talk to me about the daily mail
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after a couple of references to the daily mail earlier on the forum i thought id have a llook online to see what they are about.
it looks like a normal paper to me (minus the nipples)
so what s a typical mail story/take on the world/reader.
i did notice this story and thought it was excellent but mainly for the comments below it.
turns out i could be a dailymail reader :?
this seems like an interesting story
it looks like a normal paper to me (minus the nipples)
so what s a typical mail story/take on the world/reader.
i did notice this story and thought it was excellent but mainly for the comments below it.
turns out i could be a dailymail reader :?
this seems like an interesting story
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it's a pain in the ar$e putting them through letterboxes on saturdays and sunday0
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i'll pain your ar5e in a minute0
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basically, it's outrage at everything. EVERYTHING.0
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You trolling again sheeps?
To be fair, I have a disdain for practically all news outlets. I'm particularly disgusted by the BBC, being the voice of our nation 'n' all.
Just some are marginally worse than others. If you think the Daily Mail is any worse than the BBC though, I wish you a slow and horrible, painful death.0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:basically, it's outrage at everything. EVERYTHING.
How dare you say that! I bet you're a Muslim illegal immigrant who gave princess Diana cancer arent you?!0 -
hmm, i tend not to be bothered by anthing, ANYTHING, in real life and i find retarded racist opinion equally revealing and hilarious. so maybe im better of with the daily star like normal.0
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butcher of bakersfield wrote:You trolling again sheeps?
To be fair, I have a disdain for practically all news outlets. I'm particularly disgusted by the BBC, being the voice of our nation 'n' all.
Just some are marginally worse than others. If you think the Daily Mail is any worse than the BBC though, I wish you a slow and horrible, painful death.
im not trolling, im just interested as the mail is mentioned all the time and i dont know the difference between it and the sun.0 -
Cat With No Tail wrote:
How dare you say that! I bet you're a Muslim illegal immigrant who gave princess Diana cancer arent you?!
them are the ones who started all this trouble.0 -
Inadvertantly we discovered that our cats won't use their litter tray unless it is copiously lined with the Daily Mail.This is a block of text that can be added to posts you make. There is a 255 character limit.0
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Dan Dare wrote:The Daily Mail song explains it quite well...
i strongly suspect that the 2 blokes on that video are one and the same.0 -
The fascinating thing with the Daily mail is their complete misunderstanding/mis-reporting on things.
A good example was a scientific study carried out in Australia, where it was found conclusively that, on average, men tend to go for the ideal "normal" figured woman. i.e. not stick thin, and not fat.
In the Daily Mail, it was reported as "Men don't like size zero models, and instead prefer normal curvy, larger ladies".
Well, sure, if by "larger", you mean, larger than size 0. That is not how it was put across though, and they then even went on to promote some size 18 models, as an example. :roll:
Another common one is that you can read on one page about "immigrants living on benefits and destroying Britain", then turn the page and read about the story of "some poor immigrant who'd been given a rough deal"
Basically, they hype all news stories, and try to find something outrageous in them all.
Whatever your views of the BBC, they generally present a reasonable argument, not a frothing at the mouth tirade like the DM.
I do wish all news outlets would stop trying to present a "side" on things though, and just give the facts, and trust the reader/viewer to arrive at their own conclusions.
The closest news outlet I have seen to this ideal, is Al-Jazeera, on occasion.0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:basically, it's outrage at everything. EVERYTHING.
tyical tabloid, pretty much like the sun minus the "good" points
i wouldnt even use it to dry my wet boots out.0 -
It is like The Sun, except it, and other people, take it more seriously.
They're both full of made up "PC gone mad"/ "elf'n'safety" stories that are completley twisted and manipulated.
E.g. A headline the other day was about a woman getting a £2500 fine for dropping some cigarette ash on the floor.
Turned out that she'd actually been fined for throwing a cigarette on the floor and smoking in a bus shelter. She'd then contested it, it went to court and she lost, so had to pay the costs. That's where £2500 came from.
