Austin7 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 [url="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2129622/Coachella-2012-David-Hasselhoff-59-Pierce-Brosnan-58-try-hip-Coachella-festival.html?ito=feeds-newsxml"]http://www.dailymail...o=feeds-newsxml[/url] Have Pierce Brosnan and David Hasselhoff completely gone mad? Both were spotted at a music festival evidently trying to look "hip" and attempting to actually listen to rock music at the advanced ages of 58 and 59. Why weren't these men at an old folks home playing checkers and complaining about wrinkles and bad backs? Thank God the "Daily Mail" has brought the world this incredible story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbass4k Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Surely the only logical response is to invade Iran? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin7 Posted April 14, 2012 Author Share Posted April 14, 2012 [quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1334439189' post='1616320'] Surely the only logical response is to invade Iran? [/quote] This topic is about ageism, not politics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisnameistaken Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 The Mail Online is basically an exercise is creating a story out of a photo. Preferably a story that belittles somebody in some way. Apparently it's massively popular, which makes me want to slaughter more humans than usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Alright then, invade Morecambe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 (edited) Frankly, the 'story' is pretty much on a par with much of the Mail's online output. Most of their headlines can be assembled by combining some random phrases from the following list: BFF Curvy Yummy-mummy Bikini Body Heartbreak Courtney Break-up Ex Shock New Old Current Beach Flaunt Baby Shows off Baby-bump Bare Dares (to) Weeps Snubs In hiding Peter Under-dressed Peter Andre I detect no age-ism. Just a desperation to find a hook for some pictures of some 'Celebs' and some rather vacuous 'young people'. [i]All[/i] of whom are wearing ghastly clothes that fit only where they touch. Coachella festival my arse. More stories about single Mums bilking the state. It's what the Mail is for. And this thread should be in Off-topic. I don't expect to have to come trekking all the way out to bloody GBD for my dose of outrage, if you [i]don't [/i]mind. (Mutter, mumble, grumble) Edited April 14, 2012 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin7 Posted April 14, 2012 Author Share Posted April 14, 2012 I really did mean to post this in Off Topic. I honestly don't know how I ended up posting it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 the article's worth it for this pic alone. archetypal "dad being cool" pose. genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panamonte Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Yer typical Mail headline consists of a ludicrous question - "Is Lettuce Turning Our Teens Into Satanists?" - which can be very simply answered by one word: 'No', but instead is followed by 500 words of reactionary drivel. Arseholes! And let us never forget that this is The Paper That Supported Hitler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin7 Posted April 14, 2012 Author Share Posted April 14, 2012 Why I am here? Why am I posting articles from British publications that I know little about? In the wrong section, too, not in Off Topic where it belongs. I say this with complete sincerity: because spending even one more minute on TB might have caused me to go berserk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Apple Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 [quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1334443971' post='1616365'] Alright then, invade Morecambe! [/quote] Not wise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panamonte Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 [quote name='billyapple' timestamp='1334445668' post='1616393'] Not wise [/quote] Bravo, Mr Apple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Panamonte' timestamp='1334444600' post='1616375'] Yer typical Mail headline ...And let us never forget that this is The Paper That Supported Hitler.[/quote] I don't know why the Mail gets so much stick for this. Pretty much every other paper (apart from the Morning Star) thought Herr Hitler was a splendid chap, as did swathes of the aristocracy and David Lloyd George. George Formby performed for the Fuhrer as did Jessie Matthews. Just so Austin7 doesn't feel left out, we should also remember Walt Disney, Avery Brundage, Charles Lindbergh, the bloke from IBM whose name I always forget, Grandad Bush, Ginger Rogers, Walter Brennan and millions of mid-Westerners who turned out for the Bund (those tasty bratwurst, eh?). And before any Candians here start patting themselves on the back, their team threw the old Heil Hitler at the '36 Olympics. Same year the town of Halifax (NS) hung out swastikas for a visiting U-boat. And General Franco. And Maurice Chevalier. And Stalin (for about a year). Hirohito, the Pope, Pierre Laval and Juan Peron. And my mate's Grandad from Penkridge. Everybody loved Hitler, so why the Mail hate? Edited April 14, 2012 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seashell Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 I'd have expected better from Ginger Rogers:-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panamonte Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1334446325' post='1616400'] Everybody loved Hitler, so why the Mail hate? [/quote] You're absolutely right, Skank - I just have an abiding dislike of the Mail and it amuses me to dredge up the political leanings of its proprietor 80 years ago to use as a stick to beat it with now - let's face it, it's a snappy phrase. If anything I think the paper's influence is more pernicious now than it was then, when - as you rightly say - there were plenty of members of the British establishment who were equally strong proponents of appeasement. This has really veered wildly off topic hasn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Apple Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 [quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1334446325' post='1616400'] George Formby performed for the Fuhrer [/quote] When I'm Cleaning Jack-Boots... I'll get my trench-coat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 (edited) [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1334446573' post='1616406'] I'd have expected better from Ginger Rogers:-( [/quote] Didn't we all? There she was, gliding across the floor with Fred Astaire and all the time she was thinking "That cow-lick of hair, that tiny 'tache, those blue eyes. Be still, my beating heart." Juan Antonio Samaranch (president of the Olympics 1980-2001) was a Spanish fascist. Harry Corbett (creator of Sooty) was a member of the youth wing of the British Union of Fascists. And this was the Irish Army uniform up until about 1940: See - everyone was at it. [color=#ffffff].[/color] Edited April 14, 2012 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seashell Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Harry Corbett!! NOooooh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 [u][/u] [color=#696969][size=3][b]Sooty[/b]: Beloved ursine puppet in Hitler salute shock[/size][/color] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seashell Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 I'm going to bed now. Before skank completely destroys my world. :-0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 (edited) On the plus side, Tingha and Tucker the TV Koalas were both committed Communists until the events of the Prague Spring of 1968, when they repudiated the party and withdrew from public life. [color=#696969][size=3]1967 - Before The Fall[/size][/color] [color=#ffffff][size=3].[/size][/color] Edited April 15, 2012 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 [quote name='billyapple' timestamp='1334447515' post='1616412'] When I'm Cleaning Jack-Boots... [/quote] Hitler even relaxed the Jazz law so JF could perform.... I'm hanging from a Lamp post. Swinging little number for some. Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer of the Bass Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 (edited) Mind you, Formby was actually quite a principled chap, who made a statement by refusing to play segregated venues when touring pre-apartheid South Africa. My respect for him was increased greatly by reading about that! Edited April 15, 2012 by Beer of the Bass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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