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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:
Andrewofgg · 25/02/2018 22:15

Rothermere is dead too. Concentrate on the present poison which was he DM spreads.

abilockhart · 25/02/2018 22:19

A lot of Daily Mail scum appearing in this thread!

SpitefulMidLifeAnimal · 25/02/2018 22:28

So disliking the printed lie is virtue signalling now is it? Fucking hell love, come to Liverpool...

scrabbler3 · 25/02/2018 22:47

I am not a DM reader, it's a joke of a newspaper. The poem is a bit sixth-form try-hard. They're as crap as each other, essentially.

LassWiADelicateAir · 25/02/2018 22:53

I am not a DM reader, it's a joke of a newspaper. The poem is a bit sixth-form try-hard. They're as crap as each other, essentially

Indeed. The Daily Mail is hardly a controversial or original target is it?

His cultural references of things that are better than the Daily Mail are snobbish and years out of date.

ConfessionsOfTeenageDramaQueen · 25/02/2018 23:10

I find it fascinating that the DM is consistently bashed over the head for its "support of Hilter" in the 1930s and yet no one ever seems to bring up that the Guardian was against the NHS when it was first created...

YABU OP. It's not even a very well-written poem.

Livelounge · 25/02/2018 23:26

I fucking love the "sidebar of shame" and the frothing when MN posts get lifted.

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