Headlines of Utter Weirdness

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  • Not a headline but a photo of the sainted Rishi in "Wales Online" above the headline: "New poll shows Conservatives close to wiped out in Wales in general election". https://tinyurl.com/2tev2xzz
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    :mrgreen:
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Not a headline but a photo of the sainted Rishi in "Wales Online" above the headline: "New poll shows Conservatives close to wiped out in Wales in general election". https://tinyurl.com/2tev2xzz
    That's a gem. Thank you.
  • I ought to add that the website in question is run by "Reach" and hence tends to lean towards the Left.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Halo, sailor!
  • From "Wales Online": Unique coastal home with panoramic views, a tower and hidden swimming pool you won't ever want to leave. Thanks, but I'd like to get dry sometimes.
  • Police shoot dead man who threatened them with a knife

    That's a neat trick. I hope I'm half as dextrous when I'm dead.
  • From "Wales Online": The water leak that's taken 18 months to be fixed in Llanelli leaving residents slipping and sliding on ice. What, Llanelli freezes all year round?
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    I have come to appreciate "Wales Online" as a fertile source for this thread. Earlier today I almost posted this one:
    Train left covered in blood as passengers fight onboard
    Just for the bizarre impression created that there was a bloody fight on a train and the headline writer decided that the important part of the story was that the train got dirty.
  • And, if it was covered in blood, presumably that would be on the roof and running down the sides. (I saw that headline too).
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited March 2023
    You're a scary lot, you Welsh! :flushed:
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited March 2023
    I only live in Wales ...

    BTW the BBC's take on the incident was: Trio identified after train blood-soaked by fight. Make of that what you will.
  • More gore, more sales...
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    If it bleeds it leads.
  • I would take from that headline that there was a fight onboard, and in response, the emergency services doused the whole thing in blood.

    Which would be even more peculiar. But then, it is Wales, isn't it*?

    *Just a joke. I am married to a Welsh lady. She only covers things in blood in leap years.
  • How high does she leap?
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited March 2023
    Interesting, perhaps, rather than weird, from the "Eastern Daily Press": Birth of daughter spurs Conservative councillor’s switch to Greens.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited March 2023
    Interesting, perhaps, rather than weird, from the "Eastern Daily Press": Birth of daughter spurs Conservative councillor’s switch to Greens.

    "Shit! I have a reason to care about the future now!"?

    Eta: just found and read the article. Basically that, yes.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited March 2023
    Indeed so - an epiphany.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    I'm worried about that combination of spurs and switches.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    edited March 2023
    Hedgehog wrote: »
    I'm worried about that combination of spurs and switches.

    Doesn't that go with being Tory? Or would that be spurs and witches?
  • KarlLB wrote: »
    Interesting, perhaps, rather than weird, from the "Eastern Daily Press": Birth of daughter spurs Conservative councillor’s switch to Greens.

    "Shit! I have a reason to care about the future now!"?

    Eta: just found and read the article. Basically that, yes.

    Like the magical epiphanies when conservatives (big or small "C") have a gay kid (those who don't just kick them out) and all of a sudden their opinion changes. Or the racist whose daughter marries a black man, and all of a sudden he's a grandpa of a black child, and they're not so bad after all.
  • And what is so annoying about that is it is not actually an epiphany or a change. It is still the same old self-interest.

    The fact that their self-interest is no related to other peoples self-interest is not relevant. They are still spitefull, self-obsessed shits.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Gentle Hostly Oink

    This is the Circus - please put any serious/hellish/epiphanic posts where they belong, i.e. not here.

    Thank you.

    Piglet, Circus host
  • Wales Online (again): Man has new £7,000 Turkey Teeth after years of smoking killed his old ones
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    <Hedgehog rapidly flips through his copy of "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes." Doesn't see anything about Turkey teeth.>
  • carexcarex Shipmate
    mousethief wrote: »
    The5thMary wrote: »
    I didn't know moose HAD hands! But if they did, surely they would wear gloves...though not made from moose fur.

    Is outrage!

    Bullwinkle has hands. That proves it.



    And he wears gloves.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Wales Online (again): Man has new £7,000 Turkey Teeth after years of smoking killed his old ones
    I admit curiosity got the better of me and I looked up the website. There's 10 seconds of my time I will never get back. (Was it worth looking? Not really. :neutral: )
  • I've had smoked turkey. It was pretty good.
  • From the programme of the Worthing Theological Society: "Do we still need the second commandment? A Jewish Theological Perspective on the use and misuse of images in contemporary culture. An illustrated talk.". I guess the speaker has already given the answer to her question (which actually sounds very interesting).
  • Not a headline, but part of an article about Breakfasts in "The Good Hotel Guide Newsletter": “The full English includes boudin noir ...” – forgive ne, but that doesn’t sound very English to me!
  • Not a headline, but part of an article about Breakfasts in "The Good Hotel Guide Newsletter": “The full English includes boudin noir ...” – forgive ne, but that doesn’t sound very English to me!

    Appropriating things from other cultures sounds eminently English to me.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Certainly odd that an English language description of a full English breakfast should refer to boudin noir rather then the usual English ‘black pudding’.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    English and French black pudding are not quite the same. The English sort has more oatmeal and bigger lumps of fat.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    English and French black pudding are not quite the same. The English sort has more oatmeal and bigger lumps of fat.

    Which is why I prefer Scottish or Irish. Bits of fat are my bêtes noirs. Or more accurately my bêtes blancs, I suppose.
  • Bêtes blanches, I think.
  • From the "Ipswich Star": More than 1000 musical egg shakers detained at the Port of Felixstowe. More 'illegal migrants'? Presumably they came in large boats.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Musical egg shakers??? :confused:
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    Musical egg shakers??? :confused:
    That was a new one on me, but apparently they are A Thing. They seem to be egg-shaped noisemakers that rattle or make noise when shook.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    “musical egg” functioning as a kind of compound adjective for the shakers.
  • mousethief wrote: »
    From our local online news:

    Passengers told not to travel during rail strikes

    Yes, well...
    :unamused:

    I read about a Japanese bus strike in which the bus drivers showed up, and drove the routes, but refused to collect fares.

    :lol:

    Happens not infrequently in our neck of the woods: the drivers’ response to State Govt pushing through privatisation of some bus routes.

  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    UK public warned not to eat Baronet semi-soft cheese after death (online Guardian) Well, there's quite a range of things not available post mortem....

    Tbf, when you click into the story, it adds 'listeria'.
  • mousethief wrote: »
    From our local online news:

    Passengers told not to travel during rail strikes

    Yes, well...
    :unamused:

    I read about a Japanese bus strike in which the bus drivers showed up, and drove the routes, but refused to collect fares.

    This happened just this past autumn where I live.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited April 2023
    From the Grauniad's sports pages:
    Jesus has the spellbinding quality that keeps everyone watching Arsenal

    I rather imagined he was otherwise occupied this week ...
  • It’s OK, their next match isn’t until next Sunday at 4.30pm. Plenty of time for all the other Easter stuff to happen in-between.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Jesus saves!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    ... and Moses scores on the rebound ... :mrgreen:
  • And the omniscient God disallows it – no need for VAR.
  • From the Washington Post:

    Earth’s core seems to be surrounded by enigmatic layer, geologists say



  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Why did the Enigmatic Layer cross the road?
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