"****, the alarm! Drop everything! No, wait, I'm feeling a bit peckish, so...."
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The Daily Mail have nicked a joke story from a satirical Fiorentina fan site (about an Italian dad bringing in a priest to exorcise his house and convert his son to supporting Juventus when he found out he was a Fiorentina fan) as a serious news story.
And it's not a case of them simply being duped into thinking a joke story was real; they've changed the kid from a Fiorentina fan to a Milan fan in their version (they probably thought none of their readers will have heard of Fiorentina) so even if they did think it was real, they'd have completely twisted it anyway!
Yet the papers will complain when people say they can't be trusted.Comment
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Also exactaweather that the daily express uses is so full of ****e.
Pretty easy going winter so far....
Sorry a bit off topic, but basically the express slapping weather on the front of the paper every other day is annoying me. It's non-news. Yes the weather changes because we are on an island where 5 weather systems all meet up. We should be prepared for changing weather by now....Comment
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Ah but it is all 'evidence' of climate change and thus another thing those we put into authority over us can use as an excuse to green tax us to the hilt. IMHO it's like spitting into the face of a hurricane but if you can con the public into thinking there is something that can be done to delay or assuage the natural cycles of the climate changes the earth has always experienced there's money to be made from it.
Scare them with stories about storm, droughts and other natural disasters to get the sheep to give you their hard earned cash and they're yours for life. It is a technique that is as old as religion. So keeping the subject in the front line of the news, however historically unremarkable the weather actually is this winter, is an essential part of this money making process.Comment
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Canada recently destroyed hundreds of years of weather records. The government has gone proper anti-science so to justify the Alberta oil (tar) sands projects and the Keystone pipeline (which Obama is apparently going to sit on until the end of his term).
But I guess that is actually real news.Comment
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That's all very well and good, but is it as important as a search for a kettle? I think not!
Hunt for second kettle proves unsuccessful for West Hoathly Parish Council
FANCY a cuppa?
Users of a village hall may have to wait for theirs after a council was unable to find a new kettle.
West Hoathly Parish Council had been trying to locate a smaller, lighter model after hirers of the North Lane hall complained the existing one was too heavy.
But it was left to parish councillor Paul Hartley to break the bad news and pour scorn over hopes of a new one.
Mr Hartley told the council's village hall committee on Monday that he was unable to find a second one.
Lets hope users of the hall don't become hard-boiled over the fruitless search.
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It's like the plot of a hard hitting crime drama:
Police launch appeal over mystery tea pot found near Cambridge
The owner of a “distinctive” tea pot has been urged to contact Cambridgeshire police.
PCSO Leanne Fisher, of the Sawston neighbourhood policing team, has launched the appeal after the pot was found in the street.
She said: “A distinctive tall tea pot, white with blue patterns, was found in the Church Road area of Teversham on Sunday, January 19. If anybody has any information or knows who this may belong to, please let me know.
“I have checked our records and we have no details of a tea pot being stolen or lost.”Comment
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I'd love a police drama where the main guy is really good but is always given lame cases like missing teapots instead of the good stuff. A bit like I-Spy but the main guy is genuinely goodComment
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All sounds a bit like Heartbeat - that cop show based on the 60's that was on TV ten years back.Comment
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Heartbeat was so utterly bad.Comment
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Of course, don't want anyone to read in to me being a fan.
Think it was all a subplot to earn the music companies royalties for all the old songs they played.Comment
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During the course of investigating his lame case there will be a surprising connection to the big case he's been kept away from, and he'll come up with the evidence to solve that case too, because he's just that damn good.Originally posted by billy_dimashq View Post
It's still his incompetent bosses and colleagues who manage to take the credit though, and each episode would end with him being assigned yet another crappy case with him turning to the camera and giving an exasperated "Pft, bloody typical," shrug to the audience.Comment
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Oliver Cromwell despised Christmas because of the rituals of the Catholic Church, its Pagan roots and the ensuing gluttony that followed.
So much so, in fact, that in 1657 he decided to ban all festivities, which resulted in riots breaking out in Kent and Canterbury, which resulted in Cromwell having to send troops to break up the civil disturbances and people trying to celebrate Christmas. They were called the Plum Pudding Riots.
It's popular urban myth that Cromwell's law was never repealed, thus making it illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day.
It was this backstory that lead me to write the script for Mince Pie Cop, a high-octane story of one man's search for justice on Christmas Day.
Basically, he was on a one-man mission to take down anybody eating mince pies and thus breaking the law, but as the day wore on, his means of justice got more violent and the authorities had to bring him and his warped sense of justice to an end.
The script bounced around most the major Hollywood studios, but at the time there were a raft of school shootings so inevitably it ended up shelved for being too violent.Comment
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I'd happily invest my life savings in your idea if the script includes the line "I'm gonna make mincemeat out of you"Comment
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I'd take you up on the offer but I've know you've frittered away your life savings on Love Hotels and udon noodles!Comment
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