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

important question: do hovercrafts discriminate against "gays"?

just as important, are gays discriminating against hovercraft transport?

That hovercraft thing is just a load of hot air imo.

anti-gays getting pumped up

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349816/School-children-taught-homosexuality-celebrate-gay-community.html

Same sex: Geography lessons will explain why homosexuals move to cities and language classes will teach gay vocabulary (picture posed by models)

Yes, the pic of two guys holding hands is not really 2 homos, they got 2 straight guys to re-create the pose...

It is one thing to discriminate against gays....But quite another to support it by way of celebrations....AND for it to be given government backing !

- Fred Steele, Hinckley Leicestershire, 23/1/2011 22:37

I for one would have to agree with Fred here, these are indeed different things

There's a (picture posed by models) under the other picture as well. Those aren't actual children?

wtf is 'gay vocabulary' when it's at home?

an episode of are you being served

Fantabulosa!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari

If Gareth Bale's bombing down the wing at full pace, how can a female official be expected to keep up with him? Male officials can at least get close. It's not about sexism, rather realities of life.
- Mark, Sheffield, 24/1/2011 8:22

Well, fair's fair, you often see guy referees running alongside Gareth Bale, shouting "go on my son, over on 'is 'ed, yeahhhhh!"

That comments section about occasionally mentioning same-sex couples in children's textbooks is a prime example of outrage based on the headline rather than reading the actual article.

That's because it's too easy to pass A-levels.

shouldn't a lino be in line with the line of the last defender and not just a random player on the wing?

That comments section about occasionally mentioning same-sex couples in children's textbooks is a prime example of outrage based on the headline rather than reading the actual article.

The second most recommended comment hasn't even understood the headline.

Fantabulosa!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari

― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 24 January 2011 09:04 (48 minutes ago)

So now 7 year olds will have a better understanding of Morrissey lyrics than me?

The second most recommended comment hasn't even understood the headline.

Think they might have just read the URL and got outraged

ohoh melanie phillips trending on twitter

Jesus Christ, that Melanie Phillips article makes me want to cry. It's not even pitiably risibly wrongheaded like Liz Jones, it's just wrong.

http://istyosty.com/81u <--link to the article

but really the o.g. "news" article that Algerian posted was already str8 homophobia so

wtf is 'gay vocabulary' when it's at home?

BBC encouraging the spread of this filth, errrrrrrr, 50 years ago

http://static.letsbuyit.com/filer/images/uk/products/original/131/21/the-bona-world-of-julian-and-sandy-starring-kenneth-williams-hugh-paddick-kenneth-horne-bbc-rad-13121905.jpeg

Yes, we've come a long way since then

They bought the house in 1986 for £81,000 and ploughed the money they’d made from their first B&B in Cornwall into it, renovating and updating the building.
They are now incapable of paying their £2,800-a-month mortgage, and have come to an agreement with their lender to pay less, for now.

I think the Christian Hoteliers should sue their mortgage advisor to recoup some of the £840,000 they've already paid back on a loan of £81,000.

They might make a few bob if they actively chased the pink pound.

They could set up a facebook account, although that'd get 3 million christians who will all club together and pray for a miracle...

Pray but not pay

In geography, for example, they will be told to consider why homosexuals move from the ­countryside to cities. In maths, they will be taught ­statistics through census ­findings about the number of ­homosexuals in the population.

In science, they will be directed to ­animal species such as emperor ­penguins and sea horses, where the male takes a lead role in raising its young.

can see why melanie phillips and the mail would be troubled by children being educated in facts and how to use them sensibly

In geography, for example, they will be told to consider why homosexuals move from the ­countryside to cities.

to escape small-minded prejudice perhaps? (not to diss those who live in the countryside blanket-style)

They are a migratory species, everyone knows that

like emperor penguins

In science they should instead be taught about good old fashioned heterosexual animals, like the mallard:

When they pair off with mating partners, often one or several drakes will end up "left out". This group will sometimes target an isolated female duck, even when she's of a different species, and proceed to chase and peck at her until she weakens, at which point each male will take turns copulating with the female. Lebret (1961) calls this behaviour 'Attempted Rape Flight' (ARF) and Cramp & Simmons (1977) speak of 'rape-intent flights'. Male Mallards will also occasionally chase other male ducks of a different species, and even each other, in the same way. In one documented case of 'homosexual necrophilia', a male Mallard copulated with another male he was chasing after said male had been killed upon flying into a glass window.[6]

oh wait...

In geography, for example, they will be told to consider why homosexuals move from the ­countryside to cities, if their teachers decide it doesn't sound too much like work to incorporate these entirely optional suggestions from the Training And Development Agency For Schools.

Drakes? Rakes morelikeamirite?

In geography, for example, they will be told to consider why homosexuals move from the ­countryside to cities.

to escape small-minded prejudice perhaps? (not to diss those who live in the countryside blanket-style)

― chev rivera (stevie), Monday, January 24, 2011 12:34 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"to escape small-minded prejudice" is otm.

Funnily enough, heteroseuxals do that too

i wish twitter would stfu about the daily mail though. you know, what bothers me way more than the mail's trolling/idiocy (and this is MELANIE PHILLIPS we know what she's like already, albeit not in a remotely entertaining carcrash way à la liz jones) - is the fact that there's obviously a substantial audience for this shit, who already believe the bigotry that the mail just echoes back at them. in our lefty bubbles it's really easy to get all outraged for a day or two about this and ignore the fact that most of the country thinks like this.

run away turn away run away iirc xps

idk i think the point of twitter is that it spreads out publicly rather than staying in lefty bubbles kinda

i mean it's a voice protesting publicly of some sort, not sure abt efficacy or whatever

the point of twitter seems to be more about people being have-a-go comedians and making terrible "jokes" at times like these

STOP TRYING TO BE FUNNY. THIS APPLIES TO EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE.

You're no fun anymore

i laughed @ that, it was like some mirrors within mirrors paradox

thinking some needs to start a 'lex tells jokes' thread

THAT WASN'T A JOKE

i am ACTUALLY crossing my arms and pursing my lips in DISAPPROVAL

You're funny in spite of yourself

no shit, funny boy

lexinor funby

I can believe it. My niece's state schooling was ruined by political correctness — for example, at age 7, being asked to do a project on the life and music of Bob Marley (who'd been dead for 20 years) when she and most of her peers liked the Spice Girls. Exactly which part of the curriculum this vanity project fitted is still a mystery

Stonewall is dedicated to the destruction of hetrosexual family life

I really do fear for the future of my little Grandsons in this sick society

Some top quality comments from the link