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to like the Daily Mail?

162 replies

Beaaware · 11/10/2010 19:22

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

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AbsofCroissant · 12/10/2010 13:24

Hully - have read the Polly Toynbee article. Very interesting, and I do kind of agree. Centralising is the antithesis of the Tory ideology, especially since they're so keen on de-centralising everything else.

upsydaisysexstylist · 12/10/2010 14:32

Here's something my partner wrote...

jeremy-young.blogspot.com/2005/06/wot-i-fink.html

Wot I Fink

I buy the Daily Mail for the crossword
but apparently,
I'm in favour of the war in Iraq,
believe Cheri Blair's a bit dim, because she has a wide grin
likewise her husband.
I believe ditzy women better than boiler suited lesbians,
in fact, I don't like gays at all, (no what day is it?),
(in their place), (which is not in the church).
I enjoy being spanked and then espousing right wing views.
Village style gossip about married women and clergy
are exactly what I need.
Though I cannot understand how
respectable, middle aged, middle class, middle English
ladies
could do such things.
I distrust and automatically dislike avant garde anything,
though I like a Gilly Cooper
and see that this week's lipstick should be pink'
with kitten heels and shoulder length sleeves.
It does worry me that unless I eat broccoli
my crows feet will show;
house prices and squirreling it away, rule my world.
Peter what's-his-name is no match for Jonathon,
but I wouldn't be seen dead with the Mirror.
If only we had a time machine
and could bring back Maggie;
no better still Churchill,
or even that nice Mr Hitler;
who is a good thing for Germany, mark my words,
look what he has done for interest rates
and there's no crime, since he abolished the law,
and allowed businessmen frustrated by red tape
to take over the running of the country.
No, wait, he's foreign. Well best give him a chance.
After all, he's not a bloody socialist,
or one of those thinking types.
Oh I love this one...
twelve down,
Bishop's parish leads working class chase...
It's like being part of a club when you know the code.
Oh, don't those roses look nice?
Do you think I will look forty in this colour blue?
They should kill them all at birth.
I don't care if it is an isolated, private beach,
she shouldn't wear that bikini in public.
Shares up a penny.

SanctiMoanyArse · 12/10/2010 14:39

'Mainly White, married heterosexual Christians'

That's me then

I am racking my brains to think if I;ve ever bought it; we have a CD with the logo on but I am 99% sure dh was given it in his days of working in the sector.

I was lucky; I went from reading my Dad's NOTW and Sun to picking up the magazines from my ex fiance's Times and went from there (moe of a Guardian girl now, via the independent but the private Prozac got expensive [wink[)

Abs they were discussing that on the TV yesterday, the whole centralisation- localisation thing.

SanctiMoanyArse · 12/10/2010 14:47

Upsy your DH is a very clever man

Nancy66 · 12/10/2010 15:14

he is an illiterate man

SanctiMoanyArse · 12/10/2010 15:40

Nancy thatb is horrible

Why would you feel free to post that?

like it or don;t, but don;t resort to nasty personal comments

BTW 'il·lit·er·ate   /ɪˈlɪtərɪt/ Show Spelled
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?adjective

  1. unable to read and write: an illiterate group.
  2. having or demonstrating very little or no education.
  3. showing lack of culture, esp. in language and literature.
  4. displaying a marked lack of knowledge in a particular field: He is musically illiterate. '

Not, then , I don't like his writing style of find it unappealing.

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 12/10/2010 15:46

More to the point she should be pointing out the mistakes.

DeborahDeborah · 12/10/2010 15:48

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Hullygully · 12/10/2010 15:51

Yes...and I short point out that dear Gibbon was FIRST with a whole thread dedicated to it yesterday.

Hullygully · 12/10/2010 15:51

should, even

SanctiMoanyArse · 12/10/2010 15:51

So far down Debs that it's very welcome (as always; I bloody love it)

SanctiMoanyArse · 12/10/2010 15:52

I ahd it on my Fb the day before Hully (a link from Lissie though)

Hullygully · 12/10/2010 15:53

Did you now indeedy?

Well who was first?

Claim your prize.

SanctiMoanyArse · 12/10/2010 15:55

Lissie presumably- her mate linked it to her

daftpunk · 12/10/2010 16:03

I could write a song about Guardian readers in 5 minutes, but it would be too 'offensive'. That's the problem, lefties have no sense of humour. They give it but they can't take it.

daftpunk · 12/10/2010 16:04

And the DM song isn't even funny.

Hullygully · 12/10/2010 16:05

Who doesn't have a sense of humour......?

Oh the sweet sweet irony.

SanctiMoanyArse · 12/10/2010 16:12

I'd be quite glad if I didn;t have SOH and it was just my leftierness after my DM applauidng friend shared a wonderful joke with everyone about how her and her DH ahd responded to a request at an event for a donation to the Pakistan floods by chucking in a bottle of water and saying they though there hadn't been 'enough* water there so far

26 years of friendship- wrecked.

daftpunk · 12/10/2010 16:12

Ok, I went over the top with you on the pope thread.

Sorry.

SanctiMoanyArse · 12/10/2010 16:14

And anyway- if you cdo it DPP do it.

An awful lot of people who think like you out there.

but do it without being offensive for tehrein lies the skill.

I mean me doing a youtube vid where I stood and chanted ' DM is a fucking crap paper with absolutely nothing to say of any sense'- it woudn't be quite as good, would it?

SweetnessAndShite · 12/10/2010 16:17

YABVVVVVVU. I feel dirty reading this thread. Pah!

Hullygully · 12/10/2010 16:18

I meant your two consecutive posts, dp.

But thanks for the pope apology anyway.

daftpunk · 12/10/2010 16:23

oh sorry.

well, that apology came from the heart, I was a bit of an idiot on that thread and went way too far.

Anyway I'm now working on my Guardian song....he he he

theQuibbler · 12/10/2010 16:33

I do think it is unreasonable to like the Daily Mail.

It's horrifically biased, with a nasty right wing agenda that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Its success relies on confirming the worst prejudices of the Middle Englanders who buy it.

I saw a quote from Mark Twain on a site with regard to this,and it was perfectly apt.

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."

I don't think it is badly written though - I dislike what it says - but it is written exceptionally well.

A friend of mine used to work on the DM. Oooh, the stories he tells about Paul Dacre...

upsydaisysexstylist · 12/10/2010 16:40

My OH is clever and also vain enough to post on a thread I left open. He has a guardian poem though, it is possible to object to lazy shorthand replacing proper journalism without being in a particular ideological camp daftpunk.