tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-269370382024-03-18T23:50:22.373-06:00CMM News* CHIMP MEDIA MONITORING
* Scadology for the masses *SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.comBlogger1021125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-16365529154715698162009-08-24T10:37:00.002-06:002009-08-24T10:44:11.884-06:00This party's over<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmxa-TyubvwLZDglevqNzUYNQajMht_Vt0M3mDy6rcIToE6-2y9fg5FRSq3cFQKK8ygrOU5z3EC7ef24-cEmtBJKEwdRhkEyPYLW0TZ22xqAOnGjkmECasm-fWiTUaFQipcbt7/s1600-h/oldmojo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmxa-TyubvwLZDglevqNzUYNQajMht_Vt0M3mDy6rcIToE6-2y9fg5FRSq3cFQKK8ygrOU5z3EC7ef24-cEmtBJKEwdRhkEyPYLW0TZ22xqAOnGjkmECasm-fWiTUaFQipcbt7/s320/oldmojo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373570572281327586" border="0" /></a>That’s it<br />Because it’s easier to open the valve on Twitter<br />Because I’ve been so damned busy<br />Because the anonymity thing is feeling just a tad jaded<br />The blog started by accident. I was playing around with different blog platforms, experimenting for the sake of the agency planning department, which wanted its own blog (still going strong on Typepad). I have no idea why I picked FishNChimps as a name. Maybe I had a takeaway the previous evening. I thought it would be fun to demo the blog with a few articles about the harmless subject of chimps in advertising. And then my spleen took over.<br />A big problem is finding something to say. It was easy enough most of the time. My job means that I regularly come across some interesting stuff, almost by accident. But then the middle ground of satirising stuff got stretched to, on one side regurgitating amusing links, and on the other pontificating on things that annoy (what the great George Parker would call piss ‘n vinegar).<br />I must say, it did damn well for a long time, even becoming for a very brief period the UK’s #1 advertising blog. This was partly thanks to some timely links from those huge, Star Wars Episode 6 Death Star-sized blog beasts <a href="http://www.adrants.com/">AdRants</a>, <a href="http://copyranter.blogspot.com/">Copyranter </a>and <a href="http://adscam.typepad.com/my_weblog/">AdScam</a>.<br />So, I’m killing this blog and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://weaklythunk.blogspot.com/">starting afresh with a rebooted Blogger version of my shitty Wordpress blog</a>. Wordpress is supposedly a good platform if you’re an html freak but not even I, with a passing competence in it, could tolerate its stupid restrictions. Blogger’s a bit simplistic, but very easy to customise. I do, after all, have other things to do with my time.<br />My brief for the newish blog is, very loosely, advertising (my industry) + science/scepticism (my interest) + researchy stuff (my job). There may occasionally be monkeys.<br />Let’s see how it goes.SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-49925308297289021642009-06-29T13:47:00.003-06:002009-06-29T14:01:13.441-06:00There's real gold, and there's chav goldSomebody's getting rich in this recession, and they probably look like <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/2505568/Brits-sell-family-gold-to-beat-crunch.html">this guy</a>, smiling happily as a certain class of person flogs off the family gold. I say "a certain type", because if the following extraordinary ad is anything to go by, the target market is the plasma poor. This is the British tribe that thinks having a wad of cash and talking posh makes you posh, but as any fule kno, they are betrayed by the gold-standard of lower class chavdom: having a telly that's bigger than their front room.<br />Just watch this ad and weep, cos you'll be needing to cash in your gold to pay for the new screen that you've just smashed in exasperation. Christ, are these actors on acid?