Headlines of Utter Weirdness

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  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    From Hello online:
    Sophie-Alexandra Evekink, 33, tied the knot with Prince Ludwig in a stunning wedding dress ...

    I'm sure he must have looked lovely! :naughty:

    Do that in Tennessee and you're in the slammer.
  • From today's "i": "Offshore workers set for two new walkouts".

    They'd better watch their step, or they'll get their feet very wet!
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    edited May 2023
    Let's hope they wear parachutes and life jackets!

    Here's a fairly unpleasant one from the Grauniad:
    Canadian police solve 48-year-old case of teenager’s rape and murder using DNA

    ... which raises the question: Can you kill people, using DNA?
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    The Dundee Courier has an article on by-gone playground equipment, which wouldn't meet modern health and safety standards. It's headed "Did you survive Dundee's Death swing at Finlathen Park Adventure Playground?"

    Presumably anyone reading this article did survive. Or do they think some victims of the "death swing" are reading the Courier in the hereafter?

    A theological point to ponder - would the availability of the Dundee Courier in the afterlife imply that one was in Heaven, or in Hell?

    Presumably their advertising rates reflect such a wide distribution.
  • mousethiefmousethief Shipmate
    Wesley J wrote: »
    Let's hope they wear parachutes and life jackets!

    Here's a fairly unpleasant one from the Grauniad:
    Canadian police solve 48-year-old case of teenager’s rape and murder using DNA

    ... which raises the question: Can you kill people, using DNA?

    Bacilli have DNA, and some of those can kill.
  • Not a headline, but a happy typo in an article in yesterday's Washington Post concerning the beloved Boris, allowing the imagination to run wild:

    This would be humiliating for a politician who, in 2019 led his party to an overwhelming victory at the ballet box...
  • From today's "South Wales Echo" front page headline: "TRAMPOLENE PARK OWNER SENTENCED". Understandable mistake as Trampolene are a Rock band from Swansea.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Not a headline, but a happy typo in an article in yesterday's Washington Post concerning the beloved Boris, allowing the imagination to run wild:

    This would be humiliating for a politician who, in 2019 led his party to an overwhelming victory at the ballet box...

    Pass the brain bleach! :flushed:
  • PendragonPendragon Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    Not a headline, but a happy typo in an article in yesterday's Washington Post concerning the beloved Boris, allowing the imagination to run wild:

    This would be humiliating for a politician who, in 2019 led his party to an overwhelming victory at the ballet box...

    Pass the brain bleach! :flushed:

    The image I am getting requires apologies to the hippos in Fantasia.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I know it's infra dig to describe the peoples of the Orient as inscrutable, but that sort of is.

    To me, a brainless Westerner, at any rate. :confused:
  • We have this too in Vietnam. I think it's partly rooted in the fact that traditionally, the older you are, the more power and respect you have. So people look for ways to big up their age, esp. when they are quite young. My husband routinely adds three to seven years to his own age even now, and I have to correct him (Dude! There's a twenty-year gap between us already, and you want to make it WORSE? In America?).

  • When I did registration and government forms for international students from various parts of south east Asia, this created no end of difficulty. The students knew what kind of answer I was looking for, but were never quite sure whether to say "January 1" or the actual birthdate (if they knew it). We were never sure which supporting documents would be required by the college, the province, or the Canadian government and it would be extremely unhelpful to get the date wrong and confuse the relevant bureaucrat.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited June 2023
    Not so much weird as convoluted, from "Wales Online": "The pretty country chapel near one of the best places to live in Wales going to auction with guide of £45k". What, the whole "best place to live" will only cost you £45k?

    As a Dalek might say: "Punc-tu-ate, punc-tu-ate!"
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Near one of the best places to live, but not actually in it?
    A whole chapel for £45,000? It must be absolutely falling to bits - unless they've missed out a nought somewhere ... :grimace:
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Here's the link to the above, ... where they have another interesting one!
    A handful of charming period properties are the only close neighbours to the chapel, which was built in 1830 although local legend says the opening was delayed to allow for the vanish on the pews to dry. [Italics added]
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Tsk! That wasn't vanish. That was Rapture!
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited June 2023
    Curses! Missed it! It was as long ago as 1830?? Was Outrage!
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited July 2023
    BBC Wales news website: "King and Queen on show at scarecrow festival".

