Bloody foreigners!

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:46 pm

jguazu wrote:

Sort of foreigner-related - I've got this thing on Firefox that displays a little flag on the browser to show where websites are based. I don't know how accurate it is (and I have no ideas how servers work) but apparently Mailonline's server is based in Chile - which seems strange, seeing as the Mail is so against outsourcing stuff to foreign countries. Is there any way to check if that's true? I mean, it seems to be accurate with other websites...

That's a negative. Well, probably "forrin" to most Mailtards.

Server IP address: 195.234.240.212

Global positioning: 54.166997, -4.482106 = Isle of Man (Douglas)

I would reckon they're using a bit of jiggery and a lot of pokery to hide that info from potential hackers - but, like everything else associated with the MailOnLine... they're a bit shit at doing their job.

oboogie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:24 pm

Well that's a relief.
I've just spent a bit of time hunting for evidence that Chile was about to side with Argentina.
I found none.

So Mailonline's served in the Isle of Man eh, how apt, what with their love of spanking and homophobia.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:54 pm

oboogie wrote:

So Mailonline's served in the Isle of Man eh, how apt, what with their love of spanking and homophobia.

I wonder if Clarkson knows this? He's got a house there, has he not?

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2892

Radical plan to create new Midlands city on green belt land to cope with population growth

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1qCY0bXmC

This article is ostensibly about planning laws, but looking at the top-rated comments the reference to "population growth" has obviously acted as a dog-whistle:

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would not be overcrowding if someone had the balls to lock the doors.
- steve., manchester england., 25/3/2012 14:02

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Wouldn't it be better to limit the size of the uk population now?? There are enough people here. A large portion are breeding like rabbits. That has to be enough....you build more towns and cities and more people will think its fine to move here.
- Paul Ennis, London, Eastern Europe!!!!, 25/3/2012 13:28

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In keeping with all things british these days, this new town/city should be given an international name. I propose we call it Mecca.
- James, Glasgow, 25/3/2012 14:08

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Have you picked a suitable name for it yet? Possibly "New Karachi." Or is this to house the white flight?
- Herr Peas, Spittal, Austria, 25/3/2012 14:23

Althea · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:53 am

I disagree with the comments, but agree with their spirit.

There's only a good number of abandoned houses lying around. Plenty near me. Couldn't hurt to do those up first, could it?

DTR · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:05 am

Althea wrote:

I disagree with the comments, but agree with their spirit.

There's only a good number of abandoned houses lying around. Plenty near me. Couldn't hurt to do those up first, could it?

I believe sometime around the late 90s councils in Yorkshire where offering their empty housing stock to people on waiting lists in London boroughs. In the end I don't think many stayed, due to lack of jobs and racism in some areas.

Patrick100 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:38 pm **Posts:** 600

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UK at 'extreme' risk of flu pandemic as millions of foreign visitors expected for Olympics
5.3 million extra foreign tourists expected in UK this summer
Pandemic could spread from visitors from high-risk countries in South-East Asia

Shows map with lots of orange but UK is red. Now I'm scared.
Or is it a long range weather forecast?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z1qtkFt9Ty

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:50 pm

Britannis imperium redit!

shyamz · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:16 pm

Patrick100 wrote:

Quote:

UK at 'extreme' risk of flu pandemic as millions of foreign visitors expected for Olympics
5.3 million extra foreign tourists expected in UK this summer
Pandemic could spread from visitors from high-risk countries in South-East Asia

Shows map with lots of orange but UK is red. Now I'm scared.
Or is it a long range weather forecast?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z1qtkFt9Ty

They've found another angle to bash the London Olympics from I see, with added forin-bashing as well. Two birds with one stone, nice work DM.

jguazu · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:09 pm **Posts:** 458

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2124465/Homeless-migrants-shanty-town-Northampton-shanty-town.html
The roundabout people: Jobless migrants forced to set up tent village and go fishing at a nearby lake

Sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere - the comments under this are fucking atrocious. Anyways, something doesn't make sense in the artice...

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The council’s cabinet member for housing, counsellor Mary Markham said: 'We think they’ve moved to Northampton having been unable to find work in Peterborough and other areas.

'Unfortunately their status is such that they’re not eligible for housing benefit or council housing and, from what they’ve told us, they’re struggling to find employment.

What? What happened to the free cars, plasma TVs, and 15-bedroom council mansions that immigrants are supposed to get?

Amazonian · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:17 pm

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Order of the boot is required here. Cattle class fare home and make sure they get on the plane. Unfortunately the mollusc in number ten is so spineless that nothing ever happens.

- Nanuk of the North, Morpeth Northumberland, 03/4/2012 16:31

"Cattle class"? Charming. Bet Nanuk wishes that they could just be shuttled off to a nice Zyklon-B shower instead. It, and the 955 who've green-arrowed it, are all worthy CotD contenders. Bloody shameful.

oboogie · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:27 pm

Amazonian wrote:

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Order of the boot is required here. Cattle class fare home and make sure they get on the plane. Unfortunately the mollusc in number ten is so spineless that nothing ever happens.

- Nanuk of the North, Morpeth Northumberland, 03/4/2012 16:31

"Cattle class"? Charming. Bet Nanuk wishes that they could just be shuttled off to a nice Zyklon-B shower instead. It, and the 955 who've green-arrowed it, are all worthy CotD contenders. Bloody shameful.

Reading those comments I feel it can only be a matter of time before someone suggests eating them.

Squeaker · **Joined:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 3:23 pm **Posts:** 764

oboogie wrote:

Amazonian wrote:

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Order of the boot is required here. Cattle class fare home and make sure they get on the plane. Unfortunately the mollusc in number ten is so spineless that nothing ever happens.

- Nanuk of the North, Morpeth Northumberland, 03/4/2012 16:31

"Cattle class"? Charming. Bet Nanuk wishes that they could just be shuttled off to a nice Zyklon-B shower instead. It, and the 955 who've green-arrowed it, are all worthy CotD contenders. Bloody shameful.

Reading those comments I feel it can only be a matter of time before someone suggests eating them.

A Modest Proposal indeed! :wink:

oboogie · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:28 pm

Squeaker wrote:

A Modest Proposal indeed! :wink:

I think some of the Mailturds would quite readily respond to the call of the wild.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:40 pm

oboogie wrote:

So Mailonline's served in the Isle of Man eh...

Odd thing happening. Got some "complaint" emails form the ShiteRag's moderation monkeys. Some have a time on them which corresponds to UK time at the moment but others have a GMT -8 time - US west coast.

Interesting.

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