apparently the former CBI president is Brian McBride, Graun pieces vmic
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
lol
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
The word you're looking for is 'shot'. https://t.co/Qiq9HxewgD— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) June 8, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 June 2023 08:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/11/labour-opposition-power-keir-starmer-party
Harris considers the possibility that KS might be authoritarian in power.
Along the way he naturally asserts that JC was similar.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 11 June 2023 11:45 (one year ago) link
absolutely insane paragraph to publish pic.twitter.com/CDVBF46jYF— Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor (@eff_hey) June 11, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 June 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
the gulag is too good for these
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2023 23:57 (one year ago) link
Say what you like about Hitler, at least he had rules
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 12 June 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
having statistical preferences when selecting one's victims hardly amounts to "having rules"
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 12 June 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
oh this pumper is the guy who wrote a book about how the Putin regime (unlike Western democracies where governments are transparent and honest as the day is long) use lies and misinformation to melt reality.
― calzino, Monday, 12 June 2023 06:12 (one year ago) link
There was another hysterical column in the Guardian about Russia/Ukraine a few days previously, real Russians have horns stuff.
― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Monday, 12 June 2023 06:38 (one year ago) link
It is amusing to see which comments the Guardian chooses to highlight under an article. Beneath Wurzel's latest offering the Guardian pick is
In opposition the Labour party has to face the hostility of the right wing press, the skepticism of the city, the lies of the brexiteers told over and over again to a worried electorate. If they need to be cold, cynical and paranoid in order to get the current shower out of office, that's fine by me.
― Piedie Gimbel, Monday, 12 June 2023 08:15 (one year ago) link
the selective myopia of GTTO never gets old for some people. If they have throw every vulnerable minority under a bus and starve disabled people to death to get this evil party out of office, then that'll do for me
― calzino, Monday, 12 June 2023 08:30 (one year ago) link
It is amusing to see which comments the Guardian chooses to highlight under an article.
I blame ILX poster Alba !!
― the pinefox, Monday, 12 June 2023 09:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/labour-tory-uncosted-policies-free-childcare-green-new-deal
ZW still thinks that the people in charge of Labour are good people.
"My happy place is to default back to the question: when will Labour realise that you cannot inspire voters by ceaselessly counselling caution? But you cannot consider that seriously without making a proper reckoning of how much the Conservatives have polluted the ecosystem of campaigning."
You have not made a reckoning of how Labour have polluted campaigning and public life.
"How does an opposition party meet that challenge? With secrecy? By floating decoy ideas? How do you insist on this fundamental difference between your parties, that you are sincere and they are not?"
They are not sincere.
If you think the people running Labour are good sincere people then you have not paid attention to anything they have said or done.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
abject nihilism, her and everybody still cheering for them
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
there is some half-hearted gentle criticism of Labour in there about their fiscal caution. But no mention of austerity because it doesn't exist any more to most Graun writers, apart from Aditya C I think.
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
This article was amended on 5 June 2023 to remove references to James Shackell’s jaffle maker being made of cast iron.
― ledge, Friday, 16 June 2023 09:57 (one year ago) link
'james shackell's jaffle maker' is an exquisite collection of sounds
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2023 10:41 (one year ago) link
Save yoga from Guardian writers.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/05/after-20-years-of-yoga-im-hanging-up-my-mat-for-good
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:13 (one year ago) link
It's probably v. horrible of me to laugh at this but the report on the aftermath of the Wimbledon school crash contains this amazing paragraph:
On Friday afternoon, a black-cab driver pulled up outside the school, stood quietly facing the scene for a few moments, said a few words to himself, then got back in his cab and drove away.
― NickB, Friday, 7 July 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
It's like something out of Maigret
― NickB, Friday, 7 July 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9ygs053.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 8 July 2023 16:17 (one year ago) link
Guardian writers to go ballistic.l over this.
This was always a cruel ruling based on bigotry. Much like the trans ban (though Caster Semenya isn’t trans). Forcing a cis woman to take drugs to compete, changing the rules only for her events. I hope she sues @WorldAthletics and Lord Coe. https://t.co/ziOwxAxt9D— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) July 11, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 13:39 (one year ago) link
Click on this link for a laugh:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/heatwave-floods-save-planet-children
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 10:37 (one year ago) link
No sense of how we mitigate climate collapse beyond Biden's name being mentioned at the bottom of this. Oh and the author has a book out.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 10:42 (one year ago) link
put a cork in Biden's piehole, that will cut down greenhouse gases! She doesn't seem to appreciate that the meteor might have delivered a blink of the eye coup de grace to the dinosaurs. But they would have noticed hundreds of thousands of years of climate change related wipeouts and volcanic ash carnage from the Deccan eruptions. It wasn't like they were having a dino party before the rock hit the bay of mexico - they were already deep into a mass extinction event. No I am not a top geo scientist, but I've namedropped Biden so this ill informed post will get published.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 11:35 (one year ago) link
Amused and impressed by Calzino's knowledge of Jurassic pre-history !
