Happy Valentines Day… yes, it’s that time of year where Hallmark’s wonderful advertising makes us all feel that we must pay for overpriced tat to “demonstrate our love”, otherwise we’ll feel guilty… bah humbug.
So, in honour of the day, here’s some alternative Valentine poems.
WARNING – the later ones (after the jump) are somewhat adult… I suggest you don’t read them if you’re easily offended.
roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
In Soviet Russia
Poem writes YOU!
Turkey’s World Focus Airlines decided to rebrand their company to “Ank Air” – shame they didn’t think about the consequences of putting that next to their existing “W”-shaped logo :)
A friend just passed on a link to a Sony camera case on Amazon with a rather unfortunate name – the LCS-TWAT. Not sure I’d want to insert my camera into a brown leathery TWAT myself, but each to their own ;)
Either they weren’t thinking, or it’s clever viral marketing….
(Click for full-size screenshot, in case the original item on Amazon happens to get pulled/renamed or anything).
(If this is lost on you, see the news story about a teacher out in Sudan who’s been jailed (and will subsequently be deported) for allowing the children in her class to vote on the name for a teddy bear – they chose “Mohammed” as their favourite. Apparently, naming it Mohammed is “an insult to religion”. Meanwhile, to contrast, over here life sentenced reduced to minimum 3 1/2 years for beating a disabled man unconcious, urinating on his body and throwing him into a river to drown? What.. the… fuck?)
OK, I’ve been really bad at doing Friday fun posts for the last few weeks. D’oh. Today was mostly filled with Christmas shopping (the annoying part of Christmas) – but thankfully Amazon made some of it a lot easier :)
Finally, an answer to our stupidly high fuel prices… a new company called Petrol Direct is offering petrol and diesel at much lower prices, who “ship directly from countries with the lowest tax rates to the UK and save you money.”.
They have the following to say about themselves:
As far as we know the direct supply of highly volatile fuels through the post is an as-yet untapped market. Indeed, you can get just about anything else mail order these days so we thought that it was high time we started to leverage the synergies of the worldwide energy macroeconomy to produce a paradigm shift of groundbreaking proportions.
I forgot to do my Friday fun post last week – oops!
Never mind – here’s a little something, it’s been around for a fair while but it’s pretty cool. It’s a little magic trick by a friend of a friend, Colin Soper, who is a rather talented balloon modeller.
According to this report, Camelot have had to withdraw a scratch card because the general public are too thick to understand negative numbers.
From the article:
Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.
The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: “On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn’t.
“I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher – not lower – than -8 but I’m not having it.
Another Friday fun post. Thankfully I’ve got today booked off work for a long weekend :)
A woman is standing, naked, in front of a mirror. She says to her husband, “I’m horrible, fat, and ugly,could you pay me a compliment and cheer me up?”
