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There are 124 posts tagged: I, pedant
- A question of cancer
- 29 December 2024
A number of deaths from arsenic poisoning in Brazil gives the BBC's Sofia Ferreira Santos opportunity to flex her knowledge of European chemicals' regulations. Oh yes.
(more…)- A small matter of genocide
- 10 December 2024
I have learnt not to take BBC News' reporting at face value. Critical pieces of information are often missing, leaving a trusting interpretation open to criticism. With that acknowledged, I have to comment on a French-Cameroonian political scientist and his publisher being found guilty in a French court for
(more…)downplaying the Rwandan genocide.
- Speaker shooter
- 5 December 2024
A gunman is being hunted for the assassination of a US healthcare insurance company's CEO. But it shouldn't take the police too much effort to find him.
(more…)- Estimating precision
- 1 December 2024
A report on India's Aditya-L1 space mission to do something or other out there [points at stars] includes this paradoxical nugget:
(more…)- Worth the wait(exclamation)(ellipsis2)(question)
- 17 November 2024
L’Académie française, official custodian of the French language, has reeled off another tome to its credit with the completion of its very own A to Zzz of authentic French: the ninth edition of Dictionnaire de l’Académie française. Started only in 1986, it follows hot on the heels of 1935's eighth edition, which it now supersedes and betters by an additional 21,000 entries. Zut alors!
(more…)- Avengers disassemble
- 6 November 2024
If the Hollyweirdos' grandstanding achieved anything, it wasn't what they were hoping for. Let the weeping and gnashing of teeth begin! (LOL)
(more…)- Paying tributes paid
- 17 October 2024
On the tragic death on onetime One Directioner Liam Payne at the age of only thirty-one, Ellen Kirwin strings together what amounts to little more than a list of social media outpourings. This is what journalism has become in the internet age: mainstream media scraping social media. It's not as if it even gives the poor hacks an excuse to leave the office for a swift libation or two.
(more…)- So long, farewell, auf wiedersehn, adieu
- 30 September 2024
A cruise ship that's been laid over in Belfast for four months, with its passengers consigned to an unscheduled extended sojourn in the city, is finally setting sail to more exotic locales. According to the BBC's Claire Graham and Ali Totten: the
(more…)Cruise ship passengers say bon voyage to Belfast
.- Nuts, whole hazelnuts
- 30 September 2024
Despite what either the excitable BBC Travel droid or Lynn Brown thinks, hazelnuts are produced by hazelnut trees. The women farm and harvest the nuts from them.
(more…)- The Duterte's what?
- 9 September 2024
The protection enjoyed by a Filipino pastor under the Dutertes—father, ex-President Rodrigo Duterte, and daughter, current Vice-President Sara—was described by the BBC's correspondents in Singapore and Manila following his recent arrest:
(more…)- Flipping failed
- 23 August 2024
Yes, this is another rag on the BBC's editorial standards. And such an act of arch pedantry on my part that I'm not claiming points here, just making an observation.
(more…)- Grammaries
- 9 August 2024
Through complete weblink happenstance I came across a 2021 article on Medium by Katie Edwards (who?), entitled No, You’re Shit: Grammar Pedantry and Knowing Your Place. As a member of the Grammar Police myself, albeit merely a lowly beat patrolman, I thought it might be worth seventeen minutes of my time. As they say, 'tis better to travel hopefully…
(more…)- Making porn
- 1 August 2024
The man who made solemn announcements on behalf of the BBC, but was later found to have been a bit of a pervert on the side, is now unmasked as a lot of a pervert. I do believe, however, that the charge of
(more…)making
k¡ddypr0n images is misleading. And, for once, this isn't the fault of the BBC's sloppy editorial standards.- Nigeria is not corrupt!
- 22 July 2024
Mansur Abubakar, the BBC's man in Nigeria, reports on the country's petrol crisis. Therein he notes the unenviable public sector corruption, as evidenced by Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index.
(more…)- Down and out in Beverly Hills
- 5 July 2024
Reporting from the mean streets of La-La-Land, the BBC's Samantha Granville and Christal Hayes post a TLDR on the fallout from the US Supreme Court's recent ruling giving cities greater leeway in dealing with the homelessness crisis. I sense that the two stringers do not approve of the change in precept.
