Why I hate the Daily Mail, as distilled into one edition

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'DOES THIS MAKE ME A BAD LIBERAL.'

Why aspire to 19th smiling faced, so-gooding, robber barondon?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

p10-11: "The great fashion week cocaine binge": Win 2 Tickets For You and a Partner.

― I'm a Problem for Anthony Blair (noodle vague), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

has moss really been dropped by chanel, per the sun?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

p6: Melanie Phillips says our once great education system lies in ruins, and it's all "the left's" fault.

This is idiocy, of course, but it comes from an expected source. A rather less expected source is Stephen Malkmus, who, in the current edition of Index magazine, says it's nice to be in Portland rather than New York, then adds "But the west coast has a downside too, like the number of ridiculous leftists..." He then recounts an anecdote of wanting to shove one of said leftists up against a wall. So that's what "Pig Lib" meant!

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yep, looks that way. But not Rimmel.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

Was on C4 news last night (why, oh why?)

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― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

IT'S CALLED CAPITALISM YOU WANTED THATCHER YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW GET OVER IT

And so say, errrrrrrrrrr, some of us!

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

I wondered why all of my Pavement records went so speedily to MVE a while back! (Momus xpost)

I blame the abolition of Old Labour.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

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Malkmus made snidey comments about "leftists" on "Embassy Row" years back. He's probably worried they'd make him get his haircut and stop mumbling.

― I'm a Problem for Anthony Blair (noodle vague), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

On page seven there's a bit about how Labour has failed our schools, which cites as evidence a new report saying too few state school pupils are getting into top universities. Last week they ran a piece complaining about socialist do-gooders forcing clever private school pupils out of top universities by giving their places to the great unwashed.

Damned if you do, etc etc.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

Steve Malkmus is the preppiest musician I have ever met.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

I thought he gave up trying to be Mark E. Smith years ago? Apparently not. (xpost)

Last week they ran a piece complaining about socialist do-gooders forcing clever private school pupils out of top universities by giving their places to the great unwashed.

And the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that and the week before that

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

x-post But don't ridiculous leftists exist? I know some.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

x-post But don't ridiculous leftists exist? I know some.

THERE MIGHT BE ONE IN OUR MIDST, DR C.

HI MOMUS.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Mail headline in about a month's time: "SEND FERAL YOUTH BACK UP THE CHIMNEYS!" Simon Heffer-Heffer writes.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

er, except the two things don't contradict each other? obviously they need to end private education and level the field, unless we're to 'enjoy' the same kind of horrible 'affirmative action' debate (on class as much as race lines) here as they had in the states (obv this probably isn't the mail's view...)

― N_RQ, Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

The first person I remember using the phrase "feral youth" was Jonathan Miller - go figure, as the Merkins have it

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

p49: "Ruthless, career-minded women. An underclass of weak, emasculated men." - Readers' sexual fantasies revealed.

― I'm a Problem for Anthony Blair (noodle vague), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

Amanda Platell writes (and hopefully does quite a lot of other things...).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

p49: "Ruthless, career-minded woman. An underclass of weak, emasculated men." - Shurely Margaret Thatcher's entire career as PM in a nutshell ("nutcase more like")

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

I never quite understood what Alan Clark saw in her.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

His nanny, surely?

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well yes I understand the maternal thing (boy do I understand it), but...Thatcher sexy? Surely the oxymoron to end all political oxymorons?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ha ha, I was just remembering the kind of slavering and slobbering all those perverse old Tories used to do over her. Repulsive. You could almost see the drool escaping out of the corners of their mouths.

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

Where's Wilhelm Reich when you need him? Writing for the Daily Sport probably.

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

I don't think Reich could explain this one. De Sade, possibly.

― I'm a Problem for Anthony Blair (noodle vague), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

De Sade could describe it but I don't think he couild explain it

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

Kate, re big bang, both, but largely the former than the latter, admittedly. Things have started getting v.interesting in cosmology over the last couple of years. Dark energy, the return of the cosmological constant, stuff like that. Big bang still orthodoxy, but by no means universally accepted.

Thatcher = ewwww obv, but A.Hollinghurst's stuff about her in The Line Of Beauty does a good job of making you see her through the eyes of all those slavering Tory MPs.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

On the cover of the Sunday Times Magazine a couple of years ago there was Edwina Currie, perched on a motorbike dressed head to toe in leather.

I didn't think it was possible for any woman dressed head to toe in leather to appear utterly unsexy, but Ms Currie proved me wrong. Put me right off my breakfast, I can tell you.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

I bet it put Norma Major off her breakfast too.

I'm amazed the council tax story isn't front page.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

I bet it put Norma Major off her breakfast too.

But I'll bet John had something extra white and creamy on his Weetabix that morning..... urgggggggghhh, did I just say that??!??!

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

Gawd, Norma Major, there's another ravishing beauty. Didn't Thatcher's successor as PM have such delectable taste in ladies?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

Take one look at the man, and ask yourself if you think he could've done any better.

