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Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:08 pm

Goodness me, I believe we may just have transmitted a meme from this board to the DM.
Is this a first?

a bit of balance · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:16 pm

Abernathy wrote:

Goodness me, I believe we may just have transmitted a meme from this board to the DM.
Is this a first?

Err no because I have often seen names from here posted on the DM followed by comments that "there's a imposter about" I think there was a Liam comment and a w. miller comments a while back.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:17 pm

Irony fail...

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:23 pm

General fail...

a bit of balance · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:23 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Irony fail...

Humour fail.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:25 pm

Just.... intelligence fail. He doesn't even understand what's being discussed.

Whale sandwich.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:27 pm

oboogie · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:53 pm

a bit of balance wrote:

Abernathy wrote:

Goodness me, I believe we may just have transmitted a meme from this board to the DM.
Is this a first?

Err no because I have often seen names from here posted on the DM followed by comments that "there's a imposter about" I think there was a Liam comment and a w. miller comments a while back.

Oh ffs please try and concentrate and just attempt to apply yourself before posting.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:56 pm

Whale sandwich, Boogie. Whale sandwich. It's like trying to reason with a camel.

shyamz · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:58 am

He doesn't even know what a meme is? And he claims he works in I.T!

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:02 pm

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Long-awaited Birdsong impresses viewers... but it's not enough to beat Call The Midwife in Sunday ratings showdown

By Daily Mail Reporter

But...but...they're both on the same channel! Is BBC1 in a ratings battle with itself? Anyhow, a good chance to sing the Beeb's praises and bulge the veins on Dacre's forehead.

Quote:

Yet again the BBC shows ITV how to do period drama. And no adverts!

- Abbie Downton, Another free plug, 24/1/2012 11:53

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... z1kNMtBKYo

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2843

A couple of opportunities to see how many red arrows you can get:

Government's debt smashes the £1TRILLION barrier for the first time (that's £1,000,000,000,000)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1kNddL5af

Tories' popularity soars to 22-month high as Cameron takes 5-point lead over Labour (as two-thirds of party supporters 'can't see Miliband as PM')

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1kNdgskJK

Dacre Bleugh · **Joined:** Fri Aug 20, 2010 2:28 pm **Posts:** 470

Messianic Trees wrote:

A couple of opportunities to see how many red arrows you can get:

Government's debt smashes the £1TRILLION barrier for the first time (that's £1,000,000,000,000)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1kNddL5af

Interesting how they've structured this. The sub-headings are:
* Debt now stands at £1,003.9bn or 64.2% of GDP
* Monthly public sector borrowing fell by £2.2bn in December to £13.7bn

A few paragraphs in...

Quote:

The last time the Treasury's books recorded a surplus - by spending less than its income - was in the 2001/02 financial year when it made a meagre repayment of £243million.

Last month public sector borrowing, excluding financial interventions such as bank bailouts, fell £2.2billion to £13.7billion in the month. The City had expected it to fall to £14.9billion.

So what are the figures that include the banking bailout? Several paragraphs later (paragraph 19):

Quote:

The Government's £1trillion debt figure excludes the cost of bailing out the banks which takes the total debt figure to £2.3trillion - or 149 per cent of GDP.

Funny how that incredibly minor piece of info doesn't get a sub-heading too. Anyway...back to bashing public sector workers and welfare "scroungers".

Picklechu2 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:01 pm **Posts:** 639

This is one of those cases of "The Media and large, inevitably increasing, numbers". Pick a subject where there is a generally increasing number, draw a meaningless line in the sand, wait for it to be exceeded, comment and outrage follow. cf. 70 million UK population and virtually any economic subject.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2843

Well Jesus was a carpenter! Priest with an A-level in woodwork builds his own jewel of a church... out of a garden SHED

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1kawygG1x

Edit: Looking at the comments, I clearly should've put this in the "Readers can turn harmless stories into a political swipe" thread:

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Waits for jobsworth council to order it taken down because he didn't have planning permission, or because it might offend non-christians...
- Adam, Slough Berkshire, 26/1/2012 19:43

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Great, until the local council decides it contravenes some petty law, and asks him to demolish it.
- RB, Aberdeen, 26/1/2012 18:32

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I wonder what the Local Authority planning department have to say about this.
- mike, Torbay, Devon, 26/1/2012 17:17

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