    There is a photo: https://tinyurl.com/mujnknhs
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Not made by a fan, then, unless very incompetent.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Scarecrown festival?
  • Now that is clever! Thank you.

  • Someone at the Beeb should really have thought about this headline, given the sadness of the event...
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv21m2xjre0o
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Indeed.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Someone at the Beeb should really have thought about this headline, given the sadness of the event...
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv21m2xjre0o
    Sorry, what is wrong with:
    Ronan Keating's brother dies in County Mayo crash

    Or maybe I just don't get it? Enquiring mind cares to know! Thank you.
  • I think the headline originally omitted the word "County", so it was less than clear.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Yes ‘County’ was omitted possibly giving the impression that a jar of Hellman’s was involved!
  • [Other brands are available].
  • Yes, it originally just read Mayo, which I thought was open to tasteless misinterpretation.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Someone other than us must have noticed!
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    I firmly believe that somebody from BBC Editorial is a Shipmate because it seems that every time we post a BBC headline here, it gets changed on the website within a few hours!
  • I think there was once a BBC article on how forums manage conflict which mentioned the Ship’s Hell forum.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Caption on BBC 'Your Pictures of Scotland' - "- and - were visiting Scone Palace when they spotted this stunning peacock pruning its feathers."

    That's what we need, self-shortening peacocks.
  • The BBC Wales news this lunchtime had an item on the Welsh Show. The interviewee was captioned as "A B C Chief Executive" as if the title was part of his name. It should have been in smaller type underneath.
  • Our local online news provider: "Senior Crushed by Mortgage."
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Good luck to her, I say.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Because of the name Derek, or her suffering, or both?
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    I wouldn’t criticise her for it, it’s just a very odd headline.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    Joe Pasquale impaled in freak moose antler incident in Skegness. (Again courtesy of BBC News.)
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited August 2023
    Joe Pasquale impaled in freak moose antler incident in Skegness. (Again courtesy of BBC News.)
    I read that story and thought it ridiculously exaggerated; he appears to have scratched himself on the leg tripping over a prop.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Who's Joe Pasquale?
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    A UK prop comedian with an unusually high pitched voice.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    I wouldn’t criticise her for it, it’s just a very odd headline.

    Indeed, why is such a piece of absolute trivia the subject of an article on the BBC "news"?
  • The BBC website has a lot of trivial articles these days, hence the Joe Pasquale one. But I think the breast reconstruction example is actually a helpful article and not trivia as it highlights the need for self-examination and screening and helps to remove the stigma of talking about breast cancer.
  • The BBC website has a lot of trivial articles these days, hence the Joe Pasquale one. But I think the breast reconstruction example is actually a helpful article and not trivia as it highlights the need for self-examination and screening and helps to remove the stigma of talking about breast cancer.

    Agreed - it has a validity, although the headline and approach is rather trivialising. If you have no interest in the DoY, then you will probably not read it. I think the ridiculous number of stories about the royals are usually trivia.

    But focussing on squeaky people getting minor injuries means they don't have to report on their overlords destroying the world. I guess.
  • From the BBC:

    Zoom orders workers back to the office

    I can never remember what the true definition of irony is, but that Zoom is not allowing remote workers should chart somewhere on the scale.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    From the Daily Wail:
    Bride reveals her brother wanted to propose to his girlfriend during while giving a speech at her wedding [...]

    'During while', eh?
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Wesley J wrote: »
    From the Daily Wail:
    Bride reveals her brother wanted to propose to his girlfriend during while giving a speech at her wedding [...]

    'During while', eh?

    The last journalist was being paid by the word......
  • I am not sure where to park this - I'll try it here.

    A couple of days ago the Washington Post reported an American expert as saying that the plane carrying the Wagner people fell from the sky like a Coke bottle. Did anyone else here ever see "The Gods Must be Crazy"?
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