WHO THE FUCK READS THE DAILY EXPRESS?

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I mean, really?

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

The people who read the Daily Express are the people who believe the bigoted, prejudiced, anti-everything attitude it foists on it's readers. It is the same as all tabloids in that rather than make it's readers think about things or challenge their ideas, it just writes what they know their readership already think and believe.

Oliver R Tones, Thursday, 23 October 2003 11:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

Alternatively, they're just people.

I'm on an anti-generalisation tip at the moment. Yes, it can be funny in moderation, but I'm starting to believe that some actually believe all this stuff about breeds of people.

N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

nick =otm, though i must admit that when i read the coverline along the lines of pr|nc3ss d| was mrdered! sez expert crime solver patr|c|a c0rnwell, i had to stop and wonder - who could see s.th. like that, and buy it?

(besides which, since when does writing about an ace detective make you one? perhaps i shd write a book about being very very rich and not a sad loser interweb mentalist haha)

Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

I do think there's some merit to the question though i.e. why if you were of a mindset to find the D Ex appealing would you buy it and not the Mail? There was a point a couple of years ago when the Express was trimming to the left a bit but that seems to be over now.

I think there is something specifically lame about the Express, they seem more sensationalist than other tabloids on a really thin budget (cf Pashmina's example above)

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

I was replying to Oliver really, not the initial question.

I agree that the Daily Express is an odd one to work out, since it seems to be just a shoestring version of the Mail. I'm guessing it might be carrying a lot of readers from its more illustrious past. Perhaps it has a slightly more masculine image than the Mail?

N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

"rather than make it's readers think about things or challenge their ideas, it just writes what they know their readership already think and believe. "

how is this different to the guardian exactly?

ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yawn yawn Pong. FWIW I do think you get a far greater spectrum of opinion in the Guardian. But even with the Express, it would be impossible to read everything and agree with it all.

Most people don't buy the newspaper for the politics anyway. Sun readers voted Labour before the Sun told them to.

N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

I presume asylum seekers read it, because it can't be beat for asylum seeker news.

Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 October 2003 16:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

My mum reads it. She tuts almost every time she turns the page; I've told her this is not a good sign and asked her why she reads it and she has no answer. I assume her reason is that she reads it because she's always read it.

The sad thing about generalisations, N., like the sad thing about clichés, is that they all start off somewhere with the truth.

Hello again, Olly.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

Of course they bloody do, but that's not the point. Once a point has been made about a certain demographic then the repetition of it is a) boring and b) encourages lazy thinking, esp. if that group is socially removed from oneself.

N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 23 October 2003 17:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

The especially lame thing about the Express is the way that three quarters of the front page will be dominated with WIN A FREE HOLIDAY TO THE CANARIES!!! while NEW STEALTH TAX ON COMPANY CARS will be crammed in at the bottom. There never appears to be any actual *news* on the front of the Express, even by BritPress standards.

I don't know what's inside the paper, I've never opened it. Maybe I should buy a copy for research purposes.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 October 2003 08:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

I really wouldn't.

Matt (Matt), Friday, 24 October 2003 08:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

Buy it on a Friday and read the *ahem* music reviews.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 24 October 2003 12:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...
Those lazy fucking generalisers all look the same to me.

HAHAHAHAHA!

I have no friends and I'm a bit drunk.

Will Mckenzie, Friday, 23 April 2004 17:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

A migrant arrested every 4 minutes in UK

THE full extent of the damage unlimited immigration is causing to the fabric of society is revealed by a Daily Express investigation today.

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

And the comments are even better than HYS.

I'M SORRY, I WAS TO HASTY, I MISJUDGED BROWN

11.02.08, 2:11pm

Yes misjudged all right

This treacherous rat....

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt imagining he was just another spineless ingrate afraid of his own political career.

But he is worse much worse.

THIS IS COLLUSION

Gordon Brown has said he wants Britain to become the centre of global Islamic banking; Saudi Arabia and other Islamic states are buying up more and more British and Western companies, and we now have "Sharia-compliant" mortgages.

Nothing less than a complete sell out

HOW MANY PIECES OF SILVER BROWN
HOW MANY
YOU JUDAS

That coupled with the rest of this government’s headlong plunge into the Islamisation of Britain
passing laws left right and centre to accommodate them.

TREASONOUS TREASONOUS WRETCH

selling us down the river

I saw a column recently marking
Tariq Ramadan the most dangerous man in Britain as the main protaganist for the
"Muslim Brotherhood" in the UK

BUT NO

THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN
IN BRITAIN IS BROWN!!!!!