But they got the "nanny state" and "officials bullying honest hard-working taxpaying middle class" bollocks in anyway, even though the story was completely misrepresented. :roll:
Here is a perfect example of a made up story. When they blame these made up stories on immigrants and muslims, something that they're doing more now that public enemy no1 Gordon Brown isn't in charge any more, people fall for it and stormfront, the BNP etc use it as recruiting material.0 -
to be fair, some of what the BNP say makes sense.
does that mean that some of what the daily obvious says makes sense too?0 -
Probably not, no.0
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sheepsteeth wrote:to be fair, some of what the BNP say makes sense.0
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i dont say it as a wind up but people are blinkered and get wound up about the BNP and lose rational thought. they are a shower of individuals no question, but loads of what they say makes sense. regarde:
the BNP wrote:
The removal of unsightly overhead power lines from beauty spots and their burial underground;
- The creation of a bulk transport tax regime that pushes supermarkets to supply more local and seasonal produce;
- The encouragement of an extensive and rapid switchover to organic and low fossil fuel farming techniques;
- The banning of the ritual slaughter of animals without pre-stunning, and the sale of such meat;
- The elimination of the unhealthy, energy intensive and cruel factory farming of livestock;
- The abolition of all “stealth taxes” and other charges on household rubbish collections.0 -
i also like a lot of what they say about their plans for the NHS:
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Right, so food will be massively more expensive, and there'll be no (made up!!) "stealth taxes".
- Replace 100,000 NHS bureaucrats with doctors, nurses and dentists;
Mental idea. You can't just get rid of every single manager/anyone who doesn't actually treat patients. People will die.
- Invest sufficient money in the NHS to provide a decent service to the British people;
What worries me there is the fact that they might not think I'm British, because I'm a bit brown, so I might not get any treatment.
- Bring hospital cleaning back in-house and make high cleanliness a top priority;
It already is. the problems come from people bringing crap in with them when they visit patients.
- End the scandal of foreign health tourism;
No idea how they've defined 'health tourism'. In any case, it accounts for less than 2% of spending.
- Train and pay to retain British doctors, nurses and dentists instead of looting the Third World of staff who are desperately needed in their home countries;
Everyone is paid the same, regardless of where they come from. Trusts will pay the best staff they can get, no matter where they were born. This just comes down to them not wanting foreigners here.
- Revitalise the healthcare system by boosting staff and bed numbers, slashing unnecessary bureaucracy and by addressing the root cause of low recruitment and retention — low pay.
Low pay for who? GPs are extremely well paid, nurses are well paid, doctors are well paid.
- We will see to it that no money is given in foreign aid while our own hospitals are short of beds and the staff to run them.
No foreign aid. Nice.
- Finally, more emphasis must be placed on healthy living with greater understanding of sickness prevention through physical exercise, a healthier environment and improved diets
Makes sense
But every other major party says that, and they're not quoite such big cnuts.
Also, as they're apparently getting rid of taxes, how would they pay for it?
It's all a load of rubbish basically, yes they say some things that aren't unpalatable, but those things are vague wishy-washy stuff about eating more fruit and veg, or doing exercise, or green belt land. So nothing important, and stuff that all the other parties say anyway.0 -
Back to the DM..
You've got to love the showbiz page.. it's the only one I can stand, and that's for the pictures, it's amazing how they can change their opinion of someone on a daily basis (Kelly Brook is a fave), and you've just got to love the comments people leave.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1304515/Alex-Curran-briefs-encounter-Spanish-beach.html0 -
Yeah, Kelly Brook seems to be a favourite. It's funny how often they've clearly been paid to advertise some other publication, like FHM, but they write it as an article about a "racey photoshoot".
There's a box on the website affectionatly known as the 'so what box'. Because it contains "news" that makes you say "so what?". Like some z list celebrity gaining weight, or losing weight, or looking tired, or looking older than they did a few years ago, or going out, or speaking to someone, or anything pointless at all!0 -
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+1 for Al-Jazeera for a broad, reasonably independent, world view.
And for the printed word The Times tries hard to give a rounded report. It drives me potty sometimes because I can read a report and form a viewpoint on it, then read another column which shows the opposite view. But that's good because the truth is probably somewhere in between.
The Metro's not bad if you like your news in small doses.Canyon XC 8.0 '11
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The Daily Mail is a comedy newspaper that instigates intolerance and hate and is sadly taken seriously by most of its inbred readers
People who argue in the comments section of Youtube videos probably love the Daily Mail
Kill them all, I say0 -
bails, i think those things are good things.0
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sheepsteeth wrote:bails, i think those things are good things.
You can't run an organisation as big as the NHS with no managers.
The Army would be useless if it was just half a million people, each with a gun. With no one to give orders, plan and organise. It's the same principle.0 -
you can.0
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TDM is posibly the crappyest paper in the whole world, bar the Sun. I know, i deliver papers for a living, im what you might describe as an "expert"....
really though, the headlines are hilarious... their ludicisy cheers me up every morning without fail.
The other thing is its ability to completely avoid any important or intresting news! For e.g, it the Times and Telegraph for exsample, have "voting reforms" or something as the headline, you can guaranty that the DM will have something along the lines of " Cheryl wears pink! and is responsible for the death of Dianna!"
seriously!I like bikes and stuff0