(more…)- Apostrophe awakening
- 26 June 2024
The axing of a streamer from the games company he co-founded gives the BBC's news droid opportunity to point out the inclusion of a wayward apostrophe in the company's announcement:
(more…)- Oh manure (poop)
- 18 June 2024
The deaths of two farm workers after they fell in into a manure tanker* in New York gives the BBC's Ana Faguy opportunity to offer a little safety warning:
(more…)- Outta site
- 10 June 2024
Cameroonian-American singer Libianca has described receiving death threats after performing with a Cameroonian flag. She told the BBC of
(more…)insults threatening me to never step foot in Cameroon or they would kill me on-site [sic]
.- Snooze button
- 28 May 2024
Stanford University's Dr Renske Lok summarises some of the reasons why women sleep worse than men, as follows:
(more…)- Pope goes the weasel
- 28 May 2024
Old men are wont to say what they really think when it's least appropriate, and Pope Francis is no exception. During a closed door meeting with bishops, the aged god-botherer rejected the proposal that homosexuals should be eligible for the priesthood, going so far as to say that there was already too much of an air of
(more…)frociaggine
in the Catholic Church.- Europission
- 11 May 2024
It's that time of year again, folks. The time in question being the one when each country in Europe enters a—generally terrible—song into a competition to find the least bad. And because this is the Eurovision Song Contest, Israel's in the running. Wait, what? (confused)
(more…)- US jobs in the US, of all places!
- 3 May 2024
It appears that US job growth has slowed as US employers added too few jobs to the US jobs market. Something tells me this might be a stateside story.
(more…)- Ranking officer
- 19 April 2024
On the death of Kenya's military chief, Gen. Francis Omondi Ogolla, in a military helicopter crash, the BBC's newshounds went on to observe that:
(more…)- The unholy Trinity
- 13 March 2024
In the wake of the theatrical and awards successes of Oppenheimer, comes a documentary on the tragedy that befell those living downwind from the Los Alamos testing programme in New Mexico. Communities who claim that radiation from the Trinity Test caused the cancers that have affected generations, even to this day.
(more…)- What makes a tree a tree?
- 9 March 2024
Last year, vandals cut down a sycamore tree sited at a gap in Hadrian's Wall, imaginatively known as Sycamore Gap. It is, or at least was, a renowned beauty spot and tourist attraction, famed for its starring role in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
(more…)- Multipart
- 1 March 2024
As Dune: Part Two hits theatres to acclaim from those who're into that kinda thing, Hanna Flint asks whether studios are ripping off audiences, by spreading their wares thin enough to eke out multiple visits to the kinematograph parlour in order to see a story to its conclusion.
(more…)- The air that I breathe
- 23 January 2024
Reporting on a novel method of execution, which has been authorised for use by an Alabaman correctional facility in order to dispatch a death row inmate, the BBC's Tom Bateman affords me the opportunity to be a smart-arse, and earn petty points exposing unchecked misinformation at the corporation.
(more…)- …and I am unanimous in that*
- 2 January 2024
After a British woman ran her fiancé down following an alcohol-fuelled row, she was arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, CCTV cameras caught the act, so the plod didn't have to take too much time away from picking their noses and masturbating back at the cop shop.
(more…)- Negative advice
- 21 December 2023
Forty-eight years after being wrongly convicted of murder, a man has been exonerated by an Oklahoman judge and freed. Glynn Simmons told reporters that the decision was
(more…)a lesson in resilience and tenacity
, going on to say:Don't let nobody tell you that it can't happen, because it really can.
- The king and 'im
- 2 December 2023
Following a little diplomatic spat between the British and Greek prime ministers over the Elgin Marbles—or Parthenon Sculptures, I'm not sure which*—Old King Cock addressed the delegates of COP(out)28 while wearing a tie emblazoned with the Greek flag. Buckingham Palace denied it was a coded message to Rishi Sunak, suggesting instead that the choice was random.
(more…)- Includes all
- 13 November 2023
Protests against the war in Gaza held in London over the weekend ended in violence. No shit, who'd've thunk it? (rolleyes)
(more…)- Where are the meatballs?
- 4 November 2023
At first I wasn't sure whether Annabel Rackham is telling us
(more…)what it's like to go clubbing in a converted IKEA store
, or asking uswhat's it like to go clubbing in a converted IKEA store?
