a putney
http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/vcs3.jpg
― zappi, Monday, 3 September 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
so called because they were made in putney (not far from you actually, there's a website that gives the actual address of the place they used to make them, cottage industry style, deodor road, sw15).
http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/snaps/everynun.jpg
― koogs, Monday, 3 September 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Hang on a second, I went to primary school at 49 Deodar Road!!
― Mark C, Monday, 3 September 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, I didn't, it was 95-97 Deodar Road (since moved). My best friend at the time lived at 50 Deodar Road, though.
― Mark C, Monday, 3 September 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I've got a Synthi t-shirt but my god, I want a t-shirt with that nun on it.
― Masonic Boom, Monday, 3 September 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
I am currently wearing a T-ahirt of a band that I saw live but didn't like much. It's a pretty design and the band aren't well known enough for many people to even know it's a band T-shirt.
I have had it on since yesterday so should probably take it off soon.
― Alba, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
what's the band?
― blueski, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Skrewdriver
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Ha. A Swedish indiepop band called Aerospace.
― Alba, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link
good name/word for t-shirt
― blueski, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
i am wearing my robyn t-shirt today!
message for all youse: "i am a 'top 5' kind of person"
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
back to the guardian...
has anyone else had problems viewing the site this week? nothing (that i know of) has changed on my computer and suddenly instead of a nice clean page, i have just text and links, all in the same size New York font. (and the Guardian is the only place this is true, so I feel like they must have changed something).
― mitya, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 06:40 (seventeen years ago) link
the GUARDIAN is good, second only to the BBC
― Heave Ho, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 08:42 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
yes. chinese hackers innit.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Today's free thing: a cut out and assemble yourself model of the Empire State Building.
― caek, Saturday, 20 October 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
So in answer to the question, no, apart from the lower case 'g' on the new masthead.
2pm (now playing: Mark Kozelek moaning about some shit):
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2411/1654704013_f0762c363d.jpg
3.30pm (now playing: Happy End, much better):
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2354/1655585806_e112b84d31.jpg
This is really tedious but I have to finish. It's about to get very fiddly. I need a cup of tea. World's shittiest liveblog.
― caek, Saturday, 20 October 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2354/1655585806_9ee35fe917.jpg
― caek, Saturday, 20 October 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
7pm:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2229/1657319085_039a52afe6.jpg
It's like my time has no value to me.
― caek, Saturday, 20 October 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
This strikes me as a noble way to pass it, though.
― Matt, Saturday, 20 October 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2190/1714521192_2c763aaa31.jpg
I win again!
― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ruth_fowler/2008/03/the_antichrist_for_feminists.html
A+++++++++ trolling well done guardian u win
― banriquit, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I stood on the edge of that enormous comments thread with a sense of trepidation I haven't felt since standing on the edge of the top diving board at the swimming pool aged nine. And then decided to walk back down the virtual ladder, straight back into the changing room, and back home.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Ruth Fowler was born in 1979 and grew up in the mountains of North Wales. She received a first class BA (Hons) in English Literature from Cambridge University in 2000. She is sure they let her in as the token comprehensive school northerner.
After a year teaching in Buenos Aires and three months in India, she returned to King’s College, Cambridge to complete an MPhil. However, realising that she would rather be living life than reading about it, she finished her thesis on Bollywood films within six months and went to live in Nepal.
Post-Nepal, she travelled the world eking out a living from writing, teaching, sailing, cooking and begging. Ruth lived in Argentina, the South of France, the Alps, Florida, the Caribbean and Central America before finding herself in New York in January 2005, penniless and without a visa.
She has worked as a stripper in Manhattan and London, and her book, No Man's Land - about " the murky territory where eroticism and commerce collide" - is due to be published in the UK in June.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
This is a made-up character, right?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/images/characters_cast/characters/ruth_f/ruth_fowler_large_1.jpg
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
"But Mark, we cann'ae afford it!"
― Matt DC, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Man, Eastenders was my shit back in 98/99.
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
According to Mark's speech to Sharon in his last episode, he only had sex with Ruth once or maybe twice in the course of their whole marriage. No wonder she played away with that rubbish Irish lothario.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
This reminds me of many articles about people who have done all right and would like to justify their wealth to people who haven't done all right. I'm not sure what the purpose of such articles is, unless it is for some form of...validation?
