07 March 2007

It could only be the Daily Mail...

Brilliant Response Source request today from Diana Appleyard, writing for the Daily Mail...she's after some male shopaholics for a feature. Thing is, she only wants a certain type of male...the type that won't make her tut-tutting middle-England readers choke on their cornflakes. Here's her follow-up to the initial request:

"I sent round a response source this morning asking for male shopaholics -had several great responses from lovely gay men but now the newspaper says they must be straight for this particular feature as we need the reactionof their long-suffering wives/female partners. We can pay 500 pounds for taking part, so please can you email me if you are a straight male shopaholic! Many thanks, Diana"

Don't gay fellas who like a bit of retail therapy have long-suffering partners too? And wonderful use of the word "lovely" don't you think? A bit like saying, "I met some of those lovely Asian people this morning..." almost sounds like she's suprised that there can be any "lovely" ones.

Having said that, never has being a shopping-addicted bloke been so profitable...though isn't the £500 on offer a bit like offering heavy drinkers a couple of cases of Jim Beam for taking part in a feature on alcoholism..?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Daily Mail readers would choke on their cornflakes if they had to read about gay men going shopping. They won't stand for that sort of thing in the traditional tory heartlands...

Anonymous said...

"The Gays? Shopping? Of course not, they haven't got time, what with all the dancing they do. How hilarious. You'll be saying they can get married next, and then where will we be? France, that's where! *titters*"
-Outraged of Tunbridge Wells.

figgis said...

Even better surely was her response source which started:

>Freud is urgently looking for couples who have had weird and wonderful weddings for a series of articles for the nationals, for which you will be paid.<

Freud? I thought you worked for the daily mail!

Anonymous said...

And as any fule kno, they'd only be shopping for skincare products and Judy Garland records, so it would be a fairly tedious article.