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

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I think it may just possibly ever-so-slight chance of being a regular logged out to post a "comical" troll message.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

B-but who would do such a thing?

Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Mods who was it?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I concur with Herr Felize's sentiments. The much derided rag speaketh the truth. If I wish to apply for a 'job' as a Lesbian & Gay Ethnic Project Policy Strategist on £80,000 per annum, then I shall take the Grauniad. Should I wish to cast my eyes on a decent pair of chebs, then the Sun it is. The Telegraph I reserve for travel only: so I can contemptuously thwack a tightly-rolled copy over the head of the gibbon inspecting tickets or passports - it's the ideal size. The Express is now the new Mail, and the Mail is now the old Express, so...? The Mail it is.

Whilst Herr Felize's tirade might have been a tad extreme, it is indicative of the exasperation many feel in today's Bliar Republic: the total erosion of values, the systematic eradication of tradition and national identity, the politicisation of the Civil Service, self-serving Quangos - not to mention the blatant money wastage an wrong prioritisation of the NHS. All this can be blamed on left wingers and their 'touchy-feely' strategy that is clearly a total failure. Art Directors in hospitals? Enough said.

Right, I'm off to chance my arm with that position advertised in last Wednesday's Jobzilla: Turkish-speaking Community Outreach Empowerment Development Co-Ordinator. £90,000 pa? Cheers ears!

Sir Anthony Regents-Park MP, Monday, 1 May 2006 09:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I can promise you that the time it took to type that wasn't worth the effort

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 1 May 2006 09:11 (eighteen years ago) link

No time at all ol' fruit. I got my PA to do it!

Sir Anthony Regents-Park MP, Monday, 1 May 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Custos would've done a better job.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

No, no, he wouldn't have.

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

It's probably the work of the same person who revived the thread isn't it?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link

It certainly wasn't me - note the telltale absence of "so-called."

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

It's probably the work of the same person who revived the thread isn't it?

It is, yes.
ip is unique to these posts. Probably a passerby/googler's idea of "satire" or wtfe.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

There was actually a letter from an Outraged Retired Colonel type today!

Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...
Page eight today: Organic milk is no healthier, says food watchdog

Page 29 today: Cancer-causing pollutants in our bread, milk and eggs

Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Mother's heartfelt tribute sparks safe-driving campaign

Top Gear's Richard Hammond 'showing signs of improvement'

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 September 2006 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Organic Diana no healthier, says royal watchdog.
Cancer causing pollutants in our Diana, Diana and Diana

Diana's heartfelt diana sparks safe-diana campaign
Top Diana's Diana 'showing signs of diana'

Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Surely those are Express headlines?

Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

lolz @ those express ads

The Real DG (D to thee G), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

"I stand for Cafe Diana."

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 September 2006 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I flicked through a copy in a cafe the other day and the lead story, the fucking lead story, was a piece condemning the new online postage stamps for not having the Queen's head on them and how society will crumble as a result etc. How pathetic can you get?

chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Crooked Muslim Fanatic Tears Apart Moral Fabric Of Society With Hateful Text-Speak Diana Tirade Causing Tumbling House Prices And Threat To Real Values Nightmare

wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

There's an "Asylum Seeker, Nanny State and Corrupt Foreigners" missing from there, I feel.

Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

That'll be "So-Called P43do Asylum Seekers"...

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

There's an "Asylum Seeker, Nanny State and Corrupt Foreigners" missing from there, I feel.

Plus Happy Slapping Feral Children

Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

End Of The Innocence

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

My favourite Private Eye parody Daily Mail front page:

"Daily Mail gives you cancer"

Stew (stew s), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

All DM-parody headlines require the word 'OUTRAGE' at the start.

Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

No non no:

'Anger at...'

Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Today's splash: "Sorry, you can't join the police. You're a white male"

Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link

It was particularly frothing this morning.

apparently the world will end and we will be murdered in our beds by the 30 Bulgarians queuing outside the British embassy in Bulgaria for visas. (quite frankly they should be more incensed by the fact that Bulgarians seem to queue not in lines but in circles)

Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

POLISH READERS OF THE MAIL ON SUNDAY - don't miss your Free Pullout Guide in FINANCIAL MAIL ON SUNDAY.

FOR ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT:
*opening a bank account
*starting a business
*sending money home
*taxes and benefits

Read it online PO POLSKU at www.thisismoney.co.uk

Dom Passantino, Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link

Wow. Well spotted Dom!

Tom D., Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Operative word there 'home'

DJ Mencap, Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link

In fairness to The Mail, they do occasionally run the sort of expose of our rulers that the Guardian et al won't touch.

There was a particularly good article in TMOS a couple of months ago regarding Labour's links (notably Lord Blackburn and Jack Straw) with BAE Systems, and the reasons for the weird cronyism that NewLab indulge in with this company.

But yeah, it's generally a victim to its own self-parody.

PhilK, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link

Operative word there 'home'

-- DJ Mencap, Thursday, November 1, 2007 12:25 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

reaching a bit, here.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link

The private detectives hired by Kate and Gerry McCann to find their daughter are desperately hunting a woman spotted in Morocco with a young girl bearing the 'mark of Madeleine',

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=491163&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Heave Ho, Thursday, 1 November 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=491668&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490

This is... just right

Good comments as you would doubtless expect

DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link

oh my god. i didn't even get to the comments. i got as far as the photo of a girl with her knickers down. shame on her!

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...
two weeks pass...

Panic after 'Franken-fish' that is deadlier than a piranha is caught in Britain

With its razor- sharp teeth, the fish known as the giant snakehead terrorises the warm waters of south-east Asia.
Which is why an angler was particularly startled to hook a 2ft specimen from a river in Lincolnshire.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_03/snakehead_468x278.jpg

28 people have commented on this story so far. Tell us what you think below.

They'll be asking for dole money in no time!
- Liz, London, England

What's the chance of this migrant being deported?
- Richard De Gerber, Kingston upon Thames

Another alien species out to take from the UK then?
- Yvonne Jarman, United Kingdom

(ect ect)

DavidM, Saturday, 23 February 2008 10:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Those readers comments sounds so sarcastic, but I suppose they're not as sarcastic as I would like.

I know, right?, Saturday, 23 February 2008 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm amazed that anyone would even think of that response!

The ladettes article up there is a thing of wonder. Brilliantly and pointlessly gratuitous. And who can argue with the "Exhibition Title:
"Portraits in Liberalism"" comment???

I'll have to start noting down Daily Mail headlines, as I can't quite remember a brilliant recent one that had the classic "OUTRAGE" in it along with a carefree use of scare quotes.

Merdeyeux, Saturday, 23 February 2008 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link

that fish deserves his own thread

DG, Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link

That ladette article is such utter tosh. I could taken exactly the same pictures at parties in 1979. And probably worse. This is what pisses me off so much about the Mail (et al) it's like all this is something new that never happened until Blair won an election.

Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link

Actually I did take some photos like that I'll have to dig them out.

Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link

amazing -
http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/1716

mr x, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Lol Diana Appleyard

Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link

...because they keep bringing up the same 'migrants are eating our swans' story (and this time they even nicked the headline off of an old Sun story)...

Swan Bake

Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 28 February 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link

And yet Peter Maxwell Davies remains a free man...

Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 28 February 2008 11:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Swans look tasty. I wish I could eat swans. There are two different kinds on my way to work and it seems very unfair that they're both the queen's, you know? Not that I'd exactly stand a chance against one.

So are we meant to be going OH NO immigrants stealin our houses today, or is the idea of them all gathering in tents more frightening now?

a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 28 February 2008 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link

'PLEASE, get the smut and vulgarity off TV.'

DG, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link


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