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

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.

lol at the idea that changing our lightbulbs will save the planet.
Yeah, but no-one thinks this though do they? It's all cumulative innit. It's better than not doing it anyway.

Not to labour the point but the best thing about ecobulbs is where you have some kink in your wiring that leads to lots of bulbs blowing. We had this problem in our kitchen and the electrician told us to get ecobulbs because of that precise "warming up kind of thing they do" - never had to change the bulb since.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1192166/When-cleaner-wearing-outfit-isnt-time-reach-designer-labels-again.html

^^^this is some fucking next level biz

Wow, I could only get a part of the way through that horseshit.

Never thought I'd say this, but Daily Mail readers in the comments boxes below OTM.

this is obv standard mail get-the-adrenalin-going stuff but perhaps mistimed, to say the least.

i wonder if naomi knows tanya gold?

Never thought I'd say this, but Daily Mail readers in the comments boxes below OTM.

I have no idea to what extent they represent the readership - I suspect not that much by dint of the fact they're reading it on the internet - but they tend to actually be pretty quick to clown 'fuck poor people' pieces like this or anything that puts fashion/consumerism on a pedestal

^^^ This. Daily Mail comments box usually more sane than Have Your Say or the Graun one. Possibly due to it being liberal trolls as opposed to Tory trolls.

^beat me to it.

GAH. What an asshole, most people I know with a cleaner on the payroll can't stop 'handing down' bags of still-serviceable clothes, particularly if cleaner has kids. So it's reverse snobbery to say how cheap your clothes are, to people who have expensive clothes? OH BOO HOO HOO on your fake class war. The only time I do this is after a great score at the charity shop, such as the black Martin Margiela jacket I got for £5 or the black wool Ann Demeulemeester sweater for £3; suck on that you stupid Femail harpy.

Everyone I know stopped buying Primarché because it's made in sweatshops but the article doesn't mention that at all, LOL Mail.

Never thought I'd say this, but Daily Mail readers in the comments boxes below OTM.

Recently googled a local MP (Lib Dem MP Dr Evan Harris, should anyone wish to google it themselves) and found a vitriolic hate piece in the Daily Mail about how this terrible man supported abortion and stem cell research. To my surprise, most of the comments and all the ones with positive votes were either pro-Harris or at least questioning why the Mail had decided to run an attack on the guy apparently a propos of nothing.

Nothing has made me like an MP so much as seeing the Mail get angry about his mere existence.

These things (and their responses) do make me wonder whether Dacre's now pushed the Mail into deliberate liberal-winding-up self-parody.

Private Eye was saying that Rothermere and pretty much everyone at the Mail is getting pretty annoyed at how it's just a big incoherent vessel for Dacre's madness

You don't even need to be particularly liberal to find that piece idiotic, that's the thing.

As long as the Mail's circulation remains so remarkably constant, however, it's unlikely that Rothermere would be pushing Dacre out.

Too absurd; didn't read. Did give the cunts another page hit, though. Gaah.

Private Eye was saying that Rothermere and pretty much everyone at the Mail is getting pretty annoyed at how it's just a big incoherent vessel for Dacre's madness

Umm, not quite: it was more that they're pissed off he won't relinquish control. But that's not quite the same thing: not even Dacre is enough of a control freak to fill that thing full of such spectacular amounts of pish. Put it this way: it would be equally incoherent and loathsome -- possibly more so -- under all manner of different editors (one of the names mentioned in that PE piece in particular. Brrr).

pwned: http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/06/20/twitterers-claim-victory-over-loaded-daily-mail-gypsy-poll/

The UK-based Mail Online was forced to shut down one of its online polls yesterday after a concerted campaign by Twitter users and, Journalism.co.uk can reveal, UK-based psychologists, nearly brought their servers to a halt with an overwhelming ‘yes’ vote.

The poll, which asked the somewhat leading question “Should the NHS allow gipsies to jump the queue”, attracted ridicule from many within the Twitter community leading to, at one point a 96% vote in favour of the proposition.

"Nearly brought their servers to a halt"?

Where is the evidence for that, journalism.co.uk?

and, Journalism.co.uk can reveal, UK-based psychologists

Private Eye was saying that Rothermere and pretty much everyone at the Mail is getting pretty annoyed at how it's just a big incoherent vessel for Dacre's madness

― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:59 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not as inco as the Express, anyway...

Presumably that was the Mail's "official line" on it and is, in fact, utter bollocks.

I just like the "lol were in ur poll fuckin' wit ur results" aspect.

I had a look after I saw the tweets. The Gypsy poll had been removed by then, but when I tried to vote on a wheelie-bin one, I got an error message. So something was borked. Maybe the polls ran on a different server to the site.

the Express is for people who are actually senile though so it has a bit more leeway

every poll on the related list is similarly ridiculously skewed

What's that you say? just a big incoherent vessel for Dacre's madness?

Turkey Twizzlers are GOOD for you and polar bears AREN'T dying out!

Next on CBeebies, a party political broadcast by the Labour Party. OK, I'm not being literal, but I never thought good old Auntie would betray me like this; that it would become the Government's ventriloquist's dummy by piping out Labour's send-mums-back-to-work mantra on its preschool channel.

When I considered what to allow my 21-month-old toddler to watch on television, I turned to the trusted corporation that gave me Blue Peter and Take Hart as I grew up.

It felt entirely natural to combine what I was teaching my son with the educational programmes on CBeebies. And as we watched them together, I saw an improvement in his vocabulary and grasp of colours and numbers.

But as we continued to tune into Balamory, Timmy Time and Me Too! I began to look more closely, and realised they should really be sold as the Beeb's party political broadcasts on behalf of Gordon Brown.

What about Pingu's mum?

And they're nicking Flickr pics

What about Pingu's mum?

Has she got it goin' on or something?

Is it any wonder the escalation in anti-social behaviour over the past 30 years has coincided with the rise in children being nurtured - or not - by strangers?

Turkey Twizzlers are GOOD for you and polar bears AREN'T dying out!

Okay, I actually wanted to bludgeon those clowns with bananas after reading that nobwash.

The Government has caved in to the anti-salt zealots

well how could they possibly resist such a powerful group?

The anti-antisaltzealots have seemingly managed to get the salt back onto McDonald's fries...

So, anyroad, does this mean himself is actually eating the Turkey Twizzlers?

Just a thought:

This:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/21/article-1194589-056DDACF000005DC-333_468x350.jpg

.. is possibly not the best pic to insist that the Polar bears are not endangered, and that the ice-caps are not melting...

Guys, the book was co-written by an anaesthetist and a doctor. But hey, they're Professors so they must know all about climatology, right?

That looks faked (xp)

Yeah they coaxed the bear up there with Tunnocks teacakes.

Fox's Glacier Mints surely?

Coka Cola?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T-x4i90b1hc/RsXXdVBtksI/AAAAAAAABkM/WPDQYIxF4H8/s400/fox.jpg

I think maybe the point of the picture is "lol this isn't really happening", not that they just didn't notice there was melting ice under the polar bear

I think the point of the picture is "let's firebomb Northcliffe House".