From "Wales Online": "Mum who spent £400 a month on takeaways sheds 12st in six months". Fair enough - except that I first read it without the "s" on "takeaways",
A real "huh" for me, reading Bap-Train's entry just up the line. 'Murican' ignorance showing. Can we sing "The twelfthst day of Christmas"? Just funnin' you loverly Britsters.
Another question from across the pond: what is actually the difference between takeaway and takeaways? I would have guessed they both referred to food…
I suppose "£400 on takeaway" might imply one very expensive Chow Mein whilst "£400 on takeaways" would imply many separate more reasonably priced pizzas, prawn dopiazas and chip cobs over the stated period of time.
You've all missed my point, which was that the headline without the "s" on "takeaway" would have been spending his money on "takeaway sheds". Mind you, the rest of it then becomes somewhat ungrammatical!
I just have to post this recent headline here, which has created much hilarity and admiration all over the planet. From the New York Times:
When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That’s a Moray
And if you have a subscription to the NYT, the article is here.
Just adding for those who can't / won't check: the background for the title is a video-on-a-loop that shows just what it says: a small ramp where a human hand descends with a tweezer-like arrangement holding squid bits, to meet an eel humping its way up the ramp to grab them. I have no idea who had the bright idea first--the video stager, or the headline writer.
On the BBC Wales TV news tonight we were told about changes to education that will be made in September, in particular that "all students will arrive and depart at the same time".
Bugs to the rescue: using insects as animal feed could cut deforestation – report
Me thinking, hm, interesting, they want to feed insects to deer to prevent tree damage in forests.
However, not so. In the aticle it then says: 'Adopting insect protein in pig and poultry feed could reduce UK soya consumption by a fifth by 2050, says WWF study'
Husband en rouge's best mate likes bringing stuff like that to parties to freak everyone out. Doesn't taste bad, apparently, but I'm pretty squeamish about it too.
From a report in "Wales Online": North Wales Police were called at 10.45pm after reports of “disorder” near the popular Llŷn Peninsula pub, which in 2016 hosted a visit from Prince Charles and Camilla. By then the warring factions had dispersed. Is it me, or does the grammar suggest that the factions had dispersed by the time HRHs came to visit?
From BBC Wales website: "Newport chip plant's sale to Chinese company reviewed". Quite right: chips are a British institution, especially at the seaside!
From a report in "Wales Online": North Wales Police were called at 10.45pm after reports of “disorder” near the popular Llŷn Peninsula pub, which in 2016 hosted a visit from Prince Charles and Camilla. By then the warring factions had dispersed. Is it me, or does the grammar suggest that the factions had dispersed by the time HRHs came to visit?
How dare anyone have a brawl at venue visited by the Prince of Wales and his doxy?
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This door is alarmed. And so am I. Ever so slightly.
Or: Cummings a pundit who stumbled into politics, says Boris Johnson...
Or one of those idiots that puts gold leaf on food because literally shitting your money away shows how special you are.
A shed you takeaway with you. Rather than having it delivered.
BT - I got your point.
I have MILFs too...
Sousa fanfare! An American shed https://tinyurl.com/w45ukadj
When I saw “bigger models” I assumed you were talking about something like this.
Whoa!
That looks like something Proper Top Gear would have done - right up Captain Slow's street!
Hardly typical. Closer to the median:
https://mobileimages.lowes.com/productimages/c1b8109c-cf95-4032-88b0-f38cde5ba83b/09198313.jpg?size=large
I chose the one I did because of Old Glory. So many people put flags on everything. I can't imagine a Brit shed flying a Union Jack.
On tonight's headline crawl on BBC World News America:
Illegal gold miners stalk Amazon while authorities look the other way
Well, Amazon was certainly a gold mine for Jeff Bezos. Why not for everyman?
Who knew? Maybe I should "stalk" our local Amazon warehouses for underground veins of ore.
Link to the Indy100 here. And if you have a subscription to the NYT, the article is here.
They continued alike with captions for the pictures in their report:
Formidable!
"Men's GOAT race".
Just adding for those who can't / won't check: the background for the title is a video-on-a-loop that shows just what it says: a small ramp where a human hand descends with a tweezer-like arrangement holding squid bits, to meet an eel humping its way up the ramp to grab them. I have no idea who had the bright idea first--the video stager, or the headline writer.
Why bother going at all, if that's the case?
Surely they became ecstatic after they won, not while they were playing - one hopes!
Me thinking, hm, interesting, they want to feed insects to deer to prevent tree damage in forests.
However, not so. In the aticle it then says: 'Adopting insect protein in pig and poultry feed could reduce UK soya consumption by a fifth by 2050, says WWF study'
I'll wait until I see the bugs' report before making up my mind.
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News crew held up at gunpoint — during interview with anti-violence official
And is the chip plant native to Britain, or was it introduced by the Romans or some such?
The root of Solanum tuberosum and originating from Peru.
How dare anyone have a brawl at venue visited by the Prince of Wales and his doxy?