No prize to the first person to figure out why Yves Rocher (France) might not be particularly thrilled that the following product of theirs was being sold in the Carrer Ferran Yves Rocher franchise: This is a gross over-simplification. There’s an interesting pharma-oriented summary here, and here‘s an article by a lawyer from a local…
A picture of Roy Horn, recovering from being mauled by a tiger, is giving rise to an ironic exchange of views here. My favourite comment is one I’ve been anticipating keenly for some time: god you whinging people annoy me. If you check the DNS of the “Americans” you’ll see that they actually come from…
Good to see that Mayor Clos has joined in with the Kaleboel rant against ripoffs in tourist zones. Not particularly surprising to see that sidekick Jordi Portabella (is he really a Danone heir?) has got his poor little mind mixed up again and thinks it’s all our fault for wanting free markets.
From an AP report: A passenger, identified only as A. Chernopup, was aboard a recent flight from Moscow to the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk. Seeing that the crew were intoxicated and were not fulfilling their duties, Chernopup asked to be served by a sober and competent flight attendant. He was then beaten up by two…
It’s good to see that some papers are spelling the name of the new president of the European parliament, Josep Borrell, with only one “l”. Borrel is Dutch for “drink”, including in the sense of a Friday afternoon booze-up.
From an alert, Preventing Deaths of Farm Workers in Manure Pits, issued by the American National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: On July 26, 1989, five farm workers died after consecutively entering a manure pit on their farm. The pit measured 20 by 24 feet and was 10 feet deep. The victims were a…
Nick Lloyd is posting literary references to the miserable state of the costa. I believe that we should learn to accept that it is destined to be repeatedly laid waste by entrepreneurs: Everyone … could see with their own eyes the desolation of the Spanish, French, and Italian coasts, thanks to the pertinacious infestation of…