On MN this week, latest DM column

[sherby]

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1207788/What-SHOULD-childrens-lunch-boxes.html

Oh please keep going - I am wasting my afternoon pissing myself laughing rather than working! I lurrve the comments on the DM - just wish I could be so witty.

katisha - I wondered that too. But I suspect it's OK. As soon as the picture was taken I expect he cut his finger, dropped the sarnie on the floor and the boy and his sister exchanged affectionate 'dads eh, what are they like' looks at each other.

Yes, UD, but no one is going to recognise OP from that thread, and the article is so dull that no one is going to check out MN on spec after reading it.

Has anyone spotted the obvious flaw in our plan? We, so far, only seem to be amusing ourselves and increasing the hits to the DM website. Ooops

How did I miss a thread on nutrition and school dinners?!?!?!

The haven't put my comment on either...boo hooo.

"no one is going to recognise OP from that thread, and the article is so dull that no one is going to check out MN on spec after reading it."

Hence my point - the namechanging is pointless.

shootfromtehhip, I imagine the genuine DM readers are probably sitting there nodding wildly, muttering:

'Dust sandwiches, yes, yes, nice ham, quite right, benefit scroungers, absolutely. Jolly good show.'

Haven't they joined together two threads? The no processed meats thread and the different food groups thread?

It's a farking great job, isn't it? Instant bloody journalism - cut'n'paste in extremis. I wonder how long it takes her? 20 minutes? 10 on a good day?

ROFL @ xesmub!!!!!

I think they are establishing the namechanging principle now (a) as a sop to those on here who objected to posting names being mentioned (and there were a couple at least who don't want their posting name mentioned because that would itself be quite distinctive to friends and family) and (b) so that they are doing it for everyone so can gloss over some of the names they might not wish to print in full without having to make a special case.

It makes our DM themed names a bit obsolete now though....

No, because the first time they report your username as, say, "Perfect" you can drop a line to Private Eye's media column who would rather enjoy reprinting your actual username in full.

private eye would probably appreciate the xesmub name

I posted this elswhere but it got lost. I wonder if the Daily Mail will actually feature any of the threads on serious subjects like the BNP being women hating fucktards? My guess is they will concentrate on packed lunches, breast feeding and the politics of playdates rather than printing anything really thought provoking. Sigh.

Trying it on for size!

course not, cos us girlies don't talk about serious stuff as we cant worry our pretty heads.

Lets just talk about fluffy kittens!

lol at comment from Oxot Owers, Barking

thought i'd given them an immigrant's insight into lunchtime habits. emmy grant..

Plain Jane's comment has just made me snort my drink! - Come on, fess up whoever you are

The moderator must be PTSL

More than likely flicking between this thread and theirs and is probably playing us as much as we are playing them....well may be not as much...