Mail pwn3d on ridiculously skewed gypsy poll
I like seeing the Mail get pwn3d when it does a silly. Yesterday we saw how even the power of a front page lead and the hilarious writing skills of Richard Littlejohn, who should be Prime Minister, couldn't save them from opening up a wheelie bin full of whoopass.
And so to today, with the Mail attempting to follow up another story - this time about gypsies being given preferential treatment by some GPs - with a poll. But a poll isn't enough, they had to skew the question by asking "SHOULD THE NHS ALLOW GYPSIES TO JUMP THE QUEUE?" - in the style of the Daily Express, whose unparodiable nonsense when it comes to website polls has been going for ages now.
Thanks to the power of Twitter, people who think that poll was a disgraceful piece of crap (doesn't it make sense, when people live a transitory lifestyle, to give them some preferential treatment in seeing a GP? Not that it's a queue anyway, as many more appointments at GPs are bookable nowadays) have been able to register their displeasure, changing an overwhelming vote against those 'queue-jumping' gypsies:
And it's risen even further since that screen grab. So I make that Twitter 1, Mail 0.
Relatedly, below the Littlejohn article about gypsies there is this gem of a comment. Sometimes people find it hard to get comments on Littlejohn articles but this strikes me as a particularly excellent example of its kind:
"I love the UK, Spain" - that's world class. Not that I imagine Billericay Dickie's loyal readers have twigged...
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June 19th, 2009 - 13:11
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/polls/poll.html?pollId=1011488 – for a poll on whether immigrants should be forced to adopt "British culture". What if they don't like chicken korma or getting their willies out in public at 2am on a Friday night in Croydon?
Vote no! I don't want my grandad to have an excuse to get his willy out in public ever again!
June 19th, 2009 - 13:16
"Glorious age of Conservatism?"
Sentence starts off well, loses some ground in the middle and rather tails off at the end.
It's that kind of powerful rhetoric that'll have the masses demanding revolution now!
June 19th, 2009 - 13:40
Bloody emigrants.
June 19th, 2009 - 14:12
'I Love the UK, Spain' may make some more appearances I think.
Well done on the 92% so far.
June 19th, 2009 - 14:50
I wonder if Mr IdontlovetheUKenoughtolivethere was being sarcastic. After all, if Poe's law applies to fundamentalist Christians why should it not apply to Daily Mail commenters?
June 19th, 2009 - 16:20
The highlight of Littlejohn's piece must be where he writes that "one of the most striking aspects of the 'mobile community' is that they tend not to go anywhere – except flying to Florida on holiday twice a year."
I won't even bother with the obvious response. It's just too easy.
June 19th, 2009 - 18:21
Poll is now skewed so far that it is forbidden to vote in it! Which is a shame because I rarely get the chance to show my approval for misspelt ethnic groups.
June 19th, 2009 - 19:42
I love the way that ALL their polls have been f*cked up: "Should we give up more power to the EU?" Yes 65%!
June 19th, 2009 - 21:00
The poll has magically disapeared from their website.
In other news, Winnie the Poo in caught short in forrest sensation and Pope in "I'm a bit interested in religion" shocker.
June 20th, 2009 - 09:36
… and now the poll seems to have mysteriously vanished
June 20th, 2009 - 13:26
Well… The poll is offline now.