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Today’s Banality News Award goes to the Herald:
“Another added: “Dude, they freaking killed Marge Simpson.”
A national newspaper reduced to filling space with random quotes from strangers on the internet.
Is that what we’ve sunk to?
gzt: There is more to the article than that.
Barely.
It’s the pointlessness of including random comments that aren’t even attributed. Random comments on social media aren’t news.
NZH is truly pathetic with its fixation on overblown weather stories. A current story says "Auckland braces for severe thunderstorms ..." and that "Thunderstorms are barrelling towards Auckland ...".
I know blitzortung doesn't show the full picture (shows only cloud-to-ground strikes and not cloud-to-cloud) but right now it is showing precisely zero lightning strikes anywhere over NZ, let alone severe ones barrelling towards Auckland. About a week ago they had an almost identical headline - which came to exactly nothing with no lightning strikes.
Nonetheless, being a cautious type, here I am jammed in a doorway, bracing myself - just in case they're right for once.
Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.
eracode:
NZH is truly pathetic with its fixation on overblown weather stories. A current story says "Auckland braces for severe thunderstorms ..." and that "Thunderstorms are barrelling towards Auckland ...".
I subscribe to MetService's alerts by both email and via iPhone App. I presume the media base their reporting on these.
Having just had an alerted "thunderstorm" pass over head that dumped 30mm of rain in about ten minutes, the headline is probably fair.
I suspect these days, the term "thunderstorm" has become a generic description for torrential downpours and cloud bursts, even if they are not accompanied by lightning and thunder.
The Herald is always good for an amusing headline -
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
rb99
I guess Stuff reporters/editors skipped geography at school.
Did Eric Clapton really think she looked wonderful...or was it after the 15th outfit she tried on and he just wanted to get to the party and get a drink?
NZ Herald: Lotto Powerball: The ‘matrix’ change that will make winning millions of times tougher
"The current odds of winning Lotto Powerball are 1 in 38m. Should Lotto add one extra Powerball number, the odds would decrease to 1 in 42.2m."
So, a little over 11% tougher.
SirHumphreyAppleby:
NZ Herald: Lotto Powerball: The ‘matrix’ change that will make winning millions of times tougher
As a user on Reddit pointed out, the title has now been updated to "Lotto Powerball: The ‘matrix’ change that will make winning that much tougher", with the following statement added at the bottom...
*This article corrects an earlier version which said the proposed changes would make the chances of winning Lotto millions of times tougher. It would in fact change the odds from 1 in 38m to 1 in 42.2m.
I hope I've identified your avatar correctly, because it seems that the Herald did, in fact, get caught.
Behodar:
I hope I've identified your avatar correctly, because it seems that the Herald did, in fact, get caught.
You are correct. Egg on their face, indeed.
Just received a text from Gull re petrol discount:
“Fuel savings for all Kiwis! Save 12 cents per litre at Gull from 7am tomorrow to 7am Friday (30 Jun-1 Jul)”.
So when does it finish, Gull? Tuesday 1 July or Friday 4 July?
Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.
Today's Herald website
Alex Powell: What we about learned Liam Lawson at the Austrian Grand Prix
A great deal reported in the Herald today.
“New World has the pricey butter listed on their website for $16.49, with a club card deal dropping it to $16.49.”
I know that sometimes Kiwi English has different meanings from the actual meaning, but I must say that I did think dripping in this context still meant lowering! Apparently not.
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