Saturday 5 January 2013

Ban this sick filth



As satirised by the Unicyclopedia website:
During the 1930s the Daily Mail briefly supported the Blackshirts and Nazis before they realised the former were too moderate while the latter were German and therefore European.
...the true nature of the paper is not far off.

It has genuinely published such headlines as:
  • "One in ten state-subsidised homes goes to an immigrant family."
  • "Christianity Under Attack."
  • "Despite her flaws, the only responsible vote in France next Sunday is Marine Le Pen."
  • "Social websites 'harm a child's brain'"
  • "Britain: Sick man of Europe."
  • "Ban this sick filth!"
  • "Tories to launch war on workshy."
  • "Now Green spies will snoop in your home.", and the classic:
  • "Abortion hope after 'gay genes' finding"
It employs columnists who are allowed - nay, encouraged - to write such disgustingly evil stuff as:
"[The] real sadness about [Stephen] Gately's death is that it strikes another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships... For once again, under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see."
(On the day after the Boyzone singer was buried.)
Today - thanks to a new furore conjured up by the biggest peddlers of corrupting trash this side of Rupert Murdoch, this time about the genre they call "sick-lit", better known to sane people as fiction aimed at teenagers - I am strangely drawn to play this apt song for your delectation...


It must be true. I read it in...

2 comments:

  1. Jayzus I thought they were bad over here ... Hi from the W Coast of the US ...

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    1. Hi Julie! Welcome to my world... And to the world of the "super soaring" British tabloid. Jx

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