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Oh, The Irony

I thought that report sounded off, not many news outlets would report such an incident with that degree of gloating.
 
Now, this, I think, nearly breaks the irony machine: (from The Register.co.uk)

Microsoft redfaced after Bing translation cockup enrages Saudis
Daesh/Saudi Arabia snafu leads to calls for boycott

"A snafu with the translation engine in Microsoft's Bing search engine has landed Redmond in hot water with the Saudi authorities.

Over the weekend, Saudi Arabian users found that when they typed the Arabic word Daesh – the name of the medieval terror bastards currently losing their battle for a caliphate in the Middle East – into Bing Translator, the computer told them that the English translation was "Saudi Arabia." "


Mistake or mischief?

One wonders...
 
Early human ancestor Lucy 'died falling out of a tree'

New evidence suggests that the famous fossilised human ancestor dubbed "Lucy" by scientists died falling from a great height - probably out of a tree.

CT scans have shown injuries to her bones similar to those suffered by modern humans in similar falls.

The 3.2 million-year-old hominin was found on a treed flood plain, making a branch her most likely final perch ...
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Full Story: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37194764

This article left me shaking my head and cackling for hours, because ...

Lucy's been casually cited for decades as a bookmark for proto-human primates' completed transition from tree-dwelling to ground-dwelling. ... And now it appears she quite possibly died as a result of falling out of a tree.

I can't help but flash on the phrase "You can't go home again."
 
Ascalon said:
Now, this, I think, nearly breaks the irony machine: (from The Register.co.uk)

Microsoft redfaced after Bing translation cockup enrages Saudis
Daesh/Saudi Arabia snafu leads to calls for boycott

"A snafu with the translation engine in Microsoft's Bing search engine has landed Redmond in hot water with the Saudi authorities.

Over the weekend, Saudi Arabian users found that when they typed the Arabic word Daesh – the name of the medieval terror bastards currently losing their battle for a caliphate in the Middle East – into Bing Translator, the computer told them that the English translation was "Saudi Arabia." "


Mistake or mischief?

One wonders...
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The truth is hard to swallow. :D
 
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/...rstaying/ar-AAiXmls?li=AA8sb7&ocid=spartandhp

A motorist whose car broke down at a motorway service station was shocked to receive a £100 fine for having stayed there too long, along with a photo showing his vehicle being recovered.

"I couldn't believe it. I appealed it straight away. They asked me to send them the evidence, so I just wrote to them and said 'you have sent me the evidence, you jokers'.
 
KFC Penzance runs out of chicken leaving customers confused
By CMJacqui | Posted: October 26, 2016

There was a fried chicken furore at KFC last night when shocked customers queued up for a bargain bucket - only to discover they'd run out of CHICKEN!
Their special Tuesday promotion offering nine pieces of chicken for £5.99 led to a chicken run and by 8pm the restaurant was clean out of all but a few burgers.

Customers took to social media to ask how a takeaway that specialises in finger-lickin chicken could run out of its signature food.

Staff at the restaurant, which has recently undergone a major refurbishment, said they'd sold 50% more chicken than any of their other Cornwall branches.

http://www.cornishman.co.uk/kfc-pen...ers-confused/story-29842286-detail/story.html
 
rynner2 said:
KFC Penzance runs out of chicken leaving customers confused
By CMJacqui | Posted: October 26, 2016

There was a fried chicken furore at KFC last night when shocked customers queued up for a bargain bucket - only to discover they'd run out of CHICKEN!
Their special Tuesday promotion offering nine pieces of chicken for £5.99 led to a chicken run and by 8pm the restaurant was clean out of all but a few burgers.

Customers took to social media to ask how a takeaway that specialises in finger-lickin chicken could run out of its signature food.

Staff at the restaurant, which has recently undergone a major refurbishment, said they'd sold 50% more chicken than any of their other Cornwall branches.

http://www.cornishman.co.uk/kfc-pen...ers-confused/story-29842286-detail/story.html
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Many fingers went unlicked.
 
Newspaper runs out of news.

Clearly a press release which loads all the details of its product, its price and the refurbishment in the first part.

