Jack Monroe #561 Me. I happened. You're welcome

[SouthendRealEstate]

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I recently started using listerine advance defence gum treatment mouthwash and found that even after a couple of days my mouth felt cleaner and gums less swollen. Admittedly I struggle using it every day because it tastes minging but it might be even more helpful for someone with more discipline!

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I understand so much where you are but from a different place. I avoided dentists for two decades because of a phobia. I finally plucked up the courage to ring a helpline and it changed my life. They talked me through everything, allayed my fears and got me to a place where I could face up to it. Luckily, Mrs SRE‘s dentist was happy to take me on and has been amazing. On mouthwash though, the advice I’ve always had from both the dentist and hygienist is that you really shouldn’t use it after brushing, as it washes away the toothpaste, which is there to do a job. All I can say is stick at it because it can only get better.

ETA on topic: I love how great this place is and how the canal are, even though Guset is last year’s snow

 

[jordishaw]

The Guardian seemed to shift towards a lot of rage-click content at the height of the new media/clickbait era in the mid 2010s and has never really recovered. They brought on a dozens twitter loudmouths as columnists who turned out to be very poor writers. Jack is one example but there are many others, Owen Jones, Laurie Penny, Abi Wilkinson. Vonny LeClerc wrote periodically for them for a year or two! Hard to pretend you're a serious paper & above the culture wars when you have prominent columnists penning melt-downs over whether the going to the gym makes you right wing.

I think the Carole Cadwalldr saga did a lot of damage to their investigative journalism as well. A lot of her reporting from the period post Brexit has unwound when investigated by the electoral commission etc. You wonder what checks and balances were in place internally.

I'm here because of another Guardian writer - Sali Hughes and her Freaky Friday. I was a long time subscriber, both to the Guardian and the New Statesman, not entirely satisfied with either but felt that they were generally well-intentioned, couldn't quite believe that their journalists describe this site as one of the "worst on the internet", they definitely need to get out more.

 

[YerDa]

lol it was a long time before I realised too and I love it. Much like the lore of Aunty Pat, I imagine the immortalisation of Shattenstone probably makes it all the more likely that he won’t take anything the hurrumphing ninnies have to say seriously. Oh well.

There’s more harrumphing in Shatters’ interviews than there’s ever been on guest’s tattle threads , which he’d have known if only he’d done more than the bare* minimum check.

*in a romper suit under a cover with a layer of copper coins stuck to it

 

[witchofwestbyfleet]

Over the 1000 posts, new thread: https://tattle.life/threads/jack-monroe-562-its-a-calculator-helen-its-not-cocaine.43696/