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

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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

'Just show us big pictures of it happening instead.'

Matt DC, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:05 (sixteen years ago) link

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

heh, he's master of the queen's music is why

Frogman Henry, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Titchmarsh must have been wondering how he went from being a household name fronting one of the nation's most popular shows, to placing stickers on a bikini-wearing model named Kelly.

Don't his novels have their fair share of smut?

Mark G, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link

In 2000, Titchmarsh was awarded the M.B.E. in the Queen's Millennium Honours List for his services to gardening and broadcasting.

How those days must seem like a distant memory now.

Mark G, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Anyone ever seen the Alan Titchmarsh Show? I saw the opening 30 seconds of one and it was so much like Alan Partridge it must surely have beeen deliberate.

Tom D., Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link

"I'M ALAN TITCHMARSH!! AHAAA!!"

Mark G, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Seriously tho, I expect Glen Ponder and Savoir Faire to show up any minute

Tom D., Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link

YouTube links please!

Matt DC, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link

every time i've seen it they have on kelvin mackenzie or that john gaunt prick

DG, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link

^^^Can't handle real talk from Man of the People Gaunty.

Dom Passantino, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link

that john gaunt prick

Goodness, on daytime television! The pornography gets worse!

TASTELESS TACKY TITMARCH TANKS ON AFTERNOON TV! SHAME OF FATHER-OF-TWO! REPORT HIM TO SOCIAL SERVICES IMMEDIATELY Mealnei Plihlpsi writes

Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Didn't Titchmarsh win an award for the worst description of sex in his books. His show's more Mrs Merton (let's have a heated debate) than Alan Partridge. Never saw Gaunt on it, whenever I see it* it's usually Amanda Platell moaning about the Royal Family.

*Based on a scientific sample of about 3 shows.

Billy Dods, Thursday, 28 February 2008 13:29 (sixteen years ago) link

^^^Can't handle real talk from Man of the People Gaunty.

i just snorted my cafe latte all over my apple mac and copy of the guardian

DG, Thursday, 28 February 2008 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link

oh it's nick ferrari today

DG, Thursday, 28 February 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Tomorrow it will probably be LBC's Steve Allen.

Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 28 February 2008 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link

ILX's Dom Passantino

Tom D., Thursday, 28 February 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link

All I ever see of the Mail is the front page: today's example - boasting that, because of them, Marks & Spencer had stopped giving away free carrier bags - is the sort of thing I might actually admire if only it were done by a paper which did not unswervingly support the economic system which encourages such things.

MC's "YOU WANTED THATCHER, YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW" upthread pretty much covers 95% of Mail articles, especially those about deregulated broadcasting.

February Callendar, Thursday, 28 February 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

oh today it's notorious right-wing opinion trumpet Cheryl Baker

DG, Friday, 29 February 2008 14:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Who once sang on a number one record which was a coded denunciation of Thatcherism.

Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 3 March 2008 09:11 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Classic.

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Particularly the huge, grainy photo of a scantily clad teenager.

Neil S, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link

There used to be a time (admittedly, it seems like a lifetime ago) when youngsters sent out invitations. The internet has changed all that.

Oh, internet, what have you done?!?!

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Was gonna start a thread about this

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Their house looks suspiciously like a pub...
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_03/party1703_468x456.jpg

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh wait there's more...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=535570&in_page_id=1770

It seems the 'house' is in fact a mansion in 20 acres of land used for conferences.

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link

x-post

A pub full of idiots.

Neil S, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link

I missed the bit of A Clockwork Orange with the mimes.

Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link

smuggest use of sic ever

Frogman Henry, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Really, REALLY thinking of pitching an article about Juggalos to the Daily Mail now. Shit would blow their minds.

Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link

The captions are the best...
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_03/MimesL1703_468x372.jpg
You looking at me? These two look to have come all the way from France

Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link

why do all the comments come from people in Australia, United Arab Emirates etc.

blueski, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Tories in exile until the return of the One True Government.

onimo, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Inside, as these photographs show, youngsters were jumping up and down with cans and bottles, spraying them around as though they were at a rave.

those pictures show that? that pic above looks like a rather tame night out in my local.

Ste, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link

and "spraying them around as though they were at a rave.", no rave i ever went to did people do this.

laffable

Ste, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link

That article is sheer awesome

The picture of all the bottles and cans sorted and crushed in recycling boxes.

"oh noes our "house" is destroyed by a wild party, but NEVER MIX GLASS AND METAL"

Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Her top lip appears to be dead.

onimo, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Obviously the kid who posted her party details on bebo is a bit thick, but then a lot of kids are a bit thick and naive. I felt quite sorry for her, it must have been fucking terrifying, losing control like that. The ppl who turned up at the house and trashed the place are cunts. It would be really funny if someone ran a dummy party, advertised on web 2.0 social networking sites, and when the lairy lot turned up, have a bunch of heavies spring out of hiding and break their motherfucking legs with iron bars.

Admittedly the picture of the girl in the domme outfit was pretty lulzy. The article is archetypal/typical of the hysterical steez of the dail mail as well "when you are out seeing a show in the city, your teenage children are havig group gay sechks on the washing machine oh no it's a national crisis bring back the birch" etc etc. That paper is such a piece of shit it makes me ashamed to be britishes.

Really, REALLY thinking of pitching an article about Juggalos to the Daily Mail now. Shit would blow their minds.

-- Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 14:01 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

You must do this. You must then attempt to leverage yourself into a position as a staff writer. There could be nothing funnier in this world than D Passantino on the proud masthead of the daily mail DO IT DOM.

Pashmina, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link

I enjoyed the lament that the mother should have to go through the shame of strangers seeing her daughter in that outfit on the internet, right beside the Mail's reproduction of said photo.

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link

This is also typical mail fare though, yes? "Oh no, YOUR TEENAGE CHILDREN are indulging in kinky sex and wearing provocative outfits, isn't it disgusting? Here's a picture, btw."

Pashmina, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Yes it is, but I still love it. My old landlady got the mail everyday and so I used to have regular access (to the newspaper). I couldn't understand how women could read a rag whose stock story was basically 'Women Are Scum'. Then I realised the story was actually 'Other Women Are Scum'.

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link


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