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Fiona Bruce is on the cover of Saga magazine this month = I think the Mail is overreaching a bit here.

Matt DC, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link

can't help loving how they title these webpages

Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Fiona Bruce is on the cover of Saga magazine this month = I think the Mail is overreaching a bit here.

Shouldn't you be reading something edgier?

cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link

I read my nan's issue of Saga Magazine once, it had a music column by that dude that edits Word Magazine.

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Denise, Sonia and Emily, who appeared in the first episode, which aired last week, believe they had a lucky escape when they were rejected by Gok's panel of judges.

i read all that whining to come to this line, aha it all makes sense now.

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

AA Gill said something in his S/Times TV column the other week about programmes like J Oliver's Ministry Of Food and by extension things like Gok Firehose missing a fundamental truth about the purpose of TV; i.e. that TV is a show-and-tell medium, not a look-and-learn one. Too much unearned finger wagging and patronisation going on in these shows, but then you'd think that would make them praiseworthy as far as the Mail was concerned.

Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link

can't help loving how they title these webpages

yeh, those are substantially more entertaining than the articles themselves!

remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link

I smell a merger

xxxpost

The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link

IT'S THE ONLY LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND.

remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link

You don't really need to read the articles do you?

Matt DC, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link

Rather a lot of "oh noes, Kate Moss looks her age without makeup" and "oh noes, Katie Holmes looks her age without makeup" non-stories there.

Judging by their photos used to illustrate this shocking revelation, Kate & Katie look just fine, but "women look normal without makeup" is even less news than "women look different without makeup".

I do like an occasional dose of Daily Mail to remind me why I hate it so much.

ailsa, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah, but unfortunately that's what keeps them in business.

Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Aye, I know. I do my best with other papers to not even go onto their website, but the Mail's too roffletastic to avoid.

ailsa, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link

Have they printed a picture of Georgina with her clothes on yet?

ailsa, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link

(xxpost) I just look over the shoulder of whoever's reading it on the bus.

snoball, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link

In case you're wondering (after doing some fact checking), the Mail owns a 20% stake in ITN (hence all the snickering on News At Ten last night) and a 29.9% stake in GCap Media, which includes Capital Radio.

Vested interests in doing down the BBC and Radio 2? Says who?

Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Mr Thompson, who has been in Sicily as the crisis unfolded

YAYYYY THAT'S WHERE WE COME FROM

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Who are the vested interests in the BBC? The licence fee payers who pay Jonathan Ross £6million a year?

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link

wow Judy Dench has a 007 tatoo

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link

where is a paper brave enough to track down former fawlty towers cast members to find out their opinions

max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link

read the bottom of that Mail article...

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link

still havent heard john cleese's take

max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link

what is connie booth's opinion

max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link

and the guy who played one of the germans, surely his thoughts are vital

max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link

No comment from the Pope yet, but...

Prunella Scales, who starred with Mr Sachs in Fawlty Towers spoke out with her husband, actor Timothy West.

They said: 'We think it is an unfunny, sickening attack by overpaid stars. How do they get away with it?'

XPOST DAMMIT!!

Mark G, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link

God, being british is great isn't it? We're so much smarter than other nations.

The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link

Last night, walking through town, every bookshop had JRoss' "Why do I keep saying stuff like this?" in the window.

And on walking through HMV, episodes of Fawlty Towers playing on the TVs and lots of boxsets for sale.

Mark G, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link

If only Fawlty Towers guest star Ken Campbell had lived long enough to offer us his views on the scandal.

Then again I think Nicky Henson's still around.

Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link

And NATIONAL INSTITUTION Bernard "Televisual Feast" Cribbins!

Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link

God, being british is great isn't it? We're so much smarter than other nations.

― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:03 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It'd be pretty great to see, I dunno, Jimmy Kimmel and Dane Cook leave abusive messages on Donnie Most's answering machine as a tribute.

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link

i think what the british public really needs to hear is the opinion of the fawlty towers themselves

max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Ross should get a terrier and call it Dailymail. And then buy a shoal of piranhas and call them The Great British Public.

snoball, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link

where is a paper brave enough to track down former fawlty towers cast members to find out their opinions

http://www.sitcom.co.uk/fawlty_towers/graphics/char_major.gif

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link

EW, O RLY TWATS

NickB, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link

I do like an occasional dose of Daily Mail to remind me why I hate it so much.

haha i know several people who are sort of addicted to the mail website just to gawp at the comments

favourite mail headline of recent times: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1080860/Is-debauched-Halloween-party-really-suitable-young-royal-Beatrice.html

so scolding!

lex pretend, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link

"Is this debauched Hallowe'en party really suitable for a young royal, Beatrice?"

lex pretend, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link

Sadly Much Loved Where's My Paper Fawlty Major Star Ballard Berkeley passed away back in 1988 but no doubt he would/wouldn't have approved.

Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Was he a Times man or Telegraph? Silly question, latter obv.

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Ballard Berkeley may have had the greatest voice in the history of the English language

Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link

i think you're forgetting about Windsor Davies

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link

the greatest voice in the history of the Welsh language

Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link

ah lol yes

Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Ballard Berkeley may have had the greatest voice in the history of the English language

When the word "wogs" emerged from his mouth, it was as if it had grew wings

The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link

if only he had made those calls to andrew sachs

max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link

it would have been like they were playing handels messiah on the bbc

max, Thursday, 30 October 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link


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