http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=dead The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 08:20:09 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60511#post-175729 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:14:22 +0000 andrewl81 175729@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Disagree. The Sun is openly cuntish, the Daily Mail attempt to hide behind some code of decency. That makes them much worse. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60511#post-175721 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:53:55 +0000 Titus 175721@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wrong paper. This is about the <em>Sump</em>, not the <em>Daily Wail</em>. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60511#post-175710 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:32:07 +0000 andrewl81 175710@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>In a shock move The Daily Mail have advertised for a Necrophilia-in-Residence to join their editorial team.</p> <p>The main role of the Necrophiliac-in-Residence will be to scour the Facebook pages of recently deceased females in the hope of finding a bikini shot from a beach holiday. The pictures will be then be used to illustrate stories of the young girl's death.</p> <p>John Nevis, Commissioning Editor for Death, Grade 4 Celebrities and Dog Pictures at the Daily Mail said:</p> <p>"This is a very exciting time for the Daily Mail. We're keeping ahead of the opposition by making bold decisions.</p> <p>"In the olden days when a pretty girl died we used to have doorstep her parents or ask family friends or distant relatives if they had a picture we could use. This meant that we always ended up with the same school picture. You know the one: blue background, toothy grin, that sort of thing.</p> <p>"Now thanks to social media we can often get pictures that are both bang up to date and contain some decent norks.</p> <p>"Our Necrophiliac-in-Residence will spend time tracking these pictures down. Normally we only use pictures to illustrate pictures of dead girls we've written stories about but if our necrophiliac finds a picture of a pretty dead girl that we've not written a story about then we could end up covering her untimely demise in the paper. And if he finds a really pretty girl who's alive then there's no reason we couldn't bump her off like we did Diana."</p> <p>The news follows the recent appointment of the Daily Mail's first Masturbation Editor. The Masturbation Editor's job is to make sure that no picture that is not masturbatable to is put online. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175310 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:30:04 +0000 andrewl81 175310@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Just caught up with all this. Very chuffed. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175300 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:36:46 +0000 Midfield Diamond 175300@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Story about a Somerset rugby team arriving at a flashy-looking venue for a game. The captain approaches the blazered man on the door, explains who they are and then says, "Where's the changing rooms to?"<br /> "Did no-one teach you not to end a sentence with a preposition?" came the posh bloke's reply.<br /> "Sorry, I'll re-phrase it," says the captain. "Where's the changing rooms to, tosser?" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175275 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:33:30 +0000 Titus 175275@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Infinitives - anorak note:</p> <p>The infinitive form of a verb, such as "swim", is "to swim".</p> <p>It is argued by some that this phrase, which is just one particular form of the verb, is effectively all one word and should not be split, any more than one would write "sw [insert some extra words here] imming", and that when you split an infinitive the isolated word "to" has no grammatical legitimacy on its own.</p> <p>There is also a view that to split an infinitive in thie way also leads to rather clumsy English.</p> <p>However there is not a "rule" about this; it is much more a matter of preference, good style and preferred usage. Those who claim that there is a rigid rule about it and that spliting an infinitive is always definitely "wrong" are actually betraying their own ignorance - challenge them to find an authoritative source for their assertion! As they say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. </p> <p>Perhaps a good guideline is to avoid it and only to split an infinitive when the alternative would sound even more clumsy or if there is some other good reason for doing so.</p> <p>The classic example, as quoted above, is "to boldly go". Would "To go boldly" or "boldly to go" have the same ring to them? Of course not. Good English is frequently a matter of good style.</p> <p>(As a further arrogant anorak suggestion: when chooing a word, think about what the word actually means - look it up if neccessary - and consider possible alternatives. "Disintersted" does not mean "un-interested"; "discrete" is a different word from "discreet" and has a quite different meaning; likewise "infer" and "imply" have different meanings and usages. "Fantastic" is ludicrously overworked and of course literally just means "like a fantasy" - in other words, the thing being described does not really exist at all!) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175268 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:31:56 +0000 Al OPecia 175268@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>To boldly go, instead of to go boldly. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175229 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:33:18 +0000 beau-jolly 175229@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well done and well deserved. I like that they used your headline. Well, the first half anyway.</p> <p>@Titu's: I've never really understood what a split infinitive is? Examples please. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175228 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:27:13 +0000 Sinnick 175228@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well, you got the NiB. Well done.</p> <p>Skylarking, I think it's "ignoramice" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175210 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:02:23 +0000 Skylarking 175210@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ha! I saw him live in 2005! (Richie Havens). He was great you ignoramouses (smirks irritatingly) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175202 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:41:38 +0000 Titus 175202@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Popular myth. There is no "rule" about not using a preposition to end a sentence with. Nor is there a "rule" about not starting with a conjunction or even to regularly split infinitives. Such things are regarded by many as poor style, bad practice and best avoided where possible, but there is actually no formal "rule" about it.</p> <p>This is in contrast to clear rules such as those requiring a sentence to start with a capital letter, to contain a verb and to use a full stop to end with. Or simple plural's not to ever contain apostrophe's. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175177 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:43:55 +0000 beau-jolly 175177@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>But Titus isn't that one of those grammatical things up with which I will not put? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175078 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:48:08 +0000 sredni vashta 175078@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"unfamiliar musician" perhaps. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175072 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:09:49 +0000 Titus 175072@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Perhaps just "Thousands Mourn Musician They'd Never Previously Heard Of"?</p> <p>The twitter element can then be introduced within the story itself. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-175068 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:01:19 +0000 Sir Lupus 175068@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Two subs about arbiters of popular musical taste in a day is a coincidence - any more and I'm going to be wondering if what's in the water.