What's going down in the 'hood?
The latest entries into this pit of despair
- From Russia without love
- 15 May
A way TLDR from BBC Eye on Russian nationalist vigilantes oppressing the rainbow mafia starts with a little warning for those of delicate sensibilities to reach for their pearls and the smelling salts:
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fearless and favourless BBC; language; oh, the fragility!- Oranges are not the only fruit
- 13 May
A double whammy of goodness has been working itself out over the last couple of weeks or so.
(more…)- gotta respect the grift; if schadenfreude didn't exist, it would have to be created; politics; teh soshull notwerk
- The end of an era?
- 12 May
For years, I have ragged on the decline of the BBC's journalistic integrity and simple editorial ineptitude. But it looks like those days are gone, unless I want to pay the PRPP for its manky old rope. For it appears that they're putting news articles behind a paywall.
(more…)- how not to win; world's most trusted BBC
- Achilles heel
- 11 May
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey comes to theatres in July. Yet, despite there being only nine weeks until its release, some of the cast members' roles remain undisclosed on IMDb. It's a void that's ripe for filling with wanton speculation.
(more…)- celeb; culture vulture; entertainment; pandering; stay in your lane
- Men just keep on winning
- 6 May
For the last few years now, men have been beating women at their own game. As T3h PaTriArchY sends our deep-cover agents behind enemy lines, our brothers
(more…)identifying
as women are besting real ones in their own sports and even beauty pageants. And now one of our plucky lads has been declared the prettiest, orpretttiestt
, girl in the world!
- attention whore; pandering
The latest updates to past woes
- Achilles heel
- 16 May
Aha! I found this comment somewhere, but I can't remember where. It made me laugh though.
(more…)- celeb; culture vulture; entertainment; pandering; stay in your lane
- From Russia without love
- 15 May
Someone within the editorial team considered that the language warning wasn't…histrionic enough? I guess.
(more…)- fearless and favourless BBC; language; oh, the fragility!
- The end of an era?
- 12 May
Well, this is a bit embarrassing. Despite thinking that I wasn't using a proxy, it appears that my ad-blocker was masking my IP address with one based in Texas. So that probably explains why the BBC's paywall thought I was trying to access its misinformation services from the land of the free, despite whatismyipaddress.com identifying my IP address as being pretty much slap-bang in the centre of Europe, because it's reading the point of access (WAN IP) not the user agent (browser) settings.
(more…)- how not to win; world's most trusted BBC
- Good luck, Mel
- 28 April
Yesterday, the headline proclaimed
(more…)Melania Trump urges ABC to 'take stand' on Jimmy Kimmel after widow joke
. Now, rather than create and link a new article for Ol' Piss Eyes' rebuttal, the same article does double duty under new guise.- BBC editorial standards: how many monkeys does it take…?; celeb; Hasmyback Machine; politics; sicko; the cuntry club
- No place to hide
- 10 April
An opinion-piece on the enshittification of LinkedIn—predominantly by AI-generated slop—prompted this thoughtful comment:
(more…)- grumpy; politics; teh soshull notwerk; wit & wisdom of the comments section