<br /><center><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xmuIYOqL4Cg&hl=" width="318" height="262" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1&" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></center>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-29409605647166177132009-06-26T16:15:00.001-06:002009-06-26T16:18:24.143-06:00God's coppyrytar took a day off<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8nAhDae7qBm72zFXa18yi6JMOBBJniKjhTAG7s0LOLWqkbNJHRlv5DmolFOiSrDj-3NgnmwxXghlxQy5kIYuC0d5AWnPJ2i-Q3T4801We-mw6AVqKrtTzOphhp2w2ezZQn9vL/s1600-h/godacademec.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351763625944917842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 263px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8nAhDae7qBm72zFXa18yi6JMOBBJniKjhTAG7s0LOLWqkbNJHRlv5DmolFOiSrDj-3NgnmwxXghlxQy5kIYuC0d5AWnPJ2i-Q3T4801We-mw6AVqKrtTzOphhp2w2ezZQn9vL/s400/godacademec.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://freethoughtfortwayne.org/2009/06/26/acedemic-pursuit/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">via</span></em></a><br /><div></div>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-59608852965354621592009-06-26T16:04:00.001-06:002009-06-26T16:05:43.441-06:00Because The Sun would<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFUwebDVkqsie5uMfg6oHaT2BVCwkhsnjT46RnH7klVlEPh0-q6lYTSP-v8GOelX_vReyiTnwBg3osnECvUDqfvJ9eH3WptqRG9bOzqp1Mw9ABYDz5K0ydfz3Yp5rRWnN4vrkm/s1600-h/WackoJacko.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351760663664756594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 232px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFUwebDVkqsie5uMfg6oHaT2BVCwkhsnjT46RnH7klVlEPh0-q6lYTSP-v8GOelX_vReyiTnwBg3osnECvUDqfvJ9eH3WptqRG9bOzqp1Mw9ABYDz5K0ydfz3Yp5rRWnN4vrkm/s400/WackoJacko.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/michaeljackson/popular/"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">via</span></em> </a>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-23243706344901262972009-06-25T04:52:00.004-06:002009-06-25T04:56:06.657-06:00D'you get milk with that?<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0xgaDlaOQV7fFYrjHqI8cgkZTrmgILyGS4dX6ba4Uz3L-q_lDx8qqe5Ty2OQHoQ1hn6nVbolT0LLWpAS3O2dkYmszm_a9Caz1LdbUupYihK81Sb6XQ6V40VJZh9kmhfzQJefN/s1600-h/burgerkingseven.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 285px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0xgaDlaOQV7fFYrjHqI8cgkZTrmgILyGS4dX6ba4Uz3L-q_lDx8qqe5Ty2OQHoQ1hn6nVbolT0LLWpAS3O2dkYmszm_a9Caz1LdbUupYihK81Sb6XQ6V40VJZh9kmhfzQJefN/s400/burgerkingseven.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351217208984414514" /></a></center><br />Apparently not a spoof.<br />She could look a little happier, one would have thought.<br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">via </span></em><a href="http://www.utalkmarketing.com/Pages/Article.aspx?ArticleID=14397&Title=Shocking_Burger_King_advert_suggestive_of_fellatio"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">uTalkMarketing</span></em> </a>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-86388042559368075982009-06-22T06:46:00.002-06:002009-06-22T06:51:24.720-06:00In case of fire<center><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDrADWvgIKTtF-EuEqV22-a30JwnOw82c4zEhuO8meIdoOHVF9-_QWLx6K8YVKX8TJxDgOs5fvo3qVMdvz7UZvEo7rQoEg3LbiZFSMmI09SaNOeBal7052EiscwiBSnyp0a_mJ/s1600-h/twitterfire.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDrADWvgIKTtF-EuEqV22-a30JwnOw82c4zEhuO8meIdoOHVF9-_QWLx6K8YVKX8TJxDgOs5fvo3qVMdvz7UZvEo7rQoEg3LbiZFSMmI09SaNOeBal7052EiscwiBSnyp0a_mJ/s400/twitterfire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350133256514477586" border="0" /></a></center><br />Twittered <a href="http://www.thisisswordfish.com/2009/06/in-case-of-fire-dont-use-twitter.html">via </a>SwordfishSchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-43159446542554405632009-06-21T13:50:00.003-06:002009-06-21T13:58:13.350-06:00Death by juxtapositionThis really is awful - surely the worst example of automated web advertising to date. The story is already in most of the newspaper websites - a young woman fatally shot by Iranian police. I'm not going to link to LiveLeak because they should be ashamed of hosting the video in this way.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsb2xME99p0gebwivXbXKYpDndq57IwPG55FiMgTYQ0VUFYNSvFVjIL0V66YU7Trr1oO2BEuYcwjoOBiT5Hoo_i0y6XIoEr3cSm6-ow83w9Rrg4u97ji_xfnTUmHhz_MUwX1qn/s1600-h/liveleakiran.