Headlines of Utter Weirdness

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  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    And they make no bones about it!
  • On this morning's news

    [A certain Presidential candidate] opposes abortion except in cases of mother's health, rap, or incest.

    Well, that should make music listenable again.
  • From Nation.Cymru: "Tidal energy scheme trials solar powered bird tracker".

    Well, I suppose anything can happen on Anglesey!
  • And from the "Ipswich Star": "Café in Ipswich Town Hall to close its doors .... Last Saturday, the charity decided to seize service at the café".

    Really? Did they grab all the cakes and run?
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    From Nation.Cymru: "Tidal energy scheme trials solar powered bird tracker".
    I am having major difficulty parsing that sentence....
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Hedgehog wrote: »
    From Nation.Cymru: "Tidal energy scheme trials solar powered bird tracker".
    I am having major difficulty parsing that sentence....
    I agree. I think it's:-
    Tidal-energy-scheme = Subject
    trials = Verb (usually a noun but being used as a verb)
    solar-powered = Adjective qualifying Object.
    bird-tracker = Object.

    But I might be completely wrong.

  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited July 2024
  • I took it as referring to some sort of tidal-powered Engine which tracks solar-powered birds...
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I'm with you BF - I was imagining birds with little solar panels on their backs ... :mrgreen:
  • Well, that's more-or-less what they do have!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I suppose so, in a way!
  • O - I see now...
    :lol:
  • The Washington Post advises us today that, Counties most in need of cardiologists are the most likely to have none.
  • Q.E.D.
  • And Scripps News tells us:

    Atmosphere at Olympic Swimming electrified

    Didn't their mothers tell them not to go swimming during a thunderstorm?
  • I was happy to see the BBC announce that, Scottish bog gets world heritage status, and wondered if it was one of the many I had been grateful for on my travels. But it turns out to be the enormous peat bog of the Flow Country in Caithness, familiar to some of us as the view from the train to Thurso and Wick.
  • On tonight's news:

    Girl born 15 weeks premature happy to be in school

    Already?
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Happy? I'd be livid at that age.
  • Not a headline, but out of the mouth of a reporter giving the result of one of today's rowing events. (not verbatim)
    "The winning team made a powerful start and did not look back"
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    On tonight's news:

    Girl born 15 weeks premature happy to be in school

    Already?

    Premature in so many ways?
  • From "Wales Online" - bizarre but sadly true: Police investigate alleged theft of hip replacements from Cardiff crematorium as employee is dismissed.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I'm going to display my (well-documented) stupidity here - what on earth use is a hip replacement to anyone except the original recipient?
  • Suggestion from across the room is that someone was fishing the hip replacements out of the ashes and selling as scrap metal. There's a fair amount of titanium in those things!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    That's true; about ten years after my s-i-l had hers done, the titanium started leaking out of it, making her very ill (she had to have the whole thing done again).
  • My late father-in-law had a spare.
    Don't ask, I have no idea, neither does Mr RoS. After the death of FiL said spare became part of the detritus that my hoarder of a husband filled odd corners of the house. It now seems to have vanished, possibly disposed of in the downsizing declutter of a few years ago.

    Or maybe it is still in one of the boxes of memorabilia that Mr RoS has under his bed - is it worth looking for? Might we get a good price for it in China?
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Unlike the rest of you, any artificial hip doesn't burn in cremation, though I understand the temperature is sufficient to make it not suitable to be recycled for use by someone else.

    I've not heard of titanium leaking out of artificial hips, but I have known of people who have outlived their artificial hips and had them break up inside them painfully and needing to be replaced.

  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited August 2024
    Presumably the spare was because he had it redone - my mother had 3 replacements on each side, followed by a spontaneous fracture of the femur as the last gave way (we have a genetic disorder which causes joint anomalies so she had her first hip operation in her 40s).
  • I have not heard of titanium leaking, but it is certainly possible to have a delayed hypersensitivity to titanium which can present in many different ways and so evade immediate detection.
  • I believe there is a decent market for replacement joint as scrap. As others have said, there is some good and expensive metal involved.
  • Enoch wrote: »
    Unlike the rest of you, any artificial hip doesn't burn in cremation, though I understand the temperature is sufficient to make it not suitable to be recycled for use by someone else.

    I've not heard of titanium leaking out of artificial hips, but I have known of people who have outlived their artificial hips and had them break up inside them painfully and needing to be replaced.

    Yes, my dad had 3 on one side, and the second actually went through the side of his femur, the replacement for that went almost down to his knee.

    @Heavenlyannie that's scary!
  • A little googling suggests that the scrap price of titanium is £1.40-£2.00 per kilo (presumably including titanium alloys), which seems hardly worth the bother of stealing such small quantities. There is quite a bit of expensive reprocessing required before the metal can be certified for reuse.
  • The Beeb version of the article says that posthumous tinware is sold off to raise money for charity.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    I wonder if the mint will start processing them.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Good heavens - 21st century alchemy!
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    edited August 2024
    From a mailing of one of my purveyors of gentleman's attire:
    Tweed speaks of country life like no other fabric

    I hope you can make the thing shut up! - There's nowt worse than clothes talking when all you want is a quiet, pleaceful amble in town and country.
  • It's the river talking ...
  • From AP News:

    Large desert tortoise rescued from Arizona highway after escaping from ostrich ranch 3 miles away

    The article fails to explain why the ostriches were holding the tortoise captive in the first place. Although, presumably, he was a hard case and they refused to just stick their heads in the sand about it.
  • *groan*

    And how did the Tortoise outrun the Ostriches, who must surely have noticed his attempt to escape?
  • The CBC reports Economics professor says No Frills store's decision to lock up cheese speaks to broader societal issues. Cheese and guns are treated the same way in Canada, you know. They are both threats to public morals and safety.
  • Not a headline, but from a poster in a local shop window advertising an event to take place at "Mount Without Crypt".

    Decrypting this location for the benefit of non-locals it would be the crypt of the former Church of St Michael-on-the-Mount-Without.

    Those who have to ask what the church is "without" must not have been paying attention. It is, of course, without the city wall, which is about a mile away at the bottom of the hill.
  • Is it on a green hill?
  • Far away, if you consider a mile as far.
  • Is it on a green hill?

    Not for a long time. It was part of the medieval urban expansion of the city.
  • On this morning's news headline crawl:

    TSA [Transportation Safety Administration] to introduce dangerous liquid scanners

    Why not just stick with the current X-ray scanners? How would a liquid scanner be more efficient, especially if it's dangerous?
  • Swedish chef critical after attack near carnival

    It's actually a really serious story, but your mind has probably just gone where my mind went.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce802dv1gjno
  • Everyone's a critic, they say.
  • From the Hope Springs Eternal department:

    Counties prepare to eliminate cesspools that pollute their communities

    You mean there's going to be a general election?
  • This is not weird, just wrong in the "Dewey Defeats Truman" sense. USA Today currently has a headline:

    Michigan crushes Texas in Ann Arbor

    But in fact (as the story connected to the headline states) Texas beat Michigan, 31-12.
  • edited September 2024
    On today's Scripps headline crawl, which many TV stations subscribe to:

    Boy rescued from between two boulders after being rapped for nine hours

    Poor kid. Nine seconds of rap is more than I can take.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    He must have thought he'd been raptured by then!
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