Daily Mail is actually quite good...if boards is anything to go by

thebigbiffo · 23-03-2011 4:15pm #1

Every single day - as far as i can see - someone posts a story, link or photo originating in the Daily Mail. There's 2 on the go today...

The intro is always along the line of 'sorry but this is a Daily Mail link/photo/story'.

Lets face it; Boardsies and especially AHers LOVE the Daily Mail...ya might not think you do, and you might think yourselves above the rabble rousing rag...but you LOVE IT!!:D

Craebear · 23-03-2011 4:16pm

If you took the people behind that paper and everyone who reads it and put them in a rocket and flew them into the moon, think of how much better off the rest of us would be.

thebigbiffo · 23-03-2011 4:18pm

Craebear wrote: »

If you took the people behind that paper and everyone who reads it and put them in a rocket and flew them into the moon, think of how much better off the rest of us would be.

but just think for one second GODDAMMIT...where on earth would the keyboard warriors on boards get their material???:eek:

J. Marston · 23-03-2011 4:18pm

The sport is alright.

DrumSteve · 23-03-2011 4:19pm

I don't like it.

I think it's racist bile.

problemchimp · 23-03-2011 4:20pm

J. Marston wrote: »

The sport is alright.

Ah that old chestnut. "I only read the rags for the sport"

23-03-2011 4:23pm

Years ago I worked with someone who use to buy it every now and then just to get annoyed with its anti Irish bias

mind you he was a bit strange.

mike65 · 23-03-2011 4:24pm

Just another example of the Irish obsession with all thing English.

Oranage2 · 23-03-2011 4:29pm

never bought it or never read it.

the star on the otherhand, journalism at its finest plus there are boobs on almost every page.

ElaElaElano · 23-03-2011 4:31pm

Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

mike65 · 23-03-2011 4:36pm

The Daily Mail-o-matic headline generator

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

evercloserunion · 23-03-2011 4:36pm

thebigbiffo wrote: »

Every single day - as far as i can see - someone posts a story, link or photo originating in the Daily Mail. There's 2 on the go today...

The intro is always along the line of 'sorry but this is a Daily Mail link/photo/story'.

Lets face it; Boardsies and especially AHers LOVE the Daily Mail...ya might not think you do, and you might think yourselves above the rabble rousing rag...but you LOVE IT!!:D

You really think people link to the paper because of the quality and integrity of its journalism?

problemchimp · 23-03-2011 4:40pm

"Ireland is based on the pig and the potatoe"
"Irish people should be banned from all sporting events in Britian and fined because of IRA disruption to public transport."
It is an anti Irish rag and I wouldn't use it to wipe shiit off my shoe.

RichieC · 23-03-2011 4:41pm

thebigbiffo wrote: »

but just think for one second GODDAMMIT...where on earth would the keyboard warriors on boards get their material???:eek:

Ironing.

Captain Darling · 23-03-2011 4:42pm

J. Marston wrote: »

The sport is alright.

Yeah, i love the Daily Sport too. Great paper. :pac:

TheIrishGrover · 23-03-2011 4:42pm

thebigbiffo wrote: »

but just think for one second GODDAMMIT...where on earth would the keyboard warriors on boards get their material???:eek:

Fox/Sky News

bonerm · 23-03-2011 4:44pm

Captain Darling wrote: »

Yeah, i love the Daily Sport too. Great paper. :pac:

Haven't see that paper in years. Is it still just 30 pages of tits and a few made up articles?

mike65 · 23-03-2011 4:46pm

problemchimp wrote: »

"Ireland is based on the pig and the potatoe"
"Irish people should be banned from all sporting events in Britian and fined because of IRA disruption to public transport."

Where did you fish those quotes from?

My name is URL · 23-03-2011 4:51pm

Craebear wrote: »

If you took the people behind that paper and everyone who reads it and put them in a rocket and flew them into the moon, think of how much better off the rest of us would be.

They say the same thing about immigrants.

I personally hate the paper, but find it mildly ironic that when presented with a link to an article, people dismiss it before even reading what it says, in many ways mimicking the intolerance which they seem so bothered by.

Captain Darling · 23-03-2011 4:52pm

bonerm wrote: »

Haven't see that paper in years. Is it still just 30 pages of tits and a few made up articles?

Wait.... What? There are articles in it???

Rabble Rabble · 23-03-2011 4:54pm

The Daily Mail is fairly sophisticated compared to the Express. It's crazy assed articles are sometimes well-written.

pickarooney · 23-03-2011 4:55pm

I don't really get the fascination with it but then again its whole purpose is to provoke reaction and it achieves that aim splendidly. It's the hypocrites who spend all day reading their website looking for something to pretend to be shocked by so they can tell us all how much they hate the paper that grind my gears.

problemchimp · 23-03-2011 5:08pm

mike65 wrote: »

Where did you fish those quotes from?

I don't know how to put a link onto boards.ie (dumb I know) but it was from an article in the Irish Times just before the Irish launch in 2006. I lived in London in the late '80,s and I remember well the anti Irish shiit they printed all the time. I seem to remember Ken Livingstone calling for a boycott of the paper for that very reason.

problemchimp · 23-03-2011 5:10pm

pickarooney wrote: »

I don't really get the fascination with it but then again its whole purpose is to provoke reaction and it achieves that aim splendidly. It's the hypocrites who spend all day reading their website looking for something to pretend to be shocked by so they can tell us all how much they hate the paper that grind my gears.

Are there many of these people that you speak of? Maybe some people are just genuinely sickened by this paper. (Me)

Daily Mail is actually quite good...if boards is anything to go by

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