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The Cardboard Toilet Roll Tube Is Dead: A History Of The Tube In Photos
THE cardboard toilet roll tube is dead. In the US, bum wipers, football fans and puppies are being turned to Scott Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper.
Kimberly-Clark makes the stuff. It’s brand manager Doug Daniels tells USA Today:
“[I] won’t disclose the tubeless technology used but says it’s a special winding process. A similar process is used on tissue the company sells to businesses but not to consumers.”
Tubeless toilet paper is one more way to pretend you’re working at an office and not in your pyjamas at home.
And what fo the toilet roll inner, that circle of cardboard that has been used to: grow carrots; make a puppet, Easter egg stands, art, and masks?
Posted: 28th, October 2010 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Poster Adverts Improved by Graffiti: A Photo Collection
THAT poster says a lot about the brand. But with a bit of felt tip, that graffiti can say something else. It can say something funny, insightful or just plain adolescent. We’ve pulled together a gallery of posted improved by graffiti. Hope you enjoy them, especially No. 6…
Posted: 25th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
American Fast Food Not Sold In The USA: A Gallery Of Eats
CHEAP protein in a polystyrene box the USA’s gift to the world. It has made us healthier. But while the Americans invent mass-produced fast food, the rest of the world perfects it. The Consumer looks at some adaptation of classic recipes feature in Burger King, McDonalds, Pizza Hut and more overseas food drops. REnjoy such delights as the Nacho Whopper (Holland), the Cheese Catsu Burger (McDonald’s, Japan) and the Tender Beef Pentagon (KFC, China)…
Posted: 25th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Live Crab Vending Machine: Things That Exist
THE live crab vending machine – coming to a service station near you!
IN Nanjing, China, you can buy a live Shanghai Hairy Crab from a vending machine outside train stations. It’s the emergency pet that guarantees you a seat on the train.
The crabs are kept at 5°C, at which temperature they are believed to be in a state of hibernation.
Oh, and if you get a dead crab in a bag, the company will replace it with three live ones – enough to kickstart a home zoo.
Crabs retails at $1.50 to $7.50 each, depending on size.
The Weirdest Vending Machines Dispense Gold, Drugs, Used Panties And Breasts
The Prostitute Vending Machine
Posted: 23rd, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
The Wichita Logo Looks Like No American Breast We’ve Seen
TO Wichita, where some says the logo for the new Century II performing arts and convention centre looks like a female breast. Says City Council Member Jeff Longwell: “I think we need to revisit it.”
Indeed, in the US no female breast looks like this. Were the logo to reflect the modern female form the nipple would be perched atop 37-feet high cone of the stuff those coat the Space Shuttle with. The logo looks like a shed on top of a hill.
Here are some other logos that may be suggestive to your dirty minds:
Posted: 22nd, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Kentucky Fried Chicken Halal: When KFC Met The EDL
WHEN Kentucky Fried Chicken trialled halal meat at a few of their Lancashire outlets (inc: Accrington, Blackburn, Colne and Burnley) the reaction was less than tasteful. There were protests. Muslim mums wept that now there was one less battier to their children eating junk food. Anti-Muslims screamed: “Keep Our Imported Fried Chicken English and Christian!” And then the English Defence League (EDL) got involved.
Anorak’s Karen has followed the story:
March 15 2010: It’s Not Muslim Chicken
“In a statement the LCM (Lancashire Council of Mosques) said: “Upon researching KFC’s website, it is apparent the chickens are stunned before slaughter. This issue is of great concern to us because the halal criterion, adopted by LCM after wide consultation, does not allow stunning and this conforms to British law.”
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Posted: 22nd, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
PETA Threatens To Pour Lizard Blood Over Victoria Beckham
PETA plans to soak Victoria Beckham in lizard blood. Sticky Vicky’s bags are made from crocodile, lizard and calf leather.
We are no great fans of Posh but finding a use for chewy lizards is admirable. Take PETA, which can only think of using dead lizards as a protest. One mooted plan is for activists to pelt crocodile feet at her when she goes to an editors’ lunch in London next month.
Posh might well scoff. Tossing feet is so ordinary. Better to fashion them into a darling purse, ball boxes for David or uses the claws a hair grips of him and for her.
