Here’s one of their infamous articles that caught my attention recently: Car ramp caused panic on ferry. Right, someone turned the control stick in the wrong direction which made the ramp move upwards, slightly crumpling a few cars. And to quote the article…
“The passengers had to escape their cars”
“The children cried and had to crawl through the car windows”
“A few German families with children panicked”
“The children cried” (again)
“The horrified passengers could breathe out”
I forgot to say Aftonbladet failed to refer to Estonia or Titanic as they usually do. It just takes a two-minute long blackout or something to put “The night of horror – another Estonia accident was close” in the headlines.
Anyhow, poor panda. Is someone already setting up a fund for the panda so it can be helped with its traumas?
Speaking of pandas and Microsoft; the latter has tips about how to take care of them.. Very useful knowledge base. If this was used in real life that cute panda wouldn’t have suffered from his (or her?) treestuckage!
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July 20th, 2005 at 11:07
faruk | 1) better such news than news of death and destruction
robnym | 2) It was a Microsoft panda
July 20th, 2005 at 11:21
Ha!
You actually outed our IM conversation!
But yes, I definitely prefer when such harmless things happen, over all horrible events in the world.
July 20th, 2005 at 11:48
Was it Aftonbladet? *rolls eyes*
Here’s one of their infamous articles that caught my attention recently: Car ramp caused panic on ferry. Right, someone turned the control stick in the wrong direction which made the ramp move upwards, slightly crumpling a few cars. And to quote the article…
July 20th, 2005 at 11:53
Jere,
No actually, it was Expressen.
A picture of the poor panda (don’t know how long this link will be valid).
July 20th, 2005 at 12:50
I forgot to say Aftonbladet failed to refer to Estonia or Titanic as they usually do. It just takes a two-minute long blackout or something to put “The night of horror – another Estonia accident was close” in the headlines.
Anyhow, poor panda. Is someone already setting up a fund for the panda so it can be helped with its traumas?
July 20th, 2005 at 13:52
Jere,
So true.
My greatest hope is that the panda will get all the funding and counselling he (or she) needs to get back on track.
July 20th, 2005 at 14:36
Speaking of pandas and Microsoft; the latter has tips about how to take care of them.. Very useful knowledge base. If this was used in real life that cute panda wouldn’t have suffered from his (or her?) treestuckage!
July 20th, 2005 at 14:48
Krijn,
Ha ha!
I had no idea that there would be any connection between my two posts today!
It took you to find that out. Kudos!
July 27th, 2005 at 0:33
Do you think that a panda can learn to fly?
July 27th, 2005 at 8:48
John,
Eh, that was a different question…
No, is that a good reply?
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