Sentences with phrase «ridiculous stories about»

Daily Mail quotes a close friend of Mr Blair saying: «Rupert Murdoch is putting out ridiculous stories about Wendi and Tony which are not true.

And by all means, don't make up ridiculous stories about having to stop your car at the end of the driveway to help an elderly woman carry groceries into her house, which held you up for an hour... or anything equally as unbelievable.

Let's be honest, we've probably heard these ridiculous stories about GameStop employees being asked to take in stuff that's been damaged beyond belief.

Um, no offense but I think you are the one who needs to garner some actual information and stop spreading ridiculous stories about a bunch of nonsense.

Nix the attitude, read some actual information, and stop spreading ridiculous stories about a bunch of nonsense.

After overhearing his co-workers on the TV show «Once Upon a Time in Wonderland» tell ridiculous stories about daycare, Shapiro figured comedy + babies = viral + White House invite.

... Good it is a complete load of crap, very anti- Arsenal and perpetrator of ridiculous stories about football that it never seems to be called to account for.

Priests generally live sheltered lives spewing out this ridiculous story about God and religion.

Director William Friedkin (known for «The Exorcist», and «The French Connection») manages to bring superficial credibility to a highly ridiculous story about a young man (played by Emile Hirsch) who hires Mr. Joe to kill his mother (don't ask).

(He tries to entertain Stalin with a ridiculous story about how they used to play hot potato with live grenades back in winter in Stalingrad, just to keep their hands warm.)

There's some kind of ridiculous story about saving the earth from an evil corporation who wants to enslave us all... Really, does it matter?

I just heard a ridiculous story about a company with an HR system which allowed a candidate to be interviewed by 3 different departments (who all loved her) without a hire because of the sign - offs and CV pooling and bureaucratic messiness that is their HR.

Not exact matches

What I find most amazing about my story (and yes, I just made it up), it that christians will think that it is ridiculous.

There are more stories out of the bible that have been proven impossible and or wrong by science than have been shown to have any credibility... Of course I'm talking about actual science... not that christian science and creation «science»... which use scientific sounding things and jump to ridiculous unjustifyable conlusions, or that create incorrect premises and then make up answers to suit the questions.

Look at how many ridiculous stories were written about Davy Crockett and Elvis while they were still alive!

If you could go back and see the idiot they based the Jesus story on, you'd see someone who would spit on you for being a non-Jew and who would probably snarl about how his race is superior to yours despite being saddled with ridiculous random rules handed down by fat greasy slobs of rabbis for hundreds of years.

Whether it's Gazidis making ridiculous claims about our supposedly successful transfer window, even going so far as to suggest that everything went according to plann, or it's Wenger having the audacity to speak about taking a much more proactive approach to the re-signing of players with less than 2 years left on their current deals; which on it's own is a nothing story, it's football management 101, but let's not forget just a few weeks ago he was proudly championing his «ingenious» plan of having his best players playing in the last year of their respective contracts.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

«The attempt to link the chairman's name to the $ 115 million Slush Fund with Fidelity Bank is not only mischievous but disingenuous handiwork of adversaries who will stop at nothing to concoct stories no matter how ridiculous about our chairman.

Please note: Beware that recently, unscrupulous marketers are currently trying to deceive you into thinking that acai pills are some sort of «miracle weight loss cure»... They are even making up fake blogs about people supposedly losing ridiculous amounts of weight simply by popping an acai pill daily (and then they try to sell you these supplements)... These are FAKE stories, and you should realize that although acai is a very healthy antioxidant food, it is NOT a miracle weight loss cure!

Jennae: To write a David Sedaris style book about my wedding experiences — I have so many hilarious and ridiculous stories that I keep filing away for later!

What about the stories of ridiculous radiocarbon dates?

When the dance is finally beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor, dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.

Played from its opening whimsical guitar score as a sweet story about friends, the dynamic of a real - life, Apatow - brand bromance is prominent, and makes for a few funny bonding moments, like when Tommy has Greg loudly rehearse a scene in a restaurant as a ridiculous gesture of fearlessness.

Everything about «American Ultra,» from it's dumb dialogue, to it's ridiculous story, to it's very unfunny cast, there really is not much to enjoy about this film.

Ultimately Clash of Heroes is a triumph of puzzle gameplay and while the story is ridiculous, everything else about the game is excellently executed and rounded off with polished hand - drawn visuals.

-- whereas Washington and Wahlberg elevate the material by not making it about them, and putting the (admittedly ridiculous) story first.

