Wacky News Time
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7921858.stm
I can’t believe this was an actual study. The people at Radboud University must have run out of all the good things to research.
Researcher 1: Let’s do a research project!
Researcher 2: A real research project? One where we actually have to do research?
Researcher 1: Nah. Let’s just stick some shitty American Teen movies on, fill the fridge with booze, and we’ll make up the reasons later.
Researcher 2: Sounds good! I’m sure some terrible news service will pick up on it later!
Seriously. They were trying to figure out whether advertising for alcohol worked. I’m pretty sure people figured out advertising worked before Christ was born. Especially advertising for alcohol. Ancient Romans probably had advertisments at the Circus Maximus for their local brands of firewater in between people getting mauled by lions.
The bright folks at Radboud U. also wanted to find out if alcohol references in movies caused people to crave alcohol. This is new, groundbreaking territory. Companies like Coke and GMC must have been spending their millions to get their products advertised on TV shows on pure guesswork alone.
Their recommendations are awesome too.
“He said the findings suggested there may be an argument for restricting advertising and introducing warnings on films.”
“Hi, we’re going to be showing you people drinking alcohol in the movie, but please…don’t drink alcohol.” Yeah. THAT’LL WORK FOR SURE.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/04/green.bullets/index.html?eref=rss_us
Hunters are worried about the environment. In other news, the KKK has announced their new leader: Al Sharpton.
According to the article, people are worried that birds eating the toxic bullets could get poisoned and die. Yeah. It’s not like the hunters were using the bullets to kill other animals or anything like that. They came to feed the wildlife, and then left the nasty toxic bullets behind by accident.
Here’s an idea: if you want to stop the death of animals, how about STOP HUNTING?!
The best part is, the hunters association recently donated Venison to a local program for the hungry. Venison filled with lead bullets. Hunters suck.