Newspaper Free Dvd's

[aaron]

(Hugo @ Apr 21 2006, 06:31 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> This Saturday (22 April) The Daily Mail is giving away a DVD of KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS and vouchers for 11 other British films will be given away during next week [/b]

Thanks for the 'heads up' on this one, i'd been putting off buying the dvd, as i had it on VHS, but 70p is ok!
As for the collecting tokens business, that's a major nuisance for me. It costs me £2 to park in the nearest town with a WHSmiths, so it becomes less of a bargain.
Also when 'the Sun' had it's recent britcomedy giveaway, all branches of Martins, Mcoys as well as WHSmith were supposed to redeem the daily token.
When i asked for my dvd from the female sales assistants at my local 'Martins', they had no idea about it, and looked at me as though i had just asked them to perform a lewd act!!
So not only did i not get my dvd, i now find myself avoiding my local newsagent.....
The moral is clear, if you dont live somewhere with a major branch, avoid this token collecting mullarkey... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img]
It only leads to embarassment and dissapointment, but then, that's the story of my life! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blushing.gif[/img]

[Harbottle]

(Maltman @ Apr 21 2006, 07:01 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> Excellent, keep up the good work [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] Also I take it is this Sat 22nd. [/b]

Secret Garden in the 1975 BBC version, seven episodes which can be selected via the menu....Yes I know a menu on a free DVD luxury indeed.

[5tevo]

(Wolfgang @ Apr 22 2006, 05:02 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> Why does everyone here hate The Daily Mail? As British papers go it is popular in Germany. [/b]

It's the UK's second most popular newspaper after The Sun, and like the more popular red-top, it unashamedly panders to the fears of a certain (large) conservative section of Britain, perpetuating an agenda of bigotry and prejudice, and feeding its readers a steady diet of reactionary bile that it knows they'll lap up. It frequently looks down on minorities or those struggling at the bottom, e.g. it'll scream on its front page how benefit cheats are costing the tax payer £4.7bn, yet interestingly it will never mention that corporation tax avoidance is up to £85bn. Funny that. It's the same pattern with the other elements of society it dislikes - gays, single mothers, asylum seekers, etc. The easy targets.

Many of its readers are ex-Sun readers who thought they were making the step "up" when the country came out of recession and the UK's middle class expanded. (And despite the lack of Page 3 and more words per page - it shows.)

It's sort of like the Daily Express but without the morbid Diana fixation and a stronger moral authoritarian tone. If you believed everything it printed, you'd think it was illegal to fly the St George's flag or that all our nursery rhymes had been banned. Isolated silly incidents of "political correctness" are given such prominent coverage that the sense of perspective is distorted - but who cares so long as their readers can take it all in, roll their eyes and feel smug that only they represent common sense, decency, Englishness, in a country where "political correctness has gone mad".

It also has a history of hysterical and sensationalist headlines about Miracle Cures, Wonder Pills, the latest Cancer drug (every other week), Food scares, Killers "on the loose", blah blah blah... (*yawn*)

Everything is "outrage", "scandal", "shambles" and its favourite emotion, "shame".

So yeah - that's why I dislike it. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Steve Crook]

A fine summary 5tevo [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

Steve

[pustice]

(5tevo @ Apr 22 2006, 02:09 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> So yeah - that's why I dislike it. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] [/b]

I make a point of buying it every week here in Canada just to remind myself why I left England.
[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

[Steve Crook]

(pustice @ Apr 23 2006, 01:19 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> I make a point of buying it every week here in Canada just to remind myself why I left England. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] [/b]

You left because we have such terrible newspapers? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/eek.gif[/img]

Steve

[pustice]

(Steve Crook @ Apr 22 2006, 07:26 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> You left because we have such terrible newspapers? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/eek.gif[/img] Steve [/b]

That's right. I got sick of all the lies, like the ones stated in a previous post.
Like the BBC saying they had a poll and 25% of the people said they might vote BNP.
I mean give me a break. We all know that all the Brits are 100% in favor of asylum seekers going to England.
I know I am.

[Steve Crook]

(pustice @ Apr 23 2006, 03:46 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> That's right. I got sick of all the lies, like the ones stated in a previous post. Like the BBC saying they had a poll and 25% of the people said they might vote BNP. I mean give me a break. We all know that all the Brits are 100% in favor of asylum seekers going to England. I know I am. [/b]

Are there any shades of grey between black & white?

