http://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/4913531605
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
Stephen Fry otm
― Suggest Gandhi (onimo), Friday, 16 October 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a facebook campaign to complain to all the advertisers that ran beside it, in print and online. That's a good idea.
― stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 13:41 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark
Looks like all the ads have gone!
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dailyquail.org/2009/10/jan-moir-why-theres-nothing-natural.html
^^^^ AMAZING
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
THey just reprinted the article, haven't they?
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Kevin McGee, the former husband "of" Little Britain star Matt Lucas
― Des Leppilen (darraghmac), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
This has made me think about whether I really want The Graduate or not now. I mean fuck these guys, even if they are giving away great films I haven't seen yet.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Motorcycle Diaries" instead?
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
which is shown regularly on Film 4 ..
― mark e, Friday, 16 October 2009 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
the graduate was on itv this very week
― it's like a Shark-Cage but for "Your Junk" AKA Your Penis & Balls (stevie), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
so they are cunts about that one dudes death huh?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/stephen-gately-jan-moir
― mark e, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, nailed concisely there.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Mr Fry's twitter now has a reply condemning the Daily Mail from celebrated liberal right-thinker... Chris Moyles?!http://twitter.com/CHRISDJMOYLES/status/4916617692
― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
aka, game recognise game
― Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 October 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Jan Moir responds - makes things worse.http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/16/jan-moir-stephen-gately-response
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"In what is clearly a heavily orchestrated internet campaign I think it is mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones."
Undertones? No.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Also I just wanted to say that civil marriages can be problematic because people in them can DIE. Of being gay.
― stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
It's good to save articles like this to compare and contrast with the Daily Mail's upcoming "Evil Sick Bigots Who Celebrate the Death of Our Greatest Ever Prime Minister" piece.
― Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Looking forward to a full scale "everyone's picking on me" whine in tomorrows Mail.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Fiver says it's "J'Accuse the Gay Mafia"
― Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
There'll be agendas and possibly even political correctness. Bonus marks if cancer and/or health and safety make appearances.
― stet, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
first time i've seen this:
http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
IS THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT CHEATING MIDDLE BRITAIN?
ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS GIVING HOUSE PRICES CANCER?
COULD THE BBC SCROUNGE OFF YOUR DAUGHTERS?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
ARE GYPSIES GIVING YOUR PENSION DIABETES?
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE GYPSIES KILLED YOU?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 October 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ yuo can tell these are made up because they actually make some kind of sense, unlike real DM articles...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD ASYLUM SEEKERS GIVE COMMON SENSE AND DECENCY DIABETES?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD THE UNEMPLOYED HAVE SEX WITH DRIVERS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE THE POLES STOLEN FROM CLIFF RICHARD?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 16 October 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
WILL RIP-OFF BRITAIN GIVE MIDDLE BRITAIN DIABETES?
So, if there's nothing homophobic about this, it's gonna be a bummer to turn up at work on Monday morning and find half of the under 30s we work with dead, innit?
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Friday, 16 October 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
WILL CHAVS INFECT THE CHURCH WITH AIDS?
― fisherspwner (braveclub), Friday, 16 October 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
ARE GAYS TURNING YOUR MORTGAGE GAY?
― if, Friday, 16 October 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD YOUR LOCAL COUNCIL RUIN HARD WORKING FAMILIES?
was my best one!
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 17 October 2009 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
IS THE HOUSE PRICE CRASH HAVING SEX WITH COMMON SENSE AND DECENCY?
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2009 11:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I love the comments in the JavaScript that generates the headlines:
new Noun("russell brand",3,1), // FIXME: Delete when latest moral panic is over
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
haha the funniest results from this are ones that end in 'swans"
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:12 (fourteen years ago) link
WILL JACQUI SMITH HAVE SEX WITH YOU?
FFS I hope not...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
(Went w/ the Grauniad instead. Dustin Hoffman can wait.)
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/if_god_had_wanted_me_to_be
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
HAS RUSSELL BRAND IMPREGNATED BRITAIN'S SWANS?
I believe the answer is 'probably'.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD ALISTAIR DARLING INFECT PENSIONERS WITH AIDS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD THE GERMANS MAKE YOUR DAUGHTERS IMPOTENT?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
COULD LESBIANS STEAL THE IDENTITY OF YOUR PETS?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
HAVE HOODIES TURNED THE QUEEN GAY?
HAVE THE POLES DESTROYED CLIFF RICHARD?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
That one can't be pinned on the Poles.
― Neil S, Saturday, 17 October 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Depends what you mean by poles.
― Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
lol...poles
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 17 October 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link