest from some undisclosed donors.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
and Coyne had Jess Phillips campaigning for him!
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
with her unerring instinct for understanding the political opinions of the man on the Clapham omnibus
― Neil S, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
speaking strewth! + cor blimey! to power
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
Luke Akehurst was congratulating the dark-money funded, Murdoch backed candidate for his courage in "in taking on the machine".
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 August 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
Whatever the rights and (many) wrongs of Ofcom’s decision, this BBC report is a disgrace. Misgendering trans people, describing the tiny LGB Alliance as a “rival” to Stonewall, falsely describing it as campaigning “for” gay people (it does no such thing). https://t.co/70ZnCobShR— Matt Wells (@MatthewWells) August 25, 2021
is the bbc worse than it used to be, article 3456785768239
― ufo, Thursday, 26 August 2021 08:21 (two years ago) link
it seems the writer John McAnus has a strong bias against Stonewall and is a dedicated transphobe. Quite in the mainstream of Beeb and Graun reporters then.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 August 2021 09:52 (two years ago) link
Either Tom Cruise has had a different car stolen in Birmingham every day for the last three days or it's a slow news week.
― Believe me, grow a lemon tree. (ledge), Sunday, 29 August 2021 08:53 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-GGcuJX0AM78Ow?format=jpg&name=900x900
genuinely sick-making
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 09:57 (two years ago) link
although I did lol at Rosen's "Long Govid" quip
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link
Yes, you'd have to be a useless fool to write this.
Is this a long-running series from ZW on 'I used to think X ... then I realised Y' ?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 10:05 (two years ago) link
google searching "zoe williams I used to.." does bear this out
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 10:07 (two years ago) link
well the top 2 are I used to tut at people who wear glasses and I used to believe hay fever didn't exist.
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 10:10 (two years ago) link
The four words any young journalist dreads seeing anywhere near their article. pic.twitter.com/JUv4QsK3O7— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) September 2, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 September 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
Utterly bizarre feature
Multi-author glossy weekend feature vs tucked in the back pages somewhere. pic.twitter.com/XpeBeeTWU9— libcom.org (@libcomorg) September 5, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 September 2021 10:30 (two years ago) link
this is the highlighted "culture" article today, was thinking of submitting it for the worst music writing thread https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/05/jailhouse-rock-how-historys-crimes-live-on-in-music
― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 5 September 2021 10:37 (two years ago) link
"the punk bank with whom he recorded the song No One Is Innocent"
typo otm
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 10:40 (two years ago) link
lol duncan campbell is a fairly legendary and deservedly respected crime reporter, fairly evidently a long way out to sea when tasked with mapping pop
(the book he's talking abt looks p interesting tho, i already had my eye on it)
― mark s, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:20 (two years ago) link
you'd think a seasoned crime writer touching on the subject of crime and murder intersecting with music might have heard of Burzum though
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
tbh no i would not
― mark s, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:32 (two years ago) link
(a) he's 77 and (b) he's married to julie christie :0
= he has better things to think abt
― mark s, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:34 (two years ago) link
and he's a billy bragg fan!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
when he was chatting up Julie she thought he was the UB40 singer
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
has he had relayshuns with girls of many nayshuns i ask myself
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link
it's a shame that none of that "rap" music the young people listen to has ever covered criminal activities
― fc_TEFH28mo (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link
can't lie i had a real soft spot for Billy before he became a Lib Dem
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:48 (two years ago) link
also before he promised not to turn me away even if i was gay
you'd think a seasoned crime writer touching on the subject of crime and murder intersecting with music might have heard of Burzum Pimp C though
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
Jailhouse Rock is the last word in hard-boiled murder raps tho
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
George Formby - Leaning On A Motherfucking Lampost
― calzino, Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:53 (two years ago) link
George also did Suck My Blackpool Rock tbfttl
― cheesons to be rearful (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 September 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link