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#2619074 10-Dec-2020 08:14

I work security at a local supermarket part-time, and last night we had a fire alarm. Call 111, start filing people outside.

First dumb thing - "What do I do with my trolley ?" - Leave it lady, it ain't going anywhere, now get out.

Second dumb thing - 2x fire trucks parked outside with lights flashing etc, car park full of staff and customers, 2x security/warden staff preventing access, and still get people trying to enter and do their shopping.

Days you feel like just letting people do what they want and watch the outcome with popcorn......

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#2620059 11-Dec-2020 12:01

Canterbury Regional Council decided to give its busses a nice new colour scheme reflecting nature. Since they all have properly functioning eyes and ears, it didn't occur to them to bother asking what disabled people thought of it. Maybe functioning brains were not part of the equation. As a result, those with limited eyesight are complaining they can no longer see the busses at all since they blend so well into the background. Brainless bureaucracy scores again!

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#2620063 11-Dec-2020 12:17

Rikkitic:

This is more bad taste, but also with a dose of dumb and I don't know where else to put it, so will drop it here.

Some joker pranked TVNZ breakfast into wishing a happy anniversary to two of the UK's most prolific serial killers! In response, TVNZ has apologised profusely and promised better screening in the future.

On one level, I don't think this is entirely their fault. They rely on public submissions and they shouldn't have to be expected to subject everything that comes in to a police filter. But on another level, one complaint I have about our media in general, is a seeming lack of basic knowledge and judgement, and a tendency to cut and paste without bothering to check even the simplest details. This seem to be part of a general dumbing down that goes with a chronic lack of resources.

Most media professionals older than about 18 with even minimum education, might be expected to recognise the faces of Rosemary and Fred West, if not immediately, at least well enough to trigger questions. But with the elimination of proofreading, editors, and knowledge of how to use a word processor, has also gone common sense and an ability to pause and think. On that basis, TVNZ deserves what it got.

& yet *coincidentally* the very first ad break after Jenny-May Coffin's apology contained a TVNZ promo for their upcoming doco series on Serial Killers, featuring a photo of... Rosemary West. Viral advertising is the best advertising by a mile (ask Lewis Rd Creamery). The cynic in me says that the anniversary photo of that putrid couple, while probably not done with full chain of managerial support & pre-aware onscreen hosts, was most likely fed into the system by a closely-related party (& likely TVNZ employee). I see this event as an extremely poor-taste promotion that worked incredibly well - the event was published worldwide within minutes.

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#2620076 11-Dec-2020 12:38

Rikkitic:
Canterbury Regional Council decided to give its busses a nice new colour scheme reflecting nature. Since they all have properly functioning eyes and ears, it didn't occur to them to bother asking what disabled people thought of it. Maybe functioning brains were not part of the equation. As a result, those with limited eyesight are complaining they can no longer see the busses at all since they blend so well into the background. Brainless bureaucracy scores again!

In their defence, that's not really an issue that most people would have anticipated. There's a lot of stuff that you only find out about once you've deployed it into the field.

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#2620083 11-Dec-2020 12:58

neb:
Rikkitic:

Canterbury Regional Council decided to give its busses a nice new colour scheme reflecting nature. Since they all have properly functioning eyes and ears, it didn't occur to them to bother asking what disabled people thought of it. Maybe functioning brains were not part of the equation. As a result, those with limited eyesight are complaining they can no longer see the busses at all since they blend so well into the background. Brainless bureaucracy scores again!

In their defence, that's not really an issue that most people would have anticipated. There's a lot of stuff that you only find out about once you've deployed it into the field.

No, the argument of the disabled is that their representatives, who were available, were not consulted at all, which is how this was able to happen. Even the Regional Council concedes that. If they had been consulted, they would have flagged this as an issue.

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#2620087 11-Dec-2020 13:07

neb:
Rikkitic:

Canterbury Regional Council decided to give its busses a nice new colour scheme reflecting nature. Since they all have properly functioning eyes and ears, it didn't occur to them to bother asking what disabled people thought of it. Maybe functioning brains were not part of the equation. As a result, those with limited eyesight are complaining they can no longer see the busses at all since they blend so well into the background. Brainless bureaucracy scores again!

In their defence, that's not really an issue that most people would have anticipated. There's a lot of stuff that you only find out about once you've deployed it into the field.

And yet, a moment's thought would suggest that people whose eyesight was too poor to allow them to drive would be likely customers of the bus service.

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#2621237 14-Dec-2020 11:37

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/300182604/dangerous-selfies-can-kill-you-australian-police-warn-after-woman-falls-to-her-death

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#2621242 14-Dec-2020 11:52

Wow. There aren't words for that. Her poor husband and child.

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#2697564 24-Apr-2021 15:37

Not even born yet and the Darwin award goes to ??

A New Hampshire explosion was triggered by a gender reveal party, police say

(80 US pounds = 36.29 Kilograms)

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#2697567 24-Apr-2021 15:46

Here's a gender reveal for you: "It's a boy."

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#2697571 24-Apr-2021 16:03

FineWine:
Not even born yet and the Darwin award goes to ??

A New Hampshire explosion was triggered by a gender reveal party, police say

(80 US pounds = 36.29 Kilograms)

Holy cow, do you know much 80 pounds of tannerite costs? The standard 1lb lot is fine, you subdivide it into smaller lots, drive out into the middle of nowhere, and it makes a satisfying boom and smoke cloud when hit, but to buy 80lb of it, that's thousands of dollars worth.

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#2697663 24-Apr-2021 16:12

Article: They used an explosive called Tannerite, a target used for firearms practice that also comes in a gender-reveal variety.

Mad marketing and mad people.

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#2697664 24-Apr-2021 16:14

gzt:
Article: They used an explosive called Tannerite, a target used for firearms practice that also comes in a gender-reveal variety.

Mad marketing and mad people.

It's actually quite fun if you use it in the small quantities you're supposed to, and for gender-reveal kind of a neat alternative to the usual brownish smoke. These guys just took it to ridiculous levels.

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#2697665 24-Apr-2021 16:29

neb: It's actually quite fun if you use it in the small quantities you're supposed to, and for gender-reveal kind of a neat alternative to the usual brownish smoke. These guys just took it to ridiculous levels.

Anything, anything at all, will always be taken by somebody to ridiculous levels. That reality needs to be factored in when making the anything possible.

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#2697705 24-Apr-2021 23:33

I'll play your game.

A young man in dunedin, out on a Saturday night doing what young people do on a Saturday night, decided to try the "4 steps to doing a backflip"...

Landed on his head and peeled his scalp back like a banana skin. The flap looked to be maybe 100mm square.

Side note. Scalp is surprisingly thick.

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