Journalistic Licence (ie. Lying).

IanS said:
That's a bit better. But no. Being a journalist isn't that easy. An experienced hack would have a child's toy or something like that in his camera bag. He doesn't actually want to travel anywhere near the danger zone. Any old pile of rubble with a child's toy sticking out really gets the message home.
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the Nefyn cat said:
At last, a bit of car maintenance the little ladies will be able to cope with. Bless.:bag:
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Oh yeah, hang it on the washing line and beat the crap out of it with an old Tennis racket ..........

Tony.
 
Well I couldn’t agree more about the media. 5% news 95% opinion - most of it biased or designed to get a reaction.

But there’s another debate being missed here;) A motor home and a caravan were blown over. So are both vehicles, hence making the headline correct? Or is a vehicle only a motorised thing making the headline incorrect?
 
mrscalex said:
Well I couldn’t agree more about the media. 5% news 95% opinion - most of it biased or designed to get a reaction.

But there’s another debate being missed here;) A motor home and a caravan were blown over. So are both vehicles, hence making the headline correct? Or is a vehicle only a motorised thing making the headline incorrect?
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Copied from wikipedia, so it must be true:whistle:, but it's roughly the same as my own feeling on the subject. Not that I really give a to55, but..........


It is essential that a vehicle have a source of energy to drive it. Energy can be extracted from external sources, as in the cases of a sailboat, a solar-powered car, or an electric streetcar that uses overhead lines. Energy can also be stored, provided it can be converted on demand and the storing medium's energy density and power density are sufficient to meet the vehicle's needs.
 
the Nefyn cat said:
Copied from wikipedia, so it must be true:whistle:, but it's roughly the same as my own feeling on the subject. Not that I really give a to55, but..........


It is essential that a vehicle have a source of energy to drive it. Energy can be extracted from external sources, as in the cases of a sailboat, a solar-powered car, or an electric streetcar that uses overhead lines. Energy can also be stored, provided it can be converted on demand and the storing medium's energy density and power density are sufficient to meet the vehicle's needs.
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It's a very murky area. Which is why I thought it would be entertaining to raise it :)

There are various definitions. In the railway world a vehicle is specifically a non-powered (driven) entity, eg passenger carriage. On the road is an e-scooter or e-bike a vehicle as they are powered?

Still with you on the headline though @t-tony. It's lazy sensationalism whether it's 1 or 2.
 
In germany they distinguish between a vehicle (Fahrzeug) and a motorvehicle (Kraftfahrzeug) So, a trailer, a vehicle, has it's own number plate and its own reg documents, it own roadworthyness inspection etc. If you hitch somebody else's trailer to your car you don't need to put your number plate onto the trailer. The trailer has its own unique plates.

So. I suppose. In Germany. More "Vehicles" are turned over than in the uk.

But it doesn't matter. The news guy could have said "A very small number" and we would know exactly what he meant (and we wouldn't be having this conversation). But instead he puts the emphasis on "Multiple vehicles" or words to that effect, knowing our imagination, left to its own devices, will picture worst-case scenario.
 
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All I can say is:

"Caravan/Motorhome, either way good news if plural numbers of these are removed from the roads to make more room for Z's and Fauxrarris!
 
As Supertramp said, "Crisis, What Crisis?"

  • Energy crisis - Wholesale prices for gas/oil jump through the roof (temporarily) but because the Gov had shut down and de-commissioned bulk storage facilities there is no buffer to smooth the cost. Consumer pays.
  • CO2 shortage - Same issue as above plus driver shortage partly caused by Brexit (no EU drivers here now). Consumer pays.
  • Fuel crisis - Idiot Gov comments saying there is no shortage knowing full well that Mr & Mrs Dipstick will receive the reverse psychology being used by Gov and queue at fuel stations blocking the roads. Not enough HGV drivers, too many HGV drivers, Reserve Fuel tankers mysteriously appear to save the day courtesy of Gov.
  • E10 fuel - covered by far greater minds than mine elsewhere in the forum but in "essence" (haha) another massive con to sell watered (ethanoled) down crap, and push us towards Electric Cars. Consumer pays.
  • Electric Cars - How are they going to dispose of the highly toxic battery packs when they die? Overpriced, overrated and over here.
  • COVID - do not get me started on the biggest misrepresentation of statistics I have seen in my lifetime. Forced to stay at home, cannot travel, COVID passports, used and excuse for appalling service from just about everyone, "i'ts because of COVID" Used to defer my Cancer Operations for 9-months!!!!!
  • Vaccine - untested (long-term), unproven. One minute our saviour next, "you can still get COVID and pass it on" but of course "it will not be as bad. Great new! trouble is what are the long-term effects and the majority feel forced to be double-jabbed or is it triple-jabbed now!
  • Brexit - Whether you are a Remainer or Leaver, a complete F-up from start to Still not Finished, causing in part, a lot of the above.
  • Stamp duty holiday - Artificially stimulated the housing market shooting prices up so the so-called "saving" was completely negated by the rise in prices.
  • SEISS Grants to help us poor self-employed to get by - nice thought until you realise that it is taxable, not treated as income by mortgage lenders and if you took any of them you raised your head above the HMRC's wall and mortgage lenders would not lend.
  • Furlough - originally "to grant leave to a soldier" 80% of this number 70% of that, all taxable income. Left people who wanted to work unable to, and people who wanted to skive able to.
  • Working from home revolution - for those of us who have done this for 30 plus years, not a problem. For the majority of employees a great excuse to take the kids to school (oh sorry they were shut), skive off and provide sh1t service as their management cannot see them and have therefore lost control (and are skiving themselves).
  • ............ Fill in the blanks.

As far as Gov is concerned we have two options relating to the above:

  1. They are really stupid people who have no idea what they are doing and barely went to school, let alone Eton, Harrow, Oxford & Cambridge. Or;
  2. They are very clever people who did go to the Old School Tie schools, who know exactly what they are doing and where it is leading the population.
You decide.

Oh hell, that is almost journalism, I better stop now!!! :ymdevil:
 
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