What is your favourite piece of UK related “Rage Bait” you have come across?

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Teh_yak@reddit

Literally anything about people on bikes, or bike lanes.

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Always turns into "cyclists don't pay road tax they shouldn't be on the road". 1. Road maintenance is funded by council tax, not road tax, so everyone pays for the roads. 2. Just because someone cycles doesn't mean they don't own a car as well!

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Wonderful_Discount59@reddit

I knew a guy who was always* complaining about cyclists not paying road tax despite using the roads. Turned out that he _also_ didn't pay VED because his car was so old that it was exempt. * OK, technically he wasn't _always_ comparing about cyclists not paying VED. A lot of the time he was instead complaining about the London Congestion Charge, and how that it wasn't actually a congestion charge (because it was based on emissions), and that therefore wasn't actually legal. (I'm not sure what logic he used to get from "it's inaccurately named" to "therefore illegal").

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RattyHandwriting@reddit

Yesterday the Daily Mail ran a story about local government workers working from Ibiza and holiday locations. It featured two people I know (who weren’t named but it’s not hard to figure out). One of them has indeed been working from Ibiza for some time. Because their Spanish Mum was suffering from cancer and has since passed away, and they are still trying to sort out the estate… The other is accused of “logging on from the beach.” Which is over the road from their house. And all of this in the fucking Daily Hate Mail which is literally owned by a tax dodging bastard.

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ThaddeusGriffin_@reddit

This is why I fucking hate articles like this, because they are actually counterproductive. I would be legitimately pissed off at a *senior* civil servant working from their holiday home for weeks/months on end while their department had a huge backlog. On the other hand, flexibility such as the examples you’ve given is actually a benefit as the individual mentioned can both work and sort their personal affairs.

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Tuarangi@reddit

The anger against WFH is stoked by both articles and people's ideas that someone not in the office isn't being productive. If that senior civil servant was managing a budget, staff and delivering goals, why does it matter if they were in an expensive office, a home office, a holiday home or even the moon? If they have a backlog they need to either be replaced or given a manageable workload, not an arbitrary place of work that will somehow fix it

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CommandSpaceOption@reddit

WFH from the moon wouldn’t be acceptable. The average distance between the earth and the moon is about 400k km and light only travels at 300k km/s. Even in the best case scenario of a direct connection the latency is going to be 1.2 seconds. But after bouncing across several satellites it would probably be closer to 3-4 seconds. It would make video calls a nightmare. With you on WFH from the other places though.

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cougieuk@reddit

WFH is fine but only from the UK. You can't just set up home in a different country and still do a UK based job. There's all sorts of tax implications and data security to think about.

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Tuarangi@reddit

Sounds like video calls from anywhere outside the suburbs of cities to be honest

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Fattailgecko@reddit

Protestantism really did a number on us.

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JonnotheMackem@reddit

The anger against WFH is mostly stoked by baby boomers who couldn’t do it and are furious that other people can have something they can’t. They are like spoiled kids.

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SensibleChapess@reddit

Really? I'm a 'Baby Boomer' and without exception *everyone* I know is fully on board with WFH, indeed most of us are fully behind Universal Basic Income because there's clearly not enough work to go around, and most jobs are now 'bulls*it' jobs, that add no value whatsoever, that exist to keep everyone distracted from the greatest wealth grab in Human history that's been underway for the last 30+ years. Being in an office is solely about control and power. Media is simply 'dividing and conquering' by telling you that boomers think X or Y. That's all, because every keystroke and conversation you have that peddles rhetoric against one or other group of your fellow citizens is one keystroke and conversation less where you and your friends are waking up to the reality of this corrupt system that enslaved us. TLDR: I'm a boomer, everyone I know of my age is 100% behind UBI. I've never heard anyone be against WFH, (it helps stop pumping fossil fuels into the air what with all the commuting!). Blaming one demographic or another is exactly what those in power want you to do.

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JonnotheMackem@reddit

I think you’re the exception to the rule in this case - I read the telegraph (mainly because I get it for nowt) and hardly a day goes by without a news story or comment piece bemoaning services going down the pan because of people working from home. I think boomers get a bum rap in general, and life wasn’t as easy for them as people make out, but there’s generally a lot of entitlement and in some cases anger from the population at large.

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LordGeni@reddit

The Telegraph (or any newspaper) is not a good measure of what people actually think.

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JonnotheMackem@reddit

I agree to an extent, but also disagree on two counts - one, they are inclined to pander to the prejudices of their readership to keep sales, and two, a quick glance at their letters page shows broad agreement with their WFH bashing. Given their readership is broadly retired, it’s a pretty good inference

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SensibleChapess@reddit

Broadly retired? That's not true. As always things are a bit more complicated than people assume. Yes, their biggest reader demographic is "male, over 55", but here's what's interesting: According to a YouGov poll conducted in 2023: "The Telegraph has a higher proportion of young readers, with over four in ten (43%) aged between 18–39, compared with 37% on average elsewhere". When you compare the DT's readership to other mainstream papers it's a mixed bag and not as predictable as some would claim.

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JonnotheMackem@reddit

Well, that is surprising, especially given all the “young people” bashing that is also their bread and butter

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Mfgcasa@reddit

The number 1 audience for young people bashing is young people. Older audiences don't really care. Meanwhile, younger audiences will outrage click on such articles.

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Mfgcasa@reddit

Newspapers exist to generate click bait. The easiest way to generate clickbait is to make people angry. The easiest way to make people angry is to have a stupid take on a controversial issue on the internet. WFH is controversial. Making a stupid take is easy. In fact your litterally their audience and you read that article. Did you agree with it? What makes you think anyone else who read it also did?

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Humanmale80@reddit

One - yes, but shaping those prejudices is very much part of the objective. Two - they can cherry-pick the letters to project whatever picture of the consensus they want, if they're not outright writing them themselves. A key way to control public opinion is to project the idea that everyone else already agrees with whatever idea you want to push.

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JonnotheMackem@reddit

“ Two - they can cherry-pick the letters to project whatever picture of the consensus they want, if they're not outright writing them themselves.” Valid, I’ve had two letters printed myself in there so I’m sure they aren’t all fake, but neither of them were about working from home as it happens

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StIvian_17@reddit

Life wasn’t “easier” you didn’t have to work less hard or face less health problems or family tragedy or whatever the fuck else, it’s just that on average your hard work and success, if you achieved it, got you a lot more in terms of housing, disposable income, and pensions, when viewed from a 30 or 40 year standpoint (not from the 18 months or whatever when interest rates skyrocketed to 15%). But people don’t like having sensible nuanced conversations set in context, so we just pit generations against each other with generalised bullshit nonsense instead 😂.

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Identifiable2023@reddit

Another boomer here. Not the exception to the rule. I’m not against WFH and nor are any of my similar aged friends. In fact I don’t know anyone who subscribes to most of the so called boomer ideology or ideas. (I personally hated working from home, but that’s for myself - if anybody else wants to do it and it’s possible with the job they do then more power to their elbow)

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GeeJo@reddit

> I think boomers get a bum rap in general, and life wasn’t as easy for them as people make out Especially in the UK. Like, the internet memes about baby-boomers are about *American* boomers, who were born in the only untouched industrial economy and reaped the benefits of that for thirty years. The earliest UK baby-boomers had a childhood under rationing (ended 1954), and hit the workplace just in time for the 70s "Poor Man of Europe" UK economy.

