Media mistakes

[gomezz]

There is a catch with Brabantia - or rather there isn't any more on mine.

(bodged up a fix with a cable tie and a Triumph motorbike leather key fob )

 

[Luke]

I can't think of a single thing in the UK that has improved in recent years no matter who owned it.

Jaguar?

 

[EEPhil]

Jaguar?

I wouldn't know. Never owned one. Never likely to own one.

 

[EEPhil]

Difficult to find this. On the BBC News page there were (may still be) a set of videos, can't capture them or the page. There was a "hover-over" text that read:

BBC Sport looks into the ball technology used at the Fifa World Cup and whether it showed the areial camera interfering with England's first goal against Norway

What is it with people unable to spell "aerial"? The worst spelling I've seen is "antenna"!

 

[gomezz]

The sub-editor obviously thinking about having to do their laundry when they finish work.

 

[EEPhil]

The sub-editor obviously thinking about having to do their laundry when they finish work.

Different spelling. Washing powder is "Ariel" not "areial".

 

[prpr]

can't capture them or the page.

 

[EEPhil]

Wonder why you could capture it and I couldn't. Perhaps a browser problem.

 

[gomezz]

Different spelling. Washing powder is "Ariel" not "areial".

Yes, I know.

 

[prpr]

Spotted this the other night on BBC Four. It wouldn't have got past my "editor's eye" but obviously it did for several others.

 

[HugeMaximum]

Spotted this the other night on BBC Four. It wouldn't have got past my "editor's eye" but obviously it did for several others.

It very much stands out for me - as so used to seeing the MCM prefix. Must be a slip of the keyboard, X being next to C.

 

[EEPhil]

Not even sure that is a valid date. I guess it was supposed to be 1992.
If it is valid - would it be 1000 (M) +990 (XM) +90 (XC) +2 (II) = 2082?

 

[prpr]

XM is invalid. You can only go a maximum of one power of 10. I had an animated discussion with an ex-colleague about this many years ago, possibly around 1999 when he was questioning why it couldn't be MIM.

 

[prpr]

Spotted this the other night on BBC Four.

It seems to have afflicted the first 6 out of the 7 episodes of series 3 of the Bucket woman. Somebody twigged a bit too late it seems.

 

[HugeMaximum]

It seems to have afflicted the first 6 out of the 7 episodes of series 3 of the Bucket woman. Somebody twigged a bit too late it seems.

Early example of copy & paste, amending the end... forgetting to check the beginning!

 

[gomezz]

When was the last time anyone physically did a cut and paste?

(blackmailers aside)

 

[EEPhil]

In the last year I cut a paper label and stuck it over an entry in my book of passwords (ran out of Tipp-ex) - does that count as a physical cut and paste?

 

[HugeMaximum]

They have digitised the making of ransom notes now...
https://ransom-note.vercel.app/