Liam Hogan, btw, has written more incisive critiques of fascism past and present on Twitter than the Graun & Observer both have managed in years of publication.
| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| It benefits the far-right if Nazi Germany is viewed as an anomalous outlier rather than an ethno-nationalist model |___________| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / づ#HistorianSignBunny— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) July 14, 2018
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
good stuff
one of the many, many pieces of evidence i will cite when we gulag every last fucking melt is that Lineker's tweet was very carefully worded, deliberately or not, and didn't in fact say any of the stuff that the commentariat has been knocking him for
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/21/i-learned-a-lot-from-making-kimchi-about-fermented-shrimp-and-about-myself
I learned a lot from making kimchi – about fermented shrimp, and about myself
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:09 (one year ago) link
and you can go free swimming to catch shrimp!
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 11:27 (one year ago) link
Something very funny about this headline making him sound like a free speech basement dweller when the videos are actually thoroughly lovely and just half an hour of him waxing lyrical about the music he loves. pic.twitter.com/gyDTSPiHeJ— Nick Reilly (@NickJWReilly) March 19, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 13:06 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/mar/23/youve-never-eaten-a-banana-10-writers-face-their-fiercest-and-strangest-food-fears
Very long set of articles on food.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:38 (one year ago) link
Taste's very strange!
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:39 (one year ago) link
Always hated articles where the journalist goes and does something purely in order to write about it, esp. if accompanied by a photo of said journo pulling a face.
― fetter, Thursday, 23 March 2023 11:46 (one year ago) link
You mean like John Harris interviewing working class people to see how much they hate Jeremy Corbyn?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 March 2023 11:51 (one year ago) link
Imagine this being your personality.
― limb tins & cum (gyac), Thursday, 23 March 2023 11:58 (one year ago) link
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/df4b7b345c7dceca04aeb27192a8ae627f2f9acd/0_0_2560_1536/master/2560.jpg?width=965&quality=45&dpr=2&s=none
Tim fucking Dowling was always doing this and his shtick is already annoying enough
― calzino, Thursday, 23 March 2023 12:07 (one year ago) link
Except that time someone from a music magazine (Q? Mojo? Uncut?) spent three days sitting in a pub recording everything anyone played on the jukebox and went slowly mad from all the times people played 'Stairway to Heaven', which remains classic.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:31 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/04/carol-vorderman-60s-renaissance-political-hero
Uncool liberal beliefs.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 09:33 (one year ago) link
But if she doesn’t have power, a woman like Vorderman undeniably does wield influence
This is undeniably utter tosh.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 09:37 (one year ago) link
she wields influence in the "constantly trying to sucker people into taking on debt" community
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 09:42 (one year ago) link
this is one of those idiot "fantasy cabinet featuring Richard Osman, Gary Lineker etc" tweets except Gaby got paid for it
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 09:44 (one year ago) link
to get onto the Countdown crew requires MI5 vetting, no commies allowed!
― calzino, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 10:05 (one year ago) link
Might be remembering this wrong but pretty certain she was pretty close to calling for a mass anti-paedo vigilante movement in the tabloids around the turn of the millennium.— Samplo Corvodina (@TreborRhurbarb) April 4, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
maybe they don't allow comments on obituaries as a matter of course and made a mistake here, but I and three other people left comments about nigel lawson's climate denialism. they were all deleted and comments now disabled.
― ledge, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/apr/08/the-indian-premier-league-is-a-brilliant-thing-but-is-killing-test-cricket
"What we have here is managed decline, Test cricket treated like the block of flats the local council allows to decay until finally it has all the excuses it needs to cut its losses and pull the whole thing down."
This analogy is so melty and doesn't work. Really hate him.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 April 2023 12:20 (one year ago) link
IPL and Tests have coincided perfectly, even symbiotically. 50-over stuff is the victim, if there is one. The Hundred is far more pernicious an attempt to shift the game's emphases
― imago, Saturday, 8 April 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
I suppose you could make an argument that the perma-calendar of different nations' Premier Leagues is getting a bit much, but if anything they're diluting each others' brands, especially when they overlap. Test players are still playing Tests
― imago, Saturday, 8 April 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
Test cricket is going down if that schedule is anything to go by. The reason is that the shorter forms (beginning with 50) have been the more popular form of it in the sub-continent for a long time. People have not been turning up for tests over there in any kind of numbers. And there would've been more money going into Tests if that was the case.