(That a match between Seabiscuit and goliath Triple - Crown champion War Admiral on November 1, 1938 was heard by a ridiculous 40 million people seems to support the contention that there was something significant about this story; it's a great shame that none of that really comes through in Ross's hurdy - gurdy telling of it.)

Give credit to Soderbergh for not turning a thoughtful science fiction story into some Hollywood - ized roller coaster ride or tacking on some ridiculous ending to try to explain everything about the film.

It's a story about friendship, the landmarks of life, and most importantly, the ridiculous hijinks that Jon Hamm, Jake Johnson, Hannibal Buress, and Ed Helms get into while trying to catch their elusive classmate played by Renner.

Say what you will about the lack of plausibility involved in the story, as well as the ridiculous physics, it delivers pretty much on every intended level in terms of sheer action, thrills, humor, violence, and titillation.

Well, the wait is over now, with Hidalgo, a slightly ridiculous film starring Viggo Mortensen about a horse race across Arabia in the late nineteenth century, apparently based on a true story (and Touchstone Pictures has also just issued a press release confirming that Father Christmas is real after all).

The more outrageous and ridiculous you are, the better chance you have of pulling things off, and though «Tropic Thunder» never gets so wild that it forgets about the story it's trying to tell, it's just wild enough to make the whole experience unforgettable.

Plus, the fact that this movie goes from a simple story about a bunch of psychopaths kidnapping dogs for extra cash into something as ridiculous as a deliriously violent showdown in the middle of the desert makes it that much more viciously entertaining and unpredictable.

He may have heard some horror stories about the process he sells to people eager to make a ridiculous profit for doing nothing; if he has, he never questioned the rightness of his work, let alone the business practices of the company for which he works.

He told her about the ridiculous story on the test about a race between the pineapple and the hare, and the dumb questions he had had to answer about it.

The story about Noble Charter Schools» «secret sauce» — their ridiculous and costly discipline policies — that PURE first brought to light has made it into Education Week.

For more information, visit Melissa Fay Greene's website for her Good Housekeeping article about post-adoption depression, a public radio story about her son Fisseha, and a blog tally of other ridiculous things she's blurted out to the kids.

Manga Dogs is the story of three wannabe manga artists (all pretty boys) with «ridiculous delusions» about the craft.

She blogs for her readers and mostly blogs about «ridiculous stories of the messes I tend to get myself into.»

Bloom ＊ Block has a Story Mode which is, thankfully, more charming and less annoying than the ridiculous stories you often get in puzzle games (I'm looking at you Tetris Worlds, and your ludicrous backstory about traveling the galaxy saving «tetriminos»), as well as a Challenge Mode that has you sussing out puzzles story - Story Mode which is, thankfully, more charming and less annoying than the ridiculous stories you often get in puzzle games (I'm looking at you Tetris Worlds, and your ludicrous backstory about traveling the galaxy saving «tetriminos»), as well as a Challenge Mode that has you sussing out puzzles story - story - free.

If you know anything about the Tekken story - line, you will know that it is just simply ridiculous.

Even more impressive is how the plot actually makes you care about these characters; unlike the intro / outro clipshows most fighting games have to offer, MKX's story bothers to include things like character development and heartfelt moments in between all the ridiculous action.

Everything is set up for what could have possibly been the best Battlefield campaign since Bad Company 2, but instead, about halfway through the story, we are greeted with the typical tale of bad cops and ridiculous dreams of grandeur by our antagonist.

The groundbreaking, open world, freeform, sandbox gameplay of GTA (with a story thrown in for good measure) takes that idea — that games are about the PLAYER»S creativity as much as, or more than the designer's creativity — to ridiculous heights.

For me, as ridiculous as it all is by this point, Metal Gear Solid has always been about the story, and so therefore Ground Zeroes is a 1.5 hour game, with one cutscene at the beginning, and one at the end.

I relate these stories in preface to a rant about Microsoft's ridiculous Xbox Live Arcade refund policies.

Whilst the latter stages of the story start to delve into slightly silly territory, it never gets too ridiculous, and ultimately, it's a supernatural story about «a girl and her ghost», so expect the twists and turns to be quite severe!

Along with our amnesiac heroes, we've got a ridiculous story that goes from goofy to dramatic at about the midway point, grinding aplenty, mostly straightforward dungeons populated by random encounters, boss fights that can take a ridiculously long time to muscle through, and more.

From the ridiculous Story Mode that rivals the campiest B - movie, to the 50 + hit combos you'll be pulling off regularly with a bit of practice, to Mai's «chest - biscuits,» which still hang and flop about like they have minds of their own... this is a bizarre and rewarding experience that you won't soon forget.