Headlines of Utter Weirdness

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  • The BBC informs us today that We want to make it easier to have children - Farage. I have no wish whatsoever to know what it is he wants to tell us that we don't already know.
  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    I've heard/seen him say it.
    He seems to think giving child benefit for child 3 and above will do the trick, but I'm not sure how money makes the process any easier
    I would think that if children 1 and 2 have already been accomplished then the parents concerned have found it easy enough.

    As a child, and the elder of two, I resented the govt giving my mother money for my brother's keep but none for mine.
    Presumably the thinking was that families should be able to support one child, but as the country needed more babies after 1945 a little financial incentive was in order.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Any thoughts I might have relating to that creature's views on procreation* are only suitable for Hell, and probably not even there. :rage:

    * or anything else for that matter ...
  • Not a headline, but the start of a news item on you-know-where: "There are severe delays across the south Wales road network this morning as unprecedented levels of wind and rain are causing chaos on the roads". Unusually heavy? Perhaps. But unprecedented?
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Better than unpresidented?
  • That might represent wishful thinking by some folk in the USA!
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited June 3
    Local noos outlets just love the idea of apocalyptic weather, and the chaos (they know no other word) that results as traffic grinds (they know no other word) to a halt, causing heartbreak (they know no other word) to innocent motorists...
  • I'm sure that the words gridlock and carnage (neither of which are appropriate) should be in there somewhere ...
  • Local noos outlets just love the idea of apocalyptic weather, and the chaos (they know no other word) that results as traffic grinds (they know no other word) to a halt, causing heartbreak (they know no other word) to innocent motorists...

    Why do we only hear about the boring motorists who have been found to be innocent? The guilty ones would be much more newsworthy.
  • Oh, by the way, in news bulletins all rail passengers are commuters - even if they aren't.
  • I'm sure that the words gridlock and carnage (neither of which are appropriate) should be in there somewhere ...

    You're right. I had a feeling I'd missed out a couple of obligatory words...devastation and/or being devastated by whatever-it-is are also commonly found.
  • Indeed so.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited June 4
    I forgot to add fury, too...as in (usually) *Residents' Fury at something-or-other*.

    To be fair, they sometimes get it right. In our online news today:

    Boy, 4, dies in crash and (not as !) two men arrested.
  • They could have just put "... in crash; two men ..." which at least gives some life support to semi-colons.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    That could be totally unrelated to the tragic little boy story. 'In other news, 2 men were arrested etc.'
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Several outlets, including the BBC, currently have the rude headline:
    P***hub pulls out of France

    We could see that coming.
  • Here's your coat, and make sure you close the door, once you're on the other side of it.
    :wink:
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