Being enraged by Guardian bullshit thread -- Fresh, for 2007, you suckas

Doubt that - Clegg has surely got one eye on future career, now that electoral reform is dead in the water Europe is probably the one issue he truly cares about. But he'd need to be stretched to breaking point and Cameron isn't showing any intention of doing that right now.

Future career in a new party perhaps?

Going back to Zoe Williams, I'd say this is pretty much spot-on:

They present something jaw-dropping, encounter a wave of disgust, then row back from the brink of awfulness by 30% (George Osborne probably has a little rowing-backwards calculator, which multiplies the strength of the public backlash by the amount he doesn't care). We all throw back our heads in relief, yelling a lusty "Thank goodness! You only have to work two days a week when you have terminal cancer, and not five!", and "Children in poverty won't have to pay commission on their parental support!". The mood has been assuaged; the saving made. It's genius, really, because even as I'm describing it, that doesn't dent my susceptibility.

It's an old Blair trick actually, except then at the point of rowing back Brown would present himself as the dude with the oars.

it's an old, old trick. Thatcher's government in the 80s were certainly adept, Heseltine's "we're gonna shut all the mines...hooray! we saved 5 percent of the mines!" was masterly for example

Nostalgia has reached critical mass and will shortly implode.

The "bring back the Routemaster" crowd has been supplanted by the "bring back exploding Bendy Busses" crowd. My head hurts and I need to have a lie-down.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/11/bendy-buses-london-boris-johnson

i never thought there was anything wrong with bendy buses!

Well, apart from their tendency to explode and their tendancy to become entangled when two of them attempt to go through the same narrow Stoke Newington intersection at the same time... once people discovered they were essentially free, people fell in love with them and TFL fell out of love with them.

the only times i've witnessed buses getting tangled up in each other to the point of actual accident, all involved were double deckers! my actual experiences with bendy buses were all unproblematic; i felt there was a slight tendency to ascribe bendy bus accidents to inherent faults in the design whereas double decker/routemaster accidents were one-offs. obv i don't know what it was like for cyclists, but preston's point about bendy buses being better for the infirm rings true.

They're better for the infirm if they can actually get a seat... which normally one can't because you'd have to batter your way through all the ppl crowded by the doors.

ah, but which is the funnest to pronounce?

I say root-master, you say rowt-master, let's call the whole thing off.

more: bendybus vs double-decker bus

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yes, no, yes, no, maybe, yes, christ no, yes, no, no

Starting bottom left going clockwise?

yes, no

G2 will remain, but Friday's Film & Music supplement will be merged with its features section

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/16/guardian-redesign?newsfeed=true

Oh well I guess I won't be buying the Guardian on Friday either. I know there already is huge discrepancies between the internet coverage and the paper version - the year end albums list was not on Friday's paper - but I and others do actually spend the weekend reading the paper version :(

I stopped buying the Thurday edition when the dropped the science and technology section, think Friday's will be going too.

i don't read g2 or any of the weekday supplements. they are by far the worst thing about the paper.

they should replace them with that column in money on saturday where they get insurance companies to send complaining readers £150 and some flowers. i love that.

who is the sufjan guy (pictured)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/paullewis

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tbf the really racist stuff happens in his solo career

He needed a new schtick

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