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 (sixteen years ago)
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 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark
Looks like all the ads have gone!
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:06 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.dailyquail.org/2009/10/jan-moir-why-theres-nothing-natural.html
^^^^ AMAZING
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:06 (sixteen years ago)
THey just reprinted the article, haven't they?
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:17 (sixteen years ago)
Kevin McGee, the former husband "of" Little Britain star Matt Lucas
― Des Leppilen (darraghmac), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:18 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
"The Motorcycle Diaries" instead?
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:20 (sixteen years ago)
which is shown regularly on Film 4 ..
― mark e, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:26 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
so they are cunts about that one dudes death huh?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:35 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir
― mark e, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)
Yep, nailed concisely there.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:09 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
aka, game recognise game
― Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:28 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
"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 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
Looking forward to a full scale "everyone's picking on me" whine in tomorrows Mail.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
first time i've seen this:
http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
ARE GYPSIES GIVING YOUR PENSION DIABETES?
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)
HAVE GYPSIES KILLED YOU?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)
^^^ 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 (sixteen years ago)
COULD ASYLUM SEEKERS GIVE COMMON SENSE AND DECENCY DIABETES?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:31 (sixteen years ago)
COULD THE UNEMPLOYED HAVE SEX WITH DRIVERS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:32 (sixteen years ago)
HAVE THE POLES STOLEN FROM CLIFF RICHARD?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:33 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
WILL CHAVS INFECT THE CHURCH WITH AIDS?
― fisherspwner (braveclub), Friday, 16 October 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)
ARE GAYS TURNING YOUR MORTGAGE GAY?
― if, Friday, 16 October 2009 23:00 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
(Went w/ the Grauniad instead. Dustin Hoffman can wait.)
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:30 (sixteen years ago)
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 (sixteen years ago)
HAS RUSSELL BRAND IMPREGNATED BRITAIN'S SWANS?
I believe the answer is 'probably'.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:47 (sixteen years ago)
COULD ALISTAIR DARLING INFECT PENSIONERS WITH AIDS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:53 (sixteen years ago)
COULD THE GERMANS MAKE YOUR DAUGHTERS IMPOTENT?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:54 (sixteen years ago)
COULD LESBIANS STEAL THE IDENTITY OF YOUR PETS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:55 (sixteen years ago)
HAVE HOODIES TURNED THE QUEEN GAY?
HAVE THE POLES DESTROYED CLIFF RICHARD?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:57 (sixteen years ago)
That one can't be pinned on the Poles.
― Neil S, Saturday, 17 October 2009 14:46 (sixteen years ago)
Depends what you mean by poles.
― Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:08 (sixteen years ago)
lol...poles
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:13 (sixteen years ago)