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JonnotheMackem@reddit

Good comment, well made

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PraterViolet@reddit

> I think you’re the exception to the rule in this case - I read the telegraph (mainly because I get it for nowt) and hardly a day goes by without a news story or comment piece bemoaning services going down the pan because of people working from home. lol, beautifully unaware

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weecheeky@reddit

I haven’t heard anyone speak in favour of UBI. However, everyone seems to be in favour of cutting the size of government by at least 50% and they have all lost faith in the main political parties.

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Single-Position-4194@reddit

Spot on!

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reguk32@reddit

As someone who can't work from home (electrician) I'm all for as many people working from home as possible. The fewer people on the roads at rush hour make it better for everyone else.

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JonnotheMackem@reddit

Absolutely. Commuting must be by and large better these days

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Hotusrockus@reddit

I would imagine the effects of less traffic on the road by wfh have been nullified by deliveroo, dpd, evri etc

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cyberllama@reddit

There's a dpd depot between my house and the office. I spend my 'office day' commute narrowly avoiding death by impatient dpd driver. Some of them are dangerous fuckers.

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earlyeveningsunset@reddit

I love working from home for stuff like this! Means we can be flexible as to when you come to fix the lights (or whatever) rather than having to take a day off and schedule it in x weeks time.

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Npr31@reddit

And a load of people needing ethernet cables run all about and extra sockets added…?

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tiny_tina1979@reddit

Did you read that somewhere? Fat cats would lose too much rent money from empty offices....

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pajamakitten@reddit

Or who have forgotten how little work can sometimes get done at work. There is no way they were productive every second they were at work.

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Npr31@reddit

Completely. I class the days in the office as a write-off in terms of getting anything done

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throwpayrollaway@reddit

I remember working with people who were boomers in the public sector, a lot of them were really hard work set in their ways.

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Daveddozey@reddit

It’s Generation Me, due to the outsized influence they’ve always had, they’ve had a literal lifetime of decisions going their way. They can’t cope when something breaks with that world view.

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CoolRanchBaby@reddit

There is a major push by big property landlords to stoke anger about because they don’t want people to stop paying them ridiculous amounts for office space. They then push propaganda about it crafted to piss off people like boomers so they will complain about it too. It’s a load of sh*t.

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Tuarangi@reddit

That or have investments in property, shops that cater for workers etc which they want to profit from at the expense of workers being able to WFH and maybe save a few quid on expenses. Same people who worship cars and can't stand the concept of local facilities you can walk or cycle to or use public transport so everyone must drive at 8:30 into the city like good little drones.

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WatermelonCandy5@reddit

It’s mostly stoked by the establishment who exploit and manipulate stupid the boomers into fighting young people.

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Eoin_McLove@reddit

I 50:50 WFH and from the office. I am 100% more productive at home because there are less distractions. In the office you end up chatting to colleagues or getting involved in other people’s projects etc. It’s also annoying that older generations literally think you’re not working if you’re in the house. The amount of times my in-laws have just walked into my office at home and are surprised when I ask them to get out because I’m literally working right now is insane. Also asking me for immediate favours and getting annoyed when I say I can’t help at the moment because I’m busy.

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pajamakitten@reddit

It is like how they also think you need to be wearing a suit to work in an office.

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Substantial-Chonk886@reddit

Do you think your working relationships are better because you get to spend some time in person? In turn, do you think it means the quality of your work is better? Just curious

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Eoin_McLove@reddit

Yeah, that is pretty much what I was referring to as once its uses. I started a new job during Covid which was 100% WFH and it was difficult to know who to approach to ask questions. I felt a bit lost and rudderless. When we started back hybrid it was awkward because the people who’d been there for years had no idea who all these new people were. That was when I learned how important in person workplace interactions really are. And I’m saying that as massive introvert!

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Substantial-Chonk886@reddit

That makes sense to me and resonates with my experience too. I don’t want or need to be 100% in person again, but going in a bit is useful for me.

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Eoin_McLove@reddit

Yeah, hybrid is ideal. The occasional ‘extra-curricular’ really helps with the right people. Pub quizzes etc. It’s basically team building but without the wanky management speak and boring presentations.

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Alien_lifeform_666@reddit

Exactly! As long as they do as much work from home as they would be expected to do in the office, the physical location is irrelevant!

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Ironfields@reddit

Daily Mail and its readers will never be happy unless everyone is working in abject misery, and even then they’ll find something to complain about.

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radiorentals@reddit

This is a few years old, but is depressingly [still relevant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI)

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TeHNeutral@reddit

"Why do the workers look so well fed? They should look like they've just barely survived the holodomor" - to which many worker furiously nodded along

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pajamakitten@reddit

It is because they themselves live in abject misery.

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Access_Denied2025@reddit

Why does it matter where someone works from as long as they are able to do their job? In a previous job, my boss told her team she didn't care if they did their work in a Weatherspoons as long as their work got done. That's the kind of boss you want

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sprucay@reddit

Whoever it is, senior or junior, if they're doing what they need to do who gives a fuck where they do it?

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dobbynobson@reddit

That common sense is of no interest to angry boomers though. I expect this story will soon be added to my parents' rants about public sector workers 'shirking from home', because everything needs to be made worse and more difficult for employees in order for it to be valid 'work' in their eyes.

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mJelly87@reddit

It's not just the Mail, but they seem to be the worst, but I hate it when they have stories like "study shoes XYZ causes cancer." There could have been a hundred studies that prove it doesn't, but they focus on that one. Or they miss out the part that says "if you eat 2000 every day, for the next two months" and just say "large quantities".

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banjo_fandango@reddit

Misread that as "Sturdy shoes cause cancer". I *like* my sturdy shoes!

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mJelly87@reddit

Thanks, didn't notice that. Lol Although now they will have the headline "Sturdy shoes cause cancer, says Reddit user"

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manofkent79@reddit

My nephew lives in a 'compound' in gran canaria, one of the other residents has a PC set up outside with an awning covering it, his place overlooks the shared pool. Hes a 'procurement manager' for a major nhs trust, never spends more than 3 hours a day at his computer. So yeah, I totally believe it's real because I've seen it with my own eyes.

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RattyHandwriting@reddit

I’m not suggesting for one second it’s not; just that there might be reasons that someone lives in Ibiza/Gran Canaria and works from there. Mere presence in a holiday location does not automatically equate to being on holiday. Secondly, if your nephew is doing his job, and procurement is one of those jobs that can be done mostly solo, who gives a shiny shit where he does it from?

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manofkent79@reddit

My nephew isn't the one doing the procurement, it's a neighbour, and he genuinely doesn't give a shit about his job and is immune to being 'called into the office'. Apparently he openly brags about how little he does.

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BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit

The Daily Mail regularly have articles about how Britain is going to the dogs because of pampered workers working from home. They are often written by Richard Littlejohn, who lives in Florida and writes all his articles at home.

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pajamakitten@reddit

It is like how they hate Lewis Hamilton for moving to Monaco for tax reasons but never say anything against their non-dom owner Lord Rothermere.

