Political Baby
Posted: Wed 24 March, 2010 Filed under: Cynicism, News Leave a comment »While David Cameron might bleat on about how his wife’s pregnancy “isn’t ideal timing” with it being in an election year, I’m willing to bet that he’s pretty chuffed.
After all, a baby in an election year? That’s got to be a pretty good dollop of votes right there…
Unbelievable 2
Posted: Fri 19 March, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Business, News Leave a comment »Just a short filler, this – but YouTube’s chief counsel has written a post about YouTube’s current battle with Viacom about hosting ‘illegal’ videos.
The best bit is this :
For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko’s to upload clips from computers that couldn’t be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt “very strongly” that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube.
That’s pretty stunning, however you look at it.
Unbelievable 1
Posted: Thu 18 March, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Driving, News Leave a comment »Over the last two days there’ve been two news stories about some truly incredibly bad driving – they really do have to be seen to be believed.
First there’s the story of the person caught driving to the garage – with their bonnet up in front of the windscreen. How they were able to see at all is beyond me.
And then there’s the one (with video footage) of the truck driver pushing a car along the motorway. Not just pushing – the car is sideways-on, and the entire thing is happening in the outside lane. I didn’t think truck drivers were even allowed to use the outside lane…
Gob-smacking.
Double Standards
Posted: Tue 16 March, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Charm School, Cynicism, News, Thoughts Leave a comment »A few days ago I noticed that a certain hate-filled hypocritical shitrag had a big story about how shocking the latest Lady Gaga video is. And then goes on to have screenshots in the story of all the pieces of the video for Telephone that people should be shocked or offended by.
Anyway, now it’s time to make your own mind up, as the video for Telephone is available online. Choose for yourself, not based on what the hate-rag says.
Connections
Posted: Wed 3 March, 2010 Filed under: Cynicism, News, People, Thoughts 2 Comments »Two stories in the same day… [UPDATED : OK, as Andy C points out in the comments, they weren’t on the same day, just one linked from the other, and I can’t read…]
Number One : Jon Venables, one of the two who killed James Bulger, is taken back to prison “for breaching the terms of his licence”. People are surprised, one quote being
“He could have been recalled on licence if he committed an offence, it could be that he returned to Merseyside, it could be he might have approached the family. There is no evidence so far that he did any of these things.”
Number Two : Denise Fergus, the mother of James Bulger, tells how she found Robert Thompson, the other one who killed James Bulger, and stood within twenty feet of him, although she couldn’t confront him.
Mrs Fergus said it was now her aim to find Venables and track him down in the same way.
I wonder if there’s a connection? Particularly if the News of the World is in on the act/witchhunt…
Bridge and Terry
Posted: Mon 1 March, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, News, People, Stupidity, Thoughts 2 Comments »Am I the only one that thinks both John Terry and Wayne Bridge need to grow the hell up?
To me – and I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a great team-player, and don’t give a tin shit about football in general – Bridge’s stepping down from the England team (and thus international football) is a self-destructive dummy-chuck of weapons-grade proportions.
And besides, why on earth does Bridge (and/or the media in general) think Bridge has got any fucking right whatsoever to throw a strop about who his ex-girlfriend decided to be with once they’d split up? Let alone do the full petted-lip and “taking my ball in” strop about it. In the same perspective, what right has Bridge got to throw a strop about who John Terry decides to shag?
I must have missed something relevant in this entire farce, because it seems to me that this is all the kind of thing that most people got over in secondary school.
Popcorn
Posted: Mon 1 March, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, Cynicism, News, Stupidity Leave a comment »In yet another “Well that’s not really news, is it?” moment, the Food Standards Agency have said that – shock, horror – food in cinemas isn’t all that healthy. Who’d have thought.
The nutrition watchdog is concerned about the portion sizes of cinema snacks which are often high in fat, sugar or salt
So popcorn, being served in either salted or sweet ‘flavours’ – amazingly that might be high in fat and sugar or salt. What a revelation. Next they’ll be telling me that those hotdog things aren’t good for you either…