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Independent dubs El Reg lesbian

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Mo

In fairness... 

…they've got Orlowski banged to rights.

Anonymous Coward

Go on Reg ! 

Paris Hilton

Can we see some girl on girl action ?

PS Nice girls though, not the ones that should be doing bricklaying or Ann Widdecombe lookalikes !

Paris ? Yes please !

Dazed and Confused

Oi wheres the links 

If Andrew has been putting pen to paper, of what ever passes for writing these day. We his loyal readership demand links to it.

Dave

I wouldn't mind being branded a Lesbian . . . . 

Paris Hilton

So what does it take to qualify as a Lesbian .....

Lusting after sexy ladies

Having facial hair

Having hairy legs perhaps........

Therefore by definition I must be a Lesbian

I am a 42 year old father of one, happily married so perhaps not ?

Paris . . . . cos she may well star in a nice girl on girl flick some time

Mine are the dungarees - off to the pub now for a pint !

Anonymous Coward

I've read some funny things in El Reg over the years.. 

Coat

..but this one will take some licking!

Simon

indy madness 

Paris Hilton

Broadlysheet, what a pathetic load of pap - do they get paid for that rubbish.

Paris, could she could do better (at both the article writing and the Mytilenian stuff).

Tawakalna

IndescribablyBoring.. 

Paris Hilton

looks to me like the paper that nobody reads is trying to up its circulation with sleazy stories at the expense of the Reg!

If it was the General BelGrauniad you would have been *lensbais*

If it was the Torygraph you'd have been fine because they don't know what lesbians are.

If it had been the Dirty Digger's Times, it would have read "Corrrrrrr! Online Mag El Reg Sucks Up to Lissome Lesbians in Shock Scandal!" (or something equally restrained)

Paris because I heard her on the radio this morning, nowt to do with my sexual fantasies, I just liked her song - a bit)

Anonymous Coward

independEnt? 

in keeping with their standards of research and sub-editorship, should you not reciprocate in! yahoo! style! by always referring to the Independant?

Dave

Proof - if proof were needed 

Paris Hilton

We've known for years that Lester has a predication for ropes and rubber - are these events connected in some way, I wonder?

http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2005/06/27/rockall-lester.jpg

Sorry to say this: I think you might have weakened your case against the Indy. I suggest the patented disk-crusher recently mentioned deserves an outing...

Why PH? Because I'm sure she'd... no, better not.

Anonymous Coward

An example of... 

Flame

...poor researchers posting incorrect information as fact!

This is why I do not read the tabloid press - they cannot even get a simple girl-on-girl story right!

Sodoshi

Paris Hilton? 

Paris Hilton

But not as popular as penetrating Paris Hilton...

Anonymous Coward

'give the lot of 'em a good licking' 

Happy

I hope this was an intended joke and my mind isn't worse than i thought.

Col

[insert title here] 

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British journalism at its most goodest.

Dalek13

Aaahh. 

Coat

They were probably reading some of the threads on the comment boards. Plenty of 'girl on girl' action there...

Yes, mines the kevlar one with the stab-proof hood...

Ideala2

It's the Indy though... 

Coat

<rant>

As much as I "like" paper (in that it's the only one I can stand to read) I've noticed their hacks cannot cope with any science/technology of any sort, and will always get it wrong - even in their Sci/Tech/Business articles.

The SIndy had a four page spread on the dangers of t'internetting - that was almost as funny as some of the Reg's friday Pub-lishings.

Do you think they even bothered to open up the page, or just stole a quote from google?

</rant>

I for one would not have any problems with 'L' Reg branching out in order to appeal to a wider demographic.

(Hehe... did you notice the pun there... didya? didya?... Ahem...)

dervheid

All publicity... 

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is good publicity. So they say.

It's just a shame the 'Phorm' story isn't getting the same coverage!

Of course, if it were to involve some 'girl-on-girl' action, as opposed to just another "big business screws joe public" scenario, then maybe they'd get interested.

Steve

Oh man... 

We're going to be drowning in poontang now we're all lesbians!

I'll still keep buying the Indie though - it has 4 sudokus and a crossword! - and I'll keep coming here for real news.

@ Tawakalna:

If you honestly enjoy Paris' aural offering, might I suggest "Kingston Town" by UB40. It has essentially the same chord sequence and rhythm but without the attendant problems of making me want to stab someone in the eye.

G2

hit them back 

Pirate

how about hitting them back?

to everyone that's using an on-line public bookmark service, like del.icio.us: please bookmark http://www.independent.co.uk/ under the keywords "lesbian on-line magazine"

let's see how they like it.

/Hoists the pirate flag on this occasion. Arrrrrr!

Steven Raith

Independant in talking shite shocker 

Paris Hilton

Well, not a shocker really.

I read the Indy when I want to get angry about something. I could just read the Daily Mail/Express, but frankly I prefer to peruse something that has been written for someone who's mental age breaches double figures. Even if it's only just.

Anyway, I'm all up for more penetrating lesbain debate. How about a video interview with some leading lesbians. Preferably on tarpaulin. With an oil shower. And cucumbers.

Paris. Well, obviously.

Steven R

Anonymous Coward

Sauce for the vulture 

Looks like L. Reg is about to get a load of new readers. Former Independent readers.

JonB

Don't understand.... 

..thought you were based in London, not Lesbos.

Anonymous Coward

Priceless 

Paris Hilton

You got to love half assed (or is it pissed and got a deadline reporting) but now I have to worry about my boss catching me reading a lesbian on-line magazine.

