Sideswipe: May 22: The good oil on marketing

The good oil on marketing

Simon writes: "From the Goebbels' school of marketing in Morocco - Green Oil - if you are going to tell a porkie, make it a whopper. But just down the road was a more honest gas station - Petrofib."

Fur flies when Mr Biggles has a hissy fit

Pet Rescue in Melbourne wrote an honest adoption listing for Mr Biggles (aka Lord Bigglesworth) describing him as an "utter, utter bast***," Gina Brett wrote in the listing, which went viral. He is "a despot and a dictator."

He's a gorgeous cat, but beware, she writes: "If he doesn't like what you're doing he will give you a nip! Sometimes he likes to swipe at your feet too. It just depends on what he can reach at the time.

"Mr Biggles does not like to be thwarted. He throws a catty tantrum if he can't go outside when he wants to be let out (and he wasn't allowed outside for the first couple of weeks at his carer's house so there was a few tantrums!) ... Not being fed on time is also a tantrum inducing exercise.

"He will let you know [when] he is not happy, which is often because things are often just not up to his high standards ... Mr Biggles likes his cuddles on his terms, and will sit in your lap when he decides it's time. If the stroking is not up to his standards, he will nip you."

Cat's eyes in the soup pot

"Where have all the cats' eyes gone is very simple," writes Warwick Thompson of Milford. "Cats' eyes are the 'foot' of sea snails which seal the snail-shell from drying out when the tide recedes.

"New immigrants have stripped the coastal foreshore from Devonport to Langs Beach of every living creature, no periwinkles, oysters, mussels, shrimps, crabs, even sea anemones, all gone to make free soup. And MPI Fisheries just allowed it to happen.

So our our foreshore, once alive with millions of interesting native sea-creatures [is] a zone of lifelessness and the cats' eyes are gone from the beach."

Finally someone made a realistic mannequin.

Picture this: Twenty-year-old Jim Carrey tries to impersonate 12 celebrities...But does he succeed?

Good read: Make yourself at home and do have sex..."I know that having sexual intercourse with your partner in a stranger's home is an essential part of a romantic getaway in the sharing economy, and I want you to have a special weekend together in my house. I hope that by being upfront about that reality, I can make you feel as comfortable as possible about ravishing each other in my bed while I stay at my friend's place a few blocks away." Read more here.

Video: First, turn the volume down. In this video high school student who were interested in joining the military or becoming a police officer volunteer to be pepper sprayed. Yes they signed a waiver. The idea is, if you're going to use pepper spray, and use it as a weapon, you should know what it feels like before you inflict it on someone else.

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