"I read somewhere..."

[LondonManc]

I sense straw.


Both the DM stories were about abuse. I didn't write them, I didn't check them. I shared the fact that the DM considers them equal, not me.


If there were two stories on the BBC about air crashes, then I would see them as similar/equal. A headline saying "cute squirrel" and one saying "air crash" are NOT equal. A headline saying "abuse" and another saying "abuse" would imply that the media outlet which is posting the headlines considers them as equal, not me. In fact, I'm the one pointing out the idiocy of the comparison, yet you say I am the one making it.

Is it fact that the DM considers them equal, or are they simply related, as many sidebar stories tend to be, given that they are often listed under headings such as Related, Related Stories or Related News?

[WTFH]

both being on the front page does not men they are equal. There are stories about cute squirrels next to air crashes on the BBC does that mean they are equal?

I sense straw.


Both the DM stories were about abuse. I didn't write them, I didn't check them. I shared the fact that the DM considers them equal, not me.


If there were two stories on the BBC about air crashes, then I would see them as similar/equal. A headline saying "cute squirrel" and one saying "air crash" are NOT equal. A headline saying "abuse" and another saying "abuse" would imply that the media outlet which is posting the headlines considers them as equal, not me. In fact, I'm the one pointing out the idiocy of the comparison, yet you say I am the one making it.

[LondonManc]

It's a good job that the Holocaust was covered widely otherwise these two winkers would have their doubts about that too.

[Mordac]

both being on the front page does not men they are equal. There are stories about cute squirrels next to air crashes on the BBC does that mean they are equal?

If you want to get AtW excited, you're heading in the right direction...

[vetran]

I checked the Breitbart source (Junge Freiheit) but it is blocked at work due to being a right wing site (which you can tell by the name, a rather nasty extremely right wing site), however I did find it in the local paper for the area and it goes on about them being 'sudländisch' which equates to anything from Mediterranean to Arabic countries

So Breitbart (I assume is the german Daily Mail equivalent) quoted a story from Junge Freiheit (The German BNP newsletter) which was based on a real report in the local paper.

So if Jesus's second coming was reported in the Daily mail, Stormfront & the Powys Times you would deny it ever happened because Stormfront covered it? Nice logic.

[vetran]

No, the DM equates them, not me. I just checked one of the sources of your headline and noticed that it is reporting two stories where it headlines them about abuse over clothing.
I think it is disgraceful that people should be spat at.

both being on the front page does not men they are equal. There are stories about cute squirrels next to air crashes on the BBC does that mean they are equal?

[vetran]

If the suggestion was made that everyone in the country pays £20 a month extra tax so that we had dependable power in 20 years time,

We already do pay far more than that

Environmental taxes - Office for National Statistics

And strangely no one has any choice or they go to jail.

Now the real problem is that the last few governments have used it as a subsidy to major energy suppliers (free insulation) If they had spent it on Nuclear & decent green generation we would be there by now.

[darmstadt]

I checked the Breitbart source (Junge Freiheit) but it is blocked at work due to being a right wing site (which you can tell by the name, a rather nasty extremely right wing site), however I did find it in the local paper for the area and it goes on about them being 'sudländisch' which equates to anything from Mediterranean to Arabic countries

[The Spartan]

Lack of investment in infrastructure and education. Neither of those investments win politicians many votes and the rewards of the investments are not seen in the 4/5 year cycle of a parliament.
Any suggestion that takes more than a few weeks to implement is going to struggle.


If the suggestion was made that everyone in the country pays £20 a month extra tax so that we had dependable power in 20 years time, very few over 40s would support it. The over 70s would say they should pay because they will not live to see the benefit. The over 40s will say they shouldn't pay because in 20 years time we'll have some new technology that means we don't need to make the investment now - instead we can put it in out pensions. They will also say that it should be the people who are working in 20 years time who have to come up with the solution and how to fund it.

By which time we'd end up having blackouts and the solution will cost a lot more and will only be a short term fix theoretically oh well

[WTFH]

so you equate face to face verbal & physical abuse in Germany with Twitter trolling in the UK. Blimey you are desperate.

No, the DM equates them, not me. I just checked one of the sources of your headline and noticed that it is reporting two stories where it headlines them about abuse over clothing.
I think it is disgraceful that people should be spat at.