Misery

ezinra · **Posted:** Sun Nov 13, 2011 9:49 pm

One of the Mail's trinity of -y headline words, together with fury and modesty. Misery is particularly associated with travel, as in today's article:

Christmas train misery as 47 sets of engineering works are planned for holiday period

And previously:

Rail ticket prices: Misery for travellers as fares to soar by up to 30 percent

White-out misery for air travellers AGAIN as blizzards 'of historic proportions' sweep across 30 U.S. states on Groundhog Day

Motorway misery for drivers as transport bosses say potholes smaller than soup bowls are not 'urgent'

Summer holiday misery looms for thousands of U.S. passengers as Virgin Atlantic pilots vote to strike

Using Heathrow's a passport to misery

Snap snowfalls cause more misery for commuters

Misery at the airports as heavy snow hits the getaway... but a glimmer of hope as sun is forecast for tomorrow

satnav · **Posted:** Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:33 pm

Surely miserable people are the target audience of the Mail, I think anyone who read every story in the Mail they would be very miserable or depressed at the end.

Paul · **Posted:** Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:34 pm

Misery brightens up the Daily Mail readers day.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7411

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Using Heathrow's a passport to misery

Occasionally I find myself agreeing with the Mail.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:24 am

It's a good word. Unfortunately, like others, it becomes devalued by the Mail's use of it as cliché.

ezinra · **Posted:** Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:53 pm

Misery for the sick as thousands of NHS operations are cancelled due to strikes and staff take to the picket lines

Quote:

Well I was at hospitaal first thing this morning and it wasn't misery for me Daily Mail.

- jim woodwoods, peterborough, 30/11/2011 10:12 Rating 9

ezinra · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:36 pm

The misery of being Mrs Big Foot: Newsreader Kate Silverton (size nine) says it can make life agony

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:36 pm

She says she agonised over men looking critically at her non-fashionable shoes. Listen sweetheart, blokes don't look at a girl's shoes and couldn't care less if they don't fit in with whatever is in fashion. But her décolletage, that's another kettle of fish altogether.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:35 pm

Daley Mayle wrote:

But her décolletage, that's another kettle of fish altogether.

New readers start here. Decolletage = knockers.

Arnold · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:44 pm

Abernathy wrote:

Daley Mayle wrote:

But her décolletage, that's another kettle of fish altogether.

New readers start here. Decolletage = knockers = assets (Mailspeak).

FTFY.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:53 pm

Ah "Misery". The exaggeration is bad enough. The selectiveness (of who is entitled to misery) is even worse.

The sodding Standard is always on about road works- "misery for drivers". You know what, take a fucking tube if it's that bad. Or maybe a bus. Because bus passengers are never supposed to be miserable. We just sit there and lap up those traffic jams. Because we're losers just riding around for cheap entertainment. Hell, they should charge us more for getting warm on TFL's heating.

Arnold · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:03 am

Quote:

Gales batter Britain causing misery for millions as they head back to work after extended Christmas break

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1iO7kCSXj
That's a lot of misery.

Arnold · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:08 am

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Don't despair but today is the most depressing day of the year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1iO8elfdb

Quote:

The misery can set in earlier, however, and on Sunday December 4 last year, just 21.6 per cent of people said they were happy

Esqui · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:01 pm

I was one of those 21%, it was my birthday!

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:36 pm

Arnold wrote:

Quote:

Don't despair but today is the most depressing day of the year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1iO8elfdb

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The misery can set in earlier, however, and on Sunday December 4 last year, just 21.6 per cent of people said they were happy

No. I won't have that. The most depressing day is later on in the month when the Mail dusts off its archives and resurrects an article about a boffin from a red-brick university needing a fillip to his career and has worked out a complex formula that pinpoints the third week of January.

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Dr Cliff Arnall, of Cardiff University, came up with the date using a formula to illustrate the various emotional factors at play.

It reads: [W+(D-d)]xTQ MxNA and takes into account six factors likely to have an emotional impact at this time of year.

These include the weather (W), debt (D) (minus the amount of money to be paid on your next pay day) and the time since Christmas (T). Then there is the time since a failed attempt to quit a bad habit (Q) along with general motivational levels (M) and the need to take action to have something to look forward to (NA).

Dr Arnall said the formula results could vary between individuals. But he believed January 24 would work out as the lowest point for many.

Or earlier...

18th January 2011
Feeling depressed? Welcome to Blue Monday - officially the most miserable day of the year

19th January 2009
Feeling blue? Today - January 19, 2009 - is the most depressing day in HISTORY, say experts

Or later...

24th January 2005
Oh no, not January 24th!

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