- Enter head scratch moment here -

 It's 6:53am on January 25, 2023 as I start writing this blog post. I need to try to not spend 3 hours writing it because I've got to drink my coffee and get ready for work. 

But..

WTF Yahoo: Front page news has "Hurricane Ian Wednesday updates"? From the News Press, with yesterday's date? (see here if the link is still relevant by 7pm tonight)

I'm confused. 

Who is not doing their job on your end? Why is the article talking about there being no make up days in November and the curfew is in effect - just like a boil water notice? Did we not pass Christmas a month ago? This makes no sense. 

Even all the comments on the bottom of the page are questioning the legitimacy of the people behind the postings. How can someone in the news room not realize this is a past event that ruined a lot of lives? 

There are way too many times you've got to look at something and be like  because it just doesn't make sense when a "reputable" (lol) business posts news about a storm update from four months ago. 

I really have no words to try to explain this. It's either too early, my coffee isn't kicking in, or some glitch in the Matrix happened and we're going to hell, again, and it'll be worse off? 

I don't know. I've got to get ready for work though,

Try to stay safe??

Cheers;

Someone needs fact correction

Good Morning America, ABC News and Yahoo, shame on you! Push a story and don't check it.

Or at least correct the person you just quoted from.

I am not a Twilight fan. I admit to watching the movies, but I only saw them because I had to set the DVD up for my mother. I am just not a sparkling vampire kind of person. I'm not apologising for it, either. Things that sparkle do nothing for me. Man up, you nut.

At any rate, because there's such a big to-do about this franchise, apparently Forks, Washington has been capitalising on it. To the point houses are becoming rental properties with a certain theme.

Case in point: the "Jacob Black vacation home" look a like. 'Twilight Getaway' Vacation Rental Home Offers Movie-Inspired Getaway

According to the article, a family has set up their old farmhouse to look exactly like what you would see in the movie, as the werewolves home. One of the owners, Linda Middleton, is quoted on this page as saying "It looks like the house in the movie so people started asking if that's Jacob Black's house and that gave me the idea" so the markets it as it being "right on the tree line where the werewolves protect the treaty line from the werewolves, that's how I sell it to people". 

Wait. Rewind. 

" [T]he tree line where the werewolves protect the treaty line from the werewolves" What?? I thought they had a treaty with the vampires? Am I wrong all these years, in thinking that the weres and bloodsuckers were on the same team? What the deuce. I think someone should have corrected her, or at least made a footnote on the page that she meant it was between the two. 

This was just the first thing I caught. Reading comments, other people caught it too, so it obviously makes no sense. Another thing people are questioning, is the fact the woman rents the place "pro bono", or for free, because it is to "raise money for" local charities and causes. How do they get the money (to then donate), if it's rented for free? 

It's too early to start nitpicking. 

This is why nothing makes sense anymore. People are too quick to write these articles and post them online. Gone are the days where there was an editorial room, chock full of people red inking pages. Fact correcting. Doing a better job than what is being tossed out now. Let me have a job as an editor or writer. I'll do a better service then some of the stuff I'm reading!

Cheers;

Woot! Old news again!

We all know how much I absolutely adore a certain mail client. Yahoo decided to show me old news again, in the "What's New" tab in my inbox.

Today's "new" headlines? It's day two of the Republican National Convention. Yup. All the candidates are waiting out Hurricane Isaac, and there hasn't been a powerhouse actor/director talking to an empty chair yet.

Wait, how do I know about the person giving Romney's speech? What is this 'empty chair' reference?

Because the RNC happened 2 weeks ago.




Yahoo, get on the news wagon and start showing me today's happenings. I'm tired of reading articles from the past. Actually, while you're at it, stop posting items that have no real relevance to society. Your readers will thank you.



Cheers,

Up in smoke

I just read an article about Vietnam banning public smoking in the entire country. Like, you light up in the park, you face repercussions. The article did not state what will happen if you are caught smoking outside, but according to the article, the law "will take effect from next May"... until when, prey tell?

Thank you, Yahoo, for posting another piece of shit information. Do us a favour and re-read your text before you post it next time, please. I know less about this tobacco ban now, than I did before.

Cheers,