Reasonably epic Mail Fail

Raskolnikov · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:11 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... rning.html

Barnsley FC's 15 year old player. Scroll down for :

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Good to see Latin back in vogue.

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:18 pm

A not particularly epic but a snigger-inducing failure nonetheless...

Click on the 'Brown gambles on £1.9 TRILLION bank bail-out to guarantee ALL our savings' link

On here...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

...and get this

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... trike.html

Raskolnikov · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:40 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... itain.html

Comments dated 13/7/08

Also noticed yesterday some old stories appearing in the Headlines e.g. Avram Grant (ex-Chelsea manager) talking about his father and Auschwitz and a story about Ian Paisley retiring.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:01 pm

Not on any major scale, but on a story about Boris vs Ian Blair was this wonderful description of the leader of the opposition...

frolix22 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:23 pm **Posts:** 527

That's awesome!

ManicMiner · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:38 pm

Sneak peek: First glimpse of new Star Trek cast as they prepare to boldly go back in time for a prequel

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Nearly 40 years after we said goodbye to Captain James T Kirk and his comrades, the cult sci-fi series Star Trek is returning.

The Mail has never heard of the ST movies? Kirk's last appearance was only about 14 years ago wasn't it?

sven945 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:03 pm

ManicMiner wrote:

The Mail has never heard of the ST movies? Kirk's last appearance was only about 14 years ago wasn't it?

I was going to say that it was nowhere near that long ago, but you're right. Star Trek Generations was out in 1994. I remember watching it on the plane to Australia years ago.

Is he going to get his finger out and slice open Kirk's head there?

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:39 pm

Maybe he's going to take the All Bran challenge?

IanC · **Joined:** Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:30 pm **Posts:** 1404

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... acist.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... 0-000.html

Same story.

But one appears when searching as so -

Whoops.

ManicMiner · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:01 pm

"Comments is null" is back

How can comments "is null" be valid? Unless "Comments" is a bit counter of the number of comments submitted for each article and someone has just disallowed comments and set this attribute to NULL. But if that's the case, how come its saying there are 107 comments? Unless that figure has come from a count(*) select SQL statement in the comments table

Very strange.

bairy · **Joined:** Tue May 08, 2007 1:40 pm **Posts:** 2807

I think that prompt is probably an ajax response, a malformed query or another misc database error.

The Comments (x)" count sometimes differs from the actual displayed, so I would guess it's cached in the article id thread and doesn't necessarily equal the number of actually deleted comments. It'd be awfully stupid to use a COUNT(*) on the comments table.

The difference could come from not updating that cache when a comment is deleted or unapproved, and the null error could come from the testing not being thorough enough.

ManicMiner · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:58 pm

I've never seen that error anywhere else. Not even on the stuff I've done (and I think I would have pretty much seen them all!)

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 1:35 am

Pretty much every story in the Mail is banging on about how dreadful the Pre-Budget Report is and how Brown and Darling have cocked it up and WILL kill your children because of it.

However, this is their poll...

Way to misjudge

Fflaps · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:00 pm

Marvellous. Incidentally the photo of Brown with the kid there is great:

He's laughing! Laughing at a child! Laughing at YOU! Is the not so subliminal message I took away from that.

Right, I'm off to add my vote to that poll

ManicMiner · **Posted:** Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:21 pm

ha ha! I've done my bit. Current results '73% better off' now.

Edit:

Quality feedback:

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All those who say they'll leave the country - I bet you said the same thing in 1997.

Please actually go this time.

- Rob Jessel, London, 25/11/2008 09:32

However...

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As usual it will be the married couple, both working with grown up kids who will be hit the hardest, they are the backbone of the taxpaying, long suffering British public. Also the ones most fed up with this Government,however, they will also be the ones who will vote in droves at the first possible opportunity, and it will not be for this shower.
By the time Brown has pinched our pensions, devalued our homes and investments for retirement, there will be a whole country of people on lower incomes, anyone with a high income will have seen sense and left the country! Good luck to them too! High achievers are not valued here - just taxed.

- Helene, Bristol, 25/11/2008 0:20

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