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Post by David on Feb 14, 2008 17:31:19 GMT
blogs.guardian.co.uk/travelog/2008/02/skins_blog.html
Skip the actual blog guff, and scroll down to the comments. Very amusing.
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Post by coxy1979 on Feb 14, 2008 17:58:24 GMT
Oh dear.
but WOULD
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Post by Mike on Feb 14, 2008 18:10:06 GMT
These two are gold:
The screamingly obvious grammar errors rather step on the 'point' they're trying to make, no?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2008 18:23:04 GMT
I wonder if his Dad is regretting getting him the job now?
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Post by Feral on Feb 14, 2008 18:44:31 GMT
That has totally made my day.
Favourite comment is, I think:
(Even the lack of basic punctuation is forgivable in this case)
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Post by xenomaniac on Feb 14, 2008 18:48:17 GMT
That is actually amazing, my favourite is
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Post by Cherubic on Feb 14, 2008 19:25:30 GMT
God I hate metropolitan gappy twats.
"but clichés are there for a reason"
Yes Max. The reason is you and cunts like you have no imagination.
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Post by al on Feb 14, 2008 20:16:50 GMT
Ugh! He's every nobber I went to uni with rolled into one.
I worked in Sainsbury's on my gap year, and had plenty of japes without requiring a visa or a malaria shot. I once got told off for laughing at a man's name on his Nectar card*. That's on a par with so-called 'debauched beach parties', right?
And as a slight aside, I absolutely fucking detest skinny jeans. No man on Earth is fit enough to pull off skinny jeans, let alone when the person in them is seven shades of cunt. This blog is going to be lots of fun.
(*The man's name was Mr Squelch, if you're interested.)
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Post by LoveMusic on Feb 14, 2008 21:17:29 GMT
Dammit, he is quite cute.
I went to read the comments, but a lot of them have been deleted!
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Post by Feral on Feb 14, 2008 21:33:40 GMT
Yeah, but I think twat trumps cute in this case.
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Post by fused on Feb 14, 2008 23:24:33 GMT
He seems like tosser. He's not really my cup of tea lookswise either.
The comments are very funny.
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Post by gravedigger on Feb 16, 2008 15:26:35 GMT
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Post by Feral on Feb 16, 2008 16:32:32 GMT
That is one of the funniest things i've ever read. I'm sort of disappointed that we're not going to hear any more from young Maximilian though. His blog could have been so very funny. As John Brownlee says: "Humanity has drowned a god in its own shit and bile. Oh, what could have been…"
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Feb 16, 2008 20:48:42 GMT
He's on facebook, but his profile has been solely set up to coincide with the first post of his blog. There is also a facebook group supporting him. There aren't any more pictures, so I'm not going to bother.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2008 12:40:24 GMT
I love - "I hope he gets Dysentery and shits himself to death."
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Post by Feral on Feb 17, 2008 13:43:14 GMT
I love - "I hope he gets Dysentery and shits himself to death." What's nicest about that is that its the final post before they shut the comments. And somehow, its not been moderated. So for all of time, thats gonna be the final word on the matter. Poor Max. I do feel a little sorry for him. For a similar line of Guardian-related amusement though, see the ill-advised webchat they once ran with their resident alternative healer, the 'Barefoot Doctor': Link
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Feb 17, 2008 17:28:39 GMT
I was reading a blog entry by someone about airport security in America and the comments on that were ridiculous too. Not aimed at the writer but people writing about how "undignified" the whole experience was and how after suffering the indignity of airport security in America "oh no, I've had my fingerprints taken, I've had 5 showered but I still feel unclean."
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Post by Bridgey on Feb 17, 2008 20:27:49 GMT
Can I give a slightly sarky 'BORED NOW'? Not for any patronising reasons of solidarity where the newspaper competition winners/work experience types side with the slightly irritating gap year students, more for selfish thoughts of being featured in Comment is Free and everyone starts asking about my time of the month because I was angry or whatnot. And also because I probably don't think that the blogger in question would be allowed to tell the commenters to get back to their work (I don't know about journalistic reply etiquette).
Bridgey xxx
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Feb 17, 2008 20:40:07 GMT
I didn't understand that at all.
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Post by Sparkle on Feb 17, 2008 20:42:45 GMT
To be honest, everyone who writes for CiF or a Grauniad blog is going to get stick, the degree of which varies wildly depending on what the blog is about and on how much the original author engages with the comments (which is encouraged). Max got let off lightly.
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Post by Rad on Feb 17, 2008 21:37:52 GMT
I love - "I hope he gets Dysentery and shits himself to death." What's nicest about that is that its the final post before they shut the comments. And somehow, its not been moderated. So for all of time, thats gonna be the final word on the matter. Poor Max. I do feel a little sorry for him. For a similar line of Guardian-related amusement though, see the ill-advised webchat they once ran with their resident alternative healer, the 'Barefoot Doctor': LinkBest laugh I've had all day, and my day has been pretty lousy, so that right cheered me up - thanks so much for posting it!
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Post by pauliepoos on Feb 17, 2008 22:26:28 GMT
What makes people think the rest of the world wants or needs to know their thoughts, opinions or experiences baffles me at times, especially when some of the blogs I've read are so tediously verbose that you can't help wonder if the person writing it was as bored as you were reading it.
Do they actually get paid on the Guardian website or is it just an opportunity for wannabe or trainee hacks to have a go for free?
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Feb 18, 2008 0:08:53 GMT
I think nowadays when the average person can afford to go on holiday almost anywhere travel writing is becoming a bit pointless.
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Post by Cherubic on Feb 18, 2008 8:35:36 GMT
Travel writing perhaps, but shouldn't travel journalism become more prevalent? If we can go anywhere, but don't have time to go everwhere we'll need people to summarise reasons we might go to different places to inform out decisons.
The (fucking) Observer went all out to defend the poor little bestard yesterday. Calling it class hatred and all sorts. In some ways they're probably right, but I don't particularly see what's wrong with class hatred when the class in question are spoiled London upper-middle class teenagers who've been given an oppurtunity becuase of who their dad is.
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Post by somethingbiblical on Feb 19, 2008 22:23:02 GMT
(*The man's name was Mr Squelch, if you're interested.) A friend of a friend of mine is called Stephen Smellie. Allegedly it's pronounced 'smiley' **Oh, oh, and also one of my teachers once displayed a Christmas card outside her office from a teacher at her old school - called Ms Bogey. You cannot make that shit up.
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