Headlines of Utter Weirdness

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  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    There's a wingerie (is that the right word for a chicken wing emporium?) in Newfoundland (I'm not sure if it extends any further west) called Wingin' It, where (as is often the case) they categorise the heat level on the menu in numbers of chilli symbols. The hottest, which has 10, requires diners to sign a waiver ... :flushed:

    I'm not a huge fan of wings*, but we used to go occasionally, and there were a few flavours I quite liked (lemon and black pepper springs to mind).

    * I don't generally think that the taste justifies the mess one gets into.
  • I think I'll stick to Nando's - not that I've been for years!

    Perhaps a "wingerie" these days is a "gastronomic poultry experience"?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I've never been in a Nando's; in fact, I assumed it was a pizza and pasta joint. Now that I've discovered it's a chicken-and-burgers joint (which has apparently run out of chicken), I shan't be bothering; that sort of food does nothing for me.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Actually Nando's is not the worst. Good if you want something quick, tasty and not too much before or after a concert say. (There's one just opposite the Usher Hall).

    It's South African, and the Cape Malay cookbook I've just acquired mentions it's sauces as an ingredient.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited October 2021
    I have often wondered if Nando's was started by Portuguese ex-pats who started life in Mozambique but moved to SA after the former's independence? Peri-peri sauce is very much a Mozambican "thing".
  • From Reuters:
    British gas pumps still dry, growing concerns pigs will be culled

    I'm having a little trouble with the cause & effect on this one...
  • Met Office Autumnal feel to the start of October
    Erm, that’s possibly because October is in the autumn.
  • Hedgehog wrote: »
    From Reuters:
    British gas pumps still dry, growing concerns pigs will be culled

    I'm having a little trouble with the cause & effect on this one...

    There is a link - they're both things that resulted from Brexit.
  • Met Office Autumnal feel to the start of October
    Erm, that’s possibly because October is in the autumn.

    Funny how that works.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited October 2021
    From the Grauniad:

    Up to 120,000 pigs in UK face culling due to lack of abattoir workers

    I can see the point, but O! the irony!

    (And, I suppose, the waste...).
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    ... Up to 120,000 pigs in UK face culling ...

    Noooo!!! :cry:
  • This is more "click bait" than headline, but my news feed has a blurb from "Buzz Video" that reads
    German Shepherd Yanks Sister To Ground
    I confess I am tempted to click on it to see whether it involves the German Shepherd's sister, or whether the dog just has a problem with nuns.

    Come to think of it, maybe I am assuming to much in thinking that it is about a dog. Maybe it was an actual shepherd in Germany with a sister...or a nun.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    We are nun the wiser!

    While we contemplate, here's one from the Grauniad:
    Ministers could back bid to cut number killed without being stunned

    I'm afraid it seems to be about animal welfare, but I could well imagine it to be about maths. Or the ministers that are stunned. Or both.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I should say it's very likely that the ministers are the ones who are stunned (in the Newfoundland sense, meaning "not really awfully bright").
  • Not a headline, but from Air France's advertising on its environmental initiatives:
    In Canada, various actions have been implemented such as supporting local reforestation projects, eliminating single-use plastic in lounges, and working on pilot recycling projects

    I wonder what their pilots think of this?
  • They might tell you, once they've cycled back from their project...
  • From the "Eastern Daily Press"; "Hospital staff and patients to enjoy new bus shelter at hospital". Enjoy? Well, they "do different" in Norfolk ...
  • From the "Eastern Daily Press"; "Hospital staff and patients to enjoy new bus shelter at hospital". Enjoy? Well, they "do different" in Norfolk ...

