Broke Dubai Moves Closer To Becoming The New Atlantis
DUBAI moves on a stage in its quest to become New Atlantis as it runs out of money.
Dubai wants its banks to grant it a six-month stay on its schedule of debt repayments.
Dubai imports footballers, their orange wives, cheap Indian labour, bitter ex-pats and air conditioning systems to make the place bearable.
It exports a dream of winter sun – only periodically blocked out by the cheap Indian workers walking along the shoreline to and from work and stopping to stare at you - locals rich enough to escape and sand.
Posted: 26th, November 2009 | In: Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Child Sex Crime Lawyers Use Provactive Minor To Advertise Their Services
HAVE you been accused of being a paedo? Has your name appeared on a child sex websites? Well, if you live in Texas, you need Lindeman, Alvarado & Frye, lawyers specialising in “SOLICITIATION”.
While we at Anorak are prone to the odd typo, we are not advertising our skills in getting you off a child molestation charge, her you might be looking for someone who checks the facts thoroughly.
But this is not the worst of. The law firm, as our picture shows, uses the picture of blonde, pouty-mouthed minor. Is this necessary? Did she trap you? Is this the face of temptation?
Posted: 25th, November 2009 | In: Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Parcel Delivery Service Scam, Coming Through A Letterbox Near You
A NEW scam is highlighted by reader Ernie Chivers, as we receive a letter from a Fire Officer at HMPS:
Postal Scam
Can you circulate this around - especially as Christmas is fast approaching - it has been confirmed by Royal Mail.
The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:
A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 0906 6611911 (a premium rate number).
DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize. If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message. You will already have been billed £15 for the phone call.
If you do receive a card with these Details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 02072396655 or ICSTIS the Premium rate service regulator) at www.icstis.org.uk
regards
**** *******
Fire Safety Officer
HMYOI ********
Of course, the other scam is when the parcel deliverer knocks very quietly on your door, slips a note through the letterbox and legs it. You then have to go to fetch the post, which might not be there.
Posted: 24th, November 2009 | In: Money | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
New AOL Logo Wants To Be Called The Aol Dot, Period
REMEMBER when those TV adverts told us that America On Line was the way ahead for any Britons wanting to access and harness the wonder of the world wide web?
For a while it worked. And then you realised that AOL was charging you for stuff you could get for free, and that America was not the only country online. AOL begane to decline.
But now there are plans to make it mighty once more. We bring you the new logo for AOL. Ready… Set. Go!
AOL is to be…Aol.
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Advert Of The Day: Get Teeth To Attract Fishermen
EVER wanted fish to attract a fisheman? Well, this one’s for you…
Posted: 17th, November 2009 | In: Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
I’m A Celebrity Kangaroos Get Fruit Flavoured Condoms
SO tasty are Condomi’s fruit-flavored condoms - “taste like real fruit” - that your significant other will sink their teeth into your penis in the manner of Katie Price eating a kangaroo’s member on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
Either that or the reassuringly snug Condomi will peel your member like Abu Hamza tugging at an under-ripe satsuma.
Posted: 16th, November 2009 | In: Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Euro Lottery Winners Yet To Pay Back Loan
CONGRATS to Les Scadding and his wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding from Caerleon, south Wales, seen here holding a cheque for 45.5 million, after scooping the prize in Saturday’s Euromillions jackpot.
You lend some people a fiver… Joke. Really. A joke. (They can afford lawyers for a whole week - we need to get the apology in early.)
Peachey by name…
Posted: 10th, November 2009 | In: Money | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Disney’s Snow White Becomes Ho White In Beer Campaign
ANYONE who received the email Snow White virus, and who tempted by the chance to see a fairytale character servicing seven miniature miners and opened it, will be delighted to see this advert for Ho White.
Snow White is pictured in bed, waiting for the little one to roll over, enjoying a post-orgy smoke. The advert for Jamieson’s Raspberry Ale – it’s “anything but sweet” - has not goen down well with Disney. It can’t have its fantasy characters based on other people’s stories smoking.
How white, and Filthy, Smarmy and Randy, will have to go.
Posted: 16th, October 2009 | In: Money | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Maan Al Sanea Case Teaches How To Live Like A Billionaire
THANKS to Saudi Arabian businessman Maan al Sanea’s appearance at the High Court, London, we get to see how a billionaire lives.
Maan al Sanea has failed to overturn a $9.2bn freezing order on his worldwide assets. But the law says he now allowed $4m spending money a year. And he needs the cash.
We worry if Mr Sanea can manage to eke out an existence on £4million a year? The FT:
The judge raised a cap on Mr Sanea’s living expenses from $10,000 a week to $1m a quarter, although even this fell well short of the sum of at least $30m a year that he had requested.
Mr Beazley [Tom Beazley QC, his lawyer] said the initial $10,000 limit was far too harsh for someone who had been recognised as one of the richest people in the world.
It’s not just about standards:
“He spends $800,000 on electricity, gas, telephone, water and satellite bills every month,” Mr Beazley told the judge. “He has a zoo, my lord.” The zoo includes lions and giraffes, according to Mr Sanea’s legal team.
