Mail and how Facebook = Cancer
Posted by Merk
February 19th, 2009
How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer
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Facebook gives you cancer? I’m actually going to stop commenting on Mail and Express pages as they are now beyond parody. I wouldn’t waste my time ripping into the National Enquirer or Daily Sport, so I’m not going to give them the air of legitimacy anymore by devoting even one second of thought to them.
…on second thoughts though, “Preacher Of Hate Hits The Jackpot” could just as equally describe Paul Dacre.
Best comment:
I will be 73 in a few days time. My sons put me on facebook for a christmas present. I’ve never had so much fun. I’m now in touch with my children, my twelve grandchildren and seeing photos of my six great grandchildren. Far from losing the chance of face-to-face contact; at last I’m in contact with my family and their friends every day. The whole experience had given me a new lease of life.
- Brian Ridgeway, London, 19/2/2009 9:59
It’s £2,500. That’s not ‘huge’ if we’re honest, is it? Overall, it’s 0.00625p per taxpayer, assuming forty million taxpayers putting equal amounts in to the kitty.
“My sons put me on Facebook for a Christmas present”
It’s free, isn’t it? Please don’t tell Brian, bless him.
“It’s £2,500. That’s not ‘huge’ if we’re honest, is it?”
No, but it’s still more than the nasty far-right prick ever deserves.
The Mail/Express will go apeshit hysterical over this but it’s a classic case of the EU giving them something on a plate, really.
True, it’s not huge – however it is deserved in terms of the law and preserves the integrity of the system.
Abu Qatada is a shit, but he’s a shit whose human rights we abused. To preserve the integrity of the system, we can’t go denying compensation for that abuse, otherwise there is no law, it’s a pick and choose free for all (which the right would actually prefer, but that’s not law).
Fair result, give him a desultory compensation amount (I personally would have preferred less), which acknowledges the abuse took place, and proves that we hold ourselves accountable, even when dealing with tossers.
The right may not like it, but this is what makes our system better than the ideologies that the likes of Qatada support. We do act fairly and impartially, even to our enemies.
I don’t like Facebook for many reasons, including the assumption that it’s the only way to communicate. But I would never claim it ‘gives you cancer’. When I saw this link I really did think it was a wind-up and did a double check. Steven is spot on about the DM being a parody. Taking its argument to its logical conclusion the DM gives you cancer, because looking at its website is carcinogenic. To use that oft-repeated phrase: “You couldn’t make it up!”
What Paul said. We can’t exempt people from the laws that apply to everyone, for no better reason than their being gold-standard bastards.
“The number of hours people spend interacting face-to-face has fallen dramatically since 1987 as electronic media use has risen”…. Eh? That cannot be right because Mrs Thatcher was PM then. Surely shome mishtake? It must be 1997, the year when civilised life as we know it collapsed in this once great country. The year it was invaded by Blair/McBroon and their hoardes of PC gone mad yoghurt-knitting one-legged Eritrean bogus roofing specialist come to steal hard working British taxpayers’ jobs….
Facebook causing cancer is only the same as the postal service causing cancer – http://tommorris.org/wiki/Daily_Mail_says_Postal_System_Causes_Cancer
I can not be arsed today!
Has he won the lottery?
When is the headline ‘EVERYTHING GIVES YOU CANCER’ finally going to turn up?
Facebook gives you cancer? The Mail has sunk to the depraved depths of the Express
It used to be the case in this country that when you stood outside the law you ceased to receive the full protection of the law. So if the human rites act was not on tha statute books we would not have to worry about his rites.I wonder how much abu thought of the human rites of the people he has been convicted of killing in Jordan.
Human rites are a racket for lawyers to make an easy living and it keeps you useful idiots occupied. If there was no funding there would be no lawyers bleeding the tax payer. How many of these lawyers would do the work probono. Dont you lot of friendly facists start squawking about tax and essentialservices. We got along well enough without the human rite act. I would guess most of the friendly facists on here are public sector workers. I dont consider public sector workers as tax payers as their pay is entirely made up of tax paid in the private sector. The only time they are involved in circulating tax is when they buy a tin of food, ect. Even then many manufacturers include in the unit price of their products or services the tax they expect to pay, so they dont actually pay any tax either. It is all payed by private sector workers.
