What Would We Do Without Headline Writers?

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I guess the put in the word “million” because they couldn’t count another 6 zeros. Sheesh.

Illiterate and innumerate?
That IS a lot of vehicles.

How many is a Brazilion?

Anybody watch the youtube video that goes with this? The headline is the smart part. But some pinhead on-the-take judge will give them a hearing, and millions of dollars will be spent on lawyers.
One word for these dorks: Rainex.

a Brazilian is a lot of pain.

I only date girls who have Brazilians.

So the Right Hand Drive vehicles wouldn’t have this problem? I drove Right Hand Drive vehicles for years and never noticed an improvment, though I must say that sitting in the passenger seat does sometimes improve the view.

Check out the Flop & Pail today . . . headline says Harper government is $90,000 per day to “consultant”
The lucky consultant has a weird name . . . “Deloitte Inc.”
Wonder if that is a male or female consultant, can’t tell by the name.

Is that anything like a “gazillion”?

Not fair. The journalism school brochure said there wouldn’t be any math. Or facts, or objectivity or …

700 million million, that’s a lot of cars. I guess I’ll be busy with wiper recalls…

“700 million million, that’s a lot of cars.”
And I think about 500 of them are up on cinder blocks in my neighbour Larry’s back garden.

700 trillion, now we’re talking Obama spending numbers!

wow a hundred times more cars than the big Owes deficit.
sell the cars and pay off the debt

finally got a chance to watch some of the video, traffic violation @ 45 seconds – ran a stop sign. I could even see that through the rain 😉
If the wipers were going the “other” way – your vision would be impaired far worse by that “column of snow” since it would become a larger “arc of snow” instead.

Aside from the obvious blooper in the headline, if the producers of the video cannot state the gist of their thesis in a few well-crafted sentences then they should be ignored.

The one I love is when the media mixes up the concepts of debt and deficit and then get their M’s and B’s mixed up. We have a radio show in Calgary QR77 that has about 10 minutes of this stuff every 15 minute segment.

rroe: RHD vehicles (at least the ones I owned) had the wipers flipped the opposite way, so the wiping action would have the same effect. Buying wiper blades that didn’t fit right was just one of the joys of ownership (but not near as fun as replacing a steering box!).

The one I love is when the media mixes up the concepts of debt and deficit
~Steve
A lot of people do that.
Right now, the Obama campaign is saying that the U.S. government needs to increase taxes to reduce the deficit.
In many people’s minds this plays as ‘reducing the debt’ which people think is a good thing because many U.S. households have been trying to pay off their debts.
What they don’t understand is that the big difference between a debt and a deficit is you also have the option of reducing the deficit by reduced spending(the deficit being caused by spending more than you receive in revenues) while reduced spending won’t clear your debt.
The idea of real spending reductions is anathema to social democrats and they won’t ever consider or implement it even if the spending is unsustainable even through revenue(tax) increases.

This wiper thing reminds me of that nonsense a few years past about acid rain pitting the windshields…
The problem was people were looking at the windshields instead of looking through them.
All windshields except brand spanking new are pitted by grit and sand (much like sand blasting)….

Here’s another:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/old-nasa-satellite-to-smash-into-earth-3200-to-one-odds-it-wont-hit-anyone-130178713.html
Innumerate journalists

Math is hard.

Journalizing is hard too.

Oz, a further note to your comment. I always like it when someone says, “we have to pay down the deficit”. Huh?
bear – Yes, there would big, honkin’ mess of rain/snow obscuring your vision to the left if the wipers were reversed. Howeverm if they leave the wiper orientation as it is and just make a drive system to move them both left AND right, then we’ll have a largely clear windscreen. Also, they could alter the speed when it is raining harder to clear things away more quickly. I think that’s the ticket.

Anyone can pay to put out a press release on Marketwire.
This isn’t journalism, it’s not even pretending to be.
It’s the headline the person paying for the press release wrote for it, as far as I can tell.
(On the wiper non-issue, my ancient Mercedes has wipers that wipe outside-to-inside and then outside-to-inside, with overlap in the middle, collisions being prevented by clever timing.
Nobody much bothers with such systems because, really, they’re not significantly superior.
I know I feel no less visibility is made by my Toyota with “standard” wipers.)

“The one I love is when the media mixes up the concepts of debt and deficit and then get their M’s and B’s mixed up” – steve
The one I love is when the media inserts “record” in front of deficit when referring to the Harper gov’t but simply call it a deficit in Ontario, where the media is seeking the re-election for McLiar.

Were they Toy-O-ta’s!

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