Basically... who's complete sh*t and who's actually worth taking seriously?
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taking seriously = probably none
some pseudo Leftist folk enjoy the Guardian
the Times has the best cryptic crossword.
some pseudo Leftist folk enjoy the Guardian
the Times has the best cryptic crossword.
E's Flat Ah's Flat Too
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A page three girl probably means the paper lacks journalistic integrity. However, if a paper has journalistic integrity, it probably lacks a page three girl. Classic catch 22, I suppose.
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Broadsheets
The Guardian - Yes left wing, but has Charlie Brooker so can be forgiven and also Notes and Queries http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/series/notes-and-queries which is good. Football good apart from Richard Williams. Also nice cycling articles
The Observer - Sunday sister paper of the Guardian
The Daily Telegraph - Rightwing but I dunno not as bad as it was. Usually good football coverage.
Sunday Telegraph you get the pic
The Times - ditto and ditto Sunday Times
The Independent - more middle of the road - Football good, apart from every friggin thing is one of those pages where you have to click on another page rather than it all being on one for example
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/england-world-cup-player-ratings-2013627.html
FT no not me Financial Times dunno probably dipped into about 3 times in my life.
Not the broadsheets but not tabloids either
The Daily Express - Rightwing but right/middle used to be consider middle class but that's sort of vanished now as most middle class would read one of the broadsheets above. I dunno who reads the express and mail these days. Probably working class people who can read but have no idea of politics.
The Daily Mail - Rightwing home Counties stuff, the sort of paper that hates political correctness and would have a massive orgasm if Jesus appeared again on earth looking like Maggie Thatcher. Not keen on poofters, gollywogs, and any other foreign looking people, (phrases not uncommon in postwar England and still persist in Mail Reader's minds) - Avoid.
Tabloids
The Daily Mirror - Leftish tabloid, okish, but not really but better than the rags below. Sunday Mirror it's sunday sister paper
The Daily Star - A poor mans Sun
The Sun - Everything that is wrong with British society and modern life can be found within it's pages. A champion of deceit, intolerance, bigotry, I could go on and on. During the Falklands they wanted to run a competition called "Kill an Argy and win a Cortina" for the troops over there - true story. If you want to read about the rise of the Tabloids read "Stick It up your Punter the fall and rise of the Sun". (possibly out of print).
News of the Screws- sister paper of the Sun - as bad.
Once you hit the tabloids football transfer rumors get more ludicrous. Mind you they are getting caught up by these weird websites like caughtoffside.com or whatever which I will never read.
Footysite
Football365 - Used to be good, not a paper, bought out by Sky. Anyone remember Skip?
Other
Private Eye
Satirical magazine set up by Peter Cook, (I was having my usual thursday evening w**k...) Great at times but I've not read it for ages. Used to keep it's beady eyes on the murky goings on in politics. Try it if you are moving over there.
ForteanTimes2010-07-01 23:43:27
The Guardian - Yes left wing, but has Charlie Brooker so can be forgiven and also Notes and Queries http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/series/notes-and-queries which is good. Football good apart from Richard Williams. Also nice cycling articles
The Observer - Sunday sister paper of the Guardian
The Daily Telegraph - Rightwing but I dunno not as bad as it was. Usually good football coverage.
Sunday Telegraph you get the pic
The Times - ditto and ditto Sunday Times
The Independent - more middle of the road - Football good, apart from every friggin thing is one of those pages where you have to click on another page rather than it all being on one for example
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/england-world-cup-player-ratings-2013627.html
FT no not me Financial Times dunno probably dipped into about 3 times in my life.
Not the broadsheets but not tabloids either
The Daily Express - Rightwing but right/middle used to be consider middle class but that's sort of vanished now as most middle class would read one of the broadsheets above. I dunno who reads the express and mail these days. Probably working class people who can read but have no idea of politics.
The Daily Mail - Rightwing home Counties stuff, the sort of paper that hates political correctness and would have a massive orgasm if Jesus appeared again on earth looking like Maggie Thatcher. Not keen on poofters, gollywogs, and any other foreign looking people, (phrases not uncommon in postwar England and still persist in Mail Reader's minds) - Avoid.
Tabloids
The Daily Mirror - Leftish tabloid, okish, but not really but better than the rags below. Sunday Mirror it's sunday sister paper
The Daily Star - A poor mans Sun
The Sun - Everything that is wrong with British society and modern life can be found within it's pages. A champion of deceit, intolerance, bigotry, I could go on and on. During the Falklands they wanted to run a competition called "Kill an Argy and win a Cortina" for the troops over there - true story. If you want to read about the rise of the Tabloids read "Stick It up your Punter the fall and rise of the Sun". (possibly out of print).
News of the Screws- sister paper of the Sun - as bad.
Once you hit the tabloids football transfer rumors get more ludicrous. Mind you they are getting caught up by these weird websites like caughtoffside.com or whatever which I will never read.
