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

Oh, and the Mail on Sunday is paying an old lad a lot of money to say she's voting Conservative now, ta.

Game is over?

http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/05/skinny-jeans-save-a-bro-from-being-found-guilty-4-rape.html

Why I hate Hipster Runoff, as ...

Does John Travolta believe his baby is the reincarnation of his dead son?

By Richard Price Last updated at 12:31 AM on 22nd May 2010

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Sunrise in the humidity of deepest Florida, a hazy mist cloaking the ground as the coolness of the night turns to cloying heat, and a lone individual trudges along an airport runway in a pristine tracksuit.

He won't be breaking any land speed records - in fact this version of running barely qualifies as a brisk trot - but at 56 John Travolta is no spring chicken.

Consider, however, that his only exercise until recently was lifting double cheeseburgers to his mouth, or driving a golf cart aimlessly around the private runway which services his Jumbolair estate, and this represents significant progress.

FUCK YOU DAILY MAIL

for a second there I thought that was the name of a new Tumblr

wut

Spooked phone bosses have suspended the mobile phone number 0888 888 888 - after every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years.

The first owner, Vladimir Grashnov - the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel, which issued the number - died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48.

Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning.

Sure this is an old story/schoolyard/facebook rumour. That the Daily Mail is reporting it at all, but also that they are reporting it as news, now, makes me want to run around the office, arms swinging like an ape, making baboon noises, regardless of the reputation it may earn me.

makes yer fink, though, dunnit?

So it's official, the Daily Mail is now as accurate as The Onion.

The Onion's always been painfully accurate.

xps

Melanie Phillips is officially mad.

After the long years of Labour's Harman Terror, during which extreme man-hating feminism seemed to carry all before it...

Not just man-hating, EXTREME man-hating.

Ha, I missed the poll on the same page.

Should abortion adverts be shown on TV?

I imagine they mean the completely innocuous Marie Stopes ad.

I think I'm going to be sick.

David Cameron creamed the Chamber with such assurance

ONE percent is womanly ABUSE faking a RAPE........ Woman are crucified daily down-here on every level of society unless they mimic the come later male species of Christianated societies and ESPECIALLY during the demonic biblical Armagedon global battles commonly known as WW-I $ II.

It was the Christian God: King James that condemned womankind in Eden! What was her GUILT in Eden: Bringing the little bastard Jesus, into this world?
Don't say no; the FACTS say otherwise! The U.S. Pentagon is the military of the Global petro-chemical cartels HIDING UNDER THE MASK of the Christian Ghost-Person of FREE TO ABUSE CORPORATISM that is NOT cpitalism!

I am more concerned with how this ladies MIND-SET came about in the first place; is she guilty of her once niave GUILT OF TRUSTING innocence at another time in her history?

- PHILIP GURRIERI, Kingston, Ulster County - U.S. of PETRO-CHEMICAL CARTELS in trinity of America's, 24/5/2010 19:37

Need to start a thread of "too much in his senses to be confined to the asylum and too much out of them to be walking the street".

Someone should just post that to every DM article. Pretty much sums it all up.

He took the words right out of my mouth. And then he removed most of them, added a lot more and changed their order.

Daily Mail prints a story.

Driver orders toddler off bus for wearing 'offensive' England football shirt

Except that it seems it didn't happen..

Daily Mail prints an apology.
(ok I made that bit up)

Made up stories about the Daily Mail printing an apology about a story that they made up about an incident that didn't actually happen and... <HEAD EXPLODES>

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I've been checking out this blog for a while and it's great re: this kind of thing.
http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.com/

Glad to see the Police stepping in to stop tabloid newspapers inciting racial hatred. This "THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY OUR ENGLAND SHIRTS ARE RACiST, THE FOREIGN TWATS" shit is reaching boiling point in our town at least, and when this shit spills over and people are hurt I expect the press will be very ready to take responsibility for its part in escalating this.

xp Fcking hell the Mirror and the Star reported it as well. Good work journos.

Yeah, the bit about the driver having a "polish/east european/whatevers" accent is so obviously crap and put in to send their already enraged readers over the edge.

The BNP are using this stuff to get some grassroots thuggery organised so kudos to our national newspapers plus those wonderful guys and gals at Facebook.

this happened (or rather, didn't happen) in bnp stronghold stoke-on-trent too. wonder if anyone has cross-referenced this family with the membership lists?

If none of the newspapers follow this story up to establish the truth either way, that would be a scandal.

There's enough of that sort of "The leftwingers SPIKED this story" thickness thinking off BNP followers already...

the stoke sentinel "broke" this story. ran a short follow-up with the bus co saying it didn't happen. then had 30 people claiming to have seen it, at least one of which got the day wrong. must be some sort of mass hallucination up there.

A Bus company has been inundated with complaints after a passenger claimed one of its drivers ordered her son off the bus for wearing an England shirt.

