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Friday, August 31, 2012

Don't look down.

Amazing colours and perspective.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

iPhone and Galaxy Eat Your Heart Out

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Must have accessory. All for less than fifteen hundred. Excellent for warding off muggers.

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Fifty Shades of Grey - For Men

What Type of Social Media Personality Are You? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Taco Bell helicopters 10,000 tacos to Bethel, Alaska after hoax

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As far as customer service stunts go, this one was pretty epic: A helicopter sent to a remote Alaska town bearing a Taco Bell truck, itself bearing ingredients for 10,000 Doritos Locos tacos.

The 6,200 townspeople of Bethel in the distant western stretches of the state got the long-distance delivery after the Irvine-based fast-food company took pity on them.

Last month, fliers trumpeting the chain’s debut in Bethel got residents salivating. After all, cheap Mexican-style food in the land of sled dogs and sub-zero temperatures isn’t exactly easy to come by. The nearest Taco Bell is some 400 miles away in Anchorage.

But instead of seasoned beef, Bethel citizens ended up with the taste of dust when the promise of Taco Bell turned out to be a hoax.

When Taco Bell executives learned of the cruel joke, they sent a free consolation package on Sunday bearing 950 pounds of beef, 500 pounds of sour cream, 300 pounds of tomatoes, 300 pounds of lettuce and 150 pounds of cheddar cheese.

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The Alternative Serenity Prayer

I'm Free

Johnny Cash comes from Strathmiglo

An American country and western singer, who embarked upon a spiritual quest following the death of her famous father to learn more about her family’s 800-year-old link with the Howe of Fife, has spoken of her love for “magical” north-east Fife, while giving unexpected global publicity to local businesses. Rosanne Cash, daughter of the late country music legend Johnny Cash, can trace her ancestry back to King Malcolm IV of Scotland, and felt “ spiritually revived and humbled ” when she visited local attractions including the former country retreat of the Stuart kings at Falkland Palace. Accompanied by her daughter Carrie, Rosanne took a break from filming a show at the BBC in Glasgow and was chauffeur driven
75 miles to the Howe of Fife where she visited Falkland and and Strathmiglo.

Records held by Falkland Palace show that King Malcolm awarded a large estate to the Earl of Fife in 1160 when he married the king’s niece, whose name was Cash or Cashel. A 15th century map sited the estate between Falkland and Strathmiglo. The clan Cash originated from Malcolm’s sister, Ada, and streets in Strathmiglo and Falkiand still carry the name Cash, as do Easter Cash, Wester Cash and Cash Farms. The American Cash connection came about in 1612 when mariner Wiffiam Cash sailed from Scotland to Salem, Massachusetts, with a boatload of pilgrims. He later decided to settle in America. The Cash name has also been linked to the clan MacKintosh.

I grew up about 10 miles from this part of Fife. Small world.

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Social Media Addict Road Signs

How To Apologize Like A Human Being, Not A Politician

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To learn more about how you can support victims of assault and abuse, visit the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN). Or, if you need to talk, call them at 1-800-656-HOPE.

Hello The Representative for Neanderthal Political Posturing.

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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Kangaroo escapes with help of fox and boar | World news | guardian.co.uk

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Go you Aussie miscreant.

A kangaroo is on the run in Germany after breaking out of a wildlife park, with a fox and a wild boar as his suspected accomplices.

Michael Hoffmann, assistant head of the Hochwildschutzpark Hunsrück west of Frankfurt, said on Monday the male kangaroo was one of three that escaped overnight on Saturday with the inadvertent help of the menagerie that lives in the local woods.

Hoffmann said the kangaroos got out of their enclosure after a young fox snuck into the park and dug a hole next to the cage's fencing. Two of the three were then able to escape the park entirely through another hole dug by a wild boar under the exterior fence.

"We've got two of them back; now we're just looking for the third."

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Does this colour turn you off?

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Plain packaging of cigarettes in Australia here we come.

IS PANTONE 448C the world’s ugliest colour? According to an advisory team that came up with the design for the Australian government’s plain cigarette packets, it’s certainly the least appealing.
And it is not a conclusion it came to lightly. Over three months an advisory group of academics and commercial market researchers was enlisted with the unusual task of designing a package that instead of luring consumers to a product, would have the opposite effect.
‘‘It had as its aim the antithesis of what is our usual objective,’’ says market researcher Victoria Parr, from research agency GfK Bluemoon, who headed the project.
‘‘We didn’t want to create attractive, aspirational packaging designed to win customers ... Instead our role was to help our client reduce demand, with the ultimate aim to minimise use of the product.’’

