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I don't read The Guardian enough to know if the snark was intentional or not but this line gave me a chuckle, > She does not appear to have social media profil
by rurp 2y ago
I don't read The Guardian enough to know if the snark was intentional or not but this line gave me a chuckle,
> She does not appear to have social media profiles, though she has two followers on the blogging site Medium.
Talk about damning with faint praise!
- nomilk 2y ago> damning with faint praise Hadn't encountered this phrase before. TIL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise
- rossant 2y ago> an internet meme (...) ironically praising the film Morbius as simply "one of the movies of all time", without any adjective. Nice. I'll use that one.
- Smithalicious 2y agoSurprised you hadn't heard it before, my peer group uses it a lot, also in the sense of "well that was something".
- jfengel 2y agoThey are usually somewhat staid, but I suspect the opportunity to dig into the Daily Mail was irresistible.
- dullcrisp 2y agoI feel if you know anything about British culture, the snark is always intentional.