There is a certain type of person who writes into a newspaper to correct their job title. Maybe not one who'd be super fun at a dinner party. If you've been called a sheet metal worker when in fact you're a technician, fair enough. But a correction last Thursday in the Irish Times seems a little petty. A story concerning a Tokyo property connected to Ireland's Ambassador to Japan, Anne Barrington, also made reference to her husband Ed Milano and referred to him as a 'designer and illustrator', but the paper was forced to print a correction saying Milano was in fact an artist.
Signs of the times
Q: What is something that is totally commonplace now, but 10 years ago would have been considered odd?
Everyone, including parents and grandparents, being on Facebook.
A presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Probably not within WHO guidelines.
Another really weird teacher
"My male teacher in Standard 4 was a tall lanky man, a John Cleese lookalike," writes a reader. "But he had this bad habit of putting his left foot on my desk top - front seat for troublemakers - scratching his privates then picking his nose and wiping it on my desk. If I complained he would threaten me with the strap."
Syntheticity, by Amy Hill.
Arty: Syntheticity, by Amy Hill
New York-based artist Amy Hill uses the work of 15th century painter Hans Memling in her series of oil paintings titled Seven Deadly Sins. A social commentary on the faults of contemporary society,
Memling's sinner from "Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation" becomes a modern woman, dressed in updated fashion including a band tee and crocs In "Apathy", the woman admires her manicure, unmoved by the calamity that unfolds behind her, such as a house fire, plane crash and warring soldiers. In "Syntheticity", she holds a can of energy drink, her back turned from a dismal slew of factories and piled up cars, the objects of mass consumption and industrialisation...
Picture this: Man given caution after his discreet greenhouse cannabis cultivation was found by police.
Video: Thirty-two metres above the ground slackliner Ryan Paul Robinson balances between the rock formation known as the Moai Tower on the south east coast of Tasmania.