Paris as we all want some girl on girl action with her.

Andus McCoatover

New name? 

Coat

From "El Reg" to "Les Regs"?

Paris on the banner, instead of the vulture? Go on - I dare ya!

G'is the one with the hankies in the pocket. Don't care if it's not mine.

TheThing

Revenge.... 

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Simple. In the next 'extreme porn' story just refer to the Indy as a "specialist donkey-fetish magazine"

Anonymous Coward

Stars of the show 

Paris Hilton

This being the Reg it would star Paris and the Eee Pee Cee girl, shirley?

Hywel Thomas

@ Ideala2 

The Indy wasn't too bad while Charles Arthur was there. Since then it's just awful for tech.

I always assume that the 10 best of anything for stuff I don't know about (say ladyhair removers or coffee tables) are going to be largely crap. This is based on the observation that if it is something I know something about, they're usually wrong. As well as the best budget pick often costing more than I'd spend on said object in the first place).

Anonymous Coward

if el reg = lesbians 

does that make us readers perverts? :D

Carl Marshall

Even better 

Coat

... the article is held in such high esteem that it is an "Editor's Choice"

Who wants to bet that the editor was about 4 lines of code looking for recent articles with more than 20 words in?

Trevor Watt

Am I missing something? 

Where is the secret area of the site? The Indi is never wrong!

Anonymous Coward

Ah! 

Happy

I thought so. I'm obviously a lesbian trapped in a man's body

Anonymous Coward

@ Carl Marshall 

Paris Hilton

OMG. I just read this as:

Who wants to bet that the editor was about 4 lines of <<coke>> looking for recent articles with more than 20 words in?

I nearly p*ssed myself.

Paris obviously.

Anonymous Coward

Perhaps they have misunderstood the El Reg journalist's names? 

Joke

Lester Haines, Sarah Bee and Ashley Vance:

LesBeeVance

Sarah Bee

Re: Perhaps they have misunderstood the El Reg journalist's names? 

(Written by Reg staff)

I'm speechless.

easyk

Can you blame them 

With all the crap you cover can you blame them for mistaking a supposed IT publication for something else?

Sarah Bee

Re: Can you blame them 

(Written by Reg staff)

>>With all the crap you cover can you blame them for mistaking a supposed IT publication for something else?

Yes. Yes we can.

Dave

Water-restraining devices 

Sounds like we need a few articles on the latest Dutch advances in holding back the sea.

I hope my IT department doesn't read the Indy, otherwise we'll find that access to the site gets blocked as unsuitable.

Shinku

Scissor Me Timbers 

This. Is. Les Bos.

TEQ

@ Speechless Sarah Bee 

Joke

Now there's a first! :P

Pete Spicer

Seems the Indy has changed the article... 

The final para now reads: (and I quote)

Now, an on-line magazine called The Register...

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Anonymous Coward

A name change is in order then 

...from El Reg to The L Word Reg.

Anonymous Coward

Hmmm... 

The story now calls El Reg just an online magazine. Now it's just insulting. :P

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/who-are-the-real-lesbians-821610.html

Elrond Hubbard

I wouldn't worry about it... 

Heart

...the Indy was obviously making a 'tongue in cheek' comment...

Squits

I wouldn't have believed it 

Boffin

But it is Wednesday, and there's an actual link to it on their 'site.

I'm almost speechless as to how terrifyingly amusing this is.

Just, haha, I can't think of it. How is it possible to respond to something that is described as credible without checking it out?

How can anyone fail to possibly spot that this 'site is definitely not a Gay 'site?

Journalism, there is none.

Present company excepted.

/specs 'cos of not actually reading something before reporting.

Anonymous Coward

"lads mags" 

Boffin

So y'all really enjoy analyzing artwork which ladies-loving-ladies would find finger-licking delicious...

Boffin, 'cause that's what I am.

Bill Cumming

OK Which idiot got them to change the article... 

Coat

...

...

...

ermm me..:D

Icon:

Grabbing my coat and doing a runner...

Anonymous Coward

@Bill Cumming 

Boffin

Errrmmm... shouldn't there be a comma after "Bill"?

Or is it that Bill *hasn't* been emotionally stimulated by all the references to lesbian (Lesbian??) sex... ?

Fatty Treats

Speechless Sarah Bee 

Joke

She just can't believe she's been rumbled.

She's the first of a wave of Lesbian Battle Clones deployed undercover to slip inside El Reg.

Anonymous Coward

OP now corrected by Indie 

Happy

But still available at:

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:dOpQUXDezpoJ:www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/who-are-the-real-lesbians-821610.html+the+register+lesbian+on-line+magazine&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

or

http://tinyurl.com/4j8c5w

for a while yet.

Danny

Satire label - Cringeworthy 

Joke

This is clearly Lesbian retaliation for Lester Haines article 'Gay Americans favour hybrid electric vehicles' in which he insultingly refers to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community as GLBT instead of the correct LGBT. The lesbians always come first ! If in doubt, googlefight - LGBT 7,700,000 results, GLBT 5,590,000 results

Roger Alton is to newspaper owners what Paris Hitlon is to newspaper editors. He has whored out the Observer and worthy journalists like Richard Ingrams went to the Indy just to avoid him. If anyone writes to the Indy again please forward this previous related Register article -

Harvard Man in lesbian mix-up wants satire clearly labeled

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/17/podcast_drag_queen_confusion/

PaulD

it this a record 

Paris Hilton

for the biggest number of paris icon's in a comment thread???

... and yes, I'll add to it :D

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