Christian Mime. As unpleasant as it sounds.

This is one of the worst things ever. What are they doing? As Videogum pointed out, “Where’s ‘trapped in a box’? Where’s the OBJECT WORK?”

There’s a moment about 3:48 in, where you realise the thing ends at 7: 11. That really shook me, that bit.

Oh, if you’re ever interested in hiring K&K, here’s their website.

‘Snakes on A Plane’, TV Edit

I have watched this many times now, waiting for it to be less funny, and it’s just NOT HAPPENING.  ‘Snakes On A Plane’ was interesting for, like, a second, and then it was the most boring thing in the world. But a DVD of this TV edit would always be within reach at my house.

(via Paul Scheer)

A special experience in moviegoing entertainment!

There are so many things to love in this trailer, it’s impossible to know where to begin. No, I know! The film is set in 1994! (Thanks, Christine!)

Jaw-dropping behaviour from The Daily Mail

This is incredible. While we await the response of the PCC to our petition protesting the Express/Dunblane scandal that the press won’t cover (STILL not as important to the broadsheets as Sachsgate, apparently), here’s a piece of mindblowing cynicism from the Daily Mail to take up the slack.

Apparently, the Daily Mail in Ireland and the Daily Mail in the UK are currently running seperate campaigns about the HPV Vaccine. Nothing unusual about that, you might think. It’s an important subject and the Daily Mail has a duty to be concerned.   But, y’see, ha, ha, here’s the thing.

The two editions of the paper are running campaigns both for and against the vaccine. That’s right, in Ireland, the newspaper is very firmly for it, but in the UK, on the other hand…. you get stories such as this.

Over to Martin Robbins…

“Are they insane?! They’re printing scare stores about the dangers of the HPV vaccine in one country, while simultaneously campaigning for its introduction in another. It’s so absurdly cynical that I can’t quite form the words to convey just how shocked I am by this. Even by the piss-poor journalistic standards of the Daily Mail, this takes quite some beating.

What this means is that those of us who believed that the Daily Mail had some editorial, ideological stance against certain vaccines (such as MMR) were in fact wrong. The Daily Mail position on vaccines is whatever sells newspapers – and if those positions are completely self-contradictory, or might cause a bit more cancer in the readership, then who cares, as long as the advertisers are happy?

In many ways, this is worse than being anti-vaccine. Anti-vaccinationists may be cranks, but at least they ultimately care about the people affected. The revelation that the Mail is pushing two contradictory positions on a major public health issue on either side of the Irish Sea, proves once and for all that they don’t give a crap about the impact such stories may have on their readers. It’s a whole new level of sick. It’s crossing the line where misguided becomes truly evil.”

As Ben Goldacre, author of ‘Bad Science’ put it, “looks like the reasoning is to attack any government healthcare decision by pretending it’s dangerous.”

Thanks again, unaccountable press!

(Props to all on Twitter who helped with this post.)

Songsmith tackles the global financial meltdown

(If you don’t know what Songsmith is, read this first.)

(via David McC)

Why they want to make it a crime to take photographs of the police

Justin McKeating found this interesting picture of a police medic at work: “Now, I’ve never had any medical training so can someone more knowledgeable please tell me what the above procedure is called and what it’s used for in a medical capacity?” Link to post. (Link to Amjamjazz’z original photo)

(Thanks to @loveandgarbage for the tip. Justin is @chickyog )

Of course, everyone’s talking about this. Another thing they would have preferred you hadn’t seen.  I guess if I was a policeman, I too would like some privacy when I’m walking down the road with a stick.)

Wrestling or dating? You decide!

Why not ‘Pixiedust’? That would be AS scary!)

(As I’ve said before, I should just rename this site Videogum, whence I lifted this beauty. Oh, and sorry for the title on the original video. Nothing to do with me.)

Crazy Christian movie trailers! Start your collection here!

1. You may need to keep reminding yourself, this isn’t the actual film. It’s a trailer for the film.

2. God’s voice is really more Santa-like, don’t you think?

3. As Videogum (who are keeping their eyes peeled for this sort of thing) have it: “”I love you. I LOVE you! I LOOVE YOUUU! Listen to my demo!”

4. Oh, just everything!

Dunblane/Express update

Matt Nida on delivering the Express/Dunblane petition.

“On Monday, I delivered the Sunday Express petition to the Press Complaints Commission and the Express Group itself (Downing Street will receive their copy next Thursday). Surprisingly, we received the frostiest reception at the PCC – we were refused entry into their building on “security” grounds (presumably because 250-odd sheets of paper could cause someone a very nasty paper cut), and the security guard who we eventually left the petition with was very insistent that we couldn’t film or photograph the building.

In the PCC’s defence, I received a letter less than 48 hours later acknowledging receipt of the petition and explaining that it has been passed to the person carrying out their investigation into the Sunday Express article. Nevertheless, I continue to be surprised at the barriers the Press Complaints Commission puts up against people who want to, erm, complain about the press.

By contrast, we delivered to the Express without incident, although they have yet to acknowledge receipt. Downing Street next week – let’s see if Gordon’s brave enough to criticise a newspaper!”

…or whether it’s destined to remain the scandal that didn’t happen because it happened to the press.

Big Man Japan!

Ok, here’s the trailer…

…but the following scene is the thing I wanted to bring to your attention. My God, it’s funny. It’s so naturalistic! Like a cop speaking to a drunk in a documentary.

When this comes out on DVD, I am so there.

(via You Tube Reviewed)