CJacobs posted:

Put this in perspective for yourself: This person called Thomas the Tank Engine racist because the steam trains billow out white smoke and the coal trains billow out black smoke. Just think about that for a second.

Westie posted:

presumably you mean diesel pumping out black smoke?

Karma Monkey posted:

I want to see Tracy Van Slyke do an article about how Scooby Doo promotes drug abuse and Bugs Bunny advocates a deviant lifestyle.

Geokinesis posted:

iGestalt posted:

"Sex offender admits car park thefts – including taking two whole ticket machines"

"A sex offender who stole money from car park pay machines in High Wycombe over the Christmas period and twice took the whole machine has been recalled to prison after pleading guilty. Charles Bamber, 34, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at High Wycombe Magistrates on January 14, to ten counts of theft, nine counts of criminal damage and one count of failure to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders register."

How do you steal two whole ticket machines.

spog posted:

The Grauniad writers genuinely believe what they write.

spog posted:

The Grauniad writers genuinely believe what they write.

It is written by, and for, the Golgafrinchan 'B' Ark passengers.

Henchman of Santa posted:

Is there a joke behind "Grauniad" or is this the British newspaper equivalent of a Rivals.com pun?

Henchman of Santa posted:

Is there a joke behind "Grauniad" or is this the British newspaper equivalent of a Rivals.com pun?

Wikipedia posted:

The paper's nickname The Grauniad (sometimes abbreviated as "Graun") originated with the satirical magazine Private Eye. This anagram played on The Guardian's early reputation for frequent typographical errors, including misspelling its own name as The Gaurdian.

The very first issue of the newspaper contained a number of errors, perhaps the most notable being a notification that there would soon be some goods sold at atction instead of auction. Fewer typographical errors are seen in the paper since the end of hot-metal typesetting. One Guardian writer, Keith Devlin, suggested that the high number of observed misprints was due more to the quality of the readership than the misprints' greater frequency. The fact that the newspaper was printed in Manchester till 1961 and the early, more error-prone, prints were sent to London by train may have contributed as well to this image. When John Cole was appointed news editor by Alastair Hetherington in 1963, he sharpened the paper's comparatively "amateurish" setup.

Cleretic posted:

The Guardian used to have really poo poo quality control back when it started. It probably never accidentally called itself The Grauniad, but it was definitely the sort of mistake they would've made.

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

spog posted:

The Grauniad writers genuinely believe what they write.

It is written by, and for, the Golgafrinchan 'B' Ark passengers.

Geokinesis posted:

Geokinesis posted:

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

There should be a Photoshop thread based on these (assuming these aren't already).

mrkillboy posted:

Collateral Damage posted:

"Guys, where are you going? Guys?"

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

poo poo like this is why Daniel Radcliffe is awesome.

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

poo poo like this is why Daniel Radcliffe is awesome.

Henchman of Santa posted:

The film career equivalent of Bob Saget's standup.

Hogge Wild posted:

iirc they also use his corpse as a boat and drive it with his dick

quote:

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix star Daniel Radcliffe enjoyed annoying the paparazzi during his recent stint on the London stage - for six months he deliberately wore the same clothes when leaving the theatre so photographs would be worthless. The 17-year-old was greeted by photographers each night outside the Gielgud Theatre during his stint in controversial West End play Equus, where the teenage actor disrobed onstage every night.

Radcliffe quickly realized newspaper and magazine editors wouldn't publish photos of him wearing the same outfit night after night, because it would look like the pictures were taken on the same day. He says, "They (the paparazzi) were outside the theatre every single night, but we came up with a cunning ruse. I would wear the same outfit every time - a different T-shirt underneath, but I'd wear the same jacket and zip it up so they couldn't see what I was wearing underneath, and the same hat. So they could take pictures for six months, but it would look like the same day, so they (photos) became unpublishable. Which was hilarious, because there's nothing better than seeing paparazzi getting really frustrated."

"There was one hysterical moment when my 'stage door outfit,' as it was called, ended up on, like, one of the fashion bits in the newspaper, which is like an old dirty hat and a jacket that hasn't been washed in ages and somehow it got in there. I was very proud," he told Leno.