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**reds8n**

No, not the Brits awards, but this remarkably nuanced and not at all scaremongering story.

I know it's the Daily Hateall but even for them this makes me weep for Fleet Street.*

I do like some of the comments though

I think the real issue people are forgetting here is that using Facebook MUST be having some effect on house prices?

* Yeah yeah, I know it's not really the newspaper "heart" anymore but you get the idea.

**chaplaingrabthar**

Meh! It's the Daily Fail, you'll see a new low from them every day if you read that rag.

**LuciusAR**

Since when has the Mail ever let things such as facts, context or integrity ever get in the way of publishing a good old fashioned scare story in order to whip their readership in a frothing frenzy of ill informed insanity. Incidentally who exactly is reading the Daily Mail? I don’t know a single person who doesn’t detest it. Yet it seems to sell by the bucket load.

I'm convinced allot of the comments on the DM's website must be trolling I cant think of any other explanation I don’t believe that anyone could be so reactionary, not even on the internet.

I strongly recommend reading the following comments as an antidote.

http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/2009/02/19/mail-and-how-facebook-cancer/#comments

Incidentally Mailwatch.co.uk is a fantastic website and its forum is one of my favourites. All manner of tabloid hysteria is torn apart. There is an excellent thread on Richard Littlejohn, possibly the most vile hatemonger in Britain (Despite the fact that he lives in the USA and his only experience of modern Britain is via the Right Wing press for which he writes!)

Its gone a long way to restoring my faith in humanity.

**Lord Bingo**

According to the daily mail, EVERYTHING raises cancer risk. My advice is simple, stick with local newspapers.

**whatwhat**

Yeh but unfortunately for those not in the south east, most people's local newspapers consist of cats getting stuck up trees and pensioners running out of milk.

**warpcrafter**

C'mon! Cancer is just nature's way of saying "Buh-Bye!"

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

whatwhat wrote:Yeh but unfortunately for those not in the south east, most people's local newspapers consist of cats getting stuck up trees and pensioners running out of milk.

I object to that. I live in the South East, and we get exactly the same dose of banality as everyone else!

And never, EVER read the Daily Nazi. It gives you Cancer.

**whatwhat**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
whatwhat wrote:Yeh but unfortunately for those not in the south east, most people's local newspapers consist of cats getting stuck up trees and pensioners running out of milk.

I object to that. I live in the South East, and we get exactly the same dose of banality as everyone else!

My apologies, I thought you might at least have had some postal strikes or something.

Here's yesterday's headline from where I am...http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news...pensioner-s-agony-as-thieves-pinch-his-cockatoo/

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Pah! I live in the stronghold of Thatcherism. An area where, to quote Blackadder, you could stick a Blue Ribbon on a Hatstand, and it would still get elected.

All hail the Royal Borough of Tunbridge Wells!

And my face headline from the past two years? Thanks to it's poor grammar?

Vicious Attack Police Appeal.

Personally I feel the Vicious Attack Police are well funded enough without needing community charity....

**LuciusAR**

Lord Bingo wrote:According to the daily mail, EVERYTHING raises cancer risk. My advice is simple, stick with local newspapers.

God I hate local newspapers. Essentially because they honestly seem to think that mundane rubbish such as village fetes, Cub Scout meeting constitute news and whether a new roundabout will be built is a hot topic for debate.

There is no justification for anything smaller than a city to get its own newspaper.

To be honest I tend to get most of my news from the Internet mainly the good old BBC and only read papers that we get for free at work. I generally stick to the Times and the Independent, these being the only national papers I consider to be, if not always balanced, well informed.

**whatwhat**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:to quote Blackadder, you could stick a Blue Ribbon on a Hatstand, and it would still get elected.

classic!

LuciusAR wrote:..the Independent...

Would be my choice if I had to pick a newspaper also. Not as pretentious as the broadsheets, not as moronic as the tabloids.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Ditto.

The Indie gives the centre view, the left view, the right view, and the leaves you in peace to digest said info and draw your own conclusion.

**sebster**

LuciusAR wrote:
Lord Bingo wrote:To be honest I tend to get most of my news from the Internet mainly the good old BBC and only read papers that we get for free at work. I generally stick to the Times and the Independent, these being the only national papers I consider to be, if not always balanced, well informed.

Yeah, from my time in the UK I found the Times to be the best paper. It seemed a pretty high standard compared to drek we get over here.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

The Times? Pull the other one!

It's far too middle class centric!

**grizgrin**

LuciusAR wrote:
I'm convinced allot of the comments on the DM's website must be trolling I cant think of any other explanation I don’t believe that anyone could be so reactionary, not even on the internet.

Let me introduce you to thissite.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

The Daily Mail.

Knee Jerk Reactionary Hate Rag.

Absolutely despicable levels of journalism, and a bizarre fear of the working class.

You couldn't make it up

10p if someone can spot the piss take quote...

**smiling Assassin**

Daily Mail: Nuff said.

sA

**reds8n**

LuciusAR wrote:
I strongly recommend reading the following comments as an antidote.

http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/2009/02/19/mail-and-how-facebook-cancer/#comments

Incidentally Mailwatch.co.uk is a fantastic website and its forum is one of my favourites. All manner of tabloid hysteria is torn apart. There is an excellent thread on Richard Littlejohn, possibly the most vile hatemonger in Britain (Despite the fact that he lives in the USA and his only experience of modern Britain is via the Right Wing press for which he writes!)

