Dare to be vague

Finnish vodka manufacturer Koskenkorva is sponsoring my late-night Scrubs episodes this week, and they have the weirdest payoff I have seen in a long time – “Dare to Think”.
What the hell does that mean? That if you’re brave enough to use your brain, you will decide to drink Koskenkorva? In order to dull it?
And who is too scared to think? I may have had a shot of Koskenkorva in 2003, but certainly not since then. Does that mean I have been afraid to think?
This is just utterly stupid.

Brady Dougan

And to think I had actually started to like a bank. Credit Suisse has recently run a series of ads featuring fathers taking care of their kids instead of grinding away at the coalface. I was so entranced by the image of bankers without ties, and fathers such as Roger Federer spending time with their offspring, that I started to like Credit Suisse, thinking I had finally found a bank with a human face.
This was until I saw in the paper that the bank’s CEO Brady Dougan (being blown during a board meeting in the picture above) stands to pocket a 70-million-Swiss-franc bonus this year, on top of his 19.3-million-franc salary. That’s another 49 million euros for him to stash away and withhold from the alleviation of misery.
Actually, I have no idea how Mr Dougan plans to spend the money. He may be a world-class philanthropist for all I know. I just think it’s disgusting that Credit Suisse has three billion francs to give away to its 400 top suits.
Disgusting, and now I’m back to not liking any bank. I guess it was too good to last anyway.

Porn tomato

The erosion of moral values has reached the veggie counter at Ica Hägerstensåsen. Makes me sick.

With apologies to Borges

Women are divided into:

1. those who belong to the king,
2. embalmed ones,
3. those who are trained,
4. suckling pigs,
5. mermaids,
6. fabulous ones,
7. stray ones,
8. those included in this classification,
9. those who tremble as if they were mad,
10. innumerable ones,
11. those retouched in Photoshop,
12. others,
13. those who have just broken an iPod,
14. those who from a long way off look like my wife.

Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge.