It's a request *groan*
...he asked Mrs. Porteous' cousin to show him her breasts.
The request was denied, and Mrs. Porteous rebuked him for making it.
Request??
As in "oh pretty please may I have a peek at your perky tits?"
How about the drunk thug made lewd and crude remarks/gestures to cousin and wifey gave him the cussing of his life?
And while I am railing at choice of words preferred by our national paper, how about finishing court reports with "the maximum sentence for such and such offence is such and such" instead of the current line "so and so could have been jailed up to blah blah years or fined blah blah amount or caned blah blah times". What does could have been mean in this context? The sentence was too light?
Why is the paper so averse to using straightforward language? It is news reporting after all, not creative composition. Geez!
6 comments:
eew, what a disgusting angmoh!
actually wat pisses me off more is how the local papers love to tag a person to his/her age and choice of dwelling, for anything and everything.
She forgave him?!!
Back on topic, if you hire gutless, toe the line yes-men, then they are capable of speaking only at this level... Nothing definite, nothing certain.
I remember vividly the news anchor trembling when reporting on the opposition party during the last election.
u seem more pissed with the writer than the chow ang mo who threw wife out....hahaha....sorry but i find that cute!
edpj - don't forget marital status too!
wildgoose - she must also be one kind lor.
anchor trembling when covering story on opposition? haha
suziewong - the pair are misfits lah. i couldn't care less what they do to each other.
i have problem with the wordings in ST.
after i read the article, i had to laugh. defenestration! it was the way it was written that for some strange reason, i found hilarious.
imp - it's just written in an incredibly stupid way about a couple that's incredibly dysfunctional lor. i'd find it stupid funny if it weren't for real.
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