Stuff People Ingest Voluntarily episode 31
Before you start accusing us of focusing on the poor, fading laundry as part of our own Antonioni scheme to sabotage the world’s image of an entire nation, let us be clear: we are more interested in the one small bright square so carefully preserved like some tiny peep...
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ENVISION THE FUTURE!
Behold! The future of warfare! As sleek as a fighter jet, as mobile as a Humvee, and just as necessary for the protection of Freedom and Democracy worldwide!
Having discovered the indubitable link between poverty and thrift and the proliferation of senseless dreams, the Department of National Dream...
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Dear Santa (We Know About the Economic MSG),
We found this image of you on our camera. We don’t know how or when you did it, but we respectfully request that you refrain from using our recording devices in the future. The fact that you know who has been naughty or nice by no...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the week 49
“The power of Dreams! The Happiest Place on Earth. Think outside the bun! Taste the rainbow. Just do it! Be all that you can be. Just for the taste of it! Have it your way. Obey your thirst! I’m...
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“Gourds for sale! Gourds for sale!”
The man in green Mao gear walks slowly through the crowds, peddling his wares.
“Traditional Chinese instrument!”The people, dodging his stick device, eye him queerly.
“It’s 2008, chump,” says one particularly smart-ass passerby.
The man in green is immune to such jibes, having sold cheap tourist goods for most of his...
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That’s right. We reused that photo. As the loud and insightful Mary Poppin’s character put it, “We does what we like and likes what we do.” Chimneychew-roo.
The Nanjing, Jiangsu, China Ikea opened at the end of August and has been packed with modern trend and comfort seekers ever since. Customers arriving...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 44
A massive Ikea sign in Nanjing looms over peasants as they weed a city park. Aha! The perfect ominous opening for the Forty-Fourth Totally Awesome Picture of the Week (4 being the unlucky number in China). Nanjing, China’s historical Southern capital city, known world-wide as a...
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