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KnightsOfCidona@reddit

Literally every other British F1 driver ever has moved to Monaco, but they picked on Lewis for reasons I cannot possibly fathom. Any ideas, I'm stumped?

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decentlyfair@reddit

Because he is vegan? Jk.

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RattyHandwriting@reddit

I would cheerfully wish my mate’s life for the last three and a half year’s on that bastard. The person in question is pretty convinced they’re getting fired in the new year once the leadership team come back from Christmas leave and decide to make an example of them. My mate was back working on 27th December…

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TeHNeutral@reddit

Why would they be making an example of them?

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RattyHandwriting@reddit

Because they’re utter, utter shits and tend to do this whenever there’s a whiff of bad press; it’s always the staff’s fault. I hope my mate is wrong, but I’m not going to tell them they absolutely are wrong because it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

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Aeviv@reddit

Bald northern lad? My circs are very similar. My team leader did something similar a couple of years ago when his mum had facial tumours. Never skipped a day's work, was always available, and all the work got done. Only difference was he was with his mum so she had some support. Whole team was working agile at the time, he just went fully remote, and to suggest what he was doing was wrong would have just been a dick move.

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maelie@reddit

This is interesting to me because my government dept has extremely tight rules around working abroad that would make this impossible in all but some *very* specific circumstances. For most people it would be rejected. A big part of it is security. Even without the remote work, we aren't allowed to take any work device abroad. I think I heard that someone got disciplined for taking their work phone on holiday because it had a better camera than their personal one. Of course the dept can see when someone is connected to a foreign network, so they did not get away with it.

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RattyHandwriting@reddit

Yes, I moved to a civil service role and the rules are very different, much tighter and more sensible. It was common when I was working there to be told to take my laptop on holiday with me in case I was needed, and I did it, for three years, until I grew a spine and told them to go fuck themselves. Local government, especially tiny district and borough councils, is a fucking mess.

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maelie@reddit

Yeah local and central are very different and even in central there can be huge variability between the way different departments do things. Anywhere I've worked (in any sector) I've never been *told* to be available on holiday, for most jobs that would be unnecessary and a complete imposition on getting a break from work. I'd consider it a red flag. I've often worked on holiday by choice, but someone telling me to do it would be a nope from me unless there was a really good reason!

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RattyHandwriting@reddit

Yeah, I was just too bloody stupid to realise I was being manipulated when they said “but you’re too important to be absent for so long… what if something goes wrong, what will we do without you…” Well if I’m that fucking important you could, I dunno, provide me with an assistant and preferably pay me more.

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SSMicrowave@reddit

My company has extremely tight rules because of data. But it’s not impossible and I imagine - “can I go be with my dying Mother in Spain” would generally be something that could be accommodated.

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maelie@reddit

Yes bereavement/care is one of the very few circs where I believe you can apply, but there are a lot of clearances and it takes some time so not necessarily going to work for an emergency situation. It's also very short term (absolute max 2 weeks IIRC). I think in most instances people would just take emergency leave instead. There is something for longer than 2 weeks but it's absurdly specific and applies to practically nobody.

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SSMicrowave@reddit

Interesting thanks. Probably downvoted for saying something vaguely related to Civil Service lol. I balanced it back out. :)

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Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit

Years back I was in the Public Sector & was involved in case where a part time assistant cook was involved with a theft. The local news reported that the guy was the head chef. By the time it hit the national papers he'd been promoted to the head of establishment.

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ONLY_SAYS_ONLY@reddit

Impressive career progression!

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Kirstemis@reddit

In 2022 I worked from mum's house, 200 miles away from mine, for 10 weeks while she underwent and recovered from surgery on a 5.5cm abdominal aortic aneurysm. I worked longer hours doing that than in the office. Two weeks after I got back home, my dad became suddenly very ill and I spent three weeks in St Helier at his hospital bedside (combination of annual leave and sick leave) until we could get him to his local hospital, then worked from mum's again for about six weeks, intermittently around hospital visits, the day he died, funeral planning etc. (Intermittently as in I worked mornings then went in to speak to the doctors in the afternoons, other family were available to visit so I wasn't sitting all day every day at his bedside like in Jersey. He died on a Friday, nobody worked on the Monday because it was the queen's funeral and then I was working from mum's most days but taking the odd half day to see the solicitor, register the death, funeral director etc. And if I was overcome with grief I told my boss and didn't work that day).

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RattyHandwriting@reddit

That’s exactly what my mate has been doing: they cared for their mum for two years, one of which was a Covid year, in Spain. They have dual nationality. Mum passed away about 18 months ago, friend is having a nightmare winding up estates in both the UK and Spain, and hasn’t yet decided where they will settle when their four years of hell is finally over.

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Alundra828@reddit

It's hilarious to consider the "research" that went into this. You can imagine some writer tasking an intern to spend hours and hours firing and forgetting FOI requests looking for something juicy, and then the writer saw *two* civil servants working near a beach and said "oh yeah, it's morbin' time" as they crack their fingers and begin slamming their face on the keyboard. They then proudly present their work to the editor with a wry smile and a "this will get people RILED bossman. By the way can I go home early? I need to get home quick to kick the shit out of my dog because that's just who I am as a person" idk what rag journalists do in their spare time, but I assume it's that.

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jobblejosh@reddit

FoIA requests are great for government transparency and are an important part of keeping the government to account. However, they can so easily be abused to generate headlines like that. I work for a company that can be subject to FoIA requests. I also have autism. If I'm travelling to a conference/overnight stay somewhere by train, it's a reasonable request/adjustment for me to travel in First Class as it's often a quieter space (not all trains have a quiet coach and even if they do it's not necessarily the volume but just the number of people), which means I can be more productive when I arrive. Even if it's an extra £100, that cost is negligible for a business our size and my ability to be productive is probably worth that alone. Except because some newspaper could make a request and get their hands on it, and write a headline about some low-level employee travelling first class, I'm not allowed to.

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Agitated_Ad_361@reddit

I’ve always loved the stories from the rightwing newspapers about how murderers get ‘turkey and ALL of the trimmings’ at Christmas. The bile just makes me laugh.

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pikantnasuka@reddit

They should print a photo of the actual meal It was probably cruel of me to laugh at him but one of my family members was in prison last Christmas and was so disappointed by his dinner that he used all his call credit to describe and complain about it

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nostalgebra@reddit

Obvious solution to his problem there ... Don't be a POS

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BaseballFuryThurman@reddit

The solution to being served shit food while already in prison is to not be a POS?

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nostalgebra@reddit

Don't be a criminal and make other people's lives miserable. You won't find yourself locked up at Xmas.

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BaseballFuryThurman@reddit

But that isn't a solution in a situation where you're already in prison, unless you have access to time travel.

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nostalgebra@reddit

Oh no! Someone is not happy about the consequences to their behaviour. Should have thought of that before ruining lives

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BaseballFuryThurman@reddit

> Oh no! Someone is not happy about the consequences to their behaviour What on earth are you waffling on about? If you've read my comments and thought "this guy is being sympathetic towards prisoners", you desperately need to work on your reading comprehension. > Should have thought of that before ruining lives Correct - not committing a crime is a solution to not going to prison. Not being a POS when you're already in prison would make absolutely no difference as to whether or not you're treated like a prisoner. I really miss when the average Redditor wasn't thick as mince.

