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

HYS
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Corruptuser, United States
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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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7chippy
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

Well, yesterday I did have to go to Paul, M&S, Sainsbury's and even bloody Tesco to find a loaf of bread that I would deign to eat. There is no snow on the ground in Covent Garden but many shops there were shut due to 'severe weather' arrrrgh.

dudes make your own bread, yr mouth will thank you for it

[hopes there is yeast in the cupboard o noes]

if the country's running out of food, no-one's told the shops of central manchester.

i went to the shops but they were all CLOSED DOWN.

EAT THE RICH

i find their livers a tad gamey for my tastes

hopes there is yeast in the cupboard o noes

Yeast is the one thing that shops always have, because no-one makes their own bread anymore, or even seems to know how to make bread anymore.

dudes make your own bread, yr mouth will thank you for it

grow your own wheat or its a copout imo

make your own cake, and let you eat that imo

Fortunately I already have a millstone - it's around my neck and it's called "being awesome", but it's probably good for making flour too

just harvest the wheat from that friendly art installation/wheatfield in shoreditch

I know how to make all manner of bready, biscuity things but life is too short.

dudes make your own bread, yr mouth will thank you for it

― most notably, the bendable (stevie), Monday, 11 January 2010 11:18 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
[hopes there is yeast in the cupboard o noes]

― most notably, the bendable (stevie), Monday, 11 January 2010 11:18 (1 hour ago)

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I know how to make all manner of bready, biscuity things but life is too short.

― keyser (suzy), Monday, 11 January 2010 11:48 (1 hour ago)

Soda bread! Easy, non-yeast, non-time consuming and delicious!

soda bread assumes you have copious amounts of real butter to go with, tho?

Wouldn't it be so much more constructive if the Daily Express just put a recipe for soda bread on the front page instead of all this scaremongering nonsense?

NO CRISIS: BAKE YR OWN SODA BREAD