This is my Daily Mail/ Mail on Sunday

We would love to hear your feedback on the Daily Mail or Mail on Sunday. Why do you read it? Which are your favourite sections? Which columnists do you always read? Are you a weekday Daily Mail reader or do you tend to stick to the Saturday or Sunday papers? So we know exactly which bits you are refering to it would be great if you could specify whether your comments refer to the Daily Mail (weekday), the Daily Mail (Saturday) or the Mail on Sunday. Go for it....

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[Laurel]

Upon getting older i have stopped going on foreign holidays,i like the independance of ones own car and driving to rented country cottages in the U.K.mostly in high summer and if available National Trust cottages,but similar to Doug i have had problems with mice,i suppose because the properties lie empty all winter and the locations.Two years ago i purchased 3 sonic mice devices from B&Q,which just plug in and the little blighters run out the open doors sometimes assisted by the tip of my shoe.Apparently some of these devices are useless but the ones i bought work,i'm sure Doug would have experience of these things,....PS i always bring a change of bedding with me and give the surfaces a good cleaning and hoovering,not a good way to start a holiday but at least gives me peace of mind and i can enjoy the rest of my stay.oops meant to post this on open mic.

[I.S.]

Doug, I can only offer a re-wording of that infamous quote by that 19th century American 'butcher' General Philip Sheridan; 'The only good Indian I ever saw was dead'.
[Often misquoted as 'The only good Indian is a dead Indian']
But seriously, the Swiss & Norwegians are good Europeans! ;-)

[doug]

Laurel the "promise" of a referendum was one of the first to go once Diddy David had to go mates with the LibDems. They would never have joined his gang if he was going to be nasty to the nice Europeans. (another chance for I.S. what is a good European?) Since the first broken promise the others that followed have become easier. Just wait a bit and you'll see how many are broken before the next election. As Kenny Everitt used to say "It's all in the best possible taste"

[Laurel]

Truthfully I.S. i don't believe what we think matters to these unelected people in Brussels and no political party we put in power has the will or gumption to do anything about these issues,we only seem to get promises to elect them then cagey explanations later of why its not possible.Camerons promise of a referendum is a good example.

[I.S.]

At the National Memorial Arboretum [Alrewas, Staffs.] there is a memorial, designed so that on the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month light shines through a split in the wall illuminating part of the memorial. If we were to kow-tow to the Unholy Roman Empire and adopt central european time this would not occur at the relevant time. This provides a very good reason to reject the suggestion that the UK should advance the clocks by a hour.

[Gwen]

Today in The Mail is an article stating that "An abortion is safer than having a baby, say doctors". I always thought that it was a doctors responsibility to see that a baby was brought into the world as safely as possible. Not to condone it's murder because childbirth is likely to be more painful than an abortion. I think that the Royal College of Gynacologists should consider their true purpose. I hope to God it doesn't come down to money and an abortion is cheaper than giving birth that really would be criminal don't you think?

[I.S.]

I do wish the Daily Mail would stop using the incorrect American usage of 'middle east' when they are reporting on the 'Near East'.
The British coined the phrases near east [Arabia etc.], middle east [Indian sub-continent] & far east [China etc.] and they are logical; the American usage is not.

[christabel]

Mr. T. of B.,I thankyou for that wise observation.I was first to notice this strange phenomena and have abided by it's rule for most of my life.
Did anyone see the episode of The Vicar of Dibley,where Dawn French went into the chocolate fountain?

[Mr Thornton of Bournville]

Good news for Christabel, I read a report the other day that stated that chocolate was better for you than fruit and vegetables.

[I.S.]

Well done, Barbara.

[Barbara]

Wow, I got a £5 note in my blue bag this morning. Thank you Daily Mail.

Maybe my luck is changing?

[M.C.P. [sexism page]]

Th post below is from a different M.C.P. to the one who posted on the 'sexism' page.

[M.C.P.]

Sounds like a woman on the edge!

[TG]

You've done it again, my darlings.
http://bit.ly/eFp09F
appalling sexism /gender bias
'If all mothers quit their jobs tomorrow ...'

Why do you hate working mothers so much?

See my comment under your andy keys topic.
The one thing most misogynists want is to never meet a woman in the workplace.
I think that's quite possible in some countries.

For comparison, what if this article had appeared in a Lad's magazine?

[TG]

Here's an idea- why not post out the first scratchcard of the New Year (you did it for the Christmas Cottage!)

[christabel]

My scratchcard was there,but I can't be bothered to scratch it.

[Barbara]

I must had been one of the lucky ones. Got my scratch card. Not that it will do me any good. Often wonder if anybody ever wins anything on them? Anyone?

[I.S.]

I recieved an e-mail from the Daily Mail informing me of the scratchcard in today's paper, on the front page of the Mail was the banner '£250,000 scratchcard inside, your card is in 'Weekend' magazine', but when I look in 'Weekend' there is a load of bumph, John Lewis insurance, Daily Mail cruises, Kalaidoscope & Sky broadband; but where is the scratchcard?
{Not that I ever bother scratching them]

[I.S.]

Sorry Christabel.

[christabel]

Illusions spoiled with one swipe.I.S.
Why???????????

[I. S.]

A Nother, It's a hypothetical question, a gumboil can't boil oil; the question asks IF. Therefore any answer you care to give.

[A. Nother]

If a gumboil could boil oil, how much oil could a gumboil boil, if a gumboil could boil oil?
Over to I.S.

[doug]

I.S. I bow to the "Master" the lady in question manages to raise my hackles now and then, but I assumed she was deliberately writing to attract attention. I tend to ignore her items on the rare occasions we get the weekend papers.

[Barbara]

Wow I.S. bet your quiz team usually wins!!

[I.S.]

Lindsay Nicholson [Weekend magazine] should really do some research before writing her column. I remember that last October she claimed Halloween was American, not so; Trick or Treat is the American interloper [and even that has its origins in the North Country tradition of 'mischief night', Nov. 4th], but I digress. In today's magazine she complains that the Romans should have transposed the months of January & February to get the short month out of the way first. The thing is they did transpose them, at least they transposed the names. Originally March was the first month of the year [hence the 7th month was September & the 8th month was October etc.] and January [named after Janus the two-faced god who symbolically looked back on the old year & into the new] was the 12th month. Julius Caesar renamed the 5th month after himself and took a day off the last month and added it to 'July', Augustus did the same with the 6th month [sixtillus becoming August with 31 days]. Later on, when the leap day was added to the year it was added to the end of the year. When it was decided that the new year should start at the beginning of what had been the 11th month [February, as was] the names of February & January were swapped over so that January could still signify looking back at the old year and into the new. That is why the, now, second month of the year is the shortest and has the leap day.