I love it when the Daily Mail do articles like this

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This article seemed deliberately designed to wind people up and I thought the following comment was interesting:-

What most believe to be "Public Opinion" is in reality carefully crafted and scripted propaganda designed to elicit a desired behavioral response from the public. Public opinion posts are really taken with the intent of gauging the public's acceptance of the NWO's planned programs. A strong showing in the posts tells them that the programing is "taking", while a poor showing tells the NWO manipulators that they have to recast or "tweak" the programming until the desired response is achieved.While the thrust and content of the propaganda is decided at Tavistock Institute of Human Relations-London, implementation of the propaganda is overseen and directed by the top NWO mind control unit. The NWO global conspirators manifest their agenda through the skillful manipulation of fear-hence the public's inactions and allowance to comment without subscription,to assist. `Slides' is a NWO term used for a conditioned type of response which dead ends a persons thinking capabilities.

• Tom, WIRRAL, 27/9/2011 17:07

While I've no doubt that the article is designed to wind me up, people who believe in the NWO conspiracy do make me chuckle

The secretly poor thread was scary, largely because it showed just how much we all care about what other people think about us and how we judge our self-worth on material possessions.

I don't really feel very sorry for people who have the opportunity to work but turn it down because they are 'too experienced' or it's not the ' right level of seniority', perhaps initially yes, but AFTER four years? Having said that though, I don't see anything wrong with grandparents paying for their grandchildren's extra-curricular activities.

Let's face it thoug,they weren't comfortably middle-class they were wealthy. 2 holidays abroad a year, with all those expensive extra's on one income? In the South, I presume. That's rich.

Also, although I do not believe in TNWO, I'm sure there is a lot of media manipulation and social experimentation going on that we don't know about.

Riveninabingle you are so right - Protests in New York, massive protests around the cost of living in Israel, student protests in Chile, electricians occupying a building site in London last week over the tearing up of contracts...etc etc....just all gets sidelined or ignored. Because we all really are meant to only care about Peter Andre's new girlfriend and fake stories about middle-class deprivation to titillate and distract us.

Last time we went to the cinema, it was a special treat for my birthday.

And I am 100% middle-class

It's a special treat for us as we don't have much in the way of access to babysitters and the only stuff we can find in matinees is shit. :(

Brilliantly put Riven and Telsa. The DM has another feature today about how women are being forced to stop working. The general gist of the comments is.... you guessed it..... 'Good, the silly bitches shouldn't be working anyway'.

It does scare me that so few newspapers seem to report these big stories. Only the Grauniad seems to have picked up on the big changes coming to Saudi Arabia.

Took younger 2 to seee Cars over summer, Mum took older 2 to see SpyKids 387. Can't remember last time before that we went though. Dh and I last went togetehr to see Avatar, early morning showing on a schoolday when his work was quiet and the audio broke halfway through so we gave up and figured we are destined to enjoy DVDs. Won't kill us!

ROFL Northwitch! I'm a journalist and assure you we can barely organise our own lunch, let along control minds through the use of upper middle class lifestyle pieces

NormanTebbit - I read that thread and it was heartbreaking.

robot, I concur - as a former journalist, I can confirm that there is neither the time nor inclination to create a new world order.....

I felt quite deflated, having learned all about semiotic analysis and juxtapositions of stores and ads to emphasise X or Y.... then I started work at a newspaper and realised it was all a lot of bollocks and that the average hack is just writing his stories and hoping to stumble across the one that will win him the Pulitzer prize, or at least get him/her onto the national papers even if its only OBITS.

The subs live on coffee and cigarettes and have that vampire pallor and the cool ennui of the undead, they don't really give a toss about the stories they are placing, just getting the damn page sent down before the 10pm deadline for first edition! (I used to be that uber cool sub)

There may be great thoughts of social engineering by editors and owners, but by and large thats confined to the editorial pages and the front page lead story, not to the bumf that fills newspapers.

I was a journalist too and I think these featured people are positioned in a certain way to appeal to the readership but also to show us what is normal and acceptable.

There are people, places, newspapers such as the Daily Mail are interested in: middle class girl gawn wrong,' is an example or 'career woman now infertile,' and it plays on the fears and insecurities of a certain market - their female readership.

They are normalising actions here - the lack of two holidays a year is considered abnormal, the husband rejecting a bus driver job; a source of grief clarifies middle class values (this is not what I was brought up to expect, this is not what I am owed from society) and the reader is given to understand that this is a transgression, it is abnormal. This helps us define ourselves because we measure our own lifestyle against this (and take the piss because really it is a load of rubbish)