Showing posts with label headline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label headline. Show all posts

Thursday, January 31, 2008

The Sun's "Headline of the Day"

"Watch Out Beadles Not about!"



The Sun, if it was possible to lower their reputation as the 'Kings of Bad taste' (or is that higher their reputation..?).
Went with the most insincere sounding and tactless headline of the day (although i'm sure everyone one of us had thought of such irony but decided not to actually say it in decent company!).

Would you expect anything more from the most villified (by Liverpool supporters atleast) and infamous redtop in the UK?

For the link to the full article click here

Friday, January 11, 2008

Disturbing News Story of the Day: Separated at birth twins 'married'


Taken from the BBC website:

A pair of twins who were separated at birth got married without knowing they were brother and sister, a crossbench peer has told the House of Lords.

A court annulled the UK couple's union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord Alton said.

The peer - who was told of the case by a High Court judge involved - said the twins felt an "inevitable attraction".

He said that they were adopted by separate families, and neither was told that they had a twin sibling.

Details of their identities have been kept secret, but Lord Alton said the pair did not realise they were related until after their marriage.

The former Liberal Democrat MP raised the couple's case during a House of Lords debate on the Human Fertility and Embryology Bill in December.

"They were never told that they were twins," he told the Lords.

"They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation."

He told the BBC News website that their story raises the wider issue of the importance of strengthening the rights of children to know the identities of their biological parents .

"If you start trying to conceal someone's identity, sooner or later the truth will out," he said.

"And if you don't know you are biologically related to someone, you may become attracted to them and tragedies like this may occur."

Lets Just Pray to god the marriage wasn't consummated!

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Headline of the Day: The D4 Saps


'Sap causes D4 residents to Sue'

This was in Mondays Irish Times.

Residents in some of Dublin's leafy suburbs are taking legal action against Dublin City Council over damage caused to their cars and properties by sap exuded by council-owned trees.

Apparently the trees are stripping paint on some of the cars and houses in the area.

This has got to be a wind up. Put things into perspective people!

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Gay men 'navigate like women'



Taken from Fridays Irish Times:

"Gay men are as bad as women at navigating, research has shown. Both share the same poor sense of direction and rely on local landmarks to get around, a study suggests. They are also slower to take in spatial information than heterosexual men"

This was found as a result of some research by Psychologists at Queen Mary University London. The real question here is how on earth such a study got commissioned!