Posted: 6th, October 2009 | In: Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Get Your Man A Michael Jackson Hair Tattoo
DO you want hair like Michael Jackson? Well, thanks to Artistry Hair Repalcement Concepts you can.
No, it’s not the thick, jet black nylon wave hair that the fans loved - the hair that, some say, coincided with Bubbles’ removal from the limelight.
This is tattoo hair. With tattoo hair you can have many hairs as your head can take.
From slap head to skin head - eh, voila!
Posted: 2nd, October 2009 | In: Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tesco Introduces Products For Over 65s Only
EMMA Sheppard is unable to buy a packet of teaspoons from her local Tesco’s in Evesham, Worcester.
The check out operative has studied the ‘Think 25′ scheme, and wonders if Emma is old enough – over 25 – to buy teaspoons.
Emma is 21. She is with her partner John, who is 20.
Posted: 2nd, October 2009 | In: Money | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Wisconsin Tourist Federation Introduces The World’s Worst Corporate Logos
THE Wisconsin Tourism Federation (WTF) will now be known as the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin (TFW).
No longer will people hear that Wisconsin has a tourism body called WTF. Now news that Wisconsin is open to tourists will be met with the exclaim TFoW, or Why?
The new log is showcased her – and Anorak looks at other unfortunate corporate logos…
Posted: 30th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Serena Williams’ Clenched Fist Tampax Applicator
SERENA Williams is the face, rant and fluids of Tampax. Not too long ago, Williams threatened to choke a tennis referee with her balls.
Now Williams is a hero to women.
The New York Post cites the “uncomfortably graphic video version of the ad”. There is talk of “bad blood”, “aunt flo” and “plenty of blood”.
Posted: 29th, September 2009 | In: Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Face Of Tesco’s Is Illegal Immigrant
TESCO worker Fatou Cham, 32, face of the store’s Florence and Fred, came to the UK from Gambia in 1998 on a student visa but stayed after it expired in 2001.
To help our the border police, Tesco stuck a label on Ms Cham’s head:
“Designed by F&F. Priced by Tesco. Modelled byFatou, checkout number 6, Tesco, east London.”
Any more clues, needed, lads?
Posted: 27th, September 2009 | In: Money | Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Scotland’s Anti-Golf Protestors Manage To Parody Donald Trump, In Pictures
Can you parody Donald Trump? Yes you can. The impossible dream has been achieved. The MLF has dressed up statues around Scotland as the American tycoon….
Posted: 25th, September 2009 | In: Gallery, Money | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
How Michael Moore Swallowed Esquire’s Capitalism
MICHAEL Moore has a new film, Capitalism: A Love Story. It’s got a happy ending; or does it die from cancer in a private hospital and the only survivor left to tell the tale is a multi-millionaire?
Jim Geraghty notes (via Andrew Sullivan):
[Will Ferrell] is by some accounts the highest paid star in Hollywood (Forbes said this year he was merely the 20th-highest-paid). On a similar note, I was stunned to learn that you have to pay money to watch Michael Moore’s movie about the evils of capitalism.
Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Money | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The recession is over. Says the Telegraph: “Diamonds begin to sparkle again”
The story is illustrated by this image of pearls.
Look out for “Pearls are the new diamonds” and other exciting shiny news.
Posted: 20th, September 2009 | In: Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
BT has issued a warning that its customers are being scammed by a people claiming to be from the company and then taking money under false pretences.
The ploy:
The scammers call up their victim and warn them that their account is in arrears. They then ask for card or bank details in order to settle the account. If the person refuses or asks for proof, the fraudsters then offer to prove who they are by disconnecting the phone line then and there. Once the victim puts the phone down, the scammer stays connected to their line, thus giving the impression that the customer’s line no longer works.
How to spot a fake BT caller:
Does the caller sound as if they are talking down a tin can from a beach in Goa?
Yes: It’s BT
No: It’s BS
Does the caller ask you a series of questions about your personal life and then when asked for their full name reply that they won’t provide it because to do so is an invasion of their privacy?
Yes: BT
No: BS
When you ask to speak to a supervisor are you put on hold and forced to listen to how important your call is to BT and then after some minutes repeat the complaint you made earlier to a new person called Julie?
Yes: BT
No: BS
Having dealt with BT do you desire to plant your fist through a computer screen and declare war on India?
Yes: BT
No: BS
Is the scammer reliable?
Yes: BS
No: BT
Failing that, here’s our video guide - NSFW:
Posted: 19th, September 2009 | In: Money | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Joan Collins Turns Boris Johnson Into Michael Winner
At the Caroline Charles show, at the BFC tent at Somerset House in central London, local mayor Boris Johnson got a front-row seat for his seat, and looked about as comfortable as a hamster with its teeth removed in Toa Bora caves…
Posted: 18th, September 2009 | In: Gallery, Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Brixton Launches Its Own Currency
BRIXTON in South London has brought out its own local currency to stimulate trade in local shops, for local people. It’s local news in a local setting in a local… etc. Anorak investigates the green shoots of recovery…
Posted: 17th, September 2009 | In: Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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