Episode 3 No Such Thing as the News

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello and welcome to another episode

of No Such Thing As The News coming to you from up the creek in London.

I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, James

Harkin and this week we will be presenting to you the most

interesting stories we found in the news over the last seven days, and

in no particular order, here we go. Starting with you, Anna Ptaszynski.

This week the Belgian foreign minister's Twitter account tweeted

This is what they call you U-turn in diplomacy! This is the Foreign

Minister and the story that Belgium has stepped all over a trade deal

Canada was trying to draw up with the EU. Somebody hacked into the

minister's Twitter account and tweeted this message. Not for a

well-informed politically. The Twitter account was down for three

hours. Were there any consequences? A war! Wouldn't it be amazing if

Belgium and Canada started... It is will only that started the trade

deal. I have to apologise, I hadn't heard of them. Well, I have to say,

lock new! 35 billion Canadians, say there are 250 people in this room,

if we all decided we wanted to go out for waffles but 1.5 people said

no, and then none of us got any waffles... It is pretty much that. I

have been looking into it a bit and it turns out there is one cow for

every three people there, and the average weight of a cow and the

Belgian... It turns out that for every three Belgians, 218.5 kg,

there are 28 kilograms of cow, so the biomass is only 75% of cow. The

biggest city there was voted the ugliest city in the world recently.

Locals have taken advantage of this by offering an urban safari, which

takes in Belgium's most depressing street, the home of a serial killer,

a trip to an abandoned metal factory and the chance to climb a waste coal

pile. Good, isn't it? So this whole spat thing is in gas territory and

there was another thing this week that happened in French politics.

The common question, how much is a pint of milk? To see how in touch

politicians are with people. The French equivalent is how much is a

pain au chocolat. A minister were -- was asked that this week and he said

10 euros cents. It is the equivalent of saying a pint of milk costs 4p.

One of the press officers at Ukip used to answer the phone saying,

what have we done now? So... In the programme, he said this sentence,

the fact is, I'm not a politician. So he is running for the leadership

over the last week... And Donald Trump keeps saying, I'm not a

politician. So we keep hearing the same sentence. The Governor of New

York also said, my father was not a politician, I'm not a politician. He

is the Governor of New York. A position his dad held! Back in the

1980s! Nobody seems to be admitting to being a politician these days! It

would be great if a politician turned up and started fixing

something else. 200 quid! I'm not a doctor! I really like this one from

a few weeks ago. It was when the iPhone macro 7 came out in China and

the slogan is, this is seven. An inspirational slogan, I think you

will agree! Seven is pronounced "Sacked" in Cantonese. -- sat. Well

done, you! Grew up in Hong Kong! Seven is also slang for penis in

Cantonese, so the slogan translated as "This is a penis"! And earlier

this year... They should have learned because Samsung, when they

released their Galaxy Note 7, which has had enough problems, the slogan

translated as a stick of penis! And people are going, locking hell, my

penis is on fire! We will have to move on. This is from a critic in

the New York Times and he was reviewing the first two episodes of

the series Goliath. He said it had a weird split personality and the

first episode leaves so much unanswered and then it jumps all the

way back and gives a history of the case, and when the second one ends,

it hasn't caught up to where it started. The next day they issued a

correction saying, the critic watched the first two episodes in

the wrong order! That is so good! We need to move on. It is time for fact

two. It is my fact. This is a snail and its genitals are

the wrong way round. Scientists are looking for a partner for Jeremy

because he is a one in a million left-handed snail and he cannot mate

with right-handed snails. One thing I notice is that they don't seem to

have hands! From this picture. LAUGHTER

What they mean is the direction that the shell spirals. Yes. It either

grows clockwise or anticlockwise, so anticlockwise snails cannot mate

with a snail whose genitals have grown in a clockwise direction. I

was just going to say that! There is serious science behind this and

there are huge implications. This is a similar thing to what can happen

in humans where all your organs are on the other side, and if you are

conscious and they try to find your heart on the wrong side, it is a

real problem. In weekly Iglesias has it. Normally it is OK but it can be

other problems associated with it so they are going to try to mate two

lefty snails because they might have the same genes as humans and that

might give us an idea of how to deal with this in humans. And are they

looking for a mate for end weekly Iglesias? So, just very quickly, I

want to say we actually have a celebrity in the audience tonight.

Is it Iglesias? Even better! Jeremy Ball snail is with us tonight. He

might be sat right next to you. -- Jeromy the snail. Angus, who did the

study, is here, and Jeromy is sitting right here. My God! He's

handling him! He is going, put me down! Thank you for being here.

