Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 by 克莱夫
Many thanks to Beijing Olympics Fan for alerting us to this webpage of wonders on the Mental Floss website.
The sports/activities/antics [delete as required] depicted on this page, each with a demo video clip, beat diving, dressage, and most other Olympic sports, hands down. Shame upon BOCOG for not selecting wife-carrying [if you really think [...]
Filed under: 2008, eccentricity, games, head-bangers, humour, nutcases, olympic, sport | Tagged: lunacy, Ga-Ga, Bossaball, pesaballo, underwater hockey, mountain unicycling, wife-carrying, obscure sports, baseball, hockey, outdoor activities, dodgeball, Extreme Ironing, BOCOG, repetitive, mediocre, outdoor games | No Comments »
Posted on Tuesday, 6 May 2008 by 克莱夫
After I posted the item about the tea stain remover I did a search, using the slogan, to see if I could find who might have instigated this heinous campaign. The results were disappointing with only this site and QQ News returned with the full slogan, all other hits were irrelevant. Out of [...]
Filed under: China, Comment-China, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, UK, attitude, nutcases, tea, west | Tagged: advertisement, Ariel, bird-brained, disgrace, lunacy, mountain out of a molehill, Procter & Gamble, stain, storm in a tea cup, tea, tea-stain | 4 Comments »
Posted on Monday, 5 May 2008 by 克莱夫
On QQ news is an item of complaint about a bus stop advertisement, found in Ireland. The ad is for a detergent and the slogan makes use of the expression ‘all the tea in China’ – a common idiomatic expression meaning ‘much’ or ‘a lot’ - and reads, “Gets Out Stains Made By [...]
Filed under: China, Comment-China, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Tib@t, attitude, racism, tea, violence | Tagged: anti-China, Ariel, detergent, disgrace, green, insult, lunacy, Procter & Gamble, stain, Tallaght, tea, tea-stain | No Comments »
Posted on Tuesday, 13 February 2007 by 克莱夫
It’s all gotta go, the items that have the country at fever pitch.
Government Lie Detector Unit: Electric model. Attractive soft, dark brown surface with consistent faecal odor. Red light flashes when the government is lying about the H5N1 figures. To deactivate red light, unplug unit.
Rubber Face Masks. Don’t be fooled by standard masks [...]
Filed under: avian flu, global issues, health, humour, in bad taste | Tagged: health, lunacy, paranoia | No Comments »
