I just happened to see the two parties in question - George Monbiot and David Bellamy - going at it on Channel 4 News last night. But it is amusing that one miskey has a made-up figure of 55% leap to the equivalent of 89%. . .
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Christ, we'd never ever jump on some one for a typ0....
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Not me anyway- I'm the avatar of such things, it seems.
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Did everyone know that I work for The Guardian by the way? Are our journalists cool or what.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Well, that beats my writing 500 words once every two months for a magazine with a distribution of barely 60,000. I concede.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
You don't even have to do fact-checking for your reviews. You are not worthy.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Hey! I had to play Rome before I could play a game that was suppossed to be better than it. It was hard, gruelling work.
Posted by Not Invented Here (Member # 1606) on :
MaGiC, although I respect you for working for such an institution, the Grauniad is well known for it's own typing mistakes. That and an article you published recently about the possible lethality of Avian Bird Flu was also horribly inaccurate. I can't remember the subject area the author worked in, but he certainly wasn't a Doctor or Biologist, and had obviously not consulted either before writing.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Not Invented Here: ...the Grauniad is well known for it's own typing mistakes.
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Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
The Grauniad story about the typo in the paper title, while amusing is apocryphal...and we all take it in good humour. Liam you're still the star writer on this board. I don't actually write for the Guardian so much as fix their PC's!
I have written a couple of articles for other publications on a freelance basis when I need some fast cash - but 'the style guide' you have to adhere to to be published in The Guardian is so long winded I can't be bothered to read it!
Not invented Here - I read the avian bird flu article, can't really remember much about it apart from it seemed to reflect stuff I'd read elsewhere already. I wouldn't have a clue if it were factual or not - I know less about Asian Bird flu that I do about well..pretty much anything really!
I guess all I was saying is that I love working here. I'm proud of the paper and what it believes in and strives to achieve. I'm glad I'm part of it. PS - And our journos do totally rock - there's a black eye for anyone who says otherwise.... grrrr....
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
They were needlessly snobby and pithy about Revenge of the Sith. Although less so than the Independent...
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Anytime I looked at IT jobs at the Gaurdian they all seemed to be Mac-only. . .
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
What do you do at The Guardian, MaGiC?
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
quote:"What do you do at The Guardian, MaGiC?"
quote:"I don't actually write for the Guardian so much as fix their PC's!"
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Avian bird flu"? Is there a different kind of bird flu?
Posted by Not Invented Here (Member # 1606) on :
Damn it. Someone spotted my typing mistake in a post about typing mistakes. There goes any impression I had made of being intelligent.
Should have read Asian Bird Flu. The article in the Guardian was written by a Proffesor of Economics I believe, and he obviously did not consult either a Doctor or Biologist. He took a fatality rate of 70% to imply that if Asian Bird Flu broke out in the UK tomorrow, 70% of us would die. What it means is that 70% of those INFECTED will die, which brings the number of dead down a whole bunch. Especially if the government and emergency services do their job properly (Which is open to debate).
Still quite a scary possibility though.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"There goes any impression I had made of being intelligent."
That's okay. You hadn't.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mighty Blogger Snay:
quote:"What do you do at The Guardian, MaGiC?"
quote:"I don't actually write for the Guardian so much as fix their PC's!"
Yes, but I wanted to hear it from her. Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
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