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alancake@reddit

Don't forget "lifers offered VEGAN and HALAL options on Christmas!!!" Like, okay, so does everyone in hospital or nursing home?

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bacon_cake@reddit

Tangentially related but I love when they include house prices for no reason. '...the offender said outside his £650,000 home.' Sometimes they miss the mark though and include houses that are totally nationally average.

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Thingisby@reddit

Normally off the back of some kind of a "you can't even call it Christmas anymore" article. Yes you can. They've reported some version of that for 40 years and I don't think I've seen any repercussions for anyone who has ever said "Merry Christmas". Which is said by almost everyone I've ever met. Every year.

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Slothjitzu@reddit

Literally the most that happens is a handful of TV presenters say "happy holidays" instead on their annual Christmas special. Most say "Merry Christmas" , or even both, and pretty much nobody has ever been criticised for doing that.

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Milam1996@reddit

The most peaceful conclusion you can come to is that Facebook boomers are legitimately brain damaged, there’s endless studies on how being reactionary is linked to brain damage.

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kylehyde84@reddit

It's all the lead in petrol at the time

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Melodic_Arm_387@reddit

I said the same. People get so worked up about it, but really it’s one of the cheapest meals you can feed people. A slice of turkey and maybe a pig in blanket, then the rest is cheap as anything.

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pajamakitten@reddit

As if they are getting a gourmet meal, not the sort of slop also served in schools and hopitals.

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koombot@reddit

Kitty Litter in the classrooms for kids who identify as cats.

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Landoritchie@reddit

Jon Ronson's podcast "Things Fell Apart" talks about this. He stripped back all the nonsense to investigate where it came from and how it spread like propaganda wildfire.

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CensorTheologiae@reddit

I was going to suggest some of his stuff as a prime example of UK rage bait!

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theraininspainfallsm@reddit

I’d love to hear some of the rage bait. What kind of things was he saying / doing?

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CensorTheologiae@reddit

There's plenty to go at. Pretty much anything before this: I can't believe he's still going around doing his psychopath test stuff, it got so thoroughly debunked. Difficult to take him seriously as a misinfo expert if he's still shilling his own.

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danabrey@reddit

Best podcast series I've ever listened to. Highly recommend to anyone who hasn't.

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floofyhaunches@reddit

What’s really awful is that the only confirmed instance of litter being provided in US schools comes from the school district where the Columbine shootings took place. Teachers were given ‘go buckets’ containing litter for students to use in case of a lockdown situation eg a school shooting. It’s a conflation of two depressing right wing trends in the States - a reactionary ‘anti woke’ (and anti trans) narrative, and a complete rejection of any gun control measures to protect their children from mass shootings.

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MrsKebabs@reddit

Wow r/usdefaultism on the askuk sub

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GodfatherLanez@reddit

Not really lmao, the bs story came from the US

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MrsKebabs@reddit

Yeah but it's not relevant here

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GodfatherLanez@reddit

Of course it’s relevant? It’s where it comes from lol

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Tuarangi@reddit

That was US nonsense

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AlexAlways9911@reddit

Sadly not just the US. Katherine Birbalsingh (the lady who styles herself 'Britain's Strictest Headmistress') was on social media insisting that it had definitely happened in the UK but unfortunately she was forced to withhold any evidence for the sake of the privacy of the teachers involved.

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DaveBeBad@reddit

She covered the walls of her school with inspirational quotes. At least some of which are wrongly attributed.

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Beebeeseebee@reddit

As Winston Churchill once said, "most famous quotations are complete made-up bollocks".

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DaveBeBad@reddit

I thought he said “don’t believe everything you read on the internet”?

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Beebeeseebee@reddit

That was Martin Luther King.

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AmberWarning89@reddit

Or was it Abraham Lincoln?

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angel_0f_music@reddit

I think you'll find it was Marilyn Monroe.

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AlexAlways9911@reddit

- Albert Einstein

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kilgore_trout1@reddit

She’s an attention seeking twat.

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ehsteve23@reddit

She’s straight up evil

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Tuarangi@reddit

I've edited the post, I meant the stories first came out in the US and have inevitably spawned copies for local news, it's all designed to push anti trans rhetoric

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Future-Atmosphere-40@reddit

A colleague began spouting this. Two second google brought up a Welsh headmaster dismissing the claims about his school.

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UncleIroh24@reddit

There’s a couple of unconnected people in my town who are adamant that there is a girl at a local high school who is allowed to identify as a cat and use a litter tray. I have been unable to verify this either way. I’m certain it’s bullshit, but the woman said she was told about it by a worker at the school, so how can I disprove it?

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danabrey@reddit

You can't. It's on them to prove it.

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Ironfields@reddit

Honestly, even if there was, why should I care? Life's too short man, worry about things that actually matter.

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ehsteve23@reddit

Every kid has a high quality camera in their pocket, you’d think if it was real then even one of them would have taken a photo for snapchat or TikTok or whatever they’re using these days

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Cheapntacky@reddit

It's always "a teacher I know told me" or some such BS to add credence to the story rather than "I read on Facebook".

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Tuarangi@reddit

Started in late 2021 in Michigan, at least that's the oldest example Snopes found. Just gets rehashed with a new location every so often. The worst part is that it's dog whistle anti-trans rhetoric, mixing in the Furry community too, with the idea kids identify as cats, just a rehash of the tired attack helicopter meme. Paint all trans people as just dumb kids playing make believe and tick the box for rage bait old people

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redapp73@reddit

I heard this nonsense at work. The worst part to me is that I heard the same exact story in the US over 3 years ago. The people pedaling this bullshit aren’t even bothering to make new stuff up. They think/know that people are that lazy and stupid.

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Larrygengurch12@reddit

Yeh, that one was going around our town's local Facebook group the other day and a lot of people fell for it

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turntricks@reddit

A coworker told me this rumour to my face and got angrier and angrier when I asked her for any proof whatsoever beyond "hearing about it on Facebook", eventually telling me to drop it and going off in a huff. These people will really regurgitate anything they manage to read with no critical dissonance whatsoever and then double-down on it with even the gentlest of prodding. It's bizarre. And yeah, her entire family reads the Sun. Big frickin' surprise.

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Mid_July_Diamond16@reddit

Urgh my mum brought this up asking me if it was true and I didn't even know how to begin explaining all the layers behind it

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shanodindryad@reddit

Ugh yeah this came up in conversation with someone I know who works with kids. Absolutely no doubt in her mind it was true 🤦

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koombot@reddit

This story is one of the ultimate gammon detectors.

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sheslikebutter@reddit

Literally had MIL bring this up last week...again. after showing debunking articles she just said "just because someone reported it's not true, doesn't mean they checked every school"

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Comfortable-mouse05@reddit

Rotten turkeys

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Alarming_Profile_284@reddit

My local “pork pie roundabout” was to be renamed to something vegan friendly. The locals were not impressed to say the least.

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LickClitsSuckNips@reddit

Sadiq khan being knighted is apparently "proof the politicians have sold London to foreign interests" Love twitter 😂😂

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Lopsided_Rush3935@reddit

Large swathes of London *is* owned by overseas interests, and I believe there are articles speculating at how dirty money is washed and turned into property capital by buying up homes. London has been described as the European Singapore. Which is particularly concerning if you add it to the fact that London is rapidly leaving all other major UK cities behind it, and having a society where there's one ultra-profitable hub is a predictor or poverty and poorhouse-style geographical relocation.

