Those frigging faggots automatically subscribe Pioneer Magazine and deduct money from me. Seriously, we ought be have an opt-in feature instead of the current opt-out. That’s what I fucking hate about Singapore. So many by-default thing. When I die they want to take my organs by default; when I am alive, they want to take my money and mail me some trashy Pioneer magazines. Seriously, how many people is required to scream right back to them that we don’t want to spend money on the magazine. I don’t even read it! It’s like a company newsletter twice as bad.
Pioneer Magazine is a monthly publication that the Ministry of Defence sends me. I read them before but nothing interest me. It goes into the trash within 2 minutes for me. My friends use it to fold into boxes to put in fish bones during dinner time. I’m just afraid it would actually spoil my appetite only.
Oslo and Paris top the list. New York is only No. 28. Where does your city rank? The Economist did a survey and published in The Economist magazine’s 2007 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey (WCOL) for expatriate workers.
The following list placed Singapore as the 14th most expensive city to live in. That’s something I wish we won’t get number 1 for. I’m not too pleased that we are number 14 even. Last year, we’re ranked number 24, it is quite an “improvement” isn’t it? And New York ranks 28 and I thought things there are expensive. (more…)
I found these lightbulb jokes in Reader Digest. I’m quite sick of light bulb jokes actually but these light bulb jokes made me laugh so I’ll share with you guys.
Journalists’ Jokes
Q: How many sub-editors does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: We can’t tell whether you mean “insert a new lightbulb” or “have sexual relations inside a lightbulb.” Can we reword it to remove ambiguity?
Q: How many art directors does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Does it have to be a lightbulb?
Q: How many proof readers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: The last time this was asked it involved Art Directors. Is the difference intentional? It seems inconsistent.
Q: How many writers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Why do we have to change it?
Q: How many editors does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: It was supposed to be in place last week!
Q: How many publishers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Three.. One to screw it in and two more to hold down the editor.
Q: How many marketing directors does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: It isn’t too late to make it neon, is it?
Q: How many advertising directors does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: We’re not sure because the client might change it tomorrow. Cut some editorial anyway.
Sent in to Reader Digest by Adeline Loh. Published on page 95 on September 2006 Reader Digest.
This is just one of the many Steve Irwin tributes in YouTube (he died). I feel sad seeing the video somehow. Background music is Enya’s Only Time. Very nicely done tribute video.
Well, I picked up a dated copy of Discover magazine and there was this interview that was done for planetary scientist, Clark R. Chapman. He works in Southwest Research Institute at Boulder, Colorado.
Interviewer: You’ve made calculating the risk of impact something of a science. What are the odds as you see them?
Chapman: You are much more likely to die from an asteroid impact that creates global climate disaster than you are to win your state lottery. But you are even far more likely to be killed in an automobile accident. Things that are extremely dangerous like smoking cigarettes and driving automobiles and famine and war have much higher risks than asteroid impacts. On the other hand, people worry about lots of other things that have very low risks, like shark attacks. Where I live, people worry about mountain lion attacks. They are much more likely to die from an asteriod impact.
Interviewer: Why do people get more worked up about mountain lion attacks than automobile accidents?
Chapman: Human beings are not objective computers. They have feelings and attitudes and experiences. Research has shown that certain kinds of risks are more frightening because you are not in control. In an airplane, you are not in control. Being in an airplane is very safe. You undergo more risk by far driving to and from the airport.
Source: Discover magazine, March 2006, page 20 and 21
We often worry about the wrong things in seems. Anyway, it’s unlikely that stingrays would kill you if you go for a deep sea exploration, I guess we’re still more likely to die from, well, asteroid impacts.
You know, you shouldn’t really trust the photographs in your magazines. I have seen lots of pictures of cute girls in Singapore magazine 8 Days or local tabloid The New Paper. They’re on the pages begging you to call them at a 1900 number. You think you’ll really be calling the girl on the photographs? Dream on! You’ll probably end up calling the inconsiderate auntie who hangs her wet clothes outside the apartment above yours. Yeah, she’ll report that she’s sweet seventeen (with a sore throat) or something.
I always wonder if they had gotten those images from Japanese pornography websites. Maybe she’s just a lingerie model or lesser-known celebrity from Taiwan.
_(This photo shows a blond girl next to the slogan: “Deutsch ist Geil!” or “German is Hot!”)_
A german magazine, Objektiv, got into bad press after they feature a photograph of a girl with the text - German is Hot.
German right-wing extremists had hoped to lure teenagers to their cause in Cologne with a new youth magazine. The nationalists even had an ad with an attractive young girl next to the slogan: “German is Hot!” The only problem? The model turned out to be a Czech erotic model.
…the photo in question is of an attractive blond in a tank top and short skirt next to the slogan: “German is Hot!” But in an embarrassing faux pas for the German nationalists, it now it turns out that the Teutonic hottie is actually a Czech lingerie model. So much for offering a “free-patriotic point of view,” as was supposedly the remit of the less-than-objective Objektiv.
See! These people don’t give a damn where the girl comes from. I doubt the local magazines or newspapers bother to check if the models on advertisements are gotten from some teen who regularly jerks off at some Japanese websites.
(14-year-old Lynn undergoes digital alterations to suit the beaty ideals of the media world.)
More hair. More captivating eyes. Smaller waist line. Fuller breast. Smoothen blemishes.
Client: Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
Title: Retouch
The media world is becoming increasingly fixated on appearances. And the number of tricks used to achieve the increasingly exaggerated ideals is growing. Many models have plastic surgery and even more are retouched so they appear to have bigger breasts, smaller stomachs or fuller lips.
We wanted to show how easy it is to change someone’s appearance in this campaign.
Watch how it’s done! So don’t trust the beauty advertisement so much - trust Photoshop more.
Well, not exactly the latest new but Playboy magazine has halted operations in Indonesia.
Playboy magazine halts operations in Indonesia after protests
JAKARTA : The Indonesian edition of US adult magazine Playboy has suspended its operations for security reasons in the wake of violent protests by Muslim hardliners, its editor said Thursday.
The announcement followed violent demonstrations by the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) last week over the publication of the magazine, a toned-down version of the original which does not carry nudes.
“For the time being, we are prioritising security. We have vacated our office and we have halted our operational activities,” chief editor Erwin Arnada told reporters.
About 300 members attacked the local publisher’s office last week, smashing windows, injuring two policemen and tearing up copies of the magazine which had quickly sold out after debuting this month.
Police have in recent months seized tabloids and magazines depicting scantily dressed women from newsstands in Jakarta and arrested vendors as part of a crackdown on pornography.
But local versions of British magazines with pictorials similar to Playboy’s debut edition here have remained on sale, while pornographic DVDs are easily available on the streets of Jakarta and other major cities. - AFP/ch
I tell you, if this things were to occur in Singapore, no one would protest. We’ll just have a bunch of people discussing in talk show, writing commentaries in forums and trying to sound morally-right in blogs. So you see, we are rather passive people. Having said that, would the Playboy guys set up a branch over here instead. We seriously won’t protest. But our government would probably said no anyway.
