I heard the news today, oh boy..

[DaveR]

*pedantry warning*

Isn't "a" an indefinite article?

[Brendan]

It is not an article at all. It?s a letter.

[Brendan]

See what I did there?

No?

Oh well.

[david_carnell]

I bow to your pedantry, sir. It's the only we we will evolve.

Indeed it is 'indefinite'.

Maybe I did derserve that D grade for English Language A Level after all!

[mockney piers]

"Why would you change a sentnece aso that it meant something i didn't mean?"

Was this meant ironically or is it, somewhat ironically, sh!t Graudian subbing?

[david_carnell]

I think that's just Giles typing after a few too many glasses of Sauvignon-Blanc!

[mightyroar]

I think my favourite part is:

I only wrote that sodding paragraph to make that joke. And you've fucking stripped it out like a pissed Irish plasterer restoring a renaissance fresco and thinking jesus looks shit with a bear so plastering over it.

[citizenED]

surely, this being the EDF an all, a definate article.

[mightyroar]

very good point citizen

[shoshntosh]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/world/middleeast/26censor.html?em&ex=1217304000&en=8c688bd0553f84fc&ei=5070

[Brendan]

This is quite chilling (and sadly all too common in sub-Saharan Africa). It has to be commended as brave journalism. It?s not everyday that you read an article on the BBC that ends in the words, ?Even if I die today, those involved will have been exposed.?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7523796.stm

[SeanMacGabhann]

looks bad...

Weston grand pier burnt to ground

[Brendan]

Can you burn a pier to the ground? Surely it?s to the water.

[Ant]

Perhaps the fire was fierce mere water was no match. Its legs (struts?) may have carried on burning all the way to the seabed.

[Huguenot]

Intelligent Design?

[lozzyloz]

or punctured dreams

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Call me callous, buy why is the death in Antigua still front page news after three days?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Callous

Because not enough people in UK are stabbing each other (last night near Euston excepted)

Yours

Cynical

[mockney piers]

It does rather suggest that most doom and gloom, the world's going to pot feelings are basically created and maintained by the press.

"ooh, if it (shot in the head, cute kid kidnapped (or whatever happened)) can happen in paradise....I could be next...nowhere is safe, so many murders in london...*"

And the press just have to keep rubbing the bruise. But then we obviously love to feel outraged and afraid or we wouldn't keep buying the damn papers and gasping "isn't it terrible"

Not to say it wasn't a terrible and senseless event, but you know, I didn't know them it doesn't affect me"

As it happens first stop on honeymoon is Antigua, but not that one.

*

[Brendan]

Although from reading the press it seems that the island?s murder rate has more than doubled over the last 5 years. Which I?m sure is of no small concern for the people who live there.

Knowing precisely nothing about political or social affairs on Antigua I can?t comment any further.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Great satire in today's (what else) Daily Mash

Females - crazy or what???

Oh no wait - that ISN'T the Daily Mash...

[Brendan]

I like the way they try to somehow link knife murders between teenage gangs in inner London and Friday night binge drinking on by 20 and 30 somethings on the high streets of provincial towns.

[jumpinjackflash]

I wonder if this will soon be available at Glamorous Nails on Grove Vale?!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7532248.stm

[SeanMacGabhann]

Conspiracy theories ahoy

Top 10

The usual supsects and depressing numbers of "believers" - but have to confess I hadn't hear the one about Wingdings before. I think it's my favourite!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I so want to believe in the shape-shifting dinosaurs.