2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.
-
[Google Translation to English]
Basically it took the police to release unpixellated pictures of him.
-
Ah, yes, Fria Tider. The most reputable of news sites in Sweden.
(Explanation for international viewers: It's a nationalist site that has a history of bending the truth to fit their world view.)
-
@Atazhaia said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
It's a nationalist site that has a history of bending the truth to fit their world view
Oh, it's the Swedish equivalent of our Daily Mail.
-
@RaceProUK said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@Atazhaia said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
It's a nationalist site that has a history of bending the truth to fit their world view
Oh, it's the Swedish equivalent of our Daily Mail.
or the National Enquirer, or the Sun
-
@accalia Typically, the Sun isn't seen as a nationalist newspaper (it's more commonly seen as socialist), although I do agree it's a stretch to call it a newspaper.
No idea about the Inquirer.
-
Our English teacher in school had us read The Sun for tasks. Like find article and explain what it is about kind of stuff, look up difficult words, etc. And every time he reminded us not to look at page 3. It was one of many -worthy classes I had. And by that time (my age being ~16), internet and gaming had already raised my English skills to far above the level of that class.
-
@Atazhaia said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
difficult words
@Atazhaia said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
The Sun
Those two things don't go together.
-
@RaceProUK They were probably difficult words for the teacher.
-
@RaceProUK said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@accalia Typically, the Sun isn't seen as a nationalist newspaper (it's more commonly seen as socialist), although I do agree it's a stretch to call it a newspaper.
No idea about the Inquirer.they're both tabloids, they never report the news truthfully except by accident.
-
They might be forbidden from showing the guy's face by law. Or maybe it's a grey area and the newspapers want to stay out of potential trouble.
-
@accalia True, but there's a difference between being a sensationalist tabloid, and being the Daily Mail: the latter is 62358796247586943257849637528647823684.9 times worse.
-
@RaceProUK said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
No idea about the Inquirer.
Well, I've never actually read it, but my understanding is that it's a different kind of animal to any of the British tabloids.
The tagline for The National Enquirer, to give it its full name (just barely visible in the picture) is "Enquiring minds want to know" (or it was in the 1980s, anyway), and it's full of "stories" of the "I had Elvis's two-headed alien baby" type. That said, my late wife had, during the mid-late 80s, a room-mate who read it religiously and appeared to believe every word...
But my prize memory of The Sun was a day in August 2007 when I was going to an out-patient appointment for ongoing care for a broken hand(1). Being August, most of the papers were in "Silly Season" mode, and there was almost no front-page coverage of the previous day's major stock-market convulsions. Why "almost no coverage"? Why not "no coverage"? Well, there was ONE headline on the subject. In letters two inches tall on the cover of The Sun. "BILLIONS WIPED OFF STOCK MARKET". Not a peep on any of the other front pages, not even the Financial Times.
(1) Fifth metacarpal - the long bone at the edge of the palm that connects the little finger to the wrist. There's a common fracture of this bone, called "Boxer's Break" or, sometimes and more accurately, "Brawler's Break". This is a transverse break that happens often on Friday and Saturday nights when young men get in fights and hit each other, or walls, with the "weak" fingers of the hand. Boxers don't do this, of course...
Me? No, I had to be different, and had a "spiral" fracture. Spiral fractures are caused by twisting loads on the bone, and are the messiest 'simple' fractures.
-
@RaceProUK said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
No idea about the
IEnquirer.It's always been a joke (I mean, as in literal fake news) except for a single story:
-
@boomzilla I think I saw an @error there
-
@RaceProUK said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@Atazhaia said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
It's a nationalist site that has a history of bending the truth to fit their world view
Oh, it's the Swedish equivalent of our Daily Mail.
Worse. Think Breitbart but for right-wing extremists.
-
@Atazhaia said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
And every time he reminded us not to look at page 3.
I'm sure after the first week he needn't have bothered, because everyone had already done so, and had taken it upon themselves to either do it again every chance going forward, or to follow the teacher's instructions to the letter from that point onward. Probably mostly the former.
