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SSDD

Posted by on April 25th 2022 in In the News, Name and Shame
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Same shit, different depth:

 

More Beeb bullshit

Posted by on April 18th 2022 in In the News, Name and Shame
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For many months, the Beeb news website has been awash with maps of eastern Europe. Many of those maps show where Moldova is.
Moldova is land-locked between Ukraine and Romania. In no sense is Moldova a neighbour of Russia.

But this is on the Beeb site this evening:

Come on, Beeb, check your facts and have words with your editor.

FWIW, at the top of the page it says "Edited by Chris Giles", but I suppose that could be wrong as well.

Oh my God, the quarterback is toast!

Posted by on April 14th 2022 in In the News, LMAO!
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Back in 2017, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov was slagging off our navy,
saying that HMS Queen Elizabeth was "... just a convenient, large maritime target":

Source

Looks like the flipper's on the other foot now, eh?

Ha! In yer gob-shite face, Konashenkov!

CHURNed

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Yet again we see the Beeb playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order...

 

Let's look at the details...

The United Nations Human Right Council (on line 2) is a fiction, it should be the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The correct initialism for the United Nations Human Rights Council is UNHRC, not UNHCR.

The UNHCR is a different UN organisation, it's the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

CHURN is what the Beeb does to initialisms.

For all mankind… to see

Posted by on March 19th 2022 in Astrostuff, In the News
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Russian cosmonauts Denis Matveyev, Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Korsakov, all in Ukrainian colours, boarding the International Space Station:

It was live-streamed by both NASA and Roscosmos, so there's a fair chance that Putin saw it but couldn't stop others there seeing it.

 

War paint

Posted by on March 15th 2022 in In the News
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In case you hadn't noticed, the place has had a less-than-subtle make-over.
I can't tell you about the other support that I'm helping to provide, except to say that it's digital.