Headline vs story

Patrick100 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:38 pm **Posts:** 600

Abernathy wrote:

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She said: ‘I still think of Martin McGuinness as a terrorist and that will never change. A leopard can’t change its spots.’

Despite the vast acreage of evidence that changing his spots is precisely what McGuinness has done. Even Normo Tebbs says so. Sort of depressing, that outlook, if maybe (only slightly) understandable.

Yes, as someone else once tellingly said, if people like Adams and McGuinness hadn't been as embedded in the "armed struggle" as they had been, they never would have been able to carry the majority of the "rank and file" once a different strategy had been decided. Bit surprised that the BBC news led describing McGuinness as a (former?) IRA chief of Staff. Most people believe that was the case but I think he's always publicly denied it . There were even suggestions a while back he was actually a double agent for the British.

But if Jeffrey Donaldson can't get furious about it when interviewed the other day , it shows how times have changed. Still uncomfortable maybe but a million times better compared with the past.

Patrick100 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:38 pm **Posts:** 600

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Train passenger needed FOURTEEN tickets to complete simple round trip from Leeds to Leicester

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The pile included two tickets for herself, four seat reservations, four tickets for her bike as well as four further bike reservations.

This stack of tickets was needed to cover Rachel changing trains at Sheffield and for her return journey home.

Ms Woodward has said the amount of tickets was 'confusing' as she did not know which one to show at the barrier or show the guard on board the train.

So just two tickets really ( presumably an OUT and RETURN ) which she couldn't somehow work out to separate. The rest actually receipts of some kind for prepaid reservations. :roll:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ester.html

Patrick100 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:38 pm **Posts:** 600

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Act of compassion ruined my career: Teacher used 'a mother's instinct' when she gave distressed pupil her number. She paid with her job

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At a disciplinary hearing Mrs Wolfson, who had been on a fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave, was handed a written warning.

Her contract expired the following day and was not renewed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -home.html

Arnold · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:11 pm

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Women cat owners are 'more likely to kill themselves' due to higher chance of infection with parasite found in feline faeces

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z1zYZkdAxS

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Humans can become infected by changing their infected cats’ litter boxes, eating unwashed vegetables, drinking water from a contaminated source or, more commonly, by eating undercooked or raw meat that is infested with cysts.

shyamz · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:11 pm

I hope Sara Millican is proud of her cat lady jokes now.

hel · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:16 am

Ah, it's time for the cat parasite story's annual outing!

Arnold · **Posted:** Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:56 pm

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Miracle teenager who almost died when his head was SEVERED from his neck in racing crash passes driving test just five years on

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The horrific crash wrenched his skull from the top of his spine

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z203x0RG2K

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:58 am

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Strictly DON'T COME Dancing: Party animal claims his favourite city centre bar has banned him... because of his unique moves!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2077pxKdJ

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'They said they'd had lots of complaints about my dancing because of knocking over people's drinks and stuff.
'I have done that in the past and trodden on people's toes but I always apologise and buy people their drinks back.'

lectrospin · **Joined:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:19 pm **Posts:** 280

Arnold wrote:

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Women cat owners are 'more likely to kill themselves' due to higher chance of infection with parasite found in feline faeces

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z1zYZkdAxS

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Humans can become infected by changing their infected cats’ litter boxes, eating unwashed vegetables, drinking water from a contaminated source or, more commonly, by eating undercooked or raw meat that is infested with cysts.

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Third of world's population is infected with parasite

Didn't even get past the sub-heading before the headline unravels.

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45,000 Danish women who gave birth between 1992 and 1995.

Well done on studying such a variety of women.

Arnold · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 12:10 pm

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Man charged with 'planning to car bomb London's Olympic Park during Games'

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He has been charged with leading another person into believing that he had explosives, namely Semtex, in Blackpool with intent to cause an explosion.
He is alleged to have told someone that he had a bomb in his car and was preparing to drive to the Olympics in London and set it off.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z20JMNgUkU

shyamz · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:27 pm

Charged with talking bullshit? I wasn't aware that telling porkies a crime (outside of court I mean).

Patrick100 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:38 pm **Posts:** 600

handy things, those quote marks. you can make anything mean anything..

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Tis the season? Clam 'licking' salt off a dinner table with enormous 'tongue' becomes internet sensation

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The MailOnline spoke to Miriam Goldstein, a graduate student of oceanography at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, to find out what on earth this clam is up to.
'The clam is not eating salt,' she said. 'That appendage isn't the clam's tongue, it's the clam's foot.'

Ms Goldstein said that most clams use their 'feet' to move and to dig, as most live buried under sand or mud.

'This clam on the table is probably trying to find a place to dig itself in,' she said to the MailOnline.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ation.html

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:38 pm

Miriam's been busy...

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"That’s the clam’s foot, that is not its tongue," Miriam Goldstein, graduate student researcher in biological oceanography at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography told The Huffington Post. "Clams don’t have tongues in fact, so what that clam is doing is it’s trying to find a place to burrow... clams live in mud and sand and they use their foot to help them dig. Clams don’t have tongues in fact, so what that clam is doing is it’s trying to find a place to burrow... clams live in mud and sand and they use their foot to help them dig.""

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/1 ... 63631.html

Patrick100 · **Joined:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:38 pm **Posts:** 600

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Makes a change from tennis whites! Maria Sharapova reveals killer legs in sheer chiffon dress at ESPY awards

Reveals? Er.. not quite. Her legs are actually covered up more than they would be on the court.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... wards.html

shyamz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 5:16 am

Patrick100 wrote:

handy things, those quote marks. you can make anything mean anything..

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Tis the season? Clam 'licking' salt off a dinner table with enormous 'tongue' becomes internet sensation

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The MailOnline spoke to Miriam Goldstein, a graduate student of oceanography at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, to find out what on earth this clam is up to.
'The clam is not eating salt,' she said. 'That appendage isn't the clam's tongue, it's the clam's foot.'

Ms Goldstein said that most clams use their 'feet' to move and to dig, as most live buried under sand or mud.

'This clam on the table is probably trying to find a place to dig itself in,' she said to the MailOnline.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ation.html

Obviously were hoping people would only get as far as clam licking when reading the first line summaries on the article list, and head straight for the left mouse button.

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