Posts Tagged ‘bono’
Where the elite have no shame
September 4th, 2009 | 
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Only a truly self-righteous prick would want everything they own to be red.
Bono is widely accredited with being smug, arrogant and self-righteous. Not content with this public stance he continually goes on to prove everyone right by using the plight of the third world as a marketing outlet.
Project Red customises popular wares with a unique red fascia. Phones, iPods, t-shirts and what have you all come in red so that people just as bare-faced can simultaneously accessorise and brag about their tireless charitable efforts.
Purchasing the Motorola Red phone sends £10 straight to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, and £130 to Motorola. I daren’t suggest what proportion of this went to the Global Fund to Kit Bono out with a Limitless Collection of Ostentatious Commodities (GFKBLCOC).
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Picking a paper: a bluffer’s guide to the UK press
UK newspapers: toilet paper for the inky arsed
Journalism in the UK is regarded as being some of the most exciting in the world. We’d like to think this is because we have that famous British sense of irony, but mostly it’s because our papers really enjoy pissing people off.
As a foreigner coming into the country, picking a paper can be daunting. The paper you read can define not only your politics, but also your social status and even your level of intelligence. The British are notoriously snobbish about many things, and we love nothing more than to exhale sadly at someone’s choice of paper.
Never fear, though: as always, we’re here to help. Read on for the bluffer’s guide to the UK press. From the hallowed pages of the Financial Times to the dirty toilet paper of the Daily Star, you need never worry again that your colleagues will see the paper you’re reading and think, “My god, that people are as dumb as a bag of hammer.”
