8 posts tagged “bbc”
Victory for customers in bra war
Marks and Spencer has agreed to end its policy of charging more for larger bras after a campaign by customers.
The store took out adverts in Friday's newspapers admitting it had "boobed" and promising to standardise prices.
The "Busts for Justice" campaign was led by Beckie Williams, a 30G. Her Facebook group attracted more than 13,000 supporters.
Marks and Spencer had added an extra £2 to bras larger than a DD cup on the grounds that they cost more to make.
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A spokesman said: "We've heard what our customers are telling us that they are unhappy with the pricing on our DD-plus bras and that basically we've boobed."
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Fiona Lambert, George's brand director, said: "No one would dream of charging one price for size seven men's socks and a different price for a man with larger feet, so why should they do the same with ladies that are blessed in the chest department?" [Read All]
Well, lulz is all I'm saying. This is silly, silly funny Brits. In Singapore, though, with the majority of women here with Cs, Bs and As, us Blessed Few are lucky to even get a decent D bra. And as it is, we're paying extra anyway because most of those decent bras are expensive imports from more Blessed lands like Britain.
Surly:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7939423.stm LAWL
Brightide:
XD
LOL
macam drunk
Surly:
yes
they jump in like bambi on drugs
Brightide:
XD
Surly:
hop over counter all
Brightide:
bambi from da hood
Surly:
whut up feline, mah bitch!
Brightide:
XD
People could qualify as a teacher in England in six months rather than the usual year, under new government plans.
Schools Minister Jim Knight announced proposals aimed at tempting more outstanding people to teach.
Two hundred people seen as future head teachers will also be able to move into school leadership within four years via an accelerated headship programme.
Education unions have reacted with alarm and scepticism about the need for the schemes or their practicability.
Bull.
The mystery of Ireland's worst driver
Details of how police in the Irish Republic finally caught up with the country's most reckless driver have emerged.
He had been wanted from counties Cork to Cavan after racking up scores of speeding tickets and parking fines.
However, each time the serial offender was stopped he managed to evade justice by giving a different address.
But then his cover was blown. (read more for lulz)
Extreme makeunder in the Maldives
BBC News, Male
As we headed out to sea from Male, I still had the president's words ringing in my ears: "Last time I talked to you," he said, "I ended up in jail."
That was nearly 20 years ago, when Mohamed Nasheed was a young political activist forbidden from contacting foreigners.
But times have changed.
Last year Mr Nasheed won a democratic election against Maumoon Gayoom, the man who ordered his imprisonment and who had ruled the Maldives for 30 years.
And now the new regime is determined to shed the trappings of presidential power.(read more)
Anne Frank guardian reaches 100
The last surviving member of the small group who helped hide the Dutch Jewish girl Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis has turned 100 years old.
Miep Gies will celebrate her birthday on Sunday quietly with relatives and friends, she said this week.
She said she was not deserving of the attention, and that others had done far more to protect the Netherlands' Jews. (read more)
And it has been done. I have submitted my first assignment for university. I feel understandably proud of myself, though my next assignment looms before me now. I put in a lot of effort, so much so that I am tired. I wonder if I'll be able to keep this up till the end.
This year has been unbelievably hectic for me. I can't believe how much I have to do in school. I can't believe how tiring classes can make me. I can't believe I'm doing all this on top of a new puppy in the house. Something has to go. I've chosen my fresh water fish tank. Sayonara. It's swarming with malaysian trumpet snails anyway, which disgust me to no end because not only are they horrifically unsquashable, they also swarm around like roaches. And just as amphbians are to Brightside, I despise the sight of roaches and all roach-like organisms. Fucking disgusting creatures.
Therefore, I'll move my marine tank, which is prettier and melts MTS, to my freshwater tank, which is bigger. Bye bye MTS. I'll cook up toxic sludge for you to die in - just for you. It'll make Captain Planet cry, but what the hell.
With one less tank in the house, I'll have more time on my hands. I'll also be able to dedicate more time to Lady, who's so retardedly cute, and Bonnie, who's just retarded (no, I jest. I love my old bitch Bonnie, even if she hates my new sweet young thing). I'll also be able to study and work on all the crap I have to finish for school.
I've told my mother about my intention to trash my freshwater tank, and understandably, I think she will be pleased with more room for HER (despite the fact that I do all the work and bought the fish) marine fish to swim in. While on the phone with her in Malaysia, I pondered telling her about Lady, whom she still has no idea about yet. My heart raced just at the thought of it and I decided not to.
In the first place, I chickened out.
In the second place, I knew she'd just get mad in Malaysia, not enjoy the rest of her holiday, insist the dog be gotten rid of, refuse to listen to me when I tell her the dog's poo doesn't smell and just be forever stubbornly biased against my poor Lady - whose only crime was to be cute and poo and pee and sometimes step in it because she's excited to see me.
Therefore, I've decided to go 'Surprise!!!1' when she gets home. Lady's cute retardedness, gangly, uncoordinated walk and soulful eyes won my dad over in a day. I'm hoping that same magic will work on mom, and I can employ the Homer-Style cop-out of: "You laughed! I'm off the hook!"
In other news!!
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A nine-year-old Malaysian boy in Singapore has written a painting application for the Apple iPhone.
Lim Ding Wen created the finger painting program, known as Doodle Kids, for his two younger sisters aged three and five.
"Doodle Kids is an extremely simple program that can be done by anybody. Everybody can program - if Ding Wen can, so can you," he wrote.
Surly Cur says (1:34 AM):
WAAAHHH
he's the sort who'll mysteriously disappear one day
and work for the MOD
in a bunker
churning out hacks to govt computers in china and shit
Brightside says (1:35 AM):
yeah. totally.
Surly Cur says (1:35 AM):
if Ding Wen can, so can you
fuck you!
Brightside says (1:35 AM):
LOL
Go on my son
hahahahahahahahahaha
Surly Cur says (1:35 AM):
just crap on my diploma right now
crap on it
Brightside says (1:35 AM):
what a heading
Surly Cur says (1:36 AM):
and all the hours it too me to learn fucking JAVA
Wanted: Paradise island 'caretaker'
The job description for 'the best job in the world'
Tourism officials in Australia are describing it as "the best job in the world".
They want someone to work on a tropical island off the Queensland coast.
No formal qualifications are needed but candidates must be willing to swim, snorkel, dive and sail.
In return, the successful applicant will receive a salary of A$150,000 ($103,000, £70,000) for six months and get to live rent-free in a three-bedroom villa, complete with pool. [read more]
Whoever gets this job I will DESPISE... Then again, if only the damn ticket to Australia weren't so expensive, if only I weren't certain that the beaches would be damn full when I get there during holiday time, I'd so wish to go to an island like that... Till then, it's the sands of Southern Thailand. It doesn't matter if there are Islam seperatists trying to overthrow the government in the south; the beaches and the Andaman Sea don't give a damn and neither shall I.
