so they are cunts about that one dudes death huh?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir
― mark e, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, nailed concisely there.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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 ยท fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
aka, game recognise game
― Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
"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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Looking forward to a full scale "everyone's picking on me" whine in tomorrows Mail.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
first time i've seen this:
http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
ARE GYPSIES GIVING YOUR PENSION DIABETES?
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE GYPSIES KILLED YOU?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ 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 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD ASYLUM SEEKERS GIVE COMMON SENSE AND DECENCY DIABETES?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD THE UNEMPLOYED HAVE SEX WITH DRIVERS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE THE POLES STOLEN FROM CLIFF RICHARD?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
WILL CHAVS INFECT THE CHURCH WITH AIDS?
― fisherspwner (braveclub), Friday, 16 October 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
ARE GAYS TURNING YOUR MORTGAGE GAY?
― if, Friday, 16 October 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
(Went w/ the Grauniad instead. Dustin Hoffman can wait.)
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
HAS RUSSELL BRAND IMPREGNATED BRITAIN'S SWANS?
I believe the answer is 'probably'.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD ALISTAIR DARLING INFECT PENSIONERS WITH AIDS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD THE GERMANS MAKE YOUR DAUGHTERS IMPOTENT?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD LESBIANS STEAL THE IDENTITY OF YOUR PETS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE HOODIES TURNED THE QUEEN GAY?
HAVE THE POLES DESTROYED CLIFF RICHARD?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
That one can't be pinned on the Poles.
― Neil S, Saturday, 17 October 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Depends what you mean by poles.
― Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
lol...poles
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
polls
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, assuming for a moment you've never seen a Daily Mail headline generator before - can't we talk about the succesful internet campaign that has resulted in a bunch of advertisers pulling their money? Or that the cops are apparently looking into it under hatred laws? Or that at the very least this might be the end of her career (hopefully)?
― dowd, Saturday, 17 October 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the #dailymail debate is covered in as much depth as is necessary on twitter. not that this wasn't a repulsive article, but you have to be pretty wet behind the ears to think this is the daily mail going "too far" for the first time.
but yes, "successful internet campaign". finally notice is taken of white males aged 18-45. i'd hate to be the next guy stephen fry retweets criticism of on a friday afternoon.
― caek, Sunday, 18 October 2009 06:30 (fourteen years ago) link
ARE THE UNIONS DEFRAUDING BRITAIN'S SWANS?
― caek, Sunday, 18 October 2009 06:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Umm, I don't think it will be the end of the paper. She should get fired though.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 18 October 2009 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i still find richard littlejohn way way way more offensive than jan moir could ever hope to be, and his particular brand of homophobia much worse and more insidious. wish people would go after him on a similar scale.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 18 October 2009 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think cops apparently looking into this under hatred laws is something to be pleased about at all:(1) the article might be stupid, but it shouldn't be a crime; and(2) I'd quite like the police to just do their job, rather than responding to orchestrated pressure. It's not a good thing just because for once the mob is on 'our' side.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 18 October 2009 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link
If the police go after Moir, do they also get to go after anyone printing supportive comments on the Mail website? The whole article, starting with the incredibly WTF statement that healthy 33-year-old men don't just climb into their beds and don't wake up, and then suggesting that only gay men commit suicide over the break-up of their relationships (if indeed Kevin McGee's suicide was anything whatsoever, even tangentially-related, to do with his sexuality) is screamingly wrong and offensive to everyone with depression, undetected heart conditions or teh gayness, but what's worse is that it seems to be speaking for a number of people and not just for her trying to sell papers.
And, yes, The Mob should go after Littlejohn next. Am surprised he's still in a job after than "prostitutes deserve to get murdered" piece.
― ailsa, Sunday, 18 October 2009 10:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8314577.stm
The Press Complaints Commission says it will ask the Daily Mail to respond to complaints about a column it ran on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately.The PCC said it had received more than 21,000 complaints since its publication on 16 October - the most ever made about a single newspaper article.
The PCC said it had received more than 21,000 complaints since its publication on 16 October - the most ever made about a single newspaper article.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 October 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link