GET THIS MAN LOCKED UP
THE ONLY PLACE FOR THIS MAN IS
BLOODY TOWER OF LONDON
and throw away the key

This poisonous despicable wretch
This treasonous filth

He is selling us down the river

JUDAS

GET HIM OUT NOW

NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Posted by: Atory

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

I really fucking hate the Daily Express and need to vent.

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

Blair really needs to stop posting drunk.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN
IN BRITAIN IS BROWN!!!!!

lol racist

ledge, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:36 (5 years ago) Permalink

That fucking article has really put a dent on my lovely sunny day.I mean what the fuck do they want? "Foreign" people beaten up in the street and then deported in fucking cages? Will that make them happy?

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

I think you knows the answer to that one.

Noodle Vague, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:44 (5 years ago) Permalink

it could be worse, they could have a feature on people who don't know how to use a knife and fork properly

DG, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

DEPORT THEM TOO

Noodle Vague, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

That fucking article has really put a dent on my lovely sunny day.I mean what the fuck do they want? "Foreign" people beaten up in the street and then deported in fucking cages? Will that make them happy?

all atory asks for is for our leader to stop selling us down the river for pieces of silver.. is that too much to ask?

ken c, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

i blame Dr Josef Venglos, Sven, Ossie Ardilles and Ricky Villa for the state of the country today. in that order.

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

lol enoch powell avatar

DG, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

roberto, that's a stupid list.

darraghmac, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

you left out wenger

darraghmac, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

A migrant arrested every 4 minutes in UK

Come on man, leave him alone for a while.

StanM, Monday, 11 February 2008 15:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

Dom Passantino, Monday, 11 February 2008 16:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

NedTRifle why do you read Daily Express??

blueski, Monday, 11 February 2008 16:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

I'm stupid.

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 February 2008 21:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

Daily Express investigation today

the idea of the express actually investigating anything at all is ludicrous

that said, its kind of surprising to see with what is almost actual fire in its belly. it has long seemed strangely detached, as though it doesn't believe what it espouses. this is because it doesn't really say anything, its never an opinion leader in the way, say, the mail is. far more than any other paper the express is for people who aren't very bright

laxalt, Monday, 11 February 2008 21:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

Of course they haven't investigated really this - they've just reported whatever shit the Police federation have fed them. This is part of their (PF's) campaign to get more money.

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 February 2008 21:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

Of course they haven't investigated really this
Of course they haven't really investigated this.

Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 February 2008 21:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

I know, its just somehow funnier when the express pretends its investigated something

laxalt, Monday, 11 February 2008 21:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

Old people.

Bodrick III, Monday, 11 February 2008 21:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

is the express where mail readers go to die?

laxalt, Monday, 11 February 2008 21:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

my grandparents read the express, i wish they didn't :(

DG, Monday, 11 February 2008 21:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

I keep noticing the headlines of this paper, it seems ...worse than the others? Worse as in more hysterical, more into making its readers afraid that (they) are taking their liberties etc away. Worse as in stupider, also. EUROCRATS TO CONTROL BRITAIN'S BORDERS. IMMIGRANT BABY BOOM COSTS 1BN. OUTCRY AS POLICE LETS OFF 4,256 CRIMINALS. These three from last week (I just looked at their website) I guess they either make this stuff up, or if you found the actual story the headline was based upon, it would bear little resemblance to what was on the Express' front page? It's pretty sad.

\/*|_*/-\*|) (Pashmina), Sunday, 13 September 2009 14:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

The best bit are the "Cancer Cured by Eating 15000 Organic Apricot Seeds A Day" front pages that crop up all the time.

Jarlrmai, Sunday, 13 September 2009 14:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

Football fever after the England team qualified for the World Cup finals in South Africa will give the economy a multi-billion pound boost.

The feel-good factor that began with the final whistle sounding on the team’s 5-1 thrashing of Croatia on Wednesday
night is set to continue through to the finals next June.

As well as numbers of Englishmen descending on South Africa on a scale not witnessed since the Boer War, according to one official, millions more at home will forget the recession and enjoy the World Cup party to the full.

Even toilet seats bearing the St George cross could be snapped up.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/126943/Economy-on-course-for-World-Cup-boom-

James Mitchell, Sunday, 13 September 2009 14:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

millions more at home will forget the recession

I think this has already happened.

Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 13 September 2009 17:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

Pash I think part of that is that the Express is owned by an absolute raving nutter. Anyone know if he's still wanted by the New York mafia?

You'd hope that the recession would be over by the World Cup, but hey.

