You know that I've been drunk a thousand times

[venta]

Yesterday, ChrisC was reading a news story entitled something like "Iceland meat pies found to contain no meat at all". The story basically ran that the beef pies were being checked for horse meat content, and were discovered to be entirely free of meat from any kind of animal at all.

At this point, I can't see the URL the story is coming from, but I feel I know where I am. This is a satirical story about the frozen food emporium, Iceland, and their low-quality meat pies.

Except it's being touted as an actual, genuine news story about the large, bankrupt, volcanic island, Iceland, and their mysteriously vegetabley meat pies.

I'm pretty sure that not being able to distinguish between actual news and satire is a sign of the end times.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that not being able to distinguish between actual news and satire is a sign of the end times.

If so, the end times started in the mid 90s. Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) once wrote a blog post about this. He invited Dilbert readers to send him stories of real-life office comedy/stupidity/pointy-haired-ness. And to his horror he found that many of them were more stupid than the world of Dilbert. To the point where had he used some of them as the premise of Dilbert strips they wouldn't have been funny due to being far too implausible and/or surreal.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure telling me that the end-times have been going on for longer than I think is actually consoling, y'know ;)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Sustainable end times! :-)