Since when did a WWII Luftwaffe Ju88 look like this?
Surely the proof-reader or the copy writer at the MailOnline actually looked at the pic and noticed the insignia before approving the web-story for publication?
Hat-tip to CJR for sending me the link. He reads this drivel, and the fact that it IS drivel is why I don't read newspapers.
Who else would put an "e" in potato?
Aside from that, the notion of there being P/Toe in my soup is a little unsettling.
Here's the blast from the past: https://youtu.be/6tmoSGmvR1o
It's going from bad to worse at the Beeb:
Well done!
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous grammar
Or to take arms against a sea of illiterates...
Here's evidence that The Beeb uses your licence fee to pay infant-school kids to input data - this sample of their output is from today's BBC News:
That was at 14:42. They must have been kept back after school to do it again - by 16:36 they'd posted a different yet still flawed version:
Burger King, Hinckley, on Saturday evening:
Don't be fooled - it's a lie!
There's very little point in displaying the above signs when BOTH of your machines are broken and there's nobody on the premises who can fix them.
And when someone orders a Steakhouse WITHOUT CHEESE, and you say that you'll tell the kitchen staff to not put cheese on it, make damned sure that they listen, understand, and perform.
And then, when that someone sends back the one that you brought, the one WITH CHEESE despite you allegedly telling the kitchen staff, don't replace it with one without cheese AND WITHOUT BACON.
And when you advertise a corn dusted bun, MAKE SURE THAT IT HAS SOME CORN DUSTING ON IT.
Here's a visual aid for the terminally-stupid:
I won't be back.
Unless I do so like this:
Chapter II
You'll recall the hassle I've had with the folks at Reader's Digest. Well, there's more...
Contrary to Brian's optimistic claim that I'd receive the item within a few days, it didn't arrive. What did arrive on 7th January was a letter, dated 4th January 2013, stating "We have despatched this item recently and it is possible that it has simply been delayed on its way to you. I would expect the goods to arrive within two weeks of you receiving this letter..."
Well, I gave them the two weeks, and then another week because of the bad weather, and then another day because I wasn't in the mood for listening to any bullshit excuses. Suffice to say that item still hadn't arrived by this morning so I called them yet again and ended up speaking to Fiona.
Fiona was very helpful. She said that they'd stopped selling books on or just after 4th January and that I wouldn't be getting my item. She avoided accounting for the fact that this meant that the statement in the letter was a bare-faced lie. I asked why they'd not contacted me after their sales-policy change to tell me of the online shop closure issue and to amend the status of my order, she didn't or wouldn't say why I'd heard nothing. She said that I'll get a refund through the post within seven days. Then she said that I could enter a prize-draw for a holiday. Choking back my incredulity I declined, telling her that if they couldn't correctly deliver something as simple as a book, I would hardly trust them to come good with a holiday if I was to win one.
Having put up with incompetence, delaying-tactics, utter rudeness and bare-faced lying from some of the other Customer Service personnel there, I'm hopeful that Fiona will be true to her words. I'm not holding my breath, though. They've got seven days, if I've not got the refund by then I'll get the Visa folk involved.
Meanwhile, one of my relatives is still waiting for a Christmas present.
