New favourite headline

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 – Exfoliate, moisturise and SPF every day are the standard in most people’s skincare routine.

At least it is fake new for the men I know

Alternative facial?

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.

FACE OFF DISASTER FOR MITEY ****

Wrecked semi shoots load of dildos and lube all over I-40…

Great headline writing. pic.twitter.com/6NxV0J0S7c

— Robert Rotifer (@robertrotifer) September 15, 2022

👏🏼

gonna be hard to explain this headline to my parents when I next see them pic.twitter.com/1JZgBWKkyT

— Lewis Capaldi (@LewisCapaldi) September 15, 2022

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!

Chapeau to the Guardian there!

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!

A Philadelphia man ate 40 rotisserie chickens in 40 days. Why?

37 consecutive days eating an entire rotisserie chicken #chicken pic.twitter.com/83UJIYwbgw

— smooth recess (@AlexiconTom) November 3, 2022

No

— smooth recess (@AlexiconTom) November 3, 2022

Obstructed breathing passages?

Sex could trigger life-threatening asthma attacks, study warns https://t.co/mbUD0wa7bU pic.twitter.com/MhJ9DlQOie

— New York Post (@nypost) November 12, 2022

Decades of climate science haven’t solved the problem. Can the royal family?

No, they cannot.

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 🙂

Enraged wife stabs husband with ceramic squirrel because he didn’t buy beer

Wow. pic.twitter.com/kGHtFOhwot

— Dessa (@dessadarling) February 28, 2023

Five parrots separated at British zoo after encouraging each other to curse profusely at guests

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.

Man who spent $20K to transform himself into border collie steps out for first-ever walk in public

We have a contender.

It’s about terrorism in the Philippines. Grow up ???? pic.twitter.com/Ayf6RyKZPk

— Angry People in Local Newspapers (@angrypiln) August 3, 2023

As for the “collie” article,

I have a friend who’s a furry. They’re -way- more common than you’d expect.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-66415545?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_format=link&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_type=web_link&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_id=2B5413C6-338D-11EE-AF81-5C005C3BE886&at_medium=social&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_origin=BBCNews&at_ptr_name=twitter

The link from above.

Joe Pasquale impaled in freak moose antler incident in Skegness

WTF were they thinking?

Grenade birthday gift kills Ukraine army chief's aide https://t.co/FycKi3Wix8

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 7, 2023

Hunter crushed to death by bear that was shot out of tree by member of his hunting party

^ crushing headlines.

‘Missing’ GOP Congresswoman Not Seen For Six Months Finally Found Living at Dementia Care Home