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

Should Akmal Shaikh have been executed?

* Yes 64%
* No 36%

Ah, Daily Mail readers are all heart, aren't they?

It's probably such an even split because tis the season for charity and forgiveness.

Just take this drug dealer out and shoot him and stop the bleeding hearts from trying to get him back here where he'll be released from prison 'because he's got a mental problem'.
He's got a problem all right and it's because he's been caught with a suitcase full of heroin. Well tough! The Chinese have got it right and I hope they tell dopey Gordon and all the other HR activists to 'sod off' and mind their own business. It's a shame the moron won't take a leaf out of China's book and deal with people like this properly.
If they need someone to execute people like this, I'm in the queue like millions of other 'true Brits'. Voted Up: 456

I fully support Tory proposals to give us the absolute right to kill burglars. They should go further.

Rather than just allow us to kill criminals within the comfort of our own homes, we should be allowed to frogmarch them to the nearest shopping centre where special execution zones will have been set up.

Indeed, we should not have to wait until the burglars actually enter our house. The Cleansing Centres should be used on anyone wearing a hood, anyone sporting worrying skin tones or having unusual accents, anyone who did not vote for our new Tory Overlords and Simon Cowell.

- Simon, Oxford, 29/12/2009 10:12

simon, oxford, chris morris fan XD

can someone explain to me liz jones' career path, or has she always been this way

Journalist on 'women's magazines'
Previously editor at UK version of Marie-Claire magazine
An editor at Evening Standard
Author of a handful of books.
Super-successful as a 'confessional columnist' in the Mail, and authoor of spin-off books about her brief failed marriage and subsequent divorce.

I'm coming round to the view, that she's adopted this persona as her USP. I'm sure she really is intensely neurotic, even OCD and anorexic, and her columns have some basis in fact, but everything about them is severely exaggerated for effect (including the accompanying photos:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/19/article-1229399-07490CBD000005DC-173_233x423.jpg

"Hard times: Liz Jones tried to get by on benefits for a week"

the number of pictures of her that accompany her articles lead me to believe that she is quite the narcissist

*leads

i think liz jones thinks it's an act

In my capacity as a literary ed I went to her ex-husband's book launch, so the five minutes I spent speaking to her were not enough to form much of an opinion but she was perfectly pleasant in that setting (but I hate it when 'public' women are neurotic about aging, as she is). Mind, I was also there in my capacity as person who was curious to meet Julie Burchill, since I'd worked for her without doing so before. Guess which monomaniac was the more interesting? No, really...go on.

quite the narcissist

ahem...I haven't sen her posting in WDYLL

WDYLL is not a national newspaper with a circulation of millions, although some might argue it should be

anyway, great zing!

Also those dumb posey pix are called for by whichever section editor is in charge of her. She is not the one saying 'pose me like Breakdown Barbie!'

www.wdyll.co.uk/december/2009/article/LJ-comfy-couch-empty-glass-stubble

did you have your prada suitcase when you met her suzy

note that on the McKinstry article page there's a link to another tutting article titled "China - where people are executed for tax evasion"

i guess it's their idea of balancing things out

who?

HYS
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lovin' the 'don't agree with something? don't act against it!' reasoning there

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Jan/Week1/15515076.jpg

love how the other 3 articles referred to are like some horrendous feedback loop/circle-jerk of daily mailness

erm, daily expressness

Daily Express be influencin movers, shakers and policy makers.

And I guess that front page pic is different today.

Return of the 'slop buckets'

How disgusting. Now we are being treated no better than prisoners in a jail.
Slop buckets, indeed.

- Arturo, Loughborough, 06/1/2010 08:54

I thought prisoners were treated like royalty in five star hotels (see Daily Mail comment pages passim)?

Srsly though fuck the DM. (And, incidentally, fuck the tories for their scaremongering DM/Express-a-like tactics yesterday - WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF GAS PEOPLE!!!)

We already have these. It was some kind of trial thing, I think. Dunno how successful it was. Good way of making you realise how much food you chuck away.

"Why too much tv is bad for my children" - too much of anything is bad for you, that's kind of what "too much" means.

"Too much is not enough, now
let's not be naive!"

:(((( My dad just emailed me about the snow in the UK and said " - global warming, eh?"

Is it... a joke?? He's exactly the kind of person who believes everything he reads in the Mail...

i think some people are so shit-scared of the possible terrifying reality of global warming that they'll cling to whatever flimsy evidence there is that it ain't a thing

Gadgets that helped fight the flab split up Eastenders couple

Srsly though fuck the DM. (And, incidentally, fuck the tories for their scaremongering DM/Express-a-like tactics yesterday - WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF GAS PEOPLE!!!)

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 9:41 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

cough splutter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/07/gas-rationing-national-grid-factories

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7 Jan 2010, 1:21PM

Errm These guys signed up to a deal that said their power and gas could be restricted if we have major need. In return they get a significantly lower tariff. They took the gamble and this is now the down side. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the perfect example of a market at work?

The Grid, which operates the UK transmission networks for both electricity and gas, told guardian.co.uk that the gas transmission network in certain parts of the country was operating at 96% capacity and it was not possible to go beyond this.

Uh what? If they can't go beyond 96% then it's not 96%!

(xpost) And most of these gas customers are factories that aren't running at full capacity right now, because most of their employees can't get into work because of the weather. So it doesn't matter.

Another winner from Lol Jones: When does a trendy, cougarish predilection for toy boys morph into something altogether nastier?

What's going on, is there no Diana news?

I guess not. Neither have the DM been able to find a way to blame all the snow on illegal immigrants.

o_O

I don’t think the majority of women, once they are past the teenage crush period, even think about sex that much.

They put up with it, with the repetitiveness, the ridiculousness, the inconvenience and the inevitable disappointment, because it gets them to where they want to be: married, with children and someone to help shoulder the bills and dig the garden.

Srsly though fuck the DM. (And, incidentally, fuck the tories for their scaremongering DM/Express-a-like tactics yesterday - WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF GAS PEOPLE!!!)

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, January 6, 2010 9:41 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

cough splutter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/07/gas-rationing-national-grid-factories

― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:47 (3 days ago) Bookmark

Yeah, well, like I said somewhere else The Guardian seems to be reading tory party press releases like they're news as well these days.

wow

there's a part of me that rily rilly wants to introduce my mad bonkers riot grrrl ex gf to ms jones just to watch the fur fly (or at least email her the link)

sad truth bomb from sad bloke who hasn't had a gf in 2 years: women don't go off sex they just go off the bloke theyre having sex with

Another blinder from the Express:

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2010/Jan/Week2/15518539.jpg

Wait, that's to-day? It's quite depressing that all the newspapers seem to just be following each other around in the snow. The "food costs to rocket" story was in the Guardian at the w/end and turned out to mostly concern cabbages and sprouts. And frankly even if sprouts double in price I'm not going to panic. The "shelves stripped bare" was in the Sun last week. Having said that very little broccoli in Sainsbury's so obviously The End Is Nigh.

At supermarkets and local stores across the country shoppers were seen cramming trolleys full of food and basic household items in case fresh snowfalls prevent them making it out again in the next few days.

Usual friday night shopping trip then.

"Sales should be dropping now because it’s after Christmas but we are actually experiencing record sales.”

This is a Good News news story surely!

Surely if there's no food left on the shelves there's no harm in putting prices up?

If it messes up those smug Asda calender ads, then it's a double win!

Usual friday night shopping trip then

Much like any Bank Holiday weekend. A supermarket full of people buying twelve loaves of bread because they might run out over the three day weekend oh noesss!!!

shelves usually bare of fresh produce on a sunday night regardless tbh