Sky News were running a 'Breaking News' banner saying something along the lines of 'Amanda Knox appeal: Denied' BEFORE the verdict was even announced.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 544
Quote: sootyj @ October 4 2011, 2:54 PM BSTToo be honest papers do that sort of rubbish all the time.
I mean obits are written years ahead of time, it's an industry like anyother.
They were discussing this on a program in Australia last night. One of the panelists years ago worked at a newspaper. At the time there was two Australian men who due to be executed somewhere in Asia on Drug smuggling charges. They were to have an appeal and the journalist said that the outline of two reports had been prepared. One saying they had lost the other saying they'd won.
Well they lost their appeal but somehow the wrong story got sent to the office. Someone who worked in the office then rang the Mother of one of the men and said they'd won the appeal and weren't going to be executed.
I can't begin to imagine how that poor woman must have felt when she found out the truth.
Quote: reds @ October 5 2011, 2:35 AM BSTThey were discussing this on a program in Australia last night. One of the panelists years ago worked at a newspaper. At the time there was two Australian men who due to be executed somewhere in Asia on Drug smuggling charges. They were to have an appeal and the journalist said that the outline of two reports had been prepared. One saying they had lost the other saying they'd won.
Well they lost their appeal but somehow the wrong story got sent to the office. Someone who worked in the office then rang the Mother of one of the men and said they'd won the appeal and weren't going to be executed.
I can't begin to imagine how that poor woman must have felt when she found out the truth.
That is so horrible
Nice.
Should have got more than 2 years for that I reckon. What a scary and weird over reaction.
Quote: zooo @ October 5 2011, 11:29 AM BSThttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045190/Rugby-league-player-Greg-Johnson-arrested-glassing-bride-be.html
Nice.
Should have got more than 2 years for that I reckon. What a scary and weird over reaction.
What a f**king freak. Two years for randomly groping breasts, minimum ten years for glassing someone in the face I would have thought
Quote: zooo @ October 5 2011, 11:29 AM BSTShould have got more than 2 years for that I reckon.
I'm shocked that he didn't. I'm almost as shocked that your country has a word for such behavior.
Quote: DaButt @ October 5 2011, 1:23 PM BSTI'm shocked that he didn't. I'm almost as shocked that your country has a word for such behavior.
How else would you term hitting someone with a glass?
I'm sure that in the course of history someone in the States has poked someone's eye out with chopsticks but I would expect it to be a rare occurrence. The fact that it's common enough to enter the lexicon and be used with regularity is shocking.
Well in the US I guess they just pull out a gun. You might have heard the expression gunned down.
Quote: DaButt @ October 5 2011, 1:29 PM BSTI'm sure that in the course of history someone in the States has poked someone's eye out with chopsticks but I would expect it to be a rare occurrence. The fact that it's common enough to enter the lexicon and be used with regularity is shocking.
I'm sure it does happen to some degree; not that I've ever seen it,or know anyone who's had it done to them, or done it to someone else.
We're generally okay, really.
Are we sure it happened? It is in the Daily Mail after all. 
Quote: DaButt @ October 5 2011, 1:23 PM BSTI'm shocked that he didn't. I'm almost as shocked that your country has a word for such behavior.
Other terms you might enjoy are 'nutting' for using the forehead as a weapon; 'belting' for punching; and as an American, I'm sure you can work out what 'Yanking' means.
Quote: Nogget @ October 5 2011, 1:48 PM BSTI'm sure you can work out what 'Yanking' means.
Pulling someones nose? Ear? Penis?
Shh, don't let on that it has no particular meaning...