The law is an ass* that is not permitted to sleep in a bathtub^

The alternative to ERP. Photo by NutsyFagan Yes, I am trivialising important matters. But there are things that are so trivial they can’t be ignored further. I read in the Sydney Morning Herald about a British tv station that claims to have done a survey about absurd laws in the UK that have never been […]

Security guards targeted because they cost too much?

If you want to speak good english, then don’t read some Straits Times headlines aloud. If not for the little whatsitcalled before the headline, I’d have been a little more curious about why ‘carrying cash without escorts’ was a consequence of a risk taken. You risk being robbed. You don’t risk carrying cash without escorts. […]

No one thinks big of you

This anti-speeding campaign ad is targeted at young male drivers in NSW, Australia. It depicts young men driving fast to impress women and friends, who aren’t impressed and who wag their little finger to indicate that the driver has a small… y’know? As with a lot of things Australian, it’s slightly offensive and controversial, but […]

$1b plant made using living cells?

I bought the papers this morning and saw on the front page that some pharmaceutical company was going to build a $1b “plant in Tuas using living cells”, and I thought, oh wow, and opened the paper in a hurry to read about the amazing biotechnological-construction-breakthrough thingie that would finally allow us to thumb our […]

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