The Consumer Category
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Man mugged in Colindale for Grand Theft Auto V an hour after it was launched
AND so it begins:
A 23-year-old man was hit with a brick and stabbed before being robbed of the much awaited Grand Theft Auto V video game in Colindale, London at 01:20. The game was only launched at midnight.
The man also lost his watch and a mobile.
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Posted: 17th, September 2013 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Pie and Mash saved the world: the stars who love the traditional cockney staple
PIE and Mash, the traditional cockney staple, is under threat. An ageing fan base, coupled with a shortage of eels, has accelerated the decline of the traditional eel and pie shop.
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Posted: 17th, September 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (3)
Beaver anal secretions taste just like vanilla
“Natural aromas can be extracts from plants, fungi, and in some cases animals. The labelling provisions do not require that the kind of flavour is indicated, with the exception of coffee and quinine. As far as I know the beaver is not an animal which is bred, so supply is not that great.”
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Posted: 17th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Calm and laugh at the Nazis: Propaganda, Power, Persuasion and Hitler’s Lambeth Walk the British Library
THE British Library (it’s fabulous; do go) is showing Propaganda: Power and Persuasion.
Propaganda: Power and Persuasion is the first exhibition to explore international state propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries. From the eye-opening to the mind-boggling, from the beautiful to the surprising, posters, films, cartoons, sounds and texts reveal the myriad ways that states try to influence and persuade their citizens.
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Posted: 16th, September 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Artist turns great books into colour signatures
JAZ Parkinson has turned some of our favourite books into colour charts. Says Parkinson:
“I’m interested in showing how the human mind can transform a word of text into a tangible colour,” says Parkinson. “…Each colour reference or piece of visual imagery in the novel has been tallied, graphed, and charted to make a unique signature for the book.”
She found the writing in The Red Badge of Courage to be especially evocative and she groups similar colors together to illustrate the imagery’s nuances. For instance, the three large reddish bands above represent “crimson” (a color Crane uses to describe the flash of rifle shots), “blood” and “red” (which Crane often uses in reference to the bloodshot eyes of the battle-weary soldiers).
The Bible – beginning and end
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Chiltern trains gives passengers the full 18th Century experience between London and Birmingham
THE toilets on Chiltern Railways have become “inspirational“. The new floor to ceiling vinyl images in the toilets on the Birmingham to London service will raise the mind. One lav has been made to look like Compton Verney, an eighteenth century country mansion turned art gallery in Warwickshire. No. The mansion is not muggy and dull of depressed people in suits sipping scalding hot coffee and playing Angry Birds. It’s pretty clean and smart.Says Thomas Ableman, Chiltern Railways director:
“We’re always looking at ways to create a memorable experience for our passengers. Toilets are traditionally a place to avoid so we have transformed them into an inspirational space with a view. Our only concern is that they’ll be so popular we’ll have people queuing up for the best seat on the train.”
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Posted: 15th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Dating in Seattle: ‘I SAW YOU LOOKING AT ME WITH YOUR ONE GOOD EYE at the STD CLINIC’
SEATTLE power couple hook up on Craigslist:
I SAW YOU LOOKING AT ME WITH YOUR ONE GOOD EYE – w4m – 32 (STD CLINIC)
Posted: 13th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
How to get frostbite from deodorant
HOW cooling is your deodorant? One 43-year-old Dundee man has cause to regret using his under-arm spray on his socked and booted feet before heading off shopping. He save the sweaty socks a thorough soaking before setting off. A short while later, he noticed a pain. On removing his sock the men saw that skin was falling off and his feet were turning black.
He had frostbite.
To Ninewells Hospital, then, where the intrepid explorer is treated by consultant plastic surgeon Stuart Waterson:
“The dangers associated with the use of deodorants are not widely known. Perhaps warnings should be in place to advise its use on open areas and not allow soaking of the chemical on fabric.”
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Posted: 13th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comments (3)
Salvador ‘Dalí is the biggest prick of the 20th Century’ says Henry Miller
HENRY Miller wrote this note back in 1973. In it he observed that Salvador Dalí (pictured below in 1936) ”the biggest ‘prick of the 20th century”.
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Books, Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
LOL: German health club advert of the year
THIS advert of the Fitness and Friends gym in Berlin is telling. TRAIN HARD. FEEL GOOD.
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Great Ads: Mick Humphries can teach you to drive one of these biiiiiig trucks
GREAT Ads: Mick Humphries can teach you to drive one of these:
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
GTA5: Looks like it will be life ruiningly large
EVERYBODY who plays video games – and that’s rarely pasty loners picking crumbs from their cracks in their mum’s basements because things have changed significantly in the past two decades – is incredibly excited about the imminent Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 5 (or GTA5 or GTA V to everyone else).
