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Randy Winkman

16,013 posts

188 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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At least left wingers try to be funny about their hatred. smile

ChemicalChaos

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10,360 posts

159 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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Randy Winkman said:
At least left wingers try to be funny about their hatred. smile
It's about all they have. Facebook and twitter are full of memes mocking the Conservatives, Trump, Brexit etc etc. because they have no real argument other than to try and humiliate their oponents

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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Jon321 said:
I find peoples use of the word snowflake infinitely more irritating than anything the DM has ever written.

Christ that words bloody everywhere at the moment.
Agreed. More and more people jump on the wagon, widening its use until it becomes nothing but a noise as they saturate any impact or focus the word ever had in the first place.


ChemicalChaos

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10,360 posts

159 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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La Liga said:
Jon321 said:
I find peoples use of the word snowflake infinitely more irritating than anything the DM has ever written.

Christ that words bloody everywhere at the moment.
Agreed. More and more people jump on the wagon, widening its use until it becomes nothing but a noise as they saturate any impact or focus the word ever had in the first place.
Like the left have done with their endless cries of "racism" then?

alock

4,224 posts

210 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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nikaiyo2 said:
Why is he referred to as a comedian? I went to see his live "show" once, it was fking awful. The 1st half was dire then the 2nd half was a lecture about Coca Cola stealing water and even less funny more like a 6th form sociology lecture. He had the nerve to question why I was leaving...so I told him.
I saw a few clips of his shows maybe 20 years ago and thought they looked good. Booked some tickets for a live show and it was the most disappointing comedy show I've ever seen. It was just an anti-capitalist rant. Not funny. Not clever.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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ChemicalChaos said:
La Liga said:
Jon321 said:
I find peoples use of the word snowflake infinitely more irritating than anything the DM has ever written.

Christ that words bloody everywhere at the moment.
Agreed. More and more people jump on the wagon, widening its use until it becomes nothing but a noise as they saturate any impact or focus the word ever had in the first place.
Like the left have done with their endless cries of "racism" then?
Ironically, you've done the same with the word 'left'. A catch-all generalisation of a word which covers a wide political spectrum.





Norfolkit

2,394 posts

189 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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alock said:
I saw a few clips of his shows maybe 20 years ago and thought they looked good. Booked some tickets for a live show and it was the most disappointing comedy show I've ever seen. It was just an anti-capitalist rant. Not funny. Not clever.
Bet you won't like his new stuff then.


THE RED SHED
A Topical Tale About The Miners' Strike

A brand new show celebrating the 50th anniversary of Wakefield Labour Club's iconic Red Shed.
It's the story of where Mark first started to perform in public and where he politically came of age as a student involved in the miners’ strike.

rxe

6,700 posts

102 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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handpaper said:
It's by a comedian ("Mark Steel's in Town" and "My Life in Serious Organised Crime" are hilarious), but it's not a joke.

It's saying :

"If you read this newspaper, you are in a minority. A pathetic, filthy minority that ought to be ashamed of itself, and stay away from decent, proper people. A minority which needs to be derided, marginalised, and forced to shut up and hide itself before dying quietly out. A minority which, should it attempt to defend itself, will be attacked using the foulest possible language and epithets, and probably the odd brick, stick, and fist too, because that's what it deserves."

And that is right out of the NSDAP manual.
If anyone doubts this, I can commend "The Gestapo" by Frank McDonough for bedtime reading. An eye opening history of how a perfectly ordinary police force and public was co-opted by a regime with exactly this sort of messaging.

The mail may be a rag, but that is the beauty of a free press.

paulrockliffe

15,639 posts

226 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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alock said:
nikaiyo2 said:
Why is he referred to as a comedian? I went to see his live "show" once, it was fking awful. The 1st half was dire then the 2nd half was a lecture about Coca Cola stealing water and even less funny more like a 6th form sociology lecture. He had the nerve to question why I was leaving...so I told him.
I saw a few clips of his shows maybe 20 years ago and thought they looked good. Booked some tickets for a live show and it was the most disappointing comedy show I've ever seen. It was just an anti-capitalist rant. Not funny. Not clever.
Never heard of him, first year at Uni and some friends were going to see him so I went along. Same experience, first bit was OK, but not overly funny, second half he was crying on stage about someone building a dam that was hurting poor Israel or some ste. Literally in tears. The guy is a fking tosser.

klootzak

622 posts

215 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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handpaper said:
It's saying :

"If you read this newspaper, you are in a minority. A pathetic, filthy minority that ought to be ashamed of itself, and stay away from decent, proper people. A minority which needs to be derided, marginalised, and forced to shut up and hide itself before dying quietly out. A minority which, should it attempt to defend itself, will be attacked using the foulest possible language and epithets, and probably the odd brick, stick, and fist too, because that's what it deserves."

