alt.guardian.die.die.die

[Twit 2]

How about mass prancing?

Sign me up.

[Buelligan]

Something to keep in mind, a couple of things really, we sit in our relative poverty - I was just examining mine - I am not being physically attacked, there is no war here, I have clean water to drink and wash in, I can afford to eat and there is good food to buy (and be given), my surroundings are beautiful, I can speak my brain and get almost enough rest.  I am rich compared with most humans (and animals).  Just as those with power, privilege and wealth above me should stand up for my rights, just as they oppress me with their indifference and complacency, in my position of relative exploitation and poverty[nb]I can't go on holiday or buy new things or have a vehicle, I have to ration my water and power use, I work harder than is good for my health and have very little free time, things like sick days or dental care are not in my world, I never "go" anywhere or have anything those people would consider luxurious or even, maybe, normal[/nb], I owe it to all those whose suffering and want is far greater than mine, to fight, not just stand up from time to time but actively push, sacrifice, to help them.

I think, maybe, a fair bit of the stamping down on Corbs was to do with this.  Preventing this.  It tied in with stuff like the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, stuff that ordinary little cogs can do that really can pull down giant oppressive parts of the system.  We all need to remember, maybe all the misinformation and Sarkovian misdirection is too much for us, with our small facility and spare time allowance, to find our way through.  That may well be true.  But we can make simple choices, which, with our numbers, become landslides that change the world.  And we must do it, whether they destroy our leaders and our movements or not, we must continue to make choices that undermine and force positive change on, the system at every opportunity.  Every single minute of our existence we must do this.  This is the primary directive.

[Twit 2]

All good points. Sadly, it seems only a minority think and act like this. The majority are indifferent or cunts. They'll win, it's numbers. Apocalypse.

[BlodwynPig]

Prance Boy Prance

[thenoise]

I think even the most well-meaning posh cunt is simply incapable of grasping just what life is like for those of us in the serf class, and this can make them seem patronising and out of touch, even if they do ostensibly care for the less well off. The chai tea drinking, socially concerned liberal Guardian readers and the ex-army hang-em-and-flog-em Telegraph readers are often living next door to each other in the same streets in the same gentrified areas.

I think that sense of entitlement, that arrogance that comes from a privileged upbringing - even an unhappy one - never leaves people. If they end up living on the streets they are the ones who ask for fifty quid. Or they will assume some kind of leadership role among their fellow homeless, who are too working class guv to object.

[BlodwynPig]

I think that sense of entitlement, that arrogance that comes from a privileged upbringing - even an unhappy one - never leaves people. If they end up living on the streets they are the ones who ask for fifty quid. Or they will assume some kind of leadership role among their fellow homeless, who are too working class guv to object.

"Excuse me, do you perhaps have a 1993 Chardonnay to go with this pea soup?"

[Buelligan]

I think you'll find that's pee soup, Sir.  May I suggest a Sauvignon Blanc?

[BlodwynPig]

I think you'll find that's pee soup, Sir.  May I suggest a Sauvignon Blanc?

You know, you're absolutely right Jemima

[falafel]

"Excuse me, do you perhaps have a 1993 Chardonnay to go with this pea soup?"

1993 Chardonnay
I read The Guardian
Drown me

[pcsjwgm]

https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1325015633692647430

The title of the article is now "Child labour is exploitation – but the household work I did as a child gave me life skills", but there's no note acknowledging the previous title (which is still in the URL).
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/nov/06/child-labour-doesnt-have-to-be-exploitation-it-gave-me-life-skills

[Sebastian Cobb]

I posted that in the BBC thread because I forgot about this thread.





just pure shilling for big tobacco really

[bgmnts]

Haha pure scum.

[pancreas]

More redundancies at Guardian appaz.

[Ferris]

More redundancies at Guardian appaz.

oh no

anyway

[Cuellar]

I wonder Adrian Chiles will keep his fascinating column about nothing at all

[jobotic]

Yeah that's a great one.

In These Tumultuous Times I've Managed to Peel An Orange in One Piece.

As Covid Ravages the NHS I Remember How My Dad Liked Aniseed Balls

[Sebastian Cobb]

I wonder Adrian Chiles will keep his fascinating column about nothing at all

I hope they bin Hadley Freeman.

[petril]

My word what an idea, a guardian death meet up. When it finally goes up belly up we should have a meet which makes the 10th anniversary look like a half arsed shambles of an affair.

the drinking game will be:
1 drink for every accidental spelling mistake you make
2 drinks for every accidental spelling mistake someone else makes
down your drink, have another, move on to harder stuff, have a wild night, wake up and have about three mental, booze fuelled days where you remember nothing clearly, then attempt to get back to normal life only to find that post-dinner tin has set you off and thus you spiral through functioning into the deep spiral of the alcoholism and self hatred that prevents the desire to recover and locks you into a path of doom until you finally just fucking die, for every deliberate spelling mistake you make because lol grauniad lol innit amirite

[idunnosomename]

I hope they bin Hadley Freeman.

sadly the core hacks like her will be the last to go

[dissolute ocelot]

I posted that in the BBC thread because I forgot about this thread.

What the fuck is a "chief of party"? Is she in charge of the balloons?

EDIT: Hadley Freeman could totally get a cushy, better-paid job at the Times or Telegraph, I wouldn't be surprised if she's off soon.

[Sebastian Cobb]

sadly the core hacks like her will be the last to go

Oh that reminds me, this was doing the rounds yesterday:

[crankshaft]

I wonder Adrian Chiles will keep his fascinating column about nothing at all

Yeah that's a great one.

In These Tumultuous Times I've Managed to Peel An Orange in One Piece.

As Covid Ravages the NHS I Remember How My Dad Liked Aniseed Balls

I've always found his column hard to dislike because a) it's about nothing, b) it's over before it starts, c) nobody gets hurt and d) I've always had a bit of a crush on our Adrian, even though I know he'd demand we watch football all the time.

[jobotic]

Yeah that's fair, and he goes a bit easier on the Corbyn crushing than the others.

[Cuellar]

But he only has that column because he is, inexplicably, going out with Viner isn't he? An insane situation all round.

[idunnosomename]

Haha that pass-agg Helen Lewis shit sums up the cosy centrist hugbox that is the guardian lashing out. As I said in the glinner thread, she's married to Jonathan Haynes the digital editor, shows what an incestuous den of melts it is

[pigamus]

Haha that pass-agg Helen Lewis shit sums up the cosy centrist hugbox that is the guardian lashing out. As I said in the glinner thread, she's married to Jonathan Haynes the digital editor, shows what an incestuous den of melts it is

"Having a sandwich etc" did make me laugh I'm ashamed to say

[idunnosomename]

Well it's very Partridge really

[Buelligan]

Isn't that everyone that goes on twitter though[nb]Helen Lewis is on twitter, the blue-ticked cunt[/nb]?

[BlodwynPig]

Haha that pass-agg Helen Lewis shit sums up the cosy centrist hugbox that is the guardian lashing out. As I said in the glinner thread, she's married to Jonathan Haynes the digital editor, shows what an incestuous den of melts it is

I think its good from time to time to prick the left when they drift too far into centrist tropes too.

[idunnosomename]

Interesting

https://www.belltoons.co.uk/bellworks/index.php/if/2020/8266-251120_WHIPLASH