Media mistakes

[prpr]

can hike the prices up

What is the point of the word "up" here? Can prices be hiked down?
It's just another tautology.

 

[gomezz]

Didn't Kate Bush write a song about that?

 

[Robobunny]

Mark Webber (F1 build-up last Sun, I'm days behind) said the pit lane loss is massive, "nearly over 30 seconds". Hmm. I wonder which driver will do the thirty-second pit stop

 

[prpr]

Tonight on BBC1 within about 5 minutes or so:
(c) Rogan Productions MMXIV
Dame Esther Rantzan

 

[EEPhil]

Tonight on BBC1 within about 5 minutes or so:
(c) Rogan Productions MMXIV
Dame Esther Rantzan

Don't know what programme you're referring to. Was this an end board of a programme or a segment within something else?
Are you questioning the spelling or the ennobling of Rantzen before the event (Jan 2015) , or both? Or is it a recent programme MMXXIV wrongly dated? So many possible mistakes.

 

[prpr]

It was the end of the Nicola Bulley programme, which clearly should have been 2024 not 2014.
The speeling error was on the nooze following, which should have been Rantzen.

 

[EEPhil]

Couldn't organise one in a brewery, could they?

 

[prpr]

No.
Would you want to be Laura K at the moment?

 

[EEPhil]

Subtle way of avoiding an interview with Boris.

 

[Black Hole]

Couldn't organise one in a brewery, could they?

or perhaps an x in a knocking shop.

 

[EEPhil]

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has reportedly put a stop to plans for a significant pensions tax raid ...
This decision follows Labour's abandonment of plans to reintroduce the pensions lifetime allowance cap in June...The cap was abolished by Jeremy Hund during the previous government as part of an effort to boost NHS staff numbers,

At least it wasn't the usual mistake made when referring to the former chancellor.

 

[trog]

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-10-10/bbc-weather-apologises-for-incorrectly-forecasting-hurricane-winds-in-uk

 

[Black Hole]

More than hurricane, I think their app was showing wind speeds of tens of thousands of miles an hour. Unfortunately that was still in the range preset as "hurricane" rather than "that's ridiculous unless you're on Jupiter".

 

[prpr]

Clearly nobody thought to put any gross error checks in.

 

[everthewatcher]

From the instructions for an electric luggage scale:



Hint: Point 2.

 

[trog]

From the instructions for an electric luggage scale:

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Hint: Point 2.

Where was it made? if China it rates as a 9.9/10, they even spelt stationery correctly.

 

[gomezz]

Are you making the assumption that "stationary" means paper products?

Edit: Ah! Now I see it.

 

[Robobunny]

I'm usually behind on current events, but keep up Victoria...(and not a subtitle error, she did say it)

 

[Black Hole]

Wasn't sure whether to put this in AvP (seen in today's Mail):

 

[SemiRamis]

Wasn't sure whether to put this in AvP (seen in today's Mail):

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Only because the writer assumes he can write english.