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What a world we live in, that someone finding a 35 year old candy bar while cleaning out a hoarder's house gets its own tier 1 news article.

• butvacuum 2mo ago
  It'd be better as an ashens video.
  • Flere-Imsaho 2mo ago
    A fellow Ashens fan!
• petecooper 2mo ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season (posted below, too -- I'll stop now.)
  • vanderZwan 2mo ago
    As your link points out, in Dutch this is also known as "komkommertijd" ("cucumber time"), and in German as "Sauregurkenzeit", ("pickled cucumber time"). The funny thing is that apparently "cucumber time" also existed as an expression in English for a while in the 18th century. One suggested etymological origin for the Dutch "komkommertijd" was as a loan work from the English around the same period, except ttat it survived after the English stopped using it. According to some sources cited on the Dutch wiki page the expression was mainly used by German tailors in London. [0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komkommertijd https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komkommertijd
    • AnonymousPlanet 2mo ago
      The modern German equivalent would probably be "Sommerloch" [1], describing the time when most politics is on hold because of summer vacations and news outlets try to fill the void with whatever story they find. The usual writers and editors being on vacation too during this time doesn't help. - [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommerloch https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommerloch (links to "silly season")
    • namevaccum 2mo ago
      In Hebrew too - עונת המלפפונים - cucumber season
• whynotmaybe 2mo ago
  I guess you're not aware of the story about a guy that found a fly in his coffee at Tim Horton's
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• kylehotchkiss 2mo ago
  More newsworthy than most of the garbage Fox News is slopping out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• dwroberts 2mo ago
  It’s not tier 1 it’s under local news