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I love the way tabloids take things completely out of context. No, wait, I don't

Here's a less biased, yet more dull explanation of the research

Don't be ridiculous Kolm, if the Sun says it, it must be true...
Don't think anything different old man, otherwise they'll know

The super Soar-a-way Sun always makes more sense if you neck a few lagers first and read out the stories in a loud, ranty, geezerish sort of way, spaying anyone in the vicinity a little bit as you do so.

The story is a load of old cac. I don't what on Earth I'm thinking half the time so what chance have the scientists got?

"Umm...I thought chance WAS a 50/50 thing?

Maybe things changed since we went metric?"

I just read this comment. Do you think he understands probability?

gillows wrote:spaying anyone in the vicinity a little bit as you do so.

That's a little bit extreme isn't it? I do hope you are medically qualified to undertake such action...

What a brilliant example of taking a story and leaving enough space to allow the reader to come to the conclusion you want while making them think they're actually thinking for themselves. The NLP lot would be proud and probably claim the sub who write it as a Master Practitioner.

I've got this image of all the "scientists" in the world busying themselves to ready this supposedly psychic computer like nothing else matters. Forget the fight against cancer, malaria or AIDS. We need to be able to tell what Sun readers are thinking, if anything, and we need it NOW!

Tomo wrote:Sun readers ... thinking,

I think the word 'Oxymoron' applies here!

One glance at page three and we all know exactly what they're thinking !

Mandrake wrote:

Tomo wrote:Sun readers ... thinking,

I think the word 'Oxymoron' applies here!

One glance at page three and we all know exactly what they're thinking !

Yep.. They're thinking "what an insightful view Kelly from Essex has on the current economic downturn!"

I had read the bbc article with interest before the weekend, but hadn't had the pleasure of the sensationalised sun version.

The bbc would never be caught sensationalising the news... a quick glance at the genius that is newswipe will show this to be true... oh hang on, no, mea culpa, they're as bad as the rest after all!

According to page 3 of the sun, apparently baps, 19 from essex is looking forward to the coming election. Was that a typo?

gillows wrote:The super Soar-a-way Sun always makes more sense if you neck a few lagers first and read out the stories in a loud, ranty, geezerish sort of way, spaying anyone in the vicinity a little bit as you do so.

Spaying anyone in the vicinity? Quick, run away before it's too late!