So now the newspaper is emailing me...

[sharpchick_2011]

About my decision not to renew my subscription.

~face*palm~

Comments

[captain_catgut]

Real winners, aren't they? You should send them on a haggis hunt.

[sharpchick_2011]

Okay, 'splain that one, please...

Cause I might be interested.

[captain_catgut]

It's a wee practical joke to play on obnoxious tourists in Scotland: get them off your back by sending them out to book themselves tickets to take part in a haggis hunt. Of course, most of them don't know that a haggis isn't an animal, it's a cross between a sausage and a pudding, so it's easy to tell them stories about haggis hunts to get them wound up and raring to go. It works best if they've had a couple of drinks, of course, and if the other Scots they encounter play along. *grin*

"Go hunt a haggis" is a polite way of saying "get tae fuck" --- or, in American English, "fuck off".

[sharpchick_2011]

Aha!

I learn something new every day...

Now, I have a new phrase.

[dadadadio]

They do tend to think we can't live without their version of the news. Newspapers are in survival mode, and not faring well. If they don't cater to the majority in their region they won't survive. You don't exactly live in a liberal enclave.

One of my early blogs (on the other site) was about bias in the media and how people want it. Since CNN made news a 24 hour profit engine the newsies started to tailor news to a specific audience. This his how you get MSNBC and Fox, two of the less credible networks. The average American will watch the station, or buy the newspaper, that affirms their beliefs.

It's really kind of sad. The media is not as objective as it once was. "Just the facts" is no longer their mission. They're a tool of the powerful, part of the system of misinformation and misdirection.

Look at it this way, no newspaper means you're more green than you were previously.

[oakmouse]

Somebody's going into your spam folder, yes?