Old nosy people with cups of tea and gardening gloves next to them at a kitchen table, waiting for the hired help to bring the dog back from it's mid afternoon walk in the local park.
AKA upper middle class snotty arses.
How do you picture a Daily Mail reader? Page 3
reading this thread it does occur to me that Daily Mail readers are not the only ones whose prejudices are founded upon stereotypes.
Quote: David Carmon @ October 7 2010, 11:35 PM BSTOld nosy people with cups of tea and gardening gloves next to them at a kitchen table, waiting for the hired help to bring the dog back from it's mid afternoon walk in the local park.
AKA upper middle class snotty arses.
Are you a communist as well as a gayer then David?
Quote: Timbo @ October 7 2010, 11:42 PM BSTreading this thread it does occur to me that Daily Mail readers are not the only ones whose prejudices are founded upon stereotypes.
The primary difference being that no-one on here gets his prejudices and half-witted opinions presented to a million people as fact every day.
Does anyone read The Morning Starr? It has some cracking news, such as:
* Man wanted for raping dinosaur
* Mutant squirrels invade Cambridge
* Chinese woman has body like a melted alien
* Joey Chestnut wins bratwurst eating contest
* Woman's kidney pulled out of her vagina
* Two men arrested for selling black market gonads
* Snake transforms into a woman
I stumbled across the Starr when looking for news on Abrahim Ghait - World famous imam with haemorrhoids exposes himself in Bristol park - http://www.themorningstarr.co.uk/2010/09/26/world-famous-imam-with-haemorrhoids-exposes-himself-in-bristol-park/
A Daily Mail reader is relatively well-educated, relatively wealthy, relatively old and longs for a return to a Britain where the good life was more likely to be achieved by hard work than by claiming state benefits.
"Why get a job when I can be a baby factory with a dodgy back and get a grand a week?" is a school-leaving philosophy that does not sit well with a Daily Mail reader.
The primary difference being that no-one on here gets his prejudices and half-witted opinions presented to a million people as fact every day.
But 'he' would be a Daily Mail writer, wouldn't he?
Quote: Buddy Sorrel @ October 8 2010, 9:21 AM BSTThe primary difference being that no-one on here gets his prejudices and half-witted opinions presented to a million people as fact every day.
But 'he' would be a Daily Mail writer, wouldn't he?
The idea is that the reader and the writer is a symbiotic masturbatory loop. Don't you know anything?
The whole concept of 'the Daily Mail' reader is that they are a fervid rabid shitbag kept perpetually on a straining leash of near-incandescent rage by little titbits of 'Bonkers Britain' fed to them by similarly outraged 'ordinary people'.
I do agree with Timbos comment about it being more habit than anything.
I'm happy to change. Help me out
Which Newspaper should I be brainwashed by in future?
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ October 8 2010, 8:15 PM BSTI'm happy to change. Help me out
Which Newspaper should I be brainwashed by in future?
The Guardian generally has very good world news coverage, given that it maintains a few foreign correspondents, more so than foolishly named News of the World, for example.
Quote: Marc P @ October 8 2010, 12:17 AM BSTAre you a communist as well as a gayer then David?
I have to admit to being slightly ignorant and own up to not quite knowing what communist actually means properly.
Quote: David Carmon @ October 9 2010, 12:16 AM BSTI have to admit to being slightly ignorant and own up to not quite knowing what communist actually means properly.
People who hate where hippies live?
So if I hate the fact that Runcorn (town next to Widnes) has a Gypo camp with loads of scruffy kids and dogs hanging around in the middle of a disused road and I would like them to f**k off and move somewhere else, am I a communist?
No, you're just everyone who isn't a Gypo. 