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Daily Mail gets to the bottom of a douchebag

Daily Mail
Are you a douchebag? Find out by reading the Daily Mail's sidebar ... hang on it's been removed.

More dispatches from the wonderful world of the Daily Mail, the paper, you might remember, which published multiple pictures of so-called "soft porn imagery" from The X Factor just so you knew exactly how disgusted you should be. The latest object of its affection, sorry ... public interest, is Playmate Kayla Collins – no, us neither – who attracted some "celebrity douchebags to her Christmas party", it reports. Scantily clad playmates and bunny girls aside – we'll stop short of calling the pictures "soft porn" – we're not sure "douchebag" is exactly Mail material either. Neither is the paper, which first took the unusual step of helping readers understand the headline with a sidebar: "What is a douchebag?" "The Urban Dictionary defines the term as 'an individual who has an over-inflated sense of self-worth, compounded by ..." And then, having had second thoughts, removed the douchebag reference altogether (along with the definition sidebar), replacing it with "sleazebag" which required no definition whatsoever.

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