A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it's all perfectly clear to the native speaker.
This Sun headline is from a story that the House of Lords want a luxury makeover of their toilets. Officials want historic oak panelling to be installed and the whole place made "posher" at a cost to the British taxpayer of £100,000.00. Work on the ladies’ cubicle plus a gents’ with a cubicle and two urinals begins in August.
The headline uses loo (another word for toilet) instead of the 'lu' in ludicrous, which means ridiculous.
The byline, by Tom Newton Dunn, is funny too; "We spend £100k so some Lords can spend a penny."
To spend a penny, is a euphamism for going to the loo.