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Very interesting reaction to my house piece [split topic]

Started by Zetetic, December 30, 2020, 10:08:43 AM

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Buelligan

Quote from: jobotic on December 31, 2020, 06:46:06 PM
Well that comes as quite a surprise.

Laughed.  And subconsciously crushed an Emma Bridgewater breakfast cup. 

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Quote from: kngen on December 31, 2020, 06:38:31 PM
Had to mute Hann on Facebook, as he is a fully-fledged 'Corbyn is an antisemite' myth peddler, and seems to genuinely believe it.

Oh, is this the same guy as the notorious all-day-all-night centrist Wikipedia editor? What was his AKA...Philip something?

Zetetic

Quote from: GoblinAhFuckScary on December 31, 2020, 06:34:13 PM
Goblin forces are amassing beneath to reclaim what is ours
The most cheering thing I've read today.

Kankurette

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on December 31, 2020, 06:48:43 PM
I can understand that the state of affairs must have been frustrating, especially for his children. However, I do wonder how much the house really needed doing to it and how much was just aspirational wank. I don't know where he lives (I think Camden) but maybe he could have considered moving to a cheaper area of London to get a nicer/bigger house rather than having the whole house re-done.

Also, a proper progressive newspaper would have pieces about how homeless people and people placed in bedsits by the council have tried to cope during the pandemic, not privileged former music editors who had some inconvenience for months. As a former music editor, he could even interview music venues and bands about how they were dealing with the coronavirus rather than writing this wank.

It feels like another piece that will alienate anyone who is working class or lower middle class, just like the very expensive clothes on their lifestyle pages. The Guardian is 5% important journalism, 95% Lib Dem leaflet.
I always find it rather tone deaf how expensive the clothes and furniture they show in the lifestyle sections are.

jobotic

What is the difference between them and Hartley-Brewer showing off about her latest expensive holiday?

There's none.

Once again fuck the rich.

Fambo Number Mive

I think he should write a follow up column about his anus and call it his ring piece.

Apologies if this joke has already been done.

flotemysost

Quote from: Kankurette on December 31, 2020, 11:14:53 AM
Alcoholics tend to be more secretive as well, or at least my mum was. She'd hide bottles all over the place or lie that she hadn't been drinking when she obviously had. One time she sneaked a bottle of vodka into the restaurant with her during my 30th birthday meal, I think she was necking it in the toilet. It was so much fun having to race around the house trying to find a nearly empty bottle of whisky after she conked out at the breakfast table after a bender another time.

Yep, this was basically what the first couple of decades of my life were like (until my dad finally got sober for good) - no need to apologise for TMI. I've posted on here before about how I hate it when people do that self-indulgent "ooh, I'm such an alcoholic!" or any sort of "look at me being sooo naughty and getting drunk!" carry on, but it really grates. And I say this as someone who gets pissed for pleasure a fair bit (or at least I did when we could socialise and go to pubs) - I'm not being sanctimonious, I just don't feel the need to bleat on about it as if no one's ever been drunk before.

I was really wondering what could be so bad in the original article to inspire the vitriol in this thread but just read it and fuck me, what a bellend. I'm currently living in a rented flat which has had a stupid number of problems since I moved in a couple of months ago, including flooding, no heating/hot water in freezing weather, and a potentially lethal gas leak due to a shoddily fitted hob.

Covid has inevitably made it more difficult to arrange maintenance work (I'd say this is essential maintenance work, not having to wait bit a longer to get a bloody granite kitchen worktop installed). It's been really stressful - as a tenant, any visits obviously have to be arranged through the landlord/agency, both of whom have been pretty disappointing, and working from home in a studio flat (which I realise is a very very privileged option to have) rules out any way of social distancing, which is just fab when someone finally does turn up unannounced, sans mask, in the middle of a call with my manager. I'd got in the habit of keeping a packed overnight bag next to my bed in case I had to do a midnight flit if it became fully uninhabitable. (Problems are now finally fixed, thank Christ.)

