Gel-Filled Bras
According to the latest travel guidelines, we are all now encouraged to pack a gel filled bra before we get on an airplane.
I'm wondering precisely where I'm supposed to find a gel-filled bra the next time I fly to Australia. There ain't no Victoria's Secret shop in Hong Kong International Airport.
Perhaps this is a plot by the Bush administration to increase the turnover of the Victorias Secret chain. Are we about to start seeing them near the check-in desks of all major airports?
It'll also enhance the revenues of divorce lawyers world wide as husbands try and explain precisely why they were travelling with a bra not in their wife's size.
Posted by dave on 21 August 2006 at 00:26 (GMT +08:00)
Categories: Current Affairs, Weird Stuff
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Do Randroids Dream of, well, anything?
Recently, one of our local characters (by which I mean right-wing idiot) has been writing LTEs (Letters to The Editor), some of which you can see here:
The Lights Out campaign is a small thing, trying to make HKers think a little aboutther environment.
A few days back, Phil Ingram said:
Which garnerned comments from Simon in support of Phil's view that there was something suspicious about an environmental campaign having a website, and in which Simon was obviously unable to deal with comments critical of his rather odd worldview.
Here is his reaction to Phil's post and the reactions to it:
It appears that my letters to the editor about Lights Out For Hong Kong, have been getting some free publicity from two of (what I think are) Hong Kong's less reputable bloggers. (They know they are.) It is a pity these anonymous authors have to live their lives in the gutter, with what appears to be a stream of hatred, sarcasm and moral relativity. One in particular really has nothing important to say at all - just a cut and paste, followed by a few inane comments.
People like that always seem to attract a small following of the very worst too. I could say more, but they just dig their own graves. (Also, I just don't have the time to spend right now - even if they end up driving more traffic to this site.) They are usually best ignored.
You will note that he provides no links to either Phil's posts or any of the other bloggers.
I'm certainly not an anonymous blogger, although Chris at Ordinary Gweilo sort of is, and Fumier definitely is
So, I attempted to post the following on his site:
On the contrary, these bloggers have been attempting to engage you in a discussion of your ideas.
Time after time you refuse to engage in discussion of your points, preferring instead to claim some percieved moral superiority even as everyone else is sniggering at you.
You have beliefs which are outside the current mainstream. You must be prepared to defend those beliefs with substantive discussion if you want to convince others of the correctness of your beliefs.
If you can't do this, you come across as someone with *received* beliefs who has never thought them through.
Why should anyone accept your point of view if you can't explain to them why it's the rational and correct choice?
(And, just so you know, "because Ayn Rand said so" won't convince anyone.)
OK, I didn't put the last point in, because I though there might be a slight hope that he'd actually publish the letter.
Predictably, the post is still 'in moderation'. Simon is completely unable to deal with anyone questioning his worldview. And he ignores where he can't dismiss, dismisses where he can't delete, and deletes where he can.
Posted by dave on 22 July 2006 at 01:03 (GMT +08:00)
Categories: Hong Kong, People, Rants, Weird Stuff
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Painted Room Illusions
Painted Room Illusions: Rooms painted so that if you stand in just the right place a hidden pattern emerges.
(via.)
Posted by dave on 12 March 2006 at 09:00 (GMT +08:00)
Categories: Links, Weird Stuff
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What a pillock
What a plonker:
Donna Maddock, 22, was filmed as she drove along the A499, one of Britain's most dangerous roads. She held a mirror in her left hand and an eye pencil in her right, leaving the steering wheel to itself.
Source: Reuters: Something they don't teach at driving school.
Posted by dave on 11 March 2006 at 09:00 (GMT +08:00)
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Shark Spies
Military scientists in the United States are developing a way of manipulating sharks by remote control to turn them into underwater spies or weapons.
Engineers funded by the Pentagon have created electronic brain implants for fish that they hope will be able to influence the movements of sharks and perhaps even decode what they are sensing.
Source: Independent: Pentagon develops brain implants to turn sharks into military spies
Now all they need to do is attach some lasers...
Posted by dave on 02 March 2006 at 08:37 (GMT +08:00)
Categories: Current Affairs, Fish, Science, Weird Stuff
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Cthulhu plush slippers
It's so cold here in Hong Kong, that these Cthulhu plush slippers look really attractive.
via Making Light
Posted by dave on 07 December 2005 at 12:54 (GMT +08:00)
Categories: Weird Stuff
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Watching TV Makes You Smarter
Apparently, watching TV makes you smarter: NYTimes.com. Via Electrolite
Posted by dave on 26 April 2005 at 00:27 (GMT +08:00)
Categories: Weird Stuff
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Outrageous Cheese
Max Raabe unt Das Palast Orchestra ist sehr gut! For your recommended daily helping of cheesey covers, you should check out wo ist Max Raabe and Monday Mix Tape at Trout Fishing in South Wisconsin.
Via: Paul Frankenstein.
Posted by dave on 16 October 2004 at 00:12 (GMT +08:00)
Categories: Weird Stuff
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See Through Concrete
See Through Concrete!. (via Making Light, appropriately.)
Posted by dave on 17 June 2004 at 09:42 (GMT +08:00)
Categories: Weird Stuff
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An Optical Illusion
From Alas, A Blog! comes this very strange optical illusion. Go see it. It'll give ya a headache.
