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Bye bye Hipsters, Hello Yuccies
David Infante coined the term in his BRILLIANT article “The hipster is dead, and you might not like who comes next.” According to him, a yuccie has “the yuppie’s new money thirst for yachts and...
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Rude hand gestures from around the world
I have written about this before but this infographic tells it perfectly. The source of the graphic is at the bottom.
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Where does Halloween come from?
Halloween has evolved and been influenced by a number of different cultures and religions, the most important of which are paganism, the Romans, the Celts (the people of Ireland, Scotland, Britain,...
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How old do you think Alana Stewart is?
Answer? 70! Yep – seventy years old! She has obviously had work done but it has been done extremely well. No puffy pillow-face or wind-tunnel effect. And she clearly has good genes. She looks...
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Call Me Dave
I am rather tickled by Lord Ashcroft’s book about David Cameron, Call Me Dave. Why does it tickle me? David Cameron has been ribbed (well, ridiculed) because he tells people to call him Dave. This...
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Every time I see an achingly cool hipster cut…
…..all I can think of is this! David Bowie is the only person I can think of who can rock everything from a perm to a mullet without looking hysterically funny a few decades later.
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When meanings change
POS usually means Point of Sale. But to many people these days it also means Piece of Shit. As in ‘I am so sick of having trouble with this POS car’
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Different words for the @ symbol
According to the New York Times, the Danes use a word describing an elephant’s trunk for the @ sign. Poles call it a monkey, Dutch a monkey’s tail. For Czechs, it is a rolled up fish fillet. In Greek,...
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When language does not translate across cultures
This hilarious fail from an Osaka department store in Japan was reported in various media yesterday. When I saw it and before I read the article, I assumed that it had been because someone thought...
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Vintage advertising campaigns
I have written about vintage advertising campaigns before: Ads you would not see today Sexist vintage ads Vintage diet aid ads And here are some more I discovered
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Design Fails
As regular readers know I love font fails, design fails, and bad product placement. Here are some of the most recent ones I have seen:
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Vintage Advertising
Another of my favourites are vintage advertising campaigns which I have written about here, here, here, and here. Here are some new discoveries
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Hysterically funny married names
There are these and some more on several sites such as this one who source it at the bottom of their article as coming from Pleated Jeans, which has one of the best website names EVER!
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Company Holiday Party Gone Awry
Company Holiday Party FROM: Patty Lewis, Human Resources Director TO: All Employees RE: Christmas Party DATE: December 1 RE: Christmas Party I’m happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party...
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Swedes and IKEA
Swedes find it very funny that I can tie a tie way better and faster than any man they have ever known – without even looking at it. It comes from 12 years of wearing a school uniform that had a tie....
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Swedish words that sound naughty in English
Nathalie sent me this lovely link on 8 Swedish words that sound wrong in English They were: fart (speed) puss (kiss) prick (dot) kock (chef) bra (good) sex (six) slut (end) fack (pocket, pronounced...
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