Please don’t dare call people idiots when you can’t even spell to the level of a 7 year old child. I cannot take anything you say seriously until you learn to spell. Actually, scratch that, I can’t take anything you say seriously because it’s all ill thought out shite.
Yes, it sued to be the case that if you were outside the law you ceased to receive its protection… IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE AGES. THE PLACE THESE PEOPLE WANT TO TAKE SOCIETY BACK TO.
You’re no better than him yourself.
Judging by the comments on the Facebook/Cancer story, it seems that the moderators at Mail Online have taken the day off. How else did this get through?
I think the real issue people are forgetting here is that using Facebook MUST be having some effect on house prices?
Robin, Rhondda Valley, Wales, 19/2/2009 11:59
There’s some hideous comments about a pensioner who stole £2500 off a man who collapsed in bank. Lots of people sympathise with her, saying it’s not her fault and that she’s just a victim of ‘Blair’s Britain’ who cruelly caused a recession, yet if it was a teenager or a Muslim, they’d be going batshit insane.
The entire Mail philosophy is simply one rule for us and another rule for the rest.
You bunch of leopard-skin-thong-wearin’ elitists. Can’t you see the obvious truth about how the Human Rites Act is destroying Britain with all that radical ‘freedom of speech’, ‘freedom of religion’ and ‘freedom not to get maliciously tortured by the state and left in a jail cell to rot’ stuff? Just a bunch of liberal elitist public sector leeches stealing all our money to pay for so-called health and policing and education. (Croak!) Ooh, me ‘eart! I blame Brown! (sound of tumbling to the ground)
Come on Mail readers, save the almighty taxpayer some money: when you keel over with a coronary after reading about how Facebook causes cancer, do us all a favour and don’t call for an ambulance.
Hey Steven, were you trying to spell, ”used ”or ‘’sued ” at the start of your second paragraph; you tell me you 7 year old indecorous, naughty boy. I’m only six but my mum says I’m a better fucking speller than you. She won’t tell me what the definition of fucking is though.
I did not say people who stood outside the law ceased to receive its protection, but ”the full protection of the law”. Mum says you can’t even read. It has been since the adoption of the Human Rites act that wrong doers’ receive the full protection of the law. Regardless!
You can’t take anything I say seriousely because you are a Strut Noddy, as I’ve previously stated in earlier posts. When you tell me what ”Strut Noddy” means and from what period in history it was used, I may take your callow comments soberly, hic!. I know you have probably worked out what ”Strut Noddy’ ‘means because I included its definition in that particular post. Your boyfriend explained that to you didn’t he.
Tom, the only time The Human Rites act means anything to you is when you mistakenly presume it is there to protect your way of seeing things. You will be sorry when it is used against you, as surely will.
”Freedom of speach and association!”Geert Wilders?
”Freedom of religion!” Dress codes?(Crosses, ect)
Oh! and please accuse a policeman with specific incident of torture. I don’t think you will because you are a coward, and you will have no evidence which, even, in ”Brown’s” heaven, hasn’t been abolished yet by the friendly fascist.
Tell me Tom, just how did we get by without a law written in the aftermath of WWII to appeal to oppressed people to the east; to demonstrate the wests’ way of thinking. (Outdated now)
It was not written to allure them here,that was Brown’s idea to keep the friendly fascist in power.
You would be best to stay on the golf couse Tom to keep you out of the way of six year olds. Fore!
Finally, Steven when making a joke, it is a good idea to have a punch line. Batshit insane! why not a ”mentaly deranged defecating English cricketer.
Wow. You seem to have touched a nerve there.
Well done Scotchmist, it’s good to see a reasoned post supported by logical argument, you have done your point of view full justice!
Scotchmist: I like your reasoning. You think that, because someone doesn’t know what a ’strut noddy’ is their points of view are worthless. What a f**kwit you must be!
