Daily Mail Con

[Garvey]

The Forum is Amazing ......But

The forum is amazing. Nearly 600 have viewed the thread on the Daily Mail with 60 contributors - thank you. However.....? My post on non germinating fuschia seed has had no replies. Can anyone help?

[zazen999]

The forum is amazing. Nearly 600 have viewed the thread on the Daily Mail with 60 contributors - thank you. However.....? My post on non germinating fuschia seed has had no replies. Can anyone help?

I've no idea - perhaps if you expanded on what you had done then others could suggest different ways of trying to get them to germinate.

[piskieinboots]

The forum is amazing. Nearly 600 have viewed the thread on the Daily Mail with 60 contributors - thank you. However.....? My post on non germinating fuschia seed has had no replies. Can anyone help?

ROFL - sorry, that made me chuckle

Andi thinks the DM do the best weekly TV

He's right

[FionaH]

Seeds to the Stazi to fuschias, not bad!

[BUFFS]

To be fair, it's not just the Daily Mail. At this time of year most of the papers and magazines are offering "free" seeds, plants and bulbs. And they all charge for postage and packing.

if the paper was bought for the freebies,and you dont want to fork out the charge(postage),at least make it worth your while and use said paper under the roost bars to catch the droppings,NOW the mail is useful,at long last...

[stella]

After all that is anyone taking up the offer of the summer bulbs

[flighty1]

I'm not getting the summer bulbs but hubby has taken out a life time subscription to the Daily Mail. heeeee heeeeee.

[HeyWayne]

I don't read papers as I can't read. Thankfully, my hearing's up to scratch, so I've heard every word of this thread.

Was anyone else surprised to find energy saving bulbs in their packet?

[organic]

The main threads of the anti-newspaper-x or y argument tends to be mail vs guardian (independent gets a look in once in a while)... typically it's either "x-" or "y readers are all..." type rubbish or it goes on about the editorial style.

The Mail is "conservative" - it's a tabloid that tries to be a broadsheet (or vice verca) - actually calls a snake a snake and has had the balls to publish stories other papers didn't - even though they were serious and newsworthy issues. It marginalises "others" far less than it's painted as and far more than it should.

The Guardian is "liberal" (not in the real sense of the word "liberty" though, more the common use "liberal" meaning some shade of left leaning) - it is incredibly disrespectful of conservative (particularly morally conservative) people and incredibly shrill on the whole climate change issue, being one of the chief offenders in perpetuating the idea that anyone who's unconvinced is only a close second in the "blind stupidity" and "wilful ignorance" charts to flat-earthers and nazi-sympathisers.

Both papers have an awful editorial tone and have no real value beyong lining coops, bird cages, turning into plant pots, papier mach� and shredding to use for various things.

I bought the Observer today for the food magazine - the paper is as crap as the two mentioned above... little bits of news squirrelled away in a mas of opinion and slanted tone.

The Independent at least has the spine to print opposing articles on the same topic, in the same issue and with reasonably equal prominence... and even that's a pile too.


I can't for the life of me understand why people actually buy any of the rags that pass for newspapers... why they put so much stock in what paper they and others read... but I expect it's the same reason noone really did much in response to our government sending our troops to invade a sovereign nation... why noone really did much in response to our government effectively abolishing the UK and signing us over hook line and sinker into the EU despite denying the promised referendum... and why noone really did much when they took BILLIONS of pounds of OUR money and handed it over to private banks and then allowed the directors to take dirty great big bonuses (I don't care about banker bonuses on principle, but when our money is stolen and put into a bank to save it and THEN they take a bonus - it grates).

I think many people feel the need to belong to one gang or another - in this case it's what paper they read - and as long as they are busy calling the other gangs names - the people "at the top" who have destroyed the country's economy and saddled us with about �20,000 of debt (number picked out of thin air as I can't remember the exact figure) EACH on bailouts will keep on doing exactly what they've always been doing and nothing will change except the name of the particular group of wasters that are perpetuating the abuses on the people of this island (and on the people unlucky enough to be living in an oil-rich arab nation that gives us the slightest excuse to invade).

Rant well and truly over.

[PAULW]

Well said big O

[zazen999]

In YOUR opinion Organic of course

[bobleponge]

Crikey Organic, I came into work fresh and ready to go, read that lot and am now exhausted and need a lie down.

[Two_Sheds]

Lady next door reads Knitting News, Cardmaking Weekly, Hello and Romance Monthly.

Chap at work reads the Sport, Nuts, Loaded and Gamer.

Has anybody formed an opinion / judgement / painted a mental picture?

[Rhona]

Some of the posts on this thread are thoughtful and make for an interesting debate. Others cannot resist making mean-spirited and inflammatory remarks about people who read the 'wrong' newspaper. Bit unnecessary. It would make more comfortable reading to stick to the papers themselves and not the poor saps who buy the 'wrong' one.

If the people who read the 'wrong' paper are such mindless drones, then just quietly pity them in their supposed ignorance. Works for me.

[enrich100]

The forum is amazing. Nearly 600 have viewed the thread on the Daily Mail with 60 contributors - thank you. However.....? My post on non germinating fuschia seed has had no replies. Can anyone help?

I hear The Daily Mail has a excellent gardening section that would be able to answer that question (Enrich100 lights the blue touch paper and then starts running now just waiting for explosion)