Why I love the Daily Mail, as distilled into one story.

Middle class twat, I'm sure his scullery maid never suffered from it

guys have some respect, she's had books published all over the world, from Slovenia to Sweden, Spain and the U.S.

guys, she's not talking about justifiable depression, like winston having to fight Hitler. be fair.

I'd have thought that it'd be a barrel of laughs having to fight an Austrian with a stupid moustache and one testicle...

There sure must be place for her, as some kind of Mental Health, errrr, Tsarina in the Cleggeron Coalition?

Special Minster for Don't End Up Like This

Assistant Advisor on Oscillatory Jaw Motion

"Ms Street-Porter, Ms Street-Porter, I feel like a pair of curtains" etc

Curtains are just so middle class.

let's take a moment to consider whether curtains are common among the poor or the working class?

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

our work-orientated society

that's your work-orientated society tbh, love

that's the spirit that built broken britain

or that broke built britain, either way

Steven Poole does a good job on this: http://unspeak.net/take-a-moment-to-consider/

yep, good quick job that made the point without delving into detail that the article doesn't really merit

Tsarina

political correctness gone, uh, trendy.

DiS forum has a 114-post thread on this article

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

well tbf i'd be willing to discuss the issue, but not really using her as a starting point or anything

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

just because she doesn't care doesn't mean it didn't enter her head

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.

yeah, basically.

Wasn't she mates with Magenta DeVine?

Yeah, there was a connection through Tony James and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

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

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.

Here is the twitter post

http://twitter.com/ceostevejobs

# Bio I don't care what you think of me. You care what I think of you. Of course this is a parody account.

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 )

Oh my:

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Jun/Week4/15655741.jpg

but at least we would have a decent footy team too

"football and beer much superior" - Littlejohn should be renamed "Maquis Cha-Cha".

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.

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

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.

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.

That article's been linked to on another thread. Fucking boils my piss.

the mail really knows how to get web-hits

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

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).

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8971/lolqa.png

do i click y/n

today's front cover is a treat.

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.

people who write for the daily mail are generally awful writers, as well as generally awful people y/n?

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.

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.