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@izzion But I'd also have an iPhone, and thus never be able to wash the stink off me.
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@coldandtired said in In other news today...:
You're right, a high-ranking clergyman trying to whitewash a church sex abuse scandal is something so out of left field no one would have seen it coming. :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:
OK, so a dog accidentally shooting a hunter with the hunter's own rifle is a pretty News of the Weird sort of headline, I will grant you. It definitely is eye-catching.
Thing is, I was posting the original vid - and TomoNews had published in the first place - precisely because the headline "Man Bites Dog" is the canonical example of how to make a good headline on a slow news day. It has been the go-to example of the difference between something that isn't really newsworthy (dog bites man) and something that is completely unexpected and thus newsworthy even if it isn't important (man bites dog) since at least the days of William Randolph Hearst, if not earlier.
In fact, Wicked-Pedo says just it is a bit earlier:
The phrase was coined by Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922), a British newspaper magnate, but is also attributed to New York Sun editor John B. Bogart (1848–1921): "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news." The quote is also attributed to Charles Anderson Dana (1819–1897). Some consider it a principle of yellow journalism.
Hell, it was so shop-worn, and so widely known to the general public, that they made references to it in some older Bugs Bunny cartoons.
So just by using it in the video title, TomoNews was making a sly wink to the audience - "ha ha, we've got a case of this ancient joke actually happening, isn't that funny?".
Admittedly, the "Dog Shoots Man" thing is a pretty common alternative form of the aphorism, but it doesn't have quite the iconic status of "Man Bites Dog".
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t
Too bad you didn't get an iPhone, then it would just be slow all the time, rather than shutting off earlyNot all the time. It gets slower as it ages! (OMG - is it alive? It's like ... us!)
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@dcon
Well, I was presupposing that @e4tmyl33t's phone was already pushing retirement age, given the spontaneous depowering.
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@izzion It is, it's a couple months past 2 years old at this point (A Nexus 6P I got on launch day).
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
OK, so a dog accidentally shooting a hunter with the hunter's own rifle is a pretty News of the Weird sort of headline, I will grant you. It definitely is eye-catching.
The picture shows a man shooting a rifle, but the text says he was shot with his own shotgun. Great stock photo fail there, Newsweek.
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Filed Under: Wait, they shot a dog that was already dead? Whoever wrote that headline needs a refresher course on avoiding ambiguity.
This. Although it may have been intentional; weird, misleading, or ambiguous headlines get more clicks — at least I assume so, based on the number of them that I see.
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Well, isn't this just fucking lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vx_MeWmEPA
Aaaaand.... they can't even agree on whether the problem has been fixed or not, so it almost certainly hasn't. HAND.
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@scholrlea Oh boy, yet another reason to be glad I always use an ad-blocker.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
The picture shows a man shooting a rifle, but the text says he was shot with his own shotgun. Great stock photo fail there, Newsweek.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
So far it seems it's mostly men they had making negative comments in that article? How about doing the unthinkable and just ask women?
A huge downer is also that the news outlet came up with the term "cry space".
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@jbert It's the DailyFail. What did you expect?
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
A huge downer is also that the news outlet came up with the term "cry space".
Person: "Maybe we could do [thing] to make life slightly easier for [group of people]"
Headline: "Liberal SJWs demand EXCLUSIVE SAFE SPACE for [group of people] to literally cry in, say 'white males' would not be allowed!"
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
So far it seems it's mostly men they had making negative comments in that article? How about doing the unthinkable and just ask women?
Sure, let's just ask some women whether they think women deserve to get more breaks than their male coworkers.
The question itself should be insulting to women.
Are they trying to justify the wage gap or something?
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Seems like open-and-shut negligence to me. The staff knows (or should know) the precautions to take with an MRI. I've always been asked to remove all of my jewelry, even though it's not ferromagnetic and it's nowhere near the part of my body that's being scanned.