    If you have eve nbeen in an exposed part of Norwich in February, you will know that a bus shelter can most definately be enjoyed.
  • I just can't make head or tail of this, from "Wales Online": The determined Welsh town fighting for its future where great new businesses neighbour abandoned ones reclaimed by nature.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I think if you take "neighbour" to be a verb, it makes sense.
  • Ah, I see ... but since when has "neighbour" been a verb?
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    How can you be a neighbour when there's no-one there? Perhaps the journalist meant "adjoin"?
  • Ah, I see ... but since when has "neighbour" been a verb?
    "Verbing weirds language."
  • From the "Eastern Daily Press"; "Hospital staff and patients to enjoy new bus shelter at hospital". Enjoy? Well, they "do different" in Norfolk ...

    If you have eve nbeen in an exposed part of Norwich in February, you will know that a bus shelter can most definately be enjoyed.

    Some years ago, TPTB put up *smoking shelters* in the grounds of our local hospital. An apocryphal tale relates how two elderly ladies were taken into A&E with hypothermia, having waited for a bus for several hours in one of the shelters...
    Ah, I see ... but since when has "neighbour" been a verb?

    Yet another example of the Decline Of The English Language, and the imminence of the Last Days.
  • Ah, I see ... but since when has "neighbour" been a verb?

    According to the OED, 1586.
  • From today's notice-sheet at a Baptist church in Birmingham (and flagged up by the Minister!): "Remembrance Sunday. We will remembered those killed and injured in conflicts during our morning service".
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited November 2021
    :flushed: :scream:

    Anyone brave enough to do an MW Report?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Their services must be a lot more exciting than the ones I remember as a child!

    Re: "neighbour" - I was thinking of it in the sense of "neighbouring businesses", i.e. ones that "neighbour" each other - are next to each other.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    If you think "neighbouring" is bad, consider this from Jamie Oliver, describing his mushroom and gnocchi bake recipe (a "midweek hero") on Tesco's website:
    ... a gorgeous all-in-one bake, heroing ready-made gnocchi ...
    Heroing?!?!?
  • Hmmm ...
  • As I said earlier, we are clearly in the Last Days...
    :scream:
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    As I said earlier, we are clearly in the Last Days...
    :scream:

    Very fortunately so, before many more words similar to heroing are presented to us
  • Gee D wrote: »
    As I said earlier, we are clearly in the Last Days...
    :scream:

    Very fortunately so, before many more words similar to heroing are presented to us

    O quite.
  • "Wales Online" again: "Someone came into my home while I was hoovering and stole my tortoise".
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Now that is incredibly rude! People doing household chores deserve everyone's support, and not having their animals (or things) nicked!
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    edited November 2021
    Or... perish the thought... the beastie in question was rather small and thus inadvertently hoovered in?!
  • The tortoise cried out but I couldn't hear it over the Hoover.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Nor under the Hoover.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    German euthanasia clinics refusing unvaccinated customers
    From the Spectator.

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I suppose they're thinking of the safety of their staff rather than their clients (is that the right word?), but it does look rather odd.
  • Piglet wrote: »
    I suppose they're thinking of the safety of their staff rather than their clients (is that the right word?), but it does look rather odd.

    Well, it's clearly what it is from the clinic's own description of the policy, but naturally that wouldn't stop the Spectator from thinking it's far cleverer than it actually is.

    As usual.
  • Currently on the BBC site:

    Christmas movie-making snowballs to set new record

    I never knew snowballs were into movie-making. Roll 'Em!
  • This confused me when reading the BBC News website: Head ton compounds England misery.

    It is apparently about something called "cricket".
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    The insect?
  • Possibly not. However cremation is clearly involved as there is talk of "ashes".
  • I did look at the headline myself and think "That's one for the Ship!"...
  • Coyotes facing eviction from arena for unpaid bills.

    It turns out that the Coyotes are supposed to be a sports team. On the other hand I did see an actual fox scurrying in front of our local community centre last night, so who knows.
  • This, from "Wales Online", is very sad but also grammatically inept: Cyclist dies in Bangor crash as van driver arrested. The arrest followed the crash, one presumes.
  • Head ton compounds sounds like something people with large heads rub on their pates.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    That pates beyond comparison.
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