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Saturday 28 May 2022
The French president made the error on a three-day state visit to Japan.
But you’ll have to wait. Here’s how the dictator-resembling utensil took over the internet.
Now THAT is what I call a pre-game warmup.
We are living way beyond our means…
You’ll want to put your headphones on if you’re in an office.
Maybe not quite – but we definitely tried.
But there’s bad news for anyone who snapped up the ‘offer’…
We think he meant Kyrgyzstan. Easy mistake.
Did she imitate… a popular bedroom activity? (Possibly NSFW.)
Let’s just say he finds it hard going.
The Minister for Justice is concerned about the error in Apple Maps, which he says could mislead pilots not familiar with the area.
With Google Maps gone, the latest version of Apple’s iOS has designated Airfield Park in Dublin as an airport on its new mapping software.
Somebody will be apologising fulsomely this morning.
This demonstrator against same-sex marriage tried to make his point outside a corporate HQ. It didn’t go according to plan.
Ah, the Oylmpics. Nothing like ‘em.
The principal of a US school said the typo was an “inadvertent mistake”.
…and is caught by a quick-thinking handler.
Well, that’s a danger nobody saw coming…
The British singer also appeared to swear during the half-time show watched by tens of millions of people.
Gary Lineker’s smug exterior temporarily dropped during a broadcast of Match of the Day on Saturday. At least we know it goes out live.
After exiting a helicopter carrying the heart for transplant, a medic stumbled and the plastic-wrapped heart tumbled out of a cooler onto the street.
Antony Worrall Thompson was accused of stealing at the self-service checkout area five times before being arrested.
Instead of showing a graphic of a routine eye-test chart, viewers were greeted with a chart containing slang abbreviations…
From the government’s €3.6bn ‘accounting error’, to confusing a Hollywood actor with a serial killer, here are this year’s most memorable gaffes.
A search is underway after the unidentified man mistakenly donated his suit, containing $13,000, to a charity clothing store.
Sydney police are searching for the man who left a suitcase full of cash at an Italian restaurant this morning.
When a passenger with an accent tried to alert the co-pilot in the cockpit that the pilot was stuck in the toilet, the alarm was raised.
He couldn’t remember his policies but he could remember all ten of these funny excuses…
And one other that had far reaching implications for its protagonist: Brian Cowen…
THE GREAT AND the good from the world of spuds will be converging on Ireland next week when the World Potato Congress rolls into town.
The Irish Potato Federation is hosting the 11th meeting of the event, which is set to attract delegates from over 60 countries.
The focus of the congress is to bring the global potato community together and its overarching theme this year is the “changing world of the potato”.
The spud industry is keen to highlight that potatoes are the world’s third most important crop, after wheat and rice.
There are over 300 million tonnes of potatoes produced annually, consumed by over one billion people worldwide.
So, today we’re asking: What’s your favourite way to eat potatoes?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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