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

curse my middle-class upbringing, the first thing i thought when i saw the pictures was GET YOUR SHOES OFF THE SOFA and i see this thought has been echoed repeatedly in the comments :(

tbf lex its not just a middle class thing. my mum and my gran would go daft if i did that

and they did. plenty of times

Just buy a new sofa, what's the problem?

i swear to god we got a new 3 piece suite when i was in my teens and we wasn't allowed to wear any jeans with rivets on it for the first 6 months

also no way wd my mum have us in the lounge with our shoes on anyway

aye that too

LOL, NV said "lounge" ;-).

Pretty sure that picky parents in the poshest bit of Exeter probably silently judge Katie Hopkins and plan play-dates accordingly. Or they will now.

i know suzy :D establishing my credentials

xpost exactly my point.

(although I might have said it elsewhere)

Oh look, they've found another annoying self-obsessed nutjob to witter on about how fucking controversially different they are.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2285554/I-selfish-set-ways-child-43-An-astonishing-confession-mother-wont-daughter-swimming-case-ruins-pedicure.html

Her teeth are mesmerising

truly the Daily Mail readership is the scene that celebrates itself

all the news that's fit to print

I'm back obsessed with it again, mostly due to Liz Jones' increasingly batshit dribblings. I can't help myself, I'm part of the problem, I know.

yes

The first thing you notice, arriving by train into Tamworth’s unedifying concrete railway station, is the smell of burgers sizzling on the open griddle of a mobile snack bar five steps outside the main entrance door. Top of the specials’ list is the ‘mad hatter’ — a burger with a fried egg on top. For another 30p, they’ll slap a slice of cheese on it for you as well.

Welcome to the fat capital of Britain: one in three adults in Tamworth, Staffordshire, is now officially classed as obese and most of the children aren’t far behind.

I spent my teenage years in Tamworth: I was at boarding school nearby and my friends and I would amble along these same pavements, stopping for the occasional ice-cream or Kit-Kat.

A fast food stall, outside a railway station front door - I bet nowhere else has that. Certainly not, like, any railway station with enough space and/or steps to separate the area of enticing burger smell from the exhaust fumes of idling taxis.

(the hot dog stall outside Oxford station always smells delicious)

tamworth has 33% ~official obesity~ compared to a national average of 25% so it's scarcely that distinctive

they should do a series of articles of manic lifestyle journalist minor public school alumni returning to their former oppidan peripheries

Tamworth might be the ugliest station in the country tho tbf

nice photo/story pairing today

http://i47.tinypic.com/scw7.jpg

OK, I expect nothing better from this lot, but even so:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2296659/BUDGET-2013-Osbornes-delight-Thatcher-makeover-Chancellor-nearly-choked-marmite-saw-image-Iron-Lady.html

Irony, lady.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/22/trans-teacher-lucy-meadows-press
http://boingboing.net/2013/03/22/transgendered-teacher-kills-se.html

Then there's this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2296440/Dark-Knight-killer-James-Holmes-Muslim-prays-times-day.html

There is No James Holmes that guy is an Actor that has played other parts in these fake shootings (Drills) even his lawyer is fake real name Alva Greenberg from that acting family. Nobody died nobody shot - If even one of the witnesses or officals is shown to be an Actor then the whole thing is Fake - Hoax. Stop promoting this nonsense and investigate the roles these people play over and over again. We are Legion

- Elyag Reed , Banjul, Gambia, 22/3/2013 15:53
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2296440/Dark-Knight-killer-James-Holmes-Muslim-prays-times-day.html#ixzz2OJEVTVc7

that comments page is full of conspiracy crap. Where the hell do they come from?

they make the usual mail commentors seems sane

You've gotta love the comments section. It's usually full of rants about how immigrants moving to Britain are ruining "our country", by "John - Expat in Spain"

And there was that scandal a few years back when that BNP member said women enjoy being raped, and likened it to being forcefed chocolate, and the people on that site expressed genuine shock and surprise that a member of the BNP would actually make a bigoted and ignorant remark.

daily mail commenters are low iq, bored guardian readers, just like guardian commenters are bored, low iq daily mail readers.

Guardian has a fair few low iq bored Guardian readers too.

No wonder they're bored

yeah, troo, guardian commenters are a joyful mixture of daily mail readers and guardian readers

There are these hordes of people who worship Marina Hyde or Charlie Brooker and seem to see themselves as these arch cynics - I think they're the worst people in Britain.

every so often I think about what would be worse, being stranded on a desert island with people who passionately love Charlie Brooker or being stranded on a desert island with people who passionately hate Charlie Brooker or

people who don't finish their posts properly

ha otm xxp.

one thing i never, ever miss about britain is people who love to get sincerely angry about trivia. like today on fb someone has posted a link to something in the guardian (not clicking) with the commentary "Let out your Saturday morning rage here..".

On one level though, Charlie Brooker does understand. Deep down, he knows he hasn’t contributed anything positive to TV, to journalism, to culture, to the wider understanding. He’s a man who, quite rightly, hates himself. What he should really hate, though, is the people he’s spawned. And that’s why he’s on this list. There’s thousands of them. People who, for some reason, want to be him. People getting inordinately angry about popular culture that isn’t aimed for them. People who watch Battlestar Galactica and own most of Tool’s discography writing what they’d no doubt term an “epic rant” about, say, Hannah Montana. We’ve allowed manchildren to take over Twitter. And that’s why Brooker is on here. It’s not so much that he doesn’t understand. It’s that he has no desire to learn.

one thing i never, ever miss about britain is people who love to get sincerely angry about trivia.

Yes, that truly is a uniquely British trait that you would certainly never find in any other corner of the globe.

we've cornered the market in a particular wanky tone of it

Seriously. You're kidding yourself if you think this isn't a British (and to a lesser extent Australian) thing.

Otm, was one of the first things I noticed when I moved away from the UK

http://media.skynews.com/media/images/generated/2013/4/2/230027/default/v1/030413-papers-daily-mail-1-329x437.jpg

How can anyone working for the Mail sleep at night when they use the deaths of 6 children to push their anti-poor agenda and defend the UK Govt Welfare reforms?

PURE. UTTER. SCUM.

Use of the word "bred", rather than "fathered", is particularly grotesque.

fuck 'em. just fuck 'em, is all.

Harold Shipman - Vile Product of Medical School
Peter Sutcliffe - Vile Product of Long Distance Lorry Driving
Jimmy Savile - Vile Product of State Owned Broadcasting (that one's possibly already been used)

Let's see.

Newspaper prints outrageous cover story.

Outraged people name it, link to it or its website, give it the publicity it wants.

Editor says thank you and carries on printing outrageous stories.

Harold Shipman - Vile Product of Medical School the NHS (fixed for Mail readers)

I've not seen anyone link to the actual piece but to a 'tinypic' of the front page that garners the Mail group exactly zero pence, but perhaps our social media circles don't cross over much, Marcello. But seriously, what would you suggest is the correct response to this situation?

the correct response is to type or use the phrase "A Good Story" at some point during the day