To sigh that it is cheaper than paid advertising is to ignore the near-certainty that it is paid advertising, no longer signalled. Newspapers have clearly identified the food and drink market as awash with promotional money.

I wondered if this was another Mirror Group paper but it seems not. Same game, though. Promotion of the big chains is relentless while they also regularly highlight the hygiene breaches of the independent takeaways and restaurants.

No doubt such businesses will be offered opportunities to improve their reputations with a special advertising deal?

A bit of a protection racket, though the cockroach sagas tend to linger. :eek:
 
France's honest tax system crusader convicted for hiding millions of euros
Jérôme Cahuzac, the minister who led François Hollande’s drive for a more honest tax system, has been sentenced to three years in prison for tax fraud and secretly stashing his wealth in tax havens around the world.

But in 2013 he was forced to admit he had hidden his own money in an account in Switzerland for 20 years and lied about it to parliament.

Cahuzac and his ex-wife, Patricia Ménard, who was also jailed, jointly ran a hair-transplant business treating some of France’s biggest celebrities. They were found guilty of tax fraud, tax evasion and laundering the proceeds. They hid millions of euros from the tax authorities for two decades, moving their money across the world from Switzerland to Singapore and the Isle of Man.

Cahuzac furiously denied the allegations. In a four-month campaign to protest his innocence, he lied to parliament, saying he had never hidden money in Switzerland. He went on all major television stations to continue this lie and was said to have reassured Hollande he was telling the truth. The government stood by him for months, including when he resigned claiming he was innocent and needed to devote himself to fight the allegations.
Then Cahuzac made a sudden public confession in April 2013, saying he did have the account; had defrauded the taxman and had been “caught in a spiral of lies”. There could not have been a more damaging scandal for the left.
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JamesWhitehead said:
Newspaper runs out of news.

Clearly a press release which loads all the details of its product, its price and the refurbishment in the first part.

To sigh that it is cheaper than paid advertising is to ignore the near-certainty that it is paid advertising, no longer signalled. Newspapers have clearly identified the food and drink market as awash with promotional money.

I wondered if this was another Mirror Group paper but it seems not. Same game, though. Promotion of the big chains is relentless while they also regularly highlight the hygiene breaches of the independent takeaways and restaurants.



No doubt such businesses will be offered opportunities to improve their reputations with a special advertising deal?

A bit of a protection racket, though the cockroach sagas tend to linger. :eek:
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Morrisons supermarket in Cromer is open 364 days a year and so is the customer cafe .. and they never perform a deep clean ... I know this because I was one of their cafe cooks for 2 years. In all that time, the cafe didn't receive a single visit from environmental health. The kitchen was minging, I've never worked in a food place before (or since) that doesn't close down one day a week for a deep clean ..
 
I worked in chain restaurants for ten years, none of them closed one day a week. In fact, they only closed on Christmas day.

We did overnight deep cleans.
 
CarlosTheDJ said:
I worked in chain restaurants for ten years, none of them closed one day a week. In fact, they only closed on Christmas day.

We did overnight deep cleans.
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The last overnight deep clean I had to do was in Oakham in '97. Fortunately my boss was one of my best mates and he had a ton of speed so we just made a party out of it .. (I don't snort speed these days) ..
 
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Swifty said:
The last overnight deep clean I had to do was in Oakham in '97. Fortunately my boss was one of my best mates and he had a ton of speed so we just made a party out of it .. (I don't snort speed these days) ..
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Progressed to ice?
 
Mephedrone AKA 'meow meow' is similar to amphetamines.

Methedrone is very similar chemically but not as common in the UK. Often referred to as 'bath salts' in the US.
 
davidplankton said:
I read about this in the Mirror yesterday but I can't find the article online. The Independent's version doesn't have as much of an ironic slant to it...
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...And he said: “I’ve got the form and I’ve filled it in, but you cannot simply hand these things in at your local police station any more: they have to be posted off...
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Fuck me - what a unconscionable palaver that must be!

Bloody hell - if he has trouble finding a big red metal box with a letter sized hole in it and the words POST OFFICE written on the side what chance has he got of bagging a bloody partridge?
 
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