AIBU to really hate the Daily Fail phrase....

[Janoschi]

'Elf n Safety?

Yes yes, I KNOW it's already beyond the pale to read the bloody thing but it's my daily fix of hilarity... bit addicted to it now!

But, you're a f**king newspaper, DM. Stop spelling like a teenager in a strop.

I dunno - make a cup of tea?

It's a joke style sheet for the Daily Mail website. But kind of eerily accurate. It doesn't do anything.

yabu to use immature words like a child does at school

daily fail
jeremy vile

etc

HAS CHANNEL 4 GIVEN YOUR PETS DIABETES?

I can't stop laughing

One from yesterday - Does BACTERIA cause OCD?

I didn't have any issue with the link from LittleAlbert, but I'm on a Mac...

Yes, the Hitler stuff. My DH is German and he finds it very wearing to constantly see sheds, toast and pets supposedly looking like Hitler.

Never bought the paper in my life. Read the Daily Mail Online every single day without fail.

I need to know how many babies Jessica Simpson actually has in that belly of hers (I actually think she has one in each boob, too) and I need to know where Kate Middleton has walked her little doggy today.

"There was also that one recently where the headline was something like SINGLE MUM asks Council for BIGGER HOUSE to house her NINE kids! And it turned out she had just adopted 4 or 5 kids from her best friend who'd died of cancer and was now struggling a bit with space. Really unfair headline. The woman worked too but they implied she was a sponger."

You're making that up. Here's the story:

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2086149/Single-mum-Julie-Jones-adopts-best-friends-FIVE-orphaned-children.html

It's actually pretty sympathetic to her and the comments are full of praise. The Daily Mail can be vile but it does attract a lot of synthetic outrage from people trying to look fashionable.

yoo-man rights

'Lycra clad' in connection with anything to do with cyclists.

I must be the only person on the planet who doesn't know this, but who is Kim Kardashian and why is she always in the paper? The Mail are obsessed with the woman.

uruculager

The original story wasn't published in this way. It was changed and republished (probably because the comments board was pretty angry about how she was being portrayed). You're right though that this version is very sympathetic. Trying to find the original now but can't!

Yoo-man rights. AAARRGGGHHH.

Also 'dazzles' and 'sizzles' as in 'Lara Stone sizzles in a skimpy black minidress'.

"it's political correctness gone mad"

I was a news reporter years ago and we used to amuse ourselves by asking 'outraged of Tunbridge Wells' if they thought this was political correctness gawn mad. Invariably they said yes.

DM also loves big double page spread on private educated middle class girl gawn wrong. Usually after mixing with nasty working class person.

And career girl now infertile. They love that one.

The queen of braying, middle-class tripe

Janoschi - I haven't had any problem yet (as far as I know) but am also on a Mac.

LittleAlbert - I guess you missed the comment that said "Please be careful clicking on the link above from littlealbert... A trojan is currently munching throughmy hard drive.."

I've clicked on it loads of times and my computer is absolutely fine.

Just clicked again and it's absolutely fine. But I do have anti-virus thingies.

Richard Littlejohn is the worst, every word he spouts is pure hate. I've heard him refer to 'elf and safety people as 'Nazis' before. As someone who works in that field for a living, nothing makes you feel as demonized as being compared to some of the greatest mass murderers of all time.

Janoschi, that makes me cringe. Hope your DH knows that most of us aren't immature, War-obsessed arseholes. Though I think the Sun is far worse in that respect

You forgot to mention ''Political Correctness Gone Mad!'' Or the kiljoy, ''PC Brigade''.

You just need to refer to this Daily Mail Tube Map:
www.thepoke.co.uk/2010/07/15/daily-mails-secret-editorial-formula-revealed/

Sorry, first time linking..
It is on the Daily Poke website, which is a satirical news one.
www.thepoke.co.uk/2010/07/15/daily-mails-secret-editorial-formula-revealed/

I like the foaming-at-the-mouth comments from readers obsessed with 'Feminazis' and their official leader 'Harriet Harperson', who is secretly running their government in a conspiracy to keep the downtrodden white male in his lowly place while everything good in life of course is given to black Muslim disabled Communist vegan ecowarrior asylum-seeker single-mum selfish-career-woman fraudulently benefit-claiming lesbians.

Janoschi I remember the original article about the single mother looking for a bigger house, which bore no resemblance to the link posted by uruculager

In fact, that looks like a different family/story. I too had read it and when I reached the end was very about their negative slant on a woman who was doing something special for her friend's children.

I also get fed up with the "elf and safety" shite. I too work in this area and am not a) a jobsworth, b) a nazi, c) a jumped up little, clipboard wielding, do-gooder.

Oh,and I also have a life, I don't need to go and get one!!!!

I just try to laugh at it now, and as posted on another thread, derive great pleasure in reading the stories and clicking on the red arrows. Plus seeing how many mistakes there are in each article

I also cringe at -

flaunts her curves (is on holiday)
parades her bikini body (is on holiday on the beach)
parades her brood (takes children out to the park)

etc

Plus the obligatory sadface photo, when some parent has backed her child up, when their school has pulled them up on breaking some rule or other.

"stepping out" or "steps out"

is another mailism that annoys the hell out of me