Get Nicked: The weirdest obituary headline ever
We know what Scott Morrison was watching on TV on Wednesday night.
At least, it'd be a remarkable coincidence if he didn't watch The Castle on Channel Nine.
Because on Thursday afternoon Mr Morrison made a familiar reference from the beloved movie.
Scott Morrison eats an apple in Devonport, Tasmania. AAP
"The only person, frankly, who's trying to sell a pair of jousting sticks to the Australian people at this election is Bill Shorten," he said.
"The only difference is, at least the guy selling the jousting sticks would tell you what the price was."
Mr Morrison is assuming Australians have all seen that movie.
Because if not, it's a very confusing statement to say without any context.
Doing obituaries wrong
Any copy editor will tell you that the headline for most celebrity deaths is rarely an opportunity for fun.
It's usually (Movie name) actor (Actor name) dies at (age).
Which is why we have mixed feelings about this alert headline from CNN about the death of Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca.
CNN
It's so brazenly insensitive we're almost impressed.
Though now we're wondering if somebody got fired over it.
Social pariahs
Speaking of getting fired, every political party in Australia seems to have a history of being awful on social media.
Some of the stuff to have emerged from political candidates this week has been downright appalling.
Get Nicked wonders if politics happens to draw the most terrible people, or whether everybody just has a history of being a monster on Facebook.
This journalist is convinced his social media history is so inane and insufferably smug that he would be too boring to get elected to Parliament.
Though maybe those are the qualities that make for your typical politician.
Head clash
The English Premier League is under pressure to reform their rules about concussion after Tottenham's Jan Vertonghen was way too dazed to be out the field.
In rugby, players who want to stay on the field in spite of their concussions often try and mask the symptoms to avoid a head injury assessment.
Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino assists Jan Vertonghen after an injury AAP
But football requires a more nuanced approach. After all, a common part of professional football is pretending to be injured to get a penalty.
When it comes to concussion, overdoing it means you get sent off.
So if you do suffer a head injury in an act of foul play, maybe it's best to pretend they hurt your arm or leg instead.
