Do you know someone , maybe a work colleague etc who reads the Mail, who you wouldn't have down for a Mail reader.
A woman who I work with reads it , I was suprised as she is literally the total opposite of your typical Mail reader .
On the other side of the coin, a friend of ours elderley mother, looks like the sterotypical Tory but she is a Guardian reader.

I'm always surprised by how many women I see reading it.

Isn't it meant to be the most popular paper with women over 40 or something?,,

You're right. It's odd though as the Mail hates women.

"Written by office boys for office boys"

Surprised when I see black people reading it on the tube.

There's a bloke in the local who gets it just for the puzzle section in the middle. He sometimes lets me do the crossword on the back page, which is quite a good one (read... piss easy to do!).

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I know someone who you would not expect to read the Mail. I mean, you would really not expect it, given their line of work, their background, their gender, their sexuality and their professed political leanings. They are very conflicted and something of a bundle of impossible contradictions. They do a groovy bastard right on type of job but carry it out in an authoritarian browbeating manner, etc.

Maybe there is something in there about self-hate?

I wonder if any unlikely celebritys read it. Don't know if he reads it but Marcus Brigstocke plugged his new book by doing an interview with them a few months back (was quite dissapointed by that)

A mate of mine at work occasionally gets it (about once a week) just to laugh at it

My mum's new fella reads it. She's as Guardian as they come.

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My parents friends get it for the puzzles too.

I know people who 'get it for the TV guide'. This is a crappy ruse to avoid discussing the implications of holding certain views.

A teacher friend of ours once asked if I'd like to read her copy of the DM while I waited to collect my daughter, and expressed surprise when I politely explained why I'd rather not.

Apparently it had never occurred to her that the paper might be a festering pile of hateful shite (not my exact words, you understand), as she "only bought it for the TV guide".

She has now seen the error of her ways, and gets the Independent instead.

I feel my work with her is done.

As I once pointed out to my mother - she buys it, even though she falls into three of the categories that the Mail loathes - single parent, parent to a gay child and she's a public sector worker.

Then again, my mother is an idiot.

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