Anthea Turner is down to her last million or something.
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 15 December 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
'Those people who moan about you driving around in your nice big car are forgetting the guy who washes the car now hasn't got a job or who did the maintenance on it.'
Referring to herself in the third person, she added: 'There is no way Anthea Turner can complain about anything in her life.'
lol smacked off her tits
― Glans Christian Christian christian Christian Andersen (MPx4A), Monday, 15 December 2008 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I really tried hard to feel some sympathy for her and not fall into the trap the DM sets which is - haha look at this oik who thought she was better than us - but it's soooooooooo difficult.
― Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 15 December 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Referring to oneself in the third person - confirmation of encroaching insanity.
Should have stayed with Pidda Powell innit?
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 15 December 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1107290/Revolt-Robbed-right-buy-traditional-light-bulbs-millions-clearing-shelves-supplies.html
― the first Woman Tuomas (stevie), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Reporter BETH HALE on the great bulb hunt: 'Yes I found some... but it wasn't light work'
― The boy with the Arab money (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
So when is print journalism finally going up the spout? I can't fuckin' wait.
― ledge, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for that, Ledge. FYTP.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry mate :(
― ledge, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Wtf is there to love about a lightbulb? Edison loyalists far more numerous than we were led to believe?
― more private than a bar stool (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Ach, sorry for over-reacting, Ledge. It does piss me off massively that the last remnants of print journalism in the UK are probably going to be the fucking Mail and the Sun -- and I'd be the first to admit that we (ie print hacks in general) are paying a heavy price for decades upon decades of arrogance/overstaffing/intransigence etc.
But I'd also argue that the death of print journalism -- journalism led by "news", even if that news is invariably biased -- is simply going to lead to shit like this lightbulb nonsense becoming even more prevalent. It's not so much about the print media as it is about journalistic values; or, rather, having organisations with the resources to investigate stories properly and the desire to actually do so. Once that's gone, and all that's left are the rumps of former media empires, churning out shit like the above, and a few well-meaning bloggers wondering who to leech off now ... well, I really can't see who wins.
(Also: gah, driving up the Mail's hit count with our clickety-clicking ain't helping.)
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
How do we go about lobbying Brussels to ban the Daily Mail?
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
271 comments!
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
The Mail website is pretty awesome though. I spend more time on it than any other after The Guardian's. it's usually the site with the best pictures available online, scattered large through the story. The sections work well, and have really good puffs alongside the right that can keep me hanging around the site for ages.
― Alba, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
You're getting such a doing next time I'm in work ;)
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
have really good puffs alongside the right that can keep me hanging around the site for ages
Also: what the fuck for? Free extra-energy-burning lightbulbs? The miserable woman's guide to a thinner, bitchier 2009? 10 things you never knew about house prices?
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Have a look at the celebrity section. So much to read!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/index.html
― Alba, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Changing my display name to "beloved lightbulb".
― Neil S, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
xpread
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, look at this sad Richard O'Sullivan story for an example. All those juicy Femail stories boxed down the right!
― Alba, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.adozensteps.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/lightbulb.jpg
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
― Alba, Wednesday, January 7, 2009 2:06 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol i thought it was a myth that people in the all 'respect' the mail for its vaunted professionalism.
― DANCE MUSIC STUCK AT RECOMBINANT PLATEAU (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Oops - I linked to the wrong story.
Here's the Richard O'Sullivan one
― Alba, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Actor gets old. Let's take a close look at his wrinkly old face. Wot a loser!
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
But yeah, that was the first one I clicked on as well...
http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ianwylie/2007/04/emmerdale_paula_wilcox.html
balance.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
All those juicy Femail stories boxed down the right!
Royal! Man has shave.Nostalgia! Man grows older; looks different.Diet! Ex-EastEnder has new publicist.Tits! Also with Big Brother link (This is good, keep it up - Ed)Stating the fucking obvious! Man with cancer "not exactly doing a song and dance about it"Baby! Man and woman have child.Beckhams! Man and woman still exist.Rooneys! Man and woman who had more money than you still have more money than you.
You know, I don't think I've felt this depressed in my life. I'm off to devote my life to charity.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm off to devote my life to charity
Still working for the Herald then?
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link
And watching Celebrity Big Brother ...
― Alba, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Richard O'Sullivan is only 64! It's hardly that old.
― Alba, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
lol i thought it was a myth that people in the all 'respect' the mail for its vaunted professionalism
Uh...
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
in the print meeja
― DANCE MUSIC STUCK AT RECOMBINANT PLATEAU (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
or just newspaper biz
the mail print a story about richard o'sullivan's decay every year, i am sure about it
― the first Woman Tuomas (stevie), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I LIVE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THE CLOSING CREDITS OF THREE'S COMPANY WHERE IT SAYS "BASED ON MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE". SO I DECIDED TO LOOK IT UP ON THE COMPUTOR NOT ONLY THAT I PURCHASED ALL THE EPISODES TO MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE. THE SHOW IS REALLY FUNNY AND EVEN WATCHING IT OVER AND OVER I NEVER STOP LAUGHING. FOR A FUNNY SHOW LIKE MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE, I THINK THE SHOW SHOULD HAVE RAN A COUPLE OF MORE YEARS BACK THEN. THE SHOW MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE ENDED TOO SOON FOR ME.
Posted by: CARLOS RIOS | July 13, 2008 06:45 PM
― the first Woman Tuomas (stevie), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Quite right. I wonder if Mr Rios had Richard O'Sullivan Google Alerts set up.
― Alba, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"alert: Richard O'Sullivan looks five minutes older than he did five minutes ago"
― snoball, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought he was top class in "Dick Turpin" BTW...
― snoball, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1109722/Men-dont-curvy-women-attractive-father-children-autism.html">Men who don't find curvy women attractive 'could father children with autism'</a>
o_0
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
or whatever the ht stupid ml is
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Umm. As far as the reporting of such things goes, that ain't bad. No, it doesn't explain how the experiment was controlled, whether the findings were statistically significant, etc -- but when was the last time you saw a newspaper article that did? I fear your problems might well be with the nature of the research than with the Mail's reporting of it, Lex. Me: I'm going to reserve judgement until such time as I've read the article in the JADD (which I might actually do -- it's an area of vague interest to me, that. I could even try to work it into an essay I've written but not yet handed in, but ... no.)
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
i haven't read the story, it was the headline which caught my eye and made it go o_0
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
it seems like...not even the worst kind of health-related fearmongering, because it's too out-there for that
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
In the sidebar: "End of the hourglass: Career women usher in a straighter female form. The classic hourglass figure made famous by Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe appears to have had its day."
― ledge, Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
(I mean: as a hack by trade and psychology student by choice, I've just spent a whole day ploughing through research articles and the one thing I can say is that even a 20-page report can miss out salient facts. So although there are myriad holes in that Mail piece, in terms of crunching down a piece of research into a couple of hundred non-academic words, it's pretty fucking good. If it turns out to be misrepresenting the study completely, of course, I shall stand corrected.)
xpost
Dude, read the fucking article then. It is based on a piece of potentially valid research.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Researchers showed 100 men with autistic children pictures of curvy women, women with athletic frames and more rounded women and found that they do not have a preference on which figure they find more attractive.
The new research from the University of Bath suggests that fathers of autistic children do not share the preference of men across the world for the curvier woman.
this really does seem quite o_O tho
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
So headline should read:
Men who prefer non-curvy women might be fathers to autistic children.
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"My son has autism, I'm afraid I cannot look at curves with pleasure anymore"
Yes, welcome to experimental psychology.
Men who prefer non-curvy women might be fathers to autistic children
Hah, no: they showed no preference for any figure. "Men who don't conform to arguable global norm for what heterosexual males find attractive" is a bit unwieldy for a headline, though.
What's there isn't an elegant headline, either, I agree. I can see why they chose it, though.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
AutiDads love Posh More.
there. Fixed.
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Taking it further...
Dads of autistic children do not want more kids, so are attracted to females that look less childbearing types...?
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Couldn't the headline have just as easily read "Men who don't find athletic women attractive could father children with autism?"
p.s. I have neither read the article nor the supporting materials.
― He's like a big coloured steamroller (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, why pick on curvy women when the men didn;t state a preference? That's typical DM o_O surely?
― He's like a big coloured steamroller (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
It could, but the point is that there's cross-cultural support for the curvy stereotype, based on the "ideal" waist-hip ratio of 0.7 (Singh, 1993, I think), so there is a reason for mentioning curves. As you'd know if you'd read the piece (gah, I can't believe I'm sticking up for the Mail).
Not really, no. For the love of all that is decent, read the piece before you start posting, dudes.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
100 men seems like a very small sample size. I'm a bit more worried about the oestrogen/health stuff and this idea the writer seems to have about autism being similar to brain damage and something that crops up randomly when parents have bad health or put bad things into their kids bodies, it's the same logic they use when they reckon autism is caused by MMR and mercury, and that stuff was all bollocks.
― ‽, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, read it now.
Dr Mark Brosnan and Dr Ian Walker from the university's Department of Psychology found that as a group the fathers of autistic children didn't all go for the same figure as their most attractive choice.
Hmmm. I really think we may to read the whole thing. It doesn't seem to be quite as clear cut as the DM is making it.
OH REALLY, you say.
― He's like a big coloured steamroller (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i44.tinypic.com/jfev6u.jpg
― StanM, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
100 men seems like a very small sample size
It's probably (sadly?) about average for such a study.
this idea the writer seems to have about autism being similar to brain damage
Plenty of studies link autism to brain "damage" of some kind; hellfire, one of the most convincing new theories on unipolar depression suggests that's actually linked in some way to a structurally abnormal brain. Plenty of studies link it to all sorts of things. That's the point: there isn't a pathology of autism yet. This is why research exists.
something that crops up randomly when parents have bad health or put bad things into their kids bodies
What evidence are you using for this, anyway? Can you quote the actual text that states this, or are you basing this reading on your own assumptions about how the Daily Mail often presents such stories? (Which, I'll admit, are usually fucking shocking.)
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
It doesn't seem to be quite as clear cut as the DM is making it
Well, of course it isn't -- this is a very short newspaper article, while (I'd hope!) that what Brosnan and Walker are doing is a tightly controlled experiment. My point, though, is that going "TUT DAILY MAIL HEADLINES WHATEVER NEXT" without actually reading the piece isn't constructive.
Although why I'm wasting time defending the Daily Mail, I really don't know.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
one of the most convincing new theories on unipolar depression suggests that's actually linked in some way to a structurally abnormal brain
Actually, I wish I'd not written that because it'll be misconstrued, and I'm falling into my own trap of trying to explain something staggeringly complex using very few words. My fundamental point still stands, though: autism could well be linked (NB: correlation, not causality!) to structural "defects" in the brain.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
My. I went off and made some soup there (very nice, since you ask: fennel and potato with lemon, and a gremolata topping) and expected to come back to a minor clusterfuck. Anyway, I should be toiling over an essay, but because I am the KING OF PROCRASTINATION ...
Autism could well be linked (NB: correlation, not causality!) to structural "defects" in the brain
... a little light reading on that subject for anyone who's interested, in no particular order.
Carper, R A Carper and Courchesne, E (2000). Inverse correlation between frontal lobe and cerebellum sizes in children with autism. Brain, 123 (4), 836-844. (Various other Courchesne papers consider a similar hypothesis.)
Dawson G, Webb SJ, Wijsman E, Schellenberg G, Estes A, Munson J, Faja S (2005). Neurocognitive and electrophysiological evidence of altered face processing in parents of children with autism: implications for a model of abnormal development of social brain circuitry in autism. Dev Psychopathol, 17, 679–697.
Wicker, B (2008). New Insights from Neuroimaging into the Emotional Brain in Autism. In E McGregor, M Núñez, K Cebula and J Carlos Gómez (Eds). Autism: An Integrated View from Neurocognitive, Clinical and Intervention Research. Malden, Mass; Oxford: Blackwell. (Actually: if you want to criticise the Brosnan and Walker study for being "quite o_O", I'd suggest you read that entire book first.)
Sparks, B F, and a fucking shitload of others (2002). Brain structural abnormalities in young children with autism spectrum disorder. Neurology, 59, 184-192.
Haas, R, and, again, more others than I can be arsed rearranging into author/initial format (1996). Neurologic abnormalities in infantile autism. Journal of Child Neurology, 11 (2), 84-92.
Now, shall we look at some studies considering autism and genetic predisposition/hormonal influences? Is that a resounding "no, shut the fuck up, Grimly?" Suits me fine.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Has he gone?
OK, back to the Mail and it's crazy URLs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1109882/Man-created-Barbie-Ken-dolls-kinky-swinger-manic-need-sexual-gratification.html
― He's like a big coloured steamroller (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 8 January 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
‘When Jack talked about creating Barbie it was like listening to somebody talk about a sexual episode, almost like listening to a sexual pervert,’ Ryan’s friend, Stephen Gnass told the author.
Almost.
― He's like a big coloured steamroller (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 8 January 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Quite, em, compulsive level of detail there, grimly. I prefer my scaremongering lower on facts, higher on sheer panic, please. Here's Warning over 'third-hand smoke'. Not from the Mail, but it might as well be
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 8 January 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I AM BACK. Actually, no, I'm still looking for innovative new ways to not start writing. Drinking BEER has helped. Shit.
As always, the URL is WAY more interesting than the story, which is desperately dull. Filling in the blanks myself, I was hoping for something like: "Man created Barbie and Ken dolls to amuse friends at kinky swinger parties for manic depressives in need of plastic toys to achieve sexual gratification". Which would have been so much better.
