Reply to: "Mail Supremacy" - from the New Yorker

[doodab]

Last year, its lawyers shut down a proxy site that allowed liberals to browse Mail Online without bumping up its traffic.

Is CUK in danger?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Classic Fail headline today - "Fuel Shortage - No.10 Sparks Panic"

Yeah sure it's NO.10 - nothing to do with your headline yesterday "EVERYONE FILL UP NOW OR WE'LL NEVER GET TO M&S AGAIN" was it?

Like most tossers, these tossers never admit they are wrong or that they are ever part of the problem.

[Zoiderman]

Don't you feel that standards have slipped though, perhaps it's just perception but I'm sure I see it becoming more tabloidy over time

It is, but then I only ever buy it for the sport section

No, in all seriousness, its gone down hill quite a lot, but in context, it's still right up there, if that makes any sense...

[amcdonald]

I think it's actually as they are not allowed, by editorial edict, to allow words over 2 syllables to sneak into the Sun. The mere fact it's the most popular amongst our window licking military fraternity says enough for me. It's emergency toilet roll, and nothing else.

Besides, the Telegraph has the best sport by far.

Don't you feel that standards have slipped though, perhaps it's just perception but I'm sure I see it becoming more tabloidy over time

[Zoiderman]

I once tackled a sun reader asking him how he could read such drivel. He said it was the best paper for footie. I just object to them putting supposed real news in there.

I think it's actually as they are not allowed, by editorial edict, to allow words over 2 syllables to sneak into the Sun. The mere fact it's the most popular amongst our window licking military fraternity says enough for me. It's emergency toilet roll, and nothing else.

Besides, the Telegraph has the best sport by far.

[amcdonald]

taken more seriously than the one paper that outsells it, the Sun.
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Is it possible to be taken less seriously than the sun?

There's The Daily Star

[BrilloPad]

Most popular paper with Squaddies.

Nuff said...

I once tackled a sun reader asking him how he could read such drivel. He said it was the best paper for footie. I just object to them putting supposed real news in there.

[Zoiderman]

taken more seriously than the one paper that outsells it, the Sun.
============================
Is it possible to be taken less seriously than the sun?

Most popular paper with Squaddies.

Nuff said...

[Pondlife]

its Web arm, Mail Online, surpassed that of the New York Times as the most visited newspaper site in the world, drawing fifty-two million unique visitors a month.

I know it says unique but I'm pretty sure most of those are DP checking house prices and celebrity gossip.

[OwlHoot]

rectitudinousness



Is that a real word? ...

Yes, it's the posh way to say "arsiness" (from the Latin "rectum")

[BrilloPad]

At a family reunion some distant cousin was spouting on about immigration, asylum seekers etc. During a pause, I asked him "Do you read the Daily Mail?".

Everyone else laughed and he wouldn't speak to me again. Which was definitely a good result.

Was that MF?

[BrilloPad]

taken more seriously than the one paper that outsells it, the Sun.
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Is it possible to be taken less seriously than the sun?

[NotAllThere]

It's a nice insult though, like Could you be more of a black shirt...

Or, wow, I thought only ex booties said tulip like that.

As soon as you out a DM reader, you know what you're going to get.

At a family reunion some distant cousin was spouting on about immigration, asylum seekers etc. During a pause, I asked him "Do you read the Daily Mail?".

Everyone else laughed and he wouldn't speak to me again. Which was definitely a good result.

[Zoiderman]

It's a nice insult though, like Could you be more of a black shirt...

Or, wow, I thought only ex booties said tulip like that.

As soon as you out a DM reader, you know what you're going to get.

[NotAllThere]

Tossing the words "the Daily Wail" into a conversation is an easy, but possibly dangerous way of outing the DM fans. They don't like it.