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

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.

as you'd expect from watching/listening to it.

of course i agree that the Beeb's representation of working class people is sub-par, i shd've gone on to say that this kind of pandering stupidity makes it worse if anything. not that racism is a specifically working class issue.

It's a topic that deserves a better article, really. The nature of London has changed quite significantly but it's not a straight immigration issue. The demographic changes have been driven by a massive boom in the financial sector, which is obviously international in nature, and the rise of poverty-level service sector jobs that can't support settled families. That might actually require addressing the class issue, though.

i think the assumption that there is a specific, identifiable set of working class attitudes that can be catered to rather than just, y'know, engaging with wc people on a level beyond "phone in and shout about ethnics" is probly most galling

this article, though it doesn't specify that it's a rejoinder to the BBC piece directly, obviously is (and is also very good):
http://www.newstatesman.com/staggers/2013/02/truth-about-londons-white-flight

Skips the comments under that one too, though!

"Whites Only Tea Room: The Finest Whines Available To Humanity"
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Twitter tells me that Mumsnet were approached by a Mail journalist looking for mothers disappointed in the NHS over being sent to A&E, and the mums are roasting this poor, benighted fool - who will have paid the site a £30 'media fee' to call for respondents.

Why They Hide Their White People Under My Swanage?

too good

£30 'media fee' to call for respondents

something to consider when the next ILX funding issue rears its head maybe

i for one would be happy to speak to a Daily Mail journalist for £30. if they'd like to meet me personally i'd do it for nowt.

wire in
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2281959/Apprentice-star-Katie-Hopkins-admits-I-wont-let-children-play-friends-I-deem-beneath-them.html

It's the kids I feel sorry for

i dunno, these chinless twits like to stick to their own, it seems to work out for them

i dunno what the rough kids are like at a private school tho

True, keep them away from normal people (xp)

LOL @ the whole thing about how she judges people's kids by their names, so "Charmaine" is out but "Poppy" and "Maisie" are in. Makes me want to boke-up baby cream.

With her pierced ears, passion for pink leggings and array of electronic play equipment, Charmaine is definitely not the sort of child I want my daughter associating with. Pretending to look at my diary, I sighed. 'Oh what a shame. We're busy on that day.'
Poppy looked disappointed until I promised to organise an extra tennis lesson.

Got this far and had to stop. Doctor's order, blood pressure and all that.

"I am convinced that my tactics are paying off. Recently I asked Indiawhich children she liked to play with.

'The children who come to school on time and wear proper school uniforms are the nicest and the most fun,' she told me. 'If children don't put any effort in, I don't want to play with them.'

My younger daughter, Poppy, is attracted by the wild side and I have no doubt that, left to her own devices, she would choose friends who would be a bad influence on her.
When she was four she asked if she could have her ears pierced like a (male) classmate. I, of course, said no. I cannot understand why the parent of this child would think it was acceptable.
Recently she asked for a Nintendo after she played on one during a class trip. The boy sitting on the coach next to her had sneaked it into his bag.
'But you know that children aren't supposed to bring in electronic games equipment,' I said. 'So what on earth were you doing sitting next to him when you knew he was doing the wrong thing?' That hammered my message home."

I just took my BP tablet before reading it.

it's the good of the DM to keep reminding us that there's no point trying to engage in reasoned debate with the enemy

Am I the only one that read this and hopes fervently that all three children go horrendously off the rails in their teens??? What a pompous, snobbish woman.

- me again, Newbury, United Kingdom, 21/2/2013 0:11
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Am I the only one that read this and wished harm on children?

Probably not son, it's the Mail

i'd trade this one woman for a thousand dole queens

what do you want with them?

dole queen choir

their giros

dole queen choir for christmas #1

assuming the military wives are all now homeless

one of those singing fishermen got killed recently didn't he.

i'd trade this one woman for a thousand dole queens off my team in Madden

― dog latin, Thursday, 21 February 2013 12:55 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Without even reading that article, I assume they're grooming Katie Hopkins to take over from Liz Jones when she finally flips?

binders full of dole queens

dunno why we're even commenting, this is why they're so massive.

this - except not just for twitter
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BDeGnxGCQAA9-lJ.jpg

utterben Ben Feb 19
How Twitter works for The Daily Mail. pic.twitter.com/pLBRz7hu

But: Will it happen again?

yeah seriously how can you actually care about such a stupid article. i said this about piers morgan, but it's like pointing at someone taking a shit on the pavement.

glad someone made that process into an image macro, I was having a hard time grasping the concept

http://i47.tinypic.com/2h5i5jt.jpg

take it to the Facebook macros thread.

also lol