However I'm not going to whinge too much (even thought that's what the last two paragraphs have been) because I'm middle class as fuck, I have a job that can be done remotely from anywhere really as long as I have my laptop and an Internet connection, and if did I need to piss off to a Travelodge for a night or two while things got sorted (as staying with friends/family is obviously out of the question at the moment), I could probably afford it. There are SO many people who don't have that luxury and I can see how incredibly fucking easy it would be for someone less fortunate than me to become homeless in that situation.

I'm also jealous of the fact he has the space and circumstances for a cat and a record collection. CUNT


Buelligan

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on December 31, 2020, 07:52:34 PM
Oh, is this the same guy as the notorious all-day-all-night centrist Wikipedia editor? What was his AKA...Philip something?

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Philip_Cross

dissolute ocelot

Quote from: Kankurette on January 01, 2021, 01:57:04 PM
I always find it rather tone deaf how expensive the clothes and furniture they show in the lifestyle sections are.
There is a place for "things you can buy" but nobody would expect the art pages to only review paintings you can afford. Fashion is an art form as well as a practicality.


Leo2112

Michael Hann's Ruined Milky Vinyl
Sarah Ditum's Dirty House
Helen Pidds' Twentymans Pizza

Buelligan

Nice.

Quote from: kngen on January 01, 2021, 10:59:42 PM
I'm 99.9% sure that Hann is not that person.

I'd completely agree.  Unsure as to why he's even a candidate.

idunnosomename

i still laugh how Helen Pidd must be sat in her Manchester house scrolling through Twitter going to her partner "why do they keep calling me Helen PISS?"

Buelligan

Mm.  Even to the extent that I felt compelled to alter Leo's post.  I held myself back.  I am nothing if not restrained.

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Jockice

Quote from: idunnosomename on January 01, 2021, 11:28:56 PM
i still laugh how Helen Pidd must be sat in her Manchester house scrolling through Twitter going to her partner "why do they keep calling me Helen PISS?"

I've probably mentioned this before but I have a friend whose surname is Pidd. I've known her for about 35 years and not once have I ever thought of calling her Piss. Helen though...

gilbertharding

I was going to nominate Rowan Moore as one of the good ones - he's very readable on architecture, and his column today is also good, especially as he manages to get a dig into some of his colleagues along the way. https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/31/as-the-father-of-a-trans-man-i-fear-for-the-consequences-of-this-cruel-judgment?__twitter_impression=true

All the more remarkable that his brother is the absolute throbbing arsehole Charles Moore.

Oh balls I've replied to the wrong thread.

Dex Sawash


Twit 2

One of my regular walks goes past an old, dilapidated cottage by a train line. It's long looked awful and in need of TLC. More recently, I noticed it had clearly been bought, as lots of junk and rubbish had been cleared from the garden and there was new fencing and security in place. Today, I walked past and saw a big sign on the fence, professionally made. It had this lengthy bio of the house-buyer, saying they commute to Cambridge and used to look at the cottage from the train every day and wish for grand things to happen. The bio had info like how long they had lived in the area and what their plans for the house were. Then, at the end it said "follow our story on Instagram", where there'll be documenting the restoration. The absolute egomania of making that sign and social media presence as if people are going to be hanging on their every update. The breathless tone of the whole thing felt clearly intended for other people to be impressed. You bought a house and are doing it up? Well fuck me sideways. I blame Kevin McCloud.

chveik


Icehaven

#109
Quote from: Twit 2 on February 01, 2021, 01:10:14 AMI blame Kevin McCloud.

And what always happens on Grand Designs will probably happen to them too, it'll take ten times as much time and money as they planned for and turn them grey from stress. Bet they won't be putting that on Instagram.
"Day 1394: Here's me off to sell a kidney to pay for the kitchen worktops. If I look exhausted and frightened that's because I am!"