Because, if the latter, I can't help her; I don't know, I've never tried it. Fortunately, however, it turns out she has.- Rock of ages
- 24 October 2023
A French museum has corrected the skin tone of a wax statue of Wayne
(more…)The Rock
Johnson, after it was criticised for being too pale. This is in contrast to recent events when no correction was made to portrayals of Anne Boleyn and Cleopatra, which were criticised for being too dark.- Vape pressure
- 16 October 2023
Warning of the dangers of childhood vaping, the BBC corrects an earlier version of its article:
(more…)- An incredible home no more?
- 13 September 2023
A Grade II-listed Georgian house in Windsor, which was home to UK TV and radio presenter Chris Evans, is on the market for a none-too-paltry £4M. This is presumably meant to be of some interest to the denizens of Warrington, Evans' birthplace, as Lois Dean describes to the Warrington Guardian's readers the
(more…)Former incredible home of Warrington-born Chris Evans
.- False advertising?
- 1 September 2023
The BBC's quiz of the week headlines with the teaser to the right, but follows with this question:
(more…)Rap star Eminem asked Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to stop using his songs, after the biotech entrepreneur performed Lose Yourself at the Iowa State Fair. Which other politician was previously told to stop using the rapper’s music?
- Breaking story…but will it be updated? (thinking)
- 9 August 2023
Breaking news on migrants' deaths in the Mediterranean is heralded on the BBC's home page, and flagged accordingly on the article page. Interestingly enough though, the article doesn't conclude with a footnote that it's a developing news story, and will be updated.
(more…)- Return to the grid
- 27 July 2023
The tragic deaths of three family members, who perished from malnutrition during the harsh Coloradan winter as they tried to live
(more…)off grid
, have only served to bring them back on grid bigger than before; courtesy of the news coverage. Oops!- Body count
- 20 July 2023
A minor triviality; grammatically speaking that is, because a human tragedy underlies it.
(more…)- Strike two!
- 14 July 2023
Hollyweird's luvvies are restless. Again. And this time it's not #MeToo, or climate change, or any of that shit. This is a far more noble cause. This is about money dahling!
(more…)- Football TV
- 6 July 2023
A fluff-piece about the captain of the Indian national football team, Sunil Chhetri, is only notable for introducing those of us blissfully unaware that FIFA has a channel to the fact that FIFA has a channel.
(more…)- Special correspondent
- 28 May 2023
The BBC home page announced
(more…)Katty Kay: A growing case of transatlantic heartburn
, which sounds like Katty Kay is the cause of the discomfort. Who on earth is she? And what on earth could she have done to raise tensions so badly?- Ms or Mr?
- 28 May 2023
As India's women wrestlers protest against sexual harassment and abuse at the hands of officials from the nation's wrestling federation, one of the fighting Phogat sisters appears to have taken sexism in sport to heart more than most, and decided to transfer to the men's league.
(more…)- A more accurate guess
- 10 May 2023
Despite the solemnity of the subject, let's start with a little frivolous piss-taking of the BBC's editorial capabilities.
(more…)- Mr or Ms?
- 4 May 2023
On the divorce of the late Robert Mugabe's daughter from her husband, Simba Mutsahuni Chikore, comes this insight from the BBC's correspondent in Harare:
(more…)- Sì, sì, cìtron
- 30 April 2023
Reading of Calabrian farmers' endeavours to protect and sustain the rare citron (Citrus medica), I was struck by an overpowering sense of déjà vu. For I'd recently read of the lure of this same fruit, less than four months' ago. On the very same site, as it happens, albeit stuffed into a different pigeonhole. It seems that good topics know no bounds.
(more…)- Dead or alive
- 16 April 2023
It confused me at first, until I mentally added a comma between
(more…)dead
andlive
. (LOL)- Stop me if you've heard this one before…
- 6 April 2023
There's a slight fallacy, a miscommunication, in Angie Brown's account of murder at an Edinburgh beauty spot.
(more…)- London calling
- 4 April 2023
London City Airport has become the second in the UK, after Teesside International Airport, to scrap the 100mL limit for carry-on liquids, following the introduction of new scanners. This momentous event is expected to improve the security experience for many tens of travellers.
