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Friday Funnies: No green eyes here, newspaper told

A correction from the Cumbernauld News and Kilsyth Chronicle which speaks for itself.  Not quite sure who the last laugh is on here – the parent who made the seemingly nit-picking complaint, or the newspaper for publishing it.

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  • July 25, 2014 at 10:34 am
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    Yep, definitely 1-0 to the newspaper. This pushy parent has been taught a well-deserved lesson.

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  • July 25, 2014 at 11:55 am
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    If the couple were “the envy of their classmates”, then it is the classmates who are envious, not the other way round. It seems that everyone is missing the (non-existent) point here; the parents, the editor for publishing the (albeit funny) apology, and also the people leaving comments here.

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  • July 25, 2014 at 12:19 pm
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    @kate think you’re the one missing the point. The complainer is the mum of a classmate…

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  • July 25, 2014 at 12:30 pm
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    It’s a useful lesson for the paper. The original story, which I haven’t seen, is one of those with sweeping statements which imply something about “everybody”.

    As Jeremy Hardy said of one such story “That’s ‘everybody’ as in ‘This weekend, everybody’s coming down to the World of Scissors’ “

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  • July 25, 2014 at 1:17 pm
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    @Kate – I think it is correct. It is the classmates who are envious. I think the mum the apology is directed at is not one of the mums of the cause of the envy. She’s one of the mums of the envious classmates!

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  • July 25, 2014 at 1:18 pm
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    Kate – the complainant is the parent of a classmate who was petty enough to ring up and say that her daughter was “not envious”.

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  • July 25, 2014 at 1:32 pm
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    Kate: Isn’t the parent complaining on behalf of her daughter, who is a classmate (but not envious)? Therefore, no-one is missing the point.

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  • July 25, 2014 at 3:37 pm
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    I think that you are all missing the point. “The envy of their classmates” is not being used here as a literal, but as a metaphor. That the parent complains merely highlights her inability to grasp the concept of metaphor. The paper’s “literal” apology is a clever highlight of that fact.

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  • July 25, 2014 at 7:25 pm
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    Dietrich is correct….thankfully someone is educated,,,,,,

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  • July 26, 2014 at 12:59 pm
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    I don’t envy anyone having to sort out pushy parents when it comes to their precious offspring.

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  • July 27, 2014 at 3:15 am
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    With respect, these comments prove why there’s an (unadmitted in many quarters) chasm between the skills required in the general regional press and those in the good regional press and the national press. God above …

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