People of Public Transit

A little frivolity for the end of the week that will make you think long and hard about your pubic image and wardrobe choices for next week’s commute. People of Public Transport is user-generated photo site that documents strange sights on planes and trains. My favourite is this photo, which defies concise description, so you’ll [...]

Five Worst Reality Shows That Actually Made it Onto TV – According to Gawker

Snarky website Gawker has done a round up of The Five Worst Reality Shows That Actually Made it onto TV

My Bare Lady – Fox Reality;
Ty Murray’s Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge – CMT;
The Search For The Next Elvira – Fox Reality Channel;
Transamerican Love Story – Logo;
Space Cadets – Channel 4.

Looks like the Americans are whooping [...]

Tired of London

If you are heading to London and need some offbeat, and reliable, suggestions of things to do, or are a Londoner all out of ideas what to do, check out Tired of London, which lists one new idea of something to do each day.
Current suggestions include:

Eat pie and mash at F. Cooke’s in Broadway Market
Listen [...]

Regretsy

Etsy is a brilliant place to pick up handmade, artisan-crafted gifts. Unfortunately, like …. Got Talent there are a number of people trying to sell their wares who have an inflated idea of their abilities.
Check out the worst on Regretsy.  Among the safe for work items featured is a goat coat, a pair of hand-painted [...]

Cat Craziness

Thrillist found a site dedicated to mad, bad and sad cats doing evil or having evil done unto them. There’s a naked man in a shower with a cat, a cat attacking a baby, cats in fancy dress and a Russian skydiving cat. Don’t ask why, I don’t know.
See more.
Watch the Russian skydiving cat:

Crazy Classifieds

Trendhunter has gathered together a collection of strange and disturbing classified ads, including:

A pair of false teeth for sale (only two teeth missing)
A tombstone inscribed with the name Grady
A used, Spanish speaking Honda Civic for sale
A collection of old people for sale

Read them all:

Edinburgh International Television Festival – The Evidence

As Peter Andre said, “you can ignore the headlines as you know they’re probably not true, but you can’t ignore the photographs…”
All photos by Rob McDougall 2009
1) TV’s Got Talent winner Carolyn Philpot
2) Five’s channel controller Richard Woolfe
3) Director of BBC Vision Jana Bennett and Dragon’s Den series producer Sam Lewins
4) Peter Andre
 

Crappy Taxidermy

Crappy Taxidermy is a site dedicated to ill-executed, ill-advised or just plain wrong taxidermy specimens, from a rat covered in blood to a cat that appears to have turned into a vase. Let’s hope Benson – the 64lb 25-yr-old British carp that recently died, and is deeply mourned by the fishing community – doesn’t suffer [...]

Odd Cops

You don’t see this every day:

A cop playing a guitar to a busker
A Staffordshire bull terrier being frisked
A lady cop watching a naked man do an unconventional high-wire act

See more on Trendhunter

Channel Branding: A Quiz – Answers

Last week I posted a list of UK and US straplines that should – if they were doing their job properly – tell you which channels they referred to. In case they didn’t, click through to find out the answers. (Photo by bdunnette under CC BY-SA 2.0)