Thank you for bringing Jeromy. We're not allowed to touch him because

insurers why's he is priceless! His shell has just come off. Oh, no,

that's two snails... I was like, there goes the series! Ah! Jeromy is

on the right and Theresa is on the left. You have had this calling out

for a mate to be found for Jeromy for about a week. Anyone sending

anything in? Nothing so far... What should people do if they find a

left-handed snail? To send me a photo. He will be very, very slowly

swiping left! I was looking into how we could get him laid! Because I

don't know much about snail sex. But I was hungry to know more! What I

discovered is they do amazing things. They will caught each other

and then the male snail will shoot a dart from its body, it is called a

love dart and is a picture here, and that gets lobbed into the female and

that can impregnate her. It's hard to tell how big that is.

Proportionately, James, you can only... Come on, guys, this is

locker room talk! Sorry, Angus has just put Jeromy in his pocket! You

put to reason aim in? Yes. You wouldn't treat him like that! Snails

shove their faces up against each other. They both end up impregnated,

which is also quite nice. It is a very gender equal society, partly

because they are all hermaphrodites. So everybody goes away pregnant. An

interesting point to add and how important he is to scientists who

are studying him. If they don't find a mate for him soon, they will put

him into hibernation... Like Austin Powers? Exactly! Yes! But he will

come back and not understanding any of the cultural norms. He will be

like, why am I called Jeromy? It will be like a cryogenic chamber

where he is frozen... They just pop them in a fridge. We need to move on

very shortly. Do you guys have anything? Every year there is a

world snail racing championship in Norfolk and they put them on a

window at 45 degrees and make them go up and then they tie a bit of

Lego to them for weight resistance! That is how they train them. There

was a report on this year's competition and the defending

champion George had died a day before the competition and his owner

said, he died yesterday. We left my mum and dad looking after George

when we went on holiday. When we came back, he was dead. I don't

blame mum and dad. Not really! I need to move us on. Angus and Jeromy

have a train to get back to Nottingham, so, ladies and

gentlemen, Angus and Jeromy! We are halfway through the show, and

it is time to look at the stories you sent us by e-mail and social

media, starting with Andy. The fact is that the German city of Ulm is

desperate to stop men year and eating on its church because they

are eroding the sandstone base. James Watt have you got? Nicola on

Twitter says that Bristol Zoo's psychic raccoon has predict the

winner of the Great British Bake Off. Rocky the raccoon went against

what the bookies say, and he said Candice would win. At early in the

summer, he predict -- correctly predicted the winner of the European

Championships. This is about how Donald Trump has a record of filing

lawsuits to punish and silence his critics, and that is the fact that a

amity of media lawyers at the American bar Association has

commissioned a report on his litigation history.

Time to move on our third fact of the show: If you have $7,500 to

spend and you want to attack a country, it you can buy cyber army

of fridges, or a single Tornado jet fighter for eight minutes. Explained

fridges? This week, the Internet went down for a lot of sites, they

were taken down by an army of digital video recorders and CCTV

cameras and also fridges and loads of things that were attached to the

Internet that you wouldn't think would be able to do this kind of

thing. What has happened is there was a virus on the Internet which

got into all of these objects and sent a massive amount of traffic to

a certain website and it just took down all of the Internet, and if you

go online, you can buy a load of these pop for 7500 owners -- bots.

Tabak two, distributed denial of service, is where you fire a load of

information into a website, and it destroys it, eat it is kind of like

when everyone is trying to get Glastonbury tickets. The record was

set for the most questions to take down a site, and it was a terabyte

of information every second. So imagine you were watching question

Time, 16 billion questions being asked every second. Can you imagine

David Dimbleby trying to shush 16 billion people? I went to the site

where they tell you about buying the bots, and you can get 50,004 $4600.

Did you decide to take down the Mock the week website? Hewlett Packard

looked at this, the security is ropey these smart apps, things like

cat flaps that text you when your cat comes in, smart toothbrushes,

but the passwords are all built on automatically, and they are really

easy to get into, so you can then get this army of fridges and

toothbrushes and cat flap. Your fridge can attack your phone. And so

Hewlett Packard found that 60% of these Internet devices are

vulnerable in some way. A couple of guys recently had a big Las Vegas

conference on hacking. They showed that you could use someone's

thermostat, so they could lock onto 99 degrees in the only way you could

unlock it was to pay them $300 in bitcoin, so you could be held to

ransom to buy your own thermostat. Would you like to see an early

Internet of things? This is a technology guy, so that the toaster

treats you. This is an early example of household objects with Internet

connectivity, but at the moment, Mark Durkan Berg is trying to train

his toaster to work out when he will want toast. So rather than just put

the toast in the toaster like the rest of us, he says the real

question, the challenging problem is when to make me toast, so he built

this whole thing which figures out where he is, when is the right time

to make toast, and call me. I wonder if mark Zuckerberg's career is going

as well as it used to! There is another cool artificial

intelligence thing, a Donald Trump website, a chat bot which is

learning from Donald Trump how to get along with people. It writes

these incredible sentences, which actually don't sound very far from

him: I want to thank the volunteers. They

have been unbelievable. They worked endlessly. They don't want to die.