(more…)- Days of future past
- 4 April 2023
Stephen Dowling describes the Royal Navy's post-war carrier-borne fighter aircraft, the Westland Wyvern, as having
(more…)two contra-rotating propellors at the front of the aircraft, each spinning in a different direction
. Yep, that's pretty much the definition ofcontra-rotating
: spinning in opposite directions. But what drew my attention to this article in the first place, was the seeming contradiction between BBC Future—there's a clue in the name—and tales ofpilots who ejected underwater
, past tense.- PG tips
- 21 March 2023
I hadn't read of the deaths of Indonesian children after taking tainted cough syrup before now, but the cause of death being acute kidney injury told me that this was the same issue as reported earlier in The Gambia and Uzbekistan. I wouldn't have noted it here, though, if my pedantry hackles hadn't been raised:
(more…)- Name that boy
- 13 March 2023
I came across this handy-and-dandy list of one-syllable names for baby boys, compiled by Jacqueline at Parent Portfolio:
(more…)- Possession is nine-tenths…
- 1 March 2023
The BBC doesn't appear to have too much inclination for possessive terms. Perhaps the concept of ownership is too much for the comrades at the People's Republic of Portland Place. (shrug)
(more…)- Written wrongly
- 26 February 2023
Who writes this shit? No, not this shit, here, I know who does that. Me.
(more…)- Doesn't add up
- 15 December 2022
I'm not sure whether the BBC's Australian correspondent, Tiffanie Turnbull, has a problem with the English language or mathematics. Updating a story on a recent fatal ambush shooting of police officers at a remote property in Queensland, she seems to have difficulty in either differentiating between shots sustained and fatalities, or the seemingly complex sum of 2+1=?
(more…)- Robocop
- 1 December 2022
The San Francisco Police Department is set to deploy robots armed with explosives in the pacification of
(more…)violent, armed, or dangerous subjects
, which could amount to most criminals in the land of the free-to-bear-arms. This is not a new development, however.- Inactive shooter
- 23 November 2022
A gunman has killed
(more…)no more than 10 people
—so, less than eleven then—in a Walmart supermarket in Chesapeake, VA. He then turned the gun on himself, and committed suicide.- Sicness
- 17 November 2022
Lest anyone consider me petty and pedantic for occasionally drawing attention to the BBC's minor editorial oversights—typographical errors, that is, not stealth editing—you're right, I am. But, I'm not alone.
(more…)- Grazing grass
- 16 November 2022
nu3—or is that nu³? I really don't know (shrug)—claims that their exotically-priced, flavoured protein powder is
(more…)whey from 100% grass-fed milk
.- Land of haa, or hal
- 2 November 2022
A bit of a non-story, regarding confusion over a footballer's surname and a Swedish coastal region, led the BBC's Tom Gerken—not to be confused with a pickled cucumber—to offer a handy-dandy mnemonic, in an effort to pour oil on troubled waters.
(more…)- The eyes have it
- 13 October 2022
Thirteen-year-old Lowri Moore is campaigning for better representation for four-eyed gits, firstly in film and now in emojis. She's urging the Unicode Consortium to include options for adding spectacles to the plethora of shit that we have to wade through already.
(more…)- Deadlines don't come any tighter
- 30 September 2022
Amelia Williams is mixing it up with the boilerplate text here. Like Olivia Madison, her webcomic's
(more…)inclined
to post garbage to the interwebz; but, like Roisin Clarke, she felt my article to bevery informative
, which is nice. This is the same article that compelled both of those ladies to court my submissions in the fields of oral health and plant science. Clearly, it's more far-reaching and influential than I could ever have imagined. (rolleyes)- The lady killer
- 22 September 2022
María Belén Bernal vanished after visiting her husband at a police training school in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, where he was an instructor. Her body has been found, and he is on the run as the main suspect in her killing.
(more…)- QWERTY or QWERT?
- 17 September 2022
Hackers have deleted data from the IHG hotel chain for shitz 'n' gigglz. When the vulnerability was traced to the use of a weak password and lax security around the company's password vault, IHG blew smoke.
(more…)- Alarming
- 24 August 2022
Should you ever need a nine-hour timer, then Online Alarm Kur has got you covered with their 9 Hour Timer. You lucky you, you! (thumbup)
(more…)- Allergic advisory
- 23 August 2022
I saw this allergen advice on a bar of Jordans' Frusli—blueberry flavour, if you're curious.
(more…)- Negative drop
- 17 July 2022
I see this quite often, and not just in reference to films tanking in their second week at the box office. A -68% reduction is akin to a 68% increase, although admittedly it doesn't make much sense as such.
