Signs of the times

[sexobon]

December 1st last fell on a Sunday in 2013. They've had a few years to get it right.

[lumberjim]

It says bizarre. And it is.

[BigV]

scale broken, just buy the damn steak


or....


by the "8 oz portion", so a price of $4.50 per is really $9.00 / pound.

[Carruthers]

Local newspapers have always plodded along in the shadow of their national and regional counterparts.
Apart from the rare occasion when a story of national importance occurs on their patch it has always been a struggle to come up with a headline that will encourage potential readers to part with their money.
No doubt circulation increased by tens of thousands...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Absolutely, working 2nd shift(2:30 to 11) there were always plenty of newspapers left behind. I'd always look for the local paper (Delaware County Times) because they would tell me the important things. Stuff like a sausage dog runs amok, or Chester Twp cop doing a routine check at the Boots&Bonnets Bar, couldn't get out because there was a dead body against the outside of the door when he tried to leave.
The Philly Inquirer was just depressing stuff like hate and crooked politicians and war.

[tw]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

The Philly Inquirer was just depressing stuff like hate and crooked politicians and war.

If you emotions are relevant, then you are still a child. Adults need facts and do not let their emotions rule them.

We massacred 50,000 Americans in Vietnam for no purpose because so many adults were emotional - and then foolishly believed a president who was a crook. They even blamed the victims and all other students at Kent State for a massacre created by corrupt Ohio National Guard soldiers. A classic murder justified by emotional adults. An example of how hate rules so many adults who are still children.

Adults never let emotions (fear of or love of) rule. Children do. Adults learn irregardless of their emotions.

Local paper is useless if it does not report upcoming events. Until recently, most local papers never did. For example, a paper must list time and location for every 4th of July fireworks. None around here did. Local paper must report the results of the investigation of every car crash and murder. Still most don't. Those would be relevant facts. Most local papers only want to hype emotion of the crash or murder. And cannot be bothered a month later to report what really happened, why, and details of that trial or scientific study. Emotional adults (their target audience) don't care about facts.

[Gravdigr]

Dude. Don't you get tired of repeating the same thing ad infinitum?

I've asked before with no proper response, but...

TW, what do you do for a living? Srs qstn, no barb to follow, just genuinely curious.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by tw

Local paper must report the results of the investigation of every car crash and murder. Still most don't. Those would be relevant facts. Most local papers only want to hype emotion of the crash or murder. And cannot be bothered a month later to report what really happened, why, and details of that trial or scientific study.

This is actually a good point. But the truth is that a newspaper story must be a story to engage the reader.

18 year old boy took LSD, thought he was dying of internal hemorrhaging when he started throwing up red jello in the shower, so he ran out naked into a busy street and got arrested when he fought back as the cops tried to subdue him. It's anticlimactic to write a story four months later that the charges were dropped because he kept his nose clean and apologized to everyone and their mother.

[sexobon]

Y'all missed the most important part of tw's post.

Tw said:

Originally Posted by tw

... irregardless ...

You done good tw.

[glatt]

I love my little local paper. It has stuff that I actually care about. School sports. Local issues. Quirky stories.

My daughter sent a letter to the editor a couple weeks ago as a college assignment and it got published, giving her an automatic A on that project.
That makes me wonder how many letters are written by college kids doing homework. You can tell the nut balls easily enough, but if a letter makes sense and spotlights an issue, did a college kid write it for homework?

[Gravdigr]

Heeeeere's yer sign.[/BillEngvall]

[Carruthers]

OK, so it's juvenile humour. Just indulge me for a few minutes.



You want the rest of it? Yertiz...

A parish council has been left red-faced after its minibus spelled out a rude message when the vehicle's sliding door was left open.

An eagle-eyed shopper spotted the Churchill and Langford Minibus Society while on a pre-Christmas trip to Weston-super-Mare last weekend.

Unfortunately for the trip's organisers, when the sliding door opened it masked over several of the letters, contracting the original sign to the more risque Churchill Anus Society.

The image of the minibus was posted on Reddit before it was picked up by local newspapers.

The Somersetlive website reported that one local resident was visiting Asda for some last minute Christmas shopping when they spotted the minibus with the offending slogan.

They said: 'I just had to take this picture while Christmas shopping at Asda. Wonder how many more amusing words out there when opening sliding doors.'

Laura Batt, who books the minibus said: 'We have been made aware of this situation and this will be addressed in the New Year as we have had a shortage of funds and not been in a position to have the signage amended before.

'Obviously no offence was intended to the general public. The wording will be corrected as soon as possible. We have been running our Minibus Society for over 42 years and have not had any issues previously.'

The minibus society purchased a new 12-seater vehicle in 2016 following a grant from the Department of Transport.

The society, which is based outside Bristol, uses the minibus to provide transport for people in rural areas. Their new vehicle - with the unfortunate sign, is equipped to deal with disabled passengers.

LINK

[sexobon]

The could use one of these - &

[DanaC]

Bring on the ampersand

[xoxoxoBruce]

I like juvenile humor...