Footysite
Football365 - Used to be good, not a paper, bought out by Sky. Anyone remember Skip?
Other
Private Eye
Satirical magazine set up by Peter Cook, (I was having my usual thursday evening w**k...) Great at times but I've not read it for ages. Used to keep it's beady eyes on the murky goings on in politics. Try it if you are moving over there.
ForteanTimes2010-07-01 23:43:27
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I used to read the Telegraph in the UK, mostly because the sports, esp. football, coverage was sh*t hot and I liked the crossword.
Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.
"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003
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A couple of months later they followed up with this. F**king hilarious!
terminator_x2010-07-02 10:46:06
terminator_x2010-07-02 10:46:06
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The Sun rules - it's got tits in it!
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I like tautologies because I like them.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1113507/The-best-players-world-Xavi--Ronaldo-crowned-king-football.html
The headline in this article is why people don't like the British press.
The headline in this article is why people don't like the British press.
Three for me, and two for them.
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And of course the Morning Star - for your daily dose of permanent revolution and international socialism
When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!
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The Sun - Everything that is wrong with British society and modern life can be found within it's pages. A champion of deceit, intolerance, bigotry, I could go on and on. During the Falklands they wanted to run a competition called "Kill an Argy and win a Cortina" for the troops over there - true story. If you want to read about the rise of the Tabloids read "Stick It up your Punter the fall and rise of the Sun". (possibly out of print).
Also responsible for printing a bunch of lies about the behaviour of the Liverpool fans after Hillsborough under a huge banner reading "THE TRUTH" and refusing to apologise for them until 2004. Even today many newsagents in Liverpool refuse to stock it. Part of the reason Reds fans hate Rooney so much (even before he joined Utd) was because he sold his life story to the Sun.
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Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!
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The Sun - Everything that is wrong with British society and modern life can be found within it's pages. A champion of deceit, intolerance, bigotry, I could go on and on. During the Falklands they wanted to run a competition called "Kill an Argy and win a Cortina" for the troops over there - true story. If you want to read about the rise of the Tabloids read "Stick It up your Punter the fall and rise of the Sun". (possibly out of print).
Also responsible for printing a bunch of lies about the behaviour of the Liverpool fans after Hillsborough under a huge banner reading "THE TRUTH" and refusing to apologise for them until 2004. Even today many newsagents in Liverpool refuse to stock it. Part of the reason Reds fans hate Rooney so much (even before he joined Utd) was because he sold his life story to the Sun.
To be fair, that fool Kelvin McKenzie was solely responsible for that, and eventually apologised...only to later state he didn't think he should've apologised and only did so because Ruport Murdoch told him to!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_B5CzbTJo - Caceres winning penalty v Perth - footage from the Fever Zone
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Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
You beat me to it!
"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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Basically... who's complete sh*t and who's actually worth taking seriously?
The Indepdent and the FT are both worth taking seriously. Both because they see BOTH sides of the spectrum at times.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe.
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And of course the Morning Star - for your daily dose of permanent revolution and international socialism
WTF? Those are Trotskyite slogans, the Morning Star are run by old-school Stalin-lovers. You're thinking of Socialist Worker.
Doloras2010-09-16 16:14:45Ramming liberal dribble down your throat since 2009
This forum needs less angst and more Kate Bush threads
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And of course the Morning Star - for your daily dose of permanent revolution and international socialism
WTF? Those are Trotskyite slogans, the Morning Star are run by old-school Stalin-lovers. You're thinking of Socialist Worker.
Unfortunately, not being a political science grad, by grasp of the nuances of stalinist communism versus trotskyist communism is rather weak.
I only heard of public choice theory yesterday, reading about Yes Minister!, and still don't know what it means after reading the whole wikipedia entry on it - I think it boils down to political self interest and esp pork-bellying in the US.
When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!
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Sunday Sport ftw
Great headline. So what was the story behind that? Similar to the National Enquirer one about the woman giving birth to an alien fish?Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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I mix it up. Sometimes FT, sometimes Guardian, sometimes Times, sometimes Telegraph. All of them are reasonable imo.
Sunday Sport is pure lol.
Sunday Sport is pure lol.
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I mix it up. Sometimes FT, sometimes Guardian, sometimes Times, sometimes Telegraph.
That's what I call livin' on the edge.
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ahhhh, the Sunday Spurt. You cannot beat pictures of chubby girls with goose-pimples getting their baps out.
All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight
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I mix it up. Sometimes FT, sometimes Guardian, sometimes Times, sometimes Telegraph.
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That's what I call livin' on the edge.
[QUOTE=Frankie Mac] ahhhh, the Sunday Spurt.� You cannot beat pictures of chubby girls with goose-pimples getting their baps out.
The latest edition had the fat bitch that got into a fight on the X-Factor with her tits out.
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