To be irritated by people using the terms The Grauniad and The Daily Fail?

[notanumber]

I am, I know I am.

But it's like telling a knock knock joke and expecting to win a Perrier Comedy Award.

It's not witty or clever or knowing. It might have been twenty years ago when Private Eye or whoever thought it up, but now it's just really really lame.

You can just tell that the person using it is thinking, "ah, I'm so erudite and razer-sharp - I'm not taken in by the media, no not me! But I also am able to indicate this with a light touch of humour which only serves to demonstrate that my viewpoint is far superior to anyone elses"

Twats.

That is all.

[Ronaldinhio]

also who says the daily fail...? I've never heard it and apparently no one else here has...shurely the Daily Hell??

[Ronaldinhio]

what about grotesco?

itchy teeth?

[gasman]

Daily Wail in this household.

I read the Gruaniad but usually use it's correct name in conversation.

I was amazed recently at how horrifed one of my bosses was when I produced a copy of the guardian at lunchtime. Apparently it's not fitting reading material for young professionals!

[GrimmaTheNome]

Use of nickname is no proof of readership, you're overanalysing a tadge you know. To be fair, the last time I did happen to read the Guardian was while staying in the house of a very liberal pair of profs with an FRSC apiece....

You can judge my reading tastes better from my MN nickname

[busybutterfly]

DH calls it the Daily Flail for its well balanced and calm reporting

[notanumber]

I know Grimma, why don't you do a silly walk? I mean, don't waste your time name-dropping the newspaper you read (either by it's actual name or it's hilarious namenickname).

No really, why don't you?

Because to my mind there is no more effective shorthand for, "I am a slightly liberal and university educated person who has read at least three Booker nominated novels in the last six months yet also is happy to admit to enjoying the odd episode of House."

Honestly, if you do the walk you'll be besieged by leftie types trying to press Nigel Slater recipes upon you and inviting you to share a gîte with them in Normandy next half term.

[GrimmaTheNome]

Anyway, I for one now know exactly what to say if someone takes me to task for casual usage of a common nickname for any newspaper.

"I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition"

...odd ...that one came out as [gurn] when I typed it - now theres an emoticon I'd quite like to see - perhaps what Notanumber might need in response to this shameless provocation...

[GrimmaTheNome]

The Gurniad is obviously when you read it and come across a typo so awful that it makes you pull the most dreadful face imaginable.

[BeckyBook]

(Oh that's not what we read of course. We are devoted to the Indie and the Grauniad.)

[BeckyBook]

It's The Daily Moron in my house.

[flowerlady2]

Oh so funny, my mum says the grauniad and yes it drives me BONKERS. Personally, I refer to the Daily Mail as the Daily High Horse - it amuses me anyway

[TheKurgan]

I prefer The Daily Heil...

[marenmj]

The Daily Fail?

Perhaps you mean The Daily Quail?

[Amandoh]

My DP says "The Gurniad". He obviously misheard someone who wasn't "Clever, witty or knowing". I enjoy having a little inward chuckle at the irony everytime he says it don't have the heart to correct him.

Since reading an article in the Daily Mail while pregnant with DS3 about a huge swarm of killer mosquitos on the verge of flying over here from France we now call the Daily Mail the Daily Mal. I was out shopping at the time and in a cafe when I read it. I phoned my DP in tears and was inconsolable. He had to take two days off work as I'd worked myself up into such a state. I even wrote him a list of things to bulk buy so we could stock pile. Pregnancy hormones. You've gotta love 'em.

[ABatDead]

PrincessFiorimonde - its definitley not Tory enough now for me but then again if you cut me in half I have 'Thatcher' written in blue all the way through .

[saintmaybe]

notanumber I'm quite scared of you tonight

[PrincessFiorimonde]

Ponders - I love the idea of Guardian being a load of carp.

BetaDad (you may name change but you can't hide)- 'the irony is that the TORYGRAPH is increasingly becoming known as Labourgraph as it increasingly supported the Labour party in recent years.

It lost a lot of readers as a result.'

Are you seriously off your head?

Telegraph is still, and always will be, a Tory paper, and I have NEVER heard anyone refer to it as 'Labourgraph'; I challenge you to find a reference to that.

(Quite prepared to be found wrong here!)

I own up to vested interests here - I read both the Guardian and the Telegraph as I believe this gives me a balanced view. (I used to read the Mirror as well, just in order to link with popular culture, but 3 papers a day is just ridiculous.)

[JesusChristOtterStar]

no one would seriously think it is clever.....

what's the problem??

( althoughi do find 'cunting' hideously UNfunny but thats a whole 'nother thread)

[notanumber]

It's ok Cristina, smiles are allowed.

Not EXCESSIVE smiles, though. That's just twatty.

[BelaLugosiNoir]

I used the 'G' word on a thread yesterday and as a term of affection, not affectation. It was not an attempt to be witty or clever.
I do not quote python sketches as they are misogynists gits IMO.

YABU frankly compared to txt speak which is tremendously annoying

[CristinaTheAstonishing]

I say Grauniad and Torygraph, sometimes I call them by their proper names. Doesn't even depend on mood or anything, just alternatives in use for so long that they've become interchangable.

So you turn blue with rage at meedja, ishoos, acherly etc? You must be having a tough time on here then Are smilies allowed? Or should I try and fill it with something that is funny?

You are over-analysing.

[notanumber]

TspookyChasm, yes. I can see that it would make you sound like a right idiot.

Did his habit of saying "nice weather - if you're a duck!" rub off on you too?

[nula]

thanks MZ

[notanumber]

It's not just a pigging nickname Morris.

It's the difference between having the nickname "Smithy" and having the the nickname "Dionysus".

The name is designed to indicate your cultured yet down-to-earth outlook.

[TspookyChasm]

I used to work with someone who used to say Gatport Airwick.

It ingrained itself into my mind and now I always stumble on it if I try and say it the right way now thanks to him. Makes me sound a right idiot.