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LickClitsSuckNips@reddit

Margaret Thatcher is grinning ear to ear in her grave

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Neddius@reddit

Whilst Satan is giving her a shoulder rub

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Boldboy72@reddit

you know Satan is afraid of her... right? That's why he still lives among us and owns The Sun, he even got married again recently

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AcceptableProgress37@reddit

I prefer to think of her in Supernatural's super-hell

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Ecomalive@reddit

KHANS LONDON!!!! is just hilarious. People need to get out more

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LickClitsSuckNips@reddit

THE MUSLAMICS!!!! TOMMY IS IN SOLITARY FOR CHRISTS SAKE!!!!! THEYVE OCCUPIED THE STREETS DONT THEY HAVE ENOUGH MOSQUES???? THEYVE BEEN GIVEN OUR CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES CHURCHES FOR FREE!!!!!!!

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Muffinshire@reddit

MUSLAMIC RAY GUNS! SHAKIRA LAW!

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FreeDeer8496@reddit

he is was saying "rape gangs" asd was correct, being inebriated didn't make him wrong.

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Cheapntacky@reddit

Ooooh Shakira Shakira!

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TheBestBigAl@reddit

You get points for the use of all caps, but then lose them for not including enough spelling mistakes.

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LickClitsSuckNips@reddit

Should have spelt "Christian" as "cristian" for max lolz

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TheBestBigAl@reddit

I would've also accepted "solitry", "mosks" and "cuntrees".

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Ermithecow@reddit

ARE CUNTREE!!

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AcceptableProgress37@reddit

molluscs r taken ovr an me sisters lurjick

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Ecomalive@reddit

Britian First!

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ImABrickwallAMA@reddit

To be honest, and call me ignorant, but I genuinely can’t think of anything that Sadiq Khan should be knighted for? Genuine question - what has he actually done that deserves a knighthood?

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Robestos86@reddit

There are a few lists but free school meals for all primary school children seems to be popular, and one that could/should/would be good to do everywhere. Link here, although admittedly this is his own site. https://sadiq.london/manifesto/sadiqs-top-20-achievements/

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km6669@reddit

Services to high blood pressure in men with shaved heads and neck fat rolls?

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DaveBeBad@reddit

3 times mayor of the largest city in the country. Whether you agree with the honours system or not- I personally don’t - he is arguably as deserving as any other politician who has been similarly awarded.

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Future-Atmosphere-40@reddit

Not a headline but that melt that rang James O'Brien complaining Khan wanted to convert London to Sharia law based on a joke meme.

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BeautyAndTheDekes@reddit

*Shakira law. It don’t lie.

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Future-Atmosphere-40@reddit

Damn sharon law.

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Dapper_Otters@reddit

Khan's mere existence enrages people both here and overseas.

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Frosty_Pepper1609@reddit

Agreed with this ! Where was the media/social media uproar when the useless mob of Gavin Williamson, Jacob Rees Mogg, Therese Coffey, Priti Patel, and many more had knighthoods/dameshoods for doing nowt ?

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LickClitsSuckNips@reddit

If anyone actually gave a shit, we'd be asking where all the COVID money went. Wasn't there a video games shop in Albania who took like a £100M to supply PPE? Which politician used that to Syphon tax paper money and are they not sanctioned and have bailiffs commandeering their property to pay the treasury back like they would someone with a £200 overdue tax bill?

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Otocolobus_manul8@reddit

One from the Sun about how woke lecturers were telling people that the point of Frankenstein was that the monster was misunderstood, which is pretty much the gist of the novel. There's a lot of rage-bait surrounding academia/universities in general.

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Ermithecow@reddit

I remember that. "Woke students argue Frankenstein's monster was *misunderstood.*" Yes. That's the book. What next, "woke students argue Paddington was *a bear*"?

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Boldboy72@reddit

Paddington was an illegal immigrant! Stealing our marmalade sandwiches and hanging around train stations looking for some change....

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Squeepynips@reddit

Woke students argue those lord of the flies boys took it a bit too far

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jobblejosh@reddit

Bear is a term used to describe/self describe some gay men. Clearly Paddington is promoting the Gay Agenda and corrupting our kids.

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MJLDat@reddit

I knew it!

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Icy_Place_5785@reddit

…and an undocumented migrant at that too (!) /s

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pajamakitten@reddit

Coming over here and eating our marmalade sandwiches!

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maelie@reddit

*identified* as a bear*

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ellisellisrocks@reddit

Thick people don't read books but they do read the sun. Imagine trying to explain the basic gist of many classic novels to sun reading knuckle draggers they would lose there shit

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JonnotheMackem@reddit

*their shit. Sorry, couldn’t resist!

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homelaberator@reddit

*They're shit

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ellisellisrocks@reddit

Thank you. I'm severely hung over I hope you can understand.

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maelie@reddit

Happy new year!

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yugjet@reddit

The biggest problem with this type of story is that the journalists are well educated and know they are producing rage bait. Something about that business turns people into cynics and nihilists.

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pajamakitten@reddit

> Thick people don't read books but they do read the sun. They could just watch the movie though.

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km6669@reddit

Nah, you're confusing The Sun with Harry Potter.

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Boldboy72@reddit

my favourite was Josie Cunningham. She'd plant a story for the DM to get very upset about, they'd print it and suddenly all the other tabloids and tabloid tv shows were paying her for interviews. Sadly, after several years of doing this, I think they finally figured it out...

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poptimist185@reddit

Big instagram accounts have become very smart and using ragebait without it being obvious. Eg “look at this cute story of an American child who couldn’t afford surgery so his friends organised a GoFundMe”

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Ironfields@reddit

That's less rage bait, more /r/orphancrushingmachine bait.

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oktimeforplanz@reddit

also r/ABoringDystopia

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homelaberator@reddit

It's great for engagement because you get both the people going "Awwwww" and the people outraged that the orphan crushing machine even exists, and the people outraged at being cynically manipulated.

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Saintesky@reddit

I work on the trains and with all the strikes that went on for the last two years, some of the things wrote about us and even said by politicians was so outrageously bad, that we all started to take the piss big time out of the media. The absolute best one was if a boss said hello to us on a break, we’d restart our breaks and delay taking a train out as a result. The other great one was the papers getting in a lather about ‘walking time’. (Because every task is timed on the railway). Because this is factored into our shifts, the papers clearly want us to teleport to trains because we apparently shouldn’t be paid for doing this.

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vicarofsorrows@reddit

The picture in the Daily Mail of some murderer (forget his name) as a three-month old. The caption was “Even as a tiny baby, his fists were clenched in rage”.

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jarvis-cocker@reddit

I saw a headline in the Metro recently that talked about a woman and her husband carrying out a scam to get over a million “pounds” of pension money by repeatedly divorcing and remarrying each other (I don’t remember how it worked exactly) Read the article, turns out this happened in Austria. Feels like the headline figure was only translated into pounds to get people to read the article by playing into outrage about benefit fraud in the UK… after all, the average reader has a good idea of how much a Euro is…

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BabyAlibi@reddit

Doesn't surprise me, is it still owned by the Daily Mail?

