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

Hang on, this bunch would have been a better example...
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_02/shanfamilyDM1403_468x325.jpg

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/05_02/MccannsPA_468x293.jpg

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,

That's got to be a full house on DM reader bingo.

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.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_02/shanfamilyDM1403_468x325.jpg

wow the Manics really let themselves go

"libraries bring us power"

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.

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.

*lazy scotland zing*

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.

he told them where they were getting off and what they looked like, but he never found out what happened.

Yikes. And who is that stupid to say what they're doing out loud on a bus!?

Scottish drug addicts.

i think danny boyle should turn that scenario into a movie, what fun we could all have

Prince Philip climbs over a short fence.

Prince Philip re-inacting a scene from Animal House
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/15/article-1182971-04F54F02000005DC-637_468x356.jpg

reEnacting - d'oh...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200037/Benefits-cheat-claimed-3-500-look-like-DEVIL.html

Words fail me.

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.

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

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.

what a shoddy piece of work... mispellings abound, and several sleeves are repeated.

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

Haven't checked properly, but I think they are basically all the same albums, but just in a different order.

Still agawp at the lucifer bloke though.

I'm happy for people to embezzle welfare money if they are going to use it for crazy shit like that.

Marc Riley's lost his mind!

Is he standing as a Labour candidate at the next election?

- Gary, Marbella, 16/7/2009 12:03

BAM

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...

"It doesn't say Ringo Starr on it, it won't sell"

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.

Also 'Gary, Marbella' is too perfect for a DM reader.

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.

I didn't know Dacre was so into recycling!

In what universe is this a front page story, even in batshit Paul Dacreland?

eh who doesn't separate that stuff anyway?

Loads of people?

food waste? tbh once i take out the recyclable stuff that's all i have left.

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?

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.

euroc-rats, surely

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.

I can imagine Dacre having to be forcibly restrained from including an image of a 1665 plague-cart.

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.

I have one in my kitchen with just such an ingenious "lid" contraption. No maggots, flies or rats in evidence yet.

As long as it has an airtight lid it shouldn't be a problem.

gonna take millennia for this type of technology to become available cheaply enough to have in every home

Maybe when it does become inexpensive we could all throw parties...

...parties where we can discuss and maybe even purchase this awesome future tech.

jeez what planet you even on? that's crazy talk.