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Bertrand Hustle posted:I recall there was some lovely Christian internet newspaper that grabbed that article, but since it was a conservative Christian website, it had an automatic word filter that changed every instance of the word "gay" to "homosexual". Because...? I believe it was because they thought "homosexual" sounded more pejorative.
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I remember reading a Darwin Awards book with something like this in it.
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Say Nothing posted:I'm sure there are some great pasta-based puns, but I can't think of any. The official statement from the mayor's office was "I hate Mondays".
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Carnival of Shrews posted:But occasionally, it blindsides its tedium-loving readership with revelations like this: No doubt a form of protest against either the British government or the European Union. Either seems equally likely. In other news (hey!) here's what the Scottish papers are saying today: 
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Feb 18, 2015 15:39
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Karma Monkey posted:Great Boo's up, Edmund! Boo? That's a bit rude, isn't it? Sounds exactly like... bum!
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Feb 19, 2015 00:32
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syscall girl posted:Boo is a racist word. According to my ex who lived in Arizona as a kid, and she couldn't tell this story without laughing about it, someone at the neighborhood pool saw a black kid getting in and screamed "there's a boo in the pool!" in abject terror. Well, well! Somethingawful.com, where you learn something new every day.
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Feb 19, 2015 13:53
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RatHat posted:The Daily Mail is less than reputable. Mail Online is apparently the most popular new website in America. I can't believe it either. I imagine it's because of all the celebrity photos they get.
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darkwasthenight posted:Mail Online know exactly what their market is and hit it square on the head every time. 40% clickbait outrage for the mums and grannies, 10% 'UK on its last legs' for all the expats congratulating themselves on getting out in time and 50% naked celebrities for everyone else to leer at/publicly shame. It is ultimately a populist paper geared toward the English middle class; there's a right-wing tinge at least on most of its reporting but it will diverge from its usual line if it thinks its core audience would approve. For instance, when tuition fees were unpopular with the English middle class, they were willing to criticise the government over them (I was in my first year of university at the time, and even five years later I can still remember the Mail's first headline on the protests in London, which declared "A VERY MIDDLE CLASS PROTEST" and stood out alongside the rather less than charitable stance taken by the Express, though when allegations emerged that a protestor may have defaced the Cenotaph they changed their tune a bit). A little bit before that, they criticised bankers and called for increased bank regulation, neither of which are especially Thatcherite policies, but were nonetheless popular with their target audience. I think they've shifted further to the right since "Red Ed" (seriously, you'd think he was Literally Lenin rather than a vaguely left-of-centre social democrat, wouldn't you?) became Labour leader, but my impression is that most of their really big embarrassments these days seem to crop up whenever the editor (Dacre) digs his heels in over an issue that he's turned into a kind of personal crusade, an obvious example being "Ralph Miliband Hated Britain" from last year (which I'm given to understand a lot of rank-and-file Mail journalists didn't like, but couldn't really do anything about because it was essentially Dacre's pet project). Whatever. I only read the Times and the Belfast Telegraph myself. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 12:23 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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"It's obviously because of intrusive and bureaucratic EU regulations," said the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, "Forcing a whole town of hard-working British people to share one butthole between them, while illegal immigrants are virtually showered with buttholes as soon as they enter the country."
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Fair enough. I lost interest in politics last year when NI21 imploded so I haven't been keeping track.
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Splitters!
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Which ones were the tankies?
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So now he has at least two more plumbers against him as well as Joe?
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Snapchat A Titty posted:King Koopa probably would endorse Bowser, though. "King Koopa". There's a name that makes you think, "Didn't he play trumpet with Lionel Hampton back in the thirties?"
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Karma Monkey posted:The dog's in the passenger seat. Looks like the guilty party ditched and left the dog to take the blame. It was probably a cat. A cat conspiracy whose mastermind sits in the highest echelons of government.
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This bit is my personal favourite:quote:On 14 November 2011, Larry's position came under pressure, as it emerged that he was spending more time sleeping, and spending time in the company of a female cat, Maisie, than actually hunting for mice. The cat's position was said to be "unassailable", even though it emerged that the Prime Minister had resorted to throwing a piece of cutlery at a mouse during a cabinet dinner, in an ineffectual attempt to kill it. Because it demonstrates that he's actually one of the more effective ministers in the cabinet.  I sort of want Larry to have his own seat at the cabinet table now, maybe with a little cat-sized red briefcase he can carry in his mouth. 
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Apr 22, 2015 23:20
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"Jez" or "Jezza" is often a shortened form of "Jeremy" (e.g. Jeremy Clarkson is colloquially known as "Jezza"), sort of like "Gaz", "Gazza" or sometimes "Gal" for "Gary".
