This paradoxical headline comes from today’s ¡Qué!, one of Madrid’s free newspapers:
Twenty-four-hour gas stations can’t close at night: if they do, they won’t be 24-hour gas stations.
Who checks the headlines before the papers go to press? Don’t they have sub editors anymore?
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The BBC have apologised for broadcasting, on BBC1’s Breakfast programme, an unbleeped version of an audio tape where – allegedly – Christian Bale berates a colleague for ruining a shot on the set of Terminator Salvation. A spokeswoman is quoted as saying, “A technical error led to us broadcasting an unacceptable swear word.” Which seems a bit of an understatement if it’s true that the outburst includes the use of the F-word 35 times in just over four minutes.
The incident (the ‘berating’, rather than the BBC apology) has caught my attention as it comes hot on the heels of a scandal in Spain Continue reading “set-tos on set”
… home’s best.
After nearly a month of travelling and living out of a suitcase, I am back in the pueblo in Spain. It’s gloriously sunny, there are huge drifts of leaves, snow on the mountains, cats on the verandah…
Thanks to Randall Munroe at xkcd for his thoughts on the relativity of east and west.
Después de su fallo con las estadístcas, de nuevo parece que el corrector de textos del periódico Público tiene un mal día:
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Definiciones del
Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española:
comprensión.
(De comprehensión).
1. f. Acción de comprender.
compresión.
(Del lat. compressĭo, -ōnis).
1. f. Acción y efecto de comprimir.
Y tú, ¿irías al taller ofrecido por esta gente?
don't confuse the narrator 