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  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    :lol:
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Son of Norway’s crown princess arrested before his trial on rape and other charges

    To be honest, I thought that most people were arrested prior to their trials. Isn't that the standard procedure?
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Well, quite. Rather an odd way of putting it, but at least there isn't a redundant 'as'...
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    Well, quite. Rather an odd way of putting it, but at least there isn't a redundant 'as'...

    Never fear, BF - Edinburgh Live to the rescue:

    Car bursts into flames on Edinburgh city centre street as crews rush to scene

    No it doesn't ...
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited February 2
    [Phew! Normality returns].

    However: Knife found as huge search for attempted murder suspect continues. They got it right!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Even a broken clock is right twice a day ... :mrgreen:
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    True ...
  • Stercus TauriStercus Tauri Shipmate
    Perhaps not a weird headline, but in fact a quite reasonable one that catches the attention in the Glasgow Herald today: Sir Tom Hunter calls for Scots politicians to be barred from pubs. The idea seems to be that until they do something about punitive business rates on the hospitality industry, they should be denied hospitality as an encouragement to think about it.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Some Welsh pubs have banned some politicians, for the same reason.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    "Nation Cymru": Massive food festival to be held in Cardiff this summer. No good then for people with small appetites.
  • March HareMarch Hare Shipmate
    So long as they supply massive knives and forks to eat it with...
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    Indeed so.

    This is awful as a headline: BBC legend John Virgo dies aged 79 as tributes pour in for snooker icon. This suggests that John Virgo (the "BBC legend") died just as the tributes were "pouring in" for an unnamed "snooker icon". Which is not what "Wales Online" meant!
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Once again, a semi-colon would have made far more sense...
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    They're clearly in short supply. Another casualty of Brexit?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Probably. I'm sorry to hear about Mr Virgo though - he was a bit of a legend.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Makes you wonder what astrological sign he was. Or maybe doesn't.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    edited February 4
    Shellshocked: Hospital evacuated after doctors find unexploded WW1 bomb lodged in man's rectum

    Yes, really - courtesy of LBC.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Saw that! Some people have explosive runs, but this here really blows it to smithereens.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    I hope the poor chap's rectum was duly (and safely) evacuated, too...
    :flushed:
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    The mind boggles. Was it removed by a doctor or a bomb disposal expert?
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Under the circumstances, "unexploded" strikes me as a completely unnecessary adjective....
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    The Military Times has more. Apparently he's 'one of yours' for a change, LVeR, and not a Brit!
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Had he misunderstood storing weapons in an arsenal?
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Hedgehog wrote: »
    Under the circumstances, "unexploded" strikes me as a completely unnecessary adjective....
    Oh, the Daily Wail can easily top that:
    'Emergency surgery was carried out, and the object was found to be an artillery shell dating back to the First World War.

    ‘Worse still, it had not exploded, and so bomb disposal experts had to be called to diffuse the shell, with the fire brigade standing by.’

    'Worse still'!?!
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    Did he have a permit for concealed carry?
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    'Diffuse'? Defuse, surely...
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    'Diffuse'? Defuse, surely...

    True. It would only be diffuse if it HAD exploded.
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