Not a headline as such - but a photo from "Wales Online" of cows being herded along Neath station.They caused a lot of disruption as all trains had to stop. https://tinyurl.com/2s3pvkym
Nothing wrong with this headline on the BBC website: "Cyber attack contingency plans should be put on paper, firms told" - except I read it as "Cycle attack ..." which gave a slightly different slant on it!
For some reason that reminded me of a book entitled The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company (a study of Sunday public transport in Toronto in the late 19th C). As I remember it, the title was the best part of the book.
The gases produced by the consumption of Sprouts may well help spread whatever virus the roast dinners contain...
Whoever comes up with these risible headlines surely does not have English as their first language. I expect they're some sort of AI, anyway, rather than humans, and I doubt if I'm the only person who regards the term 'artificial intelligence' as an oxymoron.
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When I was growing up in Orkney in the 70s, "Oxy" referred to Occidental Oil, who operated the terminal at Flotta which made quite a large number of Orcadians considerably richer than the rest of us, as they were earning oil-rig salaries. I knew several people who gave up interesting, rewarding jobs like teaching to sit at the oil terminal watching dials and twiddling knobs, but for three times their previous salary.
I suspect an "oxymoron" might have described someone who had the chance to work for them, but didn't ...
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From (where else?) today's Daily Mail. Weird because it is such a perfect non sequitur, “Afghan held over murder of dog walker came to the UK in a lorry”.
Made all the more curious because my first reaction to the word "Afghan" was this. Of course it came in a lorry, along with a number of other dry goods.
From (where else?) today's Daily Mail. Weird because it is such a perfect non sequitur, “Afghan held over murder of dog walker came to the UK in a lorry”.
A non sequitur indeed, but, alas! grist to the mill for the far right.
From the "Ipswich Star": An immersive concert with thousands of candles is coming to the waterfront in Ipswich. Won't the water put out all the candles?
Well, two things spring to mind, to wit, are there any killings which are not fatal, and shouldn't they let the boy off, as it wasn't him wot dunnit?
I see what they mean (I think) but they haven't expressed it very well...
Blowed if I can see what that headline means. Is the boy now also dead, done in by the police? To me that is the most likely meaning of those words. Or has it turned out that the police killed his grandmother rather than that her grandson did?
The one thing I assume it does not mean was that either of them was somehow unfatally killed, or even killed without the killing resulting in death.
I took it to mean that a boy, who was wanted in connection with the death of his grandmother, somehow met his own death at the hands of the police (presumably by accident).
It's the concept of unfatal killing that I find hard to comprehend...
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Here's one that falls into the "strange but true" category: "You can fire pumpkins from a massive orange cannon at this Welsh attraction".
Need new computer screen glasses, that's for sure!
Whoever comes up with these risible headlines surely does not have English as their first language. I expect they're some sort of AI, anyway, rather than humans, and I doubt if I'm the only person who regards the term 'artificial intelligence' as an oxymoron.
When I was growing up in Orkney in the 70s, "Oxy" referred to Occidental Oil, who operated the terminal at Flotta which made quite a large number of Orcadians considerably richer than the rest of us, as they were earning oil-rig salaries. I knew several people who gave up interesting, rewarding jobs like teaching to sit at the oil terminal watching dials and twiddling knobs, but for three times their previous salary.
I suspect an "oxymoron" might have described someone who had the chance to work for them, but didn't ...
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A non sequitur indeed, but, alas! grist to the mill for the far right.
A sad case, anyhow.
The reason for the recall?
Source.
So the bars labeled "Peanut Butter Crush" and "Cashew Cow" failed to mention on the label that they contain peanuts and cashews?
'boy wanted for grandmother’s killing, fatally killed by police' .
Stuck for a way to comment on this.
I see what they mean (I think) but they haven't expressed it very well...
The one thing I assume it does not mean was that either of them was somehow unfatally killed, or even killed without the killing resulting in death.
It's the concept of unfatal killing that I find hard to comprehend...