Some US news in the Daily Wail.

Not only do you clearly read such debauched pornography as the "Daily Mail", but you try to get innocent people on this site to have their minds corrupted by such evil words.

Get thee hence, Satan.

Hope this helps

http://angrymob.uponnothing.co.uk/daily-mail-dictionary

OOH ! Get You !

You, Lindale, must be one of them crazy relgious nutcases, perhaps descended from the ones the UK sent to the colonies in the new world to get rid of them a couple of hundred years ago.

What are you doing on Big Closet Top Shelf? You sinner you. You perverted sex fiend you !

Whilst I cannot disagree about the Daily Mail being an unreliable source of information that pretends to be a newspaper, and am a wee bit disappointed that our lovely Angharad reads it (the Financial Times is a far more reliable source for information, IMHO) it would never qualify as "debauched pornography". Your attitide is a bit like my dear old Mum and Dad's were, back when I was a tot. They read The News of the World, a Sunday paper that concentrated on Scandal rather than News, and read about the fun and games other people had been caught at , then muttered "tut tut" and "disgraceful" - but the expressions on their faces gave away how much the ENJOYED reading about them. In British English this is called Vicarious Amusement - after vicars, or pastors, who get their jollies from the doings of others rather than directly.

Much love to you,

Briar

Up a gum tree

I think cyclist got it spot on, whereas you, Briar, are so far up a gum tree you must surely be a descendant of one of those transported criminals of whom you speak.

Me, I'm an occasional Grauniad or Indy reader, so when we go into a pub and my partner, in spite of my protestations and the forming of a cross with my fingers, picks up Angharad's preferred reading material, she is shunned to another table!

I guess the interesting thing about cyclist's reference is that supporters of that evil paper believe that every word of it is true!

I'm a long time

Guardian reader, I only ever see bits of the Daily Wail via the internet.

Angharad

I can't deny...

...that my posting was a rather naughty send up of your original blog.

However, maybe at the back of my mind, I believe there is a little truth in my words - and at this point, perhaps Briar can declare that she was right after all! However, I say this as a completely academic argument, and I'm certainly not getting at you, Angharad, or anyone else.

I ask myself if all the people who make up the Daily Mail - the owners, editors and reporters - were all to be gathered together in the Daily Mail building and it was to instantly de-materialise, would the world be a better or a worse place?

I would suggest the DM does no good to anyone, and a lot of harm to its readers - by reinforcing their bigotry and closing their minds - as well as the many people who are its targets.

I know that you list their pages because you are horrified at their content, but does that really benefit the readers on this site, or does it simply promulgate the DM's views, undermining many of the beliefs that we hold dear?

Personally, I think the best thing everyone can do to the DM is to ignore it - to quote it is to promote it.

I prefer

to let people make up their own minds, those that have one. To do other is possibly seen as bigotry?

Angharad