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349872341026742306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 361px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsb2xME99p0gebwivXbXKYpDndq57IwPG55FiMgTYQ0VUFYNSvFVjIL0V66YU7Trr1oO2BEuYcwjoOBiT5Hoo_i0y6XIoEr3cSm6-ow83w9Rrg4u97ji_xfnTUmHhz_MUwX1qn/s400/liveleakiran.jpg" border="0" /></a>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-31894384595770791612009-06-19T15:36:00.003-06:002009-06-19T15:41:40.290-06:00Tauntaun trick was a taunt<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPFoDbI-uGvZo9eCDV62q2bYA2IpO1KNSLM79o7BvAZJL02omlVxSAR8mXDDKv7yzMy2aV_NpJkz5AkLnlhuOjYrOfNl1F1j1MCrEbbY4OkpzG2IulHAZPXHNrhNG6LGreqKNo/s1600-h/tauntaun.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349155822835841938" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 146px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPFoDbI-uGvZo9eCDV62q2bYA2IpO1KNSLM79o7BvAZJL02omlVxSAR8mXDDKv7yzMy2aV_NpJkz5AkLnlhuOjYrOfNl1F1j1MCrEbbY4OkpzG2IulHAZPXHNrhNG6LGreqKNo/s200/tauntaun.jpg" border="0" /></a>Remember how Wispa fans got Cadbury to relaunch the nostalgic chocolate bar? It seems like this behaviour now has an added dimension as some consumers demanded a product that doesn't actually exist.<br />A <a href="http://consumerist.com/5195536/fake-april-fools-day-product-sparks-demand-for-real-version">Star Wars-themed blanket </a>was knocked up as a one-off for a joke, promoted as a spoof, and created enough credulous demand to make the jokers consider selling it for real. Total capitalist nerdgasm.SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-88008354616732293562009-06-19T15:31:00.002-06:002009-06-19T15:34:21.538-06:00The man who put semen into basement<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs0t7v8xpm1S9IoXSOS9yTdRh2pjkBcSzCOnt21V-OXohT80AidlfxebA5Xbn_EDTOEmiliPoaf_WSxpz_fTaq8Kr_ZYXCyoMehaMJWNRXX4zlEp0fk1hDGwuzoLFcyNCFJz9a/s1600-h/fritzl.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349155144476138930" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 125px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs0t7v8xpm1S9IoXSOS9yTdRh2pjkBcSzCOnt21V-OXohT80AidlfxebA5Xbn_EDTOEmiliPoaf_WSxpz_fTaq8Kr_ZYXCyoMehaMJWNRXX4zlEp0fk1hDGwuzoLFcyNCFJz9a/s200/fritzl.jpg" border="0" /></a><div>Humongous<a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23709609-details/WH+Smith+apologises+after+promoting+Josef+Fritzl+book+for+Father"> fuck-up by WH Smith </a>who put Fritzl book on Father's Day promo.</div><br /><div></div>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-6563994085635618552009-06-18T11:01:00.001-06:002009-06-18T11:01:00.982-06:00You are hope, you are imaginationYeah, and I know I'm a genius too, so why do I need these space cadets to tell me I'm special? It's a tweely sinister ad from that business masquerading as a religion, but with severe mafia tendencies: Scientology.<br><br /><center><object width="318" height="262"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yGqjDMXs81A&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yGqjDMXs81A&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="318" height="262"></embed></object></center>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-88013542250026454112009-06-17T10:34:00.002-06:002009-06-17T10:38:32.756-06:00Strong stomach<center><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4wGieYWtE0NFWxSUmFrTYPGOv1Svt1X3hWjmiKsAT87rBMRlsxf_G4xC8aAgoh-Z9Wo7plt-4yWVGlZGD5K6VrvK1Y88vjJIdpqicrrQRPUEyxiSS4qFb4AUSY0MD9wDJcC5D/s1600-h/PIZZAPUKE.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4wGieYWtE0NFWxSUmFrTYPGOv1Svt1X3hWjmiKsAT87rBMRlsxf_G4xC8aAgoh-Z9Wo7plt-4yWVGlZGD5K6VrvK1Y88vjJIdpqicrrQRPUEyxiSS4qFb4AUSY0MD9wDJcC5D/s320/PIZZAPUKE.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348336789011749250" /></a></center><br />For all those who have survived eating the shit they call food at Pizza Hut.SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-14199763909458830192009-06-17T07:47:00.004-06:002009-06-17T07:51:29.965-06:00FACT! Fish!