Why I hate the British Tabloid press, part who knows?

[inulro]

I had to make a trip to the newsagent for work purposes at lunch today.
On entering the shop, I was presented with a wall of tabloid (and possibly other) newspapers whose headlines ALL read something to the effect of:

BRITAIN IS TOTALLY CUT OFF FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD! OH NOES! IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD!

FFS. The volcanic ash hasn't put a stop to Eurostar, ferries, or shipping. I suspect they think that easy-to-get-to package holidays are the extent of the world.

Although as Simon Calder points out in his nifty article here, Eurostar's completely full.

I particularly like the end:

And I was lucky enough to find a berth on a cargo ship sailing from Gothenburg to Immingham, where I hope to arrive at 4am on Saturday. Now that's a sentence I never thought I would write.

I'm almost looking forward to a Brave New World where travel is always that much of an adventure.

Comments

[badnewswade.livejournal.com]

Oh come on. You know they make you smile. Just a teeny bit.

I wonder what they'd do if the world really did come to an end...

[quercus.livejournal.com]

The Daily Mail would never write that...

REST OF WORLD CUT OFF FROM BRITAIN

...would be much more their style

[wehmuth.livejournal.com]

Dayumn. Beaten to it.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

There was the famous headline "Fog in channel. Continent cut off". And that's as it should be.

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

Well, the flights situation is a bit of a downer if, like us, you'd made arrangements to take a disabled relative on holiday - we're not as able as a completely able-bodied group to be flexible about rebooking. Okay, that's a personal downer, but I'm still not especially happy about all the aggro of cancelling things.

I'm waiting for them to realise there won't be any air-freighted vegetables for a while... SUPERMARKET CHAOS!