(more…)- Developing story: to be stealth updated
- 8 July 2022
I have previously noted that
(more…)the world's most trusted international news broadcaster
™ is not adverse tostealth editing
its articles after they've been published online. An ethical news outlet would make changes clear to the reader, or find another way to update its articles in light of new information. At the very least they would include alast updated
timestamp. But the BBC eschews that transparency nonsense.- Loosey
- 4 July 2022
Waffle is another of those five-letter word games. Six five-letter words are arranged in a 3×3 grid, and you have to move letters to solve the puzzle. One of the words in today's game is
(more…)loose
.- The King and Them
- 27 June 2022
In anticipation of Baz Luhrmann's biopic of Elvis Presley—creatively entitled Elvis—Kaleem Aftab muses over Presley's cultural appropriation of black music.
(more…)- Two-faced Charlie
- 19 June 2022
As Commonwealth heads of state head to Rwanda for a knees-up, Prince Charles will be representing the Queen as the head of the Commonwealth. This will likely increase his chances of rubbing shoulders with BoJo, of whose Rwandan relocation plan he's not so keen.
(more…)- Say cheese
- 28 May 2022
In Six unbelievable uses for cheese, BBC Food provides some imaginative, if not flat-out off-the-wall, uses for my favourite dairy product: as car fuel; sporting equipment; sculpture; collateral; a politcal statement; and…crime prevention. Although, in reality, that last one's a bit of a stretch.
(more…)- Wild Wild Will
- 28 March 2022
Oscars 2022 organisers were hoping for something to liven up the ceremony, and Will Smith delivered when he went onstage and landed one on Chris Rock. Smith then followed up with a couple of F-bombs, shouted from where he was sitting in the audience. That might've been over-and-above the organisers' expectations though, because it wasn't broadcast. (whistling)
(more…)- Moving goalposts
- 24 March 2022
Just Stop Oil is a youth activist organisation mobilised against the exploitation of all fossil fuels, not just oil, in the UK. Another one.
(more…)- Less smart phones
- 21 March 2022
As smartphones are taking over more of our lives, some droids are rebelling and breaking free. An increasing number of people are eschewing smartphones for old skool mobile phones, dubbed
(more…)dumbphones
. And bloody good for them, says I.- Justice for Jussie‽
- 11 March 2022
Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to less than six months in jail, of a maximum possible three years on each of five counts, for fabricating a race hate crime. But not everyone believes that Illinois' inmates should have to be more careful with the soap.(jussie)
(more…)- Sheep to be fleeced
- 1 March 2022
Disney has launched a new Star Wars experience at Disney World, Florida: the Galactic Starcruiser, a Star Wars–themed luxury hotel. It is luxuriously expensive. But, from the early reviews, it appears that the actual experience is not similarly luxurious.
(more…)- Holy me (holy)
- 11 February 2022
Writing as GlobalCare for the Needy, Shorelin exhorts me to
(more…)LET YOUR CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE
.- Double-down juries
- 11 February 2022
Rebecca Hogue's plight rests on Oklahoma's
(more…)failure to protect
law, which states that a parent who suspects child abuse by another, and fails to report it, is complicit. In the worst case, this can lead to a charge of murder in the first-degree.- Skating on thin ice
- 8 February 2022
Wahey! Weibo's nationalistic shitheads are at it again. The
(more…)it
being brutally castigating their Olympians' performances, when failing to excel at things that they—the nationalistic shitheads, that is—wouldn't have a hope in hell of achieving in the first place. In particular, figure skater Zhu Yi, who fell a lot, leaving Team China out of the medals.- The Motherland
- 2 February 2022
Llívia is a small
(more…)SpanishCatalan enclave within France. It was created in the seventeenth century, through a stunning act of pedantry on the part of the Spanish. - Arresting development
- 2 February 2022
Mason Greenwood—who I'd never heard of before now, but he's a footballer, so why would I?—was arrested on Sunday. While he was already in police custody, additional charges were brought against him. At least, that's how I understood the situation.
(more…)- If you build it…
- 31 January 2022
BBC Bitesize is supposedly a learning portal. Which makes it even more egregious when the droid gets it wrong. Even equivocally.
