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Another amusingly poorly illustrated article on the BBC News website, about torrential rain and flooding in Fife, with roads becoming “impassible”. Problem is, the stock photo shows a sunny day and a road with an inch of water flowing across it…

In situations like these, it would probably be much better to not illustrate the article…

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Heavy rain brings flooding damage

A sweet and tangy chicken dish, in a ratatouille type sauce.

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Not the beginning of a joke, but a question asked (and answered) by the man in blue in his post Handwritten Typographers.

Nice to see that some of them have handwriting that is nearly as messy as mine! They obviously spend too much time at a computer too…

via Daring Fireball

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We went for a short walk up Beinn na Muice in Glen Strathfarrar at the weekend. On the way back we stopped off at the dam at the end of Loch Monar.

I took a panoramic set of photos from the bottom of the dam, comprising 41 handheld shots, which I have processed into this [...]

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Finally, some sense in the marking of exams…

BBC NEWS | Education | Review as expletive gets marks

the candidate had demonstrated more skills than one “who doesnt write anything at all”. ...

The pupil is reported to have written “fuck off”, and would have had another mark for adding an exclamation point.

3 out of 27 would be [...]

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