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIJxmtiAhiuxEtLnO0jqY3Uyr84nl7_rWfl6hx18KJDQON5xuOvqOnrqc-zqIBs-uTl64Ubs0mB8-wMdU2g4dnzX2TFvNueAy6xSth5f54EcPfph0fsmks8dirDH7Q3ln0nbGT/s1600-h/fishpedia120.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 111px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIJxmtiAhiuxEtLnO0jqY3Uyr84nl7_rWfl6hx18KJDQON5xuOvqOnrqc-zqIBs-uTl64Ubs0mB8-wMdU2g4dnzX2TFvNueAy6xSth5f54EcPfph0fsmks8dirDH7Q3ln0nbGT/s200/fishpedia120.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348293779354601458" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">"Today there are over 10,000 species of fish, which is far more diversity that all other land vertebrates. This diversity pattern can be explain by the notion that fish, being aquatic, survived the Great Flood, while many land vertebrates went extinct during this catastrophic event."</span><br /><br />For more examples of stupidification, check out <a href="http://www.conservapedia.com/">Fuckwitapedia </a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">See also:<br /><a href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2009/02/fact-surgeon.html"><em>FACT! Surgeon!</em></a><br /><a href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2008/10/fact-flood.html"><em>FACT! Flood!</em></a><br /><a href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2008/09/fact-evolution-nazis.html"><em>FACT! Evolution=Nazis!<br />FACT! Pianist!!</em></a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/fact-throat.html%20">FACT! Throat!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/fact-hedgehog.html">FACT! Hedgehog!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/06/fact-femininity.html">FACT! Femininity!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/06/fact-toronto.html">FACT! Toronto!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/05/fact-religious-war.html">FACT! Religious War!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/05/fact-rocks.html">FACT! Rocks!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/05/fact-chuck-norris.html">FACT! Chuck Norris!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/04/fact-fornication.html">FACT! Fornication!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/04/fact-pens.html">FACT! Pens!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/04/fact-kangaroos.html">FACT! Kangaroos!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/03/fact-19th-century.html">FACT! The 19th Century!</a><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;" href="http://cmmnews.blogspot.com/2007/03/fact-dinosaurs.html">FACT! Dinosaurs!</a></span>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-19564321202945022612009-06-14T12:32:00.003-06:002009-06-14T12:45:06.998-06:00WTF? If you're too fat to wipeJust don't scratch your back with this.<br /><center><object width="318" height="262"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/crfGXmxJ1vM&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/crfGXmxJ1vM&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="318" height="262"></embed></object></center>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-73563047253040996322009-06-12T10:02:00.001-06:002009-06-12T10:03:20.352-06:00If Carlsberg did supermodels<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipL_4cxLt9R45cfdy20gEVRcirNUccsxf_sxzQVl5wHGImrq7Zd0X-3I3SWxWJHe6HMuzhD_Vx2vIb1qCasg9mSRugpAKWSiSZfSJUCuF9ybHgoU0jfygQuUKIVEBffrl02Qlc/s1600-h/LFC+Fan.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipL_4cxLt9R45cfdy20gEVRcirNUccsxf_sxzQVl5wHGImrq7Zd0X-3I3SWxWJHe6HMuzhD_Vx2vIb1qCasg9mSRugpAKWSiSZfSJUCuF9ybHgoU0jfygQuUKIVEBffrl02Qlc/s400/LFC+Fan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346472194844106610" /></a></center><br><br />Received via emailSchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-70952489156947077412009-06-12T09:52:00.002-06:002009-06-12T10:01:37.603-06:00Wiggle room neededWatch out for the following item appearing on eBay via <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8094814.stm">Phil Spector</a>'s management.