-
@blek said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
They might be forbidden from showing the guy's face by law. Or maybe it's a grey area and the newspapers want to stay out of potential trouble.
IIRc it is more of a general agreement that any newspaper who claims to be serious do not reveal the identity of people unless they are convicted. If the police is looking for help it is up to them to publish the picture.
-
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
Worse. Think Breitbart but for right-wing extremists.
So... just Breitbart?
-
@Maciejasjmj said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
Worse. Think Breitbart but for right-wing extremists.
So... just Breitbart?
/me knowingly touches the side of his nose.
-
@Mikael_Svahnberg said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
/me knowingly touches the side of his nose.
DID YOUR NOSE CONSENT?!?!
-
@accalia said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
they're both tabloids, they never report the news truthfully except by accident.
WHAT??? You mean Men In Black isn't true???
-
@Steve_The_Cynic said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
Me? No, I had to be different, and had a "spiral" fracture. Spiral fractures are caused by twisting loads on the bone, and are the messiest 'simple' fractures.
I did that to my tibia once. I twisted my ankle, and snapped my leg in the middle. I'd like to say that's because I don't do things by halves but as it happens that's inaccurate here because I managed to break the tibia without the fibula.
They said a spiral fracture should heal more easily than a clean break because there's more contact between the bones. But after it'd taken a month longer than expected to heal they admitted that my fibula being intact meant it was pushing the ends of the tibia apart. The moral if this story is, if you're going to break your leg, do it thoroughly.
-
@CarrieVS how many bones have you broken?
-
@Jaloopa said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@CarrieVS how many bones have you broken?
That one’s easy: too many.
-
@Jaloopa Technically three. Tibia when I was a kid, radius and ulna this year, but the ulnar fracture was just the styloid process and not worth worrying about.
-
My brother had a bone broken by a doctor. Deliberately, as the stated intent of a surgical procedure.
-
@CarrieVS said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@Jaloopa Technically three. Tibia when I was a kid, radius and ulna this year, but the ulnar fracture was just the styloid process and not worth worrying about.
So bones that people break all the time. Not only that, but you can actually have a cast put on. When I break a bone, I break atypical stuff or stuff that can't easily be immobilized.
When I was 2, I took a fall onto a toy car. Back then, toy cars were all die-cast metal, and the thing cracked my right collar-bone. The doctor just put some straps around my shoulders and across my back to help make sure I didn't hunch and make the fracture worse or put extra strain on the fracture.
Then, when I was 11, I did a flip on my family's trampoline, but didn't quite make it all the way around and landed flat on my back. Since I landed flat, I should've been okay, except my body bounced more than my head, and my chin connected with the middle of my chest, snapping my sternum in two. Doctor said that since the break was clean and the two halves were nicely lined up, he couldn't do anything but advise certain physical exertion restrictions, so I was out of some of my chores at home and off the swim team for the season.
-
@masonwheeler said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
My brother had a bone broken by a doctor. Deliberately, as the stated intent of a surgical procedure.
Broken or re-broken? I've only heard of the latter, when it heals wrong and it's better to re-break it than let the arm or leg grow at the wrong angle.
-
@Maciejasjmj Broken, as in for the first time.
He had a bone defect as a child where one of his thigh bones (not the technical word but I don't remember what it is off the top of my head) stopped growing years too early, and eventually fell out of the socket, because the pelvis and hip did keep growing like normal. Apparently the fix was to break and set the bone, which somehow "rebooted" the bone growth mechanism. Today he's got a pretty impressive scar on his thigh, but he walks just fine.
-
@masonwheeler oh, @cloak15 had something similar: his legs were different lengths. he can tell you all about it
-
@abarker said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
When I break a bone, I break atypical stuff or stuff that can't easily be immobilized.
When I break a bone it's someone else's.
-
@masonwheeler Ah! Do you know if he had Adolescent Blount's Disease?
-
@cloak15 No, this was well before adolescence actually. I think it happened when he was 8.
-
@abarker Well that's me put in my place.
