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Fans of the Twat-O-Tron will be delighted and disturbed in equal measure to learn that one Daily Mail commenter has managed to surpass the hideous turdspurts which emanate from Middle England's automated indignation generator. It's inevitable that any story regarding the murderers of James Bulger will arouse strong feelings, …

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  1. Stone Fox
    FAIL

    the best description I can find of this person is;-

    Oxygen thief.

    1. Annihilator
      Alert

      Long term offender

      This oxygen thief is quite likely one of the same people who made the same comments back in 1993. I recall the flawed logic back then.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    What an appalling comment ...

    it's "hanged" not "hung"

  3. NB
    FAIL

    dude...

    wait, what?

    The mind boggles.

  4. chriselston

    Obvious flaw

    What a fool, it should be hanged, not hung

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Alert

    Only one thing for it!

    Death to all fanatics!

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Glimmer

    "there is still a faint glimmer of hope for our fragile democracy."

    That glimmering is not the light at the end of the tunnel - it's a high-speed express train about to turn you into human pate.

  7. Ed Blackshaw Silver badge

    I really really really hope that this comment is ironic

    and is in fact taking the piss out of other commenters.

    1. Ken Hagan Gold badge
      Joke

      Ironic?

      <-- Yeah, the Mail's comments page needs one of these. (Perhaps it could be the default.)

      1. Secretgeek

        Joke Alert?

        'Twat Alert' might be more useful on that site.

    2. Intractable Potsherd

      Please let it be true!

      I found myself pathetically hoping the same as Ed Blackshaw - it would be intolerable to think that the commenter is serious ...

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Gets worse

        If you think Mail comments are bad, you should flick through the letters page to the Daily Express. It's hair-raising stuff, sort of a Völkischer Beobachter for retards with the likes of Richard Madeley and Anne Widdecombe standing in for the Goebbels family - only without the easy going charm.

        The Mail is a horrible newspaper but it is brilliantly put together to target its audience with the sort of precision the US Air Force can only dream of. The Express is just a sordid pile of hatred and inadequacies with Alan Titchmarsh on the front.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I'm all in favour of the death penalty

    for Daily Mail readers

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      hang on a minute ...

      Some of us read (okay skim) the Daily Mail for its comedy value and as a touchstone for the angst ridden middle-class zeitgeist (tm).

      It is also compulsory to read the best / most right-wing articles out to the wife in an Alan Partridge style.

      Lynne - "Who's upset you this time Alan?"

      Alan - "People. I just hate the general public."

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    why no report stupidity button

    I realy do wonder why there aint a report stupidity button. If we look at the post and the posters name and location it wouldn't be a stretch of imagination to conclude this is a cultural response perhaps. Kind of response that chops of shop lifter hands.

    Bottom line what those two did was wrong on a level most cant deal with, yet they were children and if you substract the publicity from the equation, then there punishment is just. If I tech a child badly and set bad examples to the effect that they do something like these two would I be guilty or would they, or would we both be guilty and to what level of guilt. Given how this whole affair has panned out it is not hard to conclude that these two were not only damaged before they commited the crime but have become more damaged as a result of the crime and all the publicity.

    What realy upsets the monther of the lost child, the facts or how there reported and there frequency. News just loves to live of peoples sorrows and whilst being seen to hand sugar out often rubs salt in instead.

    Maybe the small fact that the crime was commited by children who are now adults may of been overlooked by the poster, we dont know but we sure are quick to judge like a rabble.

    But when you have a society designed to protect the stupid from there own shortcommings yet no measures to protect the non stupid from the stupid then, what can you expect.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      WTF?

      Oh wait, I get it

      a subtle satirical pastiche. Well, done, sir or madam.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Grenade

      I realy do wonder why there aint a report stupidity button.

      There was one but it was worn out through over-use.

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  11. ArmyCrow
    Paris Hilton

    Oh dear

    All rejoice at the objective thinking of Daily Mail readers. Oh, and it should be hanged, not hung.

    1. Elmer Phud

      concerning the 'Paris' icon

      Ahem, when using the Paris icon they should be 'well hung'.

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Up

    "Turdspurts"

    'Word of the day' I recon.

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Another contradiction

    Am I the only one who sees another inherent contradiction when someone with an Asian-sounding name reads the Daily Heil?

    That paper isn't racist, by the way. They said they weren't, so they aren't.

    1. Neil 23

      That's probably why he's being voted down

      not because the other readers don't agree with the sentiment, but because he has a "funny name" ...

    2. Frank Bough
      WTF?

      Do you believe, then

      ...that people with "Asian sounding" names cannot be racist? You want to get out a bit more, son.