― I'm a Problem for Anthony Blair (noodle vague), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

People, this I keep reiterating: there is a direct correlation between 'newspapers currently sticking the boot into Kate Moss' and 'newspapers which have had to apologise/pay damages to Kate Moss for calling her a druggie in the past'. They must have had to pay up a LOT of money.

I have been made to feel VERY uncool by certain fashion-industry colleagues for my refusal to snort this shit; when I told my former boss I wasn't keen on putting stuff up my nose generally she said 'just rub it on your gums instead' as if it was not the drug itself I was objecting to.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

This is why I'm just so pleased by the whole thing. (I kept trying to tell AMP and Anna this last night when they were all "why are they making such a big deal out of it?")

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

(xpost x 2)

It's the Philip Larkin syndrome again - you think, blimey, he looked like that and yet he had three women on the go!

Then you look at the women and realise they all looked like him.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

What, they all looked like Eric Morecambe?

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

many believe the big bang theory is wrong

many Daily Mail readers. not actual scientists or anything.

So why did Radio 5 wake me up with the words "...which may change the way we look at the creation of the universe via the Big Bang" yesterday morning? (I can't answer this question as I immediately clicked the snooze button, but I'd be surprised if they're giving too much airspace to creationism).

RickyT, if you have any links to recent cosmological updates, do post them!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:54 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'd say Larkin looked more like Phil Silvers than Morecambe.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

I have revived a physics thread so we can keep the non-media chatter off this thread:

anyone know anything about astrophysics? i have a question about the universe

(Even if scientists manage to completely disprove the Big Bang, that doesn't make Creationism any more likely or even possible.)

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'd say Larkin looked more like Phil Silvers than Morecambe.

Ruggish!

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Morecambe, though, had better taste in jazz than Larkin. He had that Derek Bailey in his backing band once, you know.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 September 2005 08:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

He was a much better novelist too

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

"when I told my former boss I wasn't keen on putting stuff up my nose generally she said 'just rub it on your gums instead'"

You owe me a new keyboard. I sneezed coffee all over my current one when I read this...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

Some advice - don't drink coffee while using a computer, rub it on your gums instead

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hands up, anyone who has actually snorted instant coffee crystals...

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

How are you able to type with one hand Kate?

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

Grafitti in the toilets at Hull University's library frequently referred to him as Phil "Silvers" Larkin. I love the man almost as much as Eric, though.

― I'm a Problem for Anthony Blair (noodle vague), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

I have never snorted instant coffee! I've only ever rubbed it on my gums!

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

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isn't there a bit of an editorial war going on between MoS and the DM? Greig publishing articles to rub Dacre up the wrong way, Dacre instructing hacks to pull MoS op-ed pieces and stories to shreds the following week?

― Fizzles, Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:08 (1 month ago) Permalink

such weird prose in this DM piece about anthony kiedis: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2311687/Anthony-Kiedis-passionately-kisses-girlfriend-speeding-Harley.html

Much younger woman, tick, Harley Davidson motorbike, tick.

If most men were indulging in such things at the ripe age of 50, they'd be accused of having a mid-life crisis but Anthony Kiedis is a member of a special club.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman is a rock 'n' roll male and therefore given a pass to behave like Peter Pan drunk on a bottle of Jack until he collapses on his tourbus.

Rock 'n' roll women aren't afforded the privilege of growing old in leather with insouciance, of course, though mercifully Stevie Nicks failed to get the memo.

But Kiedis, who must be on a real high after his drawling rock dirges drew an impressive crowd even in a sandstorm at the Coachella Music Festival on Sunday, is quite the rock poster, ahem, boy.

― NI, Saturday, 20 April 2013 12:12 (1 month ago) Permalink

tbh when he climbs astride his hog he looks less a rock'n'roll Peter Pan and more Chris Kamara

― they moved the azpilicueta next to me at work (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 20 April 2013 13:03 (1 month ago) Permalink

Don't let them steal your heart: America's 'bad' girls who still look so good - even when they're posing for their police mugshots

― goole, Friday, 3 May 2013 16:18 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Nit sure about this headline...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320526/Charles-Ramsey-moment-freed-Amanda-Berry-Im-eating-McDonalds-I-heard-screaming.html

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 15:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

I've not clocked on this link, the link is enough http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2298971/Frances-Bean-pays-tribute-tragic-Nirvana-rocker-dad-Kurt-Cobain-pink-hair-grunge-outfit.html

― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Thursday, 9 May 2013 11:37 (1 week ago) Permalink

Frances-Bean-pays-tribute-tragic-Iron-Maiden-rocker-dad-Kurt-Cobain.html

― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 9 May 2013 11:42 (1 week ago) Permalink

Villa captain Petrov retires as year-long battle with leukaemia takes its toll

― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 9 May 2013 19:46 (1 week ago) Permalink

'takes its toll' seems inadequate to the severity of leukemia

― there is no special cathexis with mini fried donuts (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 9 May 2013 19:47 (1 week ago) Permalink

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