I really want to know if those are being generated automatically or not. I shall endeavour to find out.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Quite, em, compulsive level of detail there, grimly
Heheheh. I think it's served its purpose.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 8 January 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Back on the light bulb tip, it's quite funny being reminded in the Guardian that twelve months ago, the Daily Mail were giving away free energy-saving bulbs and encouraging people to change.
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Monday, 12 January 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
A bitter, disillusioned sub writes: while knocking a story into shape last night, I needed to check when a particular dude was knighted, and chanced upon a relevant article from the Mail. Said article spelled said dude's name two different ways in the space of 100 words ...
... neither of which was actually correct.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Saturday, 17 January 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1129978/How-faceless-amoral-world-cyberspace-created-deeply-disturbing--generation-SEX.html
I would srsly buy a drink - maybe two - for whoever came up w/ the idea of having the URLs read like this
― I'm Throwing Small Arms Around Powys (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
that mother & daughter pic is quite something
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
― Mare Street tour guide (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Marcello?
― talk me down off the (ledge), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
It's 1954 in my house!
- mrs B, cleveland, usa, 28/1/2009 3:15 Click to rate Rating 27
― I'm Throwing Small Arms Around Powys (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/01/28/article-1130015-0337DB90000005DC-374_468x532.jpgEngland coach Fabio Capello checks out a new kind of strip on Italian TV
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
who's that being Obamafied in the background?
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Looks like Gianlucca Vialli to me.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Remember that Hilaire Belloc cautionary tale - Matilda told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp and stretch one’s eyes? I used to love it as a child when telling lies was one of the naughtiest things you could do: Matilda ended up getting burned to death.
― Seriously, though, the answer is - change society. (stevie), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Good of the Daily Mail to include a clip from Skins, despite it not being mentioned anywhere in the article, for anyone wondering what 'teenage promiscuity' might look like, without having to search for it online themselves.
― chord simple (j.o.n.a), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
12-year-olds today have seen raunchier stuff on the internet today than most 40-year-olds have seen in their entire lives.
Chew on that for awhile. Your 12-year-old has seen "Two Girls, One Cup" - and that ain't getting erased.
― I'm Throwing Small Arms Around Powys (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Chew on 2G1C for a while
― I'm Throwing Small Arms Around Powys (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty sure our boy hasn't seen 2 Girls, 1 Cup. He thought the posters for Sex Drive were too rude to be on the side of a bus.
― Theo Wankcott (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Prudle Vague Jr. more like
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Shameful Lawless Internet is full of raunchy XXX rated child-endangering pictures like these: (pic) (pic) (pic) (pic) (pic) (pic)
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
First 12 comments all from the US there.
― Architect of the Geocities (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
If morality is subjective then why not live it up? If God is dead all things are lawful. If there is no God why not let sex be your god and use as many other humans as possible to fulfill ones personal pleasures. Darwin taught us the survival of the fittest right?
― Architect of the Geocities (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Workplace harrassment: 12 women's sizzling hot tales!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
too shit; didn't read
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
You were right not to do so.DM comments always full of Americans and ex-pats.
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
It turns out that it was the Walkman that has broken Britain, according to not-at-all-crazy AN Wilson.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Exposing your ear drums to badly mixed rock music
Scik Mouthy?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1183011/AMANDA-PLATELL-Insults-betray-bigotry-gay-zealots.html
I really don't want to look at the comments section there, but it's so tempting. Can someone confirm that it's as bad as you'd imagine? (Poor little girl, staring wistfully into the distance, wishing for a real mummy and daddy.)
― Like, (Expletive) my (expletive). (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
The gay rights lobby should remember that not everyone who opposes gay adoption is a narrow-minded redneck
Pictures or it didn't happen
― Jimmy Pursey Thrower (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
adam and eve not adam and steve
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Sunday, 17 May 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
The plugs that go into the ears are a wonderful source of bacteria so unless they are sterilised before each use they are a germ playground.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Sunday, 17 May 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I really don't want to look at the comments section there, but it's so tempting. Can someone confirm that it's as bad as you'd imagine? (
First comment.
don't know the research and I am not homophobic but it is only common sense that tells me children must surely have a better chance in life with a married heterosexual couple and that is who they should be put with.
- Expat Andi, Dubai UAE,
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 17 May 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blogs.theage.com.au/lifestyle/trashtalk//archives/_peter_andre_jordan_wedding.jpg
A heterosexual couple yesterday.
Hang on, this bunch would have been a better example...http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_02/shanfamilyDM1403_468x325.jpg
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 17 May 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/05_02/MccannsPA_468x293.jpg
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 17 May 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
That's got to be a full house on DM reader bingo.
― Stryder's on the Orme (j.o.n.a), Sunday, 17 May 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah, doesn't mention house prices or Gordon Brown. Still, not far off.
BTW, this line in the Wislon piece cracked me up:
By the time they are 35, this generation will have experienced serious hearing loss. Of that, medical research is in no doubt whatsoever
Such meaningless nonsense, on so many levels. You've almost got to admire it.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_02/shanfamilyDM1403_468x325.jpg
wow the Manics really let themselves go
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Sunday, 17 May 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
"libraries bring us power"
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 May 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Much as AN Wilson lurches inevitably into egregious excess and shrieking hysteria, the following, early, and crucially understated, paragraph is OTM:
For those of us who liked getting on a bus or a train and overhearing, or even taking part in, conversations, there is something a bit bleak about the dozens of private solitudes which nowadays clamber aboard.
...so much so, that my entry into the ILX poetry competition is basically about this very trend.
― BIG CHOO-CHOOS aka the steamtraindriver (country matters), Sunday, 17 May 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
every time i'm on public transport and have to talk to a stranger it's inevitably a drug addict or someone just out of jail who wants me to give them a pound and has some sob story about having to go somewhere to beat up their father/girlfriend/big brother or whatever so i say bring on more people minding their own fucking business.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Monday, 18 May 2009 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
*lazy scotland zing*
― BIG CHOO-CHOOS aka the steamtraindriver (country matters), Monday, 18 May 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
One of my friends once overheard a murder being planned on a bus and phoned the police when he got off. The guys were going up to an acquaintances flat to stab him and rob his house.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Monday, 18 May 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
he told them where they were getting off and what they looked like, but he never found out what happened.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Monday, 18 May 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Yikes. And who is that stupid to say what they're doing out loud on a bus!?
― Sylvia Blap (Trayce), Monday, 18 May 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Scottish drug addicts.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Monday, 18 May 2009 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i think danny boyle should turn that scenario into a movie, what fun we could all have
― BIG CHOO-CHOOS aka the steamtraindriver (country matters), Monday, 18 May 2009 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Prince Philip climbs over a short fence.
― Alba, Monday, 18 May 2009 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Prince Philip re-inacting a scene from Animal Househttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/15/article-1182971-04F54F02000005DC-637_468x356.jpg
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 18 May 2009 07:28 (fourteen years ago) link
reEnacting - d'oh...
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 18 May 2009 07:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200037/Benefits-cheat-claimed-3-500-look-like-DEVIL.html
Words fail me.
― Desmond Decca Aitkenhead (Matt DC), Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
The divorced father-of-two
it's one of the strengths of the mail that they *always* get all these details. should really have asked what his kids think of the changes though.
― joe, Thursday, 16 July 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
the mail's gallery of "abbey road"-inspired record covers includes "split with methadone abortion clinic" by screaming afterbirth. wonder if paul dacre is a fan.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1203117/The-Abbey-Habit-How-Beatles-famous-album-cover-inspired-dozens-imitations.html
― joe, Thursday, 30 July 2009 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Too bad that guy can't go out at night, cos there's no way you'd want to leave the house in daylight looking like that.
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Thursday, 30 July 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
what a shoddy piece of work... mispellings abound, and several sleeves are repeated.
― can-i-jus (stevie), Thursday, 30 July 2009 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Oops, my comment was directed at Matt's story, didn't see it was 2 weeks old.
The Independent ran an identical Abbey Road feature 4 days ago: Abbey Road: 40 Years - 40 Imitations
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven't checked properly, but I think they are basically all the same albums, but just in a different order.
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Still agawp at the lucifer bloke though.
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm happy for people to embezzle welfare money if they are going to use it for crazy shit like that.
― Neil S, Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Marc Riley's lost his mind!
― the original hypnagogic pop blogging crew (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Is he standing as a Labour candidate at the next election?
- Gary, Marbella, 16/7/2009 12:03
BAM
― the original hypnagogic pop blogging crew (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Their record label said it wouldn't sell because it did not feature the names of the band or the LP.
Yes, I can imagine EMI thinking that the new Beatles album might not sell...
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link
"It doesn't say Ringo Starr on it, it won't sell"
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
It's true though that there's no way anyone would have recognised a photo of them in the 60s. They were quite low profile I think.
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Also 'Gary, Marbella' is too perfect for a DM reader.
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
To be fair, it was John Kosh who said about "EMI said it won't sell", as stated in the Telegraph.
To be blunt, clearly the Daily Mail nicked the whole article, photos and all.
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't know Dacre was so into recycling!
― clear chanel (suzy), Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
In what universe is this a front page story, even in batshit Paul Dacreland?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
eh who doesn't separate that stuff anyway?
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Loads of people?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
food waste? tbh once i take out the recyclable stuff that's all i have left.
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't understand why they're getting quite so 'URRGHH SLOP BUCKETS' about this. Food waste is currently collected with the rest of your rubbish once a week. Under the proposed system, food waste will still be collected once a week, but just separated out from the rest of your waste. What's the difference?
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure which is funniest - the picture of the Victorian slop bucket or the nightmare vision of maggots and rats overrunning the nation's kitchens.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
euroc-rats, surely
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that Victorian illustration is just someone emptying the laundry bucket, isn't it? Can't see it being appropriate unless they used to use rotting meat instead of fabric conditioner.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I can imagine Dacre having to be forcibly restrained from including an image of a 1665 plague-cart.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, I guess the slop bucket is what you have to put the food in during the week? Presumably this will be covered, perhaps with some kind of "lid", to keep the insects and rodents out.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I have one in my kitchen with just such an ingenious "lid" contraption. No maggots, flies or rats in evidence yet.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
As long as it has an airtight lid it shouldn't be a problem.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
gonna take millennia for this type of technology to become available cheaply enough to have in every home
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe when it does become inexpensive we could all throw parties...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
...parties where we can discuss and maybe even purchase this awesome future tech.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:04 (fourteen years ago) link
jeez what planet you even on? that's crazy talk.
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Is the Not In My Back Yard or Not Under My Kitchen Sink?
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Mr Dacre and the Rats of Nimby
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:13 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
600+ comments, though. anyone who's worked on a local newspaper knows bin collection is the only public service people really care about.
― joe, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
The same rotten entity that tries to enforce these unworkable bully boy policies are the same ones who know all about polluting our skies and air with CHEMTRAILS. Just look above your head every morning on the way to work.I wonder whether this comment will get published!!- Terry, London, UK, 15/9/2009 13:03
I wonder whether this comment will get published!!
- Terry, London, UK, 15/9/2009 13:03
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:24 (fourteen years ago) link
"They DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUNS to rule us. End of."
Steady on, Robert from Worcester. It's just a food recycling bin.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahahaha
Robert from Worcester gonna be all holed up in his cabin Charles Bronson-style executing hundreds of plastic bin-wielding council employees.
― Eugene Sander-Rygar (MPx4A), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
"I wonder if the Daily Mail will publish my comment against the government, based as it is on ignorance and mistrust" - Terry from Laahndon...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
xp "I don't like bin-days"
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Robert from Worcester: "Hey, Johnson. Recycle this."Robert from Worcester: [detonates bin]
― Eugene Sander-Rygar (MPx4A), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Robert from Worcester, walking away as backdrop explodes with huge loss of bureaucrat life:
"Takin out the trash"
― Amateur Darraghmatics (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Hillary Benn has just waded into the comments section, good luck there feller.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
darraghmac just made me cry with laughter
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a point your paper has made on several occasions and I agree with you on this. Every year Britain sends 6.7 million tons of food to landfill, where it contributes to dangerous methane emissions.
says Hil.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link
just to clarify something- when this food waste goes into a special bin, where does it go to from there if not landfill? pigfood?
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm, I pressed the green arrow on Hillary Benn's comment, now I see it's back to zero.
Anyone want to press some green arrows there? Just for the hell of it?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, just realised I pressed the wrong one, about the dogs who woof down food.
As opposed to chickens, who just cluck it down, right?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
cats' cheeeow down
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
It basically gets composted. Both the end product and the heat the process generates can be re-used, along with any waste gas.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
well that's highly commendable.
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
lol waste gas pfft
it's from all the baked beans...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
My sister looked out of her window a couple of weeks ago, and there marching across the lawn was a sea of maggots from her and her neighbours dustbins.My sister, niece and the neighbours were up until midnight putting salt down and bleaching the bins in the half-light from various front rooms.Benn & co will have us slopping out out potty's next rather than use a flush toilet.
- Eileen, Herts England, 15/9/2009 14:45
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
bleaching the bins in the half-light
wb yeats on dis ting
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
sir,
may i, bleaching my bins by candlelight, express my full support for the government?
― joe, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
lol- harry fredericks, bromley, England., 15/9/2009 14:31
green arrowed this guy
― unblapped goldmine (onimo), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
From last night's Wigan Evening Post:
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5820/5530394.png
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Nearly 800 comments now - it's like lightbulbs all over again.
