Psst! Over here. Shhh! Don’t draw attention to us.
See, it’s Friday and as far as I can tell, the internet doesn’t get used on Fridays so I can do whatever I want with it. I control the vertical. I control the horizontal. And if you are under the age of 30 you probably have no idea what the hell I am talking about.
“Vertical? Horizontal? What the heck does that mean? This guy thinks he controls physical space?”
Ahhh, to be young and dumb once again. Instead of old and senile. Is there ever a point in our lives when we are smart? Possibly for half an hour after turning 22 we can be considered smart before starting the slow decline into general mental disarray.
Sitting is Deadly
Hate to start off with such bummer news, but the mere act of sitting, no matter how healthy you are, is dangerous to your health. So not only do those of us trapped in cubical farms risk such things as carpal tunnel syndrome and looking-at-computer-screen-all-day syndrome but also increased risk of heart attack and being fat.
Research is preliminary, but several studies suggest people who spend most of their days sitting are more likely to be fat, have a heart attack or even die.
Then again, did this really need to be researched? Sedentary behavior has always been known to be bad. Though I think this article might be used as an excuse to run laps around the building once in awhile. That is if you need an excuse to run laps around the building.
Debenhams in England is helping customers set up gift lists for people going through a divorce. I think this is an apt story to highlight since the season of Valloween is upon us once again. Consider all the things a recently divorced person needs. When a couple comes together, duplicate kitchen items get tossed. Wedding gifts rarely come in pairs. I mean only someone as nutso as me has a need for multiple crockpots, fondue sets, and blenders.
Peter Moore of Debenhams explained the gift list.
“”Divorcing can be an expensive time and registering for a divorce gift list means that family and friends can help the newly separated begin their new life.”
Could our economy be saved by making divorce a gift giving occasion?
Is Your Boss A Tyrant? ad Pulled in England
Apparently it is no longer acceptable to portray German people as aggressive and tyrannical. A radio advertisement in England was pulled by the Advertising Standards Agency because in the short commercial it has a man yelling in German and then asks the listener “Is your boss a tyrant?”
The ASA also said that while the use of stereotypes was “inevitable” to establish a character in a short radio advert, this should not “perpetuate damaging misconceptions”.
The watchdog said: “We noted the ad used a German speaker, rather than someone speaking English, to portray the boss as ‘a bit of a tyrant’ and the humour derived from a stereotype at the expense of German people.
“We considered that the portrayal suggested that German people were more likely to be unreasonable or aggressive to others.
Somethings stick because of historical bias. When a country is responsible for two world wars, for a system of government that is the essential equivalent to evil, a leader that the very mention of in online debates moots the debate entirely (Godwin’s Law), then certain stereotypes are going to prevail. What next? We can’t say Japanese like kinky sex? We can’t say Americans are money grubbing materialistic fat people? We can’t say Canadians are nice? We can’t say the English are uptight pricks? Man, the world has gotten less interesting.
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