London Gorilla goes Ape and escapes - For the sake of a gargantuan sip of Fruit Juice

                                                                    

A few days ago Kumbuka the freedom loving Gorilla escaped from his enclosure in the London Zoo.   He simply smashed his way out of his enclosure. After a while Kumbuka was captured by armed police without anyone getting hurt.

Actually his nemesis was a tranquilizer dart that allowed him to sleep off and dream of the 5 litres of  blackcurrant juice he drunk while on the lam.

According to people familiar with the mentation of Gorillas, he just went A.W.O.L.  to treat his taste buds with the Real Stuff.  That is Undiluted Fruit Juice, unlike the watered down variety he is being served, day after day.

One could bet a case of commercial orange juice against  a litre of blackcurrant juice, that  Kumbuka's choice of refreshment and the length he went to obtain the "nectar of his choice", could serve as material for an advertising campaign promoting some half decent fruit juice.

The evolving Internet and it's controlled content as a possible outcome

A recent report revealed that a number of countries already censoring online traffic. Repressive regimes are utilizing the advantage of the net’s ability to censor and stifle reform and debate.

They are worried because blogs and other forms of social networking sites, evidently transform passive consumers into active critics.

According to an internet expert,” Everyone is interested in the internet-especially repressive regimes." Small wonder, as any paranoid despot,(with cause) surrounded by computer geeks, can now spy on it’s “loyal” citizens, censor and even direct the outcome of debate.

The evolving trend of suppressing political information on the net is truly unfortunate because in many countries the net is or used to be the only uncensored outlet people turned for news they would never hear or read in their controlled media.

Women are smart, no need to force feed stupid and demeaning commercials

                                                 

It was a long and demanding day. He was happy to be at home with his girlfriend who just came home from work.

They were tired. Instead of going out for a burger or something else edible, they have decided on home made pasta and both got busy with the preparation. Finally, the steaming spaghetti covered with juicy spaghetti sauce was ready to eat. As usual, they sat on the chesterfield to eat and turned on the TV to watch a usually light-hearted comedy on TV.


After spooning a few forkful of juicy spaghetti, enjoying the flavour of pasta, covered with the tasty red coloured sauce and enjoying the simple comedy on TV, the inevitable loud commercial cut in.


On the screen you could see a happily screaming young woman sliding down on a water-slide. At the same time, the announcer charmingly outlined the advantage of a particular feminine hygiene product, proudly emphasizing that this product will prevent leaking.


The man's girlfriend just said, "Yeah, that's true". 

What the dining couple did not know that the advertiser probably was thinking of the WWII Allied Bomber Command's effective tactic, called saturation bombing. Where waves of bombers, within a short period of time saturated and softened the enemy's resolve by delivering loads of bombs in quick succession.


The advertiser of the feminine hygiene product within a period of  about 45 minutes, repeated the same commercial, at least 8 times, according to the girlfriend.


By the time the couple finished their spaghetti meal, the lady had had enough and was not appreciative of the force fed, and demeaning commercial directed at potential female customers.


According to her, it was not the ruined appetite for the spaghetti that made her upset. Essentially, she felt that this type of commercial present women as dumb and they need to be brain washed to be sold on a product that is known and used by many females.


I was told the story and only a female is in a position to criticize it.


Nevertheless, one is up to the ears with the avalanche of stupid commercials that treat people as we are already the "dumbed down" crowd  that can only be motivated to buy, by repetitive and extremely stupid efforts to sell a product.

Fading Actors Should Work On Their Declining Career, Instead Of Becoming Political Hacks At Election Time

                                                                                   
                                                                          

Why is that some movie stars and  fading "celebrities" suddenly start peddling the wonderful abilities of politicians of either side at election time?

Do they really believe that the average Joe or Jane really cares or is influenced by the televised opinion of a movie star? Often somebody whose nimbus is  already fading since that "Great Movie" they starred  when the first IPhone came out.

Why do they cling to the defective belief that being able to play make-believe make you intelligent or informed, and the unwashed masses dote on every word they utter?  Being able to play make-believe doesn't make you intelligent, or informed.

These activist actors should remember one thing: People are peculiar and in a situation where about 50 % of the electorate is committed to one or the other candidate, they will remember that this or that actor pushed the interests of the other side. The side they voted against.

The actor who was active on the other side, will be remembered at movie time. Many people will boycott their "works".---  And they wonder why people are ignoring them , their movies and products?

"If Trump thinks debate prep is for chumps, his advisers can’t save him from himself" (Washington Post)

                                                                               

 A perceptive article for those following the presidential election in the USA:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/will-trump-shift-gears-in-time-for-the-next-debate/2016/10/01/92ac526c-87e7-11e6-a3ef-f35afb41797f_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sundaytake-1234pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory#comments

The marrow of the article is that Mr. Trump, the Republican candidate, is unable to follow instructions passed on by his advisers, and if he continues to act and verbalize  on the spur of the moment he might lose the election.- Simple as that.

Many people find it hard to understand, that in a world beset by troubles, an election debate  between to hopefuls  can be sidetracked by a comment made by one of the candidates concerning the alleged treatment of a beauty contest participant by the Republican candidate, 30 years ago.

Never mind the fighting in the Middle East, the problems in the China Sea, the situation in the Ukraine, the US trade deficit. Then, the problems within the country, violence, race problems, etc.

No! as soon as the issue of the one time beauty contestant was mentioned, the debate started to look like if a Siamese cat was let loose during a fancy dog show. - All the attention, energy, potential information to be gained suddenly turned into something resembling  chaos, apparently benefiting the candidate who tabled the issue.

According to many people following the election this is not good enough. - A presidential candidate should not be easily distracted. And they should debate real issues.