http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1278757/LIZ-JONES-To-4-100-answered-heart--thank-you.html
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 16 May 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I won’t go into why I found myself unable to afford food, heating, petrol...When you have no money, people assume it’s because you’re ...profligate
Read your own columns recently, hen?
― ailsa, Monday, 17 May 2010 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278583/Young-people-drinking-neat-vodka-EYE-quick-buzz.html
Peer pressure: Even respected, intelligent students from normal, sensible backgrounds are vodka eyeballing
― pollos da don (tpp), Monday, 17 May 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
While medical experts say it is still a relatively new phenomenon, a quick glance at the internet reveals how rife it has become among young drinkers in Britain.
― pollos da don (tpp), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Speaking of a quick glance at the internet...http://gawker.com/5540166/vodka-eyeballing-the-dumbest-trend-piece-ever
What the Mail have done is find one woman who damaged her eye while pouring vodka in it as a student stunt and convinced their readers that this is a sweeping trend
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
It would be easy, of course, to dismiss Melissa as nothing more than a silly 'ladette'. But it is hard to reconcile that stereotype with the young woman she is today, fresh out of university in London with a first-class English degree, the privately-educated daughter of financiers, and an aspiring writer.
o rite then
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Because students don't ever do stupid things while drinking, do they?
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/15/article-1278583-098F1CEE000005DC-329_468x375.jpg
WS
― she is mottled and she's looking good (DJ Mencap), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
er, yeah well you know how to click on a url
james murphy could not be reached for comment as of press time
― all i wanna do is poll poll poll poll and zing and discuss mia (history mayne), Monday, 17 May 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1278510/Depression-Its-just-new-trendy-illness.html
^think this is what they call a 'shot fired'
― she is mottled and she's looking good (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
This relatively new ailment appeared on my radar a couple of years ago
Idiot
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
that is an hilarious genius at work, but i'm not sure she knows it.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I beg to differ, that's an irredemably vile harridan at work
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
irredeemably vile people can be amusing
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
starts like an actual glenda slagg piece:
There's a big black cloud hanging over parts of the UK, and it's not going away. No, not volcanic ash stoopid - depression I'm talking about.
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
nah when you get down as far as the publicising of her own empowerment books that it really takes the plunge into black hilarity
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Cloud appeared about a fortnight ago iirc
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh i can't be arsed to read it
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
missing out, seriously
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
TBF I bet Janet Street Porter meets a lot of people who have suddenly become depressed.
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe you have not had the pleasure of seeing Janet Street-Porter, darragh, in acrion, believe me, she is one of the least amusing people I've ever seen in my life
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
in acrion? In action, I mean.
To be double fair the Daily Mail is Britain's leading newspaper for endless coverage of imaginary illnesses developed by middle class people with too much time on their hands.
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't read the whole thing, obv.!
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, after communist social worker house price stories, everything you eat is going to kill you stories are their whole steez.
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
The competition is fierce though
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i've seen her plenty, can't believe she hasn't swallowed her own tongue by now tbh.
sometimes you have to laugh, that's all. it's obviously a disgusting piece by an awful person, but at the same time it's funy because of the depth of feckless stupidity involved.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the kind of story that makes you hope somebody dear to the author goes down with severe depression in the next month, but someone dear to JSP = JSP, er, that's it
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Chucklesome, after a fashion, I suppose:
But let's take a moment to consider whether depression is common among the poor or the working class?
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
she's been talking to john gregory, right?
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
The whole notion of stress simply did not exist a few years ago - it's become a by-product of the ' megeneration' that grew up in the Sixties and wanted to try everything, from drink to drugs to sex.
Yeah remember pre-1960 when the suicide rate was zero?
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
and people didn't drink or have sex
― long time listener, first time balla (history mayne), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
miraculously, 90 per cent of us, don't get depressed about it, don't take special medication and don't whinge about 'black holes'. That's life in the real world.
Given that the incidence of mental health problems in adults is roughly 10 per cent, this is an absolute stunna of a closing argument.
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
xp ...and don't forget that they didn't do drugs either. All that stuff about Queen Victoria being a dope fiend WAS A MYTH.
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"Trouble down t' pit""Give over lad, 'appen tha's nowt you can do about it, now 'and me that ukelele and let 'ave a bit 'o George Formby"
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
You wouldn't catch someone like Winston Churchill having depression oh wait...
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Middle class twat, I'm sure his scullery maid never suffered from it
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
guys have some respect, she's had books published all over the world, from Slovenia to Sweden, Spain and the U.S.
― I don't want to go into my newt details (ledge), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
guys, she's not talking about justifiable depression, like winston having to fight Hitler. be fair.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd have thought that it'd be a barrel of laughs having to fight an Austrian with a stupid moustache and one testicle...
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
There sure must be place for her, as some kind of Mental Health, errrr, Tsarina in the Cleggeron Coalition?
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Special Minster for Don't End Up Like This
― he speak the frenche as the Frenches himselves (snoball), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Assistant Advisor on Oscillatory Jaw Motion
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ms Street-Porter, Ms Street-Porter, I feel like a pair of curtains" etc
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Curtains are just so middle class.
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
let's take a moment to consider whether curtains are common among the poor or the working class?
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
The truth is, we've got fatter and flabbier. Obesity is a medical condition too many of us are suffering from - but you can't claim time off work because you're fat. You can, however, suddenly find you can't 'cope' - and stress has become, in our work-orientated society, almost a badge of honour.
Admiring sudden break in extended article about "lol u sadsacks" to go "lol u sadsacks FAT, inventing illnesses cz your boss doesn't think FAT = day off amirite" and then snap back to previous tirade
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
our work-orientated society
that's your work-orientated society tbh, love
― Are We Hardman or Are We Lapdancer? (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the spirit that built broken britain
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link