Monthly Archives: June 2010

Another misleading headline about human rights

June 25, 2010 – 3:14 pm

Daily Mail headlines are so frequently laughably inaccurate, just to secure the right amount of outrage as people rush straight to the comment section to shit-out their ignorant opinion. This is never more true than compensation paid out with even a vague mention of human rights. Take this top story for example: All that money [...]

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Littlejohn Column ‘not totally shit’ shocker

June 25, 2010 – 10:34 am

A strange thing happened this morning, I read Richard Littlejohn’s main column and largely agreed with it. His basic argument was that the middle-classes who complained about the budget – ironically such complaining was as usual led by the Daily Mail – were complaining about a loss that could easily be covered by decreasing unnecessary [...]

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Daily Mail readers sexually inadequate

June 24, 2010 – 11:00 pm

It is something that might explain the mixture of partial nudity and anger on the Daily Mail website: ‘Seven minutes ‘is the optimum length for sex”. Currently the worst-rated comment on this article seems to reveal a lot about the sexual expectations of Mail readers: Whilst the best-rated comment says just as much:

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Lofty Visions, Rarely Shared

June 24, 2010 – 5:32 pm

In Wales the Heads of the Valleys communities face a range of problems: a declining population (9% decline over the 21 years to 2002) high levels of economic inactivity (in 2004 30.7% of people of working age were economically inactive, whilst the unemployment rate was 7%) low educational attainment and skills levels (in 2004 24% [...]

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Schoolboy Errors

June 18, 2010 – 2:01 pm

The Daily Mail have taken great delight in mocking the ‘schoolboy error’ of ‘bungling workmen who missed the C in SCHOOL‘ on road markings. Yet, as spotted by @Mavis_Cruel, today in this story Sophie Forbes makes the following ‘schoolboy error’: Jolie, who turned 35 last week, is caught up in a racially charged debate over [...]

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