Local Newspaper Headlines!
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La Guardia Civil identifica a “La banda de la bicicleta”, un grupo de adolescentes que actuaba en urbanizaciones de Haro
Our local e-paper. Obligatory reading about the row that the town band is having with the council and who won the football.
Basically a group of 6 lads(4 of them minors) spent some of the summer nicking bikes from holiday homes like these:
They got caught. One them owned up, one used his right to remain silent and 4 more said it was definitely the other boys who did it, but not them! Classic.
Of itself it's quite serious. I'm glad that the Guardias "set up an operation" to catch them, especially if there were far more bikes than these four, which is what everybody is saying. Breaking into the gardens of homes at night with boltcutters is not funny. And it's a small town where something like this does not happen much. People got quite scared.
What qualifies it as a bit OTT is the incredible writing of the piece, in a breathless present tense and totally overblown:
"Los dispositivos de seguridad que se establecen en la zona de actuación de los delincuentes y las informaciones que aportan los vecinos, sirven para centrar la investigación sobre una banda juvenil, en su mayoría menores de edad y residentes en la ciudad"
" The security units established in the area of operations of the delinquents and the information supplied by neighbours focus the investigation on a juvenile gang, mostly youngsters and resident in the town"
Spanish journalese is always a bit florid but this boils down to:
"A police car went round to the estate, took a look, spoke to the neighbours and had a fair idea who dunnit"
Our local e-paper. Obligatory reading about the row that the town band is having with the council and who won the football.
Basically a group of 6 lads(4 of them minors) spent some of the summer nicking bikes from holiday homes like these:
They got caught. One them owned up, one used his right to remain silent and 4 more said it was definitely the other boys who did it, but not them! Classic.
Of itself it's quite serious. I'm glad that the Guardias "set up an operation" to catch them, especially if there were far more bikes than these four, which is what everybody is saying. Breaking into the gardens of homes at night with boltcutters is not funny. And it's a small town where something like this does not happen much. People got quite scared.
What qualifies it as a bit OTT is the incredible writing of the piece, in a breathless present tense and totally overblown:
"Los dispositivos de seguridad que se establecen en la zona de actuación de los delincuentes y las informaciones que aportan los vecinos, sirven para centrar la investigación sobre una banda juvenil, en su mayoría menores de edad y residentes en la ciudad"
" The security units established in the area of operations of the delinquents and the information supplied by neighbours focus the investigation on a juvenile gang, mostly youngsters and resident in the town"
Spanish journalese is always a bit florid but this boils down to:
"A police car went round to the estate, took a look, spoke to the neighbours and had a fair idea who dunnit"
Voley
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You'd like Indian journalism I think JuanTwoThree. They go for the sensational but also dress it up in very archaic Raj-era language. There's a Times Of India one I can't remember word-for-word but was along the lines of 'The miscreants absconded with the loot, repaired to their mountain hideaway and then vanished into thin air!'
I've come across it from my interest in language in general. I like the way words like 'footpads' are still used, and I love 'prepone'. Some of it is a bit euphemistic: calling sexual harassment or assault of women 'Eve-teasing' for example.
I'm trying to remember the IndE for plimsolls or runners, it might be 'fleetfoots' but Google isn't helping.
Voley
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Yes, 'footpad' is a regular one. A recidivist criminal is a 'history-sheeter.' Yes, that eve-teasing one is grim as is referring to an entire Indian state as 'known for their nefarious ways' (as I once saw in the local Goan paper).
'Chappals' for sandals I know but not sure about plimsolls.
Voley Found it: P26 of this along with lots of other good stuff
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/138271/8/08_chapter 3.pdf
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/138271/8/08_chapter 3.pdf
Voley
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Ooh, I shall have a good look at that later, thanks.
I like this one:
"followers of the roped square" - boxing fans
Also, the inversion thing I came across a fair bit. 'Timepass' is one I heard a bit for pastime etc.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
I call bullshit.
dessiato
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Woman wins Nobel Prize in physics for the third time in 117 years | Metro News
That's impressive, she must be quite old. But three Nobel...
(The article corrects the impression given by the headline.)
That's impressive, she must be quite old. But three Nobel...
(The article corrects the impression given by the headline.)
petee
no gods, no malarkey
This Boerum Hill luxury one bedroom has a rooftop studio that once housed Ex Lax test monkeys
lovely apartment.
but, y'know, laxative test monkeys.
lovely apartment.
but, y'know, laxative test monkeys.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
That photo: a classic of the genre. Also, I like that someone was 'horrified' by the bins; 'a blight on the community.'
True, but in the interest of balance, we must have a 'delighted' resident giving the thumbs up...
Colliers Wood woman DELIGHTED by arrival of her new bins | Wimbledon Guardian
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Gulf journalism is just like that, too, with extra undertones of moral outrage.
Yossarian
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Mordi
Amoral adventurist
Looks like they got the entire neighbourhood watch out for this one. Best not mess, the chap on the left is probably packing.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
And now Veolia have half the London boroughs in their grasp. They really are quite shit, so I can understand the frustrated residents. I'll wager it's better than it was for us. There's a big Croydon-Merton-Richmond-Sutton contract for waste and Sutton (where I am) was first in line to switch over. I think it took 6 weeks for them to get my recycling when they started.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
He has seen all manner of things but this takes some beating!
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neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
T & P
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I'm sure it'll be featuring in the Angry People in Local Newspapers blog in no time...That photo: a classic of the genre. Also, I like that someone was 'horrified' by the bins; 'a blight on the community.'
a_chap
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