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174987 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:57:20 +0000 Squudge 174987@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Outpourings of tweet for unknown musician </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174981 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:48:20 +0000 godly1966 174981@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174980 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:44:49 +0000 Gerontius 174980@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yep, spot on....full house from me too. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174965 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:30:26 +0000 Golgo13 174965@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174964 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:28:50 +0000 reforse 174964@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>So true, I would have loved his work </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174963 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:28:01 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 174963@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice work.</p> <p>I think the headline is fine. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174951 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:40 +0000 Not Amused 174951@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mass Twitter mourning triggered by few tweets<br /> ?<br /> Still not a good title .. agree it need a better one and I like the story. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174949 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:41:30 +0000 Sinnick 174949@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Might get a NiB with this, but the title is a bit of a mouthful. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174942 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:47:36 +0000 beau-jolly 174942@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Spot on and right on. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174891 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:08:26 +0000 sredni vashta 174891@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love this. And I don't even use twitter :) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=60200#post-174808 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:13:59 +0000 andrewl81 174808@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>People on social media were bereft with grief today as a musician they didn't know but who was lauded by people they do know died in his or her sleep.</p> <p>People on Twitter who have a blue tick and present the good radio shows led social media in mourning.</p> <p>Danielle Gray, 32, marketing officer said, "As soon as I saw that both Huey Morgan and Bob Harris had tweeted an RIP about the same person I had to go on to YouTube and find videos of that person and then do an RIP of my own and post a link to the YouTube video on my timeline.</p> <p>"I could tell it struck a chord because at least seven people retweeted me. And I was genuinely sad because I think had I known about the dead person before they were dead I would probably have liked their music."</p> <p>Since the person died earlier today bittorent downloads of their music has rocketed by over 700%. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=36356#post-101920 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:47:48 +0000 A.Parody 101920@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yuri Irsenovich Kim is to be nominated for a posthumous Oscar and Life time achievement award at the forth coming 84th Academy Award Ceremony in February. Kim, who famously undertook the role of tyrant Kim Jong-il in the much troubled state of North Korea for 20 years, was found dead in his sea-front fortified compound last night.</p> <p>Controversial reports have been circulating as to the innocence of Kim’s demise, but unfortunately the source of these claims had mysteriously checked out their hotel leaving everything in it including: wallet, phone, passport, car keys and car. Studio directors at the DPRK refused to corroborate these reports and rubbished them stating, under the watchful eye of suspected successor (stage-name) Kim Jong-un, “[These are] mindless attempts to destroy the reputation of the finest and most charismatically well styled gentleman ever to have lived since David Hasselhoff decided to <em>Jump in [his] car</em>.”</p> <p>News of his nomination was received jubilantly within the Hollywood community. In an interview with actor Tam Cruise, Kim was heralded as an <em>extremist</em>. “Always pushing himself to the very edge, carrying his audiences to the absolute brink, be it kicking and screaming, or in the dead of night by armed men in balaclavas.”</p> <p>Kim's most famous role caused much controversy amongst the western world, with his detailed depiction of the leftwing tyrant Kim Jong-il. Kim’s other credits include Supreme Leader in the 2009 box-office smash <em>North Korea</em>, the eponymous hero in <em>Dear Leader</em> as well as Inn Keeper in <em>The Nativity Play</em> which premiered at Primary School No. 4 in 1955.</p> <p>Kim, or Yuri to his friends, who famously lead a very private life, refused to comment for Vanity Fare when news of a potential nomination started circulating back in 1991. But in an interview with NK News, Kim alluded to the huge strain the role was putting on him controversially ousting the costume department for lack imagination. “Everyone likes playing the villain from time to time, but it hasn’t helped my sex appeal like it did with Colin Farrell. I do find it hard to get to know girls, they don’t seem to believe that it’s just a role, I’m great fun really.”</p> <p>The Academy decision to nominate Kim for the award posthumously has been received with an ecstatic reception. John Crook, actor and barman on Sunset Boulevard said “What a fantastic portrayal of right wing absurdist behaviour, we were all convinced he was a complete c***, I guess that’s what great acting is.” </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14874#post-40372 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:27:43 +0000 Iconographer 40372@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lambeth Palace has issued a strongly worded complaint to the BBC following the impact of Who Do You Think You Are on All Souls Day.</p> <p>"The Archbishop of Canterbury is a bit put out by the number of Dearly Departed being added to the lists for All Souls by overkeen genealogists." the statement reads. "We don't mind a few relatives, and perhaps the odd friend or two, but going back more than one generation is really not on, unless you happen to be from the Royal Family."</p> <p>"These names all have to be read out on All Souls' Day, and some vicars are spending hours trawling through them all. Something really needs to be done to curb the spread of gratuitous genealogical research in our country before it is too late, and we end up with one massive great big family tree, with 60 million names on it." </p> <p>"We used to have perhaps a hundred names to read out each year" commented Rev'd Steve Hardwicke, Rector of St Hedwig the Less, Doncaster. "This year our organist alone has turned up with 2,563 names, and says that if she manages to find a link through the Exeter archive, next year she hopes to be back to Domesday. I made the mistake on Sunday of saying in the sermon that I don't mind how many names there are, because I will read them all, but our Mother's Union then presented me with a list of 83,678 names between them."</p> <p>The BBC declined to comment. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=9452#post-25522 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:23:22 +0000 Golgo13 25522@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>星五個！ </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=9452#post-25507 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:11:41 +0000 gaijintendo 25507@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Meanwhile, the life expectancy in Glasgow drops below 30 for the first time as the 47th Greggs opens in Calton.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10809128" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10809128</a></p> <p>(I have hear this story before, about a year ago - so I assume this is common practice) </p>