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SubjectImmediate6803@reddit

Wait. What? Nooo... Austria is owned by the Daily Mail?

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Infinite_Toilet@reddit

Makes sense, one of their idols is Austrian.

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BabyAlibi@reddit

I'm so sorry that I had to break it to you like that. Thots and prayers

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CarrotMartianHead@reddit

The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, and the Daily Express all wrote articles about Jane Austen being “dropped” from my university’s English Studies degree in favour of Toni Morrison. Of course the headlines mentioned Jane Austen was dropped in order to “decolonise the curriculum”. In reality, Jane Austen wasn’t dropped in favour of Toni Morrison. The module the articles related to was the special authors module which changes its writer of focus every year. The current writer the students on that module are focusing on is Geoffrey Chaucer, a white, English poet. To add even more ridiculousness to the articles’ rage bait, Jane Austen is included in the British literature module of the English Studies degree.

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homelaberator@reddit

Ah, this the old "boys are going far right because we are teaching Kite Runner instead of good, British authors" whilst the curriculum still contains Dickens, Austen, Orwell, Shakespeare et al. But you add one slightly foreign, modern, or "woman's" book and it's suddenly a "woke agenda". And any change in the curriculum (eg choosing novel A over novel B this year) can get reported as "author dropped" or "book banned". Like it's easy ragebait that will get clicks, but it's ultimately very corrosive and damaging to our culture as a whole.

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AcceptableProgress37@reddit

Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Contemporary Prose. If you know, you know. I read it and it's fascinating, can't wait for the book!

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silentarcher00@reddit

Urgh, that pissed me off so much

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AcceptableProgress37@reddit

Of all the theses they could have picked on, they picked a genuinely interesting one instead of something pointless like 'Ghosts in Hardy and De La Mere'.

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silentarcher00@reddit

"It's too specific!" IT'S A PHD THESIS NOT A GCSE EXAM!

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AcceptableProgress37@reddit

A large number of the commenters didn't know what 'contemporary' meant either. Doubt they know their vivas from their vulvas tbh.

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homelaberator@reddit

One is a kind of credit card, and the other is a Swedish car.

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Debaser1984@reddit

Any time the "hand of God" is mentioned in sports, people lose their minds about it.

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Mischeese@reddit

The thing about ‘Woke’ Sandwich fillings recently was hilarious. How can anyone get worked up about a bit of avocado in a sandwich?

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turntricks@reddit

I can't believe people still think Piers Morgan is any kind of brave hero after he had a meltdown on live television over Greggs making vegan sausage rolls. The horror! The horror! (They're pretty good, too).

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mynaneisjustguy@reddit

I kinda have a thing about this. Like, I really don’t have a single tiniest thing against vegans getting food from Greggs. I am just confused why it’s called a sausage roll. Just call it a vegan roll. It’s shorter, it’s accurate, I just don’t get the whole replacing meats with fake meat thing. Like facon. I am not a vegetarian but I don’t eat meat every day, and I like plenty of entirely plant based meals that I make, plenty the wife makes. But we don’t try to simulate meat with vegetables. Seems very strange to me. But I’m not campaigning against it either.

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DaddyOfChaos@reddit

It's called a vegan sausage roll because it's a vegan sausage roll. That is accurate. Calling it a 'vegan roll' could make it anything.

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mynaneisjustguy@reddit

But there’s no sausage…. That’s what confuses me. Admittedly you could argue there’s no sausage is the regular Greggs sausage roll too I suppose.

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rdwburns@reddit

It’s because it’s trying to approximate the Greggs Sausage Roll. It’s a shorthand to make it simpler for people to understand what it is. A lot of marketing is about this, because people are less likely to make a purchase if they have to work to understand what they’re buying. Take, for another example, “Vegetarian Bacon” - it’s not bacon, but calling it Vegetarian Bacon helps someone to understand how it might be cooked or served.

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Vyvyansmum@reddit

It tastes & smells like bacon but without being actual dead flesh.

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LegSpinner@reddit

Things like milk, sausage etc are a special type of word that in colloquial use have two usages - one default, and one with prefix. So - sausage = pork, chicken / vegan / Glamorgan sausages are something different. Same with milk vs Coconut milk / almond milk.

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PabloDX9@reddit

Yes there is. Sausage is a shape. They're not a naturally forming part of a pig that's being replicated.

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DaddyOfChaos@reddit

There is a sausage, a vegan one, in a roll.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

If you gave a four year old a lump of plasticine and asked them to make a sausage, do you think they'd be confused?

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mynaneisjustguy@reddit

Or a carrot, likewise, but it won’t make it a root vegetable. The shape does not dictate the makeup.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

A sausage is a shape. I can't imagine anyone not understanding that a vegan sausage roll isn't an approximation of a meat sausage roll.

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mynaneisjustguy@reddit

So is square sausage not sausage? The patties that go into factory made sausage rolls were never tubular. We cannot argue gay sausage is a shape since it quite clearly is not.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

gay sausage?

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mynaneisjustguy@reddit

Yeah I have no idea how predictive text found “gay” as part of the half spelt half felt rubbish I type into my phone but it’s too silly to edit and delete now, I’ll leave it there for the world to wonder at.

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CarrotMartianHead@reddit

A vegan roll doesn’t tell anyone what it is though. If I say “may I have a vegan sausage roll please?” I know I will be handed a vegan pastry with a filling made of fusarium venenatum and other ingredients. If I say “may I have a vegan roll please?” I have no idea what I’m getting. Is it chickpea salad on a roll? Roasted vegetables and hummus? Vegan cheese? Spiced seitan with sauerkraut? I know nothing about this ambiguous vegan roll other than it’s a roll which is vegan.

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mynaneisjustguy@reddit

I understand because of the ambiguous nature of the word “roll” in Britain. But a “vegan sausage roll” does tell me what shape to expect, but draws me no closer to knowing it’s contents. I imagine it will be a strange thing mainly comprised of palm oil, rusk and flour. But no sureties are given. Maybe what we need is a new term which gives me some clue as to what I am actually eating. But since “sausage” has also become a term which could be anything from 20% meat to 96% meat, even that word is pretty ambiguous.

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pajamakitten@reddit

Gregg's and Piers use the same PR company, so we all know it was a stunt.

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pattybutty@reddit

Piers is some kind of stunt

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mawarup@reddit

a cunning stunt

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TheKnightsTippler@reddit

Yeah, I also felt it was weird that they implied only young people eat these sandwiches, boomers eat sandwiches like that too.

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jlb8@reddit

They were even calling coronation chicken woke, to me it's the most reactionary of sandwiches.

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pajamakitten@reddit

It is also one of the most British fillings, given that it honours the monarchy.

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Larrygengurch12@reddit

One of the fillings they were getting worked up about was chicken 😂

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levezvosskinnyfists7@reddit

This is the one I came here to post. The moment when The Daily Mail transcended self-parody…

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bababababoos@reddit

Stumbled across a Facebook page yesterday called 'Daily Mail Try Not to Cry' which reposts loads of utterly ridiculous articles including 'woman finds dream man on flight, but there's a catch' and 'cat gets trapped in a cupboard'. Genuinely thought it was satire until a friend told me it really is the Daily Mail.

