The Consumer Category
We bring you the chic and unique, the best and most bizarre shopping offers both online and offline. We offer you tips on where to buy, and some of the less mainstream and crazy, individual and offbeat items on the internet. Anything that can be bought and sold can be featured here. And we love showcasing the best and worst art and design.
Local News in Burnley: ‘I found a maggot in my butty’ (video)
LOCAL news travels to Burnley, where Hafiz Rehman, 27, says he found a maggot in his egg salad sandwich bought from the Greggs opposite Boots.
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Posted: 23rd, November 2012 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
Julie Burchill: Unchosen: The Memoirs of a Philosemite
A WHILE back I (along with others) received an email from the divine goddess Julie Burchill. She was seeking my financial support for a book she wants to publish called Unchosen: The Memoirs of a Philosemite – about her adoration of the Jewish race. She had signed up to a crowd-funding publishing outfit called Unbound – if an author can find enough loot via backers (ie interested readers with cash) to sponsor their book, then they, too, will find themselves between covers.
Posted: 22nd, November 2012 | In: Books | Comments (7)
Shapad by Time: the clock shaped by powder
TIME to powder the old nose. And thanks to the “Shaped by time” by Studio Toer, the powder tells you when it’s good to go. What the powder is, the website does not say. Celebrities, Colombian drugs barons, jihadis and unibombers might care to top up the clocks as they see fit. (They can then take the clock into their prison cells and do time, literally.)
The blurb does tell us:
“Shaped-by-time” is a clock that shapes itself by the passage of time. Because it’s looking for the most efficient way to move itself through the matter it will create an organic form by the slow repetitive movement of time. Time is slightly visible when the clock starts running, after a few days it excavates itself out of the matter and time will appear. From then on it slowly starts creating it’s organic form in which it will find it’s ideal shape. When you want to forget time, shake it a bit and it will start all over again with finding it’s way. Like time heals wounds, this clock litterly [sic] heals itself by time.”
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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comments (3)
Free air tickets for the dangerous flying obese
IF you’re obese, Air Canada will give you a free extra seat. You just need a doctor’s note.
One problem is that airline seats might not be strong enough to support obese travelers. The New York Times:
More than six decades ago, when the federal standards on the strength of airplane seats and seat belts were written, government regulations specified that seats be designed for a passenger weight of 170 pounds. But now the average American man weighs nearly 194 pounds and the average woman 165
“If a heavier person completely fills a seat, the seat is not likely to behave as intended during a crash,” said Robert Salzar, the principal scientist at the Center for Applied Biomechanics at the University of Virginia.
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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The greatest keep-fit devices of the 1970s
WERE you around in the 1970s? Did you keep fit with the latest kit? We’ve pulled together some of the devices available in the brown decade. If you have any of these items, please let us know if they worked:
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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology, The Consumer | Comments (4)
Grow Up To Be Gay: children’s toy of the day
GROW Up To Be Gay is the children’s toy of the day:
Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Nominative determinism: Jim Hall writes about PE Lessons
NOMINATIVE determinism: The author of PE Lesson Plans Year 1: Photocopiable Gymnastic Activities, Dance and Games Teaching Programmes, PE Lesson Plans Year 2: Photocopiable Gymnastic Activities, Dance and Games Teaching Programmes, PE Lesson Plans Year 3: Photocopiable Gymnastic Activities, Dance and Games Teaching Programmes and so on is called Jim Hall.
Posted: 20th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Burger King starts delivering in New York
CANCEL that table reservation at the palace. Burger King is delivering.
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Posted: 20th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
‘Reasonably good’ Bolton doctors produce a cracking website
THE website of Bolton’s Dr. Surinder Singh and Dr. Stephen James Authe is a gem. They say of their surgeries on Halliwell Rd and Wyresdale Rd:
Hello, and welcome to our surgeries.
We operate a friendly 2-doctor 2-site (Wyresdale Road and Halliwell Road) practice, where we hope to provide a reasonably good standard of medical care. We do not pretend to be the best NHS surgery under the sun…
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Great street art of 2012
GREAT Street art:
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The greatest costume every: the roller coaster
THIS might be the greatest fancy dress costume ever – the roller-coaster costume:
Posted: 17th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Mother turns his baby’s naps into dreams you can see
ADELE Emersen took pictures of her daughter Mila. She then added drawings to them to show us what Mila might be dreaming of…
Spotter and more images: OtherParents
Posted: 17th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
How to save money: make a shopping list
MAKE a shopping list to save money. Or at least that’s the advice here. Consumers waste thousands upon thousands of pounds a year in the supermarkets. The secret to not doing so is to make a meal plan, create a shopping list and only buy what’s on it.
Shoppers overspend by an average of £30 every time they visit the supermarket, and men aged between 35 and 44 are the worst offenders. Almost a third of shoppers have no set budget for food – meaning they more frequent visits to the supermarket and greater monetary waste.
Posted: 16th, November 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comment
47 people who really love cheese
THEY love cheese:
Competitors during the annual Cheese Rolling competition at Coopers Hill near Browckworth, Gloucestershire.
Swiss fans with painted faces and cheese hats
Model Nell McAndrew poses with cheese
Food Artist Prudence Staite Dit Von Cheese
A man poses for a photo in front of the Cheese Museum in the center of Amsterdam
Posted: 16th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Woman buys new iMirror – the ultimate Apple product that reflects the real you
JALONTA Freeman of Arlington, Texas, is the proud owner of an iMirror, the iPad that retails at $800 but she bought for just $200.
The iMirror is only available from unmarked cars in McDonald’s car parks. The iMirror is delivered in a sealed iCan’tSeeWhatiBought ibox, to be opened after the seller has left the area lest a stampede occur when everybody sees one and wants one.
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Posted: 12th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Canary Wharf CCTV Christmas Tree
SAY Martin Belam: “Nothing says Xmas like “CCTV in operation” dangling from a tree” in London’s Canary Wharf:
Posted: 12th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The greatest motorcycle advert of all time: 1971 Honda CB35 on Craigslist
IS this the greatest motorcycle advert of all time? Yes. The Craigslist advert for a 1971 Honda CB350 runs like this:
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Posted: 10th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Great taxidermy: Rodeo Squirrel rides the Rattlesnake
TAXIDERMY of the day: the Rodeo Squirrel rides the Black Timber Rattlesnake. It’s what they would have wanted…
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Posted: 10th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
£200 to get slapped about for 15 minutes? We have just the thing! A Tata Massage
HUMANS are a woefully repressed bunch. They get tired of fitting-in and, eventually, turn into outrageous secret ne’er-do-wells who want a bit of pain. Those doing it properly end up getting humiliated in a dungeon by a woman dressed in PVC, but for those not as brave, we’ve got a handy excuse for you.
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Posted: 9th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Awful food: famous Chili Spaghetti
NO exactly Ronseal: the d’lish bowl of Skyline chili Spaghetti:
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Posted: 9th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
South Korea builds world’s largest phallus at 8City
WHERE do they get their ideas from for South Korea’s US$275 billion 8City, a place three times the size of Macau? 8City will be created on island off the city of Incheon, close to Incheon International Airport. There will be shops, more shops, more shops, even more shops, hotels, a Formula One racing track, an arena, a theme park, a full-sized replica of Spain and whatever else can be crammed into a gargantuan project. It will be bigger than yours. Much bigger. So there:
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Posted: 9th, November 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
