Slow news day thread..

Emp_Fab

I imagine a coin or other weight like a small stone inside would resolve the issue.

Jimbro66

I'd assumed those crisp bags were all from Pete Doherty's lunch. He would have still been feeling peckish after that breakfast.

bingefeller

He looks like a hobo.

57Deluxe

looked like he had already brought some of it back up once...

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/1603B/production/_103117109_39935700_10155503286006541_1818437742367866880_n.jpg

EricTheWeary

BloodEagle said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

He looks as greasy as the breakfast itself.

All that money and can’t buy himself a flannel and a bar of soap 

Im going to speculate that years of rampant drug abuse etc means he does in fact not have that much money at all



He got it free - it's a challenge meal, eat it all in a set time and it's free. 

DrJazzTap

His hands look like he has been rifling through the coal bag. 4000 calories every 20 years isn't too bad though. 

Kilgore

Any update on this story? Is he now scoffing a curry and pint deal in Wetherspoons?

notanon

I call BS marketing trick and never happened. I actually complained to BBC the other day about that article asking why  are they being used as a marketing site with tax payer money.

thecolourbox

notanon said:

I call BS marketing trick and never happened. I actually complained to BBC the other day about that article asking why  are they being used as a marketing site with tax payer money.

Of all the stories on BBC news showing all kinds of unelected bias, it's this story which led you to complain?!

munckee

What the BBC are marketing a greasy spoon cafe?

notanon

thecolourbox said:

notanon said:

I call BS marketing trick and never happened. I actually complained to BBC the other day about that article asking why  are they being used as a marketing site with tax payer money.

Of all the stories on BBC news showing all kinds of unelected bias, it's this story which led you to complain?!

 @thecolourbox ;why do you think that? It is the story in the OP. I'm well aware of media bias thanks.

Not sure why the swipe?

notanon

munckee said:

What the BBC are marketing a greasy spoon cafe?

I know a few cases of fabricated events that made it on local TV station. One was a small record shop a couple of decades ago and ITV ran it - boosted trade nicely.

Chalky

notanon said:

munckee said:

What the BBC are marketing a greasy spoon cafe?

I know a few cases of fabricated events that made it on local TV station. One was a small record shop a couple of decades ago and ITV ran it - boosted trade nicely.

Used to be called a 'puff story', an article that puffs up the image of a local business who in turn would buy some paid advertising in the local rag further down the line.

Its rife on the BBC website and questions have been asked in the past about little series of articles about Paul McCartney, Adele, Kate Bush, etc nicely leading up to their show tours and album releases.  Incredibly high viz advertising for free at licence payers expense, and no doubt some backhanders for a few folks.

thecolourbox

notanon said:

thecolourbox said:

notanon said:

I call BS marketing trick and never happened. I actually complained to BBC the other day about that article asking why  are they being used as a marketing site with tax payer money.

Of all the stories on BBC news showing all kinds of unelected bias, it's this story which led you to complain?!

 @thecolourbox ;;why do you think that? It is the story in the OP. I'm well aware of media bias thanks.

Not sure why the swipe?

No swipe intended, just amused me that a benign story such as this was what tipped it over the edge for you I can sympathise as I complained once about West Midlands Railway's grammar but have never bothered to complain about their inability to run the railways in the West Midlands

Chalky

I read this and the headline described it as a "police crash" and I thought, that's not nice. Then the details show the copper fell off his bicycle.

So not quite the drama that the original headline suggested

Bystanders film Coventry police officer knocked off bike during chase - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-45350020

Chalky

A whole article about one bloke who gets annoyed when people say his name wrong.

Imagine this was about a bloke named William who got annoyed when people called him Will, Bill, or Billy?  How interesting would that be?  I know some folks get really wound up by it. Many people say my name wrong but I gave up correcting them in primary school because I decided it would no longer annoy me.  It does not deserve a new article.

Maybe its just a puff story for his podcast?

'I'm Bilal, so please don't call me Billy' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45374443

VimFuego

top story down here last week was cow gets stuck down cliff. There is a happy ending though (no, not that sort of happy ending) the cow was rescued.
It's what we love about living down here, in the London news it was all murders and stabbings and shit, here it's cows getting rescued.