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To introduce you to this brilliant poem by Brian Bilston about the Daily Mail?

32 replies

AHedgehogCanNeverBeBuggered · 25/02/2018 15:58

How Much I Dislike The Daily Mail

I would rather
eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,
tie up the man bun of Gareth Bale,
listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,
than read one page of the Daily Mail.

If I were bored
in a waiting room in Perivale,
on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,
halfway through a circumnavigational sail,
I would not read the Daily Mail.

I would happily read
the complete works of Peter Mayle,
the autobiography of Dan Quayle,
selected scripts from Emmerdale,
if it meant I didn't have to read the Daily Mail.

Far better to
stand outside in a storm of hail,
be blown out to sea in a powerful gale,
then be swallowed by a humpback whale,
than have to read the Daily Mail.

If I were blind
and it was the only thing in Braille,
I still would not read the Daily Mail.

OP posts:
Moussemoose · 25/02/2018 16:02

My sentiments exactly Smile

Worldsworstcook · 25/02/2018 16:03

Poet deserves a knighthood for services to us DM haters

yawning801 · 25/02/2018 16:03

Amazing!

DalekDalekDalek · 25/02/2018 16:05

Amazing.

ScrumpyBetty · 25/02/2018 16:07

Mmm....quavers! (Misses point of thread)

HeadOnMyPillow · 25/02/2018 16:08

That's some first-rate virtue-signalling. If only the extremely frequent citation of the Mail on MN didn't prove that it's very widely read on here indeed Grin. NB Even "hate-reading" still generates clicks and revenues for the thing you dislike!

DGRossetti · 25/02/2018 16:13
AHedgehogCanNeverBeBuggered · 25/02/2018 16:20

DGRossetti that's brilliant! Grin

OP posts:
GreenySho · 25/02/2018 16:21

Pretty much the only paper calling out trans double think atm

WorraLiberty · 25/02/2018 16:35

Sounds like he protests too much. There are plenty of shit filled tabloids. The DM is just one of many.

Livelounge · 25/02/2018 16:41

Whatever.

DiseasesOfTheSheep · 25/02/2018 17:01

I am amused by the poem, but I do think the OP is rather presumptuous in her "introduction" Wink

Moussemoose · 25/02/2018 17:07

The DM isn't just one of many its hypocrisy is mammoth.

This is the paper that supported Hitler yet it wraps itself in British values.

Can't see what virtues are being signalled. Is not reading the DM a virtue? I though it was a choice, a choice I agree with, but not a virtue.

KC225 · 25/02/2018 17:11

Yawn yawn yawn

What an easy target

LassWiADelicateAir · 25/02/2018 17:15

That's some first-rate virtue-signalling

With a soupçon of snobbery too. (Emmerdale - Peter Mayle shudder , how awful)

NaughtToThreeSadOnions · 25/02/2018 17:19

I love the dan and dan song I was going to link it but DG beat me to it

AgathaMystery · 25/02/2018 17:20

I love him. My copy of his latest book is almost falling apart already.

MsJuniper · 25/02/2018 17:57

I know Dan & Dan

ForalltheSaints · 25/02/2018 18:22

Jimmy Nail would no doubtless be offended by this!

Badbadtromance · 25/02/2018 18:38

Superb

bridgetoc · 25/02/2018 18:41

I'm sorry but that poem is shit, and no..... I don't read The Mail.

buttonz · 25/02/2018 18:44

Awful poem... as smug as his target.

Moussemoose · 25/02/2018 19:55

But what 'virtue' is being singled?

I don't like the DM - but I am quite aware that is not a virtue. I thought the comments about Emmerdale etc were self aware mockery, esp the Peter Mayle comment. I know I am being a snob and in that lies the humour.

What are you trying to imply by saying 'virtue signalling' - in this context it makes no sense. It is a comment thrown at every liberal but it has to have a virtue to make it relevant.

Andrewofgg · 25/02/2018 20:09

Moussemoose There are enough reasons to loathe the DM of today without bringing in what long-dead journalists wrote in it eighty years ago.

Moussemoose · 25/02/2018 21:55

Andrewofgg it was more than journalists writing. The owner Lord Rothermere was a friend of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

Not just a little bit of editorial comment.