Why do people read the Daily Mail

[TwigTwoolett]

why oh why oh why?

[nutcracker]

My xp reads it which says alot doesn't it .

[charliecat]

My mum reads it, shes racist homophobic and generally awful, and she doesnt even realise it.
I do tell her, but im in the wrong. The mail says.....

[nailpolish]

my mum reads it

saves the coupons for the dream house TOO

i have no idea why, to (try to) answer your question

i did ask her once and she said "the news is all the same, and i like the womens articles" LOL

[GeorginaA]

Quote from my mum: "it fits on the table and the print doesn't come off on my hands" ...

rolls eyes

[Spidermama]

Because they feel it represents their views more closely than other papers.

[NotQuiteCockney]

I used to work next to someone who read the DM, so I read it for ages and ages (it was free). God it's an offensive paper, really misogynist. Very sniffy about other papers' "page 3 girls", but often running a photo of someone in a bikini on page 3 themselves, with some tangential news story attached ...

[NotQuiteCockney]

Oh, and I have no idea why my workmate bought the DM, he was a bit strange.

[SamhainWitch]

JT is a Mail reader.

A very intelligent, lovely woman who I have great respect for.

Yet another generalisation blown out of the water.

[wheelsonthebus]

DM. it's cheap - in every sense

[TwigTwoolett]

yes I know jools is a dm reader but I still like her

my sister is too .. and I like her too

but its just such tosh

[PretendFriend]

There is a feature in Femail on the website atm headed "when did you last make love?", with accounts of the recent sex lives of various individuals, and alongside it is a very nice posed picture of the woman in the first account, captioned "Demelza Hussey had sex last Saturday"

• her parents must be so proud.
  
  The whole piece is buttock-clenchingly embarrassing in fact. Yeuch. Why does the Mail do features like this and why does anybody volunteer for them? Are they all exhibitionists?

[PeachyBobbingParty]

Dunno

you can get the same drivel on teletext letters page, and that's free LOL

[PretendFriend]

(I would have linked to it but the Mail seems to have fixed it so that you can't use their URLs for links. Unless it's just me )

[SamhainWitch]

Just you PretendFriend

[Greensleeves]

I like JT too, but she'd be the first to admit she votes Tory

[PretendFriend]

Damn!!!

(It's those pesky underlines )

[soapbox]

I hate myself for it but I always love it when I find one on the bus in the morning

It is so funny particularly if you view it in an ironic way

It's like most things in life though - dangerous if you take them completely at face value

[CarolinaMooncup]

ROFL @ Demelza Hussey - I thought you made that up, PretendFriend


My MIL is a Daily Mail reader. Coincidentally (not), she wasn't too chuffed when little BIL had a Muslim girlfriend.

I always feel vaguely soiled if I happen to catch sight of a DM article

[WaitingForGodKnows]

My parents are DM readers. I still like 'em. I just don't agree with them very often

I could get mad and ranty about the Daily Wail, but life's too short. Suffice to say I agree with whomever it was who said 'There is no more depressing sight than sitting down on the Tube opposite someone gorgeous, making eye contact - and watching them get the DM out of their bag.'

[soapbox]

Last night Fio

[UCM]

Because Twig, if everyone read the Guardian, there wouldn't be anyone to come on MN with their opposing views