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

And don't forget his programme on Sky (shudders).

For Kids Today who don't recall Hughie Green's "Stand Up And Be Counted" rant, Noel's re-enacting it every Saturday on Sky. Can't remember where else on ILx it was linked but here's a prime example.

When we stop respecting the ladies and gentlemen of our armed forces this country really is in a shocking state".

(xp) 30 years from now, Edmonds to be subject of sensitive BBC drama which paints him in an entirely new and sympathetic light, a la Hughie Green, Thatcher and other right wing scumbags

... and Whitehouse, of course. Where's the sensitive and sympathetic dramas about Mick McGahey and Red Robbo?

Knockabout Gerry Healy sex comedy.

Sophie Winkleman as Vanessa Redgrave.

^^ wd watch

prefer claudia tbh imo

I can see that working. Jimmy Cricket as Healy.

For Kids Today who don't recall Hughie Green's "Stand Up And Be Counted" rant, Noel's re-enacting it every Saturday on Sky. Can't remember where else on ILx it was linked but here's a prime example.

Marcello, is it true (as wikipedia has it) that this came out as single? I'm relying on your knowledge where google has failed me (all references to it lead back to the wiki).

i must say, the DM has outdone itself with its choice of angle on the natasha richardson accident:

Natasha struck down by the eternal curse of the Redgraves
Scandal and illness has plagued the family since Sir Michael was revealed to be bisexual

o_0

Yeh, I saw that earlier. It's absolutely barking, isn't it? And -- I'd have thought -- incredibly offensive.

So, er, business as usual at the Mail, then.

"Tsk, that family... can't even ski straight."

Natasha learned her father was predominantly gay when she was 11.

Come on, just HOW gay?

What the fuck? Is that really what they said? Jesus.

Also, has there been a thread for the Express 'Dunblane kids bring shame to their dead by refusing to remain 5 years old for the rest of their lives' story?

Yeah it's on one of the Daily Express threads.

haha, what's that all about then?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/16/pcc-targets-sunday-express-over-dunblane-claims

and read the article here The Daily Express

Amazing how they can be snarky about someone who is gravely ill. Not to get all Marcello, but the Daily Mail is representative of the worst of the UK.

i know i posted it to that thread, but the blog about the express journo's own facebook alcolol confessions has given me the sweetest schadenroffles of the year.

The Express story reads like a joke Mail story. You couldn't make it up, etc...

the Daily Mail is representative of the worst of the UK

Fixed.

has MC Coinflipper weighed in on this issue yet?

he quit during the night of the long suggestbans

Another fallen soldier.

No disrespect to MC, but ... given previous form, he'll be back.

I hope so, anyway.

He said he was giving it a month. Then he'll be back w/a new failed meme.

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/4292/wv3.jpg

Daily Mail Large Print Edition

okay what even is that all about? (much lols tho)

Apparently today's Daily Express front page says:

"Griffin was spattered with egg yolk. The BNP only accepts whites."

That's pretty good for them.

That's brilliant.

Not going to make me read The Express, right enough, but still brilliant.

the good/bad thing about the mail though is that its so amazingly consistent every single issue. i cant think of another paper which is as politically consistent with all its angles as the mail. i have to commend that, just on editorial terms.

Yep, totally consistent. Last year they were giving away thousands of energy saving bulbs and encouraging people to go green. This year trad bulbs got banned and the Mail led the campaign to bring them back again. Bravo chaps.

and there was that time recently they were scaremongering about the hpv cervical cancer vaccine in the uk, but promoting it in ireland:
http://www.layscience.net/node/507

And that time when they were getting really angry about the asylum seekers and all their benefits compared to last week when they were getting really angry with people for voting BNP?

consistently cnuts

Didn't the Dail Mail run a campaign against cervical cancer jabs, but in Ireland, where the Government refused to fund cervical cancer jabs, they campaigned for them?

Er, hang on... Oh, it's Bad Science, sorry to those who are a bit sick of people shouting STRAW MAN! ANECDOTES IMPERMISSIBLE! at poor innocents on message boards -

http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/experts-say-new-scientific-evidence-helpfully-justifies-massive-pre-existing-moral-prejudice/

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/03/article-1190675-0533A8C0000005DC-984_468x286.jpg

lol. ah ok, i obv dont read it as much as i should.

i think bringing back the old bulbs is alright though. a lot of oaps for example need the old ones cos the majority of energy saving bulbs take forever to get going.

and i dont think it was officially decided til this year that the old ones would be taken out of production.

a lot of oaps for example need the old ones cos the majority of energy saving bulbs take forever to get going.

Fuck 'em - they can wait like the rest of us. They go to bed when it gets dark anyway.

(and tbh I've never really found this to be much of a problem)

the eco-bulbs are worse but 1) w/r/t slowness: not as bad as they used to be, and 2) w/r/t the ugliness of the light... lampshades much?

on the other hand, lol at the idea that changing our lightbulbs will save the planet.

aargh my kingdom for a pack of screw in light bulbs which nowhere sells around here although everyone is quite happy to sell lamps with screw in fittings aaargh again

Try IKEA. They sell all kinds of weird lightbulbs. To fit their weird lightfittings.

I have a beautiful ecobulb that screws in and is like a huge orb and has so far lasted 4 years. It's seriously great. Cost a f-ing fortune though.