HELP

[ailbhe]

My mother is reading the Daily Mail.

IN MY HOUSE.

40 minutes later: She says "It's a bit sensationalist. I'm doing the puzzles."

Comments

[gool_duck]

A bit sensationalist.
And a little full of hate.

Just a tad...

[almadsfeika]

If you didn't throttle her with the newspaper, hopefully it will all be okay?

[supermouse]

I am laughing madly at this, but then I have just been up all night after a long and tiring day and a night of no sleep before that too.

[natural20.livejournal.com]

It'd be wrong to set fire to it, while she's reading it, yeah?

[natural20.livejournal.com]

In a good way, like...

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Accidentally set it on fire?

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

Keep an eye out - it's only a small step from reading the Mail to massing tanks on the Polish border. Mark my words!

[nicolap.livejournal.com]

Maybe there's some purification ritual you can perform? Sacrifice a chicken?

[iuil.livejournal.com]

My mother buys "The Irish Daily Mail". For the crossword.

Personally, I can't see any difference between it and "The Irish Independant" - all the news articles are exactly the same. Which re-enforces why I stopped reading the Indo ...

[ailbhe]

Oh, she didn't buy it, she found it on a train.

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

This excuses a vast degree of the offense, as does the puzzles. And the fact that it made it to your house means it will get recycled rather than landfilled, thus increasing it's potential to be better in a future incarnation. Looking on the bright side here.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

This is your mother from Ireland, who is unfamiliar with the Daily Mail due to it not being available where she lives, yes? I think under the circumstances a swift re-education policy and a purification ritual should be sufficient. And rather than burning it, which is not good for the environment, I would favour recycling the remnants of the "news"paper in some manner that would offend its usual readers. For example, using its pages to make posters supporting immigration or lesbian mothers. Or both.

[iuil.livejournal.com]

Coming late to this but the Daily Mail is available in Ireland. In an Irish version, which means that they publish news articles of "Irish interest" on the first few pages and the usual xenophobic misogynistic crap in the rest.