      I witnessed the aftermath of a racially motivated BEHEADING when I lived in Slough, both perp and victim had "Asian sounding" names.

      1. Jimmy Floyd

        I agree with everything you say...

        ...but I bet none of the people involved were subscribers to the Mail.

  14. windywoo
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    Similar to the MSN comments

    Some of them were crying to bring back hanging too. Britain is a nation of Sun and Daily Mail readers unfortunately. The people with brains are vastly outnumbered by those who just like a good lynching now and then.

    1. LinkOfHyrule
      Joke

      I don't quite agree with you actually

      It may seem that way at times but it's more a case that it's mostly idiots that comment on news stories! Urrrm I've just done what that Daily Mail comentard did in a way haven't I! duh!*

      *It's meant to be funny, don't complain it was free!

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Flame

      People are far more cautious when their own life is at stake.

      Sure, why bring back hanging? After all the murder rate may have been in decline for 100 years before the abolition, standing at just 6.2 (it's lowest ever!) murders per million in 1960, and risen astronomically since the death penalty was abolished, in 2000 it was 18.3, (2007 it was 20.4) but I am sure that the two issues are unrelated.

      Far better to pretend everyone is as nice as we are, and only really need a little encouragement to join us in our wonderful Utopia, rather than face the reality that the not so 'nice' people need a big stick to keep them in check.

      Sometimes 'nice' people need protecting from their own naivety, their own intellectual shortfalls and the emotive pleas from not so nice people.

      1. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

        Re: People are far more cautious when their own life is at stake.

        Ooh goody! A debate about the death penalty hoves into view! Can't wait.

      2. Paul 4
        Stop

        Piracy

        "and risen astronomically since the death penalty was abolished, in 2000"

        Or was the last capital crime high treason? Possibly both. FYI it was 1998, not 2000.

        What the hell dose that have to do with murder rates?

        Also if you bother to go to date the 2009 murder rates were at their lowest in 20 years.

        Talk about picking your statistics.

        Oddly enough "The Troubles" match the rise and fall well.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Flame

          Just to Clarify...

          I actually meant: 'and has risen astronomically since the death penalty was abolished. In 2000 it was 18.3...' Not that it was abolished in 2000.

          A moratorium on the death penalty was passed in 1965 and that was effectively the abolition (technically it was 1969 for all offences but high treason as you said) and 1965 is when the murder rate rose for the first time in 100 years, and at quite a rate.

          The troubles started later and finished earlier, the murder rate rose before the troubles started and continued to rise for a decade after.

          What does it have to do with it? People are less inclined to carry knives, guns, and add those extra few stamps on a victims head if they thought that they could swing for it. There is a world of different between 25 years (effectively 10) and death.

          As for the murder rate effectively halving within one year, a statistical anomaly (generally it is five yearly murder rates) the Government massaging the stats (wouldn't be the first time) or just a great year for the NHS. Let's be honest, medicine has improved greatly since the 60s, there should be far, far less murders. Even taking into account the '20 year low', it is still double what it was in 1960 and higher than at any time before Victoria came to the throne.

          Would Venables have killed Bulger if the death penalty hadn't been abolished? Hard to say, but I do know that had Venables been hanged at 18, it would have saved at least one innocent person from abuse.

      3. LinkOfHyrule

        urm

        @ anon coward 15:23 GMT - Dude (or dudette) I don't buy all this "nice people" and nasty people stuff. Every person is capable of doing both evil and lovely things. Think you got the wrong site, Daily mail is that way.

  15. Daniel 1

    Oh, you laugh, now!

    Somehow I have this horrible feeling that Pritesh Hathalia wil, be tracked down, interviewed on the telly, and eventually given his own reality TV show, in which he has to share a house on Belgrave Road with Julien Clarey for a week.

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Down

    A lot of Daily Mail commenters are trolls

    I'm sure this one is, too. YHBT!

    1. Puck
      Megaphone

      re: A lot of Daily Mail commenters are trolls

      We are not Trolls, we Are english! Typical ZaNuLiebore socialist lies! Baby jesus Weeps for your Sins!

  17. Neil Greatorex
    FAIL

    @Daniel 1

    "wil, be tracked down"

    Easy-peasy, took me 45 seconds using pipl. Strangely (or not) the last link was to:

    (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/mar/08/jon-venables-comment-michael-white)

    So it seems his comment has already reached a wider audience than Daily Wail or El Reg readers.

    Wait for /. :-(

    I suspect that, far from having his own reality TV show, he'll have to go into hiding for a time.

  18. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Secret Identities

    The Daily Mail story shows photos of both Thomson and Venables, seemingly naming them both as Jon Venables. We'll never find them now.

