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

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Some wave their arms at Mr Balls like those airport operatives with ping-pong bats.
They mouth, ‘Coooeee!’ at the same time. Other Tories move both arms like ballet dancers in Swan Lake.
A moustachioed ministerial aide yesterday flub-dubbed his lips at Mr Balls.

Your representatives, ladies and gentlemen.

wtf is flub-dubbing?

is it that thing where you purse your lips then shake your finger up and down against them to make a wibble wibble kind of noise?

quentin letts is such a shitrag.

Taxi drivers protesting outside Daily Mail head office:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXz8IXOpQys

Not entirely sure why, I assume the DM must've written a nasty article about them putting up fares during the Olympics?

Taxi drivers offended by all the racism and sexism at the Daily Mail perhaps?

It was the Standard, which occupies the same building. Hopefully Boris will do to the scrounging taxi drivers what Tony Blair did to the miners oh hang on a minute

Ah, well at least they went to the right building then (the Daily Mail doesn't actually have its offices in the head office building)

Cor blimey, those striking teachers are so heartless that they won't even put on a nativity scene! What has the world come to, ey?

Can't they at least put on a Winterval play?

lol http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2063072/Meet-Mr-Thirties-The-man-home-lifestyle-stuck-year-war.html

this is how I imagine all daily mail readers/employees to be

He doesn't have a washing machine so he's "in keeping" with the time. But how many people does he think owned a vacuum cleaner then? Or a wireless? Or a telephone? In the 1940s my grandmother had to walk miles to the local manor house because it was the only place with a telephone in the entire area, and also the only place with electricity so she could charge the large batteries for her grandparents' wireless (the only wireless in the family). She didn't even get an indoor toilet until 1960. I love the tradition of British eccentrics, but they see the past through rose-tinted glasses. We insult our elders by pretending their lives were so rosy back then, and a lot are still alive to tell the tale if only we'd listen!

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doesnt fit with their idea of the 30s

A simpler time, happier days. How we yearn for mass unemployment, the rise of fascism, no NHS, etc....

I see that he also has a 1930s burglar alarm on his wall and a 1930s Yagi antenna on his chimney stack. I do hope that he does not take the 1930s ethic of, "I have a bath once a month, whether I need one or not!" These "special" people who march to the beat of a different drum should be worshipped.

- Farmer Giles, Truro, Cornwall, 18/11/2011 16:26
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can't quite grok farmer giles' tone exactly.

I would love tp live in a house like this. Our home is by no means modern, but it's still nithing like these pictures. I would really like to go into this home- I couldn't think of anything better.

- Mrs Sally White., Redditch. United Kingdom., 18/11/2011 16:03

something hauntingly bleak about this one.

Apparently there's a free Cliff Richard Christmas Songs CD in tomorrow's Daily Mail - a lethal combination of possibly my two most hated things.

tbf she does live in Redditch xpost

yr two most hated things are Christmas and Songs?

my "typed a reply but didn't submit" to that was Christmas and CDs :-)

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/fearmongering-gets-started-in-2012-laacher-see-is-not-ready-to-blow/

OMG the Mayo's we're right, were all going to die!!!1

Simon Mayo: official DJ for The Apocalypse
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44696000/jpg/_44696387_mayo1988_bbc226b.jpg

Mayo's we're right,

Yes, we're in a right pickle. I don't relish it at all. Better dashi to ketchup with all your unfinished business before the sauce of the apocalypse arrives.

First day in the office since before Xmas and there's a big pile of Mails on the kitchen table (they bring them round every day) and Friday's has this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2080002/BBCs-Women-Year-list-The-unsung-heroines-champion-feminism.html

You couldn't make it up.

lol i read that at work too (choice between express, sun and mail - whoever the fuck buys the papers is a right cunt - and i'd forgot me book) it was littlejohn at his most littlejohnist.

I'm sure I recall reading a Liljon column years ago where he described himself as a feminist with an apparently straight face

I actually glanced at the article in the shop on this basis wondering if it was serious and... well

Ha, this is nuts (or, nothing out of the ordinary for the Daily Mail):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/jan/26/weather-forecasters-daily-mail

AWESOME :D

RIP PWS ;_;

mad

:-D

Amazing (but not surprising, apart from the whole bit about no-one ever picking up on it before)

ILX called it in October, do you think Monbiot is a lurker?
WHO THE FUCK READS THE DAILY EXPRESS?

"Your column which was understandably critical of us at Christmas made me face a few things about the company and where it was going"

Basically, the game is now officially up, and seeing as how we've been coining it in the full expectation that the game would be up at some point, it is with a heavy heart that I am goodnight vienna.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16746785

"I bet most people don't even know they are reading the Daily Mail or what the Daily Mail is," he says.

Reminds me, Melanie Phillips on QT last night... her most insane performance yet

Dunno, was half-watching, it was "Mark Steele says something, then the rest of the panel rattle off policy like he hadn't said anything at all"

They forgot the one reason many are addicted to DM website.. The LOL comments.

I kind of felt bad for the PWS guy when i read his pathetic final email

what does pws stand for?

Positive Weather Solutions. It's in the article

ah, makes sense.

great name btw. Don't like this rain? We've got a Positive Weather Solution for you!

Winter’s here! Parts of Britain wake to snowy scenes as icy Siberian blasts blows in… and it’s due to last a MONTH

Severe weather warnings in place after first big snowfall of the year
Four inches of snow expected across higher ground and hail too

By John Stevens

Last updated at 5:37 PM on 27th January 2012

MailOnline, the world's number one: We're the biggest newspaper website with 45.348 million unique users

When they say "unique"...

How much money can you make inventing the weather? Seems like a limited number of people, other than the Mail, who'd pay for transparently fictional forecasts. The business model intrigues me.

If the papers bung a couple grand per week for the weather, and the 'weather agency' is one bloke and a 'website', ....