<br /><center><object height="255" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k-S9pXujQ5I&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/k-S9pXujQ5I&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="255"></embed></object></center><br />It's not his wig that'll need purifying if he drops the soap.SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-14465657536932806112009-06-11T08:49:00.005-06:002009-06-11T08:52:26.124-06:00Imaginary friend<center><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzgyBNTNTHCskkd52D1_IKkNiLK8NeTtDyZBtKMv-DSkUBQU9oShXVXbEuVdT8IlLY3MI0Fnr2-EMfkOgZnP1MNHFhwow0fNekI8rrAMVWblQIKo99cg-fVx5JQrRcyzlbAuH/s1600-h/Return-to-Sender.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzgyBNTNTHCskkd52D1_IKkNiLK8NeTtDyZBtKMv-DSkUBQU9oShXVXbEuVdT8IlLY3MI0Fnr2-EMfkOgZnP1MNHFhwow0fNekI8rrAMVWblQIKo99cg-fVx5JQrRcyzlbAuH/s400/Return-to-Sender.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346082847092046018" border="0" /></a></center>Amusing reason for returned <a href="http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2009/06/return-to-sender.html">subscription mag</a>.SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-11648439735782566692009-06-08T07:16:00.003-06:002009-06-08T07:23:39.001-06:00If you don't vote, this is what happens<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3DUSQCvNQtmooWoGKmVWw2_U62JMqpXRTTQmzBzE9v0mt-TD3J7m-FE1_bOYXvKL3WQWOkIDae2tRJCXqhtlu3_Tc2zLNjpOny9Utv3kbNFoJ5p3K9cfDcBo8kYM1vp6ulbxj/s1600-h/fatadolf.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344945361344427714" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 154px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3DUSQCvNQtmooWoGKmVWw2_U62JMqpXRTTQmzBzE9v0mt-TD3J7m-FE1_bOYXvKL3WQWOkIDae2tRJCXqhtlu3_Tc2zLNjpOny9Utv3kbNFoJ5p3K9cfDcBo8kYM1vp6ulbxj/s200/fatadolf.jpg" border="0" /></a>On the day we learn that the BNP wins two seats in the Euro Parliament, a lovely quote (about American racism) from the Guardian's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/07/sotomayor-racism-supreme-court">Gary Younge</a>:<br />"We are all a product of our time and place. Born in the midst of a random variety of narratives over which we have no control, most of us spend our lives trying to write the best story we can with the material we have been given."<br /><br />Tweet #fathitler and speed <a href="http://twitpic.com/6w8xe">this disillusioned chump</a> up the disapproval rankings.SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-15689767424253290842009-06-06T06:54:00.001-06:002009-06-06T06:54:00.625-06:00What I'm not reading this weekend<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWq0sXCfZwPF0870QkEzwc5zitKkqXsbY-uLjZd6O7DhOFbDJ-BRtXgAw3mBXgeK32PHY2vw8CuJr4jgxnvT0zRQYAjc-TKXIuETB6AkL568hjmkS8xpJnners5XOom8R3Afdn/s1600-h/wolfeobs.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343826119563563586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 272px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWq0sXCfZwPF0870QkEzwc5zitKkqXsbY-uLjZd6O7DhOFbDJ-BRtXgAw3mBXgeK32PHY2vw8CuJr4jgxnvT0zRQYAjc-TKXIuETB6AkL568hjmkS8xpJnners5XOom8R3Afdn/s400/wolfeobs.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.b3ta.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>via</em></span></a><br /><div></div>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-58924965519399955902009-06-05T02:30:00.004-06:002009-06-05T02:39:15.928-06:00Pow indeedSaw this one in Metro and it made me laugh. Good work from AMV - simple and fun. Twinings is also my favourite brand of real tea - the only non-perfumed (e.g. Earl Grey) one that IMHO can be drunk black without that sickly tannin aftertaste.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdmQQWO_lJPBEp6EkpDZB6Z5f5wuwCPbdgymgxv3SjVBW9zxnSoOxirJCDzSJ5fzq0Qe2vXi3NUgmdBA7kSXAdWeA7II4pthCdIismqx42C6gPpU7XukoOZsZp_TpaazjMmiZ/s1600-h/twiningspow.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343758256227468034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 307px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdmQQWO_lJPBEp6EkpDZB6Z5f5wuwCPbdgymgxv3SjVBW9zxnSoOxirJCDzSJ5fzq0Qe2vXi3NUgmdBA7kSXAdWeA7II4pthCdIismqx42C6gPpU7XukoOZsZp_TpaazjMmiZ/s400/twiningspow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-41231498705291616762009-06-04T02:51:00.002-06:002009-06-04T02:55:09.458-06:00In a pickle<center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRQuL289I-IMZuKaoWQzkqBl91bOrNNMdL1UekmV2e9hk3XRF9B6Nqrh_q3YpUMM-7gBy9BmLJLqWHhbG-JQOuEqrpuJS4ye3kV1X_ktWnIzol9-VohGqDzN4ql6QO1c2Gj3I/s1600-h/barry+norman.