The idiots are winning.

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From the Metro this morning.

If the link prompts you for an email address, make one up.

Which bit are we meant to be looking at?

The link shows two whole newspaper pages. Is there a particular article to look at.
Apologies if I've missed something obvious.

Sorry, should've been clearer- the headline on the letters page on the left...

...Please tell me you see it too?

OMG! That is terrible.

Flippin' nora! Fools!

huh? Am I thick?

Ughhhh

It's not only online- it went to print.

I nearly choked on the tube this morning. No-one else seemed to notice.

I can't read the small print size or get it to enlarge.
Please tell me what it says

I gave them the benefit of the doubt and read the article to check if it was about trifle. But no

Although you don't expect much from the Metro. I saw a piece the other day in a broadsheet - might have been The Times? - about a breach birth.

[bangs head]

'Just deserts but why no jail?'

My fingers are crying after typing that.

no hang on, I was thinking it was just desserts/deserts. But they have the correct spelling.

Please enlighten me - which headline are we supposed to be looking at?

Breach birth?

Christ on a bike.

Oh we are talking about the same piece.

Sorry but "just deserts" is the correct spelling. The word comes from the same root as "deserves".

Just Desserts is the error.

or are we talking jail/gaol?!

Now I am v confused

But that's right isn't it?

Or am I seriously missing the point here?

theyoungvisiter- Er, no they don't!

Deserts are large areas of sand or areas with little rainfall.

Desserts are eaten after a meal.

The correct phrase would be 'Just desserts', as in they got what was coming to them.

'Just deserts' implies that there were only vast sandy plains

Erm, no!

Sorry to correct you but the phrase has nothing to do with desserts!

see here from Wiki and here from the OUP

Just Deserts is the correct spelling.

Just Desserts is often used as a pun but is NOT correct. Honestly.

Dictionary - desert - 7 entries.

1. Noun - That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

It's not a desert anyway- it's an urban jungle out there

Fucksticks!

You're right!!!!

On the plus side, it means the idiots aren't winning...

On the down side, it appears I am one of them

Anyone got a cab number?

however it's interesting that because I was expecting the error, I actually saw it as Desserts when I opened your link (hence my quip about trifle).

It was only when I went back and re-read that I realised they'd spelled it correctly. The error is now so common that I read somewhere that it is more often spelled incorrectly than correctly.

Origin of the phrase

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