The Consumer Category
We bring you the chic and unique, the best and most bizarre shopping offers both online and offline. We offer you tips on where to buy, and some of the less mainstream and crazy, individual and offbeat items on the internet. Anything that can be bought and sold can be featured here. And we love showcasing the best and worst art and design.
Animal rights activists wrap themselves in cling film
MEAT eaters, rejoice! The vegetarians have given in. To mark the Spain Day Without Meat Protest, animals rights activists from the group Animal Equality lie wrapped in meat packaging on the Barcelona pavements. Meat might be murder, but celophane is a slow suffocation. The stun gun would have been kinder:
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Posted: 20th, March 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Man buys tabby cat skin rug for $1000
TO New Zealand, where a “great little gift for the mancave”* has sold at auction for $955. Ian James now wons a tabby cat rug. The cat was found by Tauranga taxidermist Andrew Lancaster by the Napier-to-Taupo highway. He explains: “I thought ‘that’s a pretty nice looking cat’, did a U-turn and picked it up.”
* Not a euphemism. The Tabby Rug is not a merkin.
More crap taxidermy here and here. Epic taxidermy here.
Posted: 20th, March 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
‘I was a ‘Hitchhiker On the Highway of Love’: 1938 sexism
IN 1938, Listerine featured the woman who was a ‘Hitchhiker On the Highway of Love’. Could she be helped before the trucker with the axe pulled over?
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Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Modern inventors: Sean O’Connor’s Batter Blaster
INVENTOR of the day is Sean O’Connor. He invented theBatter Blaster – the pancake / waffle mix in a can. He says:
“We’ve had quite a few emails from dads, divorced dads or single dads, that are like, ‘Hey Batter Blaster, I can make heart-shaped pancakes for my girls on the weekends and I’m a hero.'”
Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
Cool Ad Watch: Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh
COOL ad watch: Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh — It’s What You See Is What You Get Food:
Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Woman finds entire cat in her ‘pork’ sausage (photo)
EVER find a kitten inside a sausage? Krod Yotchomrang, 52, did. She found the kitten inside a batch of foot-long sausages bought from a local market in Satuk district Thailand’s Buri Ram province. Says Krod:
“I was cutting the third sausage when I noticed what looked like a small cat. We almost threw up when we realised we were eating the body of a kitten for dinner.”
(In Thailand kittens are tea-time fare. The Thai’s are sticklers for standards.)
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Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
In photos: The Irish Kennel Club Pet Dog Expo 2013.
TO the Irish Kennel Club Pet Dog Expo 2013.
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism, The Consumer | Comment
Kickstarter of the day: The Shirt Shirt (silent ‘r’)
KICK STARTER project of the DAY: The Shirt Shirt. It might be a parody:
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Emma Watson won’t be getting really naked in Fifty Shades of Grey
FIFTY Shades of Grey completely took over the world, giving people the chance to indulge themselves in the darker side of Mills and Boon and revel in some of the most clunky euphemisms for the vagina ever committed to a page. All good fun and a rather sweet way of getting your rocks off, compared to brutal 3 minute internet clips of tattooed LA starlets getting ravaged by men hung like wheelie-bins.
A film adaptation of EL James’ ‘Fifty Shades’ was inevitable and 99% of the world’s press rubbed their thighs with mucky fever, talking openly about which famous actress they’d most like to see getting spanked on the silver screen.
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Books, Film, Reviews | Comments (2)
July 1951: A grocer’s shop window in London
FLASHBACK to July 1951: A grocer’s shop window in London. Biscuits by weight. Sago. And cans are the greatest:
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Hen lays the massive egg within an egg
TO China, where Granny Yang, 87, is showcasing her massive hen’s egg. Media has massed in Bijie in Guizhou so see the massive egg. Says Yang, as the shell cracks revealing two yolks and an intact entire egg inside:
“I’m more than 80 now, but I have never seen eggs like this before.”
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Nuxuno Xän’s bushy afro in Fort De France, Martinique
WE love great graffiti. This is a work by Nuxuno Xän, in Fort De France, Martinique. See more great art here.
Spotter: Street Art Utopia.
Posted: 17th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism, The Consumer | Comment
H&M employs plus-sized mannequins
SWEDISH fashion store H&M is wrapping its outfits on size 40-42 mannequins. What it invests in more plastic and reduced floor space, it will reap in good PR.
Spotter:
Malmesbury gets a make-over
WE like Luke Hollington’s work. Syd, as he’s also known, has been enlivening dead shop fronts in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. The sign above one store reads ‘Vomit’, not Comet. Blockbuster has been altered to ‘Blockbust’. The HMV sign has been adapted to feature the brand’s Nipper hanging dead from a chain.
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Posted: 15th, March 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
eBay seller thedoctorwhoguide2012’s 10 best offers (these are fantastic)
EBAY seller thedoctorwhoguide2012 has a great array of good for sale. Look out for Dot Cotton, EastEnders’ Pat Butcher and Harry Styles:
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Posted: 14th, March 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The Gluttony of the Last Supper, with Ronald McDonald as Jesus
THE Last Supper has been recorded in art many times over. In this version of Leonardo da Vinci’s late 1490s mural painting, Gillian Joyce has Jesus Christ played by Ronald McDonald. It’s called The Gluttony of the Last Supper. But there are only six drinks. And though we are being invited to be the fourth wall, it’s like spotting a Stag Night party through a window, getting in the food before the real gluttony begins. Anyhow, I’ve included it because it’s Pope Francis’s First Day, and this is pretty much what his celebration dinner looks like…
Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
The John Nathan-Turner story: Sex, paedos and Dr Who at the BBC
IAN Berriman has reviewed The Life And Scandalous Times Of John Nathan-Turner. He died in 2002. In life, he was notable as the producer of the hit BBC TV show Doctor Who (1980-89). Given the revelations about BBC stalwart Jimmy Savile and other allegations levelled against other former BBC employees, the book’s publication is sure to be of interest to the elite in Broadcasting House.
Chapter Eight is entitled “Hanky Panky”. Author Richard Marson asks: “Was John Nathan-Turner a paedophile?”
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Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: Books, Celebrities, TV & Radio | Comment
Life imitates The Onion: Tesco buys Giraffe retaurants
TESCO has bits of horse in its meatloaf. Days ago, the supermarket said it had no horse left in its ready meals. But then it found some. Horses, eh. They sneak right up on you.
In other news, we learn that Tesco has bought a chain of hight street eateries. The chain’s name? GIRAFFE! Says the BBC headline:
TESCO BUYS GIRAFFE RESTAURANTS
Forgetting to add: “PIG MAKES DO WITH HORSE BURGER TAKEAWAY”
Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Rains create kangaroo testicles shortage
IN Australia, a call has gone out for large kangaroo scrotums. John Kreuger of Townsville, Queensland, tells his local paper that the lack of big bouncing balls could hurt his business.
Mr Kreuger, 71, makes his living tanning and stuffing roo testicles. At his peak, he can process 500 hollowed scrota with his Acme “de-nutter”. He then fashions the balls into bottle openers and sells them for $25 a pop.
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Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment (1)
Underwater Project: photos of people fighting nature
IN Underwater Project, Mark Tipple records people below the braking wave. He says:
Their faces contort, their muscles tighten in reaction to the struggle for power with the ocean. They surface when the surge has passed. Then breathe. They are unaware that a camera has captured it all; from straining arms clawing at sand to eyes squeezed shut against the bite of salt. Mark Tipple holds his camera steady in the melting foam, and makes his way to shore.
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Posted: 11th, March 2013 | In: Photojournalism, The Consumer | Comment (1)