  19. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    It's not that far removed

    from arguments to restore the death penalty you hear every day.

    "killing people is wrong, those doing so deserve the death penalty.

    Like the above, maybe the poster said this to demonstrate the absurdity.

    Or he's just a cokc

    1. Anonymous Coward
      WTF?

      Bill Hicks

      Like the old Bill Hicks skit, "The damn pro-lifers are out there banging on about the sanctity of life then go out and kill those who carry out abortions! Something just doesn't add up does it?"

    2. Annihilator
      Coat

      re: It's not that far removed

      Indeed, I have to say about these folks demanding the return of the death penalty.. 'angin's too good for 'em!!

  20. Jim Carter
    Boffin

    I don't need no stinking title!

    I'd love to here the Moderatrix's viewpoint on this.

    Goggles, well, just in case...

    1. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

      Re: I don't need no stinking title!

      Me? Well, if it's a joke it's very clever and perfectly illustrates how people lose all rationality at times like this. If it isn't then it wouldn't really surprise me, given that people lose all rationality at times like this.

  21. Andrew Oakley
    IT Angle

    He has a Facebook page

    Top Google result for "Pritesh Hathalia" is a Facebook page with that name from Leicester. Could it be..?

  22. TeeCee Gold badge
    WTF?

    That's just amazing!

    He got 119 downvotes for that on the Daily Heil website?

    Fascist bastards just ain't what they used to be.

    1. CD001

      or maybe

      The "Fascist bastards" just spotted "Pritesh Hathalia from Leicester" and hit downvote without reading the post...

      One would hope that the comment was meant to be ironic and intended to show up the stupidity of the great British public - 119 downvotes would show quite clearly that at least 119 people didn't get it. I would like to think that - however I don't have that much faith in humanity.

  23. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Murderers

    It is a strange thing that so much of society, of which the Daily Mail provides a condensed version, believes that children who murder children are somehow worse than adults who do it.

    It is is obviously bad whoever does it, but I cannot get my head round why we should condemn children who commit this crime more than adults. Surely it should be the other way around?

    The idea of publishing the current details of Venables appearance and name is appalling. Let's hope Nu Labour's desperation to be liked by somebody, *anybody*, does not see them submitting to this illogical mob.

  24. Ben Rosenthal

    why no report stupidity button # person

    hear hear!

    and yes the comment about how daily mail readers would like a like hung 10 year old is all over the net at the moment, like "wildfire" :D

  25. benj5386
    Paris Hilton

    Commentards......

    Even El Reg commentards feature.... http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/?s=the+register&submit=Search

    ./Paris as she owns her own twat-o-tron, but I'm pretty sure it's not software based.

  26. A. Lewis
    Coffee/keyboard

    He he he

    Good stuff

  27. Grim2o0o
    Boffin

    Seems about the right level for the DM

    The stupid are everywhere... reminds me of the London woman who said she would give up her liberty for freedom - how do these people manage to tie their shoes in the morning?

    1. Steve Roper

      And that's been true since Shakespeare...

      Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

  28. James 5

    It's a joke....

    .. there's another comment from Pritesh Hathalia that says:

    "since coming to your country I have seen this again and again, the Britsh people are weak innit and so is their justice system. I'n my country this boy would be lynched by the local residents from a peepil tree. You people could learn alot from a more civilised nation like India."

    Pritesh Hathalia, Leicester, 8/3/2010 11:51

    I wonder what "Pritesh Hathalia" translates as ?

    1. JimmyPage Silver badge
      Troll

      ...a quick chat with my offshore team ...

      tells me Pritesh=loveable (Hindi) ...

      Hathalia ... no idea

    2. Throatwobbler Mangrove
      Paris Hilton

      I don't speak Hindi...

      ...or any other South Asian language, but my guess is "Pritesh Hathalia" translates as "cognitive dissonance", as in what happens in the Daily Wail reader's mind when reading that comment: "hate foreigners - but also must whine about namby pamby punishments - but can't agree with Asians - but want to string people up - but can't stand immigrants - cannot reconcile contradictory desires oh my God I can't - "

      <head asplodes>

  29. CynicalOptimist
    Pirate

    Sharia Law.. it's too good for em'

    I like how the Mail is simultaneously pro harsh punishments for criminals (death penalty, long custodial sentences, life-means-life etc) while being anti Sharia law. If the Mail was consistent, it would launch a campaign to have Sharia law introduced in Britain, instead of writing scare-mongering articles about it. But then if the Mail was consistent, rational or logical about anything it would have fewer readers than the Independent.

