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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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2:35 pm
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jinxremoving
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From the Guardian's rather entertaining April Fool's piece: "the Daily Mail recently pioneered an iPhone application providing users with a one-click facility for reporting suspicious behaviour by migrants or gays."
From a subsequent commenter: "I went and had a look at the Daily Heil website to see their April Fool. I couldn't spot it. All their stories look like specious made-up bollocks."
current music: Sparks
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| Thursday, December 4th, 2008
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3:09 pm - Daily Mail: understands yoof culture and is down with the kids
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| Saturday, October 11th, 2008
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11:46 pm - Everything bad about Britain, according to Q.Letts
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mippy
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- Decimal currency
- Showing emotion
- The BBC news being shifted to 10pm (no time for prayers afore bedtime
- Men born in Iraq who make modern art more accessible to us (I can't even be bothered to tell you why this is wrong and why Tracey Emin is ace. 'Does Saatchi never stop to consider what it does to the nurse or the soldier on a basic wage to see such fecklessness as Tracey Emin's 'Everyone I Have Ever Slept With' hailed as a masterpiece?' My mum was a care assistant with 0 GCSEs and she finds Damien Hirst as interesting as she does Renoir.)
- The existence of state schools
- The bloke who owns French Connection (EURGH-URRH, it was T.Beattie who came up with FCUK.)
- John Prescott, for being a politician who doesn't speak in RP
- The sacking of Enoch Powell after the 'rivers of blood' speech.
- Topsy and Tim
- "Westwood is said to be the model for the satirical character Ali G, that prize 'wigga' ('white nigga') who speaks in the gibberish dialect of the jewel-encrusted Los Angeleno rap guy while, in fact, being a white, middle-class nincompoop....He wears the waistband of his trousers low on the buttock.'
- Tony Blair - not for all the reasons he gets named Tony B.Liar by dullards, but for not being an MP any longer.
- "Sir Alex' might once have meant Sir Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin or Sir Alexander MacKenzie, an explorer of the North West Passage, or in West Indian homes, the Right Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamente, first Premier of Jamaica."
- Kenneth Baker, the man who instilled the Dangerous Dogs act while abolishing corporal punishment in schools. YES READERS SPOT THE IRONY. ALL CHILDREN NOT CALLED BOUDICCA OR LYSA NDER SHOULD BE MUZZLED.
- The Alternative Service Book (must be a heathen thing)
- Brutalist architecture (again, cannot be bothered to explain the various reasons why every building does not and should not look like Trinity College)
- "And then there's Alex Deakin, who has the utterly infuriating habit of closing each broadcast with an over-matey, 'and that's yer weather'. Yer?"
- Richard Dawkins, not for being a massively patronising git, but for being a dissenter. "In times of turbulence, the human being is little different from the vole or the dormouse. It will take shelter where it can."
- "..long after the caravan moved on, long after the white working-class shown in these plots was overwhelmed by other cultural identities.The characters on EastEnders still talk cockney, even though younger Londoners long ago took up a rap-music, street jungle patois, which is heavily black American in tone.You seldom hear that sort of dude talk on EastEnders. Barbara Windsor and P. Diddy don't exactly mix, I guess."
- The Speaker, for ' favouring Labour MPs (particularly Scottish men) over Conservatives (particularly those with fruity Southern accents).' Do we not get enough Southern accents in places where they make laws?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1 069352/QUENTIN-LETTS-The-50-people-wreck ed-Britain.html#
BRUCIE BONUS Margret Thatcher, Edward Heath, no mention of Brown. Are there any News papers in England now not brave enough to be Conservative, we only have liberal. l or l leftwing or independent news papers, only Left wing TV stations itv and five being Lib dem, I wouldn't mind but at least 47 % of the public are rightwing Conservative. I believe we have a gap in the market on TV and news papers, I read some while back that the mail is now an independent. Are 46 per cent of the public not worthy of having there views backed up or represented by a paper or TV staiton. My word this country for want of a back bone. - Liza, Uk, 6/10/2008 10:11
Brilliant - don't forget the Beatles,Coronation Street,David Beckham and that wife of his,Elton John,Bruce Forsyth,Jonathan Ross,,Jamie Oliver,Ramsay the cook,Neville Chamberlain,Queen Victoria, Edward V111,Princess Margaret,Jeremy Thorpe,Bob Monkhouse,Rupert Murdoch,Richard Branson,Gerry Adams and his sidekick, Sarah Ferguson and those dreadful daughters,Harry Hewitt (Prince), Arthur Scargill,Harold Wilson,Mrs Simpson, The Osbourne menagerie,Alan Sugar,Bob Geldoff and family,Bono, Chelsea,Man U and all the teams who sold out to foreigners and finally Prince Charles. - james allen, manchester england, 6/10/2008 14:26
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| Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
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12:14 pm - Breakout the pitchforks and torches!!
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| Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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7:40 pm
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| Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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8:00 am - Mail Condones Spousal Abuse and Would Like to Take Part in it!
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| Friday, July 11th, 2008
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9:48 pm
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| Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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11:37 pm - this was posted in an Edinburgh Goth LJ community...
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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 juice1, (not i, and i removed her blink tag!)
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| Saturday, July 5th, 2008
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7:10 am - "MIND-BLOWING INCOMPETENCE"
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princealbert
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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
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6:08 am - the "black parade" — a place where emos believe they go after they die.
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| Friday, March 28th, 2008
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10:26 pm
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| Sunday, February 17th, 2008
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11:54 pm
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| Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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12:47 pm
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| Sunday, January 27th, 2008
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7:25 pm - None Deadlier Than The Wail
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| Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
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7:18 am - OMG BEBO IS AN INTERNETZ SUICIDE CULT!!11!
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| Saturday, October 20th, 2007
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9:20 pm
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princealbert
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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
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4:44 pm - God I hate this paper
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| Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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5:34 pm
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| Thursday, June 28th, 2007
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12:06 pm - Daily Mail reports...
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princealbert
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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
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9:37 pm - It's not always rape if a woman is drunk, says judge
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peterb
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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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