to read the Mail Online?

[Uppatreecuppatea]

I know I'm going to read that XYZ is going to "flaunt her curves" in a "slinky deisnger" dress at a "red carpet premiere"....

but I can't help it! I'm drawn to it like a moth to a flame.

Why doesn't a less mysogynistic, less right wing and equally gossipy but great value website give them a challenge?

Our words fall on deaf ears!

I feel doomed to certain failure every time I start slagging the Mail to some impassive sap who tells me they don't really believe what they read in it. Never mind. I'm not giving up!

Most people do read it - they pretend they don't and do the whole 'apols for link' stuff - but it's their fisr port of cal in the morning

If I walk round the office at lunch time, the page that's most often open on people's PCs is the Mail and the sidebar of shame. The office is 99% men and there's c50 people in this particular open plan office.

I often read an article on the BBC news website, then go and read it on the Mail website for all the salacious interesting details. Today, for example, the Philpott fire court case story.

That Philpott case has salacious written all over it. Those poor kids.

I must admit I had a look-see whether they had any gossip about the new pope.

It's not unreasonable to read it.

It's unreasonable if you think they are not getting anything out of you, even though you are reading online for free and not giving them any money.

Some advertisers pay per view, not per click, so even if you only look and never touch the ads you are still encouraging them to write this stuff.

If I'm in a bit of a bad mood and need to let off steam I read the comments. That gives me a good five minutes of ranting. Most cathartic.

I'm under no illusions that I'm helping to fund them through ppv advertising but it really is one of the most user friendly newspaper sites.

Read it without shame and announce you read it IRONICALLY. The day the mail doesn't report on immigrants, benefit thieves, the middletons, blunders of the nhs is the day the world goes under.

I LOVE the Daily Mail online, particularly the comments section. I automatically click on Worst rated.

The reason I do it is to get myself all self righteously worked up at how ignorant people can be. I read the Times online & BBC NEWS to get my 'real' news, unbiased, unbigoted then the Mail online to get the 'devil's advocate' side of the argument so I can be fully informed about what PIL have been reading that week so I can counteract their narrow minded comments

I love to torture myself by reading the utter shit that that dark haired woman writes every so often. Just knowing there are people as ghastly as that in the world makes me feel better about myself!

The only time I ever venture on to that website and get drawn in for what seems hours is when someone posts a link on here. I never enter the website manually myself ever.

What also pisses me off are threads that start off as "I don't read the daily fail, BUT LOOK LOOK LOOK AT THIS ARTICLE."
If you don't read it, then how do you come across the bloody story? If you find it in a search, you just don't click. Do you? Hmm.

Calamity I do exactly the same, worse comments first!
It's not even a guilty pleasure for me, I don't hide the fact that I read it. It's one of 3 or 4 papers I read during the course of the day and DH occasionally buys the MoS for the supplements.
YANBU

So what can I read instead? I abhor the mail but when you need a quick 10 min diversion where can you get it?

I used to read the guardian avidly but, and I know this makes me sound awful, I just find real life too depressing these days. If I start thinking about the economy, the environment, the atrocities in Syria, I dunno....

I find the mail provided a bit if shit I can scan over, rest my brain and immediately discard safe in the knowledge that its all irrelevant bollocks

But then again the whole ethos of what they do, if I start thinking about that I feel grubby

I need an alternative