Apologies, daily fail link. Does Gove have blue balls?
Bloke at work gets the mail (honest guv). Yesterday I noticed a bit in Sarah Vain's (Micheal Goves wife) column...I've repeated it below so you don't need to click through. Maybe Gove is a bit, er, frustrated?
"Starved of sex? More like a glut!
My favourite story of the week was about the spreadsheet sent by a sexually frustrated 26-year-old to his wife, detailing all her excuses for not making love over the past month.
She was so cross she immediately uploaded it onto the internet — whereupon it naturally went viral.
Personally, I can’t see what he’s got to complain about. Over the period detailed, his advances were successful on fully three occasions — which, for a couple who’ve been together for five years, doesn’t seem like bad going to me.
Wait until they have kids. Once a month will seem like a miracle then."
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Greenbat, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:13,
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is that really her name Sarah...
..Vain? What's her middle name - Shallow?
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:32,
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Depends how much Private Eye you read
It's Vine, but Vain often fits far better.
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Greenbat, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:37,
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Much like Piers Moron [sic]
Private Eye should be a mandatory supplement for anyone who wants to read and then regurgitate the nation's pisspoor newspapers. Like my Mum who's now an expert on Middle Eastern and Ukrainian politics.
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:39,
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"She was so cross she immediately uploaded it onto the internet — whereupon it naturally went viral"
It never ceases to amaze me how much some people in marriages genuinely hate each other
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Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:34,
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I'm worried. The Daily Mail is clearly not to blame for doing what it does.
It's giving its audience precisely what it wants. Lots of trashy shit, misleading racist tripe and pointless non-news articles.
But this means that a truly massive proportion of this country is completely fucktarded because they're buying into it.
Oh no, I think my head's about to blow up :(
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:37,
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most people lead meaningless lives
All kids know it - they call such people meanies.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 12:18,
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Inevitably, someone's going to mention "Flat Earth News";
but you could go back further - at least as far back as Hoggart, in 1957, in The Uses of Literacy (London: Penguin Classics, 2009):
"We need to hold fast to the nature of popular publication - that they are now the products of large-scale commercial organizations, that they belong not to the history of the Press properly speaking, nor to affairs, nor to politics, but to entertainment; that their handling of 'opinion' is largely irrational manipulation for the purposes of entertainment, that when one of these papers says, 'We give the facts... astounding...', this is not so much a statement of their attitude as an entertainer's patter, of the same order as, 'There's nothing up my sleeve.'" (p 216)
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 13:05,
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Nice quote.
What's the book like? Had a quick look on Amazon and it looks to be more of a class study as opposed to something purely about the press (which probably interests me more).
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 14:44,
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There's not much about the press specifically;
it's about popular culture more generally. And a lot of his examples are fictionalised, because his publishers were scared of getting sued if he used real ones.
Ho hum.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 15:53,
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as has been pointed out on /links, he's more than a bit of a wanker so no worries
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