Reality not so much 'fake' as being scripted by Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci - examples

[Mr. Tea]

Abraham Lincoln’s wax head melts off in DC heat wave

The wax sculpture - a replica of the National Mall statue — is collapsing into a blob of white goo after temperatures reached 99F

www.independent.co.uk

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Such a kind option.

By the deer's standard roughly a quarter of the UK population would be put out of their misery - this is what life will be like with fully implemented assisted dying.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Man in China caught smuggling over 100 live snakes in his trousers​

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Man in China caught smuggling over 100 live snakes in his trousers

Officers seized 104 of the scaly reptiles, including milk snakes and corn snakes

gulfnews.com

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Man in China caught smuggling over 100 live snakes in his trousers

Officers seized 104 of the scaly reptiles, including milk snakes and corn snakes

gulfnews.com

Community note: 105 live snakes

 

[Mr. Tea]

Decent one here. Makes it sound like he's got to turn it into jam or something.

Miliband urged to preserve 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium

Industry insider warns disposing of material would amount to ‘economic vandalism’

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Mr. Tea]

Nice try, Ivan.

Russia fines Google more than entire world's GDP

The mind-boggling figure has been levied due to the company restricting Russian state media on YouTube.

www.bbc.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

You can't not read that headline out loud in the style of Jeremy Clarkson, can you?

 

[Mr. Tea]

E-scooter fitted with exercise bike seized by police in Inverness

Officers spotted the machine being ridden around Inverness.

www.bbc.com

 

[william_kent]

the prescience of Mel Brooks's Spaceballs



In today's newspapers...

Italian beauty spot is selling cans of its air – and this is how much they cost​

Empty cans containing air from Lake Como are being flogged to gullible tourists for £8.40 (€10) a pop.

The sealed 400ml containers are being sold at a bookshop and a restaurant on the lake, as well as in Menaggio and Lenno, two other popular destinations at the holiday hotspot.

 

[Mr. Tea]

the prescience of Mel Brooks's Spaceballs

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In today's newspapers...

Italian beauty spot is selling cans of its air – and this is how much they cost​

"Oh for fuck's sake" - Karl Marx

 

[entertainment]

Very Don Delillo this one:

 

[sus]

E-scooter fitted with exercise bike seized by police in Inverness

Officers spotted the machine being ridden around Inverness.

www.bbc.com

Why are scooters illegal? Nutty

 

[Mr. Tea]

Why are scooters illegal? Nutty

Because they're for cunts.

 

[Mr. Tea]

House of Commons: MP apologies for drinking milk in chamber

MP Steve Witherden was given a quiet reproach for drinking milk from a carton in the Commons last week.

www.bbc.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

'Aunty' is really excelling herself today.

F-word 'particularly common in north' - tribunal judge

A judge ruled a firm where swearing was commonplace had made an unfair example of an employee.

www.bbc.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

Why exporting endangered eels to Russia makes sense | Letter

Letter: The plan to transport millions of River Severn elvers to the pristine Vistula and Curonian lagoons is a viable way to conserve the species, says Peter Wood

www.theguardian.com

 

[vershy versh]

'German woman convicted of murdering her doppelganger in attempt to fake her own death'

 

[william_kent]

'German woman convicted of murdering her doppelganger in attempt to fake her own death'

She went onto social media to search for a doppelganger and arranged to meet a 23 year-old woman, whom she then killed with the help of an acquaintance

 

[0bleak]

23 and me

 

[mixed_biscuits]

'German woman convicted of murdering her doppelganger in attempt to fake her own death'

Another Elon Musk supporting atheist. Shame on Elon.