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
Seems like open-and-shut negligence to me. The staff knows (or should know) the precautions to take with an MRI. I've always been asked to remove all of my jewelry, even though it's not ferromagnetic and it's nowhere near the part of my body that's being scanned.
But the article said he was told not to take metal in:
he said 'sab chalta hai, hamara roz ka kaam hai' (it's fine, we do it every day),"
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
But the article said he was told not to take metal in:
he said 'sab chalta hai, hamara roz ka kaam hai' (it's fine, we do it every day),"
Reading comprehension fail. That's Solanki's account; he alleges that they're the ones who said they shouldn't take metal in and it was the ward boy (hospital staff) saying "it's fine, we do it every day".
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@heterodox Ah. Totally missed that.
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his hand got stuck in the machine, following which ward boys pried his body out. He was rushed to the emergency room where he was declared dead within 10 minutes.
This sequence of events does not make sense.
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@boner Ward boy?
(Note that I found a lot of other pictures I could have used when doing that search. Many of them NSFW, and some of which would probably get me put on a registry if I posted a link to them...)
Filed Under: Yeah, I get that they meant one of the orderlies, but comprehension is a to humor.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
@karla
This just in, herd animals like to be in a herd. News at 11.Yes, but I've never herd of something like this happening before...
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Filed Under: Wait, they shot a dog that was already dead?
Once beating horses stops being productive, you've gotta move on to something new...
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Filed Under: Wait, they shot a dog that was already dead?
Once beating horses stops being productive, you've gotta move on to something new...
I thought the whole point of beating horses was that when it stops being productive you don't move on to something new.
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Yeah, MRI machines remain superconducting unless quenched. Don't believe anyone that says it's "off".
Hopefully it's just bad reporting, but it claims the actual cause of death was not crush injuries but aspiration of liquid oxygen from the container he was carrying. I'd have thought a bottle of gaseous oxygen would be far more likely, but if not then drinking liquid oxygen is pretty high on the 'ways I don't want to die' list.
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@cursorkeys obligatory black humor: he just needed to chill out a bit.
But yes, LOX (not to be confused with a bagel condiment) is a bad way to die.
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@benjamin-hall I expect that TomoNews will have a video on it as soon as they get their grubby paws on it. This is the sort of story tabloid journalists love, and Tomo are definitely of that caliber, even if they (like El Reg) are self-aware enough to wear their lack of journalistic integrity with pride.
Hey, at least they make it funny. Intentionally, that is, unlike certain other entertainews outlets.
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
I've always been asked to remove all of my jewelry, even though it's not ferromagnetic
Static magnetic field only attracts ferromagnetic things. But alternating magnetic field will fling around anything conductive with pretty impressive force too—or heat it up when the frequency is higher.
@dcon said in In other news today...:
even though it's not ferromagnetic and it's nowhere near the part of my body that's being scanned.
The magnet is all around you. It will affect metal anywhere in the room.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
Static magnetic field only attracts ferromagnetic things. But alternating magnetic field will fling around anything conductive with pretty impressive force too—or heat it up when the frequency is higher.
This video shows something similar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENgdSF8ppA
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@bb36e said in In other news today...:
How is this guy not bigger than I am? Seriously, he looks pretty average weight (for a 'Murrican
e), but... eating that many donuts? I'd expect him to be on My 600 lb Life at that rate...Filed Under: <insert joke about how fast police deal with doughnut shop robberies here>
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
even though it's not ferromagnetic and it's nowhere near the part of my body that's being scanned.
Uh. No I didn't...
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
@heterodox said in In other news today...:
I've always been asked to remove all of my jewelry, even though it's not ferromagnetic
Static magnetic field only attracts ferromagnetic things.
You also have to watch out for diamagnetism, though. The forces created are a bit smaller, however, and run counter to the exterior field.
But alternating magnetic field will fling around anything conductive with pretty impressive force too—or heat it up when the frequency is higher.
The frequency doesn't play a very big role. What you're thinking of is something akin to a transformer with the receiving end having a winding number approaching or equal to 1.
