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I know the BBC have been taking a bit of a beating from some quarters in one of the other threads on here today but I feel they may have redeemed themselves because of this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-61894186
A nice little low key article with an absolutely cracking headline. Quite possibly my new favourite.
Anyone care to prove me wrong?
How cool is that!
Very niche 😉
What a strange, poorly written article.
Questions with no definition.
Weird - as a sub-editor in a former life, wasn't that impressed with the headline! Being an old fart, I can only assume it's a pun on a song I've never heard.
I'm sure STW can do better. 🙂
i wish i hadn't clicked on that really
Having been taught to write web headers in five words or fewer I shuddered when I saw that.
My favourite is still one I saw in the Northern Territory on a news board:
Cops find ‘fighting’ couple shagging
Pure class.
In our heid our acne arachnid gets knock kneed and drops deid.
Don't clap leave money on the way out.
0.3mm can't be right can it? You'd be able to feel/see them at that size?
I usually work in inches but even I can see that seems a bit off!
Fake new - [i]Exfoliate, moisturise and SPF every day are the standard in most people's skincare routine.[/i]
At least it is fake new for the men I know
You’d be able to feel/see them at that size?
Nah, they are deep in the pores of your face and only come out when you are asleep.
Ultraviolet light kills them so they can't afford to be out when you are up and about.
Back during the time of the Monika Lewiski trial a local paper in Glasgow ran a story about a guy from Pollokshields called Bill Clinton who was on trail for stealing two shirts and a jacket from Oxfam. The headline was 'Clinton Accused of Shirtlifting'
Excellent headline in the Guardian 😂
I love the priority of the new health secretary is the use of commas, not the state of the NHS!
Having been taught to write web headers in five words or fewer I shuddered when I saw that.
Having dealt with copy written for B2B publications. Honestly you'd have a breakdown at some of the paragraphs some PR companies use as headlines! Five words or fewer sounds like a dream!
Pig steals beer cans; gets drunk, fights with cow...
https://www.mynation.com/lifestyle/pig-steals-beer-cans-gets-drunk-fights-with-cow-video--psd8au
Aw, video gone.
New to me, as someone whatsapped it today 🙂
Nice.
The park next to where I grew up has a good set of parrots who have been trained along similar lines by the local yoof. Much to me and the wife’s amusement they happily told my mum to **** off last time I was there.
As for the "collie" article,
I have a friend who's a furry. They're -way- more common than you'd expect.
I used to write news headlines for my job, and I did some quite funny ones if I do say so myself.
But sometimes it's better not to even try:
But if I were writing the headline, I'd go for something like:
Lazio's fascist eagle handler fired over pecker pics