Its gone a long way to restoring my faith in humanity.

Great little site there !

In return, I don't know if you've ever waded through the "Have your say" section on the BBC site ? Terrifying.

But there is an antidote at hand

I was especially tickled/appalled at the comments the CERN experiment produced back in September

Tell you what, squire, tell you what’s got me peppering me kecks. That CERN malarkey up in Sweden. Or is it Swaziland. They press a button, literally press a button, and IT BLOWS THE WHOLE WORLD UP. What kind of idiot thought that was a good idea then? Clearly not a religious one:

this experiment is a complete waste of time. we cannot destroy the whole earth, only God can.
Grace, London

Part of me hopes they succeed in the experiment you think they’re trying to perform, because the mental image of you hurtling through the void still clinging to your life-size crucifix is so endearing.

Why was this ‘built’ underground? Simple, it does not exist. It’s a big con.

It’s the same reason India/Pakistan allegedly conducted nuclear explosions underground simply because they never happened in the first place. Why? Because nuclear bombs don’t exist and they never have existed. FACT!

Hollywood and the people behind Hollywood (the rich elite race) came up with the propoganda to fool the ‘Sheople’. They’ll keep taking your money though to fund their lavish lifestyles.

Philip Coalman

Everything “built” underground is a lie, it’s true. The Bakerloo, Central and Northern lines are all ficticious and water is brought to your taps by Enchanted Cats (with buckets). Don’t ever dig a hole deeper than 9 foot, in case you break through into Shangri-La and Madame Blavatsky curses you to only ever spout bollocks. Believe me, I know.

By the way, anyone wondering who he means when he blames everything on “the rich elite race” I’m pretty sure it’s not the jews, so don’t go calling him an anti-semite, OK?

if it proves that there is no god and religion can finally be exposed as the fraudulent war mongering pointless activity it really is; then it can only be a good thing.

i doubt this will be published because it’s not a bbc/labour approved thought AND i doubt if they DO prove the universe was created by science, not god, “the powers that be” won’t let something like that out will they now?

THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW!!
badger fruit, resistance hq, United Kingdom

Richard Dawkins, it’s an honour to see you posting on HYS.

Sorry but this LHC is a pile of rubbish the been working and saying this for years and were still here its Nazi realy the idea of i dnt now lets see BLOWING UP THE WORLD they shud be straight jacketed or some thing really im 14 in year 10 and it going round my school hazelwick pupils a going mad i dnt think it the best of ideas who wants to blow up no really answer me that wat ever this is it should be blown up not a big bang how ever the world started it finished so there you go frm a 14 yr old
chelsea age 14, Crawley uk

When Chelsea isn’t writing rebuttals to All Of Science, she can be found drawing hearts and pictures of polar bears where her Maths homework should be. And her English homework. Especially her English homework.

If this experiment can open doors to other dimensions for us, wouldn’t it lets beings from other dimensions invade our one? If this is true shouldnt we wait untill we are equiped with more developed weapons before we experiment?
Liam, Brighton

It’s worse than you think, Liam. Nuclear bombs have been proven not to exist, so our weapons aren’t even as developed as we think they are. If I were you I’d kiss my ass goodbye and hide under my Deep Space 9 duvet. You might just have time for one last spank over Seven of Nine.

**Miguelsan**

You know I kind of like the last comment. What if the CERN opens a door to a dimension where politicians are not a bunch of corrupt liars, lawyers don´t exist and people behave in a polite manner to other people? I don´t think we could stand it ;P

M.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I kind of hope we do open up a door to an alternate dimension. Preferably one which doesn't have War.

Then we could put all us poor souls who just want to be left the hell alone in the paralell dimension, and the warmongering arseholes (all 10 of them) can have this world to do with as they wish.

**reds8n**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I kind of hope we do open up a door to an alternate dimension. Preferably one which doesn't have War.

.

QFT.

They'd be much easier to invade and exploit.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Indeed.

Though I am still holding out that given the Infinite Universe theory, that out there somewhere is a planet entirely populated by Girls Aloud, Mila Jovovich and Angelina Jolie's who think of me as some sort of fantastic deity.

And if the universe is infinite, it does exist! Wooot!!! Now, how to find it and get there....

**Frazzled**

I'm saddened. My link to the news report on female Brazilian samba dancers and how they skirt the letter of the law on nudity has glitched. How am I going to review this incredibly important story about the incredibly endowed, er talented Miss Samba?

Thats journalism I can believe in!

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Frazz, go look up the Daily Sport.

I would link, but fear I might get banned. Very little news, but very little clothes....

**reds8n**

I feel for you.

How could I cheer Mr. Frazzled up eh ?

Oh, I know, the meatship

IS SFW in case you're worried there.

**Frazzled**

Are thar be bacon off the port bow!

Thank you both gents. That and starbucks have cheered me up.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Aaaaargh me arteries!

Yo ho ho and a bottle of Peptobismol!

Etc.

**reds8n**

Daily Mail headline writers dreams come true

You could not make this gak up.