Previously, GTA improved with increasingly decent soundtracks, improved gameplay and such. However, GTA5 is a different ballpark. It looks nicer, has an eye-watering amount of new things to do and, it will be social life cripplingly large! WHICH IS EXCELLENT NEWS!
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Steve Cohen arrested for dancing with a chicken tied to his cock at the Eiffel Tower
TO the Eiffel Tower in Paris, where Steve Cohen, dressed in platform heels, a garter, long, gloves and tights has a rooster tied to his penis with a long ribbon.
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Posted: 12th, September 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
See the Titanic in Tennessee: A Weekend in Pigeon Forge with Dolly Parton
IF you want to visit America and do the tourist thing, we have majestic natural grandeur coming out of our asses over here, including the Grand Canyon (formerly the longest, deepest land canyon on Earth until that discovery in Greenland last month, when it was relegated to “longest, deepest canyon you can visit while the ice caps still exist”); Yosemite (currently on fire) and Yellowstone, the world’s only national park with the potential to one day cause the extinction of humanity.
But I can’t visit any of that stuff because it’s all in the western part of the US and I live on the east coast, three thousand miles away—too far to drive with only a week’s worth of vacation time, and flying isn’t an option because the whole “Let some TSA-hole feel you up in the airport first” thing is purely bullshit.
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Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Great banned adverts: the Companhia Athletica moob reduction unit
GREAT banned adverts: The Companhia Athletica moob reduction unit:
Posted: 11th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Greatest Ever Banned Adverts: The Vim Prisoner
GREAT Ad Watch: this brilliant advert for Vim was banned in 2005, presumably for being too funny:
Posted: 10th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Cool Ads: Wren Kitchens Advert
COOL Ad Watch: Wren Kitchens Advert – Which costs more?
Posted: 9th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Typo of the day: You’re Local Professionals in Dublin
FLYER of the day is presented via a letter box by Dublin property agents Lappin Estates:
Spotter: Broadsheet.ie
Posted: 9th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Mawkish or magnificent: the Guinness advert of basketball on wheelchairs
MAWKISH or magnificent? The Guinness advert running on wheelchairs in the US might surprise you:
Spotter: Copyranter
Posted: 7th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Facebook bans ‘juvenile boobies’ birds advert
Posted: 7th, September 2013 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
These Rainbow Pencils made from recycled paper are lovely
ANORAK loves making a nice round roll from the shavings of pencils. Japan-based British designer Duncan Shotton wants you to back his Kickstarter Project for his recycled-paper pencil that creates rainbows when sharpened.
Nice.
More.
Posted: 5th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
LG tricks job applicants with a fake meteor apocalyse to promote new HD TV
THE MAKERS of the 84 inch Ultra HD TV, LG came up with a wheeze to sell their product: show unsuspecting job applicants in Chile a meteor cashing into the planet:
When these unsuspecting individuals entered the office, they were nervous about a job interview, not about the end of the world. That is, until the end of the world happened right before their very eyes! The IPS screen, disguised as a window, was so high-def that people were — apparently — ready to run when they saw the meteor drop.
Whether or not the scene was staged, the tagline “Reality, or Ultra Reality?” gets the message across.
This might be scarier:
Spotters: Mundo LG Chile, UPROXX and The Drum
Posted: 5th, September 2013 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Tesco tried to implicate ‘the whole food industry’ in its horse meat scandal
HARD luck Tesco. The Advertising Standards Agency has banned its horse meat scandal apology that appeared in the national press for misleading readers into believing there were issues with meat standards across the entire food industry:
“What burgers have taught us. The problem we’ve had with some of our meat lately is about more than burgers and bolognese. It’s about some of the ways we get meat to your dinner table. It’s about the whole food industry. And it has made us realise, we really do need to make it better. We’ve been working on it, but we need to keep going, go further, move quicker. We know that our supply chain is too complicated. So we’re making it simpler … Seriously. This is it. We are changing.”
No. It wasn’t. It was about some supermarket ready-meals.
The ASA responded:
“We considered that despite the use of words such as ‘we’ and ‘our’ in the preceding sentences, the ad made a definitive statement, ‘It’s about the whole food industry’. We considered that the omission of ‘we’ or ‘our’ from that sentence made it stand out from the surrounding text and informed readers’ understanding of the rest of the ad. Therefore, we concluded consumers would understand the ad referenced all food retailers and suppliers, rather than Tesco alone.”
Posted: 5th, September 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