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 11:54 (one year ago) link
been a top dino expert since the age of 6. Then went through a period of being obsessed with mass extinctions in my 40's! But to be brutally honest I'm not an expert more of an idiot - but my point was that published writer in the Graun sounds like an idiot as well.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 12:24 (one year ago) link
I can't remember which book it was but the late Jurassic earth's climate was described as a "post-apocalyptic greenhouse". there weren't any "acceptance and reconstruction" options available like Gaia Vince is talking up - it was locked in and vast regions of the planet would become uninhabitable - same thing happening now. But yeah let's just embrace it.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 12:38 (one year ago) link
Wait, Gaia... did the planet Earth write this?
― the best minds of my generation destroyed by woke (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:13 (one year ago) link
Slightly more plausibly, is she anything to do with Dale Vince?
― the best minds of my generation destroyed by woke (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
holy shit
― imago, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
sadly not it seems
― imago, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
We’re really passing off a factual claim that a performance of The Wall was Nazism now? RFK Jr is bad enough as is, why this need for irrational hyperbole? It’s too broad of a pattern to be just one commentator’s misguided hot take isn’t it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/19/robert-kennedy-jr-racist-antisemitic-xenophobic-viewsEarlier this summer Kennedy touted a meeting with Ice Cube, a rapper who issued bizarre antisemitic tweets, and publicly defended musician Roger Waters, who was embroiled in controversy after donning a costume intended to evoke Nazi attire at a concert in Germany.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 11:06 (one year ago) link
As the son of former attorney general Robert Kennedy, and nephew of former president John F Kennedy, Kennedy has caused one of America’s most storied political dynasties with his toxic views.
Guardian sub-editors, never change
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 11:10 (one year ago) link
Guardian politics liveblog on by elections states:
Ian Dunt, the political commentator and author of the superb How Westminster Works … And Why It Doesn’t, has posted a good thread on Twitter arguing that what is really significant about the byelection results is what Uxbridge says about how easy it is to mobilise opposition to environmental measures.
Superb.
― the pinefox, Friday, 21 July 2023 07:19 (one year ago) link
It's also rubbish. The candidate did sing their tune.
oh word? https://t.co/WCiPQ6S0nW pic.twitter.com/hfjNkDFpZs— skibidi war OSINT guy (@ElonMusgraves) July 21, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 July 2023 09:24 (one year ago) link
"we gotta be more ecofascist" -- Labour 'strategist'
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 July 2023 09:25 (one year ago) link
I know I know, Toynbee, but nonetheless *retch*
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/21/misery-sunak-glee-davey-joy-starmer-our-panel-byelection-results
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 21 July 2023 09:25 (one year ago) link
Thought this was hilariously bad from Gaby. Burning bodies can't vote.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/20/green-revolution-cost-of-living-crisis-heat-pump-car
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 July 2023 10:18 (one year ago) link
Sure, but the Tories are betting that right up until the bodies catch fire, they can be persuaded to vote against their interests, and I'm not sure they're wrong.
The article's main point seems solid - "go green but pay for it yourself" is a canny way for them to pay lip service and shift the blame.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 21 July 2023 12:38 (one year ago) link
This is the main headline today. What a disaster that focus groups have dominated our politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/29/i-realise-how-serious-it-is-voters-in-england-support-action-on-climate-crisis
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 29 July 2023 09:33 (one year ago) link
Telling ppl 'no you can't have your square metal box you cunt' is going to turn out really badly for all of us.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 29 July 2023 09:34 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/03/sheryl-crows-20-greatest-songs-ranked
― the pinefox, Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
What the world has been crying out for.
― Continuous Two-Tone Warble (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
lol i wonder if the writer watched the same totp rerun I did
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
I feel like maybe 20 songs is too much for anybody, just pick a tight karaoke 3
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
20 songs is just "I really enjoy this artist's work, listen to all of it"
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 August 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
Observer article written by a Spectator editor contains the statement that KS
"will benefit from leading a party that tends to see criticism of the leader as deeply disloyal".
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/13/keir-starmer-gender-politics-labour
― the pinefox, Monday, 14 August 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
Isabel Hardman is a Vichy white feminist who married a sex pest; what are the rights of the women who accused her partner of this, only to see him leave the Labour Party to escape tribunal? How did they feel when that little fucker got ennobled by Boris Johnson (who has been shamelessly cruel to the women he’s been through)on top of that? And if she’s given frank feedback about this in public, how long before she cries abuse?
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 14 August 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link