First Bus said about 30 people phoned and emailed the business in reaction to allegations that a driver had found two-year-old Dylan Hall's football top offensive.

The firm said it could find no concrete evidence to back up the claims made by mum Sam Fardon, aged 27, below, from Trent Vale.

First Bus commercial director Paul de Santis said: "As time has gone we have reached the conclusion that the incident did not happen.

"We have not been able to find any credible witnesses. And we have not been able to confirm the identity of the driver at the centre of the allegation.

"We believe it to be highly unlikely that it happened. If this is the case that is extremely concerning to us. It's not only damaged our reputation, but could have put our staff in danger through potential reprisals."

His comments came after Miss Fardon had said that she and her son were only allowed on the bus after other passengers intervened.

She told The Sentinel the incident happened last Thursday morning as she went to take her son to a toddler group in Chesterton.

Miss Fardon said: "As we got on the bus, my two-year-old son had an England shirt on and the bus driver, who had an Eastern European accent, said he found it offensive.

"He said, 'he won't be wearing that during the World Cup, will he?' I said Dylan would and the bus driver said, 'I find that really offensive'. I couldn't believe it.

"He said we'd have to get off the bus but I argued with him and other passengers backed me up, so he let us on."

First Bus launched an inquiry after being informed of the complaint, which prompted a string of complaints and people who claimed to have seen the incident.

Mr de Santis said: "We have received a large number of adverse comments from customers and people who claim to have seen the incident.

"We asked one to provide a supporting statement because of the serious complaint made about one of our drivers. It was then that the person claimed the incident had happened on the Monday (when The Sentinel had gone to press)."

"We are a multicultural employer and proud to be so and will give our full support to England's World Cup campaign."

Miss Fardon was yesterday unavailable for comment.

must be some sort of mass hallucination large scale support for the BNP up there.

"We'll fight them on the buses..."

hmm. the mum has previous form with dishonesty offences. great research, guys! http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/archive/2004/09/22/Wiltshire+Archive/7268522.Woman_stole_from_her_hosts/

and here she is again, three years earlier: http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/archive/2002/05/28/Wiltshire+Archive/7349282.Woman__18__in_custody_for_string_of_offences/

Nice digging. (Or rather typing a name into a website search engine, but that's still more than the Mail, Star or Mirror could manage)

"He said, 'he won't be wearing that during the World Cup, will he?' I said Dylan would and the bus driver said, 'I find that really offensive'. I couldn't believe it.

"He said we'd have to get off the bus but I argued with him and other passengers backed me up, so he let us on."

Ahaha this is so staggeringly made up.

That's up there with "So I said to the bouncer, 'fack orf you cant', and he stepped to one side and let me in..." when it comes to made up stories.

"And then the bus flew up high into the sky in a blaze of fireworks and everyone cheered my name. It was amazing. You should have been there."

Selwyn Brown, of North Staffordshire bus users group Aces, said: 'It's unbelievable. Assuming it's true, the bus driver is to be condemned.

Wonder if that's the same Selwyn Brown that was in Steel Pulse?

I know how this happened..

The bus driver is SCOTTISH!!

and he sais "You're not wearing that for the WORLD Cup are ye?"

They say, "yeah"

he says "Hmph, I should stop you getting on with that offensive shirt on, hoch aye the noo"

and they think.. OOH HE IS POLISH OR SUMMAT!!

littlejohn continues his campaign against the intolerable injustice of referring to prostitutes as women who worked as prostitutes btw

I heard the bus driver was Bobby Gillespie (xp)

Tbf, Littlejohn is a man who works as a journalist.

Nice digging. (Or rather typing a name into a website search engine, but that's still more than the Mail, Star or Mirror could manage)

This is depressing, either they didn't bother at all, and it looks like they didn't, or they did and still thought 'fuck it - let's run with it anyway'. Of course it is possible there's more than one woman with that name in Stoke. I guess that's the kind of thing journalists could check up on?

"not someone who works as a cunt....a cunt"

xp
Of course it is possible there's more than one (27 year old woman) with that name in Stoke.

How you usem news story.

Day one: Report story - initial details
Day two: Clarify story - longer version of same thing, more pics
Day three: Disprove story, quote someone else.

But whatever happens, do not disprove a story before you've had a chance to print it.

Wonder if that's the same Selwyn Brown that was in Steel Pulse?

Selywn Brown is made out of people

Even the legalisation of brothels, which I support...

guessing that our friend Richard has some troubles with women who work as prostitutes leading to his crazy vendetta.

The murder of three prostitutes in Bradford not only conjours

sounds a bit Frenchy for my liking, gerrarav our green + pleasant land you.

He already did, didn't he?

this bit from the fake evil bus driver story cracks me up

Miss Fardon's partner Chris Hall, a taxi driver, was so angry he defiantly bought England strips for all the children.

That'll show those non-existent foreign bastards.