There have been celebrations all round today as Bradley Wiggins won gold in the cycling, but there was one man at Guardian HQ without a smile on his face. Barry Glendenning was in charge of the Wiggins live blog when the internet went down at Hampton Court, provoking a shower of complaints. To say that Glendenning failed to handle the situation in a calm and collected manner would be an understatement:
Now that’s customer service…
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
Twat!
The Guardian bloke, not Media Guido of course.
It’s not customer service, it’s customer relations – but it’s still typical Gaurdian (sic) Statist hogwash.
Pillock
+1 (Just so I can be first of course)
Call the police! He hurt my feelings via Twitter!
The Guardian are losers.
They should get Bradley Wiggins as their editor.
Bradley Wiggins deserves better reward than that for his fantastic performance.
As for the guardian calling it’s readers cretins – no surprise there well who on earth reads the guardian drivel ,other than brown and militwit, anyway. -
And those looking for jobs with a description including overpaid,underworked, excessive hols entitlement,opportunities for plenty of sick leave, paid from public purse & so on.
Surely those who buy the grauniad should be more accurately referred to as ‘fuckwits’
Or beeboids.
Presumably you mean that left wing bastion of their truth, the BBC.
Bradley Wiggins deserves better reward than that for his fantastic performance.
As for the graudian calling it’s readers cretins – no surprise there well who on earth reads the graudian drivel ,other than brown and militwit, anyway?
Terrific echo here Nell. You left out the Labour Party’s political wing the BBC but anyone else taking any notice of that rag could probably be counted on one hand.
This calls for a Politburo led inquiry guys.
I thought we fired you last week?
There’s no money left.
You’re obviously not familiar with Glendenning’s caustic style if this is a surprise to you. Can’t see anything wrong with it myself.
seconded. He might be a leftie but he’s a funny leftie who doesn’t put up with c*nts
And he works at the Guardian?
He’s a retarded Hunt, nothing more
Did Polly sit on the router?
yes sorry gweed but who exactly is this alter ego of yoursel you call media gweedo
is he she it perchance your illegitimate issue for whom you wish to secure a sinecure after you are gone ???
i think we should be told .
if on the other hand he is a perverted figment of your rabid imagination then please terminate him immediately and place all copy in the main guy fawkes cubby hole as your readers are just too lazy to be arsed to exert their digits to another click to access the meeja version of g weeeeedo .
thank you
If someone twittered that a copy of the Guardian should be rammed down his throat would that be deemed a threat? After all, that would only be making him eat ‘his’ words!
Perhaps I could be of assistance ?
i m stupefied you
even have
to entertain the issue moddy
we are only talking about fictional characters
or are we ???
obviously not !!!
They’re losing their temper as quickly as they lose money!
Barry Glendenning
There is a name that will go far. The further the better.
Any relation to the famously caustic BBC star Raymond?
Hardly post-worthy, stuff like this is fairly standard from Glendenning.
Silly season?
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretinism
Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones (congenital hypothyroidism) usually due to maternal hypothyroidism.
That’s standard Glendenning.
His confrontational attitude towards readers is kind of his thing.
Not only this, but this idiot highlights another problem with GMG. He says its ‘free’ – its not ‘free’, its ad-supported. Prick.
Less than polite perhaps, but, given that he was addressing Guardian readers, can anyone honestly say he was wrong in his description of them?
Wow.
Delivery and clarity superb.
Content tightly focused and exceptionally well argued.
He even uses their own arguments to undermine them. He must get a lot of hate mail, I imagine.
Hmmm. Deleted by the censors.
Such a beacon of free speach is Guido’s farm.
Makes a change for him to be sober judging by some of the grauniad’s football podcasts , or then again was he ?
In my experience socialists at this level, are not in favour of national borders, so any celebration of British success is ungoodplus.
I read the Guradian for its courageous and unbiased reporting of corruption in Labour controlled Waltham Forest.
Then you’d like today’s WF Guardian story about the Leyton stall holders.
He hit the nail on the head Guardian readers are cretins.
Anyone remember this Tweet, also sent during a period of silence by a cretin?
http://order-order.com/2011/11/11/abbotts-poll-priorities/
Before you slate Glendinning, be aware that as a Sunderland supporter there is nothing you can say or do that will take away the pain and shame of supporting Sunderland.
When all the tin-pot councils across the nation can no longer afford to spend silly amounts of money advertising their non-jobs in the Guardian, their main revenue stream will dry-up.
Then, this santimonious and entirely worthless rag will disappear forever.
Amen.
They can always increase the council tax to raise the necessary & essential money needed to continue with the non-job ads.
Have you ever tried to post a comment about local government corruption on the Guardian ‘Comment is Free’? Harry Potter couldn’t make them disappear faster.
There is only one thing socialists hate more than themselves, and that is their followers.
All I said before and more.
[Not] Wow.
Delivery and clarity [not] superb.
Content [not] tightly focused and [not] exceptionally well argued.
He even uses their own arguments [not] to undermine them. He must [not] get a lot of hate mail, I imagine.
*please ignore all words in square brackets which have been placed there to appear to tow the editorial line.
Bravo Sir
Used to like this bloke. What about the mass protests by ordinary Israelis against their government? What about the terrible treatment of African immigrants ( mainly Somali’s ) by ordinary Israelis? Agree with comments concerning the Guardian, though. Liberals – Nasty people who can’t fight.
Leave him alone, they are cretins!
[Not] Wow.
Delivery and clarity [not] superb.
Content [not] tightly focused and [not] exceptionally well argued.
He even uses their own arguments [not] to undermine them. He must [not] get a lot of hate mail, I imagine.
*please ignore all words in square brackets which have been placed there to appear to tow the editorial line. Thank you.
I feel much the same way about those clamouring for more free stuff from the state. Me and Barry, fellow travellers, who knew?
Youse are all bonkers.
Never read the comments section on the Guido site before.
Never will again.
Nasty feckers, shame on you
The Enid Blyton forum is this way —>
http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/
Not that the old Guido would ever have said anything like that, oh no. Being abused was part of the fun of coming here.
Dial 999 for Mummy …
This Glendenning character is a twat who knows nothing about cycling. Why the Grauniad should let him loose on a live cycling blog is a complete mystery. He was also doing the Tour de France live blog. One one crucial mountain stage, with Wiggo at risk of losing the yellow jersey, he decided to stop his coverage and “go off for a well earned cup of tea”. When he returned he was unable to identify the col the riders were on. What sort of tea does this tosser drink and what proof is it? Typical Grauniad lightweight.
Mr Glendenning may well be right – and since he is not in the first flush of youth – when did he find out the sad truth about the business that rewards him so handsomely?
Its another case of – find yourself a proper job!