Heehee

I admit, I'm a newcomer to Gallery of the Absurd, but this may make me a loyal fan:

Adverts

I think the statistic in America is that one out of every three commercials ("adverts" in the UK) is a car commercial. Here it seems like one out of every three adverts contains some sort of animation of something that should not have been anthropomorphized. Case in point, I recently had a chance to catch up on some television (i.e. TiVoed erpisodes of The Daily Show) and as I sped through the adverts I caught a) animated baked beans (cuz you know they so lend themselves to humanization), animated electrical outlets and animated toilet bacteria (the last of which was impetus for this blog post....I mean, toilet bacteria, really? Yeesh.).

Good food, good sangria and popping in to the House of Commons to watch a debate.

a.k.a. Tuesday night

To all those in the queue at Paddington Station who witnessed me losing my shizzy at the ticket seller....

...I apologise. Normally I'm very cool, calm and collected when I'm being treated like rubbish by a guy who obviously failed train ticket school.

Cadbury Eggs...smaller?

The very funny BJ Novak discussing a very important issue.

Fortunately in the UK the eggs have remained the same size...which is a good thing, even if Liz doesn't like them. :)

I think this is so interesting....

The onions may be a bit much, but still


The URL in case the link doesn't work:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=447434&in_page_id=1879&in_page_id=1879&expand=true#StartComments

Happy Easter, Blogland!

Ironic story for the day:

British supermarket in gaffe over meaning of Easter

dpa German Press Agency
Published: Wednesday April 4, 2007



London- A leading British supermarket chain was left with
egg on its face when it got muddled over the meaning of Easter in an
advert to promote chocolate egg sales, the Times reported Wednesday.
The Somerfield chain, quoting a survey, said in a press release
that while Britons were planning to spend millions on Easter eggs,
many young people did not even know the meaning of the Christian
festival.

Handing out Easter eggs symbolizes "the birth of Jesus," explained
Somerfield in its original release, which was later corrected to read
"the rebirth" of Christ.

A final, third press release, drafted after consultation with the
Church of England, said Easter celebrated the resurrection of Christ.

"We spoke to the Church of England press office, who suggested we
use the word resurrection, in keeping with the Church's teaching,"
said a Somerfield spokesman.

Ben Wilson, from the Church of England press office, said about
the Somerfield release: "It was a genuine mistake, if rather
unfortunate."

© 2006 - dpa German Press Agency

"They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Sh*t, it's raining.'"

This quote, from the character Ruby in Cold Mountain, pretty much sums up how I feel about the Sanjaya thing. Except of course that the quote was referring to the Civil War and not some crazytown reality show.

I've refrained from commenting on this until now for a few reasons: 1) I'm lazy, 2) I kind of feel like a bit of an AI poser, since this is the first season I've really watched (excluding of course viewing a few choice episodes at P*s house back in SF) and 3) I don't really need to comment; everyone else already has.

But the more I read quotes from AI producers and personalities, the more annoyed I get. Truthfully, I think their annoyance is feigned; I'm sure they are annoyed all the way to the bank, right? But to hear Ryan Seacrest tell a fan who was complaining about Sanjaya still being on the show, "Hey, you're doing it" and to hear Simon Cowell "threaten" to quit if Sanjaya wins--I have no choice but to comment, and my comment is this: YOU did it. The judges are the ones who advanced him to the top 24. YOU were the ones that gave him and his sister all that camera time, going back again and again to the fact that they were siblings. (Kind of like how YOU only put Anotonella Barba and whatshername through because they were best friends and good looking.) Eveyone else is supposed to spend their time and use up their text messages to reverse something that YOU started?

YOU made the weather.

By the way, I hope Melinda wins...though I do like the fact that Sanjaya rhymes with Jambalaya. Mmmmmm Jambalaya....

Thought for the day.

"There are an estimated 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain. That's one for every 14 people." --BBC

Dangit, I want my own.

Farewell, my Carbohydrates.

Passover begins tonight!