to think the Daily Mail is a "wonderful" newspaper...

[QuietTiger]

and to use in the cats litter box without reading it first?

PIL buy the Daily Mail. (They're "Middle England" at their finest). MIL insists on recycling it so that DH & I can read it.

There are only 2 things wrong with this...

DH only reads "Farmers Weekly"
I never read the Daily Mail. unless I am using it to light the fire and happen to start reading a story in it

It is the perfect size to fit in the litter box. (One of our moglets doesn't like cat litter and prefers to pee on paper). It has wonderful absorption qualities. And personally, I think it a very appropriate use of the paper.

MIL says I am unreasonable. I argue that I am not. Who is right?

Sounds ideal to me.

My parents take great pleasure in sending the Telegraph sports pages over for dp. He reads them despite having seen the results on a screen somewhere, then it goes upstairs for the bunny to pee on.

I suggest you thank them and don't tell them exactly how you recycle it

My parents are similar and when they stay with us, find the need to leave it for us to read.

I find that it burns very well and given the ranting polemical style of the journalism that somehow seems a fitting end for it. However, I do try and keep it at the back of my fire basket (in case anyone might spot in and think I read it and JUDGE me).

Just make sure to put Liz Jones' column on top when you stick it into the litter.

I think Liz Jones would be thrilled that her column was being used for the litter tray. Well, once she'd got over her shock and disappointment that you didn't have a flushing cat lavatory for your poor cat.

You will be raising some cats with very questionable ideas about immigrants/single/teenage mothers sponging off the state/neglecting their children over their CAREER/breastfeeding their children up to the age of 22

(delete as appropriate)

So for that yabu

overall i LIKE the mail!

However that Liz Jones...... i steadfastly refuse to read anything she has written anymore (after reacting really badly to something she wrote) and feel that the only reasons she has a column is either that she is shagging the editor or else everyone wants to keep her out in the middle of god knows where to keep her out of the office so they dont have to actually speak to her.

I am actually starting to quite like the DM

wouldn't be too hasty, Winter

One reason I like the DM site is that it is open access (for now) not behind a paywall, so we can all see and judge the articles written. The other reason I like it is that it publishes extensive comments, so if the article is biased or wankerish, people pile up to tell them that (and, unfortunately sometimes to support it). I think it gives a more accurate temperature on topics than some of the broadsheets. The quality of writing is a bit meh though.

I think the Daily Mail is a fantastic newspaper literally.

Gah! Three out of thousands twattish articles on the subject is a bit too much to get excited about isn't it?

I was seething at the, "naughty children get free Ferrari's every month" or whatever it was. There was so much wrong with it. Especially the picture of a tiny A3 form which appeared to be a "name, address, does your child have ADHD yes or no" affair

My parents read the DM and Mail on Sunday so when I lived with them I used to read it. The only thing that really stood out to me was the 'You' magazine and the newer blokey mag with all the car stuff in it... the 'You' magazine fashion pages listed stuff that cost hundreds and had this little area where it had three alternatives for those who can spend a lot, a medium amount, and a little. the 'little' spend was something like £50 on a scarf... mhmm...

In the bloke's mag there's a columnist called Dylan Thomas who is the most incredibly stuck up, name-dropping snotrag who peers down his long nose at the rest of the world every single week without fail. Who reads that shit?