There’s a picture of Paris Hilton that’s become pretty common in the last few days, showing her in tears inside her car. It’s actually a pretty good shot, capturing the mood artistically I think, but the subject is not worth it. Go here to see that image, plus another from the same photographer. A pretty depressing look at where we are.
(HT: Pharyngula)
The 2012 Olympic Games organizers have released their new, £400,000* logo. It’s supposed to be youthful, energetic and engaging.
It actually looks like Lisa Simpson ‘servicing’ a male friend. Truly awful.
*Yes, I know that covers more than just the logo, but go with the outrage, OK?
According to article 125 of the US’s Uniform Code of Military Justice, it is an offense to…
Hmm, lots of you (and by lots, I of course mean 2) read this at work. How shall I put this? If a man puts his cha-cha in a lady’s do-wa-diddy that’s fine (subject to consent, age, etc.). Putting your cha-cha (or someone else’s) (or an animal’s!) in any non-do-wa-diddy orifice of any other living being is an offense subject to court martial. Receiving said equipment into one of your own orifices is similarly an offense. No word on whether putting your cha-cha into your own non-do-wa-diddy orifice is OK, but frankly if you can you should probably be getting a medal, not a court martial.
Any questions? Good.
HT: Americablog
The brain-trust at McDonald’s apparently don’t understand the purpose of a dictionary. I’d tell them to go look it up, but the resulting recursive loop might destroy the universe.
Fast-food giant McDonald’s has launched a petition to get the dictionary definition of a McJob changed.
The Oxford English Dictionary currently describes a McJob as “an unstimulating low-paid job with few prospects”.
McDonald’s says this definition is now “out of date and insulting”, and claims a survey found that 69% of the UK population agree it needs updating.
Dictionaries don’t define the meaning of a word, they try, so far as they can, to reflect the meaning(s) of a word. It is entirely possible that a job at McDonald’s is hugely rewarding, and I’m a fool not to chuck what I’m doing now and rush to my nearest McD’s. That doesn’t have anything at all to do with what ‘McJob’ means. Words mean what societies choose for them to mean. Those meanings can change over time (gay, clue, quaint), or be entirely invented (quiz, blog, bogoflops), but there’s only one way of voting for the meaning of a word, and a petition ain’t it.
Eighteen-year-old Samantha Larson reached the peak of Mount Everest on May 16th and became the youngest person to have ever climbed all the world’s “seven summitsâ€
What the hell have I been doing for the last 36 years?