http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ruth_fowler/2008/04/club_rules.html
^^this broad really is pisspoor.
― banriquit, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Haven't we already done this one somewhere else?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I think its a different, althought very similar piece.
I don't think I've seen so many strawmen in one place before. Who on earth are these people?
― laxalt, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
A month or so ago I phoned up the Guardian and told them that Julie Burchill only had eight weeks to live, and that everyone in the media was frantically trying to find a replacement.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
sounds plausible. jules could write, was the thing.
― banriquit, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
She's not dead yet, don't try and rob her of those precious last four weeks!
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 11:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Ruth Fowler deserves some respect for discovering this exciting new development.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you know she went to Cambridge?
― Neil S, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess what's funnier is the self-flagellation of the Graun for printing her.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you know she went to Cambridge.
Cue standard gag re. getting beaten by Kidderminster Harriers 4-1.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
And yet amazingly she also worked as a stripper!
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Gotta top up those grants somehow.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe we should have a few weeks where we pick on a different broadsheet. This shit's embarrasing--like making fun of a retarded kid.
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
troo.
torygraph?
― banriquit, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
You've gotta work your way up to that shit, start with the Times.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Damian Thompson's blog looks like a fertile source of OW MY HEAD
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Times is even more of a joke than Guardian though?
― laxalt, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Interests of balance tho.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
That's why The Times is a good starting point. Maybe the Indy as well but yeah political balance and shit. The Torygraph is more solid across the board but when they decide to be ridiculous they top everyone.
I give 'Comment Is Free' about a year, tops. Until the 'ooh blogging, how modern!' thing finally dies down and they realise they're just paying shit journalists for no reason and lacerating their brand in the process.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ i really hope so. this will sound ridic and precious, but stuff like the thing i linked to does actively put me off.
i give daily enrique links to the guardian about a year, tops.
― banriquit, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
OTM.
Glad that Times thread has started, let's do that for a few weeks.
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a game of opinions
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2008/05/it_was_while_watching_the.html
― Frogman Henry, Saturday, 24 May 2008 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/27/religion
^^ this is guy is a choad.
― banriquit, Saturday, 21 June 2008 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link
united states independent music lovers:pitchfork media::british:guardian
― strgn, Saturday, 21 June 2008 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish there was a last call for internet connections
― strgn, Saturday, 21 June 2008 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
This picture is eminently punchable http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/site_imagery/george_monbiot_140x140.jpg
― jim, Saturday, 21 June 2008 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
What other "militant atheists" support the war in Iraq apart from Christopher Hitchens? That article is strawmannery gone mad.
― Bodrick III, Saturday, 21 June 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
particularly since iraq was a secular state. the paleo-conservative irony is that the war has created a space for religious nutjobs to win real victories; how anyone could see that as 'progressive' i don't know.
― banriquit, Saturday, 21 June 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think Milne is terrible, historically - but I think I disagree with him about religion. for those of us who do not believe in god or gods, it would surely seem hypocritical to look to religion for our progressive salvation etc.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, it's a cynical case, in a way? 'I don't agree with these people's most fundamental beliefs but they seem useful right now'?
― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
and that's assuming that they are indeed useful
Today Richard Williams said, of last night's game, "a headed goal for each side" or something to that effect.
Is it really too much to ask for someone to actually have seen the game? Not least when he's their supposed "expert".
― Ronan, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
^ roffle
― Frogman Henry, Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Kevin McCarra's an idiot too.
― Neil S, Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't mind McCarra that much, I have to say can't stand Williams tho. Just standard aged meanderings.
― Ronan, Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Williams gets wheeled out for a whole range of different subjects as well. Manages to be a bore about football, music, art, whatever really.
― Neil S, Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah same views on every single subject
― Ronan, Saturday, 21 June 2008 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/09/guardian.jpg
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, 10 July 2008 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
1 2
― DG, Thursday, 10 July 2008 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link
ability to operate in a sensitive political environment
Lord Dixon Smith better not apply then.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Those BNP jobs are subject to Equal Opportunities legislation.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Only applicants so far... http://www.londonclasswar.org/images/scumbag.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Might submit a CV that just says "i'm white btw"
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I have black friends. I work hard pay my taxes and dont commit crime. I would have hated the Nazis if I had been around in those days. And I vote BNP.
So Mr Smug Liberal journalist, your point is what exactly?
Posted by: Mark Greenwood | 10 Jul 2008 20:48:42
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Once again, it's one standard for black people and another standard for fucking idiots like myself. Get a grip, Gordon.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Which scruffy £2.75 per hour 19-year-old basement assistant didn't double check the ad vetting then?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
(Prominent ILX poster's name deleted)
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
That's why The Times is a good starting point. Maybe the Indy as well but yeah political balance and shit. The Torygraph is more solid across the board but when they decide to be ridiculous they top everyone If you're going to be a bastard at least be straight about it like those darlings at the Metro or The Daily Hate Mail. I've said it before and I'll say it again, at least The Times is upfront about its fuckery. Also I think my hatred spewed over into 'wanting vengence' when they hired Peaches Geldof briefly. I swear my eyes rolled back into my head. That was the end for me.
ability to operate in a sensitive political environment Lol at 'choice phrasing'
Posted by: Mark Greenwood | 10 Jul 2008 20:48:42 EXTRA lol. How does he explain that one to his many ethnic friends?
― VeronaInTheClub, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, if you're going to have right wing keech and tollie then at least the Times is honest right wing keech and tollie.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, this job has is no longer live. You may be interested in the similar jobs listed on the right.
oh they're on the right alright do you see
― DG, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link