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Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:36 pm
by bradrn
Ares Land wrote: Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:26 am
bradrn wrote: Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:14 am Seen on Hacker News:

‘Problematic stuff’: death, memory and the interpretation of cached objects
Which is worse?

(I think cache is worse. But I work in IT.)
Ah-hah, you’ve fallen into the trap! Here’s the abstract:
More: show
Deliberately deposited (or cached) objects are ubiquitous in the archaeological record, yet they are often classified under different categories, such as hoards, structured deposits, grave goods and cenotaph burials, and interpreted according to different criteria. Drawing on contemporary attitudes to death, dying and bereavement, and using later prehistoric Britain as a case study, this article brings the analysis of these objects together within a single interpretive framework, which asserts that much of this material represents the ‘problematic stuff’ left behind by the dead. This approach forces us to reconsider the traditional boundaries drawn between different aspects of the archaeological record and demonstrates the value that emotion has in our interpretations of past societies.

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:50 am
by zompist
Just saw this as the title of a YouTube video:
The Beatles Live in Australia
My immediate reaction was "no they don't!"

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:02 am
by Emily
zompist wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:50 am Just saw this as the title of a YouTube video:
The Beatles Live in Australia
My immediate reaction was "no they don't!"
george alive in serbia canberra

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 3:56 am
by Man in Space
Emily wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:02 am
zompist wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:50 am Just saw this as the title of a YouTube video:
The Beatles Live in Australia
My immediate reaction was "no they don't!"
george alive in serbia canberra
Paul is dead, mate.

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 6:45 am
by alice
From the front page of today's Scottish Sun: Bug test pressure warning.

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 6:46 am
by alice
Man in Space wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 3:56 am
Emily wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:02 am
zompist wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:50 am Just saw this as the title of a YouTube video:



My immediate reaction was "no they don't!"
george alive in serbia canberra
Paul is dead, mate.
No he isn't; he served me at a filling station in Prestonpans the other day.

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:27 pm
by Man in Space
alice wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 6:46 am
Man in Space wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 3:56 am
Emily wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:02 am
george alive in serbia canberra
Paul is dead, mate.
No he isn't; he served me at a filling station in Prestonpans the other day.
The koala was Paul

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:54 pm
by Vijay
Ares Land wrote: Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:41 pmNew posters have appeared on my street.
Idk why my brain did this to me, but when I saw this, I immediately interpreted "posters" to mean 'people posting on a forum' and "new posters have appeared on my street" as some kind of variation on "new kid on the block," instead of, you know, actual posters, like the kind you stick on walls, on an actual street. :lol:

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2021 4:58 am
by alice
Vijay wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:54 pm
Ares Land wrote: Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:41 pmNew posters have appeared on my street.
Idk why my brain did this to me, but when I saw this, I immediately interpreted "posters" to mean 'people posting on a forum' and "new posters have appeared on my street" as some kind of variation on "new kid on the block," instead of, you know, actual posters, like the kind you stick on walls, on an actual street. :lol:
Maybe one of them is the hapless Bill, who is always appearing on things that say "Bill Posters will be prosecuted".

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:11 am
by Linguoboy
Missouri Supreme Court reverses Medicaid expansion decision (AP)

Sounds like expansion is being halted by the court when really it was halted by the governor, the lower court ruled that was constitutional, and the Supreme Court just overturned that ruling.

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 7:49 am
by bradrn
John Barilaro asked to pass legislation to allow Friendlyjordies defamation defence

(Question: did Barilaro ask someone else, or did they ask Barilaro? And would said legislation allow Friendlyjordies to defend against Barilaro, or vice versa?)

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 12:55 pm
by Vijay
alice wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 4:58 am
Vijay wrote: Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:54 pm
Ares Land wrote: Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:41 pmNew posters have appeared on my street.
Idk why my brain did this to me, but when I saw this, I immediately interpreted "posters" to mean 'people posting on a forum' and "new posters have appeared on my street" as some kind of variation on "new kid on the block," instead of, you know, actual posters, like the kind you stick on walls, on an actual street. :lol:
Maybe one of them is the hapless Bill, who is always appearing on things that say "Bill Posters will be prosecuted".
He's also American, so he's always confused because he's not familiar with this British usage.

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 2:36 pm
by Linguoboy
Illinois Investing $200 Million to Strengthen Early Childhood Workforce

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 6:23 am
by Raphael
Today I learned that there's a charity called Breast Cancer Now:

https://breastcancernow.org/

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:49 am
by bradrn
High-dimensional pointless varieties over finite fields

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:00 am
by Raphael
From the Hamburger Morgenpost, a local tabloid where I live:

Großfahndung! Kind (4) im Transporter verschwunden

That is, literally

Major Investigation! Child (4) Disappears in Transporter

My first thought on reading that was "What, they've invented transporters now? Why didn't anyone tell me?" Turns out it was a truck, though (which, in this case, had been partially converted into an RV).

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 8:28 am
by hwhatting
Raphael wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:00 am My first thought on reading that was "What, they've invented transporters now? Why didn't anyone tell me?"
You seem to be very much into SF... I wouldn't even have com up with that interpretation; for me, the archetypical Transporter is this this kind of van.

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 9:00 am
by Linguoboy
Feds probing Chicago police shooting at Red Line stop caught on video (Chicago Sun-Times)

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:04 am
by Man in Space
hwhatting wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 8:28 am
Raphael wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:00 am My first thought on reading that was "What, they've invented transporters now? Why didn't anyone tell me?"
You seem to be very much into SF... I wouldn't even have com up with that interpretation; for me, the archetypical Transporter is this this kind of van.
That’s (Star Trek is) the interpretation my mind jumped to as well.

Re: Confusing headlines

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2021 4:22 am
by Linguoboy
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