Despite being hammered with the message throughout our lives, people still drink and drive. So a company in the UK have decided it’s time to stop being nice about it – and took a hard line for their new commercial.
England’s government reached out to an ad agency to come up with a way to shock people into realizing their not OK to drive after even just a few drinks.
What they came up with was putting a hidden camera in the mens room. Then, while men are looking into the mirror while they wash their hands, a mannequin’s head comes crashing through the mirror, complete with fake blood running down the frame into the sink. The company said they wanted to simulate the shock and horror of hitting someone because a driver thought they were OK to get behind the wheel.
Might have been an unorthodox approach, but they’ve already racked up over 6.5 million views on YouTube. You can check out the video below.
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A Shock To Get The Point Across
The Oxford Renaissance Festival in Woodstock this weekend
The Medieval Renaissance is alive. See horsemanship, bravery and chivalry. Knights of Blackthorn, jesters, professional jousting on horseback, hand-to-hand combat, medieval comedy, stage acts, animal trainer with live falconry birds of prey and the Royal hunting hound, magic, fire eating, aerial performances, living history presentations, a mud fest, Celtic music and ale. See and learn about hunting weapons and artifacts.
No More A’s Or F’s
Some students in Calgary will never know what it’s like to be an A student.
One school in the city has designed a new way to do report cards where they will no longer use letter grades. Instead they will use the words “exemplary,” “evident,” “emerging” or, “support required.” Which means failing grades will now be marked as “support required,” although that’s about all the feedback parents will get since they also did away with any personal comments from teachers.
Frank Bruseker, president of the Calgary Public Teachers Association, said it’s win-win for all involved, since not having comments reduces time spent by teachers preparing report cards and parents will have more information about their child’s performance.
You can check out the full story here.
Low Hanging Pants Have To Go.
At least according to Wildwood N.J. Mayor Ernest Troiano Jr. who is getting ready to pass a ban on overly saggy pants.
The city is expected to pass a law about how people can dress on its boardwalk. Along with low hanging pants, they are also going to ban going shirtless and walking on the boardwalk with bare feet.
As for the pants, anything that sag more than 3 inches below the hips, exposing either skin or underwear will be prohibited.
The reason, according to Troiano, is that they have been buried with complaints from tourists who say they feel like they can’t even bring their families to the Jersey Shore anymore.
Check out more here.
London’s Million Tree Challenge
Plant trees in London & register them at www.milliontrees.ca. It’s really important that people register their trees. Every tree counts!
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you benefit from, or cause, a random act of kindness right?
Well in New Hampshire there is a group of people looking after each other when it comes to parking meters. They call it Robin Hooding in Keene and they claim to be fighting the “violent monopoly” the city has going on with their meters and how quickly enforcement officers swoop in to issue tickets. So this group quickly throw money into the meters to stop tickets from being handed out.
However, the city of Keene isn’t having any of it and is now trying to sue the group to stop the actions. The city claims the problem is these “Robin Hooders” (as they’re known) are following around enforcement officers and in the city’s words, taunting, interfering, harassing and intimidating them. The group says all they are doing is recording and uploading videos of their actions.
Too Pretty To Work?
The problems of the beautiful. For Laura Fernee her looks cause her all kinds of hassles, the biggest being that she can’t find a job.
Fernee has a PhD and says, ”I’m not lazy and I’m no bimbo. The truth is my good looks have caused massive problems for me when it comes to employment, so I’ve made the decision that employment just isn’t for me at the moment. It’s not my fault…I can’t help the way I look. In the end, as much as I loved my work, going in to work became very, very difficult because of the psychological impact on me. I know people will judge me for choosing not to work but they are underestimating just what a curse good looks can be in the workplace. Everyone thinks it must be great to be attractive but there are serious downsides. Male colleagues were only interested in me for how I looked. I wanted them to recognize my achievements and my professionalism but all they saw was my face and body. Even when I was in a laboratory in scrubs with no make-up they still came on to me because of my natural attractiveness. There was nothing I could do to stop it.”
You can read more here.
“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”- Mr. Carlson. He was right …Flew from the BBQ to my Belly.
Mmmmm… what’s on your BBQ this long weekend? The Ontario Turkey Producers want you to have a SuperFood BBQ.
Turkey is Super Delicious, Super Nutritious and the only meat protein to have ever been labeled a Superfood. Click the Photo to learn more from The Turkey Farmers of Ontario.
Free Tickets For Game Seven? From The Bruins!?
Imagine scoring free playoff tickets? Now imagine it’s for Game 7, in Boston!
It happened to four Torontonians. The really mind blowing part is that Leafs fans got their tickets from the Boston Bruins themselves.
It all happened after Boston lost last night, and then got stranded in Toronto because their plane had mechanical trouble. The team just wanted to find a place to eat, so they called a Canyon Creek Chophouse near the airport just minutes before the restaurant was going to close after an already busy Sunday thanks to Mother Day.
And the team, 50 players and staff strong, showed up and ate so much food that they had to call in back-up from another restaurant nearby owned by the same company.
As for the players, everyone agreed they were so polite and gracious about everything that even the Leafs fans who served them said they bad for the team since they had not only lost but were also clearly tired and were now stuck in Toronto. Still, they were as surprised end of the night, The Bruins made sure that those from the restaurant who could get to Boston for tonight could have tickets for the game.
Although Toronto won’t have all the luck in the stands, since one of the guys who scored tickets is a diehard Bruins fan.
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