For perverse reasons I tend to keep track of what the headbangers on the Mail and Express websites are saying. I'm not a great fan of echo chambers and find it helpful to have my preconceptions challenged. Admittedly I find myself in desperate need of a 'brain-rinse' but there you go ...
Anyway, as to the title of this thread. We all do things without thinking that justify a double or even quadruple facepalm. Not off the charts stuff, just low level muppetry.
As an example, on my tour of news sites I mistakenly dipped into the Express website after having visited the Daily Mash and Newsthump (a site that really does seem to have take a dip of late ...). So there I am, scanning the usual inanities about the likes of Meghan Markle and it took me all of a minute to realise that I was actually reading a 'legitimate' headline.
Someone seriously thought that the singularly most important piece of information for Express readers was that somebody out in America believes the actress turned "demon-spawned enemy of the monarchy" was about to make a comeback with Suits.
My brain was still in 'satire mode' but struggling to see the punchline. Well, it was probably something along the lines of "Barry from Essex is devastated at the news that Meghan "the ginge-stealer" Markle is set for a multi-figure screen comeback to rescue her failed Netflix career ..." Then the realisation hit me that this was not far from the truth and that people really are frothing at the bits over this.
Moral of the story ... do not visit the Express website after spending time on satirical news websites (ok, probably best just to leave it at "don't visit the Express website" but you know what I mean).
Like I said, that was bl**dy stupid!
Express Online has lured me in a few times with clickbait headlines. If I see that it's them, I avoid giving them the traffic, but sometimes, I unthinkingly click on the link without looking at the source.
I vaguely remember hearing there was a newspaper/magazine publisher that would automatically sack anyone found visiting the mail online via one of their work devices. Looking at porn wouldn't be automatic sacking, there might be legitimate journalistic reasons for visiting a porn site, but not the mail online.
This is what kittenblock is for (having said that, I don't know offhand if kittenblock covers the express, or just the heil. Wonder where that leaves the telegraph?)
Quote from: sheridan on 14 August, 2023, 12:02:13 PMThis is what kittenblock is for (having said that, I don't know offhand if kittenblock covers the express, or just the heil. Wonder where that leaves the telegraph?)
Promoting how to get round EU immigration laws while ranting about immigrants to the UK?
Just saw this poem on Facebook or whatever its calling itself these days. It seemed rather relevant to the topic under discussion.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=666048162222814&set=a.624734479687516