Please please PLEASE don't give the Daily Star clicks and revenue
They're shit-stirring, racist, xenophobic, rage-baiting cunts and the fucking bottom of the barrel in journalism
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2024
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They’re shit-stirring, racist, xenophobic, rage-baiting cunts and the fucking bottom of the barrel in journalism
You could say that about most of the tabloid press but it's a good point, so I've switched the link to the Internet Archive and will try and do that when dealing with the gutter press.
On UKPol, we have a "reputable source" rule, which is often a good guide. People tend to interpret it as "not the daily mail/star/express/s*n".
Though I guess it can be less serious over here. Maybe a "try to find a non-crap source, otherwise archive.is/screenshot."
Sunday Sport, for example, home of the creme-egg-bum-man:
It was originally in the Liverpool Echo but for an And Finally... I tend to pick the source with the best headline.
And that Sunday Sport story is a favourite for circulating on WhatsApp at Easter.
A decent ad blocking setup should prevent any real revenue.
Michael Whitty was caught with thousands of pounds of cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine after arousing the suspicions of sniffer dogs who took a shine to his backside at Manchester Airport
This article takes on a whole new level of interest if "pounds" refers to the Imperial unit for weight rather than British currency.
'Dieting experts hate this weight loss trick!'
That's now how I am interpreting it.
So is that the reason why Kiner Surprise eggs are illegal in the US?
Yeah, Big Sandwich Bag's lobbyists are fucking good...
Man all the ones I've ever had, have only had a little toy in them
This story is really unlikely on the face of it. Either they saw that shit on the x ray machine, or he was acting really weird, or they caught him via social media and used the drug dog as the pretense to stop him.
Scent trained dogs can only alert on one scent, and most of them are trained for explosives and not illegal pharmaceuticals. They can still be given a signal to alert on someone by their handler and this happens more than you would expect, since the entire point of the dog is to create a pretext.
Our Mikey, always full of surprises.