This year the BBC showed some imagination with footage of flying penguins migrating to South America. The Telegraph on the other hand, showed none by pinching the same story. The Express had us rolling on the floor with a picture of Big Ben as a digital clock. Oh the mirth. Still, rather surprisingly they didn't try to claim that this was in any way at all related to the death of Princess Diana. Apparently in their eyes, everything else in the world is.
BMW kept up their tradition of posting a spoof advert in all the national papers - this time extolling the virtues of a new piece of technology available on forthcoming Beemers; namely Canine Repellant Alloy Protection. A device designed to incapacitate any weak-bladdered dog who cared to pass water upon your shiny wheels by the delivery of a modest electric current.
The Daily Mail, however, seemed to think we'd all find it amusing to know that Alistair Darling buys National Lottery tickets at his local newsagents. The big joke, apparently, being that he doesn't.
I can't be the only person to think that the Mail hasn't quite grasped the concept of a spoof news article here. Given their political standpoint and usual readership, it would be far more amusing to see something along these lines:
Perhaps they were concerned that if they were to run such a headline, 80% of their readers would cancel their subscriptions. (Given that most of the other 20% are those who would prefer to read a broadsheet, but don't have long enough arms.)
Following this, I suppose they would have to rectify their position by publishing this explanatory headline the next day:
Having done that, they would have lost two-days worth of headline space that could have been devoted to maligning people who weren't born in the Home Counties, leaving their readers with the impression that they'd turned into a bunch of soft Lefties.
Given such grave circumstances it must be with considered foresight that they chose instead to insinuate that that Chancellor of the Exchequer enjoys gambling.
Don't you just hate it when politics stands in the way of comedy.
3 comments:
I won a tenner on the Lottery at the weekend.
I bet you're a load of Polish immigrants bad mouthing the voice of truth. Piss off back to where you came from if you don't like it!
'fraid I'm not a Polish immigrant and the only place I can piss off back to is Yorkshire. Although since I'm still there, even that would be difficult to do.
And yes, I am bad-mouthing something, but it certainly isn't the voice of truth. It's the ignorant, bigoted, attitude of self-righteous racist arseholes who don't seem to recognise the fact that there are people willing to come to this country and work hard for a living, contributing to our society and paying their way - which is a lot more than can be said for a whole lot of the home-bred English pill-popping, lager-swilling, benefit-scrounging scum that populate crummy council estates throughout this country and do sod all work because they prefer to sponge off the state and sit on their arse all day.
Let's judge people by their actions rather than their colour, religion or nationality shall we. That allows me to judge you, based upon your comment, as a mindless bigot.
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