A typical DM 'story'.

So did I!! I remember classifying them into:

You too can be beautiful like me.
Buy this car/shed/expensive equipment and become more of a man.
Trust us and give us your money (superan, insurance, banks etc)
Eat this crap food and feel good.

I managed to convince the lads that most ads are for something you don't need and can't afford anyway.

When my DD2 (now 42) was an adolescent, if I saw her watching an old film with gender stereotypes abounding, I would deconstruct for her, from a feminist perspective.

It drove her mad and she reacted in the opposite direction.

Ha! Years later she sees the truth of what I said all those years ago.

This made me laugh today www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

So beautifully done!

Reminds me a bit of ? chas and Dave? Rabbit

Ana , 13/12/12 Did you not know the political leanings of newspapers Before ?

jeni a bit more "gentle" than Chas & Dave, but I do see what you mean.

Greatnan Just knew that you would like it! I am sending it to B, who had a stroke just before Christmas and does actually read the DM (I'm prepared to make allowances for him .

I spent a few hours sitting with him today so that his wife could get out on her own, she asked me to pick up a copy of the DM on my way over, under the circumstances I agreed!

That's stretching charity a bit you know!

Love it, although I will be careful who I pass it on to as nobody laughs at any reference to Ian Huntley in this neck of the woods.

If anyone in the family quotes something from the DM we shout, SO IT MUST BE TRUE. Still read it online though

I read the lot - well, bits of them. The DM is a right wing rag, and I'm a leftie, but you have to read all points of view. At times I read the Guardian, The Australian, the Courier Mail (Queensland state daily) the BBC, Huffington Post, NY Times, Yorkshire Post. When something big happens in the Middle East I read The Jerusalem Post, and likewise I read French, Austrian and German papers when something big happens over there.

I read the article this thread's about, and had a laugh. The truth about benefits, well over here anyway and probably in the UK, is that fraudulent claims are less than 1%. So over 99% of claims are honest.

I reckon that lass in the article has a very generous boyfriend and parents! And/or has wildly unrealistic hopes and dreams.