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Posted: 19th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comments (5)
Halloween: How To Create The Best Outfit (A Gallery)
HALLOWEEN costumes: Having brought you the most revolting costumes, we know take a look at people who came up with other great outfits. A few pointers – and we agree with Brian Moylan – do not dress as: a Chilean miner (dress as Chile’s president – far scarier); anything tarty is just tarty (if you want to be a tarty robot of witch, just forget it and go as a prostitute and be done with it); and the more homemade the costume is, the better.
And if you want to shock and alarm – take a look here.
Posted: 18th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
M&S Clientele Meet The Poundland Mob In Blackburn Sale Stempede
FOR 90 minutes Marks & Spencer is flogging stuff for £1. People arrive. It’s a scramble. Manager David Wilkinson is wonderfully snotty:
“It was not our normal cust-omer base and their behaviour was not what we’ve come to expect from Marks and Spencer customers.
You mean paying through the nose and then being asked to buy a fucking bag to put the stuff in?
“Staff commented that those purchasing final reduction items were a little bit more enthusiastic than normal in their appetite to get at the sale stock.”
As reader Karen says: Snobbery of the highest degree.
Posted: 16th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Estonian Clinic Uses Real Life Before And After Women: Fat Is Bad
THOSE before and after adverts just got fleshier and bonier. In Estonia, this health clinic has emplyed two women – one before and one after – to hand out leaflets.
In case you failed to realise that thin in better, the chubbier model has “BEFORE” written on her stomach. Stick the message on her chest and see which one men prefer…
Posted: 15th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
McDonald’s Wedding Exists: The Burger Will Outlast The Love
McDONALD’S Hong Kong is to offer weddings. Want a wedding cake, made of apple pie, burgers or cheese slices?
The even better news is that the slice of wedding cake – the murder burger – will most likely outlast your wedding, your lives, your children’s lives, the speeches, the repeating taste of onion and cheese in your throat…
Posted: 14th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Long Life Of A McDonald’s Happy Meal In Pictures
IN an effort to answer the question ‘What happens to a McDonald’s Happy Meal if it’s not immersed in stomach juices and fizzy drink?”, New York photographer Sally Davies obtained a burger and fries and photographed it over a period of weeks. After 137 days, the meals looks almost unchanged – not wanted by man nor fungus…
Look out for a range of McDonald’s-inspired anti-ageing skin creams.
Posted: 13th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
The Queen Elizabeth Liner In Photos
ANORAK is not given over to puff pieces but when we got the photos of the New Queen Elizabeth liner, including Suite 7150, the most expensive aboard Cunard’s newest ship, we thought you might like to take a look. and after them you can take a look at the planes: Inside the World’s Most Opulent Planes With Michelle Obama – A Gallery
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Posted: 8th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Most Terrible Adverts For Killing Children: A Gallery Of The Crazy
THE 10:10 video of children being murdered for not believing in global warming got us thinking what other adverts featuring children are just so very wrong? We searched around and now present the creepiest, weirdest, dumbest, wrongest children in adverts. Look out for the guns, the cellophane, the paedophile, the beer and the ciggies… And now with the blades!
Posted: 7th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
Sexy Foods: A Gallery Of Foods With Saucy Names
SEXY Foods. Feel free to talk among yourselves are your browse our gallery of foodstuffs with names plucked from an adolsecent’s sticky fingered grasp. Does sex sell always? Do you want the cook to be thinking sexy thoughts as they whip up your dinner..?
Posted: 7th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
ADT Scares Homeowners With Break In Advert: Video
IN this video, security firm ADT will scare homeowners into thinking their flat is easier to beak into than it actually is…
If you were put a photo of gypsy on the top of the box, the Daily Express could give the boxes away.
Here’s our Scare Story of The Day:
Posted: 5th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Domino’s Introduces Breakfast Pizza: Jamie Oliver Weeps
THE Domino’s pizza eatery in Dayton, Ohio, is targeting diners keen to eat pizza for breakfast. The first pizza of the day features eggs, bacon and cheese on a pizza crust for $7.99. The breakfast pizza is offered all day.
Good to see that Jamie Oliver’s TV show Jamie’s American Food Revolution is making inroads. You will recall that Our Jamie was shocked and saddened to see West Virginia dinner ladies serving up pizza for breakfast at school.
As he said:
“I have never seen pizza served for breakfast. It’s that kind of food that’s killing America.”
