Favourite 4 pisstakes of the Daily Mirror after it called a trampoline a ‘bounce based toy’

John Plunkett. Updated February 10th, 2020

As sure as night follows day, so will extremely windy weather conditions be followed by a newspaper story about a trampoline that ended up somewhere it shouldn’t.

This Daily Mirror tale was made extra special – as highlighted by @JimMFelton on Twitter – by the fact that the person who wrote it (or, at least, the person who wrote the tweet) had never heard of a trampoline.

And, as the Poke’s resident grammar expert pointed out, they also missed the hyphen out of ‘bounce-based’, so it’s a double fail (if not quite so spectacular on the second count).

And here are our 5 favourite pisstakes (the tweet has since been deleted, hence all those ‘unavailables’.

If you ever feel like you’re too unqualified to apply for a job, The Daily Mirror staff don’t know the word “trampoline” https://t.co/UQiP33KIXM

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) February 9, 2020

Bounce based toy flies onto choo-choo metal travel road-sticks

— Steve Tayler (@covstarlite) February 10, 2020

It’s actually only a trampoline if made in the trampoline region in France, otherwise it’s just a bounce based toy.

— Wills (@WillandWiller) February 10, 2020

“How did that bounce-based toy get *there* …?” https://t.co/s4plGDsizM

— Andrew James Carter (@Carter_AndrewJ) February 10, 2020

And did we mention to follow @JimMFelton on Twitter?

Source @JimMFelton