It's hardly like Labour and Tories combining to destroy council stock.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 April 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
had this convo the other day, i can see less Tests and fewer Test nations in the future but i don't see any sensible fix to reverse that
― zing me with your best zhot (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 April 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
That illustration is pretty suspect, the GIANT INDIAN MAN IN HIS COLOURFUL CLOTHES is dwarfing the quiet pale English cricketer in his traditional whites
― limb tins & cum (gyac), Saturday, 8 April 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
I guess a problem is length of Test series. You're lucky to get 3 in a series most of the time now, unless it's between the Big Three
― imago, Saturday, 8 April 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/09/sunday-with-kelly-jones-head-to-the-park-to-run-the-kids-out-then-pick-up-a-chicken
Rocker Kelly Jones describes a typical Sunday.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
meat and potatoes, oh the irony
― zing me with your best zhot (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
even Shakin' Stevens was never that dull
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
Shakey dull? Never!
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
Kelly Jones from the Superspreadeophonics?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link
My late cousin hung onto her maiden name because she didn’t want to be Kelly Jones.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
I read this on Facebook and feel like it deserves reposting here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/11/colin-from-accounts-review-at-last-a-female-character-thats-not-a-stereotype
I don’t think this author has seen a sitcom in the past 20 years based off of this review
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
it's so bad, just everything about it
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
I couldn't get past the first sentence tbh.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
sounds like classic Mangan
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 22:00 (one year ago) link
Agree with Tom D.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 13 April 2023 08:54 (one year ago) link
Then?We’ll head to the park to run the kids out, then I’ll pop in the butchers and pick up a chicken. Later, stick the veg on, Jakki does the roast potatoes, I’ll do the Yorkshire puddings.
We’ll head to the park to run the kids out, then I’ll pop in the butchers and pick up a chicken. Later, stick the veg on, Jakki does the roast potatoes, I’ll do the Yorkshire puddings.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 13 April 2023 08:55 (one year ago) link
If anyone says "stick the veg on" in my physical presence I am not responsible for my actions
That includes you, Jamie Oliver
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 13 April 2023 09:14 (one year ago) link
there is a scene in the Altman Van Gogh movie where Gaugin is using a food analogy (cooking is like painting sort of thing) to intimate Van G's painting style lacked flair and imagination, like his shit cooking - or roughly something like that, obv his character was wrong in this case. But with this dullard, that would be a correct dis to make. You'd get more appetising food in a prison than in this boring cunt's house!
― calzino, Thursday, 13 April 2023 09:17 (one year ago) link
Calzino at his best.
Strikes me that 'inner life of Kelly Jones' would be a step down even from ILX's dull 'inner life of Noel Gallagher'.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 13 April 2023 09:20 (one year ago) link
"stick the veg on" makes me think "I am consuming the mandatory number of portions of vegetables until the day scientists come up with a pill to replace them"
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 13 April 2023 09:28 (one year ago) link
confident I could've predicted Kelly Jones having a son named Marley
― or something, Thursday, 13 April 2023 09:45 (one year ago) link
people sure love that dog
― zing me with your best zhot (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 April 2023 09:48 (one year ago) link
Calling your son Marley vs. calling your son Lennon. I suppose they should be grateful they weren't called Clapton.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 April 2023 09:52 (one year ago) link
It’s probably cos I’m into baseball now and am watching fellas called absurd things like Dansby, Kutter and Jeter (first name), but I’d take a nice honest Lennon or even a Clapton tbh
― limb tins & cum (gyac), Thursday, 13 April 2023 09:59 (one year ago) link
Calzino at his best.Strikes me that 'inner life of Kelly Jones' would be a step down even from ILX's dull 'inner life of Noel Gallagher'.
― limb tins & cum (gyac), Thursday, 13 April 2023 10:00 (one year ago) link
My daughter has been to K Jones's house! Apparently, it is MASSIVE. School pals. I think she'll get a kick out of that article. She revels in the absurdity and boringness of All Dads.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 13 April 2023 10:23 (one year ago) link
"In lockdown, when everybody walked the Earth, it niggled me again."
― the pinefox, Thursday, 13 April 2023 10:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/12/banished-to-boomer-island-tales-of-a-menopausal-gen-xer-for-hire
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 13 April 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link