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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
7:40 pm

peterb
Proof, were it needed, that your average DM reader is a bitter and twisted individual. There's a few reasonable people there, but not many.

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
8:00 am - Mail Condones Spousal Abuse and Would Like to Take Part in it!

blahflowers
I'd like to slap Sheryl Gascoigne ... at least it would save Paul the bother.

Mmmm, classy.

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Friday, July 11th, 2008
9:48 pm

jinxremoving
Daily Mail on "faceless mutants".

Shame no Daily Mail readers left any comments on the article ...

current music: Track 16

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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
11:37 pm - this was posted in an Edinburgh Goth LJ community...

princealbert
I need someone to write an article *against* the Daily Mail's annual tirade about whatever subculture happens to be popular that year for September's fanzine.

Maybe this year's Daily Mail article detailing the horrendous after effects of 'being an emo' will fuel your fire...

I already have the opposition article, detailing why the Daily Mail's regular attacks on yoof subcultures is a good thing for society - and it is rather impressive, so have a go and get back to me:

juicy-lucy2 (at) hotmail (dot) co (dot) uk

ANYONE can write for the fanzine - give it a go :)

Posted by [info]juice1, (not i, and i removed her blink tag!)

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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
7:10 am - "MIND-BLOWING INCOMPETENCE"

princealbert
Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers has admitted that a laptop containing financial and personal details of thousands of staff, suppliers and contributors has been stolen.

After months of criticising "criminally careless" government departments for losing confidential records, the company has been forced to send out an embarrassing letter telling journalists they may now be at risk of identity theft, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.

Even those who no longer work for either Associated Newspapers, which also publishes the Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard, and regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media have been affected and contacted.

The letters from the Associated Newspapers group finance director, Simon Dyson, and his Northcliffe counterpart, Martyn Hindley, tell recipients that their "name, address, bank account number and bank sort code were the sensitive data lost" when the laptop was stolen last week.
Read more... )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/04/dailymail.dmgt1
(the subject line is the Daily Mail's headline for similar Govt laptop losses)

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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
6:08 am - the "black parade" — a place where emos believe they go after they die.

princealbert
"Hannah was a happy 13-year-old until she became an 'emo' - part of a sinister teenage craze that romanticises death. Three months later she hanged herself. Here, her devastated mother tells other parents: No child is safe..."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=566481&in_page_id=1879

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Friday, March 28th, 2008
10:26 pm

jinxremoving
Daily Mail makes the Photoshop Disasters hall of fame.

current music: Cut Copy - Time Stands Still

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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
11:54 pm

jinxremoving
Daily Mail want your horror stories.

Which led me to Mail offers money to Poles to break the law.

current music: Urusei Yatsura - Silver Dragon

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
12:47 pm

jinxremoving
Daily Mail, 25 January: Revealed: How Romanian pickpocket gangs are building palaces back home with child slave labour

Daily Mail, 29 January: 'Smuggled Fagin kids' were actually living happily with their Romanian parents, embarrassed police reveal

The Scotsman, 6 February: Gypsy children 'smuggled in to work for modern Fagins'

'Modern-day Fagins'! Will it become as popular a phrase as 'bogus asylum seekers'?

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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
7:25 pm - None Deadlier Than The Wail

spittingkittens
New Stateman gives the Daily Bigot a bloody good poke.



I think this article should be printed off in the thousands and airdropped onto the homes of middle England.


Love xx

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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
7:18 am - OMG BEBO IS AN INTERNETZ SUICIDE CULT!!11!

super_loulou
Teh evil

My comment:

OMG they all visited hairdressers too - HAIRDRESSERS SUICIDE CULT!!

I wonder if it'll get published?

current mood: enraged

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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
9:20 pm

princealbert
See when JK Rowling outs a fictional charater as gay, after the last book is published, leave it to the Daily Mail readers:

I'm disappointed in Ms. Rowling for feeling the need to "out" her character. I guess she waited for the money first in case not all of her fans' parents would have considered it unnecessary to force such an endorsement on children.
- Mcate, Georgia, USA

Isn't it funny that people never say things like this until after they have made the big time and a bucket full of cash, Why spoil a perfectly good children's story with PC rubbish?
- Andy, Lancashire, England

For goodness sake guys, he's a fictional character - there are never any 'limits to what created people can do' - it's written for them. Why should an author make it explicit just to please homosexuals - it's bad enough she wrote Tony Blair into the 6th novel.
- Andrea, buckingham

Oh right,the books have been out years and only now its revealed.
Politically correct or what?
Its enough to make you sick, no doubt the next revelation will be that Hagrids
got a plastic leg...you couldnt make it up...

- Harry, north lincs

Time to put the books in the bin, I think.
- Sally, Lincoln

Oh Dear! Does Rowling really feel the need to court this sort of publicity? We seem to have a hidden glass wall of public censorship in this country that now says if the work does not highlight minorities (no matter what they are - and in a good light) then "it shall not pass" into the public domain. It reminds me of the rush of Chinese Artists (amongst other public figures) to emphasise their Communist Party support after the Chinese revolution. You have to wonder how much they really mean it or how much they felt it was just something they had to do.
- Cllr. Chris Cooke, Tamworth, UK.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=488718&in_page_id=1773&in_page_id=1773&expand=true#StartComments

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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
4:44 pm - God I hate this paper

yourpassenger
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=468633&in_page_id=1879

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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
5:34 pm

jinxremoving
Transsexual trucker is 'hounded out' for wearing make-up

Handled by the Daily Mail in predictable fashion, complete with inability to use appropriate pronouns.