Our local council, Cotswold, introduced exactly this awful scheme a year ago.
That would be a tory council then. Bloody Cameron and his eco-crazy goons.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Wheelie bins first deployed twenty years ago by a Conservative government.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
wheelie?
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Fantastic front page headline to-day (and url to go with it)
Dementia may have been caused by the Second World War, says scientist
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1213703/Dementia-caused-Second-World-War-claims-scientist.html
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:09 (fourteen years ago) link
(xpost) Chorlton in Cheshire. They even made a stop motion animated cartoon about it...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:11 (fourteen years ago) link
stress was invented by the nazis. hmm.
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:20 (fourteen years ago) link
French citizens forcibly expelled from Algeria in the 1950s
Bloody immigrants, leaving their own country in search of benefits.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
'go back to where you came from' with a twist.
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
This is cracking me up. It's like they take it as a personal challenge to get hysterically angry about absolutely anything.
― chap, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I have no idea what the big deal with wheelie bins is, we've had them for as long as I can remember (probably, hey, 20 years) and don't know what better thing everyone is so angry about the loss of. Am I too working class to have experienced the wonders of amazing pneumatic tube systems or something.
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Before wheelie bins we kept rubbish in black plastic bags piled up in the bin cupboard outside, which was far more likely to atract maggots/flies/rats. So I too have no idea WTF these people are complaining about.
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
These people had steel dustbins with steel lids that rats didn't chew through. It was a golden age of refuse collection, you could leave your bin open and no-one stole your identity.
― astronimo domino (onimo), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
fouryourkshiremen.jpg
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yourkshire jesus christ
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4654/31200272.jpg
― James Mitchell, Monday, 21 September 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
c'mon, that's actually a fair question
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 21 September 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
'mothers paid to have children they barely even know'
i mean, it's the only reason i ever get laid, but on the other hand, does it infere with the market?
"mothers paid by the state to have babies with men they barely know" ... wait what?
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Monday, 21 September 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
mothers paid to have children they barely even know'
eh, that's not what i meant to type, but it is a very daily mail sentiment so i stand by it.
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 21 September 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it refers to lone parent allowance merdeyeux
You know, that office with barely known men in it, that want to father kids.
And that other office full of women that want some money?
It's all filmed for Virgin1 docs, innit?
― Mark G, Monday, 21 September 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
omg <3 greatest headline ever. i even got my own machete the other day!
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 21 September 2009 13:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i tellya, as a public worker that's the gig we're all going for. i've passed over three promotions just to keep on the list for the fathering office.
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 21 September 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Machete by the door must be a bit off-putting tbh
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Monday, 21 September 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
hardly notice after taking all the drugs on the table
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 21 September 2009 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
cutting lines with a machete is no picnic
― astronimo domino (onimo), Monday, 21 September 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
especially with govt sponsored backache
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Monday, 21 September 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, Harriet really HAS some ANGER. Other genius articles by her include:
Why does the NHS hate the elderly so much?
Why HAS the state got it in for foster parents?
I've seen how our education system betrays children - it's enough to make you weep
and...er...
Ladies, thank heaven for younger men
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 21 September 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
freudian typo in this mail piece about paedos: "As a father, I know it's important not to oversex-state the danger our girls are in."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1215189/How-safe-daughter-Paedophiles-using-web-trap-girls-middle-class-married-And-police-struggling-cope-.html
― joe, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Many will have been raped and, in a few tragic cases, the victim may even have been killed. That's the reality of modern paedophilia.
Not like paedophilia in the good old days eh?
― Jimenez, Jio, Giovannagetti, and Doug (onimo), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I was going to start quoting from the comments but I wouldn't know where to start/stop.
― Jimenez, Jio, Giovannagetti, and Doug (onimo), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
oh fuck's sake
― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Overtly gay Tory blogger Iain Dale has reached the final stage of parliamentary selection for Bracknell, telling PinkNews: 'I hope any PinkNews readers who live in Bracknell will come to the open primary on October 17 to select their new candidate.You don't even have to be a Conservative to attend.'Isn't it charming how homosexuals rally like-minded chaps to their cause?
You don't even have to be a Conservative to attend.'
Isn't it charming how homosexuals rally like-minded chaps to their cause?
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 1 October 2009 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Isn't it charming how Tories rally like-minded chaps to their cause?
Isn't it charming how the anti-nazi league / the BNP / the Womens Institute / Geir rally like-minded chaps to their cause?
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 October 2009 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Isn't it charming how ILXors rally like-minded challops to their cause?
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 1 October 2009 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/04/article-0-06A4D656000005DC-508_468x581.jpg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1218166/LIZ-JONES-FASHION-THERAPY-Does-trend-Birds-nest-hair-work-real-woman.html
― James Mitchell, Monday, 5 October 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
gyaaaaaaa-
― MPx4A, Monday, 5 October 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i definitely saw her in goodfellas
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Monday, 5 October 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I definitely saw her in Birds of a Feather.
― edward everett horton hears a who (suzy), Monday, 5 October 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I definitely saw her in fuck-me shoes.
― The dead-eyed harpy from the hilarious "Tory Party Conference" (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 October 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i saw her in tescos
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Monday, 5 October 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Now she's a big success I want to meet her again.
― Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Never mind the Faily Mail, I think I just saw her in the mirror...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Monday, 5 October 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw this ...How Kevin McGee's drug addiction and jealousy destroyed marriage to Matt Lucas and cost him his life...and dreaded reading the comments and sure there were loads of nasty crap but the well done DM trollers for getting the DM to change "husband" to ex-husband (i.e. without the scare quotes) and for well and truly trouncing the crazies in the Best Rated stakes.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait - they haven't changed it later on. Well, tiny steps.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
It shows one good thing, throwing money at a problem is not always good policy. The shame is Loony-Labour thinks that's all it takes.
- mike, London, 7/10/2009 15:00
lol crowbar is hueg
― Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
?!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218880/One-gay-man-lesbians-legged-cat-poisoned-curry-plot.html?ITO=1490
― emil.y, Thursday, 8 October 2009 11:20 (fourteen years ago) link
The headline was great, you couldn't make this up, LOL!!!!
All the "outraged" namby-pambies complaining about it ought to take some valium and return to their daytime TV programs.
- John, London, EUSSR, 08/10/2009 10:28
― no bubo, no credibility (stevie), Thursday, 8 October 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
One-gay-man-lesbians-legged-cat-poisoned-curry-plot.html?
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 October 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
A gay man turns a cat's legs into lesbians using poisoned curry?
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i read an article a while back in the mail by some female columnist about how women dont really have sex for enjoyment but for other reasons which i quite enjoyed.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 9 October 2009 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link
her SO must have been delighted with that.
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Friday, 9 October 2009 09:15 (fourteen years ago) link
for other reasons which i quite enjoyed.
What were those reasons you enjoyed?
― Mark G, Friday, 9 October 2009 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
itchy fanjita
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Friday, 9 October 2009 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link
just the idea that my overwhelming wealth and inability to do chores is obv a surefire way to get laid.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 9 October 2009 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/4673716.Under_fire_columnist_inspires_carnival_entrants/
zing
― Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 12 October 2009 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
“I had thought that if I employed enough local people, got enough local students jobs and internships, spent £350 on a cashmere blanket in a Dulverton gift shop for my sister’s Christmas present, bought all my beauty products and candles in there too, that people would like me and accept me.”
― Not the real Village People, Monday, 12 October 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://current.com/1uk1i4c
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
You have to stick with that video for the bonkers paintings of Paul Dacre.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Liz Jones is responsible for many of the MMR scare stories in the Mail in recent years, so the more often she is pursued by shotgun wielding locals across Exmoor the better as far as I'm concerned.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
'Celebrity journalism is nonsense' – tabloids duped in fake stories hoax
The Daily Mail was the only newspaper that was approached by the filmmakers but did not print any of their fabrications.
― Alba, Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Some of Fleet Street's top newsrooms ‑ including those of the Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Star and Daily Express
Story falls down about here
― Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Their next project is about bears. In woods.
― Mark G, Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Some of Fleet Street's top newsrooms ‑ including and also those of the Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Star and Daily Express
fixed
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
(xpost) I bet those bears are illigal migrants...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
xpsSomerset folk pissed off with portrayal as backward yokels fire shotgun at letterbox in revenge.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Thursday, 15 October 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/Why-natural-Stephen-Gatelys-death.html
― dowd, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
what the hell is going on in the comments?!
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 16 October 2009 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link
The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
:D
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 16 October 2009 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe everyone's trolling constantly these days, which is why the BBC ends up clogged with righties, and the DM ends up with lots of egalitarians.
― dowd, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
He dun a cannabis, and his partner went into another room with another man = he is a hedonistic gay man asking to die..
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Why I love the Daily Mail, as distilled into one reader comment:
What tv bigwigs fail to understand is that Countdown stood for a GB that is fast disappearing. 27 years ago, viewers were folk who still had memories of street parties and Silver Jubilees, yet to go through 2 recessions and thought that 4 channels was choice enough. The slightly guilty pleasure of an afternoon was cosy and comforting, it meant fireside, a good cup of tea and a few digestives. The need to replace original host Richard Whitely, was obvious, understood in the nation's collective psyche. But as a nation of traditionalists, woe betide the tv execs who try to mess with the format beyond that! Vorderman was the last connection viewers had with a programme that existed meritoriously as nation's brain workout, rather than a ubiquitous "big money" game show. Fans of this programme never asked for Countdown to be 'sexed up' or modernised. And while moving with the times can be seen as admirable, sometimes hanging onto the old values is the conundrum they should be working out.- J Bee, NW England, 16/10/2009 4:16
- J Bee, NW England, 16/10/2009 4:16
― James Mitchell, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice job tying it in with the death of Matt Lucas' partner too - doubling up the offensiveness. That's good even by Shakey standards.
― dowd, Friday, 16 October 2009 09:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Guys tomorrow I am buying the Daily Mail. I may never be able to look my lefty father in the eye again.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I might even be bothered to complain about that Moir piece (of crap). PCC code of practise...
5. Intrusion into grief or shocki) In cases involving personal grief or shock, enquiries and approaches must be made with sympathy and discretion and publication handled sensitively. This should not restrict the right to report legal proceedings, such as inquests.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 12:31 (fourteen years ago) link
PCC won't listen unless you're a subject or related to a subject of the story.
― stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Call up and tell them you're Stephen Gateley.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
That Gateley piece is appalling, poisonous conjecture.
― chap, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a facebook campaign to complain to all the advertisers that ran beside it, in print and online. That's a good idea.
― stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, the dead can't sue and all that...
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://notsowunderbar.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-there-is-nothing-natural-about-jan.html
"Some of my best friends are Jan Moir’s weird face"
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I figured they would have thought of something like that. They've changed the headline of the article I notice.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I need to complain to someone.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/4913531605
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
Stephen Fry otm
― Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
― stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:41 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark
Looks like all the ads have gone!
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dailyquail.org/2009/10/jan-moir-why-theres-nothing-natural.html
^^^^ AMAZING
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
THey just reprinted the article, haven't they?
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Kevin McGee, the former husband "of" Little Britain star Matt Lucas
― Des Leppilen (darraghmac), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
This has made me think about whether I really want The Graduate or not now. I mean fuck these guys, even if they are giving away great films I haven't seen yet.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Motorcycle Diaries" instead?
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
which is shown regularly on Film 4 ..
― mark e, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
the graduate was on itv this very week
― it's like a Shark-Cage but for "Your Junk" AKA Your Penis & Balls (stevie), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
so they are cunts about that one dudes death huh?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir
― mark e, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, nailed concisely there.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Mr Fry's twitter now has a reply condemning the Daily Mail from celebrated liberal right-thinker... Chris Moyles?!http://twitter.com/CHRISDJMOYLES/status/4916617692
― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
aka, game recognise game
― Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Jan Moir responds - makes things worse.http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/16/jan-moir-stephen-gately-response
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"In what is clearly a heavily orchestrated internet campaign I think it is mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones."
Undertones? No.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Also I just wanted to say that civil marriages can be problematic because people in them can DIE. Of being gay.
― stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
It's good to save articles like this to compare and contrast with the Daily Mail's upcoming "Evil Sick Bigots Who Celebrate the Death of Our Greatest Ever Prime Minister" piece.
― Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Looking forward to a full scale "everyone's picking on me" whine in tomorrows Mail.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Fiver says it's "J'Accuse the Gay Mafia"
― Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
There'll be agendas and possibly even political correctness. Bonus marks if cancer and/or health and safety make appearances.
― stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
first time i've seen this:
http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
IS THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT CHEATING MIDDLE BRITAIN?
ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS GIVING HOUSE PRICES CANCER?
COULD THE BBC SCROUNGE OFF YOUR DAUGHTERS?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
ARE GYPSIES GIVING YOUR PENSION DIABETES?
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE GYPSIES KILLED YOU?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ yuo can tell these are made up because they actually make some kind of sense, unlike real DM articles...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD ASYLUM SEEKERS GIVE COMMON SENSE AND DECENCY DIABETES?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD THE UNEMPLOYED HAVE SEX WITH DRIVERS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE THE POLES STOLEN FROM CLIFF RICHARD?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
WILL RIP-OFF BRITAIN GIVE MIDDLE BRITAIN DIABETES?
So, if there's nothing homophobic about this, it's gonna be a bummer to turn up at work on Monday morning and find half of the under 30s we work with dead, innit?
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Friday, 16 October 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
WILL CHAVS INFECT THE CHURCH WITH AIDS?
― fisherspwner (braveclub), Friday, 16 October 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
ARE GAYS TURNING YOUR MORTGAGE GAY?