And they’re luvvin it…
Posted: 29th, September 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comments (3)
100 Years Of Saucy Seaside Postcards In Pictures
THE Bamforth vintage card collection has been celebrating its 100th anniversary, at Olympia central London, this afternoon. The saucy postcards were a feature of the British Seaside for many years, are now to be made into other products under licence Worldwide, like the cushions, handbags, clothing, and, well, whatever you want a fat lady in a bathing suit and a smutty double entendre on…
Posted: 28th, September 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Williams Gill’s Walking Stick: Buy The Weapon That Murdered A British Spy
WHO wants to buy William Gill’s walking stick? Gill was the multi-millionaire British explorer and spy bludgeoned to death in the Sinai desert with his… walking stick. It’s not often you get the chance to buy a murder weapon on the open market. And here is the opportunity to buy the stick wielded by Bedouin tribesmen to murder Gill in 1883 whilst he was gathering secret intelligence for the British government. The stick is valued at around £400, any blood and gore included…
The legend:
He was sent, disguised as an Arab, to cut the telegraph lines from Constantinople to Alexandria. His cover was blown…
It was Friday 11th August 1882. The five prisoners, stripped almost naked in the heat of the sun, were made to walk in front of their captors over a mile of rough ground to the Wadi Sudr ravine. Then they were forced to climb down the cliff to some flat ground on the edge of a gully. There they were stood in a row facing the gully, a Bedouin with a gun behind each. The execution was intended to be simultaneous, the bodies falling into the gully. But before the signal to fire was given, one of the Bedouins shot Professor Palmer. In the confusion, the other four prisoners made a break for it. Khalil Attik dashed desperately down the edge of the gulley but was overtaken and killed. Captain Gill, Lieutenant Charrington and Bâkhor Hassûn tried to scramble down the 60 foot cliff to the Wadi but were shot and apparently finished off by sword. William Gill seems to have got the furthest, reaching the bottom of the cliff before he was killed.
As they say in diplomacy- talk softy and carry a bloody big stick…
Posted: 27th, September 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Has A Shoe Bomb Gone Off In Selfridges, London?
Posted: 24th, September 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comments (8)
Serena Williams Gives Face To Burberry
FACE of the Day belong to Serena Williams, as she attends the Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer London Fashion Week show, at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Serena Williams is single and loves to mingle…
Also there to be gazed upon by Serena: Alexa Chung, Douglas Booth, Sarah Jessica Parker and Andy Murray – what he doesn’t know about fashion you can write on the Serena’s fist…
Posted: 21st, September 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Three Years To Go Until Viagra Patent Expires And Tesco Starts Cutting Price
YOU can buy Viagra in Tesco for less than it costs in Boots. But you can buy a generic product still cheaper on the internet.
Tesco is to start selling Viagra over the counter at half price.
The pills were only available on prescription – or from dubious internet sources – until Boots began selling direct to customers last year, at £55 for four.
But Tesco will offer fierce competition by selling Viagra at £52 for eight of the blue tablets.
They’re all trying to cash in before the great Viagra spam-pede.
Posted: 21st, September 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comments (3)
Jude Law And Sienna Miller At Fashion Week: In Photos
Posted: 18th, September 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Beth Ditto Launches Fashion For The Bigger Shoplifter (Photos)
BETH Ditto, the Divine would-be with the Norman Bates meet Doris Karloff hair-do and the felt tip eyebrows has a range of fashion out. It’s on sale at Selfridge’s. But Ditto fans might not want to pay to get the look. As she said (via Paper Mag):
“I have a hard time not buying or stealing. If I want something, I have to have it. But not anymore. The last time was three months ago – a dress from Marshalls. I used to steal more. I mostly stole from Goodwill. You know, ‘Can’t be bothered. The line’s too long. Put it in your purse’.”
Ditto’s new range might not fit in just any pockets…
Spotter: Sylebrity
Posted: 17th, September 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Probably The Sexiest TV Advert Ever
IS this the sexiests ever TV adver? The French – quelle surprise!- aevert for flavoured body rubs and cosmetics at online sex emporium Soft Paris. Is it teh sexsit ever commercail? Let;s investigate:
Soft Paris
Sexy Fruits by Soft Paris: Sexiest commercial ever.
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Posted: 16th, September 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment
