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23 horrible children hate their Christmas presents
HAPPY with your Christmas gift. Here are some charming kids who aren’t:
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Posted: 27th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comments (11)
The Scotch Tape pictures: how to wear Christmas gift wrapping
THANKS to New Mexico-based photographer Wes Naman we know what to do with all that used Christmas gift wrapping. We wear it. In his Scotch Tape pictures, Naman invited people to wear Sellotape. Most end up looking like Glasgow nightclub doormen. Others resemble the Old Patesians front row and mid-op surgery faces at Mr Trip ‘n’ Tuck’s, Miami surgery:
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Posted: 26th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
1978: have yourselves a Sammy Davis Christmas with Alka-Seltzer
BACK in 1978, the good folks at Alka-Seltzer needed a famous face to make their product buzz. They settled on Sammy Davis Junior.
Sammy would replace the double act of Buster Keaton and Speedy:
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Posted: 24th, December 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Kate Middleton’s face turns to leather
KATE Middleton Pregnancy Watch: The Duchess of Cambridge is a bag lady:
National Ledger: “Kate Middleton is pregnant and many are celebrating including those in the fashion world.”
To celebrate the Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy, Gucci has made an exclusive bag for Duchess Catherine.
The Italian fashion house has created the Catherine Bag for the 30-year-old royal, following the announcement she is expecting her first child with husband Prince William .
Guccio Gucci, grandson of Gucci founder Guccio Gucci, says the bag is completely handmade and hand-sewn, and “was inspired by Kate’s delicate features and immense charm”.
They made a leather bag because it looked like Kate’s face. So leathery is Kate what when she opens her mouth you don’t know whether to listen or toss your keys in…
Posted: 23rd, December 2012 | In: Fashion, Royal Family | Comments (2)
Cool Ad: Diesel celebrates the Mayan Apocalypse
COOL ad watch: Diesel celebrates the Mayan Apocalypse:
Posted: 20th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Piza Hut’s Double Sensation pizza is the pizza inside a pizza
WE like pizza. You like pizza. But how can we all get along in a world where one man’s thin and crispy is another man’s stuffed crust? The answer for pizza harmony is here: the pizza within a pizza.
Pizza Hut Singapore has created the Double Sensation Pizza:
Two unique crusts, one stuffed with cheesy sausage, and another with 3-flavour cheese. Topped with succulent smoked chicken and turkey ham on two tantalising sauces – Pepper Alfredo ans salsa. Surpose your taste buds with every bite this festive season.
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Posted: 20th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Is the Daily Mail scared of Facebook competition for its bingo games?
WHY is the Daily Mail so upset by Facebook’s support of online Bingo? Any ideas?
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Posted: 20th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comments (2)
Tesco champions anti-ageism by asking ‘livid’ pensioner to remove hood
HURRAH for Tesco, champion of the anti-ageists.
In “Gran, 69, is a hoodie says Tesco“, The Lancashire Evening Post reports on “livid” great-grandma Barbara Francis, who was told to remove her hood of face expulsion from the Tesco Express, Ashton.
Says she:
“It was pouring down outside so I had my big yellow jacket with a hood and fur on. I had just bobbed in [how hard was that rain?!] for one item so I didn’t bother taking my hood down. I was in the aisle when someone came up and said, ‘Excuse me’… I turned around and a man asked me to remove my hood. I asked him what for. He said it was company policy.”
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Posted: 20th, December 2012 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comments (2)
The Ballistic Backpack from Amendment 2 makes school kids bulletproof
INTO every disaster a little capitalism must fall. Presenting the Ballistic Backpack from Amendment 2:
Our ballistic backpack provides built-in ballistic protection in a backpack that weighs just ounces more than a non-armored backpack. RynoHide carbon nanotube armor is lined in the back panel of the backpack. Sewn into the rear of the pack, you can always be confident that the armor hasn’t been accidentally left at home and that you or your child are protected in case of the unthinkable.
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Posted: 19th, December 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (4)
Australia’s version of The Guardian shapes up well
WILL they live blog the demise?
