Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Article written appallingly and yeah she’s a fuckawful terf, but I thought it was pretty understandable. My situation a bit different from hers but I’m not really enjoying being boosted and having to stay in every single day in case I test positive for something that is probably not going to kill me all so I can test negative in another week. Hate living like this, frankly!

What is irritating about it in particular is that she presents her desire to go out as 'doing her duty to the arts and the hospitality sectors". If you're going to squeeze the pips out of life, at least admit you're doing what you really want to do - not cloud the issue with some ridiculous notion of "it's the least I can do for these brave sectors'.

yeah look i've gone out more than i shd, hopefully reasonably sensibly, but i'm not having a middle class public wank over it like i'm a fucking hero

There are two approaches to the current lockdown-that-is-not-a-lockdown. The first, which is by far the more popular, is to try to protect Christmas by doing nothing that might involve any risk of catching Omicron before then. You stay in, and you tick off the days. The second is to test and test and test, and then (so long as the result is negative) to go out and squeeze the pips from life.

Literally no part of this is true

there is interesting potential in the psychology of decision fatigue in the UK right now - having access to comparative global privilege of max vax and still having to sit indoors looking outside wistfully to Protect The NHS due to govt fuckups, and how that tests even the previously very "sensible".

I wanted to read something that got across the vividness of doing stuff when it feels like a countdown to nothing once again. Instead we get niche cultural indicators used as exclusive shorthand for sensory experience again. The family's annual Christmas visit to the Barbican for Handel's Messiah, and the usual bibbling lament for four beloved restaurants and the West End: if you know, then you know. idk why I'm surprised they still publish this shit.

in summary if you're doing shite twee latty flow patter plz commit and let's have a latte pun so I can have the dubious pleasure of bringing up my full stomach lining

Luna Schlosser:
>>> Sometimes the 'inner critic' has a good point and should be listened to!

This point in general is good.

It applies well to people saying 'I think I have imposter syndrome', hoping to be told 'Yes, you do, because you're actually *amazing*', rather than 'No, you really have been over-promoted and are incompetent at what you're doing'.

Yes.

Also, I enjoyed your post verhexen and agree w it. Merry xmas :)

well done mate

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/24/i-used-to-avoid-pop-music-but-this-year-i-embraced-its-joyful-sexy-escapism

(unsurprisingly the comments are even worse than the article)

Oscar Quine

Didn’t even bother scrolling down

short version: He was always listening to pop music.

which senior Graunist is he related to?

willard van orman

"Yes, I think very deeply" brainyquotes.com Oscar Quine

Oscar Quine is a writer and journalist based in Glasgow

Can he be persuaded to move to Edinburgh?

I don't need to see more than the headline, tis the season to be jolly and I'm already aware that there's plenty of pig ignorant cunts in the world

Also the Onion already published this piece

https://www.theonion.com/ill-try-anything-with-a-detached-air-of-superiority-1819583947

It's even less 'interesting' than the headline

just forcing myself to listen to Koyaanisqatsi because I'm cultivating a "pretentious" persona next week

I've got 25 more Pierre Henry CDs than I had before the pandemic, so fuck yer pop music, where's my medal?

Haw haw.

Edinburgh isn’t THAT bad is it tho? Or was your point more just Glasgow > Edinburgh?

I’m just saying can we at least carve out an exception for Leith?

My Glaswegian/Lanarkshire former flatmate tells the story of being buttonholed in Central Station by a person with a clipboard who asked him, as a prelude to a market research interview, ‘do you travel between Glasgow and Edinburgh?’

‘NO!’ said Stevie emphatically, and kept walking.

Edinburgh's a nice wee city, he'd feel more at home there.

He would not. He is a massive Celtic supporter.

Och, they all say that.

Can he be persuaded to move to Edinburgh?

Ah no, we're grand thanks.

Desmond Tutu’s opinion pieces went in hard. We’ve lost a good man today. pic.twitter.com/YkzrTEwcBp

— Paul Duane 🍥 (@paulduanefilm) December 26, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHmk5PiXIAY7dIc?format=png&name=240x240

check out this walker

“food: more authentic than you might think”

this further substantiates my theory that the word "radical" lost all meaning years ago and is now mostly used by cunts to mean "thing I like which I am reclaiming from any actual radical political context"

Breathing - Not Just a Middle Class Pursuit

I'm always impressed when the opinion writer knows exactly what their readership previously thought - before they gifted this precious knowledge to them!

500 things you never knew about walking

Solvitur ambulando - this is an old Latin expression that I think means "you don't need to be a wanker to write for the Graun - but it sure helps"

You know who doesn't walk? The sneering metropolitan left, that's who

Jeremy Crowbar yesterday...

https://www.theglasgowstory.com/images/TGSA04809_m.jpg

I genuinely read this hot take on breathing in the Guardian last year

https://i.ibb.co/xC4Ds3Z/20200806-093934.jpg

hah! there was a breathing eggspurt on r4 a few weeks back plugging their breathing book and they said we are conditioned to breath through our noses and mouth-breathing is bad practise - or summat like that!

yes he was on 'start the week' this morning( also happened to be Andrew marr's last time as host, good riddance) as well shilling his new book. tho tbf since I started consciously breathing thru my nose a few years ago I have felt and slept better.

yeah I've started doing the same tbh. Lol I try not to overthink breathing because it might lead to a panic attack and get me thinking about all the times I've been exposed to asbestos, but habitually breathing through the nose more often does seem like a good idea.

I am a bit of a mouthbreather but if I had to breathe through my nose all the time I'd've died in childhood stupid allergies

A friend of mine forwarded me this just a few days ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct2yn6

There is an anthropologist who explains how breathing has changed for human beings.

Though some of the interviewees needed to learn breathing techniques to bring down stress levels because of their awful jobs so I'm thinking it's all capitalism's fault. Again.

Laura Barton posts a life update vmic:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/28/moved-coast-better-life-london-capital

"graticule precision"
"sourdough rivalries"
"grocery shops stocked with everything from za’atar to rambutan"
etc

Everywhere hung the air of self-congratulation.

What better place to escape that than the offices of the Guardian newspaper?

The Guardian has obsessively published long articles reporting on the careers of Andrew Marr and Laura Kuenssberg.

Each one is depressing because they end with largely the same bad people circulating and taking each other's jobs.

I don't think it was noted here that yesterday the Guardian published a long interview with Rachel Reeves in which she mainly attacked JC and said that Labour need to be more like the Conservative Party.

Almost goes without saying

I received countless messages in those months from colleagues gleefully announcing they were emailing from their new farmhouse kitchen or in their cottage by the sea

a dose of (one's) own medicine!

Reeves was saying we can prevent big water from pumping raw sewage into waterways and the sea through better regulation not through nationalising them ... inspiring.

obviously Graun are correct about that awful netflix movie, but perhaps 2/5 was being slightly generous.