# Spot The Mistake (Daily Mail) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106 "2008-06-16T15:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/41 "2008-06-17T00:21:14Z")
Hahah, silly “Daily Mail”. I wonder if they will publish any of our comments by tomorrow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/42 "2008-06-17T00:25:47Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] So, there’s the Daily Fail, the Grauniad, and the Sun. What papers do intelligent Brits read? [/QUOTE] The _Independent_ or the _Telegraph_, depending on their political affiliation. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/43 "2008-06-17T00:32:51Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick] Are you serious? That’s like saying it’s naive to assume that everyone should know that you can’t turn salt into sugar. They’re totally different substances. [/QUOTE] Oh, please. They _look_ identical. I can all but guarantee that if you went out into the street and told people you’d devised a chemical process to convert salt into sugar that most of them wouldn’t bat an eyelash. Additionally, almost everyone has more than a passing familiarity with both salt and sugar; most people couldn’t tell you a damn thing about heroin. **Lobsang** , I don’t think it’s unreasonable that you or any average Joe on the street should not know how heroin is processed, but I certainly expect the media reporting on it to do some basic fact checking before publishing a story. Two minutes on Google would have prevented this stupid mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/44 "2008-06-17T00:38:38Z")
They can’t even get their Patronising Journalist Dimensions right - the bus is a unit of length, not weight. They do correctly use football pitches for area (although of course for larger areas it’s Wales). I believe that for weights, the official stupid reader unit is blue whales. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/45 "2008-06-17T00:50:34Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] They can’t even get their Patronising Journalist Dimensions right - the bus is a unit of length, not weight. They do correctly use football pitches for area (although of course for larger areas it’s Wales). I believe that for weights, the official stupid reader unit is blue whales. [/QUOTE] And when it’s cold, the official unit of the number of hypothermic people is blue Wales. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/46 "2008-06-17T00:53:22Z")
I knew there was a joke in there, and I continue to believe so ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/47 "2008-06-17T01:05:22Z")
I would like to know how many outer-space-visible bull mastiffs it would take to equal the weight of that cannabis, and whether bull mastiffs can be converted to heroin, and of course the street value of those bull mastiffs. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/48 "2008-06-17T01:28:02Z")
[QUOTE=Manduck] I would like to know how many outer-space-visible bull mastiffs it would take to equal the weight of that cannabis, and whether bull mastiffs can be converted to heroin, and of course the street value of those bull mastiffs. [/QUOTE] Would the outer-space-visible bull mastiffs be on a bus or not? And the street value would depend on how you cut them. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/49 "2008-06-17T06:07:18Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] They can’t even get their Patronising Journalist Dimensions right - the bus is a unit of length, not weight. [/QUOTE] Height, surely? ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/50 "2008-06-17T06:14:43Z")
I had to read it again, I thought it was the incorrect use of S’s in the headline. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/51 "2008-06-17T06:21:21Z")
I didn’t notice anything. I have no idea how different drugs are related to each other. [QUOTE=Capt. Ridley’s Shooting Party] The Golden Revolution is hardly ever mentioned. [/QUOTE] Which one was this? ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/52 "2008-06-17T07:15:06Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] Which one was this? [/QUOTE] I suspect he means [the Glorious Revolution](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution) of 1688. And may I say that my understanding was that the traditional tabloid unit of weight was the Baby Elephant? (Or for smaller weights, the Bag of Sugar – 1 Baby Elephant = 150 Bags of Sugar) ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/53 "2008-06-17T08:31:14Z")
[QUOTE=GorillaMan] Height, surely? [/QUOTE] Height is Nelson’s Columns ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/54 "2008-06-17T15:32:03Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by_ **neutron star** : > So I learned about a war England fought in an American public high school history class, but people in England don’t? Easy - you can go through school in England and never hear about the British Empire, never mind one small war. Even when kids do history over the age of 14 it will practically all be about the 20th century. For younger children it is about primary and secondary sources (do they need this when they don’t have any grasp of historical narative?) and empathising with people in the past - “Imagine you are peasant who’s family has just died of the Black Death. Explain how you would feel about this.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/55 "2008-06-17T15:58:02Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick] Are you serious? That’s like saying it’s naive to assume that everyone should know that you can’t turn salt into sugar. They’re totally different substances. [/QUOTE] Salt and Sugar are legal, known, common in everyday use substances. And I know enough about chemistry to know that sometimes it is possible to turn things into other things. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106/56 "2008-06-17T16:00:32Z")
[QUOTE=WotNot] I suspect he means [the Glorious Revolution](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution) of 1688. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I did. I noticed my mistake after I posted, then trying to edit my post, the board kept timing out :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spot-the-mistake-daily-mail/453106.md?page=2)