Daily Mail

For what was once research for a now defunct project, I found, then forgot about, then just recently found again, the wonder that is The MailWatch forum - a forum dedicated exclusively to hatred of the Mail - which is glorious in many ways. Aside from the obvious serious-minded CE like sub forums, the main delight is the "Other Mail Discussion" forum (which I've linked to) which includes such brilliant thread topics as...

The sad faces of wronged Mail readers...

and

Faces of Deities and Celebs in household objects...

as well as..

Questions to which the answer is 'No'...

I reckon @SteveJ will enjoy this one nearly as much as me.
:lol:There's actually a full forum devoted to the DM. Jesus, and I thought I was a bit obsessive...
 
:lol: Just a quick look at the sad faces thread was enough excellence for me. Brilliant.
 
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Can't get a pepperoni pizza because his local Domino's has gone Halal. This one is textbook. The punter looks annoyed, is holding the offending item and is standing outside the place where the incident occurred. The wearing of a thick coat adds a flourish worthy of Jeremy Vine's Panorama intros. 10/10

:lol:
 
Merry Christmas? Along with millions of other middle class mothers, I can't afford one.

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Less than five years ago, Christmas for me meant leisurely afternoons in Harrods buying a pretty embroidered cushion, some bath oil and a toy or two here, some smoked salmon and a box of chocolates there.

I'll allow the emroidered cushion, but smoked salmon for Christmas!? You monster!
 
What a let down. When they said sick selfie, I was expecting blood and corpses in the background. It looks as though the Mail are using a sensationalist headline for this story. Whoever new they were capable of resorting to such tactics?
Yeah, maybe a bit over-egged. Just love the faux outrage and how much info they try and cram into the headline.
 
I have to question why the word 'Labour' is capitalised. If anything, why not 'LABOUR CANDIDATE'?
 
I have to question why the word 'Labour' is capitalised. If anything, why not 'LABOUR CANDIDATE'?
You don't want to draw attention to the fact he is less important than the sensationalist headline suggests. Still makes me chuckle that the DM and the Sun cap up or bold key words for their readers.
 
Perhaps it's a sneaky, erroneous suggestion that he's a leadership candidate.
 
That would be brilliant. Labour leadership candidate's hidden selfie shame.
 
I can't even pronounce that would-be headline without lisping.
 
What a crock of shite. :lol:

I was actually lost for words reading that, then bewildered, now it's just making me laugh. Especially "more than 100 subjects filled in a questionnaire while standing on one foot rather than two. Another study involved sitting on an inflatable seat cushion rather than a rigid one" :lol:

How stupid did they feel whilst doing that? Probably depends, if they got paid or not, I suppose.
 
How to order
Gone are the days where the man would pick for the woman. Gone because everyone has got a lot fussier with what they can/can’t eat and due also to women’s lib.

You should pick a restaurant you know reasonably well so you are able to offer suggestions as to what is good on the menu but allow the lady to make up her own mind.
When the waiter comes, let the woman order first.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/f...iam-Hanson-avoid-disastrous-dinner-dates.html

Bloody women's lib! It's gone too far!

The whole article seems to have been written by Harry Enfield in character as a chum of the nice but dim bloke.
 
That comment makes sense if you ignore fact and are incapable of empathy. The majority of studies on the topic has found a correlation between poverty and obesity. In fact, there is evidence to suggest that the benefit system is exacerbating the problem, but because it provides people with too little, rather than too much.

The unemployed fatty bonus grant of 5 quid and 100 KFC vouchers per month is PC gone mad or something.
 
The unemployed fatty bonus grant of 5 quid and 100 KFC vouchers per month is PC gone mad or something.
Unemployed buy cheaper food, which, in general, is worse for your health. Leads to obesity, etc.
 
What sort of parent thinks "Yeah, it would be a great idea to let the Daily Mail have an 'exclusive' on this". Mind boggling.
 
What sort of parent thinks "Yeah, it would be a great idea to let the Daily Mail have an 'exclusive' on this". Mind boggling.

I agree, but for once I don't think the Mail reported this too badly. It keeps mentioning time and again that the teachers continually reminded the kids to wear sunscreen. I feel sorry for the kids that got burned, but it is their own fault. That lad who was featured in the article was only given factor 15 to go on holiday with and his mum has the nerve to blame the school? I do feel sorry for the schools in situations like this, they can't do right for wrong.

Fecking hell, tits on him.

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe his mum should have packed more sunscreen than McDonalds.
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...onising-sunburn-ignoring-teachers-advice.html

Some epic sad faces in this top class example of investigative journalism. Misses a trick with the sub-heading, though, which should have really read "My idiot son learns important lesson but still might ruin things for everyone"

:lol: Why is this a story?

Also if you've just made an absolute tit of yourself why on earth would you agree to be in the news about it showing off your massive moobs?
 
'But he was not told again after that to top it up. They arrived at the park at about 10am and were there until after 4pm and it was very hot.

'I think it was total neglect on the part of the teachers. He had to travel for 26 hours on coach and ferry back from Barcelona in that state.

"They also didn't tell him he had to breath and he almost died from lack of oxygen."
 
I agree, but for once I don't think the Mail reported this too badly. It keeps mentioning time and again that the teachers continually reminded the kids to wear sunscreen. I feel sorry for the kids that got burned, but it is their own fault. That lad who was featured in the article was only given factor 15 to go on holiday with and his mum has the nerve to blame the school? I do feel sorry for the schools in situations like this, they can't do right for wrong

It definitely reports it in such a way that it's easy to laugh at the blistered lowlife with the sad face. Digging a bit deeper, though, it does look as though this kid/his mum didn't get the contract with the warning about suncream (because he was a late replacement) and did actually apply sunblock once but didn't reapply, which is how he got fried. Reminding a kid to reapply is something most parents would do for their kids, even kids as old as 15. The teachers are acting in locum parentis and if they really didn't remind kids to reapply sun-block you'd have to wonder how much attention they were paying on the day.
 
This story was in the Manchester Evening News today as well. I like the bit in that article (no idea if it is mentioned in the Mail's one as I don't want to give them the click) where his mum says she sent him off to Barcelona in the height of summer with some 'Factor 15'. Yeah, that'll do the trick. Superb parenting.
 

Hmm…

And to their undying shame, some of our less principled politicians have endorsed this twisted view of our history. Tony Blair, for example, loved nothing better than going around the world offering unctuous apologies for Britain’s alleged sins, from our role in the slave trade to the mishandling of the Irish potato famine.

Yep. Undying shame for apologising for our role in the slave trade.