Post by jonnygrouville on Oct 25, 2010 4:56:29 GMT -5
When boarding an airplane, why do they bother asking the people at the back to board first? They know everyone is going to try and cram themselves on as soon as possible, and then get irked as people bump in to them and ask them if they mind getting out of their aisle seats to let them through. It is like asking a bunch of chimpanzees if they mind awfully not throwing their own crap around.
Since when was UPS in the business of ‘logisitcs’? You’re postmen. Get over it.
Vaguely on that subject, there was a report on the news that someone had been run over by a FedEx truck. Does it matter that it was a FedEx truck? I know one person it doesn’t matter to; the poor bastard that was hit by the thing. I’m sure he’d rather have been hit by a truck made out of marshmallow, but, on this plane of existence, I don’t think it would matter to him if it was a truck delivering little fluffy kittens, I bet it still really bloody hurt.
Something else that still amazes me to this day is the FedEx logo. I can’t decide if the arrow hiding in there is genius or the greatest piece of design that people don’t notice ever. Unlike the new Gap logo that has attracted an inconceivable amount of media attention, only really justifiable because it looks like it was done in the middle of a hangover ‘what do you mean the deadline is in fifteen minutes?’, I suspect as a ploy to bring out ‘Gap classic’ with the old logo and be praised as ‘genre-defining’ by someone ignoring the fact they are still just selling beige trousers. Where are you going to put the pocket this year? They’ve been round the back. You’ve done the ‘combat trousers’ thing with them on the thighs. Maybe a useful ankle pocket in case the guys in strategy decide that orang-utans represent a target market that you are not currently fully exploiting. Or one squarely in the middle of the crotch so we men no longer need to reach over from one of the traditional side pockets to adjust our respective junks in warm weather. Where do I patent that? The junk-adjuster pocket will be the defining fashion statement of 2011. You heard it here first.
Is berk a slightly inoffensive name to call someone in the US? It is used frequently in the UK, even on children’s television. I found out recently that it is an abbreviated form of calling someone a Berkshire (pronounced Bark-sha if you are interested; there is no ‘r’ sound in ‘shire’ and the ‘berk’ here is like bark from a tree) hunt, rhyming slang for... I’ll let you work it out. Whatever it is, I have just called someone the full uncensored version. Fortunately, it appears that he does not speak English as I have not yet been punched in the throat.
Since when was UPS in the business of ‘logisitcs’? You’re postmen. Get over it.
Vaguely on that subject, there was a report on the news that someone had been run over by a FedEx truck. Does it matter that it was a FedEx truck? I know one person it doesn’t matter to; the poor bastard that was hit by the thing. I’m sure he’d rather have been hit by a truck made out of marshmallow, but, on this plane of existence, I don’t think it would matter to him if it was a truck delivering little fluffy kittens, I bet it still really bloody hurt.
Something else that still amazes me to this day is the FedEx logo. I can’t decide if the arrow hiding in there is genius or the greatest piece of design that people don’t notice ever. Unlike the new Gap logo that has attracted an inconceivable amount of media attention, only really justifiable because it looks like it was done in the middle of a hangover ‘what do you mean the deadline is in fifteen minutes?’, I suspect as a ploy to bring out ‘Gap classic’ with the old logo and be praised as ‘genre-defining’ by someone ignoring the fact they are still just selling beige trousers. Where are you going to put the pocket this year? They’ve been round the back. You’ve done the ‘combat trousers’ thing with them on the thighs. Maybe a useful ankle pocket in case the guys in strategy decide that orang-utans represent a target market that you are not currently fully exploiting. Or one squarely in the middle of the crotch so we men no longer need to reach over from one of the traditional side pockets to adjust our respective junks in warm weather. Where do I patent that? The junk-adjuster pocket will be the defining fashion statement of 2011. You heard it here first.
Is berk a slightly inoffensive name to call someone in the US? It is used frequently in the UK, even on children’s television. I found out recently that it is an abbreviated form of calling someone a Berkshire (pronounced Bark-sha if you are interested; there is no ‘r’ sound in ‘shire’ and the ‘berk’ here is like bark from a tree) hunt, rhyming slang for... I’ll let you work it out. Whatever it is, I have just called someone the full uncensored version. Fortunately, it appears that he does not speak English as I have not yet been punched in the throat.
