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[Coito ergo sum]

You're more of a Telegraph man, aren't you CES?

Of course, I'm a Merkin. We just eat up half-ass British newspapers. Why read the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, or Wall Street Journal, or a hundred odd other prominent newspapers, when we have access to far superior British newspapers?

I think the Daily Mail probably brings a little sophistication to American lives and makes people feel a little bit English, something they'll never get from a homespun paper?

If there is one thing the English are known for, it's sophistication.

Here we have a demure debutante demonstrating the proper British way of giving a "Peace" sign:



Classy:



Note the proper "chips" (something we Merkins can only dream of) on the ground in front of this young sophisticate:



If there is one thing Merkins can't get enough of, it's Yerpeein sophistication.

[MrJonno]

Daily Mail is our own Fox News, thank decent legilisation that we have reasonable broadcast rules for TV but they don't apply to shit papers

What are those reasonable broadcast rules?

I believe they are roughly what the US used to have, approximately equal time for opposing opinions and not having a tv station being a mouth piece for a political party.

The BBC is accused of being the mouth piece for every political party so generally does a good job

[Coito ergo sum]

Daily Mail is our own Fox News, thank decent legilisation that we have reasonable broadcast rules for TV but they don't apply to shit papers

What are those reasonable broadcast rules?

I believe they are roughly what the US used to have, approximately equal time for opposing opinions and not having a tv station being a mouth piece for a political party.

The BBC is accused of being the mouth piece for every political party so generally does a good job

However, in the US we have dozens of different channels covering the news from any angle they choose. While one may claim Fox News is biased to the right, one may also claim MSNBC is biased to the left.

American television media, however, includes national networks like ABC, NBC and CBS (each comparable to the BBC), and then there are a couple of different Public Broadcasting stations, along with local stations that differ from region to region. We also have the 24-7 cable news sources like CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, Bloomberg Television, Black News Channel, CNBC, CNBC World, CNN international, BBC America, CNN World, CNN in Spanish, EuroNews, etc. etc. -- the choices on television are pretty vast. We have 24-7 televised government meetings and Congressional sessions on C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2 and C-SPAN 3, as well as the Pentagon Channel.

On the radio, if one looks at prior regulation in the US, the Fairness Doctrine was our equal time requirement. However, if you want to compare the amount of radio news and worthwhile informative content on the radio now, as compared to when the Fairness Doctrine was in effect, it's not even a contest. In the early 80s the radio was a vast wasteland of nonsense, and there were hardly any comment and commentary stations. There were no talk radio personalities that talked politics in depth. It was bland, and superficial in content. Now, of course, the radio is filled with hundreds of different stations nationwide that have thousands of different commentators spanning all different points of view.

But, your system is probably better, of course. That's a given.

[laklak]

Now, excuse me while I pour myself a piss-like beer, make myself a sandwich with the one kind of bread we get in the States, add a slice of pasteurized cheese food unwrapped from a piece of plastic, use bland and watery yellowy mustard as a condiment, and eat an awful, tasteless "biscuit" on the side.

Don't forget to take your automatic weapons and tactical nukes with you in your Hummer XXVIII pick-up when you drive 45 miles to the store, running over black cub scouts on the way.

[Svartalf]

Iz funny... Regardless of Coito's actual intent, that comment totally failed to get a rise out of the sarcasmeter... must be closer to truth than he thought

[Coito ergo sum]

Iz funny... Regardless of Coito's actual intent, that comment totally failed to get a rise out of the sarcasmeter... must be closer to truth than he thought

Which comment?

[Svartalf]

Now, excuse me while I pour myself a piss-like beer, make myself a sandwich with the one kind of bread we get in the States, add a slice of pasteurized cheese food unwrapped from a piece of plastic, use bland and watery yellowy mustard as a condiment, and eat an awful, tasteless "biscuit" on the side.

That one... context my dear fellow, I would have quoted if it weren't obvious.

[Coito ergo sum]

Now, excuse me while I pour myself a piss-like beer, make myself a sandwich with the one kind of bread we get in the States, add a slice of pasteurized cheese food unwrapped from a piece of plastic, use bland and watery yellowy mustard as a condiment, and eat an awful, tasteless "biscuit" on the side.

That one... context my dear fellow, I would have quoted if it weren't obvious.

Yes, you do need to understand the context of my sarcasm there --

Earlier, Homerjay posted this, "The Daily Mail seems v popular with merkins judging by the comments that originate from the US, a heady mix of frothy right wing platitudes and celebrity swimsuit pictures goes down very nicely in the land of the free."

Naturally, taking a dig at Americans, who being lowly Americans, are very much drawn to "frothy right wing platitudes" and "celebrity swimsuit pictures" that is the Daily Mail. We would never, as Merkins, be interested in real news. Just the frothy, substandard kind....like, everything else Merkin, according to many Brits..

[HomerJay]

Here we have a demure debutante demonstrating the proper British way of giving a "Peace" sign:

'shopped

[laklak]

Here's a couple of likely lads from Liverpool



NHS dentistry?

[laklak]

Don't say Brits aren't patriotic!

[Coito ergo sum]

Sophisticated Brit falls asleep waiting for a proper morning newspaper....



Classy Brits headed for some classy formal gathering...





Cuz the Brits are so sophisticated and particular about their proper news sources -- never to be swayed by "froth" or bikini girls:

Survey: 76 percent of Brit Facebook photos snapped while drunk

https://plus.google.com/107682748671253 ... 1EGD9gsNey

[Svartalf]

Don't say Brits aren't patriotic!

How nice of him to have painted the target where it will be most useful.

[JimC]

I guess mistermack, MrJonno and I will cop endless flak, but folks, it's all about the ridiculous fucking number of handguns possessed by people who shouldn't be allowed a water pistol...

I prefer the concept of letting every jack bill and harry access to weapons, so that responsible citizens can have them too rather than the opposite options that only specialized bodies of citizens, mostly manned by morons and power trippers, should have them, which leaves the common man essentially defenceless, both from law flouting predators and from the oppression of the tyrants.

You've developed a temporary Sethian infection; a good course of antibiotics should see you right...

[Svartalf]

I still believe in having my taxes used for building roads, teaching children, having a decent justice system, and funding the health care for everyone. (except illegal immigrants)