Why I love the Daily Mail, as distilled into one story.

Robert from Worcester, walking away as backdrop explodes with huge loss of bureaucrat life:

"Takin out the trash"

Hillary Benn has just waded into the comments section, good luck there feller.

darraghmac just made me cry with laughter

It's a point your paper has made on several occasions and I agree with you on this. Every year Britain sends 6.7 million tons of food to landfill, where it contributes to dangerous methane emissions.

says Hil.

just to clarify something- when this food waste goes into a special bin, where does it go to from there if not landfill? pigfood?

Hmm, I pressed the green arrow on Hillary Benn's comment, now I see it's back to zero.

Anyone want to press some green arrows there? Just for the hell of it?

Actually, just realised I pressed the wrong one, about the dogs who woof down food.

As opposed to chickens, who just cluck it down, right?

cats' cheeeow down

just to clarify something- when this food waste goes into a special bin, where does it go to from there if not landfill? pigfood?

It basically gets composted. Both the end product and the heat the process generates can be re-used, along with any waste gas.

well that's highly commendable.

lol waste gas pfft

it's from all the baked beans...

My sister looked out of her window a couple of weeks ago, and there marching across the lawn was a sea of maggots from her and her neighbours dustbins.
My sister, niece and the neighbours were up until midnight putting salt down and bleaching the bins in the half-light from various front rooms.
Benn & co will have us slopping out out potty's next rather than use a flush toilet.

- Eileen, Herts England, 15/9/2009 14:45

bleaching the bins in the half-light

wb yeats on dis ting

sir,

may i, bleaching my bins by candlelight, express my full support for the government?

lol
- harry fredericks, bromley, England., 15/9/2009 14:31

green arrowed this guy

From last night's Wigan Evening Post:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5820/5530394.png

Nearly 800 comments now - it's like lightbulbs all over again.

Our local council, Cotswold, introduced exactly this awful scheme a year ago.

That would be a tory council then. Bloody Cameron and his eco-crazy goons.

Wheelie bins first deployed twenty years ago by a Conservative government.

wheelie?

Fantastic front page headline to-day (and url to go with it)

Dementia may have been caused by the Second World War, says scientist

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1213703/Dementia-caused-Second-World-War-claims-scientist.html

(xpost) Chorlton in Cheshire. They even made a stop motion animated cartoon about it...

stress was invented by the nazis. hmm.

French citizens forcibly expelled from Algeria in the 1950s

Bloody immigrants, leaving their own country in search of benefits.

'go back to where you came from' with a twist.

This is cracking me up. It's like they take it as a personal challenge to get hysterically angry about absolutely anything.

I have no idea what the big deal with wheelie bins is, we've had them for as long as I can remember (probably, hey, 20 years) and don't know what better thing everyone is so angry about the loss of. Am I too working class to have experienced the wonders of amazing pneumatic tube systems or something.

Before wheelie bins we kept rubbish in black plastic bags piled up in the bin cupboard outside, which was far more likely to atract maggots/flies/rats. So I too have no idea WTF these people are complaining about.

These people had steel dustbins with steel lids that rats didn't chew through. It was a golden age of refuse collection, you could leave your bin open and no-one stole your identity.

fouryourkshiremen.jpg

yourkshire jesus christ

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4654/31200272.jpg

c'mon, that's actually a fair question

'mothers paid to have children they barely even know'

i mean, it's the only reason i ever get laid, but on the other hand, does it infere with the market?

"mothers paid by the state to have babies with men they barely know" ... wait what?

mothers paid to have children they barely even know'

eh, that's not what i meant to type, but it is a very daily mail sentiment so i stand by it.

i think it refers to lone parent allowance merdeyeux

You know, that office with barely known men in it, that want to father kids.

And that other office full of women that want some money?

It's all filmed for Virgin1 docs, innit?

omg <3 greatest headline ever. i even got my own machete the other day!

i tellya, as a public worker that's the gig we're all going for. i've passed over three promotions just to keep on the list for the fathering office.

Machete by the door must be a bit off-putting tbh

hardly notice after taking all the drugs on the table

cutting lines with a machete is no picnic

especially with govt sponsored backache

Wow, Harriet really HAS some ANGER. Other genius articles by her include:

Why does the NHS hate the elderly so much?

Why HAS the state got it in for foster parents?

I've seen how our education system betrays children - it's enough to make you weep

and...er...

Ladies, thank heaven for younger men

freudian typo in this mail piece about paedos: "As a father, I know it's important not to oversex-state the danger our girls are in."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1215189/How-safe-daughter-Paedophiles-using-web-trap-girls-middle-class-married-And-police-struggling-cope-.html

Many will have been raped and, in a few tragic cases, the victim may even have been killed. That's the reality of modern paedophilia.

Not like paedophilia in the good old days eh?

I was going to start quoting from the comments but I wouldn't know where to start/stop.

oh fuck's sake

Overtly gay Tory blogger Iain Dale has reached the final stage of parliamentary selection for Bracknell, telling PinkNews: 'I hope any PinkNews readers who live in Bracknell will come to the open primary on October 17 to select their new candidate.

You don't even have to be a Conservative to attend.'

Isn't it charming how homosexuals rally like-minded chaps to their cause?