UK inflation falls as meat and crumpet prices drop
Not that bizarre perhaps, apart from the implied significance of crumpets in the national economy.
I wonder if anyone will seize the economic opportunity and start selling burgers served between two crumpets?
Bearing in mind the slang meaning of the word, perhaps it's the price of a different service that is now being included in the indices. One wonder, though, how the economists would be collecting their figures.
That story is one of the weirdest I've encountered yet, misuse of religion, the machines taking over, handsome but oddly unlifelike artificial image. It's got almost the lot. The only thing apparently missing is any sexual ingredient of the 'missing vicar traced to love nest with choirmistress' variety.
Gatorade, by the way, is something I've never heard of before. I had to look it up on google, but was what I'd guessed it might be.
Ah yes, the document that says "If you have high cholesterol, you eat too much fatty food, smoke, have too much fat round your middle and don't exercise enough".
With the greatest of respect, I am none of those, and it's still high.
I had the good fortune to have been in Aberdeen a few weeks ago when that respected cultural icon of the North East, The Press and Journal, delivered up another of its gems: Taking the biscuit as Twix sends us back to the '80s. It wasn't just that a family had found a 40 year old Twix bar on a beach near Thurso that impressed me - it was the fact that it took up most of a page in the newspaper and included a family photo. It had been a quiet week in Aberdeen.
I had the good fortune to have been in Aberdeen a few weeks ago when that respected cultural icon of the North East, The Press and Journal, delivered up another of its gems: Taking the biscuit as Twix sends us back to the '80s. It wasn't just that a family had found a 40 year old Twix bar on a beach near Thurso that impressed me - it was the fact that it took up most of a page in the newspaper and included a family photo. It had been a quiet week in Aberdeen.
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(More joy from the Metro)
https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/30/ai-priest-defrocked-saying-babies-baptised-gatorade-20748044/
Gatorade, by the way, is something I've never heard of before. I had to look it up on google, but was what I'd guessed it might be.
What next? Homes wet after flooding?
You're welcome.
Ah yes, the document that says "If you have high cholesterol, you eat too much fatty food, smoke, have too much fat round your middle and don't exercise enough".
With the greatest of respect, I am none of those, and it's still high.
TBH, I'm using it as a reason to grumble and eat more fish. It could be worse, and it's not that high. I just spat feathers at the advice letter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj7mry8yvrmo
I struggle enough with links here, without being pished and using the phone on a bus, as I am on both counts.
A present? Was it their birthday?
The article has a few lines that cause pause, such as:
Yes. As one does.
From today's Guardian:
UK public invited to dance for worms to help assess soil health
I know what they mean, but I have this surreal image of a crowd of Worms sitting around the dance floor, and applauding the dancers - but what with?
(And, yes, I know that was low-hanging fruit. But if somebody doesn't pick it, it'll just go to waste.)
I always thought the diet of worms thing was an argument about what worms needed to eat...
Construction to begin on new airport terminal; completion scheduled for late 20305
Oh, do aim for early 20305, there's a sweet lamb.
To swipe Jerry Seinfeld's line about Pop Tarts: It can't go stale because it was NEVER fresh!
Pardon me: this as a general remark, or in relation to the Twixxes and/or Thurso, please?
It's a post posted on the wrong thread!
Meanwhile, from "Wales Online": The straight out of a fairytale Welsh garden paradise next to a main road that's well worth the trip.
Quite apart from the lack of hyphens between the words out-of-a-fairytale, why would I want to make a trip to see a main road?
At least they got the apostrophe in the right place in *that's*...
*Which is* would indeed have been better, but one can't expect too much from local news outlets these days...
Grammer speeling and punktwoation aint' tort in skool no more. O! for the day's of St Custards'!
Austrian man discovers mammoth bones in wine cellar
"No, no, no. I ordered a magnum of Beaune!"
It's the difference between a restrictive vs. nonrestrictive modifier, and an error commonly committed. We won't go into details here.
On this morning's TV news headline crawl:
Woman pronounced dead found alive at funeral home
At least she knew where to go.
Why scientists are studying whales with a crossbow
How do whales hold crossbows, never mind pulling the triggers?