Best of the Daily Mail

[Fez909]

This one was the best I've got after quite a few refreshes.

I don't go to the pub often since I hate commercial lagers, but I was drinking an American Pale Ale with a friend yesterday and it really got us thinking. How can we expect the next generation to get their five-a-day when even Waitrose don't sell traditional British apple varieties? But I guess that's just what happens when we let Saudi oil magnates rape our ecosystems and ruin the planet.

 

[Fruitloop]

That Zoe Brennan from theDM who got savaged by mumsnet, if you look at her twitter feed it seems to be full of spam.

 

[Fez909]

That Zoe Brennan from theDM who got savaged by mumsnet, if you look at her twitter feed it seems to be full of spam.

Obviously she's as careless with her password as she is with her email address and phone number (020 7359 1748).

Surprised she hasn't deleted the spam though as she's clearly in control of the account now.

 

[Fruitloop]

Zoe Brennan's phone number is 020 7359 1748?

 

[Fez909]

Zoe Brennan's phone number is 020 7359 1748?

According to her twitter posts, aye.

 

[equationgirl]

Michael Pentonville-Saatchi, Bristol.

12 March, 2013

We were chatting over a coffee, simple filter, not Nescafe (baby-killers) and started to think out loud. Of course Church is important but our little Sophia managed to fit in Diwali, Ramadan, Kwanza and, of course, Chanukah, just in her small group of friends. But how can we expect things to improve whilst China are still in Tibet!

Love the Guardian comments generator

 

[Corax]

Has anyone posted the link to the Daily Mail-O-Matic yet?

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

COULD FOXES HAVE SEX WITH HARD-WORKING FAMILIES?​

 

[equationgirl]

IS THE INTERNET HAVING SEX WITH HOMEOWNERS?​

 

[stavros]

WILL CANCER TURN BRITAIN'S SWANS GAY?

 

[stavros]

HAVE THE UNEMPLOYED IMPREGNATED CLIFF RICHARD?

 

[teqniq]

COULD THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT GIVE THE MEMORY OF DIANA SWINE FLU? ​

​

 

[Firky]

If you google images 'Daily Express / Mail' and 'b3ta' you get some gooduns too.

 

[equationgirl]

Today's contender from the mail - women, if you can't wear skinny jeans you are a disgrace, just look at Charlize and her DM approved snacking:

As well as carrying her adorable child on her hip, Charlize toted a large purse in her hand as she walked into the shop.
After scanning the cabinets and menu for a healthy choice, she ultimately opted for a small pot of the low fat food, topped with strawberries and kiwi.

What should we get? Mother and son browsed the cabinets for toppings and tasted samples of the snacks on offer

Holding the purse strings: The actress held her son on her hip while she paid for the yoghurt

Casually dressed: Her little boy looked adorable in his dark ensemble
With her savvy attitude towards snacking, it’s no wonder she has maintained a slender figure, good enough to perhaps be the poster woman for her own line of jeans.

 

[Firky]

Today's contender from the mail - women, if you can't wear skinny jeans you are a disgrace, just look at Charlize and her DM approved snacking:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2291904/The-outrageous-confessions-upper-class-Lolita.html

The outrageous confessions of an upper-class Lolita


So you cannot blame me for thinking that it is often precocious and predatory girls who should be arrested, and not the men who show an opportunistic interest in them.

After all, it was Eve who tempted Adam.

 

[youngian]

Woodrow Wyatt was a vile Tory social climber and doesn't surprise me he turned a blind eye to the right people sniffing round his daughter if it oiled the wheels.

 

[existentialist]

Good quote there:

"With great efficiency, the Mail churns out articles seemingly to rile one particular demographic, who then furious retweet links to the article on the Mail's website, increasing their page views - which in turn increases the amount they can charge advertisers and ultimately makes them more money (which could potentially be used to employ more writers that write articles annoying particular demographics!)."

For that reason could people please quote whatever it is that annoys them rather than just linking to the fucking Mail site so I don't have to click the link?

Ta .

I do see your point, but the other thing to remember is that with every non-DM-simpatico type who follows a link to their website and then doesn't click through to the targeted advertising, the value of the pages as an advertising space drops

But yeah, on balance, quoting would be better than linking, if only because I feel slightly grubby for visiting the place.

 

[Firky]

I do see your point, but the other thing to remember is that with every non-DM-simpatico ťype who follows a link to their website and then doesn't click through to the targeted advertising, the value of the pages as an advertising space drops

But yeah, on balance, quoting would be better than linking, if only because I feel slightly grubby for visiting the place.

