The more you hate muslims the less anti semitic u are, thems the rules
― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:26 (eleven months ago) link
lol oh guardianpaws
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 10:43 (ten months ago) link
The Guardian@guardianPeople in Gaza: how have you been affected by the Israel-Hamas war?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 11:25 (ten months ago) link
never let it be said the grauniad is afraid to ask the hard questions
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 11:43 (ten months ago) link
"I don't really watch the news, but the explosions are frightening my cat which is annoying"
― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 12:25 (ten months ago) link
"the real issue is does the IDF know what a woman is?"
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 12:59 (ten months ago) link
Oh dear...
The Guardian took down a letter written by Osama Bin Laden because people on TikTok were discussing how he correctly blamed America for its role in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by arming IsraelThe document was there for 20 + years. They removed it today. pic.twitter.com/35QTfh0FYA— شبير (@abolishnato) November 15, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 23:15 (ten months ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eeEyVZiVW_M/hqdefault.jpg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 23:25 (ten months ago) link
as has been pointed out elsewhere, still available at that seditious fifth column The Office of the Director of National Intelligence here
― Fizzles, Thursday, 16 November 2023 08:14 (ten months ago) link
let's face it, OBL wrote much less offensive and less bigoted hottakes than Sonia Sodha tbf
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 16 November 2023 08:25 (ten months ago) link
Giving Dorries an interview, fuck off
― nashwan, Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:20 (ten months ago) link
So they've shitcanned Steve Bell for, er, this
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4adb62a2af56178716a047868623926806fd03fd/0_45_4803_2882/master/4803.jpg?width=700&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a09263e9f14a48da6cd4564411571f9c
― The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:39 (ten months ago) link
(aware that Steve Bell splits opinion here, but fucking hell)
― The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:40 (ten months ago) link
you gotta be kidding
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:41 (ten months ago) link
I thought it was a bit as well! But it's from Monday. As far as I can tell, it went out in the printed paper (maybe on Tuesday)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/guardian-comment-cartoon
― The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:43 (ten months ago) link
lol this is gonna be somebody's kid again
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:44 (ten months ago) link
yeah never mind the “joke” why is the art style so childishly terrible? is this deliberate? i honestly am confused by this
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:46 (ten months ago) link
He says he has now been dropped. ‘It is getting pretty nigh impossible to draw this subject for the Guardian now without being accused of deploying antisemitic tropes,’ he said. This is part of a wider trend.Bell’s intended reference was not Shylock’s pound of flesh but Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam. You can read the words ‘After David Levine’ on Bell’s cartoon, a reference to the cartoonist whose work was synonymous with the New York Review of Books. In 1966, LBJ posed for the cameras, revealing a foot-long scar from gall bladder surgery. Levine satirised this, depicting the mark with a Vietnam-shaped scar, a defining physical mark engrained on the man. It was one of his most famous cartoons...
Bell’s intended reference was not Shylock’s pound of flesh but Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam. You can read the words ‘After David Levine’ on Bell’s cartoon, a reference to the cartoonist whose work was synonymous with the New York Review of Books. In 1966, LBJ posed for the cameras, revealing a foot-long scar from gall bladder surgery. Levine satirised this, depicting the mark with a Vietnam-shaped scar, a defining physical mark engrained on the man. It was one of his most famous cartoons...
I'd completely missed that Bell had been pumped, bold move to replace him with a 16 yr old kid on a work experience placement
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:49 (ten months ago) link
GCSE students are capable of better work than that!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 November 2023 12:24 (ten months ago) link
What the fuck is going on with that letterbox?
― crisp, Thursday, 16 November 2023 12:33 (ten months ago) link
The guardians next cartoon?
https://www.bing.com/images/create/political-cartoon-about-british-lawmakers-losing-t/65565b561a554a1895684e28987e370e?id=QX6XkZzRVzOO4Zb11FwCtw%3d%3d&view=detailv2&idpp=genimg&FORM=GCRIDP&mode=overlay
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:14 (ten months ago) link
ai always seems to have trouble with flags (our flag specifically)
― koogs, Friday, 17 November 2023 15:30 (ten months ago) link
This is the usual terrible rubbish but the correction at the end made me lol:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/17/so-sorry-celebrities-but-you-should-take-a-tip-from-emily-blunt-before-you-offer-an-insincere-apology
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 November 2023 19:53 (ten months ago) link
Australian Graun writers are mostly awful. If I click on one by accident it’s not long before I click off.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:00 (ten months ago) link
The guardian always guilting you into giving them money
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:23 (ten months ago) link
At least the Australian writers don’t hate trans people.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:10 (ten months ago) link
Yup, there is that.
I would only ever go to The Guardian when someone links to it on twitter or here. Over the years, it's become more and more of a window into liberals that vote like shit, lose their minds over moral panics, are constantly afraid their well off lives will end because "populism", "cancel culture" etc.
