GOOGLE YOU CAN’T JUST USE THE FIRST GOOGLE IMAGE RESULT FOR THESE THINGS OR THIS HAPPENS
you used to call me on my hands-free talking glove
GOOGLE YOU CAN’T JUST USE THE FIRST GOOGLE IMAGE RESULT FOR THESE THINGS OR THIS HAPPENS
you used to call me on my hands-free talking glove
I’m just wondering how they can possibly market this as hands-free
In the mid-2000s there was a brief fad in Australian government messaging where they went out of their way to insult the public as much as possible.
This fad eventually died out after the tourism board attempted the same style of messaging in the UK, causing a minor scandal which led to the head of Tourism Australia, Scott Morrison, getting the sack.
The first time we drove past the “don’t drive like a cock” sign, my mum looked at it was immediately SO confused - after all she’s a good semi-conservative Christian woman. My brother and I knew it right away but for the next half hour she guessed literally EVERY other word for cock (don’t drive like a rooster, chicken, hen, chick, bird, fowl, poultry) trying her goddamned hardest to make the sign make sense until my - at the time - eleven year old brother got fed up and yelled COCK at the top of his lungs from the back seat.
My mum was FURIOUS - we weren’t even allowed to say “heck” - until she realised he’d just been telling her what the sign was, and for the rest of the three hour trip our good semi-conservative Christian mother proceeded to amuse herself by muttering “cock” under her breath and giggling like a teenager every time she did.
We still bring it up every now and then. So that particular advertising campaign has been making my family laugh for over a decade.
This one was always my favourite, though:
Reblogging to make sure this excellent story is seen
These are the episodes that make Star Trek such a unique and fun thing. The cast go all in with keeping the drama of the episode and nothing breaks the tone.
Modern trek seriously forgets that these sorts of things are what makes the show just so good, sure I love science fiction more than anyone else I know, but it's the juxtaposition of the two against each other. Where are all my 1960s/80s/90s, westerns, and of course all the Greek and Roman episodes? Civilizations that are evolving in a similar way as Earth society did? What about something like a 1960s style Vulcan (or similar — perhaps a free logic (love) vulcan commune somewhere)? Endless possibilities that take us back to the roots of the show.