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343392396483436146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRQuL289I-IMZuKaoWQzkqBl91bOrNNMdL1UekmV2e9hk3XRF9B6Nqrh_q3YpUMM-7gBy9BmLJLqWHhbG-JQOuEqrpuJS4ye3kV1X_ktWnIzol9-VohGqDzN4ql6QO1c2Gj3I/s400/barry+norman.jpg" border="0" /></a></center><p><a href="http://www.pickleodeon.co.uk/">Is this</a> the real <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Norman">Barry Norman</a>?<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">via </span><a href="http://www.badscience.net/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Ben Goldacre</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></p></span>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-12783268245043300622009-06-02T07:30:00.002-06:002009-06-02T07:33:17.825-06:00The vendor/client relationshipJust took 3 minutes off saving the world to chuckle at this. Have you ever been in a meeting with a client where you smile while thinking "f---ing twat"?<br /><object width="420" height="255"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R2a8TRSgzZY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R2a8TRSgzZY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="255"></embed></object>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-65916989642998634832009-05-25T16:27:00.002-06:002009-05-25T16:29:23.378-06:00Monkey shockJesus, after the weekend I've had, I need cheering up. Here's 30 seconds of two monkeys doing what they do best.<br><br /><center><object width="318" height="262"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cMsGOgDQrAs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cMsGOgDQrAs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="318" height="262"></embed></object></center>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-2127174730740200162009-05-22T07:35:00.005-06:002009-05-22T10:25:09.502-06:00Greenpeace top another week of angst-driven class war shaftingsMy bonny fido working class sensibilities (lower class aristocracy, born in a barn etc), worn invisibly on my Primark-clad sleeve are being metaphorically burned Chinesely by a week of observations from the class war front line. We have the assorted oiks in the House of Commons caught red-handed with their hairy fists deep in the pockets of Joe Public in a shameless reach-around that coincides with the long-term effects of the eye-watering rear end shafting from the bankers. Less metaphorically, Irish Catholic priests have been exposed after decades perverting a US Marine motto by ensuring that No Boy’s Behind Is Left.<br />Yes, a bad week for the ruling and privileged classes.<br />To further offend your eyes with painfully poor metaphors, a couple of loosely-marketing-related class war stories have also thoroughly pissed me off. This time, the culprits are the squeaky-bottomed middle classes (thus described by the observation that those who are most sanctimonious are identifiable by the sucked-in lower lip and clenched buttock look – you really can’t swipe a credit card through the crack when they’re in full flow) who have been thrusting their angst-driven ethics down our throats in a manner that would have choked Linda Lovelace to death.<br />In one case, death is really on the cards as the effects of the <a href="http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax/">anti-MMR vaccine campaign </a>manifest themselves with <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8057661.stm">a measles outbreak</a>. Lest we forget, the UK experience is a mirror of a yummy-mummy campaign in the US led by Jenny McCarthy (see the body count on the right), always cheer-led by those with an innate distrust of science.