Today in la-la-land Sept1506
Starbucks hit with big bucks lawsuit A US Starbucks customer has hit the company with a $114m lawsuit because the company refused to redeem a free drinks voucher, the BBC reports. The litigious New York woman tried to take advantage of an email offer the coffee monolith had made to employees in the south-east of [...]
BMW cares about golfers
My postman told me this morning that there’s a golf tournament starting next week somewhere outside of Dublin. It was a short conversation since I’m not a fan of golf. He didn’t have any post for me either. To celebrate the tournament, I’m stealing linking to a joke on the very funny thesraid blog for [...]
I read it in the newspaper so it must be true Sept1306
From today’s The Irish Times… Madonna defies Russian Christians Eh? What? Is it the Second Coming? Is the end of the world nigh? I guess it depends on your point of view. The (real) story continued: Madonna sang suspended from a cross during her first Moscow concert yesterday, defying a plea from the Russian Orthodox [...]
Chicken
People are talking about an Irish ‘celebrity’ on another site. By ‘celebrity’, I mean he appears on TV and the radio. I don’t like him on the wireless because he talks too much when he should be playing music. I’d gone as far as typing, ‘I listen to radio station X because the only alternative [...]
Stupid is as stupid does
Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds Recently, a blogger named Simon Owens ran a social experiment on Craigslist. He wandered into the “Casual Encounters” section of the personal ads where countless men and women were soliticing for no-strings-attached sex and wondered, Is it really that easy? As a test, he composed several ads with [...]
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