(more…)- Full Disclosure
- 20 January 2022
I've noted previously how BBC News seems to have lots of little compartments for its reporters. Some of these make sense—business and technology, for example—others less so—technology of business, anyone? And then we have BBC Disclosure. Or do we?
(more…)- Da-do-Ron-Ron
- 13 January 2022
Reading of the death of Ronnie Spector, I was expecting her ex-husband's criminal conviction to be dragged up. Not that it needed to be included in her obituary; after all, it had nothing to do with her. The couple had divorced three decades prior to Lana Clarkson's murder.
(more…)- The (international) shipping forecast
- 11 January 2022
It never ceases to amaze me: the parochiality of merkans when it comes to international shipping charges. I guess that it doesn't matter if it's outside the fifty states of the union.
(more…)- The great escape
- 7 January 2022
The BBC might like to consider pulling their home page text from the same source as their article headlines. That way, they would only have to correct any errors once. Of course, BBC editorial competence being what it is, the downside is that they could have the same error twice.
(more…)- Frohes Neues Jahr!
- 2 January 2022
While those lovable French set cars alight, the Germans take an altogether more sedate approach to welcoming in the new year. I have it on good authority that they like nothing more than throwing fireworks at each other in the street. Consequently, news that there has only been one death in Germany seems like a stroke of good fortune; except to the victim's family, that is.
(more…)- Leper colony
- 12 December 2021
In the current dinky butthurt climate, is it no longer acceptable to refer to leprosy sufferers as lepers, and a colony of them as a leper colony? Or is this just the BBC's usual low-intellect shenanigans? (thinking)
(more…)- When correct is incorrect
- 10 December 2021
BBC Bitesize is a series of purportedly educational learning materials and quizzes for children. Or is it? Educational, that is.
(more…)- Tronto
- 7 December 2021
Shilling hard for Destination Toronto/TCVA, Lindsey Galloway tells us why Toronto is The Canadian city to visit this winter.
(more…)- That's a turnip for the books!
- 1 December 2021
BBC News' Maddy Savage explains how Magdalena Andersson became Sweden's first female prime minister, twice! Except she didn't, really.
(more…)- The ol' one-two
- 1 December 2021
Okay, so I promised to never again question the BBC's disdain for national adjectives, and I think that I've been pretty good of late. That's not to say the BBC's editorial staff haven't transgressed, they have. But I've been the bigger person, looked the other way, and moved on.
(more…)- My learned works?
- 24 November 2021
I have absolutely no idea why Journal of Corona Virus [sic] has contacted me for my
(more…)helpful contribution
. They may have read my learned works in the field, but I think it's unlikely.- Social media (bath) bombing
- 23 November 2021
Lush, producer of overpriced and overhyped cosmetics and personal care products, has announced that it will deactivate some of its social media accounts, until platforms take steps to provide a safer environment for users. The platforms of concern are Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. (fist) (geddit?)
(more…)- Guardians of the future
- 28 October 2021
At IMDb, they love themselves a little future-gazing. Here we are, in current year 2021, and they're asking what was—past tense—the title of 2023's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in Hindi. I'll submit my answer to the question in two years' time.
(more…)- Parisian
- 27 October 2021
While looking up the possessive form of James, I came across this example at GrammarHow.
(more…)- Describe in detail
- 27 October 2021
Huma Abedin, a former aide to Hilary Clinton, has a book being published next week in which she
(more…)details sex assault by US senator
. Except, she doesn't, really.- Symbolic stupidity
- 16 October 2021
Perhaps it's a slow news day. Or perhaps someone, somewhere feels the need to tap into the zeitgeist. Thames Valley Police have reassured motorists that diversionary road signs at Junction 5 on the M4 will not take them to Squid Game. (rolleyes)
(more…)- From India with love?
- 4 October 2021
Daizy Priscilla contacted me, inviting me to submit my blahblah to her yadayada. None of it stood out of the ordinary, except she's another lowlife at the gutter publishing house that is Remedy Publications LLC. Daizy must be besties with Alyssa, who works out of the same office address.
(more…)- Revealing
- 1 October 2021
According to the BBC's home page headline, DNA evidence has revealed a French ex-police officer to be a rapist and murderer. Except, according to the actual article:
(more…)- Measure for measure
- 21 September 2021
According to the instructions, 850 mL is equivalent to 1½ pints, and 425 mL is approximately ¾ pint.
