Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:33 am  

Mintball wrote: And Jan Moir of the Fail has actually penned a column that includes the comment, of the women's road race, that it was won by "some bitch from Holland". A completely irrational comment especially as I think, I think, that Liz Armitstead races for a Dutch team, or at least spends an awful lot of time in Holland. Anyway, theres a proper journalist interview and personal background piece here that makes for nicer reading ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/cycling/9436277/London-2012-Olympics-Lizzie-Armitsteads-silver-in-the-road-race-inspired-Britains-hopes-and-cheers.html PS - her training hill would be the back road out of Otley up onto the Chevin, the bitch, I've never been able to ride up that bas'tad of a hill even in my younger years its always been a get-off-and-push moment

Mintball wrote: And Jan Moir of the Fail has actually penned a column that includes the comment, of the women's road race, that it was won by "some bitch from Holland". A completely irrational comment especially as I think, I think, that Liz Armitstead races for a Dutch team, or at least spends an awful lot of time in Holland. Anyway, theres a proper journalist interview and personal background piece here that makes for nicer reading ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/cycling/9436277/London-2012-Olympics-Lizzie-Armitsteads-silver-in-the-road-race-inspired-Britains-hopes-and-cheers.html PS - her training hill would be the back road out of Otley up onto the Chevin, the bitch, I've never been able to ride up that bas'tad of a hill even in my younger years its always been a get-off-and-push moment

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:33 am  

cod'ead wrote: Keeping up their tradition of rarely failing to disappoint, The Dally Wail: NHS Disgracefully Glorified More piss-poor sensationalism from a sensationalist rag The Daily Fail have pulled the story you quote in your link. Luckily, you can still read it from here; http://www.freezepage.com/1343493744VDGIBPHPUW

cod'ead wrote: Keeping up their tradition of rarely failing to disappoint, The Dally Wail: NHS Disgracefully Glorified More piss-poor sensationalism from a sensationalist rag The Daily Fail have pulled the story you quote in your link. Luckily, you can still read it from here; http://www.freezepage.com/1343493744VDGIBPHPUW

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:35 pm  

It'll be a sad day when the Daily Mail realises that everything contentious gets copied by someone, somewhere just in case they pull the original.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:25 am  

Scooter Nik wrote:

It'll be a sad day when the Daily Mail realises that everything contentious gets copied by someone, somewhere just in case they pull the original.

Given that for much of the 1930s they supported Oswald Mosley and his blackshirts and found much to be admired in Herr Hitler, do you seriously expect that happening anytime soon? Communications technology and the way we receive our news may have moved on, the arrogance and editorial style of the Wail has remained pretty stable

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:05 am  

beetwaste wrote: The Daily Fail have pulled the story you quote in your link. Luckily, you can still read it from here; http://www.freezepage.com/1343493744VDGIBPHPUW It was pulled just after I tried to add my comment, don't know whether there was a correlation though. I laid in to the author, the editor and propreitors. I think they were starting to get the message though by that stage!

beetwaste wrote: The Daily Fail have pulled the story you quote in your link. Luckily, you can still read it from here; http://www.freezepage.com/1343493744VDGIBPHPUW It was pulled just after I tried to add my comment, don't know whether there was a correlation though. I laid in to the author, the editor and propreitors. I think they were starting to get the message though by that stage!

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:32 pm  

Dally wrote:

It was pulled just after I tried to add my comment, don't know whether there was a correlation though. I laid in to the author, the editor and propreitors. I think they were starting to get the message though by that stage!

Did you threaten to stop putting links to their web stories on this site?

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:52 pm  

Chris28 wrote:

Did you threaten to stop putting links to their web stories on this site?

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:55 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

Given that for much of the 1930s they supported Oswald Mosley and his blackshirts

I thought the Daily Mirror did too? No one ever mentions that though.

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:55 pm  

Dally wrote:

I thought the Daily Mirror did too? No one ever mentions that though.

It did, once, on Monday 22 January 1934, in an editorial written by that champion of the extreme left-wing, Viscount Rothermere

Re: Last minute Olympic fun : Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:47 am  

We've now had the badminton cheats, playing to lose to get a better draw.

Although according to the drama on BBC1 last week, Dr Who did something similar in 1948