Neknominate

[Gromit]

Are national newspapers being irresponsible by encouraging this dangerous craze.

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A woman stripped down to her underwear in a supermarket before downing a can of beer for a NekNominate challenge.

Footage of Rebecca Dagley, 19, shows the woman walking into an Asda supermarket in Fosse Park, Leicester, in a beige trench coat.

She walks around the store before coming to a stop in the fruit and vegetable aisle - and then takes a can of Stella Artois from her pocket.

In some instances, teens can be seen downing 'dirty pints' - or concoctions of alcohol and other substances - or large amounts of strong spirits as part of the dare.

Last week, footage of one young man from Derby drinking a live goldfish as part of the craze.

zarre and dangerous circumstances - such as Sean Bisset, 18, who downed a mixture of  wine and gin before plunging in to a freezing harbour.  //


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2555072/Woman-19-walks-supermarket-strips-underwear-lager-latest-NekNominate-dare.html

[emmie]

i read the mail, sometimes, if i have managed to do the crossword i don't bother, however apart from being female, there is little to cross reference me to the paper.

[sp1814]

jno

Nope...never read Time Out.

When I was in my early 20s a mate of mine (who was the very definition of 'hip') said "Once it's in Time Out, it's over".

I stopped reading it after that. Also, living in London, there are more than enough weekly LGBT publications to suffice!

[sp1814]

emmie

If I understand your post correctly, that's a really good point.

The Daily Mail (newspaper) is completely different from the Daily Mail website.

[FredPuli43]

Don't blame the Daily Mail. The paper's readership, as measured by the ABC, is far too old to be indulging in this sort of prank. The paper must see the story as a good one to create a round of tut-tutting, which will please the readers.

[emmie]

which is what i said before, i don't see it online, and wondered if they were different..

[jno]

back in the 70s, they were pretty much pioneers of publicising LGBT events. But it may well be the comppetition, not least online, that's forced the end of it.

It was pretty avant garde in its coverage of everything then (though possibly not so for the devoutly hip), with the sort of witty covers nobody does any more.

It spent a fortune in court forcing TV channels to publish their schedules rather than just handing them over to the Radio Times and TV Times. They won but it turned out to be an almighty shot in their own foot because the dailies started printing the programmes in their own weekend editions.

[emmie]

Fred, going on the various links, the readership is split more than 50 percent women, and that doesn't say what age range, so it doesn't have to be us olduns.

[sp1814]

emmie

From what I've seen at work (we get a range of newspapers delivered to us), the paper version of the Daily Mail is a lot more conservative (small 'c') than the online version. The online version has a great appeal in the US (making it the most popular newspaper website in the world), because it carries not only UK-centric stories, but also stories that will attract American readers. It has also, very cleverly, opened up a Daily Mail India section, tapping into the huge market there, with stories which are relevant to those readers.

The big problem the site has, is that it's going to cannibalise readers of its newspaper. It's a question it may have to face at some point in the near future (ie. why give away it's content for free online).

[emmie]

so perhaps some of the criticism of the paper, those who read it or take snippets from it, do so online. and not the actual bought at the newsagent paper.

[FredPuli43]

emmie, the latest National Readership survey, quoted by the Mail itself:

Women 52% of readership
Men 48%

Age ranges: 15-24 8%
25- 34 7.5%
35-44 8.2%
45-54 15.2%
55-64 18.35%
65+ 46.8 %

Now you see why the readers are not of the right age group: over three quarters are over 45, nearly half are over 65.

[emmie]

not yet in the latter half.

[jomifl]

Why would anyone bother to prove that they are more stupid than anyone else when it must be obvious?.....the answer is in the question...

[sp1814]

Jomifi

My guess is that the people who do this want to prove how 'extreme' they are.

Once you get past 27 years old, your need to prove yourself is replaced by the need not to hurt yourself...which is why you see very few people in their 30 skateboarding.

[emmie]

i see any number of blokes who would be over 30 on roller skates or skateboarding,
i do think that drinking games like this are extremely stupid, but remember having one or two over the eight myself, more than once, i don't do it now mostly because i know better.

[jno]

I wonder if those figures take account of aog reading everything twice?

[jno]

do people still drink a yard of ale at Oxford? I seem to recall the Australian prime minister (as he then wasn't) doing it. It was thought quite a feat, and something of a tradition. Had it been in the East End it would have been a social problem.

[FredPuli43]

Cambridge had the old King Street run. King Street is quite a short street, but at one time it had 15 pubs in it. That presented an obvious challenge to undergraduates, who soon seized upon the idea of having a race, each contestant to down a drink of beer in each pub, contestants not to stop to relieve themselves or vomit. The race was banned by the University in 1964, by which time there were fewer pubs, but revived as a bi-annual contest in the late 70s. Now the pubs number about half a dozen, and the winners are depressingly athletic, which is far from the idea of the thing.

[jomifl]

sp, I suspect it is need rather than want. So many things 'yoofs' do demonstrate their lack of self esteem and that they have identity problems, this is just another example but they are too young to see it.

[sp1814]

jomifl

Agreed...along with 'pub crawls', which I used to join in on in my 20s. Now, if we find a good pub with nice wine and ale, I see no reason to go to another one.

[dannyk13]

Two participants are dead.Nuff said.