McNab wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 5:09 pm
I guess climbing means different things to different people. To me, climbing involves ropes and pitons and vertical rock faces. To others, it's walking up a big hill.
People are always climbing Kilimanjaro for charity, but it just looks like a big walk to me, a tough one for sure, but still just walking up a big hill.
They've downgraded it now. Previously the finding of a musket ball in a wall was proof of an assassination attempt on Bonnie Prince Charlie
BBC wrote:Volunteers had unsuccessfully searched for the hole until David Jenkinson whose aunt was the housekeeper for the last owner in residence, provided the crucial lead.
They've downgraded it now. Previously the finding of a musket ball in a wall was proof of an assassination attempt on Bonnie Prince Charlie
BBC wrote:Volunteers had unsuccessfully searched for the hole until David Jenkinson whose aunt was the housekeeper for the last owner in residence, provided the crucial lead.
Back in the early '80's The Sun ran endless stories about London "dole scroungers" spending the Summer on the beaches of South Devon while claiming benefits in London. I knew everyone involved.
The whole story was utter bullshit. The people involved were friends of the reporter, they weren't unemployed, it was basically a group of a half dozen friends who went off to Devon for a week long holiday (including the reporter). All the beach pics were taken that week, but they spread the story out to make it look like they were in Devon living it up on the dole for three months with headlines like "They're still here!" etc.
Long ago I learned to distrust newspapers. Headlines about failing to sink the Torrey Canyon, I saw the original high quality photos before they were transmitted to Fleet St. They couldn't sink it because the rocks were already sticking up through the bottom, it was resting on the Seven Stones Reef and was going nowhere until a storm washed it off the reef. I knew that, the journos knew that, but the story was getting tired, time to blame the RAF for not sinking her.
Newspapers have only one function, (IMO obv) - to sell newspapers. They don’t tell the truth unless it sells more papers than lies would, and lies usually win because you can make them as eyecatching as possible so people pick up this paper instead of that paper. Comics, but dangerous because people believe what they read.
Wossname wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 11:33 pm
Newspapers have only one function, (IMO obv) - to sell newspapers. They don’t tell the truth unless it sells more papers than lies would, and lies usually win because you can make them as eyecatching as possible so people pick up this paper instead of that paper. Comics, but dangerous because people believe what they read.
