Ever noticed that when the media reports on the common occurance of a person driving a car colliding with a pedestrian (usually a child for it to get onto the news), said pedestrian has been "hit by a car"? And ever noticed that when the media reports on the extremely rare occurance of a person riding a bicycle colliding with a pedestrian (usually a child or elderly person, the slow moving and innattentive), said pedestrian has been "hit by a cyclist"? Yeah, us too. Man, even linguistics has it in for us.

But hey, you don't have to be a linguist to notice bad journalism. Like this report, which makes secondary school level English language mistakes such as using "insuring" instead of "ensuring" and secondary school level journalism mistakes such as being a massive pile of garbage we wouldn't normally waste our time reading.

Pedantic? Yeah. Let's take it up a notch:



Cyclists might be deranged, child injuring, metric system loving Europhiles, but even we're not fucking stupid enough to try and incite a search for someone who's five feet and nineteen inches tall.

That's all. What, we had to insult someone today.