Matt DC, Sunday, 13 September 2009 17:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Based on a report by the European Foundation, otherwise known as Tory MP Bill "Stash The" Cash and John Laughland, best mate of Slobodan Milosevic.

James Mitchell, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 13:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

Every single one of those reasons is just plain wacky.

89) It is a myth that CO2 is a pollutant, because nitrogen forms 80% of our atmosphere and human beings could not live in 100% nitrogen either: CO2 is no more a pollutant than nitrogen is and CO2 is essential to life.

Okay, so 80% CO2 wouldn't be a problem?

We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

Describing that as "wacky" is being kind, very kind

Sonny Uplands (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

Based on a report by the European Foundation, otherwise known as Tory MP Bill "Stash The" Cash and John Laughland, best mate of Slobodan Milosevic.

Thatcher is the Patron of this mob too, but I thought she was an early champion of the emerging climate change consensus, cos it was a handy tool for beating the miners down with. Maybe just a flag of convenience back then though.

We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

CHARMING RACIST ENTERTAINS FORMER COLONIES

James Mitchell, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

WEATHER WARNING

ruh roh

Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

ARE ALL MEN BORN TO CHEAT?

face depalma (stevie), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 07:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

...WITH A STICK, WE HOPE

James Mitchell, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 07:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

at what point did sending notorious weedhead and party racist "Prince" Harry on an official visit to Jamaica seem like a good idea?

Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 07:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

think they gave up caring about that sort of thing with his grandfather tbh

a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 08:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

was James Hewitt's dad a wrong'un then?

Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 08:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

GERMAN AUTOCRAT MAKES LIGHT OF OUR BRAVE BOYS' BRAVE SACRIFICE

James Mitchell, Friday, 9 March 2012 09:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

Kate and the Queen? Not the Queen and Kate?

StanM, Friday, 9 March 2012 11:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

The coverage had Kate chatting to crowds and press/TV filming her, the camera panning over to The Queen giving an "I don't have to be here, really, do I?" stance.

Mark G, Friday, 9 March 2012 11:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh, ok then - congrats on the Jubilee, Kate!

StanM, Friday, 9 March 2012 11:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

The McCann’s Portuguese lawyer Rogerio Alves described the review as a “very positive sign”.

He said: “More than anything Kate and Gerry want to discover what happened to their daughter, whilst of course harbouring the hope of finding her alive.

James Mitchell, Saturday, 10 March 2012 08:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

can't help thinking that if they'd taken this much interest in the whereabouts of their daughter in May 2007 then

Kony Montana: "Say hello to my invisible friend" (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 March 2012 10:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

ah, you're a daily mail reader then

brokering (pimping) (stevie), Saturday, 10 March 2012 10:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

vs

James Mitchell, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 07:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

why won't these tedious tabloids respect the law for once?

brokering (pimping) (stevie), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 07:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

I look forward to seeing these front pages every day but I worry that I'll condition myself to like the thing on sight and end up buying it.

A BIG JOE JORDAN TYPE OF POSTER (onimo), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 08:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Götterdämned, zey are on to us!

StanM, Friday, 4 May 2012 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Friday, 4 May 2012 12:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

Kate and Wills' 1st anniversary treat: that's not FRENCH champagne, is it?

StanM, Friday, 4 May 2012 12:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

At present, the two senior EU bureaucrats, Mr Barroso and Mr Van Rompuy, are locked in a bitter power struggle to determine who is the true big cheese or “grand fromage” in Europe.

oppet, Friday, 4 May 2012 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

"groot kaas"

good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/321682/Red-hot-summer-to-break-records

Jonathan Powell of Positive Weather Solutions is back but with a different name! Same old extremist crap.

And as for the forecasts...

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:46 (11 months ago) Permalink

http://www.vantageweatherservices.co.uk/

JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS

Overall the Jubilee weekend will witness most parts of the UK within an air-mass that will be warmer than anything we have experienced since March. Central and eastern regions appear likely to benefit from temperatures often in excess of 20C; cloud amounts look set however to be variable and a threat of thunderstorms especially in parts of England cannot be excluded. Further west there is greater chance of cloudier and possibly wetter conditions, with more depressed temperatures, as weather fronts seek to affect south-west England, Wales, North-west England, western Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Temperature often about 20C in June! Wetter in the west! Variable cloud cover! How do they know?

Djibril Citté (onimo), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

Jonathan Powell, forecaster with Vantage Weather Services, said summer would see “spikes” of extreme hot weather. He said: “There are going to be some very hot periods of weather as summer kicks in. These will be tempered by some periods of cooler weather"

The man was clearly born with a gift.

