Mail misreads its public

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:44 pm

Aren't older workers the ones likely to cop it? They'll be at the top of pay scales, and might be in line for (relatively) decent redundancy packages. As I've said before, on the "if the Mail readers got what they wanted" thread, it makes me laugh about how some of them moan about employment protections. Though given the comments here, I might have been unfair on them.

Still the thought of a few Mailites being kicked out the door and replaced by "useless youngsters who know nothing" is quite entertaining.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:51 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Aren't older workers the ones likely to cop it? .

Yep, that's normally the case. It's either upper management making a short-sighted decision by themselves, or, more than likely, they've got some flavour of consultant in who will just tell them what they want to hear (for a large fee, of course).

I'm surprised by some of the comments on there, too - particularly the ones decrying middle management as a set of useless tossers. Harsh... but fair.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:58 pm

Tom_MKUK wrote:

Wasn't even aware of this sordid club in my own city. :lol:

Are my eyes failing me, or can you see her modesty ?

Timbo · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:07 pm

Nearly. I think the area of skin immediately adjacent to the fold is called the 'dignity'.

Fozzy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:09 pm

Carlos The Badger wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Aren't older workers the ones likely to cop it? .

Yep, that's normally the case. It's either upper management making a short-sighted decision by themselves, or, more than likely, they've got some flavour of consultant in who will just tell them what they want to hear (for a large fee, of course).

I was hearing the other day all about how my wanker ex-employer spent a fortune getting IT consultants in. He thought every penny was justified when they came to tell him portentously how the system had been hacked and he needed to spend another fortune making the system safe, and he also needed to sack the in-house IT lot who hadn't protected the system properly and employ the consultants instead. Wanker ex-employer swallowed it all and was about to sign another massive cheque, until the in-house IT manager did some investigations of his own and discovered that it was the consultants who were the hackers. Using the passwords they'd been given by the firm. As the IT manager said, it was almost insulting that they were too dumb to try to cover their tracks.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:28 pm

Fozzy wrote:

I was hearing the other day all about how my wanker ex-employer spent a fortune getting IT consultants in. He thought every penny was justified when they came to tell him portentously how the system had been hacked and he needed to spend another fortune making the system safe, and he also needed to sack the in-house IT lot who hadn't protected the system properly and employ the consultants instead. Wanker ex-employer swallowed it all and was about to sign another massive cheque, until the in-house IT manager did some investigations of his own and discovered that it was the consultants who were the hackers. Using the passwords they'd been given by the firm. As the IT manager said, it was almost insulting that they were too dumb to try to cover their tracks.

Carlita's present firm almost came a cropper with nearly the same thing and she almost lost her job. In that case it was some crooked "Sales Consultants". Set of bastards - I've got their number marked.

Fozzy · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:53 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ly-is.html

In which the Mail carries on monstering Maxine Carr in a predictably biased and misleading report. Interestingly, the majority of the comments tell them to leave her alone, and most of those which obediently follow the Mail line are heavily red arrowed.

What is really irritating is the whingers going on about the expense of giving her a new identity. Does it not occur to them that if the likes of the Mail hadn't made her out to be a new Hindley it would be totally unnecessary?

eddyk · **Joined:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 422

I had just come here to post the same article. I am seriously impressed at the comments.... maybe there is hope.

AOB · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:27 pm

Has This Morning gone too far? Naked model has intimate check for testicular cancer on live TV

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Was This Morning right to show a naked model being intimately examined for testicular cancer?
Yes 66%
No 34%

Comments indicate Mailites have "no problem" with it but strangely they don't know who to direct their ire at, with regards to who bought the subject up. It's the Mail you should be moaning at!! They're the ones who wanted you to be outraged.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:39 pm

Here's a little mischievous thought. If "This Morning" were replaced in all parts by "The One Show", I wonder if the outcome would have been the same..?

eddyk · **Joined:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 422

There is a comment mentioning the BBC but I can't make much sense of it..

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For God's Sake, Richard Madeley did this years ago on BBC, and you, the puerile minded DM, try to hype it with a SCREAMING headline. Utterly pathetic double standard reporting.

- JosieB, Kent, 1/11/2011 13:14

Then there were these guys, so used to the BBC bashing in the Mail they thought the story was about the BBC.

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It may very well save lives but if you think that's the motivation for the piece, think again. This is all about the BBC offending as many people as it can in middle England. Remember the piece they did on sexual positions? What was the motivation there? If a single life is saved by accident then I applaud that but for Heavens sake don't think they have your best interests at heart. They do not.

- Ricardo, London, 1/11/2011 13:34
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I hope the BBC will learn from this mistake and never let this kind of thing happen again.

- Calum Greenall, Basingstoke, 1/11/2011 19:15

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

BBC = British Ballbag Checkers.

AOB · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:43 pm

England fans outraged after World Cup player Peter Reid is seen on TV kissing Maradona's 'Hand of God'

They haven't got quotes from anyone who is "outraged" or even mildly peeved. Not even from the internet. They're getting it in the neck in the comments.

Arnold · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2012 12:40 pm

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Sex toys for sale at Boots - in full view of children: Angry backlash after retail giant puts products on prominent display close to healthcare

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Sex toys for sale at Boots, prominently displayed close to healthcare products in full view of children

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1irjGuVp1

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Yesterday, Boots said it had received four complaints' - make mine the fifth, I'll be boycotting from now on.

- Caroline , Isle of Man, 7/1/2012 23:47
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No more shopping at Boots for me then. I will take my custom elsewhere. Why do so many companies have to jump on the seedy bandwagon.

- jj, cam uk, 8/1/2012 7:48
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Are sex toys "really really essential" for our sex well being ?

- JKL, London, 7/1/2012 23:51
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Children will not know what they are

- scotty, Essex, 7/1/2012 23:52
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Is this really news? It's not like condoms or lubricants have been kept under the counter.

- Tom, Manchester, 7/1/2012 23:46
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Gavin, london : 'The 'Grandmother Julie Burgess, '''43''' ' perhaps should have concentrated on contraception for her daughter rather than complaining about a few adult sex toys.' My thoughts exactly!!

- Jaqui, merseyside, 8/1/2012 7:54
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So we teach sex to 5 year olds but don't let them see durex protection until they're 20's something. Is that why STI are increasing?

- Toto Kubwa, Cyprus, 8/1/2012 7:41
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Thats why I've lost my teeth, I though it was a new electric tooth brush.

- Dave, Preston, 8/1/2012 7:32
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Maybe if parents were more open and honest with their children, we wouldn't have the highest level of teen pregnancy in the EU. When you take the taboo out of something it takes away the secret ism and excitement in it. Also how many of you take your children on foreign holidays were in many mainstream tourist resorts these items are on the shelves next to everyday items in the resort supermarkets!!! MAYBE and I stress MAYBE it is your own hangups you are projecting???

- ces, somerset, 8/1/2012 7:51
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Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:50 pm

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Maybe if parents were more open and honest with their children, we wouldn't have the highest level of teen pregnancy in the EU. When you take the taboo out of something it takes away the secret ism and excitement in it. Also how many of you take your children on foreign holidays were in many mainstream tourist resorts these items are on the shelves next to everyday items in the resort supermarkets!!! MAYBE and I stress MAYBE it is your own hangups you are projecting???

- ces, somerset, 8/1/2012 7:51
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And the foreigners watch the same pop videos and nasty movies.

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