(more…)- Corners of a round thing
- 23 August 2021
In 13 juicy facts about mangoes, BBC Radio 4 refers to
(more…)all corners of the globe
.- Apostrophe apathy
- 10 August 2021
My strive to be a better person, and not nit-pick the BBC's grammatical sloppiness did not formally extend to punctuation and the possessive form. Nevertheless, I'll refrain from comment.
(more…)- Take me home, racist roads
- 10 August 2021
Thus opens Tara McKelvey's report on Biden's unlikely plan to use roads to fight racism. Note the quotes that she uses around the word
(more…)racist
. Could it be that she's using someone else's description, but it's one that she herself is sceptical about? If so, good for her, she might just be a critical thinker, and therefore a cut above the average BBC News mouth-breather.- Reporting reporting
- 9 August 2021
A story of rats deserting New York state's Governor Andrew Cuomo's sinking ship gives the BBC the opportunity for a little editorial sloppiness.
(more…)- Trigger happy
- 11 July 2021
Attackers stormed the domestic home of Haiti's president, Jovenel Moïse, assassinating him in what can only have been a moment of overzealousness. For that was not the intent, apparently.
(more…)- Sullied deals
- 10 July 2021
I should feel bad for nit-picking over an issue as serious as Indian Muslim women being harassed on social media by bigoted trolls, for their religion and gender. But I'm going to do it anyway.
(more…)- A hard habit to brake
- 17 June 2021
In my drive to be a better person, by not picking on the BBC's adjectival ineptitude, should I extend that to homophones?
(more…)- Is there a doctor in the house?
- 10 June 2021
Ooooh, I've found another crackpot on YouTube. Aren't I lucky?
(more…)- I give up!
- 26 May 2021
The BBC's journalists and editors really do not like national adjectives. Picking apart their linguistic shortcomings is like painting the Forth Bridge; an unending and thankless task. It doesn't achieve anything and, after a while, I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, irritating and boring.
(more…)- The colour of law
- 26 May 2021
Police in Illinois confiscated an urn containing the ashes of two-year-old Ta'Naja Barnes—or Davis, I'm not sure which—after pulling her father over for traffic offences. They claimed that the urn tested postive in a field test for meth.
(more…)- Runners 'n' riders
- 23 May 2021
After twenty-one runners died as a result of extreme weather during an ultramarathon in north-west China, the BBC once again demonstrates its poor grasp of the English language.
(more…)- Don't learn Scrivener
- 21 May 2021
The title says
(more…)Learn Scrivener in 20 minutes
. The video is 18:21.- See no evil
- 20 May 2021
According to the BBC, there are Covid-free havens in Asia, closer to the Chongvirus epicentre than anywhere in Europe or the Americas.
(more…)- The speed of film
- 4 March 2021
How fast is a film? I'm sure that's a question you've never thought of before. And neither had I until today, when I read, courtesy of the BBC's Justin Harper, that an anime called Demon Slayer:
(more…)- Why is 'petty' not pronounced like 'pretty' without an 'r'?
- 27 September 2020
It's time to score petty points on the internet at the BBC's expense! Are you ready? Well, then, what are we waiting for? Let's go!
(more…)- Missiles, target,…?
- 23 August 2020
After initially denying its involvement, Iran has admitted downing a Boeing 737 belonging to Ukraine International Airlines in January.
(more…)- Hedging their bets
- 31 May 2020
Michael Angelis, beloved Liverpudlian actor, died yesterday. According to Wikipaedia and The Guardian newspaper, he was 68 years old.
(more…)- Random whinge
- 20 February 2019
Because it's not really a rant.
(more…)- When is a kilogram not a kilogram?
- 16 November 2018
I feel that I should be surprised at the ambiguity of BBC journalists. Sadly, I'm not.
(more…)- Every life counts, but some more than others
- 2 March 2017
Opposition to the reintroduction of the death penalty in the Philippines is exemplified by, among other things, this cute little graphic.
(more…)- Seeing double
- 21 September 2016
Another day, another black man killed by US police. It's so every day that it doesn't bear comment. But I am angry at the abuse of the English language by a woman claiming to be Keith Lamont Scott's sister:
(more…)He didn't have no gun
, andHe wasn't messing with nobody
.- No shit, Sherlock: We got braynz
- 29 August 2012
According to the BBC, after his assassination Leon Trotsky's brain
(more…)proved unusually heavy
.