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Post by Carrotline on Nov 20, 2004 11:52:52 GMT
I really should know better. The broadsheets are all sold at reduced prices in the union to try and disuade the students from reading this pap but I still do.
I disagree with most of the stuff in and particualrly the way a number of the journalists in it say any major policitical, social or cultural event occuring in the country is down to them. See Band Aid III.
That aside, Dear Deirdre is worth the cover price alone. People don't want help with their problems, they just want to gloat and show off.
There's always something like "I'm a 56 year old bald fat fucker from Grimsby and I've started banging a 19 year old supermodel. What shall I do about my wife?" .
Its just hilarious.
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Post by Snuff on Nov 20, 2004 17:42:07 GMT
I always buy The Sun when i know i shouldn't be. It's only 25p and i get Victoria Newtons Bizarre. Richard LittlePrick really pisses me off. But I love reading his "views" and then slaging them off.
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Post by ste on Nov 22, 2004 1:21:15 GMT
I always buy The Sun when i know i shouldn't be. It's only 25p and i get Victoria Newtons Bizarre. Richard LittlePrick really pisses me off. But I love reading his "views" and then slaging them off. I think that this is crazy. The salaries of the people who compile pointless, vacuous, reactionary bile for The Sun - Littlejohn, Newton, and so on - are funded by people who buy the paper and the people who choose to advertise in it. The latter make their decision to advertise based on the number of copies The Sun sells (and the demographics that it sells to - but broadly just the fact that it sells a lot of copies). If you are buying The Sun, regardless of whether you're buying it to hate it or not, you're a +1 in the sales column, and you're encouraging exactly the sort of poisonous shit you love to hate. I think it is best to be safe, and stay away.
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Post by Lita on Nov 23, 2004 8:59:39 GMT
& If you want guilty tabloid pleasures, there's always The Mirror, especially as it's now turned back to more sleb coverage and less hard news.
You still get a crappy advice column, the 3am girls doing the celeb stuff, and Ian Hyland doing the telly, who's much funnier than whoever does it in The Sun.
And you don't ahve to feel guilty about their political views - The Mirror is much nicer.
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Post by Bridgey on Jan 10, 2005 17:28:03 GMT
I think that this is crazy. The salaries of the people who compile pointless, vacuous, reactionary bile for The Sun - Littlejohn, Newton, and so on - are funded by people who buy the paper and the people who choose to advertise in it. The latter make their decision to advertise based on the number of copies The Sun sells (and the demographics that it sells to - but broadly just the fact that it sells a lot of copies). If you are buying The Sun, regardless of whether you're buying it to hate it or not, you're a +1 in the sales column, and you're encouraging exactly the sort of poisonous shit you love to hate. I think it is best to be safe, and stay away. Damn them taking the Littlejohn columns off the intranot. And they really shouldn't do Chav jokes. They're belittling most of their readership, aren't they? Bridgey xxx
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Post by mackenzie on Jan 10, 2005 19:20:08 GMT
Dear Deidre is so ace.
I heart the daily photo casebook or whatever it is.I love how in the sex 'scenes', the male party keeps his underwear on whilst the girl gets her tats out. Genius.
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Post by Carrotline on Jan 11, 2005 10:02:48 GMT
The lady's doing housework /making cups of tea/picking kids up on the school run in their undies really doesn't distract or trivialise the problems Deidre is trying to demostrate through her photo-stories at all does it?
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Post by mintjesus on Jan 22, 2006 17:44:56 GMT
must say actually good music reviews on a Friday in something for the weekend section...some quite obscure stuff as well!!!
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Post by Cherubic on Jan 28, 2006 20:17:56 GMT
must say actually good music reviews on a Friday in something for the weekend section...some quite obscure stuff as well!!! But it's called 'Something for the weekend'. No one has used that phrase with any seriousness since they got rid of national service. Like much else in the Sun, it's smutty but in a depressing rather than fun. It's like a seaside postcard with the fat wife absentmindedly tossing off her little Englander spouse.
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Post by baronrustybox on Feb 12, 2006 19:52:13 GMT
i think diedre makes it all up. how else do you think they all use the same language. i dont know anyone who calls there boyfriend thier 'fella' or shagging a 'romp' but everyone on dear dierde does. i can see her now flickin her bean over the word processor every night.
that said, shes got a cracking imagination
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Feb 12, 2006 20:00:40 GMT
I think they edit them.
Because they can't exactly print:
"I'm fucking a 16 year-old"
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Post by baronrustybox on Feb 13, 2006 11:08:49 GMT
yeah, i suppose. i always skip the adultery ones now. unless its someting juicy like beastiality or gay. incests always a winner though
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Post by gecko on Jul 20, 2006 21:39:41 GMT
its usually just filled with comment most of time
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Post by Bridgey on Jul 21, 2006 19:17:17 GMT
its usually just filled with comment most of time Yeah - I know. Moving swiftly on - do you know anyone that admits actually writing to the Sun's letter page? I think it's consisted mostly of people on their lunchbreaks sending their opinions with forwards of Anne Geddes 'victims'. It's due a fucking Scottish Metro pisstake invasion. Bridgey xxx
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Jul 22, 2006 0:03:28 GMT
I think they edit them. Because they can't exactly print: "I'm fucking a 16 year-old" I thought they just made them all up. They could print that anyway, perfectly legal innit? Not to suggest that I'm doing anything of the sort myself (I always make her leave the room before I log on to lowculture).
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 23, 2006 0:25:18 GMT
I don't think they can print "fuck" uncensored, or they self censor at least.
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Post by [james] on Jul 23, 2006 8:27:46 GMT
I don't think they can print "fuck" uncensored, or they self censor at least. They can, they just choose to censor it.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 23, 2006 10:49:14 GMT
That's what I meant, they self censor.
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Post by Sean on Jul 25, 2006 23:12:42 GMT
They also censor t*ts, I have seen this on Page 3 and it is as vaguely amusing as it sounds.
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Post by Nicholas on Jul 26, 2006 8:08:17 GMT
Tw*ts.
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