Silly stories in the news today

[mustang1]

Leaked pictures of a new range rover.
What's a "leaked" picture? Something that the marketing department emails out but doesn't rubber stamp it? Scam!

Uber boss has row over some fair price.
Puh, sounds like a setup to me!

Shipping slump: why a $60mn ship is sold as scrap.
And then you read the story and it says "the ship was ONCE worth 60mn".So the title is misleading, the ship is NoT currently worth 60mn. It is worth zilch, because it's been scrapped. What are these guys in about.

 

[biggs682]

Before British Leyland announced the TR7 and Rover sdi's back in the day we use to see a few of them out on the m5 doing testing work , they were thinly disguised with no badges .

It was only when my father was telling a sales manager from the then local Leyland dealer about them . He laughed and took dad out in to the workshop and showed him one of the Sdi's that they had to recover asap as it had broken down .

 

[Levo-Lon]

All the Brexit stuff..the country voted..politicians dont take any notice..no change there then

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The "relaunched" Nokia 3310 that isn't made by Nokia, doesn't look like a 3310 and doesn't work like a 3310.

It's not a Nokia 3310

 

[Drago]

It was yesterdays news, but is still in page 1 of the Beebs website...

Wild campers in one part of Scotland are regularly breaking the law, it seems. Instead of enforcing the law, they've now introduced another law that the campers will ignore and the authorities can continue to not enforce.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

It was yesterdays news, but is still in page 1 of the Beebs website...

Wild campers in one part of Scotland are regularly breaking the law, it seems. Instead of enforcing the law, they've now introduced another law that the campers will ignore and the authorities can continue to not enforce.

What's likely to happen is the generally law-abiding older campers who make a mistake will be targeted whilst they will continue to avoid confronting the neds. The easy option, like putting average speed cameras up that do nothing to stop aggressive driving, tailgating, drunk driving, using a phone, driving with bald tyres, driving with headlights missing etc etc etc.

 

[Drago]

I doubt anyone will be targeted as no police or rangers have been dedicated to the task. It'll rely on pure happenstance to catch them, and as they weren't catching them in then first place another law with no effort at enforcement will be equally pointless.

 

[Globalti]

I can clearly remember the first time I came across an abandoned camp site out on the fells; a torn, cheap tent, soaked cheap sleeping bag and plenty of litter and camp fire debris all blowing around. My first thought was that somebody had been in trouble and been forced to abandon the camp but quite soon after that I drove past the aftermath of a festival near Windermere and was absolutely shocked to see the mess that was being cleared up - then I discovered that you can but festival packages in supermarkets for silly money, clearly designed for one use only. Then someone I know made the mistake of buying a £25 tent in Tesco and they got wet when it rained.