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Apr 23, 2015 20:54
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Static! posted:Probably a repost but a favourite from my home country: Our Wee Country.  (I wish we had a specific Norn Iron crying flag emoticon; we could have a guy in a balaclava and it'd cover both comunities.)
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Today is Ed Balls Day, and The Mirror is running live updates.
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Karma Monkey posted:Had a guy come in the other day with the name Butlove, but he pronounced it Byewt-love. He's an NCO now, but can you imagine being in basic training as Private Butlove? Poor guy. I'm reminded of the episode of HIGNFY from a few years ago where they all had a chuckle about a White House employee whose name was "Randy Bumgardner", then pointed out that his mother's maiden name was "Mincey", so he'd narrowly avoided being "Randy Mincey-Bumgardner".
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Slime posted:I know a kid named Charlie Brown, the poor bastard. Good grief.
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Here's a bunch of Sun front pages that aren't "Gotcha!" I sort of appreciate the sentiment, but the manner of articulation leaves something to be desried:  The Americans got Bin Laden:  Left: morning edition. Right: late edition:  Left (  ): Scottish Sun. Right (): London Sun.
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Amphigory posted:Say what you want about old Rupert, but he always backs a winner... Nobody will get a majority. The arithmetic just isn't there. Based on my awareness of the figures, it's very likely that Labour could have gotten a majority, but the SNP surge has undercut that quite drastically. Nonetheless, they still have a good chance of being the biggest party next Friday, but they're looking at a minority government with support from Plaid (if they get anyone in) and possibly the DUP. Of course, neither of them have much presence here, so I'll probably end up voting for Lady Hermon again. I don't tend to decide until the last minute, though.
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I'm afraid I'm not very familiar with the Danish system. I assume it uses multiple-member constituencies and a proportional electoral formula? In that case, the key difference is that Britain relies on single-member constituencies with a plurality electoral formula. This gives rise, at least in theory, to what is known as Duverger's law; when the Single Member Plurality system is used, it will tend to produce a two-party system with a tendency toward majority governments in the parliament. Obviously, this is not always the case in practice.
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Meanwhile, in 10 Downing Street: "All the pieces are falling into place."
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quote:I'm willing to wear a wire and set Jesus up... If they ever decide to remake the Gospel of Luke set in the present day, this guy can play Judas Iscariot.
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:poo poo, I misread the headline as "Serial Buggerer" because of his name. Only if it was an Ugandan news story.
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RandomFerret posted:Are we totally sure the Daily Mail isn't an onion-style parody that's just playing the long con? Paul Dacre has to make sure nobody else can snag the "Only British Newspaper Editor Worse Than Piers Morgan" award.
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May 28, 2015 17:39
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I'm afraid I haven't a clue who edits the porn baron's wank rag. However, speaking of the Express, I wonder how often they'll invoke Diana during the referendum? "DID UNELECTED EUROCRATS MURDER THE PEOPLES' PRINCESS?", that sort of thing. Granted, that's more the Mail's style for headlines (i.e. rhetorical questions that can usually be answered confidently with a "no"). I do quite enjoy that the Express has now come out in favour of electoral reform when they were against it, shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the right-wing newspapers, during the AV referendum, because they've only just realised that FPTP hurts UKIP, though it isn't quite as viscerally amusing as all the self-proclaimed liberals who have (quite coincidentally, I'm sure) renounced the cause of electoral reform because they've only just realised that FPTP keeps UKIP out. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 18:14 on May 28, 2015 |
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Snapchat A Titty posted:From the Norwegian newspaper Nordske Intelligenz-Sedler: Ripley's Believe It Or Not: The Early Years
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From the Calgary Herald, Wednesday 14 December 1960:
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swampland posted:
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 (Side note: I am disappointed that there seems to be no existing proof that the Times ever ran the headline "Foot Heads Arms Body" when Michael Foot was put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee.)
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What are today's headlines? The Beeb's commentary on this one is great: quote:The Daily Star continues its fascination with European sightings of the Pacu - the "testicle-biting" fish usually found in the Amazon. In a frankly unconnected front page picture, they show David and Brooklyn Beckham out fishing off the Dorset coast. It should be noted that biologists will tell you that Pacu have a vegetarian diet. In fact, there are two great front pages today: 
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Istari posted:I love the way "misjudged own girth" is in inverted commas in the title as if it's a quote from the hedgehog. It's clearly a dastardly trap laid by the nefarious Dr Robotnik.
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So, is that a MASSIVE spider, or is it the camera (or whatever) messing with perspective?
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Davfff posted:So, is that a MASSIVE seagull, or is it the camera (or whatever) messing with perspective? I don't know how they shoot the morning news.  Haha, no seriously, it was silly for me to ask without thinking. 
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Screaming Idiot posted:They use the same term for children afflicted with major birth defects and malignant tumors that scare people into going to church. As seen on various gospel LP sleeves from the 1960s.
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