    1. Les Matthew

      Re: Sharia Law.. it's too good for em'

      Ah, but it's their Sharia law. Not ours. ;)

  30. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Teenage menace

    It would sort out the Hoodie Teenage menace problems of the country.......... no more 'yeah mon', 'innit' etc. Hang them or hung them, or errm hanged them before they even get to teenagers.

  31. John Lilburne
    WTF?

    Hang the newspaper editors and proprietors

    Why do we HAVE to know what he did or is suspected to HAVE done.

    He's behind bars the police are investigating, they'll bring him to court in due course if he has in fact done anything wrong.

    Why the press feel its incumbent upon them to feed salacious stories to there peadophile readers is beyond me. Lock them all up.

  32. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Translate "Pritesh Hathalia",...

    comes up as "Chris Morris". Spooky!

  33. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    At the risk of sounding unsympathetic,...

    why doesn't James Bulgers mother just shut up and go away already? Yes, it was terrible, Yes those responsible were / are vermin, Yes, it was emotive and stressfull at the time, but she has the whole victim / justice thing done and dusted 15 yrs ago, now she is in danger of becoming a celebrity victim.

    Unless Venables has specifically threatened her or her family, she should garner support from her friends and family through this obviously stressful time, rather than posturing and gobbing off on morning TV about her supposed "right to know".

  34. Steven Jones

    Representative?

    I'm fascinated by just how many people take one comment by one person as somehow indicative of the readership of an entire paper or, for that matter, the views of a large part of society. The comment in question appears to be the second worst rated one and there are many far more reasoned views on the comment list than this one.

    It might also come as some suprise to many that "conservative" social views are hardly confined to hwat is deemed to be core Daily Mai readership.

    1. Goat Jam
      Pint

      Hello

      You must be new here.

  35. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    errrrr

    speaking as someone who knows this guy, irony does not come into the equation. Pig ignorance and pig headedness? in spades.

    Shit no pigs . . no pigs

    dammit, too late

    Mines the one with me hiding behind it

    1. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

      Re: errrrr

      Really?

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        re: re: errrr

        I think either this poster should be given his own column "thoughts of Hitesh"

  36. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    A source of innocent merryment

    In the USA they are in-bred Southern whites. In Blighty they are brain-damaged Daily Fail readers.

    My moggie is almost as amusing...

  37. cosmogoblin
    Troll

    Appalling comments

    Quite frankly, I'm appalled by many of the comments on this article.

    Intelligent people should know better, and I find these ideas increasingly worrying. Are we heading back to the Middle Ages, for crying out loud?

    English is governed by common usage, and during the 20th century, "hung" and "hanged" have both become acceptable.

    Am I the only person on the Internet with an ounce of common sense?

  38. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    A Good Thrashing

    "We should have hung them when they were ten"

    --- My parents would have given me a good thrashing for writing that. The word is *hanged*

  39. pctechxp

    missing the point

    Sure you can all lay into a commentard reading the daily mail (I don't read it by the way)

    But the real issue here is why Venables and Thompson were walking the streets.

    I am in favour of the death penalty for murder and 25 years for domestic violence whether it be man or woman

    1. Matt2012

      Because they were 10 years old at the time

      In a decent society you treat criminal behaviour at that age as treatable no matter what it is. However it would niot surprose me if they received very little quality treatment whilst in jail.

  40. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Well

    All right-thinking people know taht this communist govemrent are trying to kill us all because they have been incompetent since day 1... All true brits should call in the army now... No doubt thsi is illegal under the eu human rights act!!!!!

    Whydo Webother glos, United Kingdom

  41. Sonny Jim
    Alert

    I've just found a way to make the Daily mail comment tolerable

    It's simple, just click on "Worst Rated" and voila! Some kind of sense shines through:

    "Ah, I draw those kind of pictures all the time, and I'm 41 year of age!

    "I think any newspaper that reveals his identity should be fined double the cost of him having to have another. Nothing is to be gained by it. If he due in court for another crime then he should be judged on that crime and if found guilty then his past IE a life sentance in private should be taken inro account. I would rather the papers get back to the important news on how this country is going to deal with a forthcoming election." <- This got voted DOWN 130 times

    "The damage done by a dysfunctional home is immense and varied, but it's so much easier to focus on how Venables and Thomspon failed Jamie Bulger rather than how society failed Venables and Thompson isn't it...."

    And another gem from Pritesh Hathalia, although I smell a wind up...

    "since coming to your country I have seen this again and again, the Britsh people are weak innit and so is their justice system. I'n my country this boy would be lynched by the local residents from a peepil tree. You people could learn alot from a more civilised nation like India."

  42. Long Fei
    Thumb Up

    Ha!

    turdspurts! ROFL. Great word.

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