Double-take, # 234

Via Dr Faustus:

Link: Twitter, @SkyNews (16 May, 2016)

the UK’s UK’s driverless cars

Mangling Meaning, # 1

Headlines seem to have become more idiotic than ever. These are variations on a theme that featured across much of the UK media yesterday:

Link: Independent, '100 per cent'

 Link: Birmingham Post, '100 per cent'

Link: SkyNews, '100 per cent'

Link: Daily Mail, '100 per cent'

(Android edition)

Most of the offenders made matters plain (100% of the meat content) in the subheadings, but some simply compounded the idiocy:

 Link: Daily Telegraph, '100 per cent'

4News abandoned the percentages altogether:

 

 Link: 4News, '100 percent'

Since the product in question was supposed to be lasagne, you'd have thought someone would have noticed the lack of pasta, cheese and tomatoes a lot sooner.