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/does-this-colour-turn-you-off-201208...

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Highland Fashionista: Language Class - Scottish 101

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Feel free to try to translate the following sentences using your Haggis land language knowledge to replace the words in brackets, Less than 100 percent means that you are probably not Scottish.

1. This weather certainly is (really windy), and it is really getting to be a pain in the (ass).

2. It was an absolute (chaotic, fussy mess) at the cruise ship terminal, and they lost my suitcase, so I had to go to dinner in my shorts, all (skinny legs) and everything!

3. My bracelet got itself in a big (tangled mess) with my jacket, and I ended up shaking hands with the Queen with one hand tucked into my (armpit).

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The History Of The Barbeque

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We are big fans of the barbie here in Australia. Grilling the emblems on our flag is a favourite.

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Friday, August 17, 2012

Happy Roid Week

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Flickr is home to many instant film fans across the globe, and one of the biggest instant film events of the year is happening right now: Polaroid Week! It’s when everyone comes together, sharing their magnificent, impressive, beautiful work in a week long celebration.

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Friday, August 10, 2012

She'll Be Coming Around the Moainunt When She Comes

Saturday, August 04, 2012

So when did you stop beating your wife Asshole???

David Farley.

David Farley. Photo: Glen Hunt

Attorney General Nicola Roxon has hit back at comments by the head of one of Australia's largest agriculture companies comparing the Prime Minister to a ''non-productive old cow'', saying they are silly and stupid.

Australian Agricultural Company chief executive, David Farley, triggered the controversy after he made the remarks against Julia Gillard during a 30-minute lecture at an agriculture conference in Adelaide on Thursday.

Mr Farley yesterday told The Saturday Age the comments were ''tongue in cheek'' and taken out of context.

The company has plans to build an abattoir near Darwin.

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The slaughterhouse would specialise in killing older cows for cheap meat.

''This plant is designed to process old cows,'' Mr Farley told the conference.

''So the old cows that become non-productive, instead of making a decision to either let her die in the paddock or put her in the truck … this gives us a chance to take non-productive animals off and put them through the processing system.

''So it's designed for non-productive old cows - Julia Gillard's got to watch out.''

News site InDaily reported the remark was met with sustained laughter by the crowd.

Ms Roxon, who was speaking outside a NSW Bar Association conference in Sydney today, said it was time people got over this sort of personal abuse.

"I think these comments are silly and they are stupid. Ultimately it is an outrageous thing to say about the Prime Minister," she said. "It would actually be an outrageous thing to say about your wife, or your daughter, or your neighbour.

"There is no need to make these sort of sexist and silly remarks ... I am concerned that people think there is permission to make these sorts of comments about the Prime Minister; ... in the footy parlance, play the ball, not the man."

It is not the first the time PM has been publicly abused. Shock jock Alan Jones infamously said Ms Gillard should be put in a ''chaff bag'' and thrown out to sea.

Minister for the Status of Women Julie Collins said Mr Farley's comments were ''appalling and totally unacceptable''. They amounted to ''destructive prejudices long past their use-by date''.

''Mr Farley and those who laughed along with him should take a good, long, hard look at themselves.''

Attorney General Nicola Roxon has hit back at comments by the head of one of Australia's largest agriculture companies comparing the Prime Minister to a ''non-productive old cow'', saying they are silly and stupid.
Australian Agricultural Company chief executive, David Farley, triggered the controversy after he made the remarks against Julia Gillard during a 30-minute lecture at an agriculture conference in Adelaide on Thursday.
Mr Farley yesterday told

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/ceo-compares-pm-to-an-old-cow-20...

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Australia Is a Case Study for Mass Shootings | Motherboard

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Hello NRA Hello????

When I moved to 'merika I was astonished how many seemingly normal people had multiple guns in the house. Yes! Including people with more than 8 children. Just astonishing. On average, if you have more guns available, you will get more nutters like this shooting people. For guns read alcohol and drunk drivers and so on.

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