Comments on: Photoshop fail at The Daily Mail

By: billstreeter

billstreeter — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:48:00 +0000

The shadow is fake too. You can see white pixels on the edge of the bag which are remnants of a bad crop job. I can see similar anomalies through out the pile of food. I’m pretty sure none of the groceries are actually there.

By: invictus

invictus — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:26:00 +0000

Well… Umm… Zoom in? Or pick up a baby; there’s a near-universal way of holding them when they’re too young to support their own head.

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 08:10:00 +0000

Um… no, I can’t.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:52:00 +0000

I have a lot of white and light colors now. Kids grow up!

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:51:00 +0000

It’s not the number of kids, it’s the totally white living/sitting room. That’s crazy. It’s like deciding all your dishware is going to be fine china and crystal while the kids are little. Either there is an inordinate amount of extra cleaning going on, which is a waste of time when you’re raising kids, or they’re not allowed in the room except for photos.

And for the doubters out there….no, “good parenting” doesn’t mean you will never have a spill or a tear or some other oopsie. Kids are hard on parents and homes, no matter how well behaved they are. Especially in the early years.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:36:00 +0000

@euansmith The stats are what they are. Mostly they don’t need massaging. Much mischief can be created simply by confusing and conflating relative with absolute figures. The immigrant population would have to be breaking all time global fertility records to outproduce the naturalised, mostly white, population. But the one place you will not find much evidence of the existence of a white working class these days is in Church. Immigrants can bring their culture with them and the working class will happily reappropriate their food and music but no longer their gods. Thank God!

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:22:00 +0000

“Sacrifice your baby to Satan, and all these worldly treasuries could be YOURS!”

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:20:00 +0000

We have no Black Friday in the UK… here it is grim all the year long… hark, I hear the crows…

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:12:00 +0000

Be proud, England leads Europe in Teenage Pregnancies and the ethnic group producing the most off spring are the White British. I work in a job where be see the unmassaged stats.

By: margaretpoa

margaretpoa — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:12:00 +0000

How to make a Christmas tree out of groceries: First, take a lot of groceries and pile them into an improbably steep structure, using tape, staples, twine, superglue and photoshop. Next, place dead baby on top. Then pretend that the owner of a pristine sectional sofa and collectable plates emblazoned with the portraits of family members is too destitute to buy oranges and bread. Viola! You now have a photo worthy of any absurd tabloid which also includes stories about UFOs kidnapping the Lindbergh baby, accusations that Obama is a secret homosexual and Elvis Presley is alive and doing concerts in Papua, New Guinea.

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:33:00 +0000

Bit of an uphill struggle that one. Poles love making babies for the Baby Jesus, the white English working class, not so much. (We mustn’t drag the Welsh and Scots down with us like we have with the Irish.)
Still the white lower middle class can fantasize, can’t they?

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:28:00 +0000

That’s not what I said. This paper is so full of shit, you can’t attack it with a bb gun, so to speak, criticising a photoshopped petty-burgeois living room, a single stupid choice of words, or the kerning of their fonts. I loved the “Daily Mail Song” by Dan & Dan. That’s how to deal with papers like that: with a metaphorical shotgun.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 06:46:00 +0000

There are many sites like that.

By: Marios P.

Marios P. — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 06:42:00 +0000

Nah, the comments are not the same

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 06:35:00 +0000

The article disappeared quite rapidly (possibly because of the photoshop flap), but that was their deal.

I grew up in a town where Catholic families had at least five and often more. There was a girl in my Latin class who was the eldest of 13 and she was only 15 herself.

By: DewiMorgan

DewiMorgan — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 05:38:00 +0000

Speaking of crap journalism…
http://www.itslikereally.com/ does this site’s content seem familiar to anyone else?

By: echolocate chocolate

echolocate chocolate — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 05:08:00 +0000

If anything, Antinous is understating the awfulness of the Daily Heil.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:52:00 +0000

Seriously?

I have no words.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:34:00 +0000

I guess that you don’t read the Mail.

By: Meiles02

Meiles02 — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:18:00 +0000

Just looking again at the tower of festive fayre. Aside from the crisps, not one but two (possibly four?) bags of frozen hash browns, own-label scotch eggs. And the seasonal cornucopia further supported with cartons of milk, a loaf of bread and onion rings. What bountiful Christmas hamper is this? Farmfoods?

By: Rezeya Montecore

Rezeya Montecore — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:09:00 +0000

Check your pillbox, Ant, you caught up on lithium?

By: Meiles02

Meiles02 — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:06:00 +0000

In the ellipse of plates on the wall, can anyone tell me what the picture is on the 12 o’clock plate? Maybe I’m misinterpreting, but to me that looks decidedly genital.

Oh maybe that’s the point? With the surrounding plates representing the products of such fecundity…? God bless one and all.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:48:00 +0000

But how is that “news” anyway?

The article is a typical Mail propaganda piece about how good, working white people (who aren’t Polish!!!) should have lots of children because that makes Jesus and the Queen happy. Do you really think that society benefits from not criticizing deceptive propaganda outlets?

By: Marios P.

Marios P. — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:41:00 +0000

this baby looks knackered from carring all this stuff!
I know I would be

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:39:00 +0000

But how is that “news” anyway? Photoshopping mindless garbage is not prima facie unethical.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:09:00 +0000

That’s number 12, all still at home.

By: axlrosen

axlrosen — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:07:00 +0000

The problem is that this post is confusing. It shows us a single image, and then talks about “cloned flora, ghostly spaces, grinning dismemberment”. I was expecting either a link to a Daily Fail site (like Photoshop Disasters), or seeing lots of fails in this image. I guess Rob was complaining about the DM in general, but just showing us one example. But he wasn’t clear, as can be seen by all the confusion here.

By: oldtaku

oldtaku — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:00:00 +0000

If you follow Photoshop Disasters you will soon come to the sad realization that they Just Don’t Care.

I’m sure at some point they were very careful with Photoshop, trying to make the pixels just so… but then they realized their target audience just doesn’t notice and started giving it to the interns. And Photoshop costs money, might as well give them MSPaint or Gimp.

By: The Rizz

The Rizz — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:58:00 +0000

The bag of chips, and the items around it, have a sort of bright-white outline around them – I’d say they’re definitely either photoshopped into the position or, possibly, actually cardboard cut-outs stuck there. Considering how flat some of the packages look, I’d actually go with the latter.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:55:00 +0000

That’s their twelfth child under the age of 18.