The lowest point in British journalism

retired_littlegoldielocks · 12-02-2007, 01:22 PM

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Originally posted by BJG123:
I've always hated my girlfriend reading Heat, for an otherwise intelligent and reasoned woman, she has a pathetic need to read this trash to in someway make her feel better. After this I've told her I don't want her to read it again, and if I find out she has I'll be ****ed off, I might be being harsh, but if she can't see that boycotting a magazine that takes the mick out of disabled kids is the right thing to do then she's not worth the time of day imo.

you sound like a barrel of laughs.

retired_rondaw25 · 12-02-2007, 01:23 PM

Still bracketting her in there for shock value, just as you said, using the same kind of tactics that she's railing against.

dreamer · 12-02-2007, 01:25 PM

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Originally posted by benkeat:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by BJG123:
I've always hated my girlfriend reading Heat, for an otherwise intelligent and reasoned woman, she has a pathetic need to read this trash to in someway make her feel better. After this I've told her I don't want her to read it again, and if I find out she has I'll be ****ed off, I might be being harsh, but if she can't see that boycotting a magazine that takes the mick out of disabled kids is the right thing to do then she's not worth the time of day imo.

you sound like a barrel of laughs. </BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm sorry, I'm usually light-hearted and I'm certainly not adverse to being un-pc with jokes and the such-like, but to publish it in the public domain and ridicule a child to 550,000 people is disgusting, I really can't see why anybody would want to buy that s**t now, yeah, probably overreacting, and no, I probably wouldn't dump my girlfriend if she carried on buying it, but I would be disappointed in her.

retired_justin05 · 12-02-2007, 01:27 PM

Possibly but I also think the point wasn't to compare Jordan with Rose but to also highlight that the winners come from those most in the media eye irrespective of their qualities as a mother and Rose West would be the most extreme example of that. As in more a dig at the media and the people who're suckered in by the celeb propaganda.

retired_rondaw25 · 12-02-2007, 01:27 PM

Yeah well I'd be dissapointed in my GF if I walked into the toilet after her and it smelled

retired_therob · 12-02-2007, 01:53 PM

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Originally posted by Argel:
<BLOCKQUOTE> unbelievably, voted “mother of the year”, a title also awarded to a drug ravaged, Kerry Katona, and which perhaps Rose West will one day receive posthumously.

Saying that they come into the category of someone like Rose West? Read man.
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I think the context makes it obvious that they pose West as the dark nadir of awarding Mum of the Year to questionable celebrities, rather than her being the direct equivalent of Jordan. In any case, they're referring to Katona there, not Jordan.