Comments on: YT strikes in The Guardian, again

By: alda

alda — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:20:49 +0000

Aw. Thank you!

Rozanne, James – glad ‘cult’ doesn’t denote crazed Scientologists or arcane weather freaks … at least in some parts of the world!

By: Vikingisson

Vikingisson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:00:39 +0000

Alda seems to have “slashdotted” the Guardian at least from within Iceland. The site was very slow for a few days. When I was finally able to read it all and the comments I was relieved that the comments were not very ugly. Some rational calm is starting to come over the crisis. Perhaps now a sensible plan can be put into place. ‘The Stooges’ need to be sacked, indeed, but what then? I’ve always felt that you can’t simply demand change and answers, you must tell them what those changes are and how to do them. Left to themselves the decisions they make are rarely in the best interests of the people. But that is all too obvious to perhaps billions of people all over the world about their own rulers.

Strange days, indeed.

I must say that Alda’s clarity and command of the English language especially right now is amazing. Truly humbling to
an Anglophone such as myself.

By: James

James — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:51:40 +0000

Well, here in the UK, “cult blogsite” is definitely a positive – just like “cult film”! Few British people would think it concerned a sect of extremist followers practicing an arcane weather reporting religion…

By: Gray, Germany

Gray, Germany — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:19:45 +0000

Nice picture in the Guardian, Alda. You look even better without that red nose!

Oh, and I like your wits, too, of course. Great story on “Doddsson”!

By: Rozanne

Rozanne — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:01:31 +0000

Ditto what Annie said! That is appalling that they didn’t pay you.

Also, what about the fact that your blog is identified as the “cult blogsite” Iceland Weather Report? Using cult seems like a slight to m; here in the U.S. “cult” definitely has a negative connotation.

By: alda

alda — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:42:16 +0000

Annie – heheh. Yep. I wasn’t exactly sure of the terms going in, but I am now.

By: Annie Rhiannon

Annie Rhiannon — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:13:02 +0000

RE: The Guardian not paying for content.

That is appalling. Dear Alda, we realise you’re in deep economical shit right now, but please write an entire article for us on the subject for free anyway. We will use your local knowledge to make our internationally-read newspaper more international and you will get a job cleaning carpets with the best of them.

I don’t care that print is where the money is at. How many people still read newsprint anyway? This is 2008, everybody is online.

REVOLT

By: Muriel Volestrangler

Muriel Volestrangler — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:05:26 +0000

Just a reminder to the women of Iceland — the state of Nebraska in the USA has a law that allows you to abandon all your children to the state, up to age 18, with no penalty or criminal charges! What a wonderful opportunity! In fact, one father left nine children behind, the oldest being 17. You had better hurry, however, the law expires this Friday at 12 midnite. So pack up all those unwanted kids that you won’t be able to feed in the coming years and put them on an airplane to Omaha. Tell the folks there that they are “Oddson children” — they’ll know what you’re talking about.
And while you’re in the US, how about a divorce too? Most states allow a woman to divorce her husband, and dump the debts on hubby. So if your man has borrowed money to buy Icelandic bank stocks, or taken out a house mortgage in foreign currency, kick him to the curb! Take an “escape” holiday to the US and come back a free woman!

By: Leighton

Leighton — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:49:26 +0000

Cracking articles as usual!

By: alda

alda — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:04:51 +0000

Andrew – I’m not surprised. Are you? They advertised that they were hiring, and around 500 people had just been laid off.