It's also usually both as a result - the induction current creates a massive counter force and heats up the metal quite nicely to boot.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@bb36e said in In other news today...:
How is this guy not bigger than I am? Seriously, he looks pretty average weight (for a 'Murrican
e), but... eating that many donuts? I'd expect him to be on My 600 lb Life at that rate...Filed Under: <insert joke about how fast police deal with doughnut shop robberies here>
I've seen many skinny competitive eaters. Very high metabolism I suppose.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
How is this guy not bigger than I am? Seriously, he looks pretty average weight (for a 'Murricane), but... eating that many donuts? I'd expect him to be on My 600 lb Life at that rate...
Competitive eaters are almost always skinny, being fat actually makes it harder to eat like that. To eat that much so quickly, you need extreme elasticity in your stomach, the fatter you are the less elasticity that you have and thus the harder it will be for you to compete.
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@scholrlea I like to think that he invaded that doughnut shop to eat their donuts, because he is that crazy about eating donuts
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea I like to think that he invaded that doughnut shop to eat their donuts, because he is that crazy about eating donuts
The first officer on the scene reportedly heard him saying
"It was for practice, I swear!"
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
It's also usually both as a result - the induction current creates a massive counter force and heats up the metal quite nicely to boot.
I was thinking that high frequency would cause just vibration, but actually the force is repulsive for any direction of the magnetic field, so it should repel it either way. And heat it, that certainly.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Did they check nearby medical school freezers?
I know of a Bible student who almost got kicked out of Bible college for a practical joke involving a frozen bear paw. He had a friend who was a medical student and so had access to the freezers and another friend who was working the night shift for campus security. The latter friend's patrol route took him past the piano practice rooms, so the guy left the paw on one of the pianos for his friend to find, freak out a moment, then realize that his friends had to have set it up, and then have a laugh with them about it.
As it turned out, though, the friend had traded shifts that night with a new guy on the security team, so the newbie found the paw, totally freaked out, alerted his superiors in campus security, who called the police, who called the FBI, who had the campus close down while they investigated. Of course, they quickly determined that it was not human and allowed the campus to continue with their day.
At the morning chapel service (required attendance for all students and all but emergency staff), the college president said that they had learned that it was a prank and that they knew who was responsible for it, and would he please come the president's office after chapel. The president (who later told this story) said that he had never before this instance looked forward to kicking someone out of school, but when the kid (who had good grades and an otherwise clean record) came in, hat in hand, and never once tried to excuse himself or shift any of the blame, he just couldn't do it. I think the guy did receive a bunch of demerits, so he had to keep his nose clean for the rest of the year, but it wasn't like he was rebellious against any of the rules anyways.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Darn, I will literally never be able to use this App... Because it's not free to play.
*Reads title and preview*
*Invests in phone battery emulation software*
??????
*PROFITS*
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@ScholRLEA said in In other news today...:
Filed Under: Wait, they shot a dog that was already dead? Whoever wrote that headline needs a refresher course on avoiding ambiguity.
The dog that was left alone in the freezing cold was shot dead by police.
However, the actual headline avoids both the passive voice and past tense, which are presumably to increase interest in the article (as news media attempt to do) and get more clicks/reads (as websites attempt to do).
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
@karla
This just in, herd animals like to be in a herd. News at 11.Yes, but I've never herd of something like this happening before...
The bad jokes topic is
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Art teacher in Utah finds a bundle of artwork post cards, hands out a few stacks to groups of students to discuss. Turns out some contain nudity so he took them away.
One kid must have told his parents because an anonymous complaint to the sheriff and school district made him suspect for "handing out pornography". The sheriff closes the case but meanwhile parents are livid so the teacher must go, because he showed art in his art class.
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@jbert Because, obviously, those students never saw nudity before
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@timebandit For the record, the article seems to say that it was a class of 10-year-olds. I guess it's still a few more years before some of them get testosterone poisoning.
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