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Daily Mail Bashing

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TheDrunkard2009 · 12/02/2009 14:23

I am a Guardian reader and hate the Daily

Mail, but FFS must have every fucking thread

I read bash someone's comment they don't

like and accuse them of being a DM reader.

It's getting fucking boring now, think up

something more original please, you're

obviously a bright bunch of women.

Thankyou

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MorrisZapp · 13/02/2009 16:59

Hee hee, yup!

(munches bile flavoured crisps)

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TheDrunkard2009 · 13/02/2009 17:00

This mass orgy of personal grooming and preening

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MrsSchmaltzyMerryHenry · 13/02/2009 17:01

Orgy??? I think it was just me. Surely the definition of an orgy has to include more than two people?

FattipuffsandThinnifers · 13/02/2009 17:06

Well, the two prime suspects for the Measure have to be Jess and Hadley don't they. You can't pin that one on Zoe.

FattipuffsandThinnifers · 13/02/2009 17:08

Drunkard, sorry for thread hijack.

But you know you now must 'fess up - who is your favourite Guardian writer?

To throw another one in the mix: my sister has an irrational dislike of Kira Cochrane (women's editor I think?).

MorrisZapp · 13/02/2009 17:16

Kira Cochrane is AWFUL!!!!!!

I'm sure she's a nice person but wtf? Did anybody read her 'diet' columns that ran last year? She spent so long defending her position (happy with her looks, not buying into woman hating diet industry, refusing to join gym or count calories etc etc etc) it was a total bloody waste of time.

If eating a bag of chips feels like a feminist act to you love then good luck, and enjoy being size whatever it is you are.

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TheDrunkard2009 · 13/02/2009 17:18

Zoe Williams. Russell Brand has encouraged me to glance over the Sports.

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MorrisZapp · 13/02/2009 17:23

Chris Cleave in the family section is a brilliant and funny writer on parenthood.

FattipuffsandThinnifers · 13/02/2009 17:27

Yup, spot on about Kira Cochrane. It makes a mockery of the paper's supposed abhorance for (eg) Daily Mail obsession with women's weight, doesn't it.

Though wasn't her diet at least in part prompted by health reasons?

Russell Brand very funny (and a fellow West Ham fan too ).

FattipuffsandThinnifers · 13/02/2009 17:27

Like Marina Hyde too.

Pruners · 13/02/2009 18:05

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ScottishMummy · 13/02/2009 18:28

if you hate the daily mail so much why are you able to make links,cite references to it

that perplexes me!

find the idea of the daily sport as a "newspaper" risible so i don't read it ,nor do i link it

it has become a wee bity MN cliché,dredge up a daily mail story and squawk
tawdry
how very dare they

and add the caveat ah of course i don't read it...oh so did someone creep in and forcibly compel you to glance askance at DM.retaining enough information to compose a post about it

much like people who complain about all the "filth" on tv.debased rutting filth

so did you switch it off then?

oh no,watched it all - then complained

tallulahbelly · 13/02/2009 18:38

Funny you should say that FattyPuffs but Zoe Williams used to write a hilarious column for Now magazine a couple of years ago. She doesn't list it on her Wikipedia page, which is very strange. I keep thinking of editing it in the interests of accuracy .

Her whimsy irritates me almost as much as Hannah Pool's sixth form magazine obsessions.

Pruners · 13/02/2009 19:04

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ScottishMummy · 13/02/2009 19:16

so you read it as strategical manoeuvre?know thy enemy by reading their guff?a new spin on i don't have to read it to know i hate it and what's more i know the general jist of its contents.but ps do read it only when i have to, you understand,flying and suchlike

oh aye

Nighbynight · 13/02/2009 19:19

Agree entirely with the OP, we have talked too much about DM-readers.

Shall we start calling them "Express readers" instead?

piratecat · 13/02/2009 19:23

it is only from mumsnet's view of the Daily Mail, that it finally came to me, after 38 yrs, why my dad can be so very anal.

he was an express reader, then moved to the mail.

me, well i used to be a standard girl, back in the day.

This yr as a cost cutting exercise i switched from the Mirror 45p to The Sun 30p.

i'm happy me

Pruners · 13/02/2009 19:25

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rookiemater · 13/02/2009 19:27

I read the DM online, I like the celebrity gossip and nasty comments about peoples dress sense and weight. For some reason I find it quite funny that they hate women who work or stay at home, or in fact are women.

I don't get a lot of spare time and don't read trashy magazines. It's my equivalent of a bar of Galaxy and a Hello magazine.

Pruners · 13/02/2009 19:27

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kizzie · 13/02/2009 19:36

as part of my job i read all the papers - and the Daily Mail is no better or worse than any of the others.

All of the editors have some particular axe to grind (and huge amounts of advertising to sell).

The problem is not whether you read it - its whether you allow your personal political/social views to be shaped by it.

ScottishMummy · 13/02/2009 19:42

if you must cut and paste,as it is inane and tiresome,please do so accurately.i also acknowledge you grudgingly "read" it when flying

you have "hatred" yet continue to peruse why?i wouldn't read literature i hate,life is too short

kizzie · 13/02/2009 19:47

the discussion about the various different writers/collumnists is interesting.

A lot of the time they dont really have the view they are writing about - or give a monkeys about the subject matter.

They've got a mortgage to pay and a social life/kids to support - so they write whatever someone will pay them to write.

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