Matt T

Daily Mail demands youth less law-abiding and more violent

Rather oddly.

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posted by Matthew @ 2/10/2010 03:46:00 PM Comments: 0

The things the Mail says

The Daily Mail is actually referring to a 34yr old woman, who looks perfectly normal, as a 'Cameron Cutie'.

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posted by Matthew @ 10/26/2009 08:24:00 PM Comments: 1

The Things Daily Mail Readers Say!

My neighbour's eight-year-old has built a pretend amusement park in her garden. She's just told her friends that one ride has been closed for health and safety reasons.

A.C, Ramsgate, Kent

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posted by Matthew @ 8/27/2008 12:01:00 PM Comments: 0

The things Daily Mail readers say!

Overheard on a 'plane.

The only thing wrong with the Daily Mail is that the print comes off on your hands. I think I'm going to start ironing it in future.

Well, hopefully not whilst on the 'plane.

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posted by Matthew @ 8/17/2008 06:21:00 PM Comments: 2

Olympic madness

Check out this Jeff Powell column in the sports section of the Daily Mail.

That Beijing ceremony was also terrifying….the next Olympics might represent the last stand for European culture…Communism in its various guises is preparing to take over…it is not the London 2012 organisers who sholud be afraid, it is the western world.

And apparently the Russian military is now equal to that of the US.

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posted by Matthew @ 8/11/2008 02:03:00 PM Comments: 0

Wage negotiations at the Daily Mail

Must be quite interesting. Whereas most people get an annual cost of living increase equivalent to the RPI or CPI, so about 3-4% at present, Mail staff presumably can point out that the paper is convinced the true cost of living increase is about 25%.

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posted by Matthew @ 8/11/2008 01:40:00 PM Comments: 0

Batman and 12A

The Daily Mail is running a campaign, led by those stalwarts, Allison Pearson (How does she do it?) and Iain Duncan-Smith, to get Batman reclassified as a 15, rather than a 12A.

I have some sympathy because I believe all films should be classified 33, and for parents who don't like the idea of their 12,13 and 14yr olds seeing it. But aside from that it seems as if parental responsibility has gone out of the window. Suzanne Prinz tell sthe Mail she took her 7yr old son to see it and 'instantly regretted it'. Eh? The child is only 60% of the age that the classification recommends one can see it at. The official wording is a 12A is 'Suitable for 12 years and over.'

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posted by Matthew @ 8/06/2008 10:59:00 AM Comments: 0

An unfortunate way to go

The comments are good too.

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posted by Matthew @ 7/23/2008 02:21:00 PM Comments: 7

House market lunacy

The six-bedroom home on the market for £1.9m that was worth £3.2m three months ago

screams the Mail. But on reading the story you learn that some estate agent valued it at that price, and no-one wanted to buy it. It was 'badly overpriced' and no house on the street had ever sold for more than £2m.

UPDATE: This is house is no longer the London house that has 'fallen most in value' and any newspaper reporting it as such is wrong. I put on sale my two-bed garden flat in Kensal Rise last night for £10m, and there were no takers, so I have now reduced the price to £1m, a reduction of 90%.

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posted by Matthew @ 6/25/2008 12:44:00 PM Comments: 1

His genes really were superior

Is the conclusion I draw from this Mail article, which shows what Adolf Hitler would look like today. Not bad for someone aged 119, in fact he looks much like he did when he was 56.

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posted by Matthew @ 6/18/2008 11:37:00 PM Comments: 1

Children kick-boxing

Not sure what to make of this, it looks like something Chris Morris would dream up.

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posted by Matthew @ 4/20/2008 09:48:00 PM Comments: 3

Hurrah!

The beta of the new Daily Mail website is here. I think I should add - oh the irony - that generally the mail website probably isn't safe for work for those of you who have strict internet controls.

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posted by Matthew @ 4/16/2008 02:04:00 PM Comments: 0

Bitter bitter article

It's apt given the subject, but this article on David Cameron in the Daily Mail is very bitter towards what seems a perfectly harmless publicity stunt.

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posted by Matthew @ 3/29/2008 03:42:00 PM Comments: 0

The Things the Daily Mail Says

Daytime TV continues to plunge downmarket, apparently, with Fern Britton showing off 'sex toys'.

