Gawd!! - we haven't half upset the Daily Mail havent we??....

[Roadrat77]

What is it with the Mail??. They're absolutely gunning for cyclists - sorry, "Lycra Louts" at the moment. Their website is running simultaneous negative stories about cyclists in general. Society criminalised Dog owners and now it feels like it's our turn. They really need to witness some of the car "drivers" by me. Pimped up to s**t, driven by thugs and mysteriously no front number plates.

 

[Paulus]

What is it with the Mail??. They're absolutely gunning for cyclists - sorry, "Lycra Louts" at the moment. Their website is running simultaneous negative stories about cyclists in general. Society criminalised Dog owners and now it feels like it's our turn. They really need to witness some of the car "drivers" by me. Pimped up to s**t, driven by thugs and mysteriously no front number plates.

It's probably a slow news day. They have to have someone to to make stories up about.

 

[numbnuts]

Click bait, but everybody hates a cyclist.

 

[Brandane]

The easy solution is.... Don't read it. Don't even click on ANY link to the DM or any of the other countless trashy clickbait "news" sites that exist. They aren't hard to spot. Usually headlined with "Exact time weather armageddon is going to strike somewhere near you" or "Major changes to car number plates coming in March/September" "Little known pedal in your car will help slow it down"... Wow, really?

 

[sheddy]

The Daily Bile have always ran anti (insert marginal group here) proper gander stories

It’s their business model

 

[Baldy]

You seem to be suffering from high blood pressure, it's very easy to cure just stop looking at the daily fail. Life will be so much nicer, once you've given it up.

 

[Specialeyes]

Their disdain for 'Lycra Louts' is a stark turnaround from “Hurrah for the blackshirts”

Vile, vile organisation that has never redeemed itself for its support of Hitler, Mussolini and Moseley and is currently in the vanguard of the Culture War and the demonisation of 'others' - cyclists included - which fits right in with that history.

 

[Mo1959]

You seem to be suffering from high blood pressure, it's very easy to cure just stop looking at the daily fail. Life will be so much nicer, once you've given it up.

What worries me is the amount of their readers who do lap it up and hate us even more than they already do. I am close to packing in cycling outdoors.

 

[EltonFrog]

What worries me is the amount of their readers who do lap it up and hate us even more than they already do. I am close to packing in cycling outdoors.

And that way the mouth breathing morons win. We should all be getting on bikes more often.

 

[ianrauk]

The more people that upset the Daily Mail and their hatful, racist, ignorant readers, the better.

 

[sheddy]

What would be the equivalent paper be in France, Italy, Germany, Spain ?

 

[ianrauk]

What would be the equivalent paper be in France, Italy, Germany, Spain ?

@Andy in Germany will know better, but Junge Frieheit is well known for being similar ilk to the DM.

 

[Mazz]

Their 'news items' are simply there as mortar between the bricks of clickbait, e.g.:
Pregnant woman rushed to hospital - doctors cry when they x-ray her.
Casino-owners don't want you to know this fruit-machine hack.
1980s celebs unrecognisable today - these pics will shock you.

 

[Hover Fly]

What would be the equivalent paper be in France, Italy, Germany, Spain ?

The French right wing paper is Le Figaro but it’s not as anti-cyclist as British papers.

 

[BrumJim]

Does the Daily Mail still have the "Side Bar of Shame", where readers can look at holiday shots of celebrities in bikinis, and oggle over "blooming" girls who are heading towards maturity?