The Globe & Mail is failing:
Troubled online journalism venture The Global Mail has taken a meat axe to its own staff — telling six employees they are redundant just days before Christmas — as funder Graeme Wood looks to spend millions on an Australian version of The Guardian.
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Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
What your Afro moustache says about you
FLASHBACK brings you this look at what your Afro says about you. The moustaches make all the difference:
Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Retro advert: ‘Introduce Me to 10 Ladies And I Pay You Cash’
RETRO advert of the day: “Famous genius” C.W. Van Der Mark – has an offer: “Introduce Me to 10 Ladies and I Pay You Cash For Your Time.”
Seems legit.
Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Parents outraged by chocolate salty Big Baws cereal
GET a load of those loveable characters on the back of the Weetos cereal box. One is called Big Baws. Some parents who bought the chocolate flavoured Weetos for their kidzzz are outraged. Other parnts are outraged that some parents feed salty chocolate balls to their kidzzzzz for breakfast.
A parent tells the Daily Record:
“My six-year-old started chirping on about Big Baws the other morning. I nearly fell off my seat.”
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Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Balding Post-It Notes
BALDING Post It notes.
Posted: 17th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
In photos: Ryugyong Health Complex in Pyongyang, North Korea
AT the Ryugyong Health Complex in Pyongyang, North Korea – a health complex along the Taedong River, which includes saunas, baths, a gym, restaurants, a table tennis center and salons – hair styles reflect the wave of change. Oddly, the Haircut sported by Supreme Being Kim Jong-Un is not on offer to the masses. It is his signature chop:
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Posted: 17th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
You’re famous for stealing a Miley Cyrus inflatable sex doll
TO North Carolina, where Benjamin Greene, 22, has been arrested. He is accused of trying to steal a Miley Cyrus-styled blow up sex doll from Spencer’s Gifts store in Spartanburg. The Finally Mylie! Love Doll retails at $19.99.
With a nod to her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, he of the Achy Breaky Heart, the doll has “3 Achy Love Holes”.
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Posted: 16th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
So. You got a Grumpy Cat Tattoo
THANKS to Tom Taylor, of Philadelphia’s Deep Six Laborator tattoo parlour, someone is now sporting a Grumpy Cat tattoo:
Spotter: reddit
Posted: 15th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Black Friday 2012 was the largest gun sale day in US history
BLACK Friday 2012 was reportedly “the largest gun sales day in recorded history”. Yo. Ho. Oh!
Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comments (4)
Truth in advertising: the Michigan miracle
WOW! Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Community in Grand Haven, Michigan, works wonders! Or Riversdie, as the advert has it…
Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Kim Beom turns screaming into painting
YELLOW Scream is the work of South Korean artist Kim Beom. This video features Beom screaming at yellow paint. You can see it at the Walker Art Center in 2013.
Says Kim:
“The technique to this painting is to incorporate the sound of screams into the brush strokes…A brush stroke done with screaming is very different from a normal one. … The effect of the screams is recorded with the brush strokes…Aaaaaaaaagh!…
He has tips:
“Now relax and try to feel your breathing, because screaming is part of breathing… a long scream that sounds like when you’re hurt, as if someone yanked your arm behind you or pulled you by the hair.”
Having considered other screams (waking up with Noel Edmonds; “a scream induced by psychological pain”; “a more pained, wronged, and regretful scream”), he concludes:
“Let’s mix a bit of permanent green and add some refreshing hope and pleasure to the screams of joy.”
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Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
How carrots won World War Two
CARROTS played their part in World War Two. Carrots would win the war. And, as luck had it, there were lots and lots and lots of them. Too many. The Ministry of Food had an idea: get shot of the surplus of carrots by marketing them as part of the war effort.
“This is a food war. Every extra row of vegetables in allotments saves shipping… the battle on the kitchen front cannot be won without help from the kitchen garden.
Isn’t an hour in the garden better than an hour in the queue?” – Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, 1941.
Carrots enable you to see in the dark – and best spot the Germans:
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Posted: 13th, December 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
