Today I'm angry about.....

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:39 pm

http://www.pcc.org.uk/news/index.html?article=NjQwNA==

The Press Complaints Commision wrote: Complainant Name:
Mr James Frankcom

Clauses Noted: 1

Publication: The Sun

Complaint:

Mr James Frankcom complained to the Press Complaints Commission that the newspaper had incorrectly implied that two thirds of Haitians drank goats' blood and danced to drums whilst practising voodoo.

Resolution:

The complaint was resolved when the PCC negotiated the publication of the following correction in the newspaper:

Voodoo

Blood

In an article on February 3, we implied two thirds of Haitians drank goats' blood while practising voodoo. We are happy to make clear this is not the case.

Date Published: 14/05/2010

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:50 pm

24th February 2010 - big banner headline and front page splash...

25th June 2010 - tiny box in top right hand corner of page 2...

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:56 pm

Relax all. I realise the error of my ways now for being annoyed. How can this guy be an unemployed bus-driver? You're either a bus driver or unemployed. Can't be both. And what use is a five-bedroomed house when you have five kids, they need at least a bedroom each. I'll have to start reading the Financial Times to see who the real villains are in this country. 'll also have to learn to differentiate between words like style, fashion,way etc to keep away from Bish's nit-pickery. I'll send the guy a monster pack of condoms in apology. No chance of him wanting to move to an even bigger house then. Oh, and I'm sueing The Sun for teling lies and getting me annoyed.

All calm now. Sorted.

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:09 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:Relax all. I realise the error of my ways now for being annoyed. How can this guy be an unemployed bus-driver? You're either a bus driver or unemployed. Can't be both. And what use is a five-bedroomed house when you have five kids, they need at least a bedroom each. I'll have to start reading the Financial Times to see who the real villains are in this country. 'll also have to learn to differentiate between words like style, fashion,way etc to keep away from Bish's nit-pickery. I'll send the guy a monster pack of condoms in apology. No chance of him wanting to move to an even bigger house then. Oh, and I'm sueing The Sun for teling lies and getting me annoyed.

All calm now. Sorted.

or..... you could just stop reading the sun - or at least - stop "believing" the bollox it writes. (though to be fair - this was also massively mis-reported by the Star and the Express too - from whence, I suspect, the story originated as part of a R***a* ***m**d fuelled racist agenda - though I may be wrong and maybe all three got it from somewhere else and slavishly copied it and maybe the *******-sized footprints all over it are a coincidence...)

(name edited by self to prevent any potential libel-action against the site by R***a* ***m**d or his brother **k****r B****f***t)

ohjimmyjimmy · Post by **ohjimmyjimmy** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:10 pm

We need more people like this gentleman and his offsprings in this country, its so refreshing knowing we have bus-driving talent in reserve and that some of our finest houses are being occupied instead of being left empty. Although i think he needs a free car, to keep his driving skills honed...if i have one criticism, its that we're somewhat letting him down on that score.

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:22 pm

I quite liked this one.... (Daily Mail)

Headline...

actual story...

The cat the family buried looked like Alfie, but wasn't actually their pet moggie at all.

As one of the comments says:

(is that you Puskas?)

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:35 pm

The Sun wrote:
The Sun today, happy to continue in our fine tradition of making shit up, bring you a new exclusive report from London

Our reporter J. Alfred Prufrock, under cover as a visiting member of the Countryside Alliance, has obtained top secret evidence that contradicts everything we said earlier. This doens't concern us, in fact it probably frees up room in our retractions section (see size 1 font on page 58, between the obituaries and the sex adverts).

Basically this whole story happened when some local resident, angry that a brown man had moved into the area, claiming this was as bad for house prices as 'those bloody gypos', rang up the Sun explaining, "he's probably an immigrant anyway, isn't he, and I hear they're all illegal. I've been through his post; he doesn't have a double-barrelled surname, nor have I seen one piece of correspondance from the East India Club. He hasn't even had any grovelling replies from the council either, suggesting he didn't even complain when the boy from number forty-eight started hanging around with that poor girl.

"Many of my best friends are black, in fact my best friend when I was young was black. Imagine how gutted I was the day my dad sold him. That said however, this is a step too far. This is Kensington. Selfridges don't even stock Um-Bongo."

