Traveler of the week

A small detour, but one that didn’t disrupt their daily routine. This October 16, while transporting European deputies to the Parliament in Strasbourg, a SNCF train made a hilarious mistake: following a bad switch (a mistake possibly caused by humans), the carriage changed destination to land… at the Disneyland Paris amusement park.

Following a routing error in Charles de Gaule’s Paris, the #SNCF sent to #Disney the train that will carry members of the European parliament from Brussels to Strasbourg.

“When magic comes to life”, Disney’s slogan will soon become the slogan of the European Parliament?#Eplenarypic.twitter.com/KLpUtZRuhN

— Emmanuel Foulon (@efoulon1) October 16, 2023

The result of the incident: elected officials arrived in Alsace 45 minutes late. “ “When magic comes true”, Disney’s slogan will soon become the slogan of the European Parliament? », reacted, not without irony, one of the spokespersons of the institution, Emmanuel Foulon, on X (formerly Twitter). “ Trains were directed to Marne-la-Vallée instead of taking the high-speed line », Meanwhile, the railway company pointed out, which could easily say: “ It’s not our fault…it’s Google Maps! »

Optimizer of the week

Do you want to pay less tax? Adopt a dog, cat… or even a turtle! In the draft financial law, which was partly approved through the use of 49.3 by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, there were certain amendment attempts made by the opposition. In particular Aymeric Caron, quoted by “Le Canard chainé”: the “anti-species” representative, member of the Nupes, only proposed increasing the taxpayer’s share of taxes… having one or more pets.

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The ecologist’s goal? Find the shape “ social justice ” consider ” expenses caused by pets, in the same way as […] children » If the amendment is not accepted, for Aymeric Caron, between a baby and a dog, there is only one leg…

Sprinkler watering this week

A group of Indian protesters making the same mistake, at the same time? That’s a bit big! This Saturday, October 21, “FranceNews24”, such amateur news accounts now abound in “ NEWS – #India: A mistake during a massive pro-Hamas demonstration in #Kerala, India, causes hundreds of people to wave Italian flags instead of Palestinian flags », We can read in a tweet that was viewed tens of thousands of times.

🔴 INFORMATION – #India : Mistakes during massive pro-Hamas demonstrations in #Kerala in India, hundreds of people were seen waving Italian flags (🇮🇹) instead of Palestinian flags (bars). 🤔 #IsraelAttack#Gaza Hospital Bombing#SuperMarioBrosMiracles#Gaza Hospital… pic.twitter.com/KiXkEPE31n

— FranceNews24 (@FranceNews24) October 21, 2023

Problem ? Internet users were quick to point out their mistake on this amateur account: the demonstrators were not at fault, they were simply waving the flag of the “Indian Welfare Party” – an Indian political movement formed in 2011 – which was very similar to the Italian flag, except that it had two ears of wheat yellow in the middle and the words “Welfare Party” in the middle line.