UK Public School Answering Machine Message

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Uh, teabaggers? Wrong continent, assholes

Huli Warrior is not African (click through for full article)



Wow. Just... wow. A Huli tribesman from PNG transforms into Obama as "African witchdoctor" -- how DARE we suggest the anti-Obama propagandists are racist, ignorant, backwards morans?

If you insist on being dickheads, at least bastardise photos from the actual continent to which you're referring.

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This guy does impressions - the Morgan Freeman voice is absolutely uncanny.

Telegraph.co.uk - pictures

Pictures of the day: 1 October 2009 from Telegraph.co.uk

Impressive nature:

Tsunami waves approach American Samoa's Tafuna International Airport in Pago Pago - Picture: REUTERS

Just so very many levels of wrong:



Awww... ittle bitty killing machines:



Full gallery here.

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I've never really NEEDED a reason not to go to Malaysia...

...but now I have one.

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funny man, funny video

The ending to this is excellent...



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support new Nestlé product boycott

This is not the first time Nestlé have faced ethics questions. Perhaps the most well known is the baby formula one. Concerns were raised that Nestlé was essentially flooding low-income populations with free infant formula to encourage women to use it instead of breastfeeding - the traditional "first dose for free" method used to create customers for drug dealers. In 1977, after court action had ruled in favour of Nestlé, activists called for a global boycott. See Wikipedia for more.

This story:

South African rights group launches Nestle boycott over Mugabe milk

A South African rights group has launched a campaign for a consumer boycott of Nestle products over the firm's purchase of milk from a Zimbabwean farm controlled by Grace Mugabe, revealed by The Telegraph at the weekend.

By Sebastien Berger Southern Africa Correspondent
Published: 7:59PM BST 30 Sep 2009

AfriForum, a civil rights initiative spun out of a mainly Afrikaner trade union, said it was giving Nestle one week in which to announce it would stop buying milk from Gushungo Dairy Estate.

The Telegraph reported at the weekend that Nestle's Zimbabwean subsidiary is buying up to a million litres a year from the formerly white-owned farm, whose owner was, according to dairymen, forced to sell to the authorities after a campaign of violence.

AfriForum is contacting human rights groups around the world to ask them to join its campaign, and has already launched a website, www.nestlebloodmilk.com, on the subject.

"All peace-loving people across the globe are requested to boycott all Nestlé products until such time as Nestlé starts respecting human rights by refusing to do business with Mugabe and his cronies," it says.

"The milk produced on the farm of Grace Mugabe is blood milk. Nestlé owes the people of Zimbabwe an apology." Kallie Kriel, AfriForum's CEO, added: "It's a slap in the face of the thousands of Zimbabweans that are suffering under the Mugabe regime." The campaign will include protests at Nestle offices in South Africa, he said.

Full story here and a summary of the previous boycott here

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enjoy your holiday...

The Post-Modern Vacation Graph via Neatorama.com



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Glenn Beck is even wrong in the future

From Gawker.com:

CLAIRVOYANCE

Glenn Beck Is Even Wrong in the Future

Yesterday, in furtherance of his indictment of Barack Obama as an Olympics-mongering gamewhore, Glenn Beck pointed out that the Olympics suck and Vancouver lost $1 billion when it hosted them. Next year.

In as sad an indication we've seen yet of how low the politico-media complex has fallen, it took the fucking White House of the United States of America to point out, on its blog, that you can't lose money on the 2010 Olympics if it's still 2009:

RHETORIC: BECK SAID VANCOUVER LOST $1 BILLION WHEN IT "HAD THE OLYMPICS."
Glenn Beck said, "Vancouver lost, how much was it? they lost a billion dollars when they had the Olympics." [Transcript, Glenn Beck Show, 9/29/09]

REALITY: VANCOUVER'S OLYMPICS WILL NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL 2010. Vancouver will host the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games from February 12 – 28, 2010 and March 12-21, 2010, respectively. [Vancouver2010.com, accessed 9/29/09]

That's why the White House has a blog: To periodically remind us of transparently true and immutable facts about our inescapably temporal existence.

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Don't Ruin American Healthcare!

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more Star Trek geekery

The Star Trek Communicator Keychain from Oddee.com

The Star Trek Communicator Keychain ($10.95) is a fun gadget for all the Star Trek fans out there. The keychain comes with 8 different Star Trek sound effects.

