Can’t resist a pissing contest. From the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Two seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers have been fired after a live webcam caught them urinating into the Old Faithful geyser.
Uh? WTF?
Labour To MPs – Keep On Troughing, You’ve Done Nothing Wrong
Oink, Oink, Oink. So much for shame. Peter Riddell, The Independent:
A remarkable email, sent to Labour members by the Parliamentary Labour Party’s office and leaked to The Independent, says: “It would be easy for the public to gain the impression from this [media] coverage that MPs are generally claiming excessively or outside the rules laid down by Parliament, which is not the case.”
The briefing paper, from the PLP’s resource centre, insisted that the expenses claims disclosed in recent days enjoyed “the full approval of the parliamentary authorities”
[…]
Today MPs will launch a drive to restore public confidence in the system.
Good luck with that. Squeal, piggies, squeal!
Pandering to The Pizza Base
What a political weekend.
Never was so much freeloaded by so many in New Labour’s long march to attain – and maintain – the haute-bourgeois lifestyle to which they think they should be accustomed. Never were so many acres of newsprint or miles of pixels expended in condemning it. ‘Do they think we’re stupid?’ is the general cry.
Yes, they do.
If this ASDA customer service recording is any evidence, they’re right. We are stupid. And like greedy MPs, we all expect something for nothing too:
Hello? Is that ASDA/Walmart? Can you deliver another Parliament, please? This one’s got no bottom to it.
Iconoclast Barbie
Mattel executives show they don’t lack a sense of humour – of sorts.
I thought I’d share with you one of the weirdest memos I’ve unearthed in my years of investigating corporate maledictions. Passed to me from inside Mattel, the toy company, with an August 12, 1997 time stamp. “TAR” stands for Tibet Autonomous Region.
– Greg Palast
Proprietary Content Confidential – Mktng only
To: Jongyol Rimpoche, JRimp@BarbieMttl.cn.TAR
From: BRab@M.IntlMkt.MttlCrp.comBarbie Doll v Dalai Lama
JR,
Marketing greenlights your conclusion: Barbie can’t play Tibet until she replaces current culture idol. Research Div did tab on competitor; looks like he’s history:Barbie: Over 2,000 outfits
The Dalai Lama: One outfit (orange bathrobe!)Barbie: Sixteen hair-dos, including “growing ponytail”
The Dalai Lama: Shaved head (Yuck!)Barbie: Two dozen pre-programmed and market-tested phrases. Changed annually.
The Dalai Lama: “Om Mane Padme Om” (“Hail the Fire in the Lotus” — whatever that means.) Never changes.Barbie: Worshiped by 600 million Barbie owners.
The Dalai Lama: Worshipped by only 6 million Tibetans.Barbie: Creator of cultural revolution.
The Dalai Lama: Victim of cultural revolution.Barbie: Accessories- Shoes, handbags, battery-operated cars — you name it!
The Dalai Lama: Accessories- ZEE-RO
The irony of this is that for all their arch cleverness, they’re wrong. There is a market for ethnically diverse, Indian sub-continent themed Barbies, as Gujerati Barbie above shows. Are their bosses aware that they potentially lost them money?
Darth Plod
So that’s why the police love their helmets and lightsabres batons so much – they think they’re bloody Jedi. Jerome Taylor in The Independent:
The force is with the police force
[…]
Haha! You’ve gotta love silly freedom of information requests. Cop shop magazine Police Review put in a load of FOI’s to see whether any forces have Jedi knights in their ranks.
Lo and behold, Strathclyde Police have 10 members of staff who claim to be from the Jedi faith. They were the only force to admit it.
Well, it’s one explanation, I suppose.
Whummm, whummmm!