I'm a secret Daily Mail reader
Although I'm quite critical of the Daily Mail and wouldn't dream of buying it, I do visit their website and read the articles. Part of me feels dirty for doing this so I also arrow peoples comments. Anything that mentions immigrants, broken Britain, scroungers or has more than one exclamation mark per sentence gets a red arrow. Anything reasonable gets a green one. The ratio of red versus green so far is about 65:1.

I know this is quite a pathetic confession but if you'd ever heard me go on about the Daily Fail you'd appreciate the gesture.
(pooster found out how long a piece of string was on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 19:45, 5 replies)

I confess....
.....I do the same
(ladraven, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 20:24, closed)

!
I once hid a Daily Mail inside a Razzle.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Mon 30 Aug 2010, 22:49, closed)

Yep, me too.
I used to have a game going with my friend Ed, where we'd each post a comment on an article, and then see how many red arrows we could get. Bigot-Baiting, we called it. The trick was striking the balance between being left-wing enough to wind up the readers, but not so left-wing that the moderators would block the comment.

Sadly this game came to an end when Ed got carried away with his commenting one day and wound up getting banned from posting anything on the DM website. Without the competitive element the game just wasn't as much fun for me after that.
(Uncle Comrade, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 21:02, closed)

My Mum buys the Mail.
Allegedly it's just for the TV guide, and in all objectivity it is a pretty good TV guide, but she loses all plausibility the moment she starts going on about immigrants/single mothers/Muslims. It's at these moments that she conveniently forgets that she herself is an immigrant.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 8:36, closed)

so true
My other arf is an immigrant. She likes the Mail. Let's hear it for Cognitive Dissonance, yay!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 31 Aug 2010, 10:27, closed)