Fizzles, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:04 (11 months ago) Permalink

he's gonna look like a right clown when the temperature remains exactly the same over the entire summer.

Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:06 (11 months ago) Permalink

Interesting bit in 'About' section of the Vantage Weather Services website:

Vantage Weather Services has tighter controls on who actually has access to the login details of the site for its updates, maintenance, and appearance.

Fizzles, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:24 (11 months ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

COLDEST WINTER IN 100 YEARS ON WAY

BRITAIN will grind to a halt within weeks as the most savage freeze for a century begins.

Temperatures will fall as low as minus 20C in rural areas, forecasters warned last night, while heavy snow and “potentially dangerous” blizzards will close roads and cripple rail networks.

James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said: “We are looking at some of the coldest and snowiest conditions in at least 100 years. This is most likely to occur in the December to January period with the potential for widespread major snowfall across the country.

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 03:25 (5 months ago) Permalink

No meteorological or climate models have been used in the production of the following long-range weather forecasts. All forecasts are produced on a number of personal observations and calculations, that also include; solar activity, ocean behaviour, and historical weather patterns from my own unique collective data.

http://www.exactaweather.com/Accuracy.html

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 03:26 (5 months ago) Permalink

putting the "mad" in "Madden" since 2010

Neil S, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:19 (5 months ago) Permalink

Winter most likely to occur between December and January. Film at 11.

Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 10:25 (5 months ago) Permalink

Express isn't alone in using them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/02/sleighbell-winter-climate-change-denial

Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 10:29 (5 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Neil S, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 10:28 (4 months ago) Permalink

Kill me now.

besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 11:46 (4 months ago) Permalink

woo hoo benefit party time! I'm going to go mad on my £52 weekly jobseekers allowance! No food for the kids this week, but what can you do!

I like the side-order of climate change denial with that front page too...

Neil S, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 11:50 (4 months ago) Permalink

met office, who are these charlatans?

Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 11:54 (4 months ago) Permalink

So according to the Mail: you can be a 'benefit skiver' even if you're employed in a low income job, and an increase in something that isn't as large as the most pessimistic prediction is somehow evidence of that something 'slowing down'.

scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 12:14 (4 months ago) Permalink

It was the same in the Sunday Times this weekend. "Strivers vs Skivers" and "This Is The Year We Crack Welfare".

"Skivers" seems to be based on receiving more in benefits than you give in tax.

There's a legit question to be asked about whether the government should effectively be subsidising employers that refuse to pay living wages but zero talk about increasing the minimum wage at the moment. What are the "skivers" in full-time work meant to do about it?

Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 12:33 (4 months ago) Permalink

Or indeed (by that formulation) "skiving" pensioners?

Neil S, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 12:38 (4 months ago) Permalink

You mean "scrounging" pensioners?

Mark G, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 13:04 (4 months ago) Permalink

I believe "mewling cash leaches" is the correct term.

Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 13:16 (4 months ago) Permalink

silver scroungers

Albert Crampus (NickB), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 13:17 (4 months ago) Permalink

Sadly the it would be against the Express' commercial interests to point out that the majority of social security spending goes to pensioners a.k.a. mewling cash leeches, silver scroungers etc.

Neil S, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:21 (4 months ago) Permalink

Surprise Surprise... Global warming has stalled, admits Met Office

MCforUKIP
12:00pm on Wednesday, 9th January 2013
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It never existed in the first place. Most of the people of this country knew that but our government and Brussels wanted more cash so invented it. It's called taxing the air that we breath.

UKIP are the party to vote for, as they do not believe this myth.

THE COMMON SENSE PARTY>

SUPPORT UKIP

impound the alarm (NickB), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:29 (4 months ago) Permalink

(xp) ditto Tory Party... and all the other parties too

Designated Striver (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:31 (4 months ago) Permalink

the point being, I suppose, that pensioners actually bother to vote.

Neil S, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 14:32 (4 months ago) Permalink

Next up, the Cold War never existed...

Mark G, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:54 (4 months ago) Permalink

I know most hacks are just following orders wrt the poor-bashing but i wonder how much of an influence this has:

Journalists and broadcasters born in 1958 typically grew up in families where income was only 5.5% above average, against 42.4% above average for those born in 1970. That is the most dramatic example of a pattern evident across nearly all professions

(from The Guardian on Tuesday)

Tullamorte Tullamore (ShariVari), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:47 (4 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

holy fuck

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 22:28 (1 week ago) Permalink

also ten times better more racist and xenophobic than the Daily Mail!

Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 22:42 (1 week ago) Permalink


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