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[idunnosomename]

I can't fathom Caitlin Moran's appeal. Everything she writes is full of hyphens, swearwords starred out because she's not allowed to use them, and CAPITAL LETTERS WITH LOTS OF EXCLAMATIONS MARKS!!! It's so grating to the point where even if I am interested in the topic she is gibbering about (unlikely since she's the Times "stupid shit" correspondent) I find it completely unreadable and give up after the first paragraph.

And she looks like a bag lady.

[mook]

I can't fathom Caitlin Moran's appeal. Everything she writes is full of hyphens, swearwords starred out because she's not allowed to use them, and CAPITAL LETTERS WITH LOTS OF EXCLAMATIONS MARKS!!! It's so grating to the point where even if I am interested in the topic she is gibbering about (unlikely since she's the Times "stupid shit" correspondent) I find it completely unreadable and give up after the first paragraph.

And she looks like a bag lady.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/digital/article3633769.ece

this might make you explode, in one way or another. probably not.

[Mister Six]

Every article she writes is like this.

To be fair, lines like this -

It certainly felt like a betrayal to me when I woke up from my first operation for cancer nine years ago, and was looked after by people who seemed to hate their job. It felt like a betrayal when I woke up from my third operation for cancer, three years ago, and was looked after by people who were careless and rude. And it felt like a betrayal to all the people who have written to me since I started writing and speaking about nursing.

- are using repetition in a completely valid way to drive the point home. However, the utter dreadfulness of the rest of the piece leads me to suspect that such moments are alterations by a weary sub-editor rather than the author actually knowing what she's doing. It reads like something a vaguely competent work experience kid has knocked up. That she's been paid actual money to make this thing is infuriating.