― if, Friday, 16 October 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD YOUR LOCAL COUNCIL RUIN HARD WORKING FAMILIES?
was my best one!
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 17 October 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
IS THE HOUSE PRICE CRASH HAVING SEX WITH COMMON SENSE AND DECENCY?
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2009 11:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I love the comments in the JavaScript that generates the headlines:
new Noun("russell brand",3,1), // FIXME: Delete when latest moral panic is over
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
haha the funniest results from this are ones that end in 'swans"
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link
WILL JACQUI SMITH HAVE SEX WITH YOU?
FFS I hope not...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
(Went w/ the Grauniad instead. Dustin Hoffman can wait.)
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/if_god_had_wanted_me_to_be
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
HAS RUSSELL BRAND IMPREGNATED BRITAIN'S SWANS?
I believe the answer is 'probably'.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD ALISTAIR DARLING INFECT PENSIONERS WITH AIDS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD THE GERMANS MAKE YOUR DAUGHTERS IMPOTENT?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD LESBIANS STEAL THE IDENTITY OF YOUR PETS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE HOODIES TURNED THE QUEEN GAY?
HAVE THE POLES DESTROYED CLIFF RICHARD?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
That one can't be pinned on the Poles.
― Neil S, Saturday, 17 October 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Depends what you mean by poles.
― Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
lol...poles
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
polls
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, assuming for a moment you've never seen a Daily Mail headline generator before - can't we talk about the succesful internet campaign that has resulted in a bunch of advertisers pulling their money? Or that the cops are apparently looking into it under hatred laws? Or that at the very least this might be the end of her career (hopefully)?
― dowd, Saturday, 17 October 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the #dailymail debate is covered in as much depth as is necessary on twitter. not that this wasn't a repulsive article, but you have to be pretty wet behind the ears to think this is the daily mail going "too far" for the first time.
but yes, "successful internet campaign". finally notice is taken of white males aged 18-45. i'd hate to be the next guy stephen fry retweets criticism of on a friday afternoon.
― caek, Sunday, 18 October 2009 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
ARE THE UNIONS DEFRAUDING BRITAIN'S SWANS?
― caek, Sunday, 18 October 2009 06:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Umm, I don't think it will be the end of the paper. She should get fired though.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 18 October 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i still find richard littlejohn way way way more offensive than jan moir could ever hope to be, and his particular brand of homophobia much worse and more insidious. wish people would go after him on a similar scale.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 18 October 2009 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think cops apparently looking into this under hatred laws is something to be pleased about at all:(1) the article might be stupid, but it shouldn't be a crime; and(2) I'd quite like the police to just do their job, rather than responding to orchestrated pressure. It's not a good thing just because for once the mob is on 'our' side.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 18 October 2009 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link
If the police go after Moir, do they also get to go after anyone printing supportive comments on the Mail website? The whole article, starting with the incredibly WTF statement that healthy 33-year-old men don't just climb into their beds and don't wake up, and then suggesting that only gay men commit suicide over the break-up of their relationships (if indeed Kevin McGee's suicide was anything whatsoever, even tangentially-related, to do with his sexuality) is screamingly wrong and offensive to everyone with depression, undetected heart conditions or teh gayness, but what's worse is that it seems to be speaking for a number of people and not just for her trying to sell papers.
And, yes, The Mob should go after Littlejohn next. Am surprised he's still in a job after than "prostitutes deserve to get murdered" piece.
― ailsa, Sunday, 18 October 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8314577.stm
The Press Complaints Commission says it will ask the Daily Mail to respond to complaints about a column it ran on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately.The PCC said it had received more than 21,000 complaints since its publication on 16 October - the most ever made about a single newspaper article.
The PCC said it had received more than 21,000 complaints since its publication on 16 October - the most ever made about a single newspaper article.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 October 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
enjoying the irony of this being a classic DM style witch hunt, tbh. except totally and utterly deserved.
― Des Leppilen (darraghmac), Monday, 19 October 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Marks & Spencer asked the newspaper to move an advertisement which appeared alongside the online version of the article, stating that it "does not tolerate any form of discrimination".
― Mark G, Monday, 19 October 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I always love when an organ like the Daily Mail prints an article no more offensive than usual and is suddenly buried in outrage.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 19 October 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I find the cynical responses to the Twitter campaign baffling. So because a paper is reliably vile, when it prints a particularly unpleasant piece people should just shrug and ignore it? No - even if she was just unlucky enough to be a lightning rod for general disgust with the Mail, she deserved it and there's nothing wrong with right-wing hatemongers getting a taste of their own medicine from time to time. It's not as if private tut-tutting will ever get the Mail's attention.
― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 19 October 2009 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
DV my theory as to why this one got traction is because it wasn't couched in the sober, reasoned manner that the real classics of DM psychopathy usually are, i.e. "if one sits down and thinks about it, deportation procedures really are the only answer to our pressing problem of the lack of resources within britain"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 19 October 2009 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Is Jimmy Carr the new Jonathan Ross?
― James Mitchell, Monday, 26 October 2009 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
1. Jimmy is a key, credible and genuine supporter of the Armed Forces - as evident by his visits and shows without publicity - and takes their welfare very seriously.2. Out of an audience of 2,500 people only two people complained, and this level of complaint is not worthy of front page news.3. We are in talks with Jimmy to go further afield to boost the morale of the Armed Forces which is further evidence of his commitment to them and the work they do.4. A disappointing aspect from the Charity’s perspective is those who have sort to quote on the story. In my position I would strongly advise anyone from leaping on the Armed Forces bandwagon and also over sensitising the issue of injured servicemen and women who, in the main, do not see themselves as victims or charity cases but look to the future which includes a real ambition to return to the frontline - and compete in the Paralympics.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 26 October 2009 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"Say what you like about the servicemen amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan, but we are going to have a fucking good Paralympics team in 2012"
I have a pretty low tolerance for Jimmy Carr, but as his jokes go, this one actually isn't too terrible.
― I never saw the advantage of peeing while standing. (Upt0eleven), Monday, 26 October 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Let's play spot the difference. The top image is a set of instructions that members of the Question Time audience were given before filming last Thursday. And below that is a version of it that appeared in the Daily Mail and on its website on Saturday. Have you noticed what's changed? Funnily enough, the Mail used its version to support its claim that the BBC was "stage managing" an onslaught against BNP leader Nick Griffin during the programme.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 26 October 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Date-rape drugs are largely an urban myth used as an excuse by women who booze themselves into a stupor, it has been claimed.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
That's Daniel "lol she was wearing a short skirt too, the bitch was begging for it amirite" Martin, who clearly has something to hide when it comes to date rape drugs.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Wayne and Coleen Rooney are celebrating the birth of their first child.The Manchester United and England star, 24, was at his wife’s side as she gave birth at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital early this afternoon.The sex was so far unconfirmed.
The Manchester United and England star, 24, was at his wife’s side as she gave birth at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital early this afternoon.
The sex was so far unconfirmed.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 2 November 2009 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Bdum Tish.
― Mark G, Monday, 2 November 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
The Express is just utter, utter bullshit, isn't it? How the fuck do the people who write this trash manage to live with themselves? It's not like they're highly-paid, or anything?
Supermarket giant Asda has risked sparking a racial backlash in the place where the BNP won its first ever council, by closing its traditional fresh meat counter and replacing it with a halal only section.The chain has decided to make the move at its large store on the Isle of Dogs, east London.Within weeks, anyone wanting fresh pork chops or ham off the bone will have to go to the pre-packed meat section, with Muslim customers having a wider choice from the halal counter.Asda insisted it was “responding to customer demand” and had done a deal with a local halal butcher to reflect the ethnic make up of the area’s population.Yet figures show that while the borough of Tower Hamlets is almost half Muslim, the Isle of Dogs is about 80 per cent non-Bangladeshi.Workers at the store said furious non-Muslim customers would not meat derived from cutting the throats of animals and letting them bleed to death.Politicians were concerned last night that the move could reignite racial tension on the Isle of Dogs, where Derek Beackon won the BNP’s first council seat in 1993.
The chain has decided to make the move at its large store on the Isle of Dogs, east London.
Within weeks, anyone wanting fresh pork chops or ham off the bone will have to go to the pre-packed meat section, with Muslim customers having a wider choice from the halal counter.
Asda insisted it was “responding to customer demand” and had done a deal with a local halal butcher to reflect the ethnic make up of the area’s population.
Yet figures show that while the borough of Tower Hamlets is almost half Muslim, the Isle of Dogs is about 80 per cent non-Bangladeshi.
Workers at the store said furious non-Muslim customers would not meat derived from cutting the throats of animals and letting them bleed to death.
Politicians were concerned last night that the move could reignite racial tension on the Isle of Dogs, where Derek Beackon won the BNP’s first council seat in 1993.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 8 November 2009 06:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Gotta love this:
http://cdn.images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/comments/nocomments.gif
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 8 November 2009 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I suspect that that Express story is light on facts, and isn't to be taken seriously. But the whole issue of halal (and kosher, for that matter) meat is one that I am amazed has such a low profile. We have some of the best standards of animal welfare in the UK, but religions are able to bypass them at a stroke. There's no need to invent (or otherwise) stories about such meat being made "compulsory" - its mere existence is a major cause for concern.
― Ian Edmond, Sunday, 8 November 2009 08:31 (fourteen years ago) link
are halal and kosher techniques inherently cruel? i assumed they were painless for the animal
― NI, Monday, 9 November 2009 09:58 (fourteen years ago) link
The animals aren't stunned before they are stabbed in the neck with a knife.
"The UK Farm Animal Welfare Council says that the method by which Kosher and Halal meat is produced causes severe suffering to animals and it should be banned immediately. According to FAWC it can take up to two minutes for cattle to bleed to death, thus amounting to animal abuse."
― George Mucus (ledge), Monday, 9 November 2009 10:05 (fourteen years ago) link
They don't look very painless from the film footage I've seen of them. Neither does conventional slaughter though tbf.
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Monday, 9 November 2009 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link
It doesn't look pleasant, certainly, but the animals should be unconscious for the process. I believe the thrashing around is an automatic reflex.
― George Mucus (ledge), Monday, 9 November 2009 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Getting away from the point that changes at an Asda meat counter isn't all that likely to "reignite racial tension on the Isle of Dogs".
― James Mitchell, Monday, 9 November 2009 10:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1226464/The-First-Ladette-How-Germaine-Greers-legacy-entire-generation-loose-knickered-lady-louts.html
^this fucking guy
― a bunch of dorks talking about some records no one wants to hear (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Some might question whether this really matters, but would you trust a dentist who had chosen to go bald? Would you want your children treated by a doctor who had shaved his head?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Each dentist to display a sign:
"I have not gone bald voluntarily"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Strange, strange article. I mean I assume this must be a joke:
and at weekends some think nothing of lying a-bed until noon
Mustn't it?
― 'virgin' should be 'wizard' (GamalielRatsey), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link
think nothing of lying a-bed until noon
Oh, those foul rapscallions!
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf is an armpit vest?
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
The move, of late, has been to have no hair at all and the men of Bog-Standard Britain seem to have taken their lead from the Mitchell brothers who swaggered into EastEnders, the BBC's main primetime soap opera, in 1990.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01460/William-Hague_1460616c.jpg
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:32 (fourteen years ago) link
... though Alan Clark complained that Hague had copped his hairstyle from Bruce Willis, not the Mitchell Brothers
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Bang bang. That was Germaine's tactic. Wham bam bang.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Whan. Bosh bang. Bam whang ban wang.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
You have to admit there is a haphazard logic to this theory about bald men...http://queen-of-outer-space.com/wrb9.jpg
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, it reads like a parody to me, but it isn't o_O
Paaaaargh for the coarse.
― I'm Still Stanning (onimo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I have had the misfortune to do some research for Quentin Letts wife, one of the rudest and most unpleasant women I have ever dealt with, if she's an example of the fragrant 1950's womanhood he's expousing give me Germaine Greer any day.- Lucy, London, 10/11/2009 11:11
The comments section generally is far from positive, plus a few mentalists. Is the Mail just trolling its readers now?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link
We are the Daily Mail website's readers. You could say the same of the Guardian site.
― caek, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
*room turns ice cold*
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I have had the misfortune to do some research for Quentin Letts wife, one of the rudest and most unpleasant women I have ever dealt with, if she's an example of the fragrant 1950's womanhood he's expousing give me Germaine Greer any day.
Well give her a break, she is married to an ugly misogynist snob after all
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
never give a sucker an even break
― I'm Still Stanning (onimo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:49 (fourteen years ago) link
When the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, a large proportion of the female passengers survived, but 80 per cent of the men on board went down with the ship, doomed by chivalry. They had observed the code of 'women and children first' to the lifeboats.
Would that happen today?
Not only that, but to-day the third class passengers would probably demand a palce on the lifeboats as well! Outrageous!
This man is deranged. He's written a book called "People who buggered up Britain" (or something) in which he lays into various people and then complains about swearing and rudeness. Stupid fucking prick.
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
The 50 People Who Wrecked Britain. We did a poll...
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Would not be surprised at arriving at a time when Ryanair emergency-lands, tries to enact oxygen mask/yellow slide surcharge.
― fake plastic butts (suzy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I see - I presume it's the same as this?http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uXWWwU4NL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU02_.jpg
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
So his own books are getting dumbed down?
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
― DavidM, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 18:26 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
this set me off like nothing else fwiw
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Unfortunately he couldn't find a publisher for the sequel, "The 50 People Who Bought The 50 People Who Buggered-Up Britain".