Steven, my opinion of you has dropped because you don’t know what Strut Noddy is. Shame on you.
Did some cnut say ‘Strut Noddy’ ?
James M. If you had read the previous posts from earlier dates you would be in a better position to understand what is going on. However you haven’t so at least keep an open mind, that shouldn’t be difficult for you. I’m sure I am a f**kwit but at least I know it and accept it. I am not perfect and have much to learn which, I realise will be never ending. You have still to reach that level of enlightenment.
(to the tune of a popular children’s show)
Strut Noddy! Strut Noddy! The little man with the brown and black shirts…
The basic point is this.
The single most important and noble quality in English, and later British, law and society is the concept of Habeus Corpus. It is a major foundation of our civilization and one of the greatest concepts we’ve ever exported. To me, if I was of a nationalist persuasion, the one thing that would separate me and give me pride as British would be the staunch defence and belief in Habeus Corpus above all else. If believe if you don’t defend Habeus Corpus, you can’t call yourself British with a straight face.
The irony however is that to all those nationalist right wingers, Habeus Corpus is the first thing they wish to destroy showing they have no understanding of the culture or history of their country that they claim to have moral ownership of and defend.
They’re greater wreckers of what it means to be British than anything Bin Laden et al could ever hope to muster and in my opinion deserve just as much scorn and mobilisation of opinion, and are more of a danger to our society and freedoms as any terrorist. After all, blowing up a few trains will change absolutely nothing, but even though it’s unlikely, it isn’t outside the realms of imagination for a reactionary bigot winning at the ballot box at some point in the future.
Has Littlejohn one the lottery or something?
Very well put Steven. I have recently read the novel ‘Brick Lane’ A story featuring people now living in my old home town. The last couple of lines are wonderful.
Nazneen said, ‘But you can’t skate in a sari.’
Razia was already lacing her boots. ‘This is England,’ she said. ‘You can do whatever you like.’
If we can keep those reactionary bigots at bay then England is safe.
Brilliantly put ExPc!
The heart and soul of Britain (and England) is freedom and tolerance. Those that claim moral ownership of this country yet try to destroy those concepts are ironically the least British of all of us.
Oh dear, name calling. I was wondering when you would raise your posts to this level Steven. Congenital idiot!!
As I have asked you before. What makes you think I am male?
You don’t know what I am. In fact I am a wee, tall yin, black Muslim ,bi-sexual on a trans gender journey who walks with a stutter and talks with a limp. Life is not fair, live with it.
Scotcmist, what you jabbering about myowldduck, (and unless you can tell me it’s entomology I can’t take you seriously). We abused I very bad man’s human rights, we have been asked to pay a derisory fee. Life is not fair, live with it.
Erebus, how is your dad Chaos and Nox your brother getting on.
Have you not reached hades yet man, I thought you would be long gone or are you still on Ross Island.
I wished I knew what human rights were and who defines them. Does the bad man have rights without responsibility.
Any way what has insects got to do with it , seriousely.
Congratulations Scotchmist! You discovered Wikipedia!
Everybody has rights. That’s one of the points of the rule of law. Undermine the equality of rights and you undermine the integrity of law. Undermine the integrity of the law and then you do invite chaos.
Or should I be able to cut off your hands for stealing? It’s deliciously ironic that the right-wing bigots in this country actually advocate all the non-supernatural elements of extreme Islam while thinking they’re the last bullwark against it.
Oh no Scotchmist, I too realised that I was stupid a long time ago. In fact, I think everyone’s stupid; the wiser ones of us are the ones who have realised that fact and have taken steps to minimise their stupidity.
Anyhow, I did read your strut noddy comments a while back but they were so long ago that I have forgotten what you actually said. Anyhow, it is a rather tedious insult, it’s got too many letters and is a clunker to type.
James M, I did not say I was stupid, I said I am sure I ‘m f**kwit. Everyones not stupid. You would be wise to minimise tour stupidity by not displaying it here.
