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Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:58 am
by Jim Lahey
Cyclist hit by a vehicle - probably a white van or an Audi

Man shot in kneecaps/elbows (Northern Ireland) - he probably deserved it

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:35 am
by shaggy
Jim Lahey wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:58 am Cyclist hit by a vehicle - probably a white van or an Audi

Man shot in kneecaps/elbows (Northern Ireland) - he probably deserved it
Cyclist hit by a motorist, unless of course it was self-drive.

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:42 am
by assfly
South Africa lost a test match - ref must have had a shocker.

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:09 pm
by Jim Lahey
assfly wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:42 am South Africa lost a test match - ref must have had a shocker.
:thumbup:

England lost a test match - Ben Youngs must have been playing.

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:30 pm
by Sandstorm
Jim Lahey wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:09 pm
assfly wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:42 am South Africa lost a test match - ref must have had a shocker.
:thumbup:

England lost a test match - Ben Youngs must have been playing.
Ireland lost a Test match - must be a RWC year

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:31 pm
by CM11
Wales won a test match - opposition had a player sent off

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 2:19 pm
by Jim Lahey
Sandstorm wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:30 pm
Jim Lahey wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:09 pm
assfly wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 11:42 am South Africa lost a test match - ref must have had a shocker.
:thumbup:

England lost a test match - Ben Youngs must have been playing.
Ireland lost a Test match - must be a RWC year
20th Feb and still waiting bru :cool:
Its normally in the warmup games and the group stages when the bed truely gets shat on.

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:22 pm
by inactionman
Bath won - typo

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:30 pm
by Insane_Homer
US Mass shooter taken in alive = White

Musician died = drugs

Politician categorically denies = Lying

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:41 pm
by Jim Lahey
Actor/Musician/Sportsperson says something political - slow fucking news day. Nothing depressing enough has happened today to make the news ahead of it.

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 1:40 pm
by Hal Jordan
Woman and her kids found dead = The husband/partner did it.

Re: Immediate Assumptions You Make About News Headlines

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 8:10 pm
by dpedin
Man stabbed in the Gorbals .... painful?