I would just never go to it for the writing.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 November 2023 11:50 (ten months ago) link
will happily take the generally-pretty-decent guardian au, banal opinion writers and all, over the horrors of the uk edition
― ufo, Saturday, 18 November 2023 12:51 (ten months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/24/two-landlords-on-the-broken-property-rental-market
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 November 2023 13:52 (ten months ago) link
^ this is utter, bloody rubbish. Who does The Guardian think they are fooling?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 November 2023 13:53 (ten months ago) link
Another fail in the S0nia S0dh@ game - hate-read her latest column and try to predict in which paragraph the ant-trans bigotry will begin. My guess? Paragraph 5. The reality? Paragraph 7. Bah! One of these days I'll get it.
― sophie glanced up, looking concerned (Matt #2), Sunday, 26 November 2023 12:17 (ten months ago) link
I didn’t expect to read such a powerful piece in the Guardian of all places, but here’s Eva Wiseman
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Sunday, 26 November 2023 12:48 (ten months ago) link
Appreciate her criticising the phoneys behind antisemitism.org (enjoy your march today with Douglas Murray and Yaxley-Lennon) and hope for more.
― nashwan, Sunday, 26 November 2023 13:36 (ten months ago) link
tbf Yaxley-Lennon has just been physically removed from the march by the police because the organizers didn't want him there.
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 November 2023 14:11 (ten months ago) link
Captain-Save-The Nazis Murray is still there of course, I assume.
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 November 2023 14:15 (ten months ago) link
Wearing a blue shirt and dark raincoat, Boris Johnson was spotted talking to demonstrators who had come together in the UK's capital.He joined other celebrities who attended on Sunday, including Tracy-Ann Oberman, Rachel Riley and Robert Rinder .
He joined other celebrities who attended on Sunday, including Tracy-Ann Oberman, Rachel Riley and Robert Rinder .
the only anti-racism march that Boris Johnson attends
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 26 November 2023 14:34 (ten months ago) link
Twitter might die and I know many of you will celebrate but I am not looking to consuming this rubbish.
Ah, Howard Jacobson returns. Let's look back on his interview with Spike Lee pic.twitter.com/IwOZaajyzQ— Ashley Clark (@_Ash_Clark) December 3, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 December 2023 19:05 (ten months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/09/diana-rigg-assisted-dying-rachael-stirling-mother-cancer
There were a few bits of this that felt like being punched in the gut, but I'm glad I read it
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 9 December 2023 23:35 (nine months ago) link
xp I remember there being a decade or so between my becoming aware of Jacobson and assuming he was some sort of important public intellectual and my actually reading something he'd written
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 10 December 2023 00:58 (nine months ago) link
he had regular R4 short slot called a point of view, where he'd say things like: Woman that talk about and critique the patriarchy, whether they like it or not, it just sound like naive student politics to me and they need to grow up. That kind of public intellectual.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 10 December 2023 09:03 (nine months ago) link
A Point Of View is an interesting mix of commentators, some good, some bad, some appalling, some tedious.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 10 December 2023 09:08 (nine months ago) link
yeah I seem to have forgot it wasn't his show and he was just a frequently returning host
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 10 December 2023 09:10 (nine months ago) link
as we're on the guardian thread, did you see this today?https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/10/its-chaos-ruined-plans-lost-hours-at-uks-worst-station-for-cancelled-trains
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 10 December 2023 09:15 (nine months ago) link
wow they are rebuilding the dilapidated Ravensthorpe station - that is about 30 years too late! I used to have to commute on the transpennine express route, it's not just Hudds travellers that are long suffering. Even 15 years ago on many occasions I'd be sat on the platform for 45 minutes as a train got delayed and delayed, the running late minutes getting even later updates every 10 minutes. And then I'd end up losing a day's work after arriving at the station at 5.50 am.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 10 December 2023 09:25 (nine months ago) link
there is a large newbuild homes site on a field just across the road from Ravensthorpe station, which is probably one reason why they've found some funding to make it a station. It was always quite ridic there wasn't an extra 2 platforms because the Wakefield line runs right next to it.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 10 December 2023 10:02 (nine months ago) link
I used to see Brabin at Hudds station on the regular and she'd get on the same clunky pacer train towards Batley as me. This was when she used to be "her that used to be on Corrie" rather than a Labour Party melt/metropolitan mayor.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 10 December 2023 10:13 (nine months ago) link
the one time I got the train to Huddersfield I was astonished at how clunky and old and slow the train was, and this was the spring of 1999.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 10 December 2023 10:30 (nine months ago) link
the pacer train from Sheffield to Hudds takes longer than Leeds to London, well I haven't checked this tbh - but it certainly feels longer!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 10 December 2023 10:54 (nine months ago) link
it really does. drags itself between stations.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 10 December 2023 15:01 (nine months ago) link
but of course you are sitting on a bus on rails.