Another local resident was heard to remark, "What do you mean it's ridiculous that a 'townhouse', known everywhere outside London as a terrace house should be worth £2million quid, and that the real thing to be angry about is that while folk are being laid off left right and centre, whilst thousands of people sleep rough in this country every night, some nice person is trying to charge £2k per week for a terraced house? Clearly that's all fine. It's the markets dahling. If you're fecked, it's your own fault, I mean look at me, I went to Oxford. Admittedly Oxford Brookes, and okay I only got in there because daddy bought them a new Chemistry department, but listen, I deserve this, it's in my blood! Money isn't for povs."

So there you have it. We're full of Sandras.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:00 pm

Ah, now we are tending to get a little carried away with ourselves now are we not? Who exactly mentioned, or even hinted at, racism, nationality or up/downsmanship. My post was simply about an unemployed bloke with five kids insisting a five-bedroomed house wasn't big/good enough for him - even though it was council provded and paid for- and that it was his right to have the 2 million rated property he now occupies. ( The Sun's adding he was an immigrant from Somalia hardly alters the point itself in any way)

Most of us have the right to own/rent what we can afford to pay for and keep maintained, nothing more, as most of us would be reminded if we fell behind with mortgage payments/rent etc. To insist he has a right to this sort of property whilst contributing a big fat zero to society was my only issue.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:10 pm

If that story were true as the Sun have written it I would understand your anger. Just as I'd think the Haitians were different than I'd imagined if it turned out they all drank goats blood and practised voodoo, or I'd think it wasn't on if bloody Muslims forced a council pool to black out all its windows or if the European Union really had decreed that trawlermen must wear hairnets whilst handling fish or any other amount of twisted reactionary shite they print without checking their facts just so they can tap into peoples need to be angry at someone.

My own 'reckon'. The family got abused for being brown at the old house by a bunch of racists and so were moved. Or it was rat infested. Or burst pipes and flooded. No factual basis but hey doesn't seem to stop the tabloids.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:18 pm

Prufrock wrote: My own 'reckon'. The family got abused for being brown at the old house by a bunch of racists and so were moved. Or it was rat infested. Or burst pipes and flooded. No factual basis but hey doesn't seem to stop the tabloids.

Factual? Doesn't seem to stop you either old buddy. Did he want a bigger house for more abuse, bigger rats and more burst pipes? Have you considered a job with The Sun?

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:31 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
Prufrock wrote: My own 'reckon'. The family got abused for being brown at the old house by a bunch of racists and so were moved. Or it was rat infested. Or burst pipes and flooded. No factual basis but hey doesn't seem to stop the tabloids.
Factual? Doesn't seem to stop you either old buddy. Did he want a bigger house for more abuse, bigger rats and more burst pipes? Have you considered a job with The Sun?

My point =======zoooooooooom=========>>>>

.....................Your head...............................................

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:40 pm

My

right over yours.

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:06 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:My right over yours.

ahh - does that icon now offer a license to type shite? great! I'll use it more!! that's fab!

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:12 pm

thebish wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:My right over yours.
ahh - does that icon now offer a license to type shite? great! I'll use it more!! that's fab!

Do.

InsaneApache · Post by **InsaneApache** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:39 am

I reckon you lot should have a scrap. If the lefties win the loser has to subscribe to the Guardian. If the righties win the loser has to subscribe to the sun. They'd be that much foam sloshing about they might be able to cap that oil well with it!

Hoboh · Post by **Hoboh** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:05 am

InsaneApache wrote:I reckon you lot should have a scrap. If the lefties win the loser has to subscribe to the Guardian. If the righties win the loser has to subscribe to the sun. They'd be that much foam sloshing about they might be able to cap that oil well with it!

The lefties got nukes?

Get the Sun matey!!

Whole new meaning to "frying tonight"

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:56 am

Good morning world, it's a brand new day.

Hoboh · Post by **Hoboh** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:38 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:Good morning world, it's a brand new day.

Only the gardens smiling Tango!!!

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:46 pm

Myself. Had to spend the last 4 weeks calling league, union and AFL 'football' whilst calling football 'soccer'. Almost becoming a habit and one I need to shake. Just 1 more week of it to go!

Dujon · Post by **Dujon** » Sun Jul 18, 2010 4:04 am

How time flies, jimbo. Never mind, at the first sniff of a chippy or a soggy meat pie everything will snap back into place.

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