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

Finally a detailed statisical analysis of the aspirations and lifestyle changes of *my* demographic. oh no wait i'm not working class, can we get one for white british middle class single straight cis males plz?

Scottish is not British?

That article is a perfectly reasonable look at census data and shifts in British working class patterns of residency, a legitimate topic IMO.

should have said "white British" above, obv.

though I did laugh at this picture apparently denoting some white people, yesterday

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65966000/jpg/_65966407_149794837.jpg

Couple of Rangers fans no doubt

... no, hold on, they're smiling

maybe Orangemen with bowler hats just oiut of shot

but again the smiling would indicate not

The white British article is pretty reasonable, but by posing it as a question in that maddening way that News Online does with everything now, they sort of stoke unpleasantness.

That piece wouldn't make it into a newspaper imo. Not in its colloquial, here's some shit I just found, way. I think if the top line of a feature is a question it's likely to be shit, nine times out of 10, and you just wouldn't get away with it in a proper paper. Beeb's feature writing is fucked tho, they don't know what they're at with no background as a paper.

LOL @ the comments below the article tho

Oh stay away from the comments

i don't care if you're white, black, red white and blue, purple...

They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate countless Cities, and we fall back. Not again. Not this time. The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther! - Jean-Luc Picard, Captain, USS Enterprise.

We have mass unemployment and have done for 30+ years, a housing & energy crisis. Our welfare system cannot cope, our prisons are full & parts of our transport system are past capacity.

Fire photon torpedoes at Newham.

He's not racist, he has a Klingon Lieutenant on his ship.

ah Beverley, won't you join me for a glass of racist synthahol?

Holodeck enable antebellum South programme.

hilarious mishap when Jordi gets accidentally lynched

"Wesley, tell me, where was your father born?"

guys stop making me laugh at work

have always been amused by the TOS's depiction of a world where people from all races and cultures work aboard the enterprise but it's ok for Bones to sling racist slurs at Spock all day long

in a way it's like BBC News article comment threads

Holy shit bones and spock are fergie and wenger how did this no occur to me til now

Wd like to see something similar to the Wrath of Khan denouement between those two.

A brief image search turns up the revelation that there's a lot of Trek slash fiction out there.

Kirk/Spock was possibly the original "slash" fiction.

yeah BB, that stuff must predate the net

That article is a perfectly reasonable look at census data and shifts in British working class patterns of residency, a legitimate topic IMO.

ok but how is shit like this necessary

Some white British may have moved because their neighbourhood has been culturally transformed, the tea rooms and restaurants replaced by takeaway chicken shops and halal supermarkets serving the new arrivals.

And the pic of the Polish pub and "Polish is the second most common language spoken in England" which is the only mention of Polish people in the whole article?

Some white British may have moved because their neighbourhood has been culturally transformed, the tea rooms and restaurants replaced by takeaway chicken shops and halal supermarkets serving the new arrivals.

lol because back in the day restaurants in Britain would serve roast beef, yorkshire pudding, spotted dick and NO OTHER FOOD

Actually, the takeaway chicken shops thing doesn't even have to do with immigration at all, just a straight up racist dog-whistle.

oh it's the usual sloppy BBC generalisations and lowest common denominator reporting, it's just that the topic itself shouldn't automatically be out of bounds IMO.

it's a shite article that would never appear anywhere else, but they feel the need to have these fucking dumb question features at least once a day.

the chicken shop bit definitely stands out too, like white people don't eat fried chicken or something.

also tea rooms - wtf is a tea room?

Tea rooms exist in places like Harrogate and Windsor, and in the minds of racists.

There's a tea room(s) in Stoke Newington, THAT WELL KNOWN ALL-WHITE ENCLAVE

Hitchin had a very good (non-racist) tea room that ran for a very long time but got replaced by a Starbucks.

GWS fried chicken is delicious

*GWS = goes without saying

"Tea rooms" is very much a 50s / 60s thing, i think. Obviously can't say "cafes" or "fish and chip shops" as half of them were run by the bleedin' Italians.

e.g. Lyon's Team Rooms, which you still occasionally see as re-purposed restaurants and cafes round London, for example Shanghai restaurant in Dalston.

tea rooms still a massive mainstay of the tourist industry in rural towns & villages all across the country.

hell yeah, every village within sight of the Yorkshire Dales has got at least one tea room

these articles are the equivalent of the endless 5Live phone-ins where people like Nicky Campbell in no way invite racists to air their thoughts to the nation by raising important questions like "Should We Send All Them Polish Back Where They Come From?"

Polish them off, I say

There used to be a really good one in Ayr that we went to a few times as a treat when I lived in Prestwick as a kid. But yeah thats a touristy place.

does anybody remember the report from a few years back - possibly during the Birt years but possibly just after - that said the Beeb wasn't doing enough to reflect the thoughts and tastes of working class white dudes? hello BBC3, hello 5Live the nation's debate, hello Why They Hide Their White People Under My Swanage?

yes. He also said sitcoms were too middle class

well he had a point there

he thought ITV did it better with Mind Your Languageand Love Thy Neighbour

I'd say Beeb probably doesn't reflect working class views generally, or represent them. Class is imo a bigger issue than race in the BBC. In my experience there is quite a strong spread of racial backgrounds and nationalities but everyone is middle class or up, really, I suppose as you'd expect.

From watching/listening to it, I mean.