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.
From today's "South Wales Echo" front page headline: "TRAMPOLENE PARK OWNER SENTENCED". Understandable mistake as Trampolene are a Rock band from Swansea.
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.
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?
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 ...
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]
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!
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.
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.
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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Do that in Tennessee and you're in the slammer.
They'd better watch their step, or they'll get their feet very wet!
Here's a fairly unpleasant one from the Grauniad:
... which raises the question: Can you kill people, using DNA?
Presumably their advertising rates reflect such a wide distribution.
Bacilli have DNA, and some of those can kill.
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!
The image I am getting requires apologies to the hippos in Fantasia.
To me, a brainless Westerner, at any rate.
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.
As a Dalek might say: "Punc-tu-ate, punc-tu-ate!"
A whole chapel for £45,000? It must be absolutely falling to bits - unless they've missed out a nought somewhere ...
There is a photo: https://tinyurl.com/mujnknhs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv21m2xjre0o
Or maybe I just don't get it? Enquiring mind cares to know! Thank you.
That's what we need, self-shortening peacocks.
Indeed, why is such a piece of absolute trivia the subject of an article on the BBC "news"?
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.
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.
'During while', eh?
The last journalist was being paid by the word......
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"?