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Mciahel Goodman · Aug 10, 2015

The Guardian's next article will be entitled: "Does Jeremy Corbyn Give You Cancer?"

Crono · Aug 10, 2015

Mciahel Goodman · Aug 10, 2015

Crono said:
A partial list of the tidal wave of Grauniad anti-Corbyn hysteria, in one week in July.

It's both incredible, disappointing, and yet, completely expected.

Ubik · Aug 10, 2015

Crono said:
A partial list of the tidal wave of Grauniad anti-Corbyn hysteria, in one week in July.

Would you rather they stopped posting articles about the Labour leadership contest? They've also been posting positive ones, there just aren't that many commentators who're overly positive about the prospect.

Jippy · Aug 10, 2015

Ubik said:
Would you rather they stopped posting articles about the Labour leadership contest? They've also been posting positive ones, there just aren't that many commentators who're overly positive about the prospect.

They're siding with the Tory-lite!
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dumbo · Aug 10, 2015

At least the Torycnutgraph online (Tory cnut portal with made up news for Tory cnuts) and the Mail online (salacious wankbank for reactionary bigots) stand for something.

Guardian online is now just another buzzfeed like clickbait-bullshit generator.

Why modern life is making dementia in your 40s more likely:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/07/modern-life-dementia-40s-neurological-disease

Their "more from the web" section is indistinguishable from their articles

Member 39557 · Aug 11, 2015

I just read an article about EODM's new album, except it didn't mention any of the music and just focused on the cover (which is clearly taking the piss) and whether it's relevant due to the emergence of 4th wave feminism and clit rock.

I'm not sure what to make of it all.

The Mitcher · Aug 11, 2015

Bill.s.preston said:
I just read an article about EODM's new album, except it didn't mention any of the music and just focused on the cover (which is clearly taking the piss) and whether it's relevant due to the emergence of 4th wave feminism and clit rock.

I'm not sure what to make of it all.

What?

Its just a more graphic Sticky Fingers album cover.

Mr Pigeon · Aug 11, 2015

Bill.s.preston said:
I just read an article about EODM's new album, except it didn't mention any of the music and just focused on the cover (which is clearly taking the piss) and whether it's relevant due to the emergence of 4th wave feminism and clit rock.

I'm not sure what to make of it all.

Typical misogynist response from someone who doesn't understand what music is all about. I bet you prefer to listen to the CD rather than buying an old record player to use as a coffee table and a nu-post-renaissance-modern-chic-fem-cliterati-nouveau-post-wave-feminist statement against the patriarchy, you misogynist bastard. Just kidding, luv u

The Mitcher · Aug 11, 2015

Mr Pigeon said:
Typical misogynist response from someone who doesn't understand what music is all about. I get you prefer to listen to the CD rather than buying an old record player to use as a coffee table and a nu-post-renaissance-modern-chic-fem-cliterati-nouveau-post-wave-feminist statement against the patriarchy, you misogynist bastard. Just kidding, luv u

SteveJ · Aug 14, 2015

Why Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy selfie would turn Titian on
Kardashian’s selfie is a hymn to the female body that harks back to the liberating portrayals of ample women in Renaissance and baroque art – and proves that ours is the most misogynist age in history

Oh, piss off.

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...12/kim-kardashian-pregnancy-selfie-titian-art

The Mitcher · Aug 14, 2015

The Guardian is just clickbait and Jessica Valenti types nowadays.

Silva · Aug 14, 2015

Yeah, women, go back to the 18th century, it's fine if you have another slice of cake there. Totally worth being treated like property and having few rights.

DOTA · Aug 14, 2015

The Mitcher said:
The Guardian is just clickbait and Jessica Valenti types nowadays.

For the love of everything... Just marry her.

Eboue · Aug 14, 2015

Mitch really hates Jessica Valenti. It's a weird obsession.

Silva · Aug 14, 2015

What's wrong with Valenti?

SteveJ · Aug 14, 2015

Eboue said:
Mitch really hates Jessica Valenti. It's a weird obsession.

According to the Guardian, it isn't an obsession: it's homage to the voyeuristic art of Felix Trutat.

DOTA · Aug 14, 2015

Silva said:
What's wrong with Valenti?

She has an appalling record on ethics in gaming journalism.

Silva · Aug 14, 2015

DiseaseOfTheAge said:
She has an appalling record on ethics in gaming journalism.

Oh man, I'm never going to stop finding that funny.

Kaos · Aug 14, 2015

They've just endorsed Yvette Cooper for the Labour leadership. Meltdown on their forums and facebook post :lol:

Mciahel Goodman · Aug 14, 2015

I hate the Guardian more than the Mail.

DOTA · Aug 14, 2015

Mciahel Goodman said:
I hate the Guardian more than the Mail.

