my mum met a female mail writer and said she was fun. also, they probably pay their staff. but i gotta hold my nose here and go with der grau -- and where would they be without ilx?
xpost
lololololololol
― banriquit, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
YAYYYY
― That mong guy that's shit, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
T/S: Middle Class hate-rag filled with self-satisfied Tory shitbag columnists, or the Daily Mail.
-- Noodle Vague, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:14 (50 seconds a
Someone stole my stalinbot login
― laxalt, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Are we supposed to be voting for best, or worst? Fuck if I can choose, either way.
T/S arseholes vs irrational nutjobs.
― Pashmina, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The Guardian, perhaps the modern day definition of "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining"
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:19 (sixteen years ago) link
This is kind of going-through-the-motions cock-grinding so far. Needs more Eastenders, and possibly a batshit Martian post or two.
― Matt DC, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/cc/200px-Big_ron.jpg
FACKING GAAAAAARDIUN?!? LEAVE IT AHT
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/645000/images/_645246_nigel300.jpg http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/site_imagery/michael_hann_140x140.jpg
Amazing what a bit of a diet and some hairdye can do.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/site_imagery/john_harris_140x140.jpg http://www.sitcom.co.uk/fools_horses/graphics/char_rodney.gif
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not sure there's a single Guardian reader in the Square these days, compared to a possible 8-10 for the Mail. Poor showing, Graun.
― Matt DC, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Geirdnight Sweetheart
xp
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Hadley Freeman on naked used car salesmen in spinning bow ties: this year's hot trend?
Amazing what a bit of a diet and some hairdye can do
Oi! Leave Paul Bradley out of this! I know him, lovely chap.
― Tom D., Monday, 31 March 2008 10:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/images/characters_cast/characters/bianca_j/bianca_jackson_large_1.jpg
"I read that woman, Rebecca West, go on about how Ophelia was a real slut and manipulated by all the men around her, and it pissed me off. I think feminism is about finding things that aren't there."
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/images/characters_cast/characters/minty_p/minty_peterson_large_1.jpg
"Throughout, Badu herself is serene and strong, picking a steady path through the turbulence as if guiding her people. Each listen to New Amerykah brings fresh rewards: it demands to be explored."
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Heather Trott/Fratellis review would be a bit obvious here, wouldn't it?
― Matt DC, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/images/characters_cast/characters/alan_j/alan_jackson_large_1.jpg
"The question here is simple: how do you get from the simple declarative statement that opens this passage - "but do not commit aggression - for verily God does not love aggressors" - to the blanket warrant for violence? Answer: only by distorting one's reason and ignoring how this passage fits within the whole of the Qur'an's moral and ethical framework."
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/images/characters_cast/characters/derek_h/derek_harkinson_large_1.jpg
"At the minute, I'm working in a restaurant with a bunch of lovely, funny people; writing a play; writing bits for Skins; spending any sort of money I earn on food and skinny jeans, and drinking my way to a financially blighted two-month trip to India and Thailand. Clichéd I know, but clichés are there for a reason."
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41294000/jpg/_41294831_ethel_1987_203x250.jpg
Finally, I'm ready and willing to be called on as a personal "anti-life coach" for anyone who's currently too pleased with themselves. I can offer energy-sapping depressitudes and personally targeted invective round the clock, for just £3,000 a month. Unless you're an Apprentice candidate. Then it's free.
― blueski, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/images/characters_cast/characters/pat_e/pat_evans_large_1.jpg
"There is much to be proud of in voting Labour - but I have a free offer for the reluctant. On my desk is a basket of wooden nose-pegs marked "Labour". Any reluctant voter can have one of these to wear to the polls; apply here now."
― Matt DC, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/icnewcastle/aug2007/7/2/3504D853-DD43-3504-E627A16759A52A33.jpg
"I don't need to tell you that the motherlode will be a single image. And that image is Peaches herself wearing a Save Peaches badge - proving that she is the ironist's ironist, and therefore a true hipster, at whom we may all shake our fists and shriek, "Damn you, Peaches! You win again!"
I look forward to hearing from you. Let's make a difference."
― blueski, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Legit lolz
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Should there be a 'Pitch TV drama ideas that involve Dean Gaffney' thread?
― Matt DC, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/images/characters_cast/characters/ali_o/ali_osman_large_1.jpg
"At the very moment that our soldiers are giving their lives to defeat the Taliban, how can the Defence Secretary - of all people - say that Britain should be talking to them instead?"
