Hahahaha the Guardian

[Repat Van]

“ And, in October, one of the show’s presenters, Ellie Harrison, expressed fears about racism still being rife in the British countryside. Harrison, who has presented the show since 2009, raised concern about the amount of racism still taking place and explained that there was still “work to do”.

Over the past few years a number of groups and individuals have been working to address this imbalance, overcoming these barriers by encouraging others to venture out, as wells as urging leading outdoors brands to embrace diversity”

Sounds great. Of course the conservative snowflakes are having a strop about a fairly benign article.

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

Go on, admit it. It's laughably stupid.

[mids]

I want to go for a walk in Tower Hamlets but I'm worried that it's "not for me". Will I experience racism? Funny looks? Funny smelling food? Can I have a support group?

[unclejunior]

"laughably stupid"...… and people say that the Left don't do humour !
Sacha Baron Cohen will be all over this as Ali G...

[flatandy]

I did always find it weird how few non-white peeps you saw walking in the English countryside. Until I saw how few non-white people you see in US National Parks (That's slightly changing - you see very few black people but you now get a non-trivial number of south Asians, although they seem to drive to the high profile spots and take a look but don't go for long walks).

It's basically a consequence of growing up in cities with family who grew up in cities - nobody takes you out as a kid to these places so you don't go, and don't take your kids. Which means that the places look horrendously white and therefore intimidating. Of course, once you get off the footpaths and go into the villages in England, or get out of the National Park and go into the towns in rural Montana or Utah, you do actually have a whole sh*t-load of racist twunts, even if the footpaths themselves aren't very racist.

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

You can't make the outdoors more inclusive. The outdoors doesn't exclude anyone.

[wetkingcanute]

I saw a black guy on Bodmin Moor once...but they got him.

[mids]

Maybe he was the Moor of Bodmin?

[perrykneeham]

Dec 2, 2020 15:03:58 GMT wetkingcanute said:

I saw a black guy on Bodmin Moor once...but they got him.

Are you sure it wasn't Indian Queens?  Or Brown Willy?

[perrykneeham]

Was he riding a Polyphant?

[mids]

Guardian scum.

"Following yesterday’s story pointing out The Guardian’s silence over the report into its historical links to slavery, Guido can now exclusively reveal that the report for the Scott Trust has been undertaken – yet remains unreleased.



The independent investigation – which was commissioned by The Guardian’s owner the Scott Trust – began its research back in July, after Guido identified the paper’s support for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and that its founder made his fortune in the cotton trade. Ten months later, The Guardian is still keeping quiet on the report’s findings.



The report’s lead author, Dr. Sheryllynne Haggerty, confirmed that not only had the investigation concluded, it was also only ever ‘a scoping report‘ in the first place – which suggests to Guido that its results were obvious from the start. Clearly, The Guardian has been covering up the investigation’s findings for some time…



Guido has asked The Guardian press office for comment. At the time of going to pixel no response has been received."

order-order.com/2021/05/06/exclusive-scott-trust-commissioned-report-into-slavery-links-covered-up-by-guardian/

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

Funnily enough, this has appeared today:

www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/07/guardian-200-what-we-got-wrong-the-guardians-worst-errors-of-judgment-over-200-years

There will always be errors of news judgment given the nature of the work. Tight deadlines meant the sinking of the Titanic was relegated to a small spot on page 9 in 1912; errors of scientific understanding resulted in a 1927 article that promoted the virtues of asbestos, and others in the late 1970s that warned of a looming ice age.

More than 150 years ago the paper believed that the southern US states had the right to secede. It suspected that a free Confederacy would prosper and claimed it was as entitled to freedom as the Hungarians were when they had broken away from Austria in 1849. The Guardian reasoned that the breakup of the US would hasten the end of slavery, which it despised. This view was shared by William Gladstone of the Liberal party, who would be prime minister four times.

[flatandy]

Well done The Guardian. And Happy Birthday to the least useless ‘paper in Britain.

[reverend]

Andy is right, it's the perfect size to wrap chips in!

[mids]

I wouldn't wipe my arse with the Guardian. Or the BBC.

[flatandy]

It’s a weird phrase, that. Wiping non-absorbent newspaper across your backside would be a weird thing to do. You’d end up with a sh*t-smeared arsecheeks that were also blackened with the leaky ink that comes on newsprint.

[perrykneeham]

May 7, 2021 12:01:22 GMT flatandy said:

It’s a weird phrase, that. Wiping non-absorbent newspaper across your backside would be a weird thing to do. You’d end up with a sh*t-smeared arsecheeks that were also blackened with the leaky ink that comes on newsprint.

And yet that's what almost everyone used to do. I remember seeing it in my lifetime. Actually, I have a dim recollection of seeing it quite recently. A sort of s-shaped hook with 6 x 6 squares of paper. I have a horrible feeling it was on site somewhere.

[mids]

I have used newspaper in a squeeze. The trick is to scrunch it up so that it's softer and has a bit more friction.

[mids]

I imagine, in the days of newspaper, the trick was to make sure and separate your chip wrapping and your bog paper.

[perrykneeham]

And at the same time a little more absorbent. I had an aunt who had an outside toilet in the 90s and used that terrible shiny medicated toilet paper that came in a box.