13 posts tagged ‘mistakes’
Top ultra-marathon runner got lift in car
Boing Boing,
Jo Zakrzewski is a successful and record-holding British ultra-marathon runner. She's also unsporting, according to a officials who handed her a yearlong ban for taking a ride in a car on the way to winning third place in the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool race. — Read the rest
Cybertruck owners must agree not to sell it within a year
Buying a Cybertruck? You'll agree not to sell it for one year. The detail is reportedly in the order agreement buyers must sign to get on the list. The rule is part of a section trying to exclude professional resellers and exporters who plan to exploit manufacturing shortages, but is unusual. — Read the rest
'The Marvels' bombs with worst MCU opening yet
The age of superhero movies is over. 'The Marvels,' already perceived as the MCU's Hail Mary, failed to crack $48m on its opening weekend. With a $274.8m official budget (and much more spent on marketing), it is all but doomed to be the fall movie season's biggest bomb. — Read the rest
British premier fires interior minister who stoked far-right violence on Remembrance Day
Suella Braverman, Britain's interior minister, is out of a job after disobeying Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and publicly encouraging far-right rioters who attacked police on Remembrance Day. Braverman published an "incendiary" op-ed accusing police of political bias and demanding that they ban a planned march in London in support of Palestinians; police, however, have no such power and the article was perceived as a call to arms for counter-protestors. — Read the rest
She claimed hair was in her food. Video shows she put it there herself.
A diner at The Observatory, a pub in Blackburn, England, complained about finding hair in her food. To mollify her the pub's owner comped her meal, then, once she had gone, checked security footage to see what had happened. As luck would have it she sat in clear view of the camera, and the video showed that she pulled her own hair off and put it on the plate. — Read the rest