Category Archives: humour

Proof that United, and Other, Airlines Break More Than Guitars

As regular readers will have observed, I’m a big fan of Dave Carroll‘s work on the United Breaks Guitars trilogy (despite not being a fan of country or bluegrass because the trilogy was very well done).

But, as we all know, they don’t just break guitars, and as proof, Gadling recently collected six YouTube videos showing careless baggage handlers in action that would be funny if they weren’t so scary!

See how many you can get through!

  1. Airport Cameras Film Naught Luggage Handlers
  2. US Air Baggage Handler
  3. Continental Baggage Handler Abuses Bags
  4. Iberia/BA Heathrow Baggage Handlers
  5. easyJet Careful Baggage Handling
  6. Ryanair Flight – Baggage Handlers

And if you made it through those, here’s more!

  1. Baggage Handlers Gone Wild
  2. Baggage Handler at JFK Airport, Jet Blue Terminal tossing luggage at Jet Blue
  3. United Baggage Handler Tosses Your Fragile Shipment!

Your Boss Giving You a Hard Time? Have you Considered War?

You’ve played shoot your boss a hundred times. You bought White Goat so you could wipe your behind with his memos. You even altered the bar code on his car so he couldn’t get into his gated community last night. But it’s still not enough.

Your boss is an obnoxious jackass to you and you need your revenge. Cubicle Wars just aren’t enough anymore. You need more. And if you’re in San Francisco or New York, StreetWars* wants to give it to you!

Tell your boss if he’s all he says he is, that he should accept your challenge and sign up for street wars — a three week long, 24/7 assassination tournament (with water guns). If he has what it takes, you’ll see him in the finals. If not, then you’ll know who the real sharp shooter of the office is.

* Neither Sourcing Innovation nor the doctor have any affiliation with StreetWars. the doctor just thinks it would be a really cool way to settle a grudge match and find out once and for all who’s better — you or your boss. Have fun! (And remember, it’s all about the thrill of victory and the humiliation of defeat.)

Playboy Goes Offshore … Is The American Lifestyle Going to Follow?

Shortly after I encountered that appalling article telling us we should “outsource thinking” until all we’re left with is white trash auctioning their junk at the bargain barn, I found this article on Global Services on how “Playboy [is] to Rely on Outsourcing”.

According to the article, Playboy has outsourced production of its monthly magazine and struck a deal to outsource its Asia operations to IMG Licensing Worldwide and expects that outsourcing will trim the Chicago company’s staff by 50% this year. Europe is next. Afterwards, the only cost saving will be lavish parties and the lifestyle Hugh Hefner is famous for … which has been part of the American dream since he launched Playboy back in 1953. Is the end of an era near at hand?

And if it is, what will replace the iconic bunny?

United Breaks Guitars: The Trilogy

For those of you who missed my post earlier this month, United Breaks Guitars, The Trilogy, is complete and available for your viewing pleasure on Youtube … and embedded below for quick access. Right now, Dave is over 9.2 Million hits! Let’s get him to 10 Million before the year is up and show United, and all the other airlines, that we don’t like it when they break our guitars, lose our luggage, or run over it with the baggage cart so it gets jammed in the automated baggage distribution system and ripped, slashed, grease covered, and torn apart. (And we like it even less when we are told “it was that way when we got it”. Yes, the latter happened to the doctor and yes that’s essentially what he was told.)

United Breaks Guitars

United Breaks Guitars, Song 2

United Breaks Guitars, Song 3: United We Stand

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I Want To Find a Twit-Free Location … Is There an App for That?

Twitter recently turned on the ability to add location information with your tweets, as described on the “How To Tweet With Your Location” page and rolled out the feature to its users. With the new feature, if a user clicks on location information in a location-aware tweet, a small Google map will be displayed showing the location of origin.

As of now, as per this LA Times Blog Post, there is no easy way to find all followers within a specific distance around a user’s current point. Which is unfortunate, because until we can identify the location of every twit within a certain radius, we won’t be able to identify those locations which are twit free, which, frankly, are the only places I want to be.