My plan for the GDP is number one, believe me, but Isis wants to kill

us over our trade deals. It has got the idea! My favourite Arnold Trump

Internet find of the week. He has been suggesting he might not accept

the presidential election vote when it finally comes out, and a lot of

people have been suggesting that he has in the back rant that if he does

lose, he will launch Trump TV, a big new channel he will launch, so

everyone has been trying to sniff around to see if there is any truth

to Trump TV, so everyone heads to Trump dot TV, the obvious domain

name, but if you go there, you are met by this.

He wasn't even organised to purchase this domain at public auction, and

he wants to run the USA! Isn't that wonderful?

We are going to move on now to our final fact of the show, and that is:

Three quarters of people in this room are criminals.

We got you! We have got the place surrounded. This is a new poll by

your YouGov which says that 74% of people have done at least one of

these things: Paying someone cash in hand even though you think they

probably won't pay tax on it. Illegally streaming TV show. Telling

people your food order is to take away and then eating it in. But

don't you live in constant fear that the waiter will come over and say

you order the takeaway, go away. I feel like James Bond every time!

Some people have taken a plastic bag at a supermarket without paying for

it, some have taken a piece of loose fruit or pick and mix without

paying. It could be 74% of people are criminals, or 26% are liars!

What are the consequences of... Admitting to what you just openly

admitted to an television? Sevilla! Does it accumulate to being a bigger

crime if you did it lots? Yes, they would get you. One of the things is

that putting stuff through a self-service scanner as something

else. So you scan something cheap and put in the vodka or whatever.

Yes, and in 2013, a community worker was given community service for

scanning loose groceries and putting them through as onions. It is weird,

he buys lots but his breath smells fine! He finally got caught where he

went to one shop and put everything through as loose onions, and they

didn't sell loose onions. Did you see the person recently who got

caught shoplifting by someone on Google Street view? This was earlier

this month, and there was an IT worker called Peter Darby who was

browsing Google Street view, and we have the picture. This is what he

saw when he was browsing, and then he wandered down the street, as you

do, and he saw this next picture, and then this next one, and when he

saw her running further and further away, and she didn't get caught,

which implies it was a half-hearted attempt by that guy, and he called

the police and reported it. She was caught and prosecuted for stealing

?60 worth of... Onions! Loose onions. So, this was based on a

YouGov server, wasn't it? And I was looking at surveys that have been

done, and a few of them I really liked, one is that most people think

that none of 2016's Turner prize entries are actually art, and the

most Brexit of the supermarkets is Iceland. It is a very particular

branch of Iceland, isn't it? They realise that of all the

supermarkets, if you vote Brexit, you're more likely to go to Iceland,

and they also that against where people mostly vote, and they found

the particular one in Boston in Lincolnshire. That is it. That is

the most Brexit supermarket in Britain. I have one more survey

about what British people do. This was a survey by Enterprise

Rent-A-Car which said that 15% of people admitted they had eaten a

meal behind the wheel of a car, a moving car, and 4% said they got

amorous while cruising along in the car. But in France, 46% of drivers

said they ate behind the wheel of a car, and five times more Spanish

people than British people were getting amorous. Moving car? Moving

car. The car move for you? We need to wrap up shortly. You have

nothing before we do? If you want to keep the law, a recycling company

did do a survey of things you can use instead of buying a plastic bag

at the supermarket, and the interviewed people who gave their

suggestions of what you can use instead, so here are a few. A pair

of trousers tied up at the ankles. They were in the back of the car,

they saved me 20p on bags, and hardly anybody laughed at me.

Dog poo bag. I always have a few in my pocket, and they hold more than

you expect. Your children's arms. I have got

four, and they have two good are the beach. They are not keen on the

frozen stuff. That's it, that's all of our fact! Just time for us to

share with you some of the stories that we didn't have time to get to

during our show, and we will start with James. After seven months of

travel, the European Space Agency's Mars Lander crashed into the surface

of Mars at over 300 kilometres per hour, exploding an impact. The ESA

have declared the mission a success. Anna? This is from the Independent,

and this is that this week, during a debate in Kurdistan's Parliament, it

emerged that nobly in the country knows where the Constitution is.

This is from the Palm Beach Post, and it is but a drunken Wisconsin

woman has been freed on bail after using peanut butter to smear 30 cars

with obscene graffiti and phallic symbols at a conservation group

meeting she mistook for a Donald Trump rally.

APPLAUSE OK, that's all from me, Andy, James

and Anna. We will be back again next week. We

have been No Such Thing As The News, goodbye!

And if you are a left-handed mollusc looking for love, please contact Dan

Schreiber by snail mail. Good night! Bye-bye.