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 31 March 2008 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Pitch TV drama ideas that involve Dean Gaffney' thread
the answer is 'anything'
― blueski, Monday, 31 March 2008 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
This just in from Jacqui Smith:
"I. AM. NOT. GOING. TO. THE. ISLE. OF. DOGS. I. AM. GOING. TO. PLAY. CARDS. WITH. DEN."
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 31 March 2008 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i find thid entire thread confusing. guardian loads better than mail obv. when will the zzzzzzzzing britishers culture end?
― or something, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link
define "better" without recourse to politics, says the hacked-off hack.
in purely newspaper terms, mail >>>>>>>>> guardian.
i fucking loathe the thing -- would never let it cross my doorstep -- and i ain't voting in this poll. but strip away the subjectivity and that's how i'd have to roll.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh come on, Daily Mail is so massively rubbish that Guardian would have to win by default, wouldn't it? It's pick the best of these toiletty arse biscuits, not pick which is brilliant.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 7 April 2008 03:01 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm. the mail knows its (vile) market, has incredibly high production values (for what it is) and manages to maintain its sales. the guardian is mostly a floundering mess these days.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 7 April 2008 06:38 (sixteen years ago) link
like i say, this doesn't mean i'm a fan of the thing -- and if i'm "taking sides" then yeh, guardian all the way. but the "better" paper, in purely newspaper terms, is, sadly, the mail.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 7 April 2008 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
A polished turd...
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 7 April 2008 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
has incredibly high production values
I've heard the same thing said about The Sun and the Express and I don't think I understand what it means. When pressed the esteemed journalist I was talking too mumbled something about the puns in The Sun and way the Express looked neat and tidy! Both of which I felt were unsatisfactory answers to my query.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 7 April 2008 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Talking about "high production values" on a newspaper to justify its superiority is a bit like Geir banging on about the number of chords in a song.
― Matt DC, Monday, 7 April 2008 09:09 (sixteen years ago) link
What does it mean? The ink doesn't come off in your hands?
― Tom D., Monday, 7 April 2008 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Murdoch does better spell checking, doesn't mean The Times is any fucking good.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 7 April 2008 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually I was being a bit harsh there. A friend of mine who works at the Indy regularly says that the reason the paper has gone all SHOUTY EDITORIAL ON FRONT PAGE OMG WE'RE ALL DOOMED is to distract from the fact that its news section is almost entirely rewrites from newswires.
― Matt DC, Monday, 7 April 2008 09:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Of course the Mail is fiendishly brilliant; most things which are generally the focus of anger and opposition need to be opposed because they are technically good enough to not simply disappear through incompetance.
― The Boyler, Monday, 7 April 2008 12:08 (sixteen years ago) link
It means that Mail have a proper news section, written by actual journalists, and go to incredible efforts to talk to people in the stories and get photographs of them. You'd be surprised at how many of the other papers don't do any of this and just use unrewritten wire copy and sit on their thumbs waiting for pictures.
Mail has a huge and deep news section. Sadly it's really fucking hateful as well.
― stet, Monday, 7 April 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i've read more Daily Mails than Guardians :(
― blueski, Monday, 7 April 2008 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
written by actual journalists
Clearly, then, this is not always a good thing.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 7 April 2008 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
"production values" basically means it's put together by people who understand what the story is, how to sell it and exactly who's reading it. not a word, picture or comma is wasted (unlike the express, which is a feeble facsimile).
the guardian, on the other hand, is often style over substance: you get the feeling nobody is actually *engaging* with the copy.
the mail knows exactly what it's doing, every day. the guardian occasionally strikes it lucky. that's the key difference.
fundamentally, if i'm going to take sides, it's the guardian. but my original point, which i stand by: in pure newspaper terms the guardian is in no way "better".
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 7 April 2008 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
stet OTM, too, natch.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 7 April 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Monday, 7 April 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
so grimly voted daily mail in the end then?
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i abstained, honourably! but if i'd voted, i'd have gone for the 'nad -- it is, after all, taking sides.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1024808/The-double-act-stormed-Britains-Got-Talent-reveal-theyre-BOTH-proud-British.html
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 7 June 2008 08:39 (fifteen years ago) link
'We hear a lot about the bad side of Britain - the knife culture, the cultural problems - but what struck me about the competition was how decent everyone was. The kids, too, were nice, well brought-up kids.'
That must have difficult for a DM journo to type.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 7 June 2008 09:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Elsewhere in the paper Mail scumbags revert to type and write up hatchet job of murdered woman while suggesting political correctness prevents people of Asian descent getting sacked...
