Implicit Truths

Also off-limits are questions about where foreigners live, where they have worked, their religious or political beliefs, or what they are currently doing.

Strange rules for a Chinese person in China during the Beijing Olympics, where the government has decided to encourage a new kind of manners. Interestingly, and unsurprisingly they also want Chinese people to not talk about their country or government in any way that will harm its national prestige or the country’s image. Of course there’s the usual bit about national security. How the bloody hell can a normal citizen harm national security by saying, “I’m not allowed to make fun of Chairman Mao.”?

Anyway, the part I like best is the bit where it says that queuing is encouraged. Good to hear you can be an economic powerhouse without any queuing, we Indians have hope still. It’s still damn annoying though that people don’t queue. I say this as a person who’s got people to hold a place in line for me, and who has otherwise jumped queues by telling friends to pay my fees and stuff like that. Yeah, I’m a hypocrite.

Which brings me to the topic of ‘hippocrete’, an animal commonly referred to on Digg. It seems to be some kind of large Grecian amphibian.

George allowed me to reproduce this post of his here.

I was just browsing the BBC Feed and came upon this article about a controversial RyanAir ad. It’s pretty obvious what they’re trying to pull here, but frankly, it’s not all that offensive or anything. I’ve always wondered about people who get offended by stuff like this - what are they thinking? Perhaps, Oh my god, teenage girls will think they’ll get low fares if they dress like that! or maybe They’re insulting the dignity of the young women of the country. They are against British culture.. I can just imagine what would happen if those ads were displayed here. Actually, I don’t have to, I just know there’ll be more car accidents.

We have a strange dichotomy, there’ll be women in wet saris running around trees and wrapping themselves provocatively around the male leads of the movies but the slightest word about anything and cultures will suddenly become offended, women will become insulted and the world will go wrong. What a pathetic bunch of desperate people, here’s a point for you sociologists - this is what happens to people who can’t get any and really really want some. Face it, sex sells, and you like it that way. It’s like those little kids who do something and then act all sanctimonious about the whole thing in the hope that they’ll be the last person suspected.

Of course no one’s falling for RyanAir’s hilarious story explaining just why they aren’t going to be withdrawing the ad. If anyone goes out into the London streets dressed like that they’ll get frostbite, and pneumonia, and just die of exposure.

Here’s the offending ad.

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For some reason I find this song completely irresistible after having seen it in that Sony commercial, I have the ringtone you can get from Sony and I’ve gone to great lengths to find this song. I wish Celestial were available on Amie Street, I wouldn’t hesitate before buying them. I’m not usually a fan of this electronic genre, but this song just has me hooked to it completely. I don’t know what it is, but I’m stuck to listening to this over and over again.

Here’s a link to the song: Electric Road - Celestial. I’ll take it down if there’s a problem. Please buy the album if you can.