― laxalt, Monday, 31 March 2008 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Ruth Fowler: she made a g today, but she made it in a sleazy way.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
quality shit:
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/1603/hadleydv9.png
― banriquit, Monday, 31 March 2008 08:48 (sixteen years ago) link
The article was a bit TL;DR, the bits I read, the writer's style/manner was too annoying to concentrate on what she was on about "working class scouser, me, call a spade a spade, like" seemed to be the gist of it?
― Pashmina, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:22 (sixteen years ago) link
My father, a right-wing scouser
AKA scum of the earth
― Tom D., Monday, 31 March 2008 09:24 (sixteen years ago) link
key line:
I started to think of feminism more when what I was doing in life became unconditionally anti-feminist. I was grinding cock for a living in a strip club, getting my tits out - c'mon, there's no way around it. I was even more the antichrist for feminists. And suddenly I was heralded as a Messiah for Modern Women!
by?
also lols at blog: that famous, pre-9/11, NYC skyline...
― banriquit, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"working class scouser, me, call a spade a spade, like"
-- Pashmina, Monday, March 31, 2008 9:22 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Julie Birchill RIP
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Max Gogarty
― Tom D., Monday, 31 March 2008 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
It's weird she mentions her father so much because you wouldn't have thought someone who worked in the sex industries would have any issues that way.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Roffle.
I tried to read the entire article, couldn't make it through it, it is really very badly written.
I got the impression that if you met the writer IRL, they'd be really boring and whiny.
Also, I hate this steez "I am really stupid and obnoxious and full of shit, and I'm going to rub your face in it because I think that makes me more "real"/"interesting"/"whatever"(::rollseyes.gif::) than you, little person"
Yes, the Guardian is much worse than it used to be. Kind of like CH4, really.
― Pashmina, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:33 (sixteen years ago) link
If you could buy it without G2 or any of the supplements, it might concievably be worth picking up again.
― Pashmina, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Have you considered just throwing G2 away or burning it or never bothering to ever read it?
― Matt DC, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Careful there Pash, she'll get her father on to you (xxp)
― Tom D., Monday, 31 March 2008 09:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think there's a newspaper that wouldn't be improved by removing the lifestyle supplements and the columnists. Except The Sun of course, a paper without real talking man of the people Gaunty is like a month without sunshine.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey! But then you'd miss out on that excellent crossword!
I only get it on Saturdays, mainly for the Review. And that crossword.
― Masonic Boom, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Araucaria's the only real crossword dude on there, the rest of them used to be suck.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:38 (sixteen years ago) link
(Apologies if this has changed in the last 5 years or however long it's been)
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:39 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Matt DC, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:35 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
I think I've mentioned a couple of times, I buy it once or twice a week on the way home, Jill likes to do the crossword. I never read it, it's too boring, too London/Westminster-orientated, too media-covering-the-media-ish, like a lot of former "quality" media - everyone they ever do a vox pop on seems to be a "journalist and a broadcaster" I don't think Jill ever reads it much either, she's a bbc news website addict.
― Pashmina, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:42 (sixteen years ago) link
The Age and SMH are Australia's equivalent to the Guardian, and you'll all be pleased to know that they've gone to shit in exactly the same way.
xp I'm not surprised, it's probably the closest thing to proper news outside The Independent.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
everyone they ever do a vox pop on seems to be a "journalist and a broadcaster"
This is because what happens is the hack writes a piece, and it's shit because it's something they don't care about like a new dating service that instead of normal speed dating uses chilli cook offs. Then the editor will come back to the hack and say "We need some quotes on this", so the hack goes to their MSN Messenger and asks the first five people online what they think of this. So then you have "Peter Peterson, a freelance journalist, doesn't see the appeal of chili dating: 'What is this rubbish?", he quipped"
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
'left wing' paper yet again with "I'm All Right Jack" piece. next week, "Let them Eat Cake: Now I make a good living, I don't believe in redistribution of wealth".
― laxalt, Monday, 31 March 2008 09:50 (sixteen years ago) link