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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
12:06 pm - Daily Mail reports...

princealbert
Michael Werner looks normal enough. He's six foot tall, grey and bespectacled, weighs in at 12-and-a-half stone and enjoys playing tennis, socialising and jogging - three brisk miles before breakfast with his wife Angelica, a nice fry-up for her and a quick coffee for him.

All very ordinary. It's just that Michael doesn't eat. At all.

In fact, the last item of food that passed his lips was a huge helping of potato salad and a slice of cake on New Year's Eve 2001.

Extraordinarily, the 58-year-old doctor of chemistry and father of three from Brunswick, northern Germany, claims he gets all the sustenance he needs from the sun. Oh, and the occasional coffee, fruit juice or a glass of wine if he and Angelica are enjoying a night out.

"I call it light nutrition," he explains. "But one can also talk of ethereal, Prana, Chi or cosmic energy ... it's all the same thing."

It's also known as Breatharianism, or the belief that the elements contained in air - nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen and hydrogen - can sustain a body.

So far, so daft. But Dr Werner isn't your average nutter. He's a bright, well spoken scientist who was so surprised at the consequences of his bizarre diet - just four coffees and two fruit juices every day for six-and-a-half years, plus that occasional glass of wine - that he's written a book about it called Life From Light.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=464814&in_page_id=1770

Reality:
http://www.rickross.com/groups/breat.html

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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
9:37 pm - It's not always rape if a woman is drunk, says judge

peterb
I presume we've all seen this nonsense on the Daily Fail website?

The comments are nothing short of epic, in that "hell in a handbasket" style that the crackpot readership of this nasty bit of journalism are...

I think my "favourite" has to be either:

Sense at last. Young men need to take this as a warning, though. If you must have sex outside marriage, get the woman's consent first, in writing, and preferably with a witnessed signature. That way she can't cry rape the next day when she changes her mind.

As for young women - if you go binge drinking, you are likely to consent to have sex with someone when you otherwise wouldn't. That plus throwing up plus wasting vast amounts of money, what a life. Whatever is the attraction?

- Liz Ward, Huddersfield UK
or

Once a 'Lady' has drunk more than lets say 2 bottles of wine she should lose the right to cry rape.

- Donald Dehaviland, Fleet Hampshire ,England.

Yes, that's the way! Only have sex (missionary, under the covers, with the lights off) in marriage, or if you get pissed and violated in the worst possible way, then it's your own fault... I wonder what a party of Mail readers is like??

If only it wasn't so difficult getting comments past the mods :-(

current mood: shocked
current music: R.E.M. - Driver 8

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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
3:08 pm - Is Prince Phillip A God?

henriksdal
"High in a mist-shrouded mountain village, an ancient tribe patiently awaits the return of its divine leader.

He is no mere mortal like themselves, dressed as they are in and straw sheaths to protect their modesty — rather, they believe he is the human face of an ancestral spirit who left their island many moons ago to look for a bride.

Their legend tells how this spiritual ancestor ended up in England — and eventually married a queen. Which explains why the Duke of Edinburgh, who is well aware of his role as a god in the eyes of the Yaohnanen tribe, has established a curious relationship with these people, who dwell in a simple village in the centre of the Vanuatu island of Tanna in the South Pacific."

Astonishingly patronising tale of a cargo cult, (the BBC has a bit more of a grown up story about them here) complete with middle-England fantasies about the hilarious escapades that must go on in the Royal Household. How indeed does one hold a nal-nal?! Oh the jollity.

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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
12:47 pm - Quote of the day

princealbert
"I buy the Daily Mail cos of the headlines. They never come true, they just make me laugh."

Pensioner on an Edinburgh bus when I asked him if he wanted my finished copy of the Metro.

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Monday, February 5th, 2007
2:21 pm

jinxremoving
huh. daily mail writes decent enough article on young disabled man paying for sex; readers' comments show tolerance and generally having a clue. although, did they just lift the man's words straight from his guardian article, or what?* and what are the chances that sex workers seeing non-disabled clients would be similarly respected?

* oh, maybe it was a press release or something. i don't know.

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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
8:41 pm - Richard Littlejohn solves the problems of hard drugs and prostitution

thebustocrookes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=423549&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=322

Typically intelligent stuff from Richard Littlejohn today, the caring sensitive Daily Mail columnist today, taking his brand of compassion to the murder of five women in Ipswich…

Feel free to read the article, but a few choice quotes:

“in the scheme of things the deaths of these five women is no great loss…They weren't going to discover a cure for cancer or embark on missionary work in Darfur. The only kind of missionary position they undertook was in the back seat of a car. “

“Frankly, I'm tired of the lame excuses about how they all fell victim to ruthless pimps who plied them with drugs. These women were on the streets because they wanted to be.“

“This wasn't a case of women going on the game to put bread on the table, or to look after their "babies". That's what the welfare state is for. They did it for drugs”

Bless... He even manages to bring Kate Moss into it, to echo A N Wilson’s article mentioned here recently (and Will Self). He’s solved the problems of drugs and prostitution in a couple of hundred words – tomorrow rocket science?

current mood: grumpy

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