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

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

Because students don't ever do stupid things while drinking, do they?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/15/article-1278583-098F1CEE000005DC-329_468x375.jpg

WS

er, yeah well you know how to click on a url

james murphy could not be reached for comment as of press time

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1278510/Depression-Its-just-new-trendy-illness.html

^think this is what they call a 'shot fired'

This relatively new ailment appeared on my radar a couple of years ago

Idiot

that is an hilarious genius at work, but i'm not sure she knows it.

I beg to differ, that's an irredemably vile harridan at work

irredeemably vile people can be amusing

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.

nah when you get down as far as the publicising of her own empowerment books that it really takes the plunge into black hilarity

Cloud appeared about a fortnight ago iirc

tbh i can't be arsed to read it

missing out, seriously

TBF I bet Janet Street Porter meets a lot of people who have suddenly become depressed.

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

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.

tbh i can't be arsed to read it

I didn't read the whole thing, obv.!

I mean, after communist social worker house price stories, everything you eat is going to kill you stories are their whole steez.

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.

The competition is fierce though

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.

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

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?

she's been talking to john gregory, right?

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?

and people didn't drink or have sex

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.

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.

Yeah remember pre-1960 when the suicide rate was zero?

"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"

You wouldn't catch someone like Winston Churchill having depression oh wait...

Middle class twat, I'm sure his scullery maid never suffered from it

guys have some respect, she's had books published all over the world, from Slovenia to Sweden, Spain and the U.S.

guys, she's not talking about justifiable depression, like winston having to fight Hitler. be fair.

I'd have thought that it'd be a barrel of laughs having to fight an Austrian with a stupid moustache and one testicle...

There sure must be place for her, as some kind of Mental Health, errrr, Tsarina in the Cleggeron Coalition?

Special Minster for Don't End Up Like This

Assistant Advisor on Oscillatory Jaw Motion

"Ms Street-Porter, Ms Street-Porter, I feel like a pair of curtains" etc

Curtains are just so middle class.

let's take a moment to consider whether curtains are common among the poor or the working class?

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

our work-orientated society

that's your work-orientated society tbh, love

that's the spirit that built broken britain

or that broke built britain, either way

Steven Poole does a good job on this: http://unspeak.net/take-a-moment-to-consider/

yep, good quick job that made the point without delving into detail that the article doesn't really merit

Tsarina

political correctness gone, uh, trendy.

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