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Only Immanuel Kant’s famously difficult Critique of Pure Reason registers a more challenging readability score than Facebook’s privacy policy
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I thought Farcebook's privacy policy was staightforward: all your data belong to us!
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Finnish radio is ending its long-running weekly news bulletin in Latin.
Shame - 'twas a great idea!
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Et tu Finn Radio ??
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<sniggers>
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Cody wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 7:31 pm
Finnish radio is ending its long-running weekly news bulletin in Latin.
I guess they just couldn't compete with the endless stream of surreal comedy coming out of the Vatican. They couldn't top the script-writing they did for the Monty Python team.
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RockDoctor wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:20 am
I guess they just couldn't compete with the endless stream of surreal comedy coming out of the Vatican. They couldn't top the script-writing they did for the Monty Python team.
That deserves another snigger!
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Kelly Brook's ex-Gladiator boyfriend pleads guilty to crashing van full of dead badgers into bus stop while working as driver in government cull
This is apparently 5 years old, so hardly counts as "of the week". But it is the first I've heard of it, so …
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This was voted the funniest gag at the Edinburgh Fringe:
"I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets".
I thought this gag was funnier:
"A cowboy asked me if I could help him round up 18 cows. I said, 'Yes, of course. - That's 20 cows'".
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Money that glows in the dark?
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A group of metal detectorists had to go to hospital after unknowingly eating cakes apparently spiked with cannabis in a village called High Melton.
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Mathematicians have finally cracked the sum-of-three-cubes problem for the geek-friendly number 42.
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The Government is also determined to invest in the energy sources of the future, providing energy security and lower prices. That’s why we’ve announced plans to design, develop and build a fusion power plant by 2040, to provide clean energy and position the UK as the leading nation of this exciting new technology.
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good luck with that, seeing as no fusion project yet has achieved a net gain...
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