That is rather 'People's front of Judea'.

Silva · Aug 14, 2015

Kaos said:
They've just endorsed Yvette Cooper for the Labour leadership. Meltdown on their forums and facebook post

I was taken aback when that popped up on facebook. They really don't know their audience do they?

Mciahel Goodman said:
I hate the Guardian more than the Mail.

why?

SteveJ · Aug 14, 2015

Silva said:
I was taken aback when that popped up on facebook. They really don't know their audience do they?

Nor do the Labour Party, it seems.

Kaos · Aug 14, 2015

Silva said:
I was taken aback when that popped up on facebook. They really don't know their audience do they?

Not for at least 5 years. I get the impression that they're trying to ramp up hits from the States, certainly explains why they've morphed into a poor Buzzfeed clone.

Mciahel Goodman · Aug 14, 2015

DiseaseOfTheAge said:
That is rather 'People's front of Judea'.

It is a bit.

Silva said:
why?

The Mail is more honest in its deception (a bit like the Tory party, you know what you're getting, and it's nasty, but you don't expect anything else) -- but both are terrible papers. The Snowden story was the only worthwhile thing they've done in years.

The Mitcher · Aug 14, 2015

DiseaseOfTheAge said:
For the love of everything... Just marry her.

Mciahel Goodman said:
It is a bit.

The Mail is more honest in its deception (a bit like the Tory party, you know what you're getting, and it's nasty, but you don't expect anything else) -- but both are terrible papers. The Snowden story was the only worthwhile thing they've done in years.

Err no.

Kaos · Aug 14, 2015

The Mail is actually entertaining if you approach it like a Goebbels satire act, The Guardian however now is nothing more than a shit clickbait site that poorly masquerades as a bonafide left-wing paper.

SteveJ · Aug 26, 2015

My mother, who hated cooking and would rather have been on the stage, would toil over an ancient gas stove...

For me, the associations of a roast dinner do not evoke pangs of hunger, but received memories of oppression and an enslaved work force.

The Guardian considers the evil of the sunday roast...though I suppose it should be 'The Guardian casts off the Morlockian shackles of Stalinesque spuds and sprouts':

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/25/sunday-roast-menu-head-to-head

Wibble · Aug 28, 2015

The Guardian may not be perfect but it is a shining light in a dark night of turds. The Australian version has been a revelation since it launched. Great journalism especially compared to the utter rubbish we are normally subjected to.

DOTA · Aug 28, 2015

Wibble said:
The Guardian may not be perfect but it is a shining light in a dark night of turds. The Australian version has been a revelation since it launched. Great journalism especially compared to the utter rubbish we are normally subjected to.

I slate it in the same way I slate my local anarchist pub. I expect better!

Jippy · Sep 10, 2015

Pity the white South African.

Being white in Africa is not the same, say, as being black in Europe. But the feeling of dislocation remains, the sense of somehow always being, on some small but important level, an outsider.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/10/white-in-africa-outsider

DOTA · Sep 10, 2015

His name appears to have switched from Patrick Garety to Pádraic MacOireachtaigh. He seems quite conflicted about identity.

Welsh Wonder · Sep 10, 2015

Kudos for having the most Irish name of all time Pádraic MacOireachtaigh

EDIT: Can't stop looking at his surname and reading it as MacOirish

utdalltheway · Sep 10, 2015

The Mitcher said:
The Guardian is just clickbait and Jessica Valenti types nowadays.

Agree about the clickbait. Pity they stoop to that level.

Keenst · Sep 10, 2015

Welsh Wonder said:
Kudos for having the most Irish name of all time Pádraic MacOireachtaig.

I lol'd.

SteveJ · Sep 18, 2015

PC gone mad:

I fell down inside the unisex changing rooms recently at the swimming pool and got my head stuck under one of the doors. Instead of helping me up, the young 'lady' inside complained to the attendant who in turn called the police without even asking my side of the accident. By the time I got back from the police station the whole sorry episode was on YouTube.

Mciahel Goodman · Sep 18, 2015

I fell down inside the unisex changing rooms recently at the swimming pool and got my head stuck under one of the doors.

SteveJ · Sep 18, 2015

Typically, I missed the satire in that reader's comment, and in the following:

You wouldn't see Clare Balding out in the streets at 2am, paralytic with drink squatting down with her knickers round her ankles, fag in mouth leaving a pool of urine and vomit in her wake before having unprotected intercourse with a string of men just so she can get pregnant and get a council house.

Ubik · Oct 9, 2015

Not directly Guardian related as she said it on the Daily Politics rather than in print, but Zoe Williams today defended those who spat in the faces of people attending the Tory conference recently, including at journalists just covering it. One of those journos, Owen Bennett, took umbrage with this, and she responded with this classic:

To which the best response is, as in many occasions:

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