Where Worlds Collide

Making Light tells us of the sekrit conspiracy that decides what colours domestic appliances and clothes will be each year. Yes, there really is a cabal that meets and decides that beige will be the new black (actually, grey is the new black, this year). They also come up with the ridiculous marketspeak names for them.

These are the official colours for “Transportation and Related”:

Tusk-Ivory influences aluminum reflecting the global warming of silver.

Acier-Sounds like French, but this steely gray is really from Pittsburgh, and has universal appeal. It is an expansion of the cool metals.

Aloeminium-The healing power of aloe combines with aluminum.

Mystic Quartz-A purple whisper adds mystery to silver; mature, technical and genderless.

Broadway Bronze-This dark and murky complex neutral is pulled from the streets of the concrete jungle.

Peace-A unifying global blue represents peace on earth.

But do One Anglia know about them?

1. Grab the nearest CD.
2. Put it in your CD-Player (or start your mp3-player, I-tunes, etc.).
3. Skip to Song 3 (or load the 3rd song in your 3rd playlist)
4. Post the first verse in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t name the band, nor the album-title.

The way that the willow bows over the stream
Like a mourner crying for their loved one
Reminds me of last fall
When on one knee, I pledged myself to you

(From Cold Spring Shops)

What does this mean? Has some loathsome blasphemous entity that Man Was Not Meant To Know taken up residence in the stygian gloom of the disused Woodhead tunnel? Or does it simply mean that Dodgeblogium?

Like something out of those really cheesy horror novels by hack writer Guy N Smith, hordes of gigantic crabs are on their way to invade Europe. And Joseph Stalin is to blame! As Ken MacLoed says, those fifties B-movies got their subtexts right after all.

GURPS Atomic Horror, anyone?

Need a unarmed self defence technique to defend yourself against evil lubruls? Learn Rumsfeld fu.

Warning! Rumsfeld Fu is a specialised martial art practiced by highly trained and skilled neo-conservatives. If practiced by the untrained, it can be dangerous.

It’s also not to be confused with Rummy-Thump, which is not dissimilar to the ancient Lancastrian martial art of Eckythump, except that instead of a black pudding, you use a priceless vase looted from the Iraqi national museum.

Thanks to the Daily Mail-O-Matic, you no longer need to buy that manichean rag that supported the Nazis during the 1930s. (Link from Harry)

I haven’t written much on this weblog over the past week, so I’ll link to a couple of recent posts from newish additions to the blogroll. First, Amadán gives us a taxonomy of wingnuts and trolls.

For example, entry #2 on “Randroids”

Objectivists, aka Randroids

Libertarians are one thing. I have some libertarian sympathies (although I think most libertarians are just self-centered greedheads who want a philosophy to justify placing themselves at the center of their own little universe). But hardcore “objectivists” and devotees of Ayn Rand are just loathsome, cultlike in their behavior (they view Rand much as Scientologists view Hubbard), and essentially advocating self-centered amorality as “enlightened self-interest.”

By the way — Robert A. Heinlein was a science fiction author!

(Oh, by the way, I’ve just added The Light of Reason to the blogroll)

Meanwhile, Harry gives us a rundown on Conservative Correctness. How many of Amadán’s wingnuts and trolls parrot lines like this?

The white, heterosexual male, is a victim of our currently “PC Society”. His freedom of speech is restricted, job opportunities are denied to him, his viewpoint is never reflected in the liberal-left dominated media and people who try to raise families and live a decent law-abiding, hard-working life are penalised in favour of all manner of deviants and minorities.

I wonder how many “angry white men” realise the reason they didn’t get that job that when to someone who just happened to be black wasn’t because of Political Correctness, or anti-white prejudice. It was because they didn’t want to give the job to a complete jerk.

Bloggers sometimes look down on livejournals. Still, I’m not quite sure what to make of this.

The Bible in 50 Words. Exactly what it says: not quite a literal translation (Link from Ken MacLoed)

It’s the Dishonest Dubya. Complete with pretzel-retching action! TM

Link from, of course, Scott.