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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

First they came for Israel but I did nothing because I am not Israeli.

Then they came for Doncaster but I did nothing because they’re welcome to it, quite frankly.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Up there with one of the worst "articles" I've ever read

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Realistically that's on her.

A woman panicked her village near Doncaster was under attack when she spotted a number of paragliders flying over her home

The mirror needs to hire writers who will have at least a board line understanding of the English language. The hell is going on with that sentence, it's crap.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

She wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter : “Whoever thought it was funny to parasail over the village, it was in extremely poor taste. Take your twisted hatred somewhere else. There was two parachutes with engines like Hamas used at that festival, gave me a fright. Thought it was some kind of scare tactic or protest.”

The headline doesn't actually describe the article text. She did not say that she thought it was Hamas. She thought that it was some kind of protest. Which may be wrong too, but is not the same thing as believing Hamas is attacking.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still really fucking stupid. That lady needs to go live in a cave and never interact with or have to see people again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

She probably doesn't exist, it was all made up by The Mirror to get a good click baity headline. If she does exist, she shouldn't exist in the news because she's dumb as fuck, but that's the state of the media nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think paragliders might possibly predate all the current political ongoings

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Frankly that's even more insane.

[–] kaitco 2 points 1 year ago

Hey man! Facts don’t sell! They don’t move content and they don’t generate clicks.

You and your accuracy are out of place!

[–] guriinii 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha, what? The state of British media. Are people believing they're a threat to us?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think only this one woman did. She should probably get seen by someone in a nice calming white coat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm questioning if the social media post actually happened. Smells like bullshit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly the only real threat to us is another loan wolf terrorist or a cell operating in this country that takes the plight of Palestine as their hill to die on so to speak.

But I agree with you, it is a clickbait headline designed to stoke either fear or astonishment at the stupidity of others, when it's really just a rehashed abridged story of the ongoing Middle East crisis.

I read an article last week about how a council was getting more calls from people scared of bedbugs from Paris. Same idea, just get eyes on the page for adverts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Alternative title: Doncaster woman's stupidity is perfect rage-bait for our website.

Fuck that awful rag of a paper.

[–] lemmus 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This intelligence is what lost Britain its empire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We've never been smart. We just do cruel very well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This made me laugh so hard! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this nonsense article