you can't make this shit up

[rm]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218880/One-gay-man-lesbians-legged-cat-poisoned-curry-plot.html

One gay man, two lesbians, a three-legged cat, and a curry poisoned with snail pellets.

Completely true and Everybody Lives! (more or less, there's a death in the backstory)

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[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Good Lord, they're having an exciting time in < a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7959993.stm">Denton this year (the boys were acquitted, incidentally, when the jury decided that on the basis of all the other stuff in their diaries they were just teenage fantasists blowing off steam.

But, seriously, this is major, major breakthrough stuff. The Daily Mail is Britain's most hate-filled and bigoted middle-brow tabloid and, apart from the fact that they mention everyone's sexuality to give it the hint of the exotic for their readers, everyone including the perp is given a level of human dignity (including the neighbour commenting what an awful time the couple have had, and putting the mitigating circumstances of Stewart's lover's death in there) which would have been inconceivable from that paper even three years ago. And I think a whopping part of that is the TW/DW factor at work.

[natf.livejournal.com]

The Daily Mail is Britain's most hate-filled and bigoted middle-brow tabloid

This. I guess that I should not be surprised that my mother is so racist and so on when I know that she reads this "newspaper" every day and has done since I was a child.