Congenital idiot, I don’t visit Wikipedia as it can be edited by the likes of you. Stop trying to introduce diversionary arguments on Habeus Corpus and attempt to link me with its abolition just because you were not on a solid ground and floundering.
The Human Rights Act which incorporates the European Convension on Human Rights which has ill-defined principals is being used to undermine our Parlimentary legislation.
Blair was warned that it would be ”a field day for crackpots and a goldmine for lawyers”, but that was the whole point of it being introduced. You will realise that the day it is used against you.
james and steven are like the cock who though the sun comes up to hear them crow.
…and you are just a cock.
Scotchmist has clearly discovered wikipedia as xe can now miraculously spell “rights” (well done!). Shame about “convension” – you can’t win them all, I suppose.
Hobbit.
An imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet, I would suggest hairy tongue too. What does ”xe ”mean? I suppose a colorless, odorless, highly unreactive gaseous element just like you.
Is this a spelling test? On my keyboard ‘’s” and ”t” are to close to be bothered about for a forumsuch as this, or so I thought. (Leftist liberals are becoming nit picking control freaks, which is all you have to hold on to I suppose). The congenital idiot has been there and he is now resorting to the schoolboy bully tactics.He has nothing worthwhile to add which makes him irrelevant. I hope you don’t become the same.
“Xe” (pronounced “zee”) is used as a pronoun when the gender of the person is not known – instead of “he” or “she”, for example.
Oh the irony – an article dissuading people from using the internet published as internet news.
Fools.
I’m sorry Andrew, you may have found that definition on Wikipedia which, as I pointed out to the congenital idiot can be edited by anybody and not good place to look for definitive information.
You’re getting very boring now Scotchmist. Are you a Turing test?
James,
I can see you have raised your game to the level of juvenile. You make me feel I’m at school again, thanks. You are entertaining, never boring.
I’m in a pickle here. I came on the site hoping to have a row with all you lefties about something and to my dismay I accept your basic premise about the British legal system. Although I think (are you listening Steven?) that drawing a parallel between Abu Qatada and the ‘Mail’ is just a teeny weeny bit OTT.
I suspect that most of you have jobs in the media or suchlike, getting paid loads of dosh, and that in the trendy, bohemian liberal/left watering holes where you all gather to socialise, places like the Groucho Club, that’s how the world seems. You’re probably all in there now, drinking chardonnay, dissing the Daily Mail and roaring with laughter at each other’s jokes. While here I sit, in my attic flat (not a loft conversion, just an attic that’s been turned into a flat) with a can of cider at my side, lamenting the decline of our country and wondering what it would be like if Melanie Philips became the next Prime Minister.
Well you can all stick to your chardonnay and I’ll stick to my good old English cider. That’s my idea of a patriotic gesture.
daveyp.
Are you having a laugh? Not everyone who is left leaning works in media (and suchlike), nor the commonly stated alternative, claims their own weight in benefits. You’ve either had too much cider, or you really have been paying too much attention to a certain R Littlejohn’s damn fool ramblings.
Chardonnay anyone?
I just hate the Daily Mail Davey P.
So do I.
I work for a good old 100% british supermarket actually daveyp. And I am a big fan of cider. So there!
I work in the media, but am of the opinion it’s probably populated with the most evil collection of people since the Nazi Party imploded.
Thing is DaveyP, don’t you realise the Mail is the Media too? Once you understand that, and that they’re equally as self interested and hypocritical and full of shit as the leftie media, you’ll probably understand where we’re coming from.
To me the only different between left and right media is the right panders far more to division than the left and more openly manipulates the facts (while the left tries to manipulate sentiment) Nobody here is saying the leftie media is much better (though admittedly a lot her, me included, but not all, are left leaning) but that it doesn’t openly lie as much as the Mail and Express.
Most people here aren’t anti-right/pro-left, but anti-lies.
I’m a bloody student! Hardly rich. Have you heard the prospects for graduate employment?
Students don’t count, they’re passed off as scroungers with proto-marxist sympathies, the lot of them.
How dare you lol!
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