Fantastic Headlines

[Grumpmeister]

  Please yourself, I don't mind being untidy.   

Can we have a really narrow eyes thingywotsit?

This one...?

You took half an hour to find that?

What a waste of trunnion-reaming or balljoint-hammering time on Me-Mi. 

I was watching the telly... while accidentally putting a hole the petrol tank... 

 

[Tipsy Gipsy]

  Please yourself, I don't mind being untidy.   

Can we have a really narrow eyes thingywotsit?

This one...?

I have forgotten why I needed it now but thanks anyway.   

[Barman]

  Please yourself, I don't mind being untidy.   

Can we have a really narrow eyes thingywotsit?

This one...?

I have forgotten why I needed it now but thanks anyway.   

 

[Grumpmeister]

WTF??????? 

Environmental campaigners 10:10 have withdrawn a film showing a teacher graphically exploding two of her students who refuse to reduce their carbon emissions, after complaints.

In a statement, the group apologised to anyone offended.

The film aimed to "bring this critical issue back into the headlines whilst making people laugh", the group said.

Starring Gillian Anderson it was scripted by Richard Curtis, whose films include Four Weddings and a Funeral.

It was directed by a leading commercials director.

In the film, which was subsequently posted to Youtube and which contains disturbing images, a teacher invites her class to take part in the environmental campaign. Two children, who do not want to, are asked why.

The teacher tells them: "Fine, it's absolutely fine. It's your own choice."

But moments later she presses a button and the children explode into a mess.

Similar scenes are played out in an office where four workers are blown up and a football training session where footballer David Ginola, who also says he does not want to do his bit to combat climate change, disappears in an explosion.

In the final scene, Gillian Anderson, who provides the voice- over is similarly dispatched after saying she thought doing the voice over was enough of a contribution to the campaign.

'This is dreadful'
 
Comments left on the Guardian website where the film was posted before being taken down on the 10:10 site, were split between those congratulating the team and others who thought it was in bad taste.

"I think this is dreadful," said one comment.

"To suggest that people who disagree with you deserve to die is incredibly stupid. Imagine if some Christian group in the US did that to gays, Muslims, or anyone else they disagree with. The outrage would be palpable. And deserved.

"It's like a parody of something that people mocking enviros would do."

Lizze Gillett, Global Campaign Director for 10:10, told the BBC: "As you can see from various comments and social media sites some people thought it was funny and a good tool to get people talking about climate change but others strongly disliked the mini-movie. We decided to take it off our website to avoid upsetting people. "

In the official campaign statement, the group said: "At 10:10 we're all about trying new and creative ways of getting people to take action on climate change. Unfortunately in this instance we missed the mark. Oh well, we live and learn."

However, 10:10 said they would not make any attempt "to censor or remove other versions currently in circulation on the internet."

And here is the film, it's certainly not for the squeamish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx4yr0FFhMQ&has_verified=1

[Snoopy]

Somebody tell him 

[Nick]

 

[Barman]

WTF??????? 

Environmental campaigners 10:10 have withdrawn a film showing a teacher graphically exploding two of her students who refuse to reduce their carbon emissions, after complaints.

In a statement, the group apologised to anyone offended.

The film aimed to "bring this critical issue back into the headlines whilst making people laugh", the group said.

Starring Gillian Anderson it was scripted by Richard Curtis, whose films include Four Weddings and a Funeral.

It was directed by a leading commercials director.

In the film, which was subsequently posted to Youtube and which contains disturbing images, a teacher invites her class to take part in the environmental campaign. Two children, who do not want to, are asked why.

The teacher tells them: "Fine, it's absolutely fine. It's your own choice."

But moments later she presses a button and the children explode into a mess.

Similar scenes are played out in an office where four workers are blown up and a football training session where footballer David Ginola, who also says he does not want to do his bit to combat climate change, disappears in an explosion.

In the final scene, Gillian Anderson, who provides the voice- over is similarly dispatched after saying she thought doing the voice over was enough of a contribution to the campaign.

'This is dreadful'
 
Comments left on the Guardian website where the film was posted before being taken down on the 10:10 site, were split between those congratulating the team and others who thought it was in bad taste.

"I think this is dreadful," said one comment.

"To suggest that people who disagree with you deserve to die is incredibly stupid. Imagine if some Christian group in the US did that to gays, Muslims, or anyone else they disagree with. The outrage would be palpable. And deserved.

"It's like a parody of something that people mocking enviros would do."

Lizze Gillett, Global Campaign Director for 10:10, told the BBC: "As you can see from various comments and social media sites some people thought it was funny and a good tool to get people talking about climate change but others strongly disliked the mini-movie. We decided to take it off our website to avoid upsetting people. "

In the official campaign statement, the group said: "At 10:10 we're all about trying new and creative ways of getting people to take action on climate change. Unfortunately in this instance we missed the mark. Oh well, we live and learn."

However, 10:10 said they would not make any attempt "to censor or remove other versions currently in circulation on the internet."

And here is the film, it's certainly not for the squeamish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx4yr0FFhMQ&has_verified=1

Nick linked to it here somewhere... I thought it was a bloody joke when I watched it first... an almighty piss take... It was only after that I realised it was for real...

Utter fuckers! 

[Barman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IrtItfWn1E&feature=player_embedded

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/10/03/tories-to-train-the-homeless-to-improve-their-begging-skills/#

Tories to train the homeless to improve their begging skills

The Conservative Party showed its compassionate side yesterday when Iain Duncan Smith announced a series of training initiatives aimed at helping the homeless by improving their begging techniques.

Seen as central to the idea of the Tories’ Big Society, in which every citizen takes responsibility for his or herself and their community, Duncan Smith told a packed conference hall, ‘We need to do more to help these people help themselves. I am ashamed of the state that our country has allowed these people to get into. Their general level of skills is deplorable. Can no-one play an instrument, sing a song or do a funny little dance any more?’

The proposal would see a nationwide programme of lessons in music, dance and marketing for the homeless, carefully designed to increase their earning potential. ‘At the very least we should be teaching them better Big Issue selling techniques than just shouting ‘Big Issue!’’ he added.

[Snoopy]

Excellent ~ lend us a quid.

[Grumpmeister]

This may sound callous but if you are stupid enough to neck a pint of vodka in one then its safe to say the gene pool is a little cleaner now 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-11437449

[Barman]

This may sound callous but if you are stupid enough to neck a pint of vodka in one then its safe to say the gene pool is a little cleaner now 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-11437449

Agreed...

[Grumpmeister]

Darwin, if the turnips aren't selling this could be worth looking in to 

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/197115/The-world-s-first-one-million-star-hotel

[Darwins Selection]

Darwin, if the turnips aren't selling this could be worth looking in to 

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/197115/The-world-s-first-one-million-star-hotel

[Snoopy]

Bounce a turnip of his bonce and he'll see stars alright