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So I’m back.
Jetlagged and with a cold.
For the record, I was away for work so don’t give me any shit, thank-you-very-much.
Anyway, while the bad news is I’m back and writing another post of rubbish, the good news is I’m too bloody tired to write too much so I’m going to leave you with this.
Now I know what you’re thinking, why am I showing you a video of a nutcase dancing like a lunatic.
OK, maybe you’re not thinking that at all … but the reason I like it is not because I’m a mean bastard, but because I think it shows how group dynamics work in society.
The reality is, everything we now take for granted once started off as being seen as weird.
From music to biro’s … society has always been quick to negatively judge new because as a species, we tend not to like ‘different’ very much.
However, as Gladwell states, there is often a tipping point that moves new from ‘avoid’ to ‘attract’ [though I’m not sure I agree with all his theory on how that is achieved] which is why I can never understand why brands resist pushing culture to embrace the new when keeping culture firmly where they stand ultimately minimises their commercial potential.
Oh I know why, because most marketing managers/directors only care about today, because the future will be someone else’s responsibility and why would they help them with that?!
Anyway, the lesson of all this is embrace the strange, because it doesn’t matter if you’re in Canada or China, these characteristics still ring true, even if the way to encourage the tipping point varies.
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To be quite honest, I’m amazed anyone reads this blog.
It’s hardly the font of knowledge and sophistication is it.
Hell, over the years I’ve written about a crappy talkback radio station, incontinence and the size of my best friends appendage.
Seriously, it is worse torture than the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay faced.
I can only assume in a past life, you did something really bad to deserve such pain.
But I have a solution.
Because the best – and nicest – planner in the World, Mark Sareff, has started a blog.
Better yet, it’s full of clever stuff delivered in a voice that sounds like a friend is talking to you, not a professor … and this is coming from a man who comes from South Africa!!!
OK, so after that wonderful example of 1980’s racism, let’s get back to the point shall we?
The fact is, I know there are a lot of other clever folks out there who are doing and writing similar things … from Northern to Martin to Doddsy to name just 3 … however, unlike those other guys, Mark wouldn’t kick me in the head if he had the chance [well he would, but he’d at least apologise afterwards] which is why I adore him the most and why I am saying that if you have 2 minutes to spare each day, don’t come here and read my bunch of utter bollocks [especially as by the time you read this, I’ll be in the good ol’ US so there’s not going to be any more blog posts until Friday, or 3 years if the immigration department get their way] … go here and feel like you’ve done something good for yourself. For once.
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So as you may have worked out by the contrast between post title and picture, I’m on holiday.
Again.
I could give you a bunch of excuses.
I could tell you this has nothing to do with me and everything to do with the Government.
I could remind you that you had Easter off and I didn’t.
I could blather on about how I really did think I wasn’t going to have any more holidays for 5 months.
I could go on about how I’ll still have to do some work, even though I’m supposed to be doing nothing.
But it wouldn’t matter.
You’ll still crucify me.
So instead, I’ll just tell you this blog is closed till Monday and let you either:
1. Bitch.
2. Whine.
3. Party.
However, before you do that, check this out … not just because it’s something unlike you will have ever seen, but because something tells me that after you’ve seen it, you’ll be too speechless to give me any shit.
Are you OK?
Do you need to sit down?
Do you need a brown paper bag to breathe into?
Well, as much as that will have fucked with your mind, how will you react when I tell you it was made in 2004 … for the Athens Olympics … by Panasonic.
No, I’m not joking.
No, I don’t know why or how either.
And with that news, I’ll let you watch it again and try and work it out.
Bye …
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PS: I assume the planner behind this was this guy. It can be the only explanation.
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No, that’s not a joke, that’s another example of ‘journalistic excellence’ courtesy of self proclaimed protector of society, the Daily Mail.
Seriously, who writes this shit?
Have they fired all their journalists and replaced them with 5 year olds who aspire to work for Nuts magazine?
Of course the lion looks like the lion from the Lion King … BECAUSE THEY’RE BOTH FUCKING LIONS!
What next, Goofy looks just like a dog?
To be honest, I’m disappointed they didn’t take that picture of Scar … then go to google, type in ‘growling lion’, click on ‘images’ and then run an article with the headline:
“Forget cat videos, Scar – from The Lion King – inspires lions to take over the internet?”
Seriously, they let that opportunity go begging.
I know the Daily Mail is more about entertainment than news, but stories like this makes TMZ look like 60 Minutes.
Look, I get that to fill a ‘paper’ everyday with new stories must be incredibly difficult, but I’d love to know what they think filling it with rubbish like this does for them.
Actually sod them, what do their middle-class, middle England regular readers think about it. There must be a massive rise in heart attacks all across the Home Counties these days.
Though given the Mail is the most popular ‘news site’ in the World, I don’t imagine the Editor or the papers owners care, so I’ll just sit back and keep marvelling at their ridiculousness and hypocrisy because they’ve single-handedly managed to make adland look professional and respectable and for that, they deserve some thanks.