Bit of a result for Dimbers. It's always been the case that the host of Any Questions? on a Friday evening was obliged also to host the Any Fascists? phone-in the following Saturday lunchtime, which always struck me as being a bit of a pain in the arse.

Now he's manged to offload Any Fascists? to another presenter but keep the main presenting job, he must be chuffed.

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I'm a nasty, violent lefty. You cunt.

Agreed.
However I am going to miss his sharp intakes of breath as he controls his temper at the predominantly right-wing loons.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

Headline on the home page -

The his 'n' hers gastric bands: Husband and wife lost 41 STONE between them after bypass surgery

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I'd rather shoot Paul Dacre than anyone else in the country- Colin Dexter. A direct quote from the Radio Times m'learned friends

I was quite amused when I read about this story in the 'Funny Old World' Private Eye column. I've not found any evidence that it's been covered already.

Dentist's revenge leaves ex toothless



Well whaddya know:

Vengeful teeth-pulling dentist story deemed a hoax



Here's the origin of the hoax:

Sorry...

But at least the Huffington Post is big enough to admit it got it wrong!

Report Of Dentist Removing All Of Ex's Teeth Turns Out To Be Hoax

Daily Mail churnalism has well and truly gone global! It's still on Fox News and ABC News websites, amongst others.

Still, it gave all the Mail's embittered misogynists a chance for a good moan. And that's justification enough for Dacre.

A decade after Blink 182's iconic Enema of the State album cover... beautiful Janine Lindemulder appears in a MUGSHOT!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2149630/Blink-182s-iconic-Enema-States-Janine-Lindemulder--look-now.html

So: woman looks different in mugshot taken 12 years after photoshopped album cover pic.

But the article admits the mugshot is from January 2011. And it was published at the time.

So why have they dug it out again now?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1w3xlpeBL
Not unlikely at all. It's known as imprinting, and a 100% certainty.

That's one hell of a daily walk. The nature reserve is in Lancashire.
My post wasn't popular for some reason.

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.

It's as though Konrad Lorenz had never lived...

26 August 2011: Animal rights protestors sabotage packets of Nurofen.

Today: Codeine addict jailed for sabotaging packets of Nurofen.

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/animal-rights-protestorsor-codeine.html

From football365.com, a story that shows the Mail's standards run across departments:

"Our very own Transfer Gossip column raised eyebrows at a story on the Daily Mail's website about Arsenal 'monitoring developments with Athletic Bilbao's Fernando Llorente'. Arsenal paying £28m for a 27-year-old striker with a year left on his contract did seem rather more than a tad odd.

Our suspicion was not placated by the article's bizarre third paragraph -'The Lion King as he is known is an amiable person and is looked after by his brother Txus' - written by a 'Sportsmail Reporter' presumably too embarrassed to add his/her name.

So where could this 'Sportsmail Reporter' have got his/her information? Could it be from prolific tweeter @JamieAlexTimes - who claims to be Jamie Alexander, a 'Sports journalist at the Times newspaper' - who revealed on Sunday: 'Fernando Llorente has agreed a €25 million transfer with Arsenal and will move in the next few days. Replacement for RVP. #afc #Arsenal' and earned himself 50-plus re-tweets for his troubles.

Of course, Twitter regulars will know that @JamieAlexTimes is not a Times journalist at all, but a fantasist who claims inside knowledge on football deals ('Finally confirmed. Lille head of PR just texted to say Eden Hazard has signed contract & is on way to Old Trafford for medical. #mufc #mcfc' is just one example).

He also claims that he replaced James Ducker who had a 'very unsavoury exit and was very violent' on being sacked by The Times. Bizarrely, he uses a picture of US professor Eric Alterman on his profile. When challenged by Alterman, 'Jamie Alexander' replied 'I'm not pretending to be you, I'm just using your face. I assume it's not copyrighted?'

But this great pretender's word is presumably good enough for at least one 'Sportsmail Reporter'. "

http://www.football365.com/mediawatch/7 ... e-The-Math

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.

And the Mail has a go at the BBC for repeating content...

Today.
Pictured: The UFO-shaped object found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea... covered in soot, with 'little fireplaces' and lying at the end of a 1,000ft runway
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ead_module

June 01 2012
Will divers finally get to the bottom of the Baltic Sea 'UFO' mystery? Team heads into the abyss to discover the origins of strange, 400-metre 'Millennium Falcon' object
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... bject.html

January 29 2012
'It's either the Millennium Falcon or a gateway to hell': Shipwreck hunters find mysterious object at bottom of Baltic Sea
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... c-Sea.html

02 August 2011
The wreck files: Have scientists found a crashed flying saucer on the seabed?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... eabed.html


Didn't know exactly where to put it. Maybe there should be a 'Mail Repeats' thread or something.

Was that written by a nine year old?

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"Common Sense is the collection of prejudices aquired by age eighteen" - Albert Einstein

There's the "Deja vu" thread.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

It sounds like a direct lift from one of the prequels.

And the the other stormtrooper replies.
"Yes! That explains why Yoda left Coruscant in such a hurry, it's totaly consistent and no geek at a convention will ever imply there are bloopers in the story."