welshbairn Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 4 minutes ago, GordonD said: Woman wants name in paper so cracks open three eggs and claims all the yolks came from one of them. Not that I'm suggesting this is what happened. We get our eggs from a fish van and regularly get a box full of double yolks, never had a triple though. I think her chickens and ducks have been getting it on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 26 minutes ago, GordonD said: Woman wants name in paper so cracks open three eggs and claims all the yolks came from one of them. Not that I'm suggesting this is what happened. I've been this cynical in the past, but I've now heard a first hand account from someone who ended up in a DC Thomson publication without realising that's what was going to happen. Their "journalists" scrape social media groups looking mostly for "interesting" photos, ask if said photo can be published in the paper while giving the impression it's for the slow-news-heres-some-nice-photos page, but then build an entire HIGLNFY-type article around it. I'm certainly not as quick to judge people about wanting their name in the paper now I know how 90% of them actually got there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 Me and the missus almost made it into the Daily Record when we got engaged in 1854. I cant quite remember how it came about but they phoned us up and some reporter boy met us in Dundee and took some cheesy photos up Dudhope Park in amongst the daffodils. Sadly, the story was pulled, no doubt for some story about Celtgers bigotry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 10 minutes ago, The Master said: Their "journalists" scrape social media groups looking mostly for "interesting" photos, ask if said photo can be published in the paper I like replies on Twitter to the Sun and suchlike telling them to f**k off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Me and the missus almost made it into the Daily Record when we got engaged in 1854. I cant quite remember how it came about but they phoned us up and some reporter boy met us in Dundee and took some cheesy photos up Dudhope Park in amongst the daffodils. Sadly, the story was pulled, no doubt for some story about Celtgers bigotry. Was that the time she set fire to the kitchen? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: Was that the time she set fire to the kitchen? It was when she applied for a patent for her new invention. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 6, 2021 Share Posted August 6, 2021 https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/hs2-motion-detector-northern-irish-21222653.amp?__twitter_impression=true Going beyond compo face now a compo rant as Tory vanity project results is woman being shouted at by a Northern Irish robot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 15 hours ago, 101 said: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/hs2-motion-detector-northern-irish-21222653.amp?__twitter_impression=true Going beyond compo face now a compo rant as Tory vanity project results is woman being shouted at by a Northern Irish robot. Paper careful to point out that it's a Scots-based security company. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 Tbf, I'd probably keep an axe handy too if I lived in Ballingry: https://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/19496624.ballingry-man-armed-axe-chased-car/ A Ballingry man who chased after a car when he was armed with an axe has been ordered to do unpaid work... He previously admitted that on April 27 at Ballingry Crescent, he chased a car whilst in possession of an axe and shouting at a man to get out of the car... Sheriff James Macdonald noted there appeared to have been an element of planning as Livingstone told a social worker that he kept the axe at his front door. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 Ah Ballingry. Birthplace of Sir Douglas of Rougvie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 Never has a place name been so fitting: Toponymy The name Ballingry may come from the Scottish Gaelic baile iongrach, meaning "oozing estate" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 48 minutes ago, GordonD said: Paper careful to point out that it's a Scots-based security company. Obviously they couldn't find an angry enough Scottish person to give the robot a voice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Hedgecutter said: Tbf, I'd probably keep an axe handy too if I lived in Ballingry: https://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/19496624.ballingry-man-armed-axe-chased-car/ Ballingry man ^^ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 8 hours ago, Shandon Par said: Ballingry man ^^ You're looking well mate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 13 hours ago, 101 said: You're looking well mate. Well, he's okay... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halbeath Raith Rover Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 https://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/19513082.pineapple-juice-ruled-cause-cowdenbeath-mystery-puddle/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Maybe not the most salacious headline, but the accused’s name ties it up quite nicely 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/courts/2482198/fife-man-spat-so-much-at-police-his-teeth-fell-out/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hearthammer Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/19554905.dunfermline-music-venue-mcqs-pays-tribute-willie-mcquillan/ A fitting tribute in Dunfermline, but i was more drawn to the line-up of the acts who performed at the Saturday night gig. Only in Fife. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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