Headline vs story

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:02 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1kwE6vLMo

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Shopper, 25, asked for ID to buy TEASPOONS – as shop worker says they could be used as drug paraphernalia

Quote:

A spokeswoman said: 'The self-scan system recognised the spoon's SKU as one for a knife. This had now been rectified.

Plus a handy DM guide to preparing heroin.

ezinra · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:06 pm

From the teaspoons story:

Quote:

THE COUNTRY HAS P.C. BONKERS

- frances, fenton staffs, 30/1/2012 15:50 Rating (0)

Sexually active police officers?

oboogie · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:08 pm

ezinra wrote:

From the teaspoons story:

Quote:

THE COUNTRY HAS P.C. BONKERS

- frances, fenton staffs, 30/1/2012 15:50 Rating (0)

Sexually active police officers?

Or police uniform fetishists who only shag police officers?

ezinra · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:29 pm

Or lusty desktop computers?

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:42 pm

Buddha almighty, those people REALLY do not read the whole story, do they?

As an aside, notwithstanding border-line fictitious ShiteRag stories, who the hell buys teaspoons anyway? All mine have either been part of a cutlery set or pilfered from various sources. The old airline ones (when they did use metal) are exceptionally good - as they doubled as a sort of demi-desert spoon they're bigger than normal and ideal for many tasks. Iberia's cutlery is (was) quite stylish but for sheer functionality I'd go with Virgin Atlantic myself.

ezinra · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:35 pm

Crowded House Britain: Third of us don't have enough space but can't afford to move

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Nearly a third of parents say they feel squeezed into their homes but cannot afford to move to a bigger property, a report reveals today.

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Everywhere you go you always bring the weather with you...

Arnold · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:11 pm

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How could they? Doctors found to be telling patients they have cancer over the phone

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z1l3opt5g0

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It follows a complaint to Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in Staffordshire, after a patient received such a call.

It happened once.

Fact Hunt · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:46 am

Plane crazy! The jaw-dropping moment jumbo jet and light aircraft appear to come too close for comfort

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1lGsAnXVr

Remember the Father Ted sketch?

"These cows are small, but the ones over there are far, far away"

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:50 am

No, that's a feckin' big Cessna!

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a zoom lens will compress the perspective, ie, it will make the planes appear much closer together than they actually are.

- captain birdseye,

No, captain, that's an extreme telephoto which does that, zoom lenses are of all focal lengths and don't. Typical uninformed tosser thinks he knows it all.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7321

Carlos The Badger wrote:

Buddha almighty, those people REALLY do not read the whole story, do they?

As an aside, notwithstanding border-line fictitious ShiteRag stories, who the hell buys teaspoons anyway? All mine have either been part of a cutlery set or pilfered from various sources. The old airline ones (when they did use metal) are exceptionally good - as they doubled as a sort of demi-desert spoon they're bigger than normal and ideal for many tasks. Iberia's cutlery is (was) quite stylish but for sheer functionality I'd go with Virgin Atlantic myself.

I thought it was just me, I have a whole set of KLM stuff (Classy) and a few American airlines bits (Which rather remind me of Late war German kit made from steel pressings).
Alas those days are no more..
Curse you Al Quaeda, Curse you Ryanair.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7321

ezinra wrote:

Crowded House Britain: Third of us don't have enough space but can't afford to move

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Nearly a third of parents say they feel squeezed into their homes but cannot afford to move to a bigger property, a report reveals today.

The implication being that those Unemployed guys are in the lap of luxury again on their £35,000 a week, free health club memberhoip and all the plasma they can drink.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7321

Fact Hunt wrote:

Plane crazy! The jaw-dropping moment jumbo jet and light aircraft appear to come too close for comfort

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1lGsAnXVr

Remember the Father Ted sketch?

"These cows are small, but the ones over there are far, far away"

I was just thinking "That's a massive Cessna, An airfix 747, or there might be some perspective involved".

Perspective: Never the mail's strong point.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:47 am

The window sizes alone should have made people realise, a Cessena doesn't have a window the size of a house and nor does a jumbo have a window te size of a postage stamp.

Arnold · **Posted:** Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:44 am

Tragedy of the 50 soldiers killed in Afghanistan who couldn't afford life insurance
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1lPO0fScB

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He suggested that young soldiers earning a basic private’s salary of just over £17,000 a year would be reluctant to spend the equivalent of 5 per cent of their annual income on an insurance policy.

Which makes it a choice. And a young soldier on £17,000 is unlikely to have any dependants.

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