Daisy Waugh again.

[just jim]

Polly Filla will follow this journalistic dog fart with some "revelatory" article about her tootle around Hyde Park on her friends Copenhagen style bike "it has a Louis Vuitton basket and the most darling little tinkly bell", and how she could start to quite like this sort of thing, maybe.

"But you will never see me in that ghastly Spandex!"

Stay tuned...

 

[Crackle]

It comes and it goes.

Tenacious editing at its best.

 

[XmisterIS]

She is nothing more than a vacuous, rat-like spindly trollop.

There, now that I have consigned her to the literary scrap-heap, she is well and truly dismissed without a second thought.

More tea, Jeeves!

 

[asterix]

Whilst I agree with this:

She's probably fully intent on winding up people in the name of generating a response. Good for the readership figures you know. Consequently, she probably thinks to herself 'job well done' whenever someone falls into her cunning plan.

Problem for me is that it's pathetic. How hard is it to wind people up? Doesn't take any real journalistic skills to sling together tongue-in-cheek bile in the name of an opinion piece. It's the sort of copy that anyone can knock together before taking a dump in the morning.

Further, it's offensive and irresponsible to do it in a national newspaper. She might think it humorous to use inciteful language. She may claim irony when challenged, or suggest cyclists ought 'get a life' because the fail to see the funny side of it, but for me it's simply lazy, tired journalism that's both ignorant and uncaring of the consequences. She really ought be ashamed of what she's doing.

This is just as appropriate:

She is nothing more than a vacuous, rat-like spindly trollop.

There, now that I have consigned her to the literary scrap-heap, she is well and truly dismissed without a second thought.

More tea, Jeeves!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Don't respond. Especially not to the newspaper, because all a response means is that someone's read their article. And that's a good thing in newspaper land.

 

[Hover Fly]

The 'being a bit thick' bit has been on there for months.

Please tell me she hasn't really called her kids Panda and Zebedee - that has to be a wind up FFS!

There seems to have been a name change.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

Panda? Panda? She called her daughter Panda? O M effing G

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Panda? Panda? She called her daughter Panda? O M effing G

I suspect her son, Wombat, may have similar problems to Panda at public school.

The big problem, irrespective of their real names are, is having her as a mother. Desperate C*nt of a Diary Housewife indeed.

 

[ufkacbln]

Time for the interlude

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIrX8YpiJgA[/media]

On a lighter note, there is a certain "History" to this song.

Firstly there was a sequel:

Fare you well, Daisy Bell, I ride alone
Fare you well sweet-heart, Thus we have to part
Say Good-Bye, Do not cry
When your lover's gone
Now I mean to have a Machine
Especially built for one

There were also a number of "answer songs"

Typical of this was an almost "anti-cycling" reply, a fictional reply from Daisy Bell

Harry, Harry
Here is my answer true.
I can't cycle, for I get black and blue.
If you can't afford a carriage
There won't be any marriage.
For I'll be switched if I'll be hitched
On a bicycle built for two.

Another variant is:

Michael, Michael
Here is my answer true.
I'm NOT crazy
All for the love of you.
If you cannot afford a carriage
There won't be any marriage.
'Cause I'll be damned
If I'll get crammed
On a bicycle built for two!

 

[roadrash]

everyone has the right to be a total pr*ck, but she abuses it

 

[Fnaar]

Waugh! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Waugh! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!

 

[rich p]

I'm more shocked that people still buy the post hacking-gate Times.

 

[clarion]

Thank you to those who have improved the accuracy of the Wikipedia entry.

 

[downfader]

Waugh! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!

I was thinking that! I thought to myself "no one's going to get that in this day and age, just leave it!"