The Mail on the other hand retains its lofty standards. On the same page - sidebard in fact - of its website, the Daily Mail also tell us:

Caught in the flashbulbs: Patsy Kensit flashes her charms in transparent dress

Dave Clark thrives! But he has had Botox on a few bits and pieces?


Lack of material, girl: Madonna wears see-through skirt to her Hall of Fame induction

Hair-raising: Celine Dion takes to the stage with furry legs

Cheryl takes Ashley back, but 'she hates it when he touches her'

Well I can't face going on. But that's two stories about women's clothing being see through, one about a woman's failure to remove the hair on her legs, one about an elderly pop star having botox and one about the sex life of a football player and his pop-star wife.

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posted by Matthew @ 3/11/2008 10:07:00 PM Comments: 0

The house of the future in the 1950s

I quite like it. A shower that uses hot air to blow you dry - that's a good invention. And you do sort of get pans that do the cooking themselves.

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posted by Matthew @ 2/14/2008 11:28:00 AM Comments: 4

A good article in the Daily Mail

I've been a bit critical of newspapers' reporting of research groups' reports recently - either because they accept clearly skewed estimates or they fail to note their obvious agenda. This report about Capital Economics in today's Daily Mail, who have forecast a house price decline and possible collapse, is actually quite good. I was reading it somewhat sceptically, when suddenly this paragraph turned up against my expectations:

Capital Economics and Mr Bootle have a history of forecasting property market slowdowns and busts that have failed to materialise. However, the organisation believes economic conditions mean the predictions are more likely to be accurate this time.

Now you might add, 'And so does the Daily Mail', and indeed, 'And so do you, Matt'. But it was refreshing to see some ability to remember the past, something that seems totally lacking in the D.Telegraph's financial and personal finance pages.

Obviously I too think it will be different this time, but if Capital Economics, me and the Daily Mail are all bears it might be time to buy.

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posted by Matthew @ 10/09/2007 07:12:00 AM Comments: 0

113 Days of Lies and Smears

So shouts the today's Daily Mail, before republishing all 14 allegations about the McCanns in some detail.

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posted by Matthew @ 8/24/2007 11:22:00 AM Comments: 3

Separated at birth?

Flicking through today's Daily Mail, as one does at lunchtime, I thought - 'Gosh, Tim Worstall's got a column', but in fact it was Christopher Booker. The resemblance is uncanny, although of course in reality one spends his days writing meaningless rubbish clogging up the world's media, and the other has a successful blog.

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posted by Matthew @ 8/07/2007 12:21:00 PM Comments: 3

The Things Daily Mail Readers Say!

Believe me, you elderly people - you and your ilk really do get in the way. I do my shopping in the afternoon and you can bet your life I'll come across two or three wheelchair users blocking the store gangways. Some even have a basket on wheels bolted to the front - it's like trying to pass an articulated lorry. I've found the only way to deal with these people is to give them a bump with my trolley. It seems to work because quite a few people give me a wide margin. Why can't supermarkets ban these people in busy periods? Perhaps they should only be allowed to shop in the early hours.

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posted by Matthew @ 7/18/2007 02:22:00 PM Comments: 1

The Things Daily Mail Readers Say!

It's the last sentence I loved...

Dear Sir,

Channel 4 is to be congratulated for its programme on the car crash which killed Lady Diana Spencer. While it is doubtless uncomfortable viewing for her sons, one can only hope that the photographs of the wreckage and its dying occupants will lead viewers to realise the importance of wearing seatbelts. I am sure that is what she would have wanted.

J.D.D

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posted by Matthew @ 6/11/2007 06:15:00 PM Comments: 0

The Things Daily Mail Readers Say!

Lawnmowing
Let's end this debate. Late on Sunday evening, I started my lawnmower and I finished mowing just after midnight. Thus I achieved the latest mowing of 2006 and the earliest of 2007.

R T, Oxford

Allies must pay up

...what of the millions still owed to us by our World War II Allies...France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Greece and the double somersault artist, Italy..the Soviet Union...To this day, not one of our 'friends' has repaid a single farthing, and clearly none intends to do so. Norway alone, ever honourable, did repay us. Blair and Brown can easily address this by freezing all of our 'friends' UK assets and by requiring their nationals to pay for all treatments. Russia could supply free gas for, say, 65 years...Instead they have raised taxation to such levels that our own war veterans are becoming homeless.

G G, Kent

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posted by Matthew @ 1/04/2007 12:33:00 PM Comments: 3