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

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', ....

The business model intrigues me

Sidebar of tits + z-listers = profit

They surely can't be getting a couple of grand a week. I'd imagine that fictional weather would be a buyer's market. I'd invent weather forecasts for as little as 500 GBP a month myself.

It's like all those 'daily regular' things.

How much does that 'bloke' get who does those daily 'scrabble' quiz thingys get? (substitute for "worldwide franchise operation" as applicable), or "nemi", or goddam "Fred Bassett" cartoonist?

Alex Graham's been dead for two decades, are they just rerunning old Fred Bassett cartoons now?

Think so. Dunno. Is it even in the paper anymore?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095549/Right-wingers-intelligent-left-wingers-says-controversial-study--conservative-politics-lead-people-racist.html

Trolling their own readers, must be a slow day for the web staff.

:-D Placement of that article is the definition of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is a joke ......right ? Only because anyone wanting there own culture to be saved is deemed "racist" by "inteligent" left wingers ? . Only in this dustbin they call the UK. The whole world is entitled to their own culture ... but not Britain . A country decimated by an experiment gone horribly wrong by idiots and voted for by idiots and a lesson to others . Thats why we are laughed at . It is now a crime to even say this is wrong ! . Thats how far it has got .

- david, england, 3/2/2012 1:27

same old racist ranting, kinda cool freestyle punctuation

Sadly, David, England is now in jail, no longer free to misuse full stops.

oh no ! .

"they've finally admitted what I've been saying for years!!" - a person linking to this article on Facebook

Let's be honest, if any of us had some intelligence anywhere near half way decent, we wouldn't be reading this rag would we?
- Al, Camden, 3/2/2012 10:09
Rating 470

hahahaha, al in camden, what a moment of clarity that is

he said what ! .

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/25/article-2106450-11E8CAC7000005DC-286_634x1043.jpg

neat pshop work w/ stewart robson

incase no one looks at the olympics thread
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-2112352/Tiffany-Porter-lead-Team-GB-World-Indoor-Championships.html

That is the worst article since, well, the last one I read. Seriously, did they ask the opinion of a single teammate, or just phone up random ex-athletes until they found one to agree with them? Oh no, she might not have heard of someone who did something in a different sport nearly 50 years ago! Burn her!

I cba looking, but do they ever get their knickers in a knot about England footballers who don't sing the national anthem?

Did I hear somewhere that the Mail was banned from covering athletics as a result?

they don't often bring up the fact that there's about 2 englishmen in the England cricket team

but i must admit underneath all the Mailesque rhetoric there's the germ of a point in that article

Presumably the governing body didn't give this lassie the captaincy just to piss off the mail though?

nah i'm sure they didn't but i can see them doing it for bullshit branding purposes. what does a captain actually do in athletics? and ok if the rules say you can adopt non-natives but isn't the point of a nation-based competition really that your competitors are more or less unambiguously from the nation concerned?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/mar/09/great-britain-tiffany-porter-plastic-brit

Plenty dual-nationality participants in plenty sports, shouldn't be any more of an issue than Kevin Pieterson captaining the cricket team.