And what's with the hyphen?!??!
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
As if that were possible xp.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
uh, xxp
lol
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, Louis is back! Where you been?
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
de-accumulating sbs
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Buggering-up Britain
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
would be honoured to make the list of a Lettlet one day
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
xp - oh right. Well, welcome back!
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i devoted a lot of facebook wallspace to things gleaned from this thread, so my ghostly presence was around
― joekin' phoenix (country matters), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
There are occasions when you have to legitimately, unironically love the DM, and the caption for the top photo in this article is one of them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230142/Pregnant-mother-13-says-I-having-babies-I-twins.html
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Sara Foss and Stephen Smith have enjoyed conjuring up wild and wacky names for their 13 children.We've listed them, from oldest to youngest, and given Sara's reasons for their names.Patrick – named after Sara's grandmother's surname of PatrickStephen – after his doting dad, StephenMalachai – after a character in the horror film, Children of the CornPeppermint – after Sara started craving mints during her fourth pregnancyEcho – after a group of eco-campaigners who Stephen met during a job at workEli – another character in the 1984 film Children of the CornRogue – a character in the film X-MenFrodo – hobbit in Lord of the RingsMorpheus – a character in film, The Matrix, staring Keanu ReevesArtemis – book character, Artemis Fowl, an obnoxious teenage criminalBlackbird – named after a gathering of blackbirds which flew onto Sara's lawnBaudelaire – named after the Baudelaire orphans which featured in Lemony Snicket's film A Series of Unfortunate EventsVoorhees – named after serial killer, Jason Voorhees in the horror movie, Friday The 13th
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL xp
and not xp
― GET THAT BABY JESUS RIGHT UP YE (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
However best rated comment reminds me why I should never never read the comments.
This is a form of child abuse as her other young children can't all be receiving dedicated care from her.
She should be sterilized immediately.
If she had the money to support her large brood then she could have as many babies as she wants to but whilst everyone else is paying for them she should be stopped NOW.
- jo jo, Swansea, 23/11/2009 9:47
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i love the way they got 3 children in and were like 'fuck it let's scar the bastards'
― GET THAT BABY JESUS RIGHT UP YE (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I think poor little Rogue got the worst deal.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I met someone who was seriously considering 'Rogan' as a first name for their son, middle name 'Josh'.
― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Think they settled on Sam Osa or something instead though.
― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Dan Sak.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Dopey Aza
― GET THAT BABY JESUS RIGHT UP YE (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Jill Frezi
― George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Chik En Tik Aaaaaaaaaaaaah Me Sailor
― so says surgeon snoball (snoball), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
More like Jacob Screek
― Herman G. Neuname is the first European president (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I think there's an ancient British bylaw that states if you name your kid Voorhees you are henceforth allowed to do whatever the fuck you like
― 9-1 changed everything (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 11:43 (fourteen years ago) link
By all accounts he's a jolly good fellow.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
And Keyser Söze all of us
― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
xp stealing that for the xword thread
― George Mucus (ledge), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 11:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232413/Children-legally-sold-sexually-explicit-DVDs-loophole-law.html
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/01/article-1232413-076D2BF7000005DC-276_468x219.jpg
There's going to be some pretty cheerful people working in metal labels' press depts today
― I AGREE WITH THE COSMETIC SURGERY (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 12:07 (fourteen years ago) link
poor Gaahl
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link
they all sound great, but none of them actually feature murder so wtf daily mail?
― caek, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
um, "Strangled" ?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
TOENAIL PULLING
― I sb'ed your mum (ken c), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Also available to any child - the Bible, Shakespeare, Dickens...
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't believe they've mentioned the Bulgar/Child's Play 3 "link". It was bad enough making that crap up back then but to reference your own made-up crap about it is really...er..crap.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
there has not been any toenail pulling in shakespeare
― I sb'ed your mum (ken c), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I bet someone in Titus Andronicus wanted to pull someone's toenail off though.
― the acquired taste that is howard wolowitz (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Wednesday, December 2, 2009 12:12 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol @ fake Gaahl comment underneath article
― I AGREE WITH THE COSMETIC SURGERY (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
'Out, out vile toejam'
― grobravara hollaglob (dowd), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Last week, they were cleared of insulting a Muslim guest when high-profile ‘hate crime’ allegations were thrown out by a judge to public applause. But, faced with £400,000 of debt and the wreckage of a business they say has been all but destroyed by the controversy, there has been little celebration for Ben and Sharon – just bewilderment at the way they have been treated.The experience has left them questioning their faith in the police, in the Crown Prosecution Service and in a British establishment that seems bent on protecting all manner of rights and sensitivities. Unless, that is, you are a church-going Christian.It has done little to improve their confidence in the way their case was handled to learn that Detective Constable Tracy O’Hara, the officer who played a leading role in the prosecution for the unusual crime of religiously aggravated harassment and took charge of their interrogation, is a leading light in the Merseyside Police Gay And Lesbian Support Network.
The experience has left them questioning their faith in the police, in the Crown Prosecution Service and in a British establishment that seems bent on protecting all manner of rights and sensitivities. Unless, that is, you are a church-going Christian.
It has done little to improve their confidence in the way their case was handled to learn that Detective Constable Tracy O’Hara, the officer who played a leading role in the prosecution for the unusual crime of religiously aggravated harassment and took charge of their interrogation, is a leading light in the Merseyside Police Gay And Lesbian Support Network.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
homosexuals and muslims are well known to be in cahoots
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, look at that 'mohammed guy
― You treat your step-mother with respect, Pantera (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
a British establishment that seems bent
yup.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I really don't understand the 'Free Speech' campaign banners that their supporters used. Why have those if they didn't actually say any of the things they were accused of saying?
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Pls explain how this guy coming to uk to better himself and still speaking with a strong native accent after 32 years doesn't make him a disgusting savage taking all our jobs. i bet he still supports Holland an'all.
― useless chamber, Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
NickB - that was exactly my thought on seeing the news reports on this. I guess they had more sense than to take the same line themselves.
― if, Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah, it's about time somebody stood up for the British public's right to harrass and intimidate.
― You treat your step-mother with respect, Pantera (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 December 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I really don't understand the 'Free Speech' campaign banners
You reminded me why I took against the 'defendants' ...
With supporters like those, and so on,,
― Mark G, Monday, 14 December 2009 08:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Daily Mail comments box is likely to go into meltdown over this one:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235782/Family-man-fought-armed-thugs-took-family-hostage-jailed.html
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
^ Outed as West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band fan
― Sonny Uplands (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a good spot.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 10:26 (fourteen years ago) link
daily mail comments all come from guardian readers, just like guardian comments all come from daily mail readers.
― caek, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
hard to really argue with trying to brain someone that was holding your family hostage tbh.
― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
The point being "at what point do you stop kicking the hostage taker's head in?" ...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Catching him in the street after he's fled your house and your family is safe then going and getting a cricket bat, a metal pole and a hockey stick and beating his brains out isn't exactly the same thing.
― blue_eyes chrono_trigger dirty engineer glasses (onimo), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i specifically said 'brain' i mean let's get the pavement messy here people
― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Liz Jones learns what it's like to be homeless
― Alba, Thursday, 31 December 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
that got the full treatment on the DM hate thread. tbh this thread should be locked.
― everybody hauritz (acoleuthic), Thursday, 31 December 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Oops - sorry.
― Alba, Thursday, 31 December 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
That really isn't parody? It read exactly like an Onion article.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 31 December 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
where is the DM hate thread?
― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 31 December 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Why I hate the Daily Mail, as distilled into one edition
This Liz Jones column, however, is so hilariously head-in-clouds insular bubbleworld that it belongs in the Love thread.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 31 December 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh this thread should be locked.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Vietgrove/missbossy.jpg
― mu-mu (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 December 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
it wasn't meant literally! 'twas a statement of lovelessness
― everybody hauritz (acoleuthic), Thursday, 31 December 2009 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I just knew Liz Jones would have a macbook:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/26/article-1238565-05B7D005000005DC-526_468x352.jpg
― Bob Six, Thursday, 31 December 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1269288/STEPHEN-HAWKING-How-build-time-machine.html
The URL says it all. No mention of whether a wormhole would help immigrants get in or stop them.
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Shame they're no longer accepting comments for this article, I was just going to post that this disgraceful freak should be sent back to the robot universe he came from. And maybe a bible quote about how THE LORD said thou shalt not travel in thyme.
― StanM, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
How about travelling in parsley?
― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 07:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1278757/LIZ-JONES-To-4-100-answered-heart--thank-you.html
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 16 May 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I won’t go into why I found myself unable to afford food, heating, petrol...When you have no money, people assume it’s because you’re ...profligate
Read your own columns recently, hen?
― ailsa, Monday, 17 May 2010 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html
Peer pressure: Even respected, intelligent students from normal, sensible backgrounds are vodka eyeballing
― pollos da don (tpp), Monday, 17 May 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
While medical experts say it is still a relatively new phenomenon, a quick glance at the internet reveals how rife it has become among young drinkers in Britain.
― pollos da don (tpp), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Speaking of a quick glance at the internet...http://gawker.com/5540166/vodka-eyeballing-the-dumbest-trend-piece-ever
What the Mail have done is find one woman who damaged her eye while pouring vodka in it as a student stunt and convinced their readers that this is a sweeping trend
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
It would be easy, of course, to dismiss Melissa as nothing more than a silly 'ladette'. But it is hard to reconcile that stereotype with the young woman she is today, fresh out of university in London with a first-class English degree, the privately-educated daughter of financiers, and an aspiring writer.
o rite then
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Because students don't ever do stupid things while drinking, do they?
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/15/article-1278583-098F1CEE000005DC-329_468x375.jpg
WS
― she is mottled and she's looking good (DJ Mencap), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
er, yeah well you know how to click on a url
james murphy could not be reached for comment as of press time
― all i wanna do is poll poll poll poll and zing and discuss mia (history mayne), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1278510/Depression-Its-just-new-trendy-illness.html
^think this is what they call a 'shot fired'
― she is mottled and she's looking good (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
This relatively new ailment appeared on my radar a couple of years ago
Idiot
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
that is an hilarious genius at work, but i'm not sure she knows it.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I beg to differ, that's an irredemably vile harridan at work
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
irredeemably vile people can be amusing
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
starts like an actual glenda slagg piece:
There's a big black cloud hanging over parts of the UK, and it's not going away. No, not volcanic ash stoopid - depression I'm talking about.
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
nah when you get down as far as the publicising of her own empowerment books that it really takes the plunge into black hilarity
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Cloud appeared about a fortnight ago iirc
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh i can't be arsed to read it
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
missing out, seriously
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
TBF I bet Janet Street Porter meets a lot of people who have suddenly become depressed.
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe you have not had the pleasure of seeing Janet Street-Porter, darragh, in acrion, believe me, she is one of the least amusing people I've ever seen in my life
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
in acrion? In action, I mean.
To be double fair the Daily Mail is Britain's leading newspaper for endless coverage of imaginary illnesses developed by middle class people with too much time on their hands.
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't read the whole thing, obv.!
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, after communist social worker house price stories, everything you eat is going to kill you stories are their whole steez.
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The competition is fierce though
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i've seen her plenty, can't believe she hasn't swallowed her own tongue by now tbh.
sometimes you have to laugh, that's all. it's obviously a disgusting piece by an awful person, but at the same time it's funy because of the depth of feckless stupidity involved.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the kind of story that makes you hope somebody dear to the author goes down with severe depression in the next month, but someone dear to JSP = JSP, er, that's it
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Chucklesome, after a fashion, I suppose:
But let's take a moment to consider whether depression is common among the poor or the working class?
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
she's been talking to john gregory, right?
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
The whole notion of stress simply did not exist a few years ago - it's become a by-product of the ' megeneration' that grew up in the Sixties and wanted to try everything, from drink to drugs to sex.
Yeah remember pre-1960 when the suicide rate was zero?
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
and people didn't drink or have sex
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
miraculously, 90 per cent of us, don't get depressed about it, don't take special medication and don't whinge about 'black holes'. That's life in the real world.
Given that the incidence of mental health problems in adults is roughly 10 per cent, this is an absolute stunna of a closing argument.
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
xp ...and don't forget that they didn't do drugs either. All that stuff about Queen Victoria being a dope fiend WAS A MYTH.
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"Trouble down t' pit""Give over lad, 'appen tha's nowt you can do about it, now 'and me that ukelele and let 'ave a bit 'o George Formby"
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
You wouldn't catch someone like Winston Churchill having depression oh wait...
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Middle class twat, I'm sure his scullery maid never suffered from it
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
guys have some respect, she's had books published all over the world, from Slovenia to Sweden, Spain and the U.S.
― I don't want to go into my newt details (ledge), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
guys, she's not talking about justifiable depression, like winston having to fight Hitler. be fair.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd have thought that it'd be a barrel of laughs having to fight an Austrian with a stupid moustache and one testicle...
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
There sure must be place for her, as some kind of Mental Health, errrr, Tsarina in the Cleggeron Coalition?
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Special Minster for Don't End Up Like This
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Assistant Advisor on Oscillatory Jaw Motion
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ms Street-Porter, Ms Street-Porter, I feel like a pair of curtains" etc
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Curtains are just so middle class.
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
let's take a moment to consider whether curtains are common among the poor or the working class?
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The truth is, we've got fatter and flabbier. Obesity is a medical condition too many of us are suffering from - but you can't claim time off work because you're fat. You can, however, suddenly find you can't 'cope' - and stress has become, in our work-orientated society, almost a badge of honour.
