Daily Mail shocker

[NickFitz]

If you believe the British press, the youth of today is aimless, flipless and hopeless...

If you believe the administrators of today, the four letters "f" "e" "c" and "k" must never be seen immediately adjacent to one another in that specific order, as some people might correlate such proximate instantiation of said glyphs as being related to a form of pronunciation used by a character in a sitcom from over ten years ago and thence, by back-formation, being related to a four-letter word of Anglo-Saxon derivation that is, in fact, tolerated even on television nowadays.

The fact that this leads to the distortion of such a perfectly acceptable word as "feckless" appears to elude them as they struggle to conquer the tricky art of Regular Expressions.

I mean, for flips sake...

[PRC1964]

If you believe the British press, the youth of today is aimless, flipless and hopeless, addicted to their PlayStations, lacking in respect and lacking in the emotional discipline needed to cope with a big match occasion.
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If you believe the politicians, we have a broken society, in which the courage and morals of young people have been sapped by welfarism and political correctness.

And if you look at this girl with loads of snails on her face, you can see what piffle that is.

This snail girl has added an amazing ten snails to record that has stood for 19 years; and I have to say that when she finally took those snails back off her face and flung her arm up in the air, I had a lump in my throat, and my feelings could be described as sentimental incredulity.

Imagine, in other words, if we could use the inspiration of this snail-face success to encourage children throughout our educational system. Think what they could achieve in 2012.


Boris Johnson

One thing's for sure. We'll beat the French at this in 2012. There are no points for a snail in your belly. It's on the face or nothing.

[Board Game Geek]

Clearly the story is more important if a BMW is involved.

I wouldn't say the story is more important, but the use of "BMW" lets the reader know what sort of person they are dealing with here.

[Iron Condor]

Ive noticed on a few stories they like to drop 'BMW', when 'car' would have done just fine:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-took-nap.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...m-pile-up.html


Clearly the story is more important if a BMW is involved.

[hyperD]

I've had a snail trail over my face too when I were a younger lad...

[thunderlizard]

If you believe the British press, the youth of today is aimless, feckless and hopeless, addicted to their PlayStations, lacking in respect and lacking in the emotional discipline needed to cope with a big match occasion.
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If you believe the politicians, we have a broken society, in which the courage and morals of young people have been sapped by welfarism and political correctness.

And if you look at this girl with loads of snails on her face, you can see what piffle that is.

This snail girl has added an amazing ten snails to record that has stood for 19 years; and I have to say that when she finally took those snails back off her face and flung her arm up in the air, I had a lump in my throat, and my feelings could be described as sentimental incredulity.

Imagine, in other words, if we could use the inspiration of this snail-face success to encourage children throughout our educational system. Think what they could achieve in 2012.


Boris Johnson

[DimPrawn]

Fooking Daily Mail readers.

[PRC1964]

They didn't give the value of her house
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ther-face.html

Nor the value of the shells involved.