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Kitty Daisy & Lewis

Kitty Daisy & Lewis are touring in Australia!! Want want want.

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Bachelor Food Pyramid

From LunchBreath


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DropBox on the iPhone

From LifeHacker.com

Dropbox Comes to the iPhone and iPod touch

iPhone/iPod touch only: Dropbox, one of our favorite cross-platform file-syncing tools, has now made its way to the iPhone and iPod touch, complete with offline file viewing.

Once installed on your device, Dropbox for iPhone provides access to all your Dropbox files, allows you to view any file supported by your iPhone (including documents, photos, music , and video ), uploads any photo or video you've taken on your device to your Dropbox account, and lets you save any file as a favorite for offline viewing. If you want to share a file in your Dropbox with someone else, the application can generate an email with a link directly to the file.

I first saw a demo of Dropbox for the iPhone way back at SXSW in March, so it's great to see this app finally make its way to the App Store. In short: If you're already a fan of Dropbox and you've got an iPhone or iPod touch, you'll want to download this app. Like the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions, Dropbox for the iPhone is freeware and requires only a Dropbox account.

Dropbox [iTunes App Store]

MORE HERE

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New York, New York... why dost thou hate the iPhone?

From Gizmodo.com:

Apple Genius Bar: iPhones' 30% Call Drop Is "Normal" in New York
How utterly shitty is the iPhone on AT&T in the New York area? The average iPhone drops 30 percent of all calls. And that's considered acceptable by Apple.

MORE HERE


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NFL games are so looong

NFL Viewing Time Pie Chart from Cracked.com



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Can One Be Too Tan?

Sunkist from AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com:






Yes.

And, um, ma'am? You really need to work on that nasty case of chin shadow you've got going on there...

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TV HOURS

American households watch the box for over eight hours a day on average, twice as long as anyone else.

Remember: there are NO stupid questions!

This one's been doing the rounds a bit, but I understand it was originally posted at Yahoo! Answers, or whatever that site's called:

Death and Taxes

From Emails From Crazy People:

An Exclusive Look Into The Seedy World Of British Taxes

I quite enjoy a nice drive through the country and a droll chortle at life’s funniest certainty.

Dear Mr A***

I am writing to you to express our thanks for your more than prompt reply to our latest communication, and also to answer some of the points you raise.

I will address them, as ever, in order. Firstly, I must take issue with your description of our last as a “begging letter”. It might perhaps more properly be referred to as a “tax demand”. This is how we at the Inland Revenue have always, for reasons of accuracy, traditionally referred to such documents.

Secondly, your frustration at our adding to the “endless stream of crapulent whining and panhandling vomited daily through the letterbox on to the doormat” has been noted. However, whilst I have naturally not seen the other letters to which you refer I would cautiously suggest that their being from “pauper councils, Lombardy pirate banking houses and “pissant gas-mongerers” might indicate that your decision to “file them next to the toilet in case of emergencies” is at best a little ill-advised.

In common with my own organisation, it is unlikely that the senders of these letters do see you as a “lackwit bumpkin” or, come to that, a “sodding charity”. More likely they see you as a citizen of Great Britain, with a responsibility to contribute to the upkeep of the nation as a whole.

Which brings me to my next point. Whilst there may be some spirit of truth in your assertion that the taxes you pay “go to shore up the canker-blighted, toppling folly that is the Public Services”, a moment’s rudimentary calculation ought to disabuse you of the notion that the government in any way expects you to “stump up for the whole damned party” yourself. The estimates you provide for the Chancellor’s disbursement of the funds levied by taxation, whilst colourful, are, in fairness, a little off the mark. Less than you seem to imagine is spent on “junkets for Bunterish lickspittles” and “dancing whores” whilst far more than you have accounted for is allocated to, for example, “that box-ticking facade of a university system.”

A couple of technical points arising from direct queries:

1. The reason we don’t simply write “Muggins” on the envelope has to do with the vagaries of the postal system;

2. You can rest assured that “sucking the very marrows of those with nothing else to give” has never been considered as a practice because even if the Personal Allowance didn’t render it irrelevant, the sheer medical logistics involved would make it financially unviable.

I trust this has helped. In the meantime, whilst I would not in any way wish to influence your decision one way or the other, I ought to point out that even if you did choose to “give the whole foul jamboree up and go and live in India”, you would still owe us the money. Please forward it by Friday.

Yours Sincerely,
H***
Customer Relations

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