Steve

[David Brent]

(julian_craster @ Apr 22 2006, 10:16 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> From Roger Classic British Film Collection (12 free DVDs - All Region 2 UK) Today (Saturday) Kind Hearts and Coronets (excellent print quality - I have just checked- same as the canal+ DVD release ) Great DVDs - pity about the newpaper....... The following free DVDs need to be collected by coupon [from the paper] daily at W H Smiths : Monday 24th Billy Liar The Colditz Story The Cruel Sea The Ladykillers The Lavender Hill Mob Far From the Madding Crowd The Man in the White Suit Passport to Pimlico School For Scoundrels The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery The Titfield Thunderbolt [/b]

Cheap as chips. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Trouble is, it would cost me a return airfare from Brisbane plus a weeks accomodation in the Old Dart in order to get the vouchers and redeem them. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif[/img]
Then again............ [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Dave.

[samkydd]

[quote name='julian_craster' post='40001' date='Apr 22 2006, 11:16 AM']
From Roger

Classic British Film Collection (12 free DVDs - All Region 2 UK)

Today (Saturday)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (excellent print quality - I have just checked- same as the canal+ DVD release )

Believe it or not I've never seen these films before:

The Colditz Story

The Cruel Sea

Far From the Madding Crowd

School For Scoundrels

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

[samkydd]

(5tevo @ Apr 22 2006, 10:09 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> It's the UK's second most popular newspaper after The Sun, Everything is "outrage", "scandal", "shambles" and its favourite emotion, "shame". So yeah - that's why I dislike it. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] [/b]

I don't buy any newspaper unless there's a DVD in it I want, and I'm pleased to say that I have never had a regular newspaper! I catch a few online versions for obituaries and what's on TV etc. but I find that this celebrity obsession that all the 'papers seem to have just highlights how thick they think we all are, and that to the media all we're really interested in is tittle-tattle; how much money certain celebrities have, how pissed they get , how much charlie they snort, what cars they drive, how much they pay for hairdressing, and who is shagging who! The TV news is the same and you get a few minutes of real news followed by extended crap talking about celeb gossip! The 'papers and TV companies even turn odious obnoxious politicians into celebrities and their ugly wives and spoilt children! Someone is taking the piss!

[Steve Crook]

(samkydd @ Apr 23 2006, 09:34 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> I don't buy any newspaper unless there's a DVD in it I want, and I'm pleased to say that I have never had a regular newspaper! I catch a few online versions for obituaries and what's on TV etc. but I find that this celebrity obsession that all the 'papers seem to have just highlights how thick they think we all are, and that to the media all we're really interested in is tittle-tattle; how much money certain celebrities have, how pissed they get , how much charlie they snort, what cars they drive, how much they pay for hairdressing, and who is shagging who! The TV news is the same and you get a few minutes of real news followed by extended crap talking about celeb gossip! The 'papers and TV companies even turn odious obnoxious politicians into celebrities and their ugly wives and spoilt children! Someone is taking the piss! [/b]

I like this from the current edition of Private Eye...

<span style="font-family:Courier New">The Daily Mail's leader column warns its middle England readers not to over-react to the bird-flu outbreak.
"The headlines could hardly be more lurid. Schools to be closed to prevent tens of thousands of children dying... official estimates of the possible death toll ranging from 50,000 to 750,000. All this on the basis of, so far, one dead swan," opined the paper.
Could this be the same Daily Mail that in recent weeks has brough us level-headed headlines such as "Schools could shut in bird-flu alert to save 50,000 lives" or "Cats may help bird flu spread among people" or, the Eye's favourite, "Plague pit plans for bird flu dead"?</span>

Newspapers, don't buy them, don't believe anything they print.

Steve

[5tevo]

(Steve Crook @ Apr 23 2006, 02:23 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> I like this from the current edition of Private Eye... <span style="font-family:Courier New">The Daily Mail's leader column warns its middle England readers not to over-react to the bird-flu outbreak. "The headlines could hardly be more lurid. Schools to be closed to prevent tens of thousands of children dying... official estimates of the possible death toll ranging from 50,000 to 750,000. All this on the basis of, so far, one dead swan," opined the paper. Could this be the same Daily Mail that in recent weeks has brough us level-headed headlines such as "Schools could shut in bird-flu alert to save 50,000 lives" or "Cats may help bird flu spread among people" or, the Eye's favourite, "Plague pit plans for bird flu dead"?</span>[/b]

Hehehe, unbelievable! They clearly rely on the short memory spans of their readers.

Here's a prime one from very recently...

*clickety click*

Yep, all papers are bad, but some are definitely worse than others, irrespective of political leaning - and tabloids like the Mail are the most laughable.

(am still willing to buy it if the DVDs are good enough tho! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img] )

[julian_craster]

Daily Mail on Tuesday [tomorrow]
Free DVD is PASSPORT TO PIMLICO

[JamesM]

(Wolfgang @ Apr 22 2006, 05:02 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'> Why does everyone here hate The Daily Mail? As British papers go it is popular in Germany. [/b]

It was pretty popular in Germany 1933 onwards.