-
@abarker One of my kids broke a clavicle during birth. A delegation of nurses came into our maternity room and said "We think there's a fracture. We'd like to take some x-rays, is that okay with you?" (Um, yes please.)
An orthopedic surgeon we know told us that at that age, two halves of a clavicle could be at opposite ends of a room and they'd find each other.
-
@Maciejasjmj said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@masonwheeler said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
My brother had a bone broken by a doctor. Deliberately, as the stated intent of a surgical procedure.
Broken or re-broken? I've only heard of the latter, when it heals wrong and it's better to re-break it than let the arm or leg grow at the wrong angle.
I've heard of some cosmetic procedures that involve breaking parts of the bones in the face and letting them heal at a different angle so as to change the exact position and shape of the cheekbones.
-
@boomzilla said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@abarker said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
When I break a bone, I break atypical stuff or stuff that can't easily be immobilized.
When I break a bone it's someone else's.
The admin person in a place I worked once came in with her arm in a sling (by coincidence, a couple of months after I broke my hand). "What happened?" Well, it was a broken collarbone - she and some friends were out on the lash, and one of the friends, somewhat the worse for drink, stumbled and bashed the collarbone with her head, and succeeded in breaking it.
-
@Atazhaia said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
It's a nationalist site that has a history of bending the truth to fit their world view.
It's better than bending the world to fit their one true view
-
@Steve_The_Cynic said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
I've heard of some cosmetic procedures that involve breaking parts of the bones in the face and letting them heal at a different angle so as to change the exact position and shape of the cheekbones.
I know a person who had a similar, semi-cosmetic procedure to change the shape of her jaw.
-
I've had a break once, and it was both elbows. The doctors didn't think there was anything wrong as I wasn't in too much pain, I just couldn't straighten my arms. I saw them looking at the X rays and calling other people over to look, and suddenly they were taking me more seriously and gave me a bed rather than making me sit in the waiting area.
The technician who put my casts on said those magic words you never want to hear from a medical professional: "I've never done this before". Putting two arms in a cast with bent elbows is not a common procedure
-
@Maciejasjmj said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
Broken or re-broken? I've only heard of the latter, when it heals wrong and it's better to re-break it than let the arm or leg grow at the wrong angle.
The former is usually to correct some birth/developmental defect (occasionally it's purely cosmetic). It might be to change the shape of the bone but a common application is lengthening limbs, either for pure cosmetic reasons, or some people with dwarfism have it done, or if someone has their legs different lengths.
-
@RaceProUK said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
the Sun isn't seen as a nationalist newspaper (it's more commonly seen as socialist)
WAT?
It's usually seen as promoting scantily clad ladies who want to get into “modelling” and leading the campaign for fewer syllables in words. It's the Mirror which is the socialist one; the Sun is constrained by its owner. OTOH, their coverage of some sports is fairly thorough, on the grounds that that's what the readers mostly seem to want.
-
@dkf said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@RaceProUK said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
the Sun isn't seen as a nationalist newspaper (it's more commonly seen as socialist)
WAT?
It's usually seen as promoting scantily clad ladies who want to get into “modelling” and leading the campaign for fewer syllables in words. It's the Mirror which is the socialist one; the Sun is constrained by its owner. OTOH, their coverage of some sports is fairly thorough, on the grounds that that's what the readers mostly seem to want.
Gah! Fake news news!
-
@dkf said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
It's usually seen as promoting scantily clad ladies who want to get into “modelling”
Is this somehow a problem?
-
@loopback0 Probably if you were expecting some nationalist socialism.
-
@boomzilla said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@loopback0 Probably if you were expecting some nationalist socialism.
I prefer not to think too seriously about which paper is in which orientation and just keep an eye out for boobs.
-
@loopback0 said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@dkf said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
It's usually seen as promoting scantily clad ladies who want to get into “modelling”
Is this somehow a problem?
If they were any good, they would already be in modelling, not trying to get into. So yes, that is a problem.
-
@boomzilla said in 2 news sites report story about sex-attacker. Ask for help. Both blur out his face.:
@loopback0 Probably if you were expecting some nationalist socialism.
No, it's the Mail that supported the Nazis