to like the Daily Mail?

[Beaaware]

Love this paper, but on here so many of you seem to despise it, why?

He took for granted his readers would know he wasn't being serious (He writes for the Times) although that article did receive a lot of complaints.

Sure he wasn't being serious but it's just weird to have that much hatred to think about decapitating them with wire and then spending time writing about it.

It is a freaky thing to do. And not even vaguely amusing.

YABU

It's a fascist, misogynistic rag.

I never read it - if I did I'd have wrinkles from screwing up my face in disgust!

Another man was present? Don't we have a policy of compulsory chaperones for young men these days?

Cyclists, well... pah, I can't be bothered.

I've got lesbian lentils to weave into dreamcatchers.

TotorosOcarina, thank you, thank you, thank you for the Dan and Dan link, I'd never seen it before. Brilliant!

When Alastair Campbell gets a cab, if the driver has the Mail on the front seat he tells him, 'Either that paper goes or I do.' And if they're handing out free copies on a plane, he collects them up and shoves them in the bin. I do like a man who has the courage of his convictions.

Please don't tell us you like Alastair Campbell? That's not helping the cause!

Alastair Campbell is pure Marmite. I like him in a 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' kind of way, but let's not make this thread about him. It's so much more fun bashing the Mail. [goes off to watch Dan&Dan for the fourth time in half an hour]

YABU.

It's purpose is to reinforce it's readers prejudices so that they keep buying the paper and can be sold to advertisers.

It wants you scared and stupid.

I couldn't give a toss about cyclists either, I was just giving you an example of what other journos write. People just focus on the Daily Mail because they talk about homosexuals and immigrants. So what?

Because they LIE. Are you happy to take your news from LIARS and scaremongerers? Seems like yes, but then it also seems like you don't have the IQ to tell the difference.

So what?

Bigotry? So what?

Lies? So what?

Hatred? So what?

All those reading it for the sleb news.. NO.

You shouldn't be reading ANYTHING for that shit.

Has anyone noticed quite how inapposite the OP's name is?

Do you reckon Daily Mail readers tell their children to hate and get angry about shit then? I mean, if you do that as parents then surely you'll be teaching your kids the same way, right?

"Don't play with Johnny. He rides a bike and his head should be cut off. Only joking, ha ha ha ha."

"Oh no, don't go into that shop. We must hate those people. They are not white, came over here and opened up a shop and made money by working all hours and contributing tax etc"

"Oh my god. There's a new illness. Killer flu. Don't go out of the house for two weeks and for god's sake, don't talk to foreigners."

The daily Mail is not Mein Kampf.

Despite its best efforts.

YABU

It is so obvious about it's agenda its beyond laughable

a lot of papers lie, some of the crap spouted on mn comes from people who don't read the DM(I read it on a Saturday, the only day I get a paper for myself) it hasn't turned me in to a raving bigot.

Well, no obv, what with Mein Kampf being a book containing autobiography and poilitical ideology.

I've not read Mein Kampf, but I suspect it has a more coherent and consistent worldview than the DM, which would make it better in at least one respect.

Ha ha ha

I realised it was a load of shit when they got Jackie Collins to do a double page opinion piece on the war in Iraq

I've read Mein Kampf. It actually does have remarkable similarities.

Oooh, TheCoalition. I like your links.

:)