Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/2533571894/

In an incident almost as bizarre as the recent adverse weather excuses used by Merseyrail …

A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher’s subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut. (source)

Thanks to PopSci.com and El Reg for the story.

Click Liverpools "viloent doger"

While violence against Merseyrail staff is not to be condoned, in any circumstances, I’m not sure that Click Liverpool’s violence against the English language isn’t worse!

The article is here, although they may hopefully edit the headline to save their embarrassment.

A guy is sitting in the bar in departures at a busy airport. A beautiful woman walks in and sits down at the table next to him.

He decides that because she’s got a uniform on, she’s probably an off-duty flight attendant. So he decides to have a go at picking her up by identifying the airline she flies for, thereby impressing her greatly..

He leans across to her and says the Delta Airlines motto “We love to fly and it shows”.

The woman looks at him blankly. He sits back and thinks up another line. He leans forward again and delivers the Air France motto “Winning the hearts of the world”.

Again she just stares at him with a slightly puzzled look on her face.

Undeterred, he tries again, this time saying the Malaysian Airlines motto “Going beyond expectations”.

The woman looks at him sternly and says “What the f**k do you want?”

“Ahhh”, he says, sitting back with a smile on his face, “Ryanair”.

This guy is obviously having a bad hair day …

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqQRKd5ShK8