Admiring sudden break in extended article about "lol u sadsacks" to go "lol u sadsacks FAT, inventing illnesses cz your boss doesn't think FAT = day off amirite" and then snap back to previous tirade
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
our work-orientated society
that's your work-orientated society tbh, love
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the spirit that built broken britain
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
or that broke built britain, either way
Steven Poole does a good job on this: http://unspeak.net/take-a-moment-to-consider/
― Neil S, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
yep, good quick job that made the point without delving into detail that the article doesn't really merit
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Tsarina
political correctness gone, uh, trendy.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
DiS forum has a 114-post thread on this article
― glouis? (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
presumably J S-P hasn't come out of that one very well
actually people are mostly being rubbish about it and trying to discuss whether she has a point or not
― glouis? (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
well tbf i'd be willing to discuss the issue, but not really using her as a starting point or anything
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
well the issue is that she's written the article as part of an agenda, and that is the issue that needs dealing with the most. that depression is a serious and widespread issue is beyond doubt but this doesn't really seem to enter her head at any point
― glouis? (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
just because she doesn't care doesn't mean it didn't enter her head
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
JSP dirt: never trust a woman with no female friends, just sayin'. I am reliably informed by gay friend of hers that she is intent on being the only girl in the room.
― cleggaeton (suzy), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, basically.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't she mates with Magenta DeVine?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, there was a connection through Tony James and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Magenta DeVine, now that's a blast from the past. She's finally lost the shades according to GIS;
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44375000/jpg/_44375534_rem416.jpg
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1289965/Apple-iPhone-4-recalled-says-Steve-Jobs.html
Journalistic integrity at the Mail doesn't extend to checking if a twitter account is fake or real, even when it says it is a parody in it's profile.
― Popper, Sunday, 27 June 2010 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Here is the twitter post
http://twitter.com/ceostevejobs
― Popper, Sunday, 27 June 2010 10:52 (thirteen years ago) link
# Bio I don't care what you think of me. You care what I think of you. Of course this is a parody account.
― display-name aesthete (snoball), Sunday, 27 June 2010 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
smh but this is still pretty much on par for the DM
"Sorry...
The page you have requested does not exist or is no longer available."
( http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/2010/06/mail-publishes-article-based-on-spoof.html )
― StanM, Sunday, 27 June 2010 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh my:
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Jun/Week4/15655741.jpg
― James Mitchell, Monday, 28 June 2010 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
but at least we would have a decent footy team too
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Monday, 28 June 2010 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"football and beer much superior" - Littlejohn should be renamed "Maquis Cha-Cha".
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 28 June 2010 09:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1300120/Big-homes-nice-cars-luxury-holidays--friends-don-t-know-Britains-new-MIDDLE-CLASS-POOR.html
HUMDINGER.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
For many articles I write, I earn no more than £250 and often struggle to make £500 a week — just over what my rent is.But, superficially, my habits remain the same: I go to parties, eat at restaurants when my friends invite me, and pray they don’t ask me to go Dutch.
earning sympathy just because daughter is so adorable in pic, but i mean seriously stfu forever
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Amazing. I did not know people had to live like this. Thank God we've got a government who is going to chuck thousands of people out of council housing so they have to rent from people like this.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1335550/Merry-Christmas-Along-millions-middle-class-families-I-afford-one.html
Five years ago, I earned £1,200 a week from my work as a TV and film producer and would have thought nothing of spending £45 on a pot of gold-lidded lusciously scented body cream as a Christmas present for a distant cousin... These days, I am lucky if I earn £500 a week as a writer.
...
My mother spent hours wrapping presents, turning even a mundane gift into an enticing, beribboned box worthy of one of the Three Kings.
Following in her footsteps, I used to buy ribbons from VV Rouleaux — now their price of £50 for velvet and silk ribbons seems truly shocking. Obscene, even. So I was thrilled to spot a six-pack of gold twine at Tesco for £2, and I’m hoping that will do the trick.
― jed_, Monday, 6 December 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
That article's been linked to on another thread. Fucking boils my piss.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Monday, 6 December 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
the mail really knows how to get web-hits
― Babylon and zing (stevie), Monday, 6 December 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Like the amazing photo credit on the photo accompanying this sad tale: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336141/Rhiya-Malin-2-died-heart-attack-getting-head-stuck-window.html
― James Mitchell, Monday, 6 December 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
you mean (c) internet? they're doing that a lot (at least as much as i can stand to look at their site, which is not much).
― Babylon and zing (stevie), Monday, 6 December 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8971/lolqa.png
do i click y/n
― man dem coalition (history mayne), Friday, 10 December 2010 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
today's front cover is a treat.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Friday, 10 December 2010 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - oh, you should click...
As he slopes around the world from interview to press conference, vanity drips from him like grease from a fatted calf roasting on the great spit of hubris.
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 10 December 2010 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
people who write for the daily mail are generally awful writers, as well as generally awful people y/n?
― Babylon and zing (stevie), Friday, 10 December 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
We both know one person who works showbiz shifts for them and she's 100 per cent awesome. Manages to do the job without badmouthing women or getting into politics of envy in her copy.
― Exotic Flavors of the Midwest, available in corn, bacon, or beef (suzy), Friday, 10 December 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, one of my old editors from the Times writes showbiz for 'em too and he's 100% good people - I mean the type who write the hateful political tripe, who manage to combine moral scummery with a truly immoral abuse of the english language.
― Babylon and zing (stevie), Friday, 10 December 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Best name ever for a blackmailer!http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337568/Woman-blackmailed-billionaire-3m-threatening-tell-wife-pregnant.html
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 11 December 2010 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 10 December 2010 10:27 (Yesterday)
― every clint has a silva lining (nakhchivan), Saturday, 11 December 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Mail invents Australian state
― Urban Coochie Collective (sic), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351585/Stephen-Green-rails-immorality-voice-Christian-Britan-private-wife-beater-says-partner.html
kinda unexpected? mail goes IN rather effectively on that terrible cunt stephen green - exposing him as a domestic abuser...
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Saturday, 29 January 2011 08:06 (thirteen years ago) link
As recently as the 14th January the D M was using quotes from Mr Green to support the Christian agenda. Has his number been removed from your speed dial list, in preference to somebody more credible?
- Anne, West Midlands, 29/1/2011 11:54
Oof. Burn, Daily Mail.
― clang honk twee (Pashmina), Saturday, 29 January 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
good grief, what a hateful individual, as well.
― clang honk twee (Pashmina), Saturday, 29 January 2011 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope that got 'liked' a lot.
― Mark G, Saturday, 29 January 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
http://onethingwell.org/post/3483841300/churnalism
― caek, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not very good: http://churnalism.com/rkkqs/#1ksp1
― joe, Thursday, 24 February 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"Mr Spendley, an amateur rock musician, wowed pupils with the toy ‘lightsaber’ he kept in his classroom as a symbol of his contempt for authority."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367723/Teacher-Mark-Spendley-confronted-ex-pupils-claim-seduced-them.html
― omar little, Saturday, 19 March 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/09/article-0-0B8EF1CB00000578-734_306x319.jpg
― 1000 Vults Of Nult (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 10 April 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
Even more amazing:
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Apr/Week2/15969526.jpg
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 10 April 2011 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
surely that is a shop???
― Republicans voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus (stevie), Sunday, 10 April 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Nw4pZg3f-xs/SvFo8pPxU_I/AAAAAAAAB4o/LmzFzoya2Mw/s400/md.jpg
― Neil S, Sunday, 10 April 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
Reggie Moondogg. DM couldn't make it up, it's too good.
― mmmm, Sunday, 10 April 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
speculative thread for The official Royal Wedding guest list?
― black bloc bologna (blueski), Sunday, 10 April 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
Ex lovers! Cue outrage about this, plus pictures, biographies and listings of them all (you couldn't make up a name like Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe )
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/article-1375329/Royal-wedding-Official-guest-list-revealed-Kate-Middleton-asks-2-ex-loves.html
― StanM, Sunday, 10 April 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
What this basically reveals, Waity Katey in pursuit of her dream has no friends. If in a guest list of 1900 odd, the bride can only scare up a handful of girls, it speaks volumes about her. It looks like most of 'their' friends are in fact William's, but then that is not knew since we all know she keeps quiet, at the ready for him and whatever /whomever he likes, she likes. Cannot trust this girl.
- Julie, London, 10/4/2011 9:30
― 1000 Vults Of Nult (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 10 April 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
I bet Julie made school fun.
― Alba, Sunday, 10 April 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
what are the chances of sneaking through some kind of Early Day Motion making it legal to assassinate anyone who actually calls her 'Waity Katey'
― 1000 Vults Of Nult (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 10 April 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
if someone said that out loud, wouldn't everyone hear Weighty Katey?
― StanM, Sunday, 10 April 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously, I know you don't like giving them clicks but this is too great to miss...
What kind of Britain will William and Catherine rule? Dominic Sandbrook imagines the country they will inherit
Be sure to read the comments!
― these are my everyday balloons (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 9 May 2011 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
A small number read a newspaper called the Guardian, now long defunct.
already comedy gold.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, 9 May 2011 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
Elections come and go. So do Prime Ministers, from Cooper and her husband Ed Balls to Britain’s first Asian premier, Sadiq Khan. But beneath the headlines and the tittle-tattle, little of substance ever changes.
lol yeah because no foreign trade, no cars and a wind turbine on every house is little of substance
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, 9 May 2011 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
ok damn china just happened.
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, 9 May 2011 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
"Britain’s first Asian premier, Sadiq Khan" - think this unlikely exaggeration made for the purposes of humour is the most telling.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 9 May 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
Doubt that they will rule. Cameron is taking the first steps to change and eventually destroy the monarchy. Bliar and Brown handed over the ruling of the UK to the EU. And in such a corrupt and unelected institution there is no place for a UK monarchy . Just as the EU is destroying nations, monarchies will follow.- norman hall, norwich england EUSSR ruled, 2/5/2011 8:28
Anyone know what these "first steps" are supposed to be?
― these are my everyday balloons (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 9 May 2011 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
Dealing with Liberals innit.
― charlie adam's sister's pants (onimo), Monday, 9 May 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
in such a corrupt and unelected institution there is no place for a UK monarchy
― no xmas for jonchaies (nakhchivan), Monday, 9 May 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
norwich is ruled by the EUSSR? what is delia playing at?
― popular gay automobile (a hoy hoy), Monday, 9 May 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
The Daily Mail has been forced to publish a series of amendments to articles claiming Scottish football manager Gordon Strachan was bisexual, had an affair with a male aide to the royal family and had a cocaine habit.Strachan complained to the Press Complaints Commission that the articles – published in 2007 and 2008, and which remained available on the newspaper’s website – contained numerous inaccuracies.Strachan said the newspaper was wrong to refer to him as bisexual and that he was “heterosexual and has never had anything other than platonic relationships with men”.Strachan also said the paper was wrong to have suggested he had a regular cocaine habit and had pretended to be dead to avoid paying a woman – Laura Gosling, the source for the story – money she claimed he owed her.
Strachan complained to the Press Complaints Commission that the articles – published in 2007 and 2008, and which remained available on the newspaper’s website – contained numerous inaccuracies.
Strachan said the newspaper was wrong to refer to him as bisexual and that he was “heterosexual and has never had anything other than platonic relationships with men”.
Strachan also said the paper was wrong to have suggested he had a regular cocaine habit and had pretended to be dead to avoid paying a woman – Laura Gosling, the source for the story – money she claimed he owed her.
first thought: haha wtf?
second: the mail or its source appears to have got confused between football manager and tv personality gordon strachan, who might struggle to fake his own death without attracting considerable attention, and royal blackmailer ian strachan. easy mistake to make!
― joe, Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:22 (twelve years ago) link
That's hilarious. It's the Press Gazette at fault but the story has been up on their site for half an hour without anyone fixing it.
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
pretended to be dead to avoid paying a woman
this was just at the end of a meal, woman was a waitress btw
― sensual bathtub (group: 698) (schlump), Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:41 (twelve years ago) link
I love it when people scramble to deny claims that they had relations with someone of the same sex, like gayness is somehow a bad thing.
― handy multi-bicycle parking station from available materials (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 May 2011 12:37 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol yeah: https://twitter.com/#!/pressgazette/status/68641788184899584
― joe, Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
they've spelled "Strachan" wrong twice in that Tweet. quality work.
― wanking on the moon (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:52 (twelve years ago) link
How about using it as an excuse to fiddle your expenses?
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
more like Gordon Strap-on amirite
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Thursday, 12 May 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
That twitter link is gone.
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 May 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
OK, wow, that's just... wow.
― ailsa, Thursday, 12 May 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
So, hang on: the Mail HASN'T apologised to Gordon Strachan? Guess this means he's out. Nice work, Daily Mail. What Gordon Strachan gets up to with men in the privacy of his own house is his own business, if you ask me.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 12 May 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://i42.tinypic.com/348n96v.gif
― the goon is in the gutter (onimo), Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/2n1ygki.jpg
For those who missed it.
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Hahahaha oh god.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
In other news, amusing SEO blog on how the Mail website actually works.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 May 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
The Mail is in its sweet spot today, addressing the issues that matter most to Britain.
Compare and contrast with 18 months ago. Pretty sure the front page headlines are identical as well.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
oh no! not slop buckets! oh no!
― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 09:22 (twelve years ago) link
so fucking childish ;_;
― ledge, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 09:58 (twelve years ago) link
You see, I put this in the Hate thread, but I think Matt is right, this is a 'love' one.(really we should just have one thread - The Daily Mail "The paper you love to hate")
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, sometimes I just straight up hate it.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:18 (twelve years ago) link
As if you can't all do a bit more for yourselves . Next you will be moaning that the council don't come round to wipe your bottoms . THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE .- Barry, Scotland, 15/6/2011 0:58― James Mitchell, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8:14 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8:14 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
^^^most red-flagged comment.
Most recommended comments.
Can't afford to empty our bins but got millions to give away to other countries. Cameron you stink as much as the bins.- J Hopkins, confusedland, 14/6/2011 19:33
This island gets more like a prison every day!- David, Manchester, 14/6/2011 19:33
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't really notice the Daily Mail enough when the Tories were last in power but really it is exactly the same shit that gets them angry in exactly the same way regardless of who's in power.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:21 (twelve years ago) link
This island gets more like a prison every day!
hope he hasn't read about cameron's new "cigarette for extra state bread roll" initiative
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
compulsory radiator-fermented orange squash alcohol for children
― Neil S, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
course, it's shank or be shanked
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
Just don't drop that Wills & Kate commemorative plate in the shower.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
it'd all be cool if the slop buckets had a picture of pippa middleton on 'em - daily mail would be happy.
― resonate with awesomeness (jel --), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 10:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2009679/Diana-50-Botox-sessions-best-friends-Carole-Middleton--feeling-threatened-Kate.html
this is hilarious and basically identical to internet fanfic
― winsome posters leave the hall (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
She would have sued for sure, and collected record-breaking damages (which she would have donated to the children’s cancer ward at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children).
On the way to present the donation, she would have asked the driver to stop so an assistant could jump out and buy her a Toblerone.
― winsome posters leave the hall (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
To be fair, the Daily Mail is just reprinting this piece from Newsweek. I still can't believe they published it.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
Double act: How Diana might have looked with the Duchess of Cambridge, had she lived until her 50th birthday
Hmm, exactly like a zombie?
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
"And then she'd have aditorf with Imran Khaaan!"
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
ha, like that "house that looks like Hitler" a whuile back, every comment (I've seen so far) on the "HYS" section is basically stfu.
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
although they figured it out a lot earlier it's the DM's equivalent of the worthless, insincere articles the Graun have been doing a lot of recently ('Amy Winehouse being too wrecked to play was awesome' / 'Villa fans who don't want Alex Mcleish are stupid' / others)
ie they know everyone who comments is going to shit on it but the pageviews will balance it out
― winsome posters leave the hall (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
having 107,000 Facebook friends must be right time-consuming.
― Sir Chips Keswick (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
today we have:
Girl, 13, crushed to death by a falling branch as she sat on park bench because her teachers were out on strike
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 1 July 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
Beautiful.
― � (a hoy hoy), Friday, 1 July 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
Come on Daily Mail have some respect -- RIP Sweatheart
- Sheeple, Essex, 01/7/2011 14:16
― winsome posters leave the hall (DJ Mencap), Friday, 1 July 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
I actually thought someone had made that up...but it seems nothttp://www.geeks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Daily-Fail.pngAlthough it's gone now.
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 1 July 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Should really be on the "hate" thread.
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 1 July 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Actually it's not gone they've just changed the headline to the far more reasonable "Girl, 13, crushed to death by a falling branch as she sat on park bench on the day her teachers went out on strike".
tbf both the Telegraph and the Mirror have gone for similar lines.
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 1 July 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2020705/LIZ-JONES-The-caring-professions-They-just-dont-care-all.html
blah blah liz jones entitled batshit whatevia, but in the middle of it...
I am catching a flight to the Horn of Africa tomorrow, to cover the famine in Somalia.
they're sending bloody liz jones to somalia. in a way i actually cannot wait.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 31 July 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
Oh look, she's still bleating on about how much money she spends on shit, despite being skint.
I too cannot wait for Liz Jones tackles famine. It will be terrifyingly amazingly bad.
― ailsa, Sunday, 31 July 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098596/Photos-1970s-rock-stars-parents-reveal-humble-roots-childhood-homes.htmlAll of these pics are amazing, but the - if you will - punctum must surely be the Richie-esque bust in the Donovan shot.
― Stevie T, Friday, 10 February 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
Worlds apart: Grace Slick, lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, is a different woman from her mother Virginia Wing
― Les Tressle (useless chamber), Friday, 10 February 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2012/Feb/Week2/16168529.jpg
Delightful choice by the photo desk.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 13 February 2012 06:31 (twelve years ago) link
xp link for those not wanting to give the DM page views.http://life.time.com/culture/rock-stars-and-their-parents/#1
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Monday, 13 February 2012 08:50 (twelve years ago) link
Plant a tree to commemorate our frozen dead. Then chop it down and burn it for warmth.
If the Mail ceases production, how long until 100,000 trees are free for more useful purposes?
― oppet, Monday, 13 February 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
St George would be proud! England celebrate national day with three REAL lions
By Sportsmail Reporter
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Monday, 23 April 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/62705_522238435696_286500429_1188989_7850469_n.jpg
L-R: L. Jones, J.Bieber
I don't know how this story came about but everything about this picture is a treat
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
Dude needs to negotiate a better rider.
― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
Does this one need to go onto the "So not going to happen" thread?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
Bieber (thinks) "I thought I ordered unidentifiable nibbly things with all the yellow ones taken out, ffs. Oh, and NO right wing tabloid journalist. I swear, if that cardboard box doesn't contain a dwarf in bondage gear covered in mayonnaise, I'll trash this place."
― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
I can't work out from this monitor if that bag of chips is sitting on a leopard skin or a huge pile of Cheerios. Or something else?
― Keith pissed on my chips (onimo), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
"That toaster's gonna go through this fucking mirror for a start."
― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
xp looks like a padded red chair to me
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
roflhttp://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/09/article-2142088-1303179C000005DC-364_634x770.jpg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142088/And-thought-YOUR-mom-embarrassing-Hilarious-collection-photos-women-kids-forget.html
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
Yet more Pullitzer-worthy investigative journalism, there.
― emil.y, Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
"mom"??
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
the daily mail gone done left blighty behind
― tebow kortwa (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
good riddance imho
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
I had a flash of panic when it said "if you're planning on showering mom with flowers or giving her a card this Sunday" until i realised that i haven't bought my mother a card since 1992 it's actually Sunday the 18th in the UK.
Strange that they'd presumably pick up a US story and not bother changing anything that made it completely obvious they were just printing pre-packaged press releases.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
Horror in 'Nappy Valley': Father comes home to find baby son and daughter 'smothered to death by wife' - just 10 days after they moved into £1.2m dream home
Neighbours saw the dark-haired mother being put into a police car by an officer who had an arm around her at around 10.30pm last night.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142296/Wandsworth-deaths-Father-discovers-murdered-babies-killed-wife-slit-wrists.html#ixzz1uV5V9TDH
― tebow kortwa (nakhchivan), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles Daily Mail stories
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
their bizarre house pricing obsession is just o_O
― Keith pissed on my chips (onimo), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
I had a flash of panic when it said "if you're planning on showering mom with flowers or giving her a card this Sunday"
I read this as 'if you're planning on showering with mom'
― kinder, Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
so in other words the mail stole it off some american site? haha
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't read it tbh i just looked at the funny pics.
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
Vanessa-Hudgens-wears-pair-teeny-tiny-shorts-leaves-pilates-class-Austin-Butler.html
― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Sunday, 20 May 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
something inappropriate about the font which labels the arrow of this suicide flight-path:http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/25/article-2178598-14348C3D000005DC-594_468x634.jpg
― bulge renaissance (+ +), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
Doesn't it go totally against some sort of code of conduct to show pictures of suicide spots in such articles?
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
PCC code:
*ii) When reporting suicide, care should be taken to avoid excessive detail about the method used.
― joe, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
further guidance:
Graphic images illustrating suicide methods were often upsetting to relatives and friends. Under the Code, such images would normally have to pass the ‘excessive detail’ test.
― joe, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
There you go! Obnoxious wankers
― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
looks like a compressed version of the guardian g2 font
― caek, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
coincidence? i think not.
Her husband Jeff discovered the tiny bodies at the couple’s £1.2 million semi-detached home in an affluent part of Wandsworth, south west London.
Neighbours heard investment banker Mr Boots, 34, cry, ‘Oh my God, oh my God’ as he desperately tried to save his two babies.
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
For some reason that reminds me vividly of the book Boo by Peter de Polnay, possibly even an incident within it, and I can't for the life of me remember why. It's certainly a while since I've thought of it. Is there a Mr Boots in there? Very possibly. There's certainly a tragic occurrence in a... West London I think flat. The tone as well, the tone.
Still fat chance of checking up, since this is about the only information I can get on the book, and PdP is not a writer who has yet ruffled WIkipedia's apodictic curve to infinite reference.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Here he is in a badly-scanned article from the Catholic Herald talking about that quickly forgotten post-war suggestion of a union between France and England:
http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/30th-october-1942/1/peter-de-polnays-faith-in-anglo-france
Best-selling author no less. Speaking for the common malt and Hun-ridden Paris.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
nice
i thought that bit in that meades interview was quite correct
I feel like the TV, the radio and the papers are always telling me how much ‘we' hate the French, yet I never really see it myself.
JM: I don't see it either.
no confederacy but quite a history of quixotic military-industrial comity in the postwar (suez, concorde, the channel tunnel etc)
and the recent mutterings about unifying the two ruinously expensive nuclear deterrents
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, I thought of that bit in the interview as well. And yes, I'd agree it's broadly correct. There's that great southern England folk song - The Grand Conversation on Napoleon - which is all about how the common man (or whatever) wanted Napoleon to invade England and liberate them from their servitude. Can't find a youtube! for shame! Lyrics here - http://mud✧✧✧.o✧✧✧@displays✧✧✧.c✧✧?SongID=6385 Plus, as we all know, much of our energy owned and directed into the future by state-owned French company:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n17/james-meek/how-we-happened-to-sell-off-our-electricity
(worth reading imo, tho long)
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
oh ffs. that link doesn't work. good excuse to troll the daily mail thread maybe:
THE GRAND CONVERSATION OF NAPOLEON
Ye war-beaten tribes,Who were friends of brave BonaparteWho come to view the rocks and cliffsOn St. Helen's shore;The wind it blew a hurricaneAnd the lightning on our decks did flashThe gulls they were screamingAnd the billows loud did roar."Those proud waves," the stranger saidAs he viewed that lone and dreary spotWhere once Napoleon BonaparteHis painful eyes did close;"While in the grave his bones may rotHis name will never be forgotThe grand conversation of Napoleon arose.
A dreadful army he did rise,To conquer Moscow by surprise;He led his men across the Alps,Oppressed by frost and snowBut being near the Russian line,He then began to open his eyes,For Moscow was a-burning,And his men went to and fro.With dauntless eyes he viewed the flames,Then in wildest accents he exclaimed:"Retreat:.yet gallant heroes,While time so gently!: flows!"There were thousands died in that retreat,And many did their horses eat.The grand conversation of Napoleon arose.
Next at Waterloo those F;renchmen foughtCommanded by brave Bonaparte,Assisted by7 F'ield Marshal NeyWho never was bribed by goldThen Blucher led those Prussians in,It broke Napoleon's heart within:"Where is my thirtv thousand men!Alas! for I am old!He made one gallant charge across,Saying, "Alas, brave boys. I fear t'is lost'"The field is in confusion With blood and dying woes; TheBunch of roses did advance, Those English entered into France.The Grand conversation of Napoleon arose.
And now Bonarparte is doomed to beA prisoner across the sea, On St. Helena`s isle.That lone and dreary spot;It's there that he is doomed to he,Which soon will end his misery.His true son followed after himThat was another plot.It's long enough they have been dead,The blast of war around is spread;And may our sapling sprout again,To face our daring foes,For if fortune smiles without delay,The whole world soon will him obey.The grand conversation of Napoleon arose.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
Bert Lloyd version is the one to seek btw.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
This should not be allowed,the birthplace of the fuhrer should be preserved for posterety so future generations can see the place of his birth, not a collection of chic flats.
- martin. , peterborough.uk., 08/11/2012 14:12
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 9 November 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
Secrets behind Hugh Jackman's body and Anne Hathaway's rotting prostitute's teeth revealed in a new Les Miserables featurette
― before and after broscience (goole), Monday, 10 December 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286391/Orley-Farm-School-headmaster-hid-coded-W---insult-colleagues-retirement-letter-steps-down.html
― Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 2 March 2013 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJ2gty5CAAAei5-.jpg:large
― congo nattefrost (DJ Mencap), Friday, 10 May 2013 13:18 (ten years ago) link
sorry for hueg but truthbombs only come in one size folks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392343/Grasping-politicians-pocket-Joan-Edwardss-500-000-legacy-bequeathed-government.html
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/801999205.jpg?1377072032
― millmeister, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 11:40 (ten years ago) link
glad that guy's here to mansplain things
― Neil S, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 11:40 (ten years ago) link
JOHN WHARTON, A Hell Of His Own Making
― the husbster (self-professed octopus expert) (stevie), Wednesday, 21 August 2013 11:52 (ten years ago) link
10/1 on that's a cambridge undergraduate being "funny"
― caek, Wednesday, 21 August 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/IN4nIQG.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 24 August 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/02/article-2287216-18663FC8000005DC-684_634x766.jpg
― the arpeggio as will and idea (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 August 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2407513/Student-19-mauled-400lb-tiger-Thailand-popular-tourist-attraction.html
WTF at this
― platonic beanie (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 09:25 (ten years ago) link
I mean, I symapathise with the woman who got mauled obviously, but isn't this sort of what you would expect would happen when you're offered the chance to pet a Tiger?