<br />I’ve just looked on the TGI survey and observe that distrust of regular medicine, appreciation of alternative medicine (better described as alternative <span style="font-style:italic;">to</span> medicine), and anti-GM sentiments are heavily correlated with the B and C1 sociodemographic. Yup, that just shows you what an education does when combined with an empty head.<br /><center><object height="255" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dsxFZ0rUCoM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dsxFZ0rUCoM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="255" width="420"></embed></object></center><br />So, what has four legs and a cunt halfway up its back? A Greenpeace campaigner on his high horse. Yes, it’s the Plant More Trees But Kill The Pesky Foreign Peasants group back again, this time railing against genetically modified rice.<br />Christ, just to shut these fuckers up, let’s kill GM right now. That way, we can ensure the Malthusian Economic Model is verified in the deaths of millions of Third World peasants. Shit, you wouldn’t want all that barren, pest-riddled land used to grow food that’ll make them darn foreigners have more babies, would you? And let’s waste more arable land to grow the less-reliable organic lentils that the Greenpissers sprinkle on their Bran Flakes.<br />Admittedly, this single ad does touch on the one weak point in the pro-GM argument, which is the control of the technology by the biotech firms. After all, you don’t want those friendly food brand logos replaced with biotech ones, eh? But, and it’s head-slap time here, isn’t the obvious solution to allow foreign governments (I’m speaking of those governments in developing world countries that get it in the neck from the Western anti-GM campaigners again) to introduce farmer-friendly legislation that’ll feed their own people with nutrient-rich GM? But no, that’s taboo, and the High Priests of Greenpeace would rather you give them your donations while you bend over and pray.SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-74705624376938409272009-05-19T09:10:00.005-06:002009-05-19T09:18:31.429-06:00Evil cat plays off your misfortune<center><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMgOAaa-VENQL9DyBZAc9_zUsPeOBGVH4aE5VIyi27MRB3aYl8GCkefZnqOKAFa-Bqv-CbLTLlm1CxMSoJdVpuYzBU5O-Bk8Ax3NPxVrAzNxksDAGugdmcqbiqtrR0t1aqbwU/s1600-h/keyboardcat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 186px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMgOAaa-VENQL9DyBZAc9_zUsPeOBGVH4aE5VIyi27MRB3aYl8GCkefZnqOKAFa-Bqv-CbLTLlm1CxMSoJdVpuYzBU5O-Bk8Ax3NPxVrAzNxksDAGugdmcqbiqtrR0t1aqbwU/s400/keyboardcat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337552851308340594" border="0" /></a></center>A quick look at Google search trends reveals the sudden birth of the Keyboard Cat internet meme. Michael Martin is the focus of the biggest scandal in UK politics since, ooh, last week and included on the above chart to illustrate how a long-dead cat is more important (in Google terms) than the Speaker of the House of Commons.<br />The cat's owner unearthed an old film of Fatso playing a keyboard - something that YouTube users have incorporated into hundreds of videos each of which appeal to our schadenfreude.<br /><center><object height="262" width="318"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CtNoS6--9Rw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CtNoS6--9Rw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="262" width="318"></embed></object><br /><object height="262" width="318"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yp6U_5qEE0Y&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yp6U_5qEE0Y&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="262" width="318"></embed></object></center>SchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-24950264271228495412009-05-15T06:40:00.002-06:002009-05-15T06:43:02.083-06:00Beyonce plays Abu Ghraib<center><object height="255" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XFmHtXPDv2I&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XFmHtXPDv2I&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="255"></embed></object></center><br />Brilliantly offensive stuff from a <a href="http://www.b3ta.com/">b3ta </a>regularSchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.com0