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levezvosskinnyfists7@reddit

An old one but a favourite is “Try this hack to get around the 5p bag charge” - the hack was to reuse carrier bags…

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Ironfields@reddit

There was one in the Telegraph recently where they were popping a blood vessel over the Home Office intervening to prevent the private prosecution of a Romanian shoplifter. It turned out they did it because it was preventing them from deporting him.

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Icy_Priority8075@reddit

Is it possible they couldn't deport him because 'he owned a cat'? Or am I mixing that up with 2018 anti-immigrant propaganda.

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MagicalParade@reddit

Does anyone remember the girl who went to the NHS for a boob job and made headlines, then went on to sell her story and later, a birth tape? Josie Cunningham was her name!

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bababababoos@reddit

She was labelled as 'the most hated woman in Britain' before anyone had even heard of her, and then the boomers took the bait.

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Icy_Priority8075@reddit

She can't possibly be the most hated woman in Britain. That title was awarded to 'cat in a bin woman' - or maybe 'took competitor's ice cream out of freezer on bake-off woman'.

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Commercial_Garlic348@reddit

Always thought Katie Hopkins was cut from the same cloth (playing a character to bait readers, though she keeps the act up on social media - I think - can't say I follow her) so maybe KH really is that vile. The likes of Josie Cunningham will make DM readers that bit angrier because she's working class, therefore an illiterate scumbag and the DM can't quote the price of her property, etc...

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MagicalParade@reddit

I did a little bit of light research before posting this so I had her name written correctly, and she’s doing OF now. Her whole USP is reinforcing the chav stereotype, as she had done previously, and she’s raking in £7k a month (or was at the time of writing).

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Commercial_Garlic348@reddit

Yeah, the whole thing is grim and I wouldn't want to be communicating with some of her followers. Good luck to her, I guess...she'll need it. Poor kids.

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AmayaSmith96@reddit

I remember as the Covid vaccine had been rolled out, a few people I went to school with shared an article about a guy who had a heart attack and died whilst involved in the vaccine trial. Obviously I clicked the link and read the full article. Turns out he had a pre-existing health condition and died BEFORE he even got the vaccine.

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SuperShoebillStork@reddit

Misrepresentation of the “15 minute cities” concept.

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Nebulousdbc@reddit

15 min cities also get conflated with the use of AI cameras and paranoia about facial tracking finding people from leaving their zone

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Daveddozey@reddit

How dare we have schools and shops in walking distance! When I was little we had to walk to school uphill never did us any harm!

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km6669@reddit

Wasn't that down to Oxford trying to do exactly what the rage bait stuff about 15 minutes cities claimed.

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SuperShoebillStork@reddit

Not really, no [https://www.timeout.com/uk/news/the-small-english-city-at-the-centre-of-the-global-15-minute-city-storm-022023](https://www.timeout.com/uk/news/the-small-english-city-at-the-centre-of-the-global-15-minute-city-storm-022023) [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-02/how-did-the-15-minute-city-get-tangled-up-in-a-far-right-conspiracy](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-02/how-did-the-15-minute-city-get-tangled-up-in-a-far-right-conspiracy)

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thefuturesorange@reddit

All of the rage bait works uniquely well on British people because they seemingly don’t care how badly their government mistreats them as long as they’re treating someone else worse.

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AnonymousTimewaster@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/l4y3p0nn6gae1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31a70777ff10b0b13854004524f5a5b1c9a6f4dc Got to be Notre-Dame being woke

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melp0mene@reddit

all the pieces about how people saved up loads of money for their first homes in their early 20s so YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO!!! but it always turns out they lived at home/got an inheritance/won the lottery.

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Jinx983@reddit

Hey now, they also cut back on takeaways! They suffered and sacrificed! /s

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BobBobBobBobBobDave@reddit

Yes. It is the same when they have "I made my first million by 25" stories. Always just happens that the person went into an industry they had relatives already senior in, and got a big start off pot of money from a family member to start their business. Like, good for them, but let's not pretend it is an option for everyone...

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melp0mene@reddit

or there will be a story about landlords not being able to afford some new bill the government has implemented so they need to evict their tenants through no fault of their (landlords) own. it makes me want to scream!

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Imperator_Helvetica@reddit

Yeah, it's usually along the lines of 'Grandma left me a house and we rented that out while staying in Mummy's spare condo, while I got a job as Junior VP at the company Daddy owns. I often had to skip my morning latte and that's how I *made* my first million.' Even this then gets twisted into 'I gave up lattes and now I'm worth 10 mil!' stories. Often by columnists who either happen to have parents who are editors or columnists or were lucky enough to be able to 'pay their dues' as poorly paid (or unpaid) interns while living in London by being subsidised by their families. Money gives you more opportunities and a safety net. The other story is the 'I failed at 6 businesses before I succeeded - why kids need to be tenacious!' but most people don't have the resources to risk vast sums. We can afford one throw of the dart to win the cuddly toy, but some people can afford ten attempts.

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maelie@reddit

Oh, yes they did have an inheritance, but they also didn't have Netflix back then and so obviously that was the thing that made the difference.

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Cheapntacky@reddit

Sarah Beany? (I think it was her) Had a series about alternate ways onto the property ladder. Step 1 was always "Have a relative with loads of land they can give you". AHH yes, let me have a quick look and see how much a plot of land with planning permission costs for those of us who aren't so lucky.

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HamiltonPanda@reddit

Every Christmas there’s the “my turkey was rotten and it ruined my Christmas” story and every summer there the “boys wear skirts to school because it’s too hot for trousers” stories. Not specific but they happen almost every year without fail

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km6669@reddit

It always seems bizarre that we make boys wear shorts for infant school and most of junior, but they're banned from wearing shorts in secondary.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

We get this every year at my local secondary school. Parents up in arms because 'why do they need to wear long trousers to learn???' They don't seem to realise that many people have to wear uniforms to work all year round. Not that I don't think there should be gender equality when it comes to uniforms.

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km6669@reddit

Tbf everywhere i've worked as an adult that has required uniforms rather than a 'dresscode' has had shorts as part of the uniform you can request. Except for 6 miserable months with the water board and trade stuff that required overalls. Its just always seemed odd that upto a certain age boys are expected to wear shorts, then suddenly cant.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

It is odd. When I was at school in the 90s (as a girl), I was forced to wear a skirt. I would've much rather worn shorts. I haven't worn a skirt in the 30 years that have since elapsed. The uniforms I've had to wear for work are all part of PPE, so no shorts, even if it's over 30°.

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Ironfields@reddit

Don't forget the "Poppies are banned for offending Muslims" stories every November.

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AmberWarning89@reddit

In the 00s (I don’t know if it’s still a thing) we also had “Christmas is banned because it’s offensive to Muslims”.

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dave8271@reddit

The turkey ones invariably fall into one of two categories: \- People who didn't store their turkey properly in a suitably cold fridge \- People whose turkey is fine, but they've mistaken the brief smell from opening the packaging and releasing the gases for it being rotten

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Mutteringsmuse@reddit

She was, however, in a lesbian relationship with Myra Hindley for years while they were both incarcerated. Should have been put down the pair of them, and should not be allowed physical comfort from another human ever after what they did!