And that is right out of the NSDAP manual.
Which, ironically enough, is what the Daily Mail says every day about some group or other.

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greygoose

8,224 posts

194 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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La Liga said:
ronically, you've done the same with the word 'left'. A catch-all generalisation of a word which covers a wide political spectrum.
Anyone who doesn't like Trump and Farage on here.

bga

8,134 posts

250 months

Thursday 19th January 2017
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CaptainSlow said:
Hardly surprising the pop up on the Brighton line.
Actually it is. That would assume that some of the fking trains are actuallly running.

neilr

1,512 posts

262 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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ChemicalChaos said:
Cue, however, hundreds of "liberals" wetting themselves with amusement over this whilst failing entirely to see their parallels to the Nazi book bonfire
The real irony for you in your comment is that the Daily Mail fully supported the blackshirts, especially it's "Hurrah for the blackshirts" article. Viscount Rothermere (Harold Harmsworth) was a known supporter of Hilter.

Alternatively, its just a bit of fun and nothing like a national socialist book burning orgy. Hard to tell I know.

stevesuk

1,345 posts

181 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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The Daily Mail seems to have a bad rep - having read this thread, and also reading about the campaign group who are trying to persuade large companies to stop advertising with the Mail. I don't read newspapers, but I often find myself reading something on the Daily Mail website - usually via Google Now or social media.

Some of the stuff they write is clearly copied (with minor embellishment) straight from the internet - e.g. someone working there seems to be a fan of Reddit, and they can also turn a single YouTube clip in to an entire story smile

But they're certainly not alone in reporting what people post to social media as "news", so I'm genuinely curious as to what the general problem is that people have with it as a newspaper?

Is it because the articles they print on certain sensitive subjects are largely seen as "fake news", or is it more that the articles have an element of truth about them, but never the less paint immigration (or other liberal ideals) in a negative light, so are seen as being unhelpful to the cause? Or is it something else altogether?

grumbledoak

31,499 posts

232 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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stevesuk said:
Or is it something else altogether?
Yeah. Envy. Circulation figures 2016:
Daily Fail: 1,589,471
Gurdian: 164,163

hehe


(source: Wiki)


Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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fks sake cc, you claim to be a scientist. That requires analytical and critical thinking. Can you try either for ponce, rather than regurgatitig mindless drivvel from the daily hate?

jamoor

14,506 posts

214 months

Tuesday 14th February 2017
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grumbledoak said:
Yeah. Envy. Circulation figures 2016:
Daily Fail: 1,589,471
Gurdian: 164,163

hehe


(source: Wiki)
Something something lowest common denominator something.

B'stard Child

28,320 posts

245 months

Wednesday 15th February 2017
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mybrainhurts said:
Jon321 said:
I find peoples use of the word snowflake infinitely more irritating than anything the DM has ever written.

Christ that words bloody everywhere at the moment.
Do shut up, you bloody corn flake...smile
hehe

caelite

4,273 posts

111 months

Wednesday 15th February 2017
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Reminds me of a few years ago in a previous job one of our managers trying to ban the break room cook from supplying the Scottish Herald and the National in the break room alongside essentially every other broadsheet. (this was not long after the '14 Scottish Indy ref)

Sadly the outcome of that was that all pertinent broadsheets (Guardian, Times, Telegraph, national, herald etc etc) where banned in favour of only tabloid drivel (Sun, Record, DM) being allowed to avoid 'disagreements'. He quit not long after that funnily enough, it was an awful place to work.

Randy Winkman

16,013 posts

188 months

Wednesday 15th February 2017
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jamoor said:
grumbledoak said:
Yeah. Envy. Circulation figures 2016:
Daily Fail: 1,589,471
Gurdian: 164,163

hehe


(source: Wiki)
Something something lowest common denominator something.
yes Plus something a bout a freak show.