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 7 June 2008 09:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Really what a fucking disgrace that article is - unnamed sources (typical disgruntled Met types that the Police Federation point the Mail towards whenever they've got an axe to grind), slagging off 'downmarket' tabloids while repeating the same shit and an underlying implication that she got what was coming.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 7 June 2008 09:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Never gonna top this classic, though:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-423549/Littlejohn-Spare-Peoples-Prostitute-routine-.html
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 7 June 2008 09:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ltxCWvi_SlE/SOdtgMuPHWI/AAAAAAAAAOo/UlJqHhjSZC8/s1600-h/yes.jpg
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 4 October 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnV5vgr-LFs
― the cunt from the hilarious "spotify" adverts (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I maintain that nothing is funnier than Dom being butthurt over The Guardian.
― Don't Be A Ned Raggett (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 6 September 2009 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/index.html <--- got their own 'comment is free' rival now
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
curiously low-res byline pic for Littlejohn there
for a sec I thought he only had one chin
― the wrong terry to fuckwit (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
Criminals must fear the police again, vows new Met chief
Or at least give them proper bungs like in the good old days.
― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/13/article-2036845-0DDDA0B900000578-877_636x264.jpg
― max, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
PIGEONS SHIT ON UNION FLAG
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://pierceblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/now-im-a-union-man-amazed-at-what-i-am-i-say-what-i-think-that-the-company-stinks-yes-im-a-union-man-when-we-meet-in-the-lo.html
getting off to a flying start
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
holy hell what a url
― watching my swag like a hawk (history mayne), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
Tube workers are paid £42,500-a-year considerably more than British soldiers laying their life down for Queen and country in Afghanistan.
See, to me this is an argument for saying that if the armed forces aren't happy with the way the government treats them they ought to unionise and fight for better pay and conditions rather than pulling lorries with their teeth thru shopping centres on a Saturday.
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe pulling a lorry with your teeth is good training for when you have to go and drive tube trains.
― Skrillex Ferguson (useless chamber), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
Is this some elaborate hoax?
At the slightest hint of industrial action he should have sent in the Army to take over the underground. And you know what. The tubes might then even run on time.
MUSSOLINI HAD THE RIGHT IDEA.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://pierceblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/now-im-a-big-fat-blamange-chasing-after-lyndsay-lo.html
aw, they've fixed that blip:
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
also, and i don't wanna be a bastard or anything, but in my experience tube trains running in London have been considerably more useful to me than some guys laying down their lives for the Queen and Country in Afghanistan, so on a pure cost-benefit level the disparity in pay seems fair.
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
cos as I see it, that's the Market at work. ARE YOU SAYING YOU HATE THE MARKET, ANDREW "STALIN" PIERCE??
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
tbf travel on the district line would be vastly improved by being hooded, bound w/cable ties and beaten to death
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOu_BszChIE&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL1B32E01C0A996AC5
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
sorry wrong linkhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/14/gender-studies-male-blaming-bias
― Gary Numan, or Gary Fletcher (ken c), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
I'm guessing that guy can't really get down to the specifics of his grievance because it might prejudice his totally useful and groundbreaking lawsuit... but that basically makes him writing about it completely pointless as he doesn't really say anything?
― the wrong terry to fuckwit (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
his link to support "women are more likely to initiated domestic violence" comes from TheHappyMisogynist's youtube channel.
― prolego, Thursday, 15 September 2011 05:49 (twelve years ago) link
Dude stuck it out at the LSE for 6 weeks, must've been hell.
― Chapman Pincher Overdrive (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 September 2011 06:47 (twelve years ago) link
Only alerted to this via my sister:
Readers’ Editor, Chris Elliott, announced recently that, instead of using the current, and accurate, rape conviction rate of 6.5%, journalists would “use the figure of 13% as the benchmark.”This represents the combined total of convictions for rape and other ‘sexual offences’, a less serious category of crime.
This represents the combined total of convictions for rape and other ‘sexual offences’, a less serious category of crime.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 15 September 2011 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
Nice bit of trolling by The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/29/loaded-magazine-men-baxendale-walker
His plan marks the latest revamp for a title that has struggled for the past 10 years, as its stock in trade of titillating images became freely available online, from the mainstream Mail Online to adult sites.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Sunday, 29 April 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
So, this Daily Mail advert at 5:53, then...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk-XWTlwAMo
...wtf?
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 15 October 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link