Not the headline, but the first line of an article (from the BBC):
Switzerland is to allow female members of the army to wear women's underwear for the first time in an effort to boost recruitment, local media report.
I could be wrong, of course, but I have a sneaky suspicion that some of those "female members of the army" may possibly have worn women's underwear before, rather than it being their first time.
Like Volkswagen changing its name to Voltswagen. The electric car is the people's car of the future, don't you know.
I still like its original name, the KdF-wagen. (As the management apparently said, out of earshot of the Nazi top brass, "How will we sell the Americans a car called the Strength through Joy-mobile?")
Not the headline, but the first line of an article (from the BBC):
Switzerland is to allow female members of the army to wear women's underwear for the first time in an effort to boost recruitment, local media report.
I could be wrong, of course, but I have a sneaky suspicion that some of those "female members of the army" may possibly have worn women's underwear before, rather than it being their first time.
Having just trawled through some Swiss news websites, it is a headline only with a few German-language papers, and no French-language or Italian-language ones. You could well be right.
Like the 'Voltswagen' joke, it looks like something German speakers would find rather funny. But only them. (And it's also slightly sexist.)
There's a very good April Fool in today's "i" about holiday-makers in Cornwall this summer being required to take a language exam in order to limit numbers. It's been written in a totally deadpan way and, considering the current immigration and vaccine passport debates, it is actually quite barbed. No link to an online version, I'm afraid.
If that's the best they can do, then I'd hate to see them grumpy.
I would suggest 1914 and 1939 as times when Germans were 'grumpy', but that might be somewhat unfair
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean
But that couldn't happen again
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they've hardly bothered us since then
—Tom Lehrer, "MLF"
Like the 'Voltswagen' joke, it looks like something German speakers would find rather funny. But only them. (And it's also slightly sexist.)
It's a bit ponderous as a joke (should that be yok?) but could somebody please elucidate to an older person whose ears aren't always sensitive to these things how it's sexist?
Like the 'Voltswagen' joke, it looks like something German speakers would find rather funny. But only them. (And it's also slightly sexist.)
It's a bit ponderous as a joke (should that be yok?) but could somebody please elucidate to an older person whose ears aren't always sensitive to these things how it's sexist?
My bad. I was referring to the Swiss and their men-soldier folk imagining lady soldiers in frilly, lacey knickers and assorted delicate garments. Seeing that the military is often somewhat of a macho affair, I wouldn't be too surprised if that was the undertone.
To me, "Stabber of Store" sounds like some remote hamlet in Scotland or Ireland. But the question then arises: what was the owner sentenced for? And what did he own?
But there is a different question to be asked: what is a Covid case? Is it round, with spikes sticking out? Where is its handle? Has it got little wheels so you can pull it along? Will it fit in the luggage rack?
There's clearly a business opportunity there, perhaps I should be on Dragons' Den.
Well, the trains ignore their timetables, so the poor things need to find something to do. They might as well attend fires. They can bellow back at the smoke if the mood strikes them.
Sighting of 'disgusting sewage' raises concern at Chichester Harbour
Presumably well-bred sewage is OK then?
It is Chichester. There are standards.
Presumably low class sewage from Council estates is piped to Portsmouth and disgorged untreated into the Naval Dockyard there, where it belongs.
More seriously, it was always reputed that some Exclusive Brethren households took the principle of separation from the rest of us (Come out from among them etc 2 Cor 6:17) so far that they reorganised their drains so that their bodily emissions would not be contaminated by being mixed with everyone else's.
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Good job the current MC thread is in Children's Cult TV Land...
And the "why has the end of my finger gone blue?" custom.
And why has the end of my finger fallen off?
Why has my finger gone septic? And I can't feel my arm. It is all going dark......
Happy to oblige @Piglet.
Hereford FC goalkeeper carries out interviews in underwear
Just his underwear, or was he wearing anything else? A football strip, perhaps? Goalies' gloves?
Inquiring minds need to know!
Actually, now I think about it, I had a few friends from Dungannon who could sink a rare lot of alcohol in a good cause ...
Buffy the Beaver with a Walther PPK pistol?
Oi! I resemble that remark!
I still like its original name, the KdF-wagen. (As the management apparently said, out of earshot of the Nazi top brass, "How will we sell the Americans a car called the Strength through Joy-mobile?")
175-foot-tall California redwood tree falls on car, killing parents
No word yet on why the parents of a 175-foot-tall redwood tree were in the car in the first place.
He was adopted.
Having just trawled through some Swiss news websites, it is a headline only with a few German-language papers, and no French-language or Italian-language ones. You could well be right.
Like the 'Voltswagen' joke, it looks like something German speakers would find rather funny. But only them. (And it's also slightly sexist.)
Who says the Germans don't have a sense of humour?
I would suggest 1914 and 1939 as times when Germans were 'grumpy', but that might be somewhat unfair
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean
But that couldn't happen again
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they've hardly bothered us since then
—Tom Lehrer, "MLF"
My bad. I was referring to the Swiss and their men-soldier folk imagining lady soldiers in frilly, lacey knickers and assorted delicate garments. Seeing that the military is often somewhat of a macho affair, I wouldn't be too surprised if that was the undertone.
I think it is fair to say that some of the best humour about the UK in the last year has been coming from Germany.
I guess that's better than store owner stabber. Still sounds weird.
Seems fair enough. Fish are expensive.
But where would a penguin keep its cash?
10 new Covid-19 cases in Gwent region as Walss records no new deaths
... so they're recording old deaths?
But there is a different question to be asked: what is a Covid case? Is it round, with spikes sticking out? Where is its handle? Has it got little wheels so you can pull it along? Will it fit in the luggage rack?
There's clearly a business opportunity there, perhaps I should be on Dragons' Den.
That's true of 90% of headlines posted here. Might as well close the thread if there's something wrong with that.
As with this headline from "Wales Online" about a fire (fortunately now extinguished) at the National Museum: "Smoke bellowing through the dome".
Presumably well-bred sewage is OK then?
It is Chichester. There are standards.
Presumably low class sewage from Council estates is piped to Portsmouth and disgorged untreated into the Naval Dockyard there, where it belongs.
More seriously, it was always reputed that some Exclusive Brethren households took the principle of separation from the rest of us (Come out from among them etc 2 Cor 6:17) so far that they reorganised their drains so that their bodily emissions would not be contaminated by being mixed with everyone else's.