― platonic beanie (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 09:26 (ten years ago) link
The University College London student wants to warn others of the dangers of approaching the orphaned tigers, which are hand-reared by Buddhist monks at the controversial sanctuary.
Who needs warning about this?
― platonic beanie (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 09:30 (ten years ago) link
University College London students it would seem
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Saturday, 31 August 2013 09:31 (ten years ago) link
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/bf3e2acc56/katt-williams-tigers
all the youtubes of this are blocked :(
― many a slip 'twixt Yow and Yip (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 31 August 2013 09:38 (ten years ago) link
i'm sure the Mail's coverage wd be the same if this was some 40-something grizzled hippy dude
― RAWK of Agger's (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 August 2013 10:02 (ten years ago) link
srsly tho, i love the underlying "I was on holiday, what could possibly be dangerous?" vibe to stories like this
― RAWK of Agger's (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 August 2013 10:03 (ten years ago) link
Can't get over the way she basically says 'at first I was worried that petting a tiger might be dangerous, but then the people who were making money by getting people to pet the tigers said it was totally safe, so I thought it must be OK'.
― One good song and every is like 'Ooh Robin Thicke'... (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:14 (ten years ago) link
And then goes on to detail how she was surprised when the tiger attacked her because she had followed all of the instructions the staff gave her about not wearing bright colours that could freak out the tigers, only touching the tigers in a certain way, not wearing any dangling jewellery etc, and none these instructions lead her to wonder if the tigers were maybe not as safe as the staff were making out.
― One good song and every is like 'Ooh Robin Thicke'... (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:15 (ten years ago) link
I feel bad laughing about stuff like this though, because I do equally stupid stuff approx once every 3 hours, but the stupid stuff I do doesn't involve tigers so is generally less high stakes.
― One good song and every is like 'Ooh Robin Thicke'... (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:18 (ten years ago) link
i wd happily laugh at myself and expect others to join in if i got mauled by a tiger at the tiger petting monastery
― RAWK of Agger's (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:21 (ten years ago) link
My brother had one of those Darwin Awards books, but I can't look at stuff like that, it makes me cringe so much. I'm pretty sure it's only the fact I hardly ever leave the house that has saved me from dying in one of these kind of incidents 100 times over.When people laugh at stuff like the Darwin Awards do you think it is some kind of laughter of relief, like people know it could have been them and are glad it wasn't, or is it a more straight-forward 'lol, look at these morons who are dumber than me and dead' type thing?
― One good song and every is like 'Ooh Robin Thicke'... (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
This is a particularly brilliant/awful example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Hoy
― Human rights my "backside"!!!! (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:30 (ten years ago) link
the Garry Hoy is so amazingly fucked up and horrible that for years i wanted to believe it was just an urban myth. tbh i have no worries that i'd ever do stupid shit of that ilk.
― RAWK of Agger's (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
The fact he was correct the glass wouldn't break, but the whole window came lose from the frame is what pushes it to next level horrible/haunting, I think. Sounds so much like something from a sitcom or movie.I think I find this kind of stuff troubling because it's all vaguely reminiscent of embarrassing moments from my past, but only with someone literally dying at the end rather than just being humiliated. It's like reliving some dreadful memory in a nightmare, but your brain turns your social death into literal death.
― Human rights my "backside"!!!! (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
horribly sure i've said this before - i have an idea for a short story about a support group for the families of people whose deaths are so stupid that they never elicit sympathy for the bereaved
― RAWK of Agger's (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:40 (ten years ago) link
Feel bad for the loved ones of that Tory MP who wanked himself to death ('wanked himself to death' copyright Frank Dobson, 1995)
― Human rights my "backside"!!!! (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link
'Tory MP wanks himself to death whilst wearing women's lingerie' is such a perfect story, it 'fits' so well that any of that guys own unique, individual hopes/dreams/pain/idiosyncrasies are just steamrollered aside by this concept.
― Human rights my "backside"!!!! (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link
Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil described Milligan: "He possessed an enquiring, original intelligence, a wide knowledge of foreign and domestic affairs and he was great fun to work with, his infectious laugh filling our editorial meetings, where he played a major role in defining the paper's policy positions".[4]
― Human rights my "backside"!!!! (Eight Model Play), Saturday, 31 August 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/i7qDmSK.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/i7qDmSK.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/i7qDmSK.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/i7qDmSK.png
― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 16 September 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
That's alright, I'm sure the rational and fair voice of the UK public in the comments section will set the Mail straight on this kind of 'Jack-Journalism' (my coinage for patriotic white-washing of news in our favourite fash-friendly non-tabloid. Pretty clever wordsmithery by my, eh?)
― I have gathered no gaudy flowers of speech in other men's gardens (dowd), Monday, 16 September 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
That Manchester United are ready to offer Adnan Januzaj a pay rise which would amount to 290 per cent, on the back of one Premier League match, may seem crazy.
It may also explain one reason why many young players in the modern game who hit the heights early don’t fulfil their potential because they have achieved financial security by the age of 20.
But even within the mad finances of football, there is economic logic to United being prepared to raise the 18-year-old’s pay from its current trainee £1,000-a-week level to around £30,000 a week.
― fake irish times letters mac d (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 October 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
England is the only developed country producing school leavers who are worse at maths and reading than their grandparents, according to a damning report.
The study found 16 to 24-year-olds are among the least literate and numerate in the world, lagging behind those in countries including Estonia, Poland and the Slovak Republic.
England came 22nd out of 24 countries for the reading skills of its young people and 21st for maths, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
― fake irish times letters mac d (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 October 2013 00:26 (ten years ago) link
lmao
― caek, Sunday, 13 October 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
haaaa
― imago, Sunday, 13 October 2013 17:00 (ten years ago) link
even those fucken polak savages
― imago, Sunday, 13 October 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
(xps) Now that's what I call mental arithmetic...
― not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Sunday, 13 October 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
MOST WATCHED NEWS VIDEOS
White supremacist shocked by DNA heritage GRAPHIC: Russian man nails testicles to Red Square in... CCTV: Moments after Canadian ballerina plunges to her death
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
England is the only developed country producing school leavers who are worse at maths and reading than their grandparents, according to a damning report.The study found 16 to 24-year-olds are among the least literate and numerate in the world, lagging behind those in countries including Estonia, Poland and the Slovak Republic.England came 22nd out of 24 countries for the reading skills of its young people and 21st for maths, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Generally speaking, that's pretty poor English.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYZbMRzCMAAEQm5.jpg
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
poll
― I am a 'music' fan. Revolutionary, isn't it? (onimo), Thursday, 20 February 2014 10:58 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Network12.jpg
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Thursday, 20 February 2014 10:59 (ten years ago) link
I'm sick of it all! The "Everything that's wrong with Britain" Poll
Poll!
― I am a 'music' fan. Revolutionary, isn't it? (onimo), Thursday, 20 February 2014 11:04 (ten years ago) link
The Daily Mail, however, was not a fan of the desk [on the new ITV breakfast show "Good Morning Britain"], complaining it hid Reid's legs from view.
"Later on the show, however, Susanna moved from behind the desk, giving viewers the chance to catch a glimpse of her enviable pins," it reported.
― Mark G, Monday, 28 April 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
looking forward to the Mail's "Upskirt Corner" page
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 April 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
Getta loada them gams!
― From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Pupil Jacob Hill, 16, from Leeds, said: 'He had gone through stages of depression and used to be on anti-depressants.'
16-year-old Matthew Calvert, also of Leeds, was in many of the same lessons as the alleged attacker and described him as 'strange'.
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 April 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/28/article-2614929-1D6C83B400000578-607_634x634.jpg
Aerial view: A 15-year-old male pupil has been arrested after a female teacher was stabbed to death this morning at Corpus Christi Catholic College (pictured) in Leeds
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 April 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
Rewitten version for 'clarity', apparently it's not them it's ...
Regarding the launch day, complaints from viewers on Monday focused on the fact that Susanna's now famous legs - whose pay for the role is £400,000 a year - double that of her former BBC salary - were hidden from view.One viewer commented: 'Why has ITV paid so much for @susannareid100 only to put her behind a desk? Its like buying a Ferrari and keeping it in the garage #gmb.'Another wrote: 'You don't hire Susanna Reid and then stick her behind a desk #getyourpinsout #GoodMorningBritain.'
One viewer commented: 'Why has ITV paid so much for @susannareid100 only to put her behind a desk? Its like buying a Ferrari and keeping it in the garage #gmb.'
Another wrote: 'You don't hire Susanna Reid and then stick her behind a desk #getyourpinsout #GoodMorningBritain.'
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/29/article-2615742-1D715B8400000578-826_636x382.jpg
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
a great night in
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/06/26/article-2670757-1F25E4B900000578-797_634x378.jpg
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Thursday, 26 June 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2745218/Amputee-Gipsy-busker-no-legs-bragged-Channel-5-TV-programme-milking-Britain-s-benefits-attacked-street-ex-soldier.html
― a puddle of quivering 501s (soref), Friday, 5 September 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
An ex-soldier has been handed a suspended sentence for racially aggravated threatening behaviour towards an amputee gipsy busker who bragged on national TV about 'milking the benefits system'.Viorel Dinu, 25, told Channel 5's Gypsies on Benefits and Proud he and other Romanians had come to the UK because it was a 'soft touch' for scroungers, a court heard.But his boasts caught up with him when former soldier Mark Hawksby, 34, recognised him from the programme after tripping over the busker's money-filled coat on a street in York.
― a puddle of quivering 501s (soref), Friday, 5 September 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/j5kWvhd.jpg
'That's beyonce? oh wow': @Smooth-Orator reacted with shock after seeing the photos
Unretouched-photos-Beyonce-s-L-Oreal-advert-leak-online-fans-mixed-reactions-Twitter.html
― no love deb weep (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3162404/Angry-residents-quiet-English-village-battle-new-music-festival-banned-gangster-rapper-Snoop-Dogg-performing.html
― soref, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
i hope you're not mocking those victims of very real parking and 'expletives' into the early hours concerns
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
this kind moral panic article about a rapper performing seems like something of a blast from the past, especially someone who has appeared in tv ads for MoneySupermarket.com
― soref, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link
My step-dad shared that legendary "Kick This Evil Bastard Out" Daily Star front page with Snoop Dog in the early 90's. The sub-headline about him was "Sicko Bookie". He worked at an independent bookie chain and compiled odds for them, in this case he had sent out some margin-betting to twenty odd shops on how many bodies they were going to excavate from Cromwell St and the shit hit the fan.
― xelab, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
he had sent out some margin-betting to twenty odd shops on how many bodies they were going to excavate from Cromwell St
ai yi yiii
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 19:07 (eight years ago) link
Tell me he didn't work for betfred
― feargal czukay (NickB), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
...and that was the last the betting industry ever heard of Patrick Power
― and she's baconing like she's never baconed before (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
No it was Jack Pearson Licensed Turf accts, shitty little Huddersfield firm. A disgruntled customer in the Waterloo branch called The Star newsdesk about it.
― xelab, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
lol xelab/nick
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Sunday, 6 September 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link
SHOCKED
The campaign for Britain to leave the EU has been infiltrated by dozens of far-Right extremists with racist views, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3625503/The-neo-Nazi-swastika-breast-Vote-Leave-badge-vest-Holocaust-deniers-EDL-fascists-posing-Kray-twins-grave-violent-thugs-racists-hijacking-Brexit-campaign.html
― ǂbait (seandalai), Sunday, 5 June 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
The Mail on Sunday really hates The Daily Mail.
In the same way as Liam and Noel.
― Mark G, Monday, 6 June 2016 12:13 (seven years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/06/06/23/article-3628068-34FCE54300000578-673_311x571.jpg
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 01:11 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13466421_1201237359921265_7740805882770463582_n.jpg?oh=2d4b9a1ca2c3cae63ae3f11365eb77a3&oe=57C7870B
― an alternate version of his real world dog (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 June 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0
― Oh baby, if only you knew / Gabnebb hit a hundred-and-two (stevie), Friday, 17 June 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
Unless you’re gay, black, transgender, foreign, voted Remain, unemployed, work for the BBC, a single parent, feminist, an NHS worker, Northern, vote Labour, Muslim, overweight, an educator, working class, sexually liberated, vegetarian or believe climate change exists. pic.twitter.com/XmWWSN9HBo— Nick Pettigrew (@Nick_Pettigrew) October 27, 2017
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Friday, 27 October 2017 08:55 (six years ago) link
NATURE: Daily Mail readers have just found out about sequential hermaphroditism in fish and now think it’s part of the BBC political agenda. pic.twitter.com/9PtOhnMTRv— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) October 26, 2017
― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Friday, 27 October 2017 09:14 (six years ago) link
A fish called pravda
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 27 October 2017 09:33 (six years ago) link
The Mail somehow managing to sound sarcastic even while bigging itself up on its own front page
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 27 October 2017 09:35 (six years ago) link
Thread by @_MarwanMuhammad: "Hello @MailOnline. I've read your "devastating" article on "illegal migrants in Saint Denis". We too in France have tabloïds who couldn't ca […]" #HardcoreInventedHardlinerVoiceModeActivated
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1025786653040889856.html
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 4 August 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
This is what you call a headline.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHKeyKcX0AAJb3e?format=jpg
― I Can't See Gervais In My Mind (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link