Ahahahaha snooort! Pure GOLD!!!
I should probably let it lie, but this recent front-page outrage is a Sentinelism of the highest order.
Revealed: Contrary to popular belief, officers of the law in Stoke-on-Trent are a bit partial to a sandwich and banana for their scram. Quite awesomely, the MASSIVE headline comes complete with shocking illustration: the offending carrier bag photoshopped into some innocent bobby's hand, or, "our mock-up of how an officer may look doing his shopping at Asda."
Um, right then...
So has some jilted journalist at the Sentinel picked up a speeding fine of late or something? Poor soul. An earnest paragraph acknowledges that the Force is investigating the alleged naughtiness. And, if you press your ear to the cold steel gates outside the back of Hanley police station, you may just detect a weary sigh carried along on the breeze from the copper canteen.
To underline the daftness, even the send them back brigade over at thisisstaffordshire.co.uk is failing vociferously to detect any sort of problem whatsoever...
Brilliant.
2 comments:
I noted this evening that there was Sentinelism re the chaos on the roads this morning. Now then, chaos... slow-moving traffic, icy conditions, heightened risk - yes, there were all of these, but chaos. Surely chaos would be people rushing Asda for fear of hoards of sandwich-eating coppers clearing the shelves, and it would be much much more. Ho hum, ho hum. I used to occasionally comment on their website, but it seemed obvious that the qualities of proportion, good reason, balance, and reasonable grammatical accuracy were well out of place.
I always find it quietly reassuring whenever I sense that others view that sheet* as having a lot to answer for, what with it being a pernicious, oily, dangerous little rag.
And breathe...
(* Think Andrex?)
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