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They made ludicrous claims (see gallery above) that the already troublingly thin celebrities such as Cheryl Cole and Victoria Beckham had lost 12kg (nearly two stone) in two weeks using methods that could be found on their websites.
But going forward, I will not regard the people who passed the buck, who justified the unjustifiable or who made ludicrous arguments instead of acting in the same light.
Yesterday U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron was dubbing a Fox News commenter who had made ludicrous claims on a topic on which he was entirely mis-informed "clearly an idiot".
Yesterday U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron was dubbing a Fox News commenter who had made ludicrous claims on a topic on which he was entirely mis-informed "clearly an idiot".
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Just like life, the play interrupts itself, loses track, and makes ludicrous remarks.
Much goodwill was frittered away in the period when Tory ministers were making ludicrous Brexit pronouncements at home and offering nothing sensible abroad.
But you do find yourself making ludicrous suggestions out of desperation – like one of Argan's doctors who tells him to try doing a little dance.
He never sought to suppress the mischief of the child that was still in him and I remember, when he and his wife, Edna, were being photographed, he would make ludicrous faces at the camera.
Which doesn't mean it isn't worth making a documentary about; just that it's better to make one that loses some of its audience by talking over its head, rather than insulting it by making ludicrous claims that even a scientific thicko like me can detect are absurd.
The technique was the same as that used by people who later dressed up the stories from the emails of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta: Mix truth and lies — my book contract and royalties were described as mysterious income from questionable sources — make ludicrous claims, pass on the lies to other Russian-backed websites, and then watch them pass it on again.
Until Jerry Springer, the benchmark for protests against a single show had been held by Morris's Brass Eye Special on the subject of paedophilia, in which celebrities were duped into making ludicrous condemnations of child abuse, most memorably Phil Collins's declaration: "I am talking nonce sense".
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