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sanehamster@reddit

My favourite was an express story about improving life expectancy headlined Pension crisis for teenagers

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Marvinleadshot@reddit

Sun today have Lawless London, because a few people broke (Sun called them a "mob of yobs") through the barriers to last nights fireworks display, I'm sure it happens every year, but this is clearly Khan not having a grip on policing

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guzidi@reddit

"KAHN IS KILLING OUR CHILDREN!"

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Marvinleadshot@reddit

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

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guzidi@reddit

He's very wrathful that Kahn

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chromaaadon@reddit

Literally every right leaning media outlet is rage bait

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Ok-Ship812@reddit

I think Rose is a mod over at r/unitedkingdom.

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nevervisitsreddit@reddit

There was an article written by this woman (I think an MP?) about how she was in the toilet with a trans woman who allegedly said, because the hand dryers weren’t very good, she’d have to wipe her hands “on her penis” (obviously the article misgendered the trans woman the entire way through). The trans woman in question actually read the article, and went “huh, I remember being in a pub bathroom recently with shitty hand dryers and said to a fellow woman about wiping my hands on my *jeans*. How weird would it be if this frothing transphobe just misheard me due to her bigotry.” It was her. She said jeans. This woman misheard “jeans” as “penis” and went off the deep end accusing this random woman who did *nothing* of being a weird predator. “Oh god, I’m penis woman” is engraved into my brain.

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guzidi@reddit

I mean how would that even work? "great now my willy is just wet, this really hasn't dried anything!"

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nevervisitsreddit@reddit

That’s what attracted people to the article at first! the ridiculousness of someone wiping their hands on their penis to dry it, immediately everyone went “she *must* have misheard her”

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regisgod@reddit

I saw a stinker recently where the metro was blaming the death of the cooked breakfast on woke millennials who prefer poached eggs to fried. The comment section was gold, they were still SOMEHOW blaming immigrants for taking away their fried eggs.

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ellisellisrocks@reddit

The daily mail. The entire thing and it's history. The ultimate troll. They even backed Hitler.

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km6669@reddit

Tbf our involvement in WW2 wasn't because we had a moral objection to Hitler.

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guzidi@reddit

We did morally object to him invading poland, but just morally because we didn't really do anything, at least for a bit.

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DaveBeBad@reddit

Tbf, so did the mirror but they had the same owners at the time.

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27Sunflowers@reddit

That Daily Mail article reporting on the avocado trade being upheld by slave labour… And how avocado toast was Meghan Markle’s pregnancy craving.

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BrissBurger@reddit

Back when the govt were trying to introduce Home Information Packs the company I worked for was designing the database architecture and writing reference software for other bidders. We found out that despite the Daily Wail complaining and whining about their introduction that the company that won the contract to run the system for the DCLG was actually owned by... The Daily Wail. You can't make that crap up!

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WatermelonCandy5@reddit

Daily mail doing their class war bit and diving people with ‘young people are scary because they eat woke sandwiches like chicken instead of good old British sandwiches like cheese and pickle’. It doesn’t even make sense. Surely the vegetarian one is more woke. It just baffles me that there are people out there who believe this stuff.

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Delduath@reddit

That's culture war. The class war is the thing they don't want people to think about.

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Valten78@reddit

In Daily Mail, youngsters arexsimultaneously woke wimps who wouldn't say boo to a goose and mindless violent thugs who are hiding in wait to mug you with a machete.

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Black_flamingo@reddit

A spam email from Quora: 'Why does England name so many cities after American cities?'

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swamp_fever@reddit

There was various rag articles reporting that Queen Elizabeth II was furious with Megan and Harry naming their daughter Lilibet or something to honour her. She allegedly said, "All I have is my name and now they're taking It's a perfect piece of rage bait as it works both sides at the same time.

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Grim_Farts_Barnsley@reddit

The story about Ian Huntley converting to Satanism in prison was a good little shenanigan when it did the rounds.

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AmberWarning89@reddit

Pretty sure there was a press rumour at one point that he was transgender and going by the name Leanne; and he was now being transferred to a women’s prison.

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Ironfields@reddit

Doubt even Satan would have him.

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drempire@reddit

Many years ago my local property did a story about me because of a charity I was involved in. Nothing bad but the story they printed was 99% bullshit, that's when I realised just how shitty our papers are

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Melodic_Arm_387@reddit

The yearly “what prisoners are getting for Christmas dinner” articles.

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TheKnightsTippler@reddit

I saw one on the BBC last year with a Nigerian lady talking about how her ancestors were slave traders, and that she was proud of them because they were successful. I felt like it was something shared purely to stoke racial tensions.

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New_Expectations5808@reddit

u/scarred-fish

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Decent-Chipmunk-5437@reddit

An article I saw doing the rounds on Facebook **"MILLENNIALS TRYING TO CANCEL F.R.I.E.N.D.S. BECAUSE OF ANTI GAY JOKES"**. It had thousands of angry faces reactions. The evidence in this article? 4 Tweets. That's right, just 4. 4 tweets made 7 years apart. I could say literally any opinion ever is mainstream if 4 tweets over 7 years was the threshold. Still, people were engaged about it.

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Rude-Artichoke442@reddit

Rage Bait depends on us being manipulated into anger. Knowing the people's lives she ended and ruined, what do you think should happen to Rose West?

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alancake@reddit

There is literally no need for any articles about her day to day existence. We know she's in prison doing prison things. Articles framing her ordinary habits- the same as all the other prisoners have access to- as perks and luxuries is nothing but rage bait.

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Rude-Artichoke442@reddit

I'm pretty sure you are right. Freedom of the press and of speech remains a good thing. The Daily Mail have my permission to write whatever they want be it rage bait or not. I'll retain my right to remain relaxed rather than enraged.

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Apsalar28@reddit

Local paper a few years ago: Parents terrified after Men in white vans repeatedly approach local children. What had actually happened was a local road in a confusing one-way system was closed for resurfacing. A couple of delivery drivers who'd been going round in circles stopped to ask a group of teenagers who were hanging around outside for directions.

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Ironfields@reddit

That's insanely irresponsible reporting. This is how people end up being hurt or killed.

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docju@reddit

I am convinced most of the entries on r/uk_food are rage bait, 99% of the time for looking disgusting or for unorthodox fry up options.

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RhoenyBear@reddit

The one where a council spent £10k to rename a road because it 'offended' someone—turns out it was a typo on a form. Peak UK bureaucracy chaos.

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SnooLobsters8265@reddit

My granny always used to talk about how immigrants were coming over and killing our swans. I assume she read it in the Daily Mail which she bought ‘for the crossword’.

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Miketroglycerin@reddit

Not a single piece, but i do enjoy seeing which run-down area of the city is the current nicest place to live that local papers seem to enjoy posting. Number one is always a shithole and it always generates outrage in the comments.

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Silent-Dog708@reddit

Love this as well can't lie. 1 or 2 of the villages that encircle the city you're not getting in without a cool £650,000 and that's for the lower tier.. you're skying into the millions for the 5 or 6 bed detached stock. \*local paper:\* Rock down to chav avenue? Why Stabbington failing comprehensive is the place to be in 2025 All the people from said villages go fucking mental in the comments. It's a wind up and they jump straight in both feet everytime.

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carbonvectorstore@reddit

Islas Malvinas

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Opening-Worker-3075@reddit

Literally everything in my local newspaper

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