The DM website is the (or was) the most visited news websites in the world, it got there by deliberately writing antagonistic headlines and posting pictures of celebrities. It gets something like 50,000,000 unique visitors a month - fifty-fucking-million-people, not page impressions but people!! Most of the hits come from Americans, lured by the celebrity shit stirring and slagging off; it's not something you really see in the American press who prefer to philander to celebrities egos instead of commenting on how ugly someone is or how curvaceous a 15 year old actress is.

It is a bit of an odd one the DM website because it's interface goes against everything Jacob Nielsen (helped set UI norms on the net) would constitute as good design. It is a mess of links to hundreds of articles - like it's just thrown together, there seems to be very little hierarchy and very little use of whitespace - just crammed full of text and pics. Yet it works!

One thing I do like about the DM website is that it uses big, high quality, jpegs that aren't over compressed. It annoys me that the BBC and other websites save BW costs by reducing the size of their images (I guess that is because I am a little bit obsessed by photography, graphic design and typography). It is something that Boston have pinched from the DM and created a section called Big Picture which features some absolutely brilliant photojournalism that is often more aesthetic than a documentation.

Whoever the team was behind the DM website knows their stuff.

So a couple of dozen links from U75 are going to make no difference

 

[Kanda]

Great chat

 

[Fez909]

The DM website is the (or was) the most visited news websites in the world, it got there by deliberately writing antagonistic headlines and posting pictures of celebrities. It gets something like 50,000,000 unique visitors a month - fifty-fucking-million-people, not page impressions but people!! Most of the hits come from Americans, lured by the celebrity shit stirring and slagging off; it's not something you really see in the American press who prefer to philander to celebrities egos instead of commenting on how ugly someone is or how curvaceous a 15 year old actress is.

It is a bit of an odd one the DM website because it's interface goes against everything Jacob Nielsen (helped set UI norms on the net) would constitute as good design. It is a mess of links to hundreds of articles - like it's just thrown together, there seems to be very little hierarchy and very little use of whitespace - just crammed full of text and pics. Yet it works!

One thing I do like about the DM website is that it uses big, high quality, jpegs that aren't over compressed. It annoys me that the BBC and other websites save BW costs by reducing the size of their images (I guess that is because I am a little bit obsessed by photography, graphic design and typography). It is something that Boston have pinched from the DM and created a section called Big Picture which features some absolutely brilliant photojournalism that is often more aesthetic than a documentation.

Whoever the team was behind the DM website knows their stuff.

Pedantic but jpegs are by definition compressed. They do use (steal) high quality images though.

And The Big Picture is great!

 

[Firky]

jpegs that aren't over compressed.

 

[Firky]

Mail Online overtakes NY Times as top online newspaper

In August 2011, the Mail Online became the UK's most visited website

Mail Online enjoys spectacular success

The Mail Online has overtaken the New York Times website as the most visited newspaper site on the web, according to figures from tracking firm comScore.

Data suggests the UK's Daily Mail had 45.35 million unique visitors during December, inching the site ahead of the New York Times with 44.8 million.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16743645

 

[Fez909]

sorry!

 

[Firky]

sorry!

 

[two sheds]

So a couple of dozen links from U75 are going to make no difference

Ahem from your own quote ...

Data suggests the UK's Daily Mail had 45.35 million unique visitors during December, inching the site ahead of the New York Times with 44.8 million. Running up to Christmas, the difference came from a small UK site, with urban75 sending 55,001 visitors to the site to look at fluffy pussy cat images.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

PEDANT ALERT!

Urban needed to send 550,001. I was a fair few, I just love a good Kardashian story.

 

[equationgirl]

PEDANT ALERT!

Urban needed to send 550,001. I was a fair few, I just love a good Kardashian story.

Who doesn't?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Today's contender from the mail - women, if you can't wear skinny jeans you are a disgrace, just look at Charlize and her DM approved snacking:

Are you sure that article wasn't about the adorable child on her hip?

 

[equationgirl]

Are you sure that article wasn't about the adorable child on her hip?

Oh the child was in there somewhere, being fed DM approved snacks (shared with Charlize, of course), but the tone was overwhelmingly in praise of being thin.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Oh the child was in there somewhere, being fed DM approved snacks (shared with Charlize, of course), but the tone was overwhelmingly in praise of being thin.

I realise that, but I hate the way they love concentrating on kids as well. Wouldn't surprise me if the paper of choice for paedos is the DM just for all the pictures of kids they can ogle

 

[equationgirl]

I realise that, but I hate the way they love concentrating on kids as well. Wouldn't surprise me if the paper of choice for paedos is the DM just for all the pictures of kids they can ogle

You are right they totally focus on children e.g. Suri Cruise and her outfits, Alyson Hannigan & Reese Witherspoon and what their daughters are wearing, how cute/adorable the child is doing whatever activity they are doing.