January 2007
Monthly Archive
Why I don’t like talking via PR types
Posted on Jan 29 2007 | Tagged as: Work
Asking the NUS whether the events on Channel 4’s Shipwrecked - contestant Lucy Buchanan changing her racist views after a few exchanges with the other contestants - undermine their “No-Platform” policy somewhat, they replied with this:
Ruqayyah Collector, NUS Black Student’s[1] Officer said:
“NUS’ No Platform policy states that racists and fascists should not be provided with […]
Back to Barclays (and ID cards)
Posted on Jan 28 2007 | Tagged as: Barclays are useless
Finally, halfway through my diploma, I’ve managed to sort out a loan so I can actually pay for the damn thing.
To recap: Barclays dicked me around for months, requesting utility and phone bills for my parents’ address but in my name, which I obviously didn’t have. This despite the fact that I’ve banked with Barclays […]
Food. And money.
Posted on Jan 26 2007 | Tagged as: Farce
Matt’s been having fun writing to companies about their food again. I loved this response:
“…we do produce a Special edition three-finger KitKat but it is produced for the Middle East to match a denomination of the local currency, making the product a convenient, one-coin purchase.”
What about inflation? Is the local currency artificially pegged to the […]
Vaz opposes thinking
Posted on Jan 23 2007 | Tagged as: The Stupid, Media, Censorship
Channel 4 Race Row version 2.0 also reaches the House of Commons - Keith Vaz mouthing off again.
From MediaGuardian:
“In his motion, Vaz said the House of Commons ‘deplores’ [contestant Lucy] Buchanan’s Shipwrecked comments and ‘regrets that Channel 4 did not make it clear to contestants, at the time that the programme was recorded, that such […]
Spwci
Posted on Jan 23 2007 | Tagged as: Spwci
That’s not an anagram. It’s bastardised faux-Welsh for “Spooky”, the name of the magazine we’re producing for our practical project — all Gareth’s idea. Think of a Welsh Fortean Times. That’s it. Hauntings, UFOs, grisly crimes and whatnot. It should, in theory, be good fun to work on.
Why I’m glad I’m not a newspaper journalist part 37111
Posted on Jan 23 2007 | Tagged as: Work, Media
Last week, we had a visit from Cardiff Crown Court judge Stephen Hopkins - known among the rest of the circuit judges as “hang ‘em high Hopkins”.When the newspaper and broadcast students visited the court in November, he was in the middle of a trial of a mother and father and two uncles charged with […]
George Bush is a very nice man. (Are they gone yet?)
Posted on Jan 22 2007 | Tagged as: Words, The Stupid, Free-speech fundamentalism
This is thoroughly, grotesquely, stupid.
“An Australian man was denied permission to board a connecting flight within Australia unless he removed the T-shirt titled “World’s #1 Terrorist” with a picture of U.S. President George W. Bush.”
Becaue it’s a security risk and because it might offend people, apparently.
a) No it isn’t.
b) So fucking what?
Move over, Goody, there’s a new girl in town
Posted on Jan 22 2007 | Tagged as: Words, Media
Channel 4 race row: version 2.
“Channel 4 has become embroiled in a new race row with scores of complaints to Ofcom about racist comments made on its new reality show Shipwrecked, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
“Lucy Buchanan, an 18-year-old public schoolgirl from York, praised slavery and said she would get a black person to do her ’slave […]
Keep up, Guardian…
Posted on Jan 22 2007 | Tagged as: The Stupid, Media, Science
From today’s G2:
The Question
Is today the worst day of the year?
It is, according to Dr Cliff Arnall, a psychologist with a taste for self-publicity. His formula, taking in six factors - weather, debt, time since Christmas, time until pay day, low motivation and failure to keep new year resolutions - has been wheeled out for […]