Jamie_B Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 "Journalist tricked into using bad grammar by legalese" should be their next headline. I would assume that most journalists have a good English degree; it's incredible that they could be so poor at reading and writing as to read that "XYZ may be inferred" and translate that into their report as "this inferred that XYZ". Now if they'd written, "the inference was that XYZ", that would have made sense. It's one common misuse that really gets on my balls. A professional reporter shouldn't be doing it. I think it speaks more to the removal of sub editors and a checking process on most papers. Knowing the Tele, and the reporter, that story will most likely have been filed up against a deadline down the phone to a copy taker who then types it out and puts it through to the paper. In the past it would be read at the Newsdesk, perhaps modified, then put on a page by a sub who would have edited it further. Now it just gets slapped in with barely a check. Dangerous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 A good non-story from the Tele.https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/fire-service-called-free-woman-city-lift/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black and White Tragic Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 It was a throw up between here and beastwatch... https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/161286/mum-target-flasher-outside-dunfermline-restaurant/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 So do you want the good news first, or the bad news? http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/mother-wakes-up-6-days-after-csection-to-find-both-her-legs-were-amputated-34758386.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 From local Polis page on Facebook. Sounds a bit Dundee-ish to me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 This roo obviosuly didn't like fake tits. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-31/kangaroo-ruptures-womans-breast-implants-clare-valley-attack/7461862 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 This roo obviosuly didn't like fake tits. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-31/kangaroo-ruptures-womans-breast-implants-clare-valley-attack/7461862 Sturdy Sheila's you've got over there, here there'd be a facebook petition to have all kangaroos put down. "I'm scared and I'm not ready for the pain on top of the cracked ribs, because they're actually right behind that area, but at the end of the day you've just got to keep going." Ms Heinrich urged anyone wanting to do the Riesling Trail not to be put off by the attack. "Please don't let anybody be scared of that Riesling Trail, because it was a beautiful, beautiful ride before 'Skip' played," she said. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Wait "a beautiful, beautiful ride"? What exactly were her and this kangaroo up to? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Maybe a pished pash? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Hopping to it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Just read in the P&J that my dentist and his wife fell down a cliff in an 'unexplained incident' on Friday. She's dead and he has serious but not life threatening injuries. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Thanks for filling us in on this story, I'm not going to even try to cap that pun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 I dont think you caries anymore. Aye, you've got to the root of the matter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Look at those legs! This game could suit you to a tee: Footgolf craze arrives in Dumfries and Galloway 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Flying microwave in Dundee https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/microwave-plunges-third-floor-flat-hits-car/ "Dawn Glen, 40, who lives in a block of flats directly across the road from where the microwave fell, said: “It’s not very surprising to be honest. “I have a photograph from two Christmases ago when a toilet was thrown out of a window in the same block." I've been to Dundee. Could have been me it landed on. Be a wear x 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeboy Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 How could he 'unwillingly' spend £20? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Woman spends £20 but wants it back. https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/184358/dundee-girls-emotive-missing-20-plea/ Found it! How do I claim my reward? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 "A reward will be in place for the person who finds it" Probably £20 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeboy Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 That £20 is not dated, Richeyloo. 3/10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Surely if you have a banknote that's of sentimental value you don't actually carry it with you in amongst your normal money? I mean...that's just sensible, isn't it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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