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Written by Uponnothing
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Friday, 03 July 2009 13:51 |
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The Daily Mail is keen to point out that 'dream job' winner Ben Southall has made an embarrassing mistake referring to the Island he was on as 'Hayward' instead of Hayman: 'Bad start for Briton who won Best Job In The World as he makes embarrassing error on his second day'. However, the Daily Mail Reporter should be careful to point out fairly trivial mistakes if they are unable to proofread their own work:
Unless the Daily Mail Reporter was being purposefully archaic I think that is a pretty embarrassing mistake.
If I was more cynical I might suggest that Ben - tasked with raising the profile and coverage of the islands he is staying on - might have spelt it wrong on purpose. If that is the case then top marks to Ben as the Daily Mail have just given the islands coverage on their website with 3 colour photos making me quite want to visit the place. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 28 August 2009 12:32 |
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Monday, 08 June 2009 19:53 |
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Last week, the Daily Mail introduced the first in what is expected to be a continuing series of 'Spot The Difference'. This involved before and after pictures of Trinny Woodall who unsurprisingly looked almost exactly the same in both. To the untrained eye there appears to be no difference in Trinny whatsoever except for a tan and a different dress but to the diet and wrinkle police from the Mail who are now believed able to spot half an extra ounce of flesh at 200 yards and a laughter line from half a mile, these two lovely and very youthful pictures of Trinny, were evidence of decline, misery, an eating disorder and loss of youthful looks? I remain baffled! |
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Last Updated on Friday, 28 August 2009 12:32 |
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Written by Uponnothing
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Monday, 11 May 2009 21:36 |
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This caught my eye in today's Daily Mail:
I think this article has something to do with the Daily Mail's fear that English women want to sleep with 'vulgar' foreigners.
It seems to me that if foreign apples really 'tasteless' and 'vulgar' then surely no-one would buy them and they wouldn't be imported? I think this Daily Mail columnist is confusing their opinion with fact. |
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Last Updated on Friday, 28 August 2009 12:33 |
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Written by Uponnothing
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Monday, 04 May 2009 12:00 |
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The article: Too much information! From Facebook to Twitter, WHY do so many think we care about the minutiae of their tedious lives?
The main thrust of the argument:
There seems to be an increasing feeling in the world of: 'If I don't have an audience, if I don't have followers, if I don't have fame or even micro-fame, if my every movement and thought - no matter how mundane, uninspired or unwitty - is not shared, recorded and validated, then I am worthless, nothing, a nobody.'
OK, fair enough, you don't think people are interested in mundane details of someone else's life. Wait a minute though, you then spend the rest of the article telling us mundane details about your life:
I am a technophobe. I don't get MySpace or Facebook. I don't have a BlackBerry. My mobile phone is more than five years old, but it does everything I need it to do. But at the weekend, I signed up to Twitter because I didn't want to dismiss as ridiculous something I hadn't tried.
But, I must admit, I was bewildered. It felt as if I'd stepped into a massive party in a parallel universe, at which everyone knew everyone else and I didn't know anyone.
I felt left behind and surprisingly inhibited and self- conscious. I watched an instructive video and read the rules of engagement, but still I felt uncomfortable about 'following' anyone or inviting anyone to 'follow' me.
So I'm afraid I logged off and spent the night in the pub in conversation with my friends. I have zero virtual followers and am following no one - I'm not quite sure if this is something to be proud or ashamed of.
In some ways my fear - for that is what it is - of cyberspace surprised me. I have 'over-shared' in the past.
And on, and on and on she goes for hundreds of words. So, Lorna Martin, what makes you think anyone gives a flying fuck about what you get up to? |
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Last Updated on Friday, 28 August 2009 12:30 |
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