Does anyone here like the daily mail?

[minestrone]

I enjoy the puzzles pages of the Mail

When you get to page 2 there is another page of puzzles waiting for you.

[Board Game Geek]

Brillo posted : Shall we come back tomorrow and see what happens?

Okies. I'm hoping tomorrow will have something about astronomy in it, perhaps a science article or two. Maybe something about technology as well. then I'll be happy.

So, what was in your rag today ? Or anyone's rag ?

Anything worth reading and why ?

[Svalbaard]

Agreed.

The Telegraph is my roll up chav-whacker of choice along with the International Herald Tribune.

[Mich the Tester]

As a student with bugger all to do, I occasionally wrote letters to the Daily Mail under pseudonyms.

They usually included one of the following phrases;

In my day we had national service...
They should bring back the birch...
Those PC politicians should never have banned corporal punishment...
These people, living of our taxes...
These people, coming over here and living off the state...
These people, coming over here and using our hospitals...
Bring back Maggie!
These Eurocrats, telling us what to do...

A total of 5 letters were printed in the past; see if you can spot more of my contributions in future.

[BrilloPad]

Okies. I'm hoping tomorrow will have something about astronomy in it, perhaps a science article or two. Maybe something about technology as well. then I'll be happy.

So, what was in your rag today ? Or anyone's rag ?

Anything worth reading and why ?

Personally I always read the business section of Telegraph first. Seems Germany if f**ked (as Sasguru said a few months ago). I then skim the sports pages (10 pages on some overpaid portugese poof whining that his lads were treated unfairly - as if life is fair!). In the main section the story I most noted is a women who clipped the earof a teenage vandal (who was 3 inches taller than her) with the rolled up minutes of parish church meeting : now got a criminal record. I should start a "this country going down the pan" thread but I think everyone here knows that already.

Perhaps this post is more suited to tpd?

I suppose I should check the website to see what else there was but its a bit busy at clientco today. Or maybe I will be surfing for snuff videos.....

[xoggoth]

Its about balance. If the likes of The Guardian persist in telling us all that massive immigration is a great benefit despite the government stats on welfare, health and crime, we need someone to tell the other side.

The Mail is a lot closer to the truth TBH. Check where most of the worst street crime comes from, who mostly runs the home grown cannabis trade, London's vice trade and credit card fraud. Check who are the ethnic groups claiming the most welfare and social housing, have the worst health or are disproportionately represented in prison. You won't have to visit any BNP or right wing sites to do it.

Properly controlled immigration of high earning people prepared to fit in can certainly be a benefit but what we actually have is quite something else. Time people stopped being blackmailed by accusation of racism from mentioning the downsides of a very lax system.

[Cyberman]

I used to read the Express up until the early 90s when they printed a picture of a man that I had so much respect for, Bobby Robson with a turnip/swede on his head. That finished it for me. I wonder what reaction they would get if they did that again today !!

[Mich the Tester]

Its about balance...

The Mail is a lot closer to the truth TBH. Check where most of the worst street crime comes from, who mostly runs the home grown cannabis trade, London's vice trade and credit card fraud. Check who are the ethnic groups claiming the most welfare and social housing, have the worst health or are disproportionately represented in prison. You won't have to visit any BNP or right wing sites to do it.

Surely a 'balanced' approach would point out all the white fraudsters who've done all the dodgy deals at the banks, who've taken the rewards for irresponsible risk taking and white collar crime. Lots of white folks involved in that. Crime is about opportunity. If you're a black kid from a run down neighbourhood, the crime available to you is mugging people or nicking cars.m However if you're a white kid fro a middle class neighbourhood then fraud, tax evasion (I'm not sure if I call that a crime really) and financial jiggery-pokery are your misdemeanours of choice. Obviously, most white folks are not fraudsters, just as most black folks are not thieves or muggers. Balance would also show that the white collar criminals perhaps cause even greater damage to society than the low life thieves.

[Cyberman]

Its about balance. If the likes of The Guardian persist in telling us all that massive immigration is a great benefit despite the government stats on welfare, health and crime, we need someone to tell the other side.

The Mail is a lot closer to the truth TBH. Check where most of the worst street crime comes from, who mostly runs the home grown cannabis trade, London's vice trade and credit card fraud. Check who are the ethnic groups claiming the most welfare and social housing, have the worst health or are disproportionately represented in prison. You won't have to visit any BNP or right wing sites to do it.

Properly controlled immigration of high earning people prepared to fit in can certainly be a benefit but what we actually have is quite something else. Time people stopped being blackmailed by accusation of racism from mentioning the downsides of a very lax system.

Well said Xoggoth. Unfortunately many of the PC brigade on this BB will possibly now try to brand you as a racist.

[Bagpuss]

"A Labour wife and her disastrous fashion statement at the Queen Mum's Statue Unveiling."




All that needed was a little fine tuning:

A Labour wife of pro immigration minister (pictured outside their £2 million surrey mansion) and her disastrous fashion statement at the Queen Mum's Statue Unveiling.