Why do we have to put up with the Daily Fail?
Apr 27, 2011, 2:36 am
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Apr 27, 2011, 2:39 am
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Give or take the odd tweak, I suspect this still largely holds true (sharp eyed readers will note the absence of the the self-proclaimed World's Greatest Newspaper):
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 the 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 t*ts.
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 the 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 t*ts.
Apr 27, 2011, 2:57 am
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The DM readers arent racist at all compared to the readers of the Sun and Express.
Apr 27, 2011, 10:35 am
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Couldn't agree less about the Sun. It may have its faults, but racism isn't one of them. The Express on the other hand.....
Apr 27, 2011, 10:37 am
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And of course, it's absolutely true because I read it in the Daily Mail. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
Apr 27, 2011, 10:43 am
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And of course, it's absolutely true because I read it in the Daily Mail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
Apr 27, 2011, 11:22 am
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If you're now under the impression that Trotsky was murdered with an axe made from sapient pearwood, you have only yourself to blame.
Apr 27, 2011, 11:32 am
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The correct answer is to tell the OP to fly F, or do enoiugh TP runs to get a CCR card. (God forbid you should have to pay for your own newspaper when flying, rather than spending £8,000 on an F ticket.) The CCR always seems to have plenty of copies of pretty much every major English newspaper and a few funny foreign ones. No Mail dominance in there.
Apr 27, 2011, 12:39 pm
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Apr 27, 2011, 3:27 pm
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Apr 27, 2011, 3:50 pm
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Apr 28, 2011, 1:05 am
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Why didnt we pay Gordon Brown £50,000 a year to do lecture tours of the US. That way the UK would be in a better place.
Apr 28, 2011, 2:58 am
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Although the ability to get a refund if you've not used 7 days vouchers negates this slightly - if I've got a run of trips I tend to forgo the paper via vouchers on a couple of days and either buy it off the shelf or pick up something else, and get a refund.
