Neil's Irrelevant Press Release Thread

Not to mention loud exhausts, go-faster stripes and an aggressive look...

As editor of MEW Neil has no cause for complaint about the press releases he gets. I feel sorry for the poor chap who edits one of the sister magazines. It's called 'Total Carp'...

Dave

PS Something fishy about that title; I like it!

Irrelevant, but not wacky - I thought this one was worth sharing as I didn't know!

Quick Pitch: Iceland has become the first supermarket chain in the UK to sell plastic-free chewing gum.

More: The new natural gum - Simply Gum - is completely biodegradable, making it better for the environment.

Local councils are believed to spend around £60 million a year removing gum from pavements up and down the country.

Off the back of the announcement, Iceland commissioned research of 2,000 UK adults which found 80 per cent have no idea what ordinary chewing gum is made of.

And shockingly, 85 per cent were not aware it usually contains plastic.

This can speak for itself:

This is Hotfun Amusement Park Equipment Co., Ltd, which is professional in kinds of park rides.

Good news for all, Our newly developed series of haunted house products, it has produced a mysterious and gloomy horror effect through the combination of lighting and sound, automatic induction of mechanical ghosts and scenes. Give visitors a thrilling experience.

The New product promotion will be end at 15^th, August. Welcome all customers visit us and any feedback!

I seem to remember that at one time milk came in glass bottles with a cardboard lid,others had a tinfoil cover.

Now I read that milk must not be exposed to the light,so must be sold in cardboard containers,but yet it can still be bought in plastic 2lt containers.

Am I missing out on something here? Have I been misled for the last 80 years ? Am I in grave danger?

Or am I just listening to the usual crap ?

Apparently if you step on a crack in the pavement CERN sacrifice a unicorn - or something like that...

While I am perfectly content with the sentiment behind National Get Outdoors Day, I'm a bit confunded by one of their findings:

• Research revealed most Brits spend the equivalent of under a week a month exploring the outdoors, with more than one in 10 saying they never get out.
• Unpredictable British weather, travel distance and a fear of wild animals were cited as the main reasons for not hitting the countryside more often.
• Almost three in 10 Brits say they find it difficult to be without the internet or phone signal for more than an hour, highlighting a shocking dependency on technology

Presumably this press release has been compiled by persons of independent means who have rather more leisure time than the rest of us wage-slaves...

Neil

I actually use those chunky glass kenco coffee jars that have a very thick push fit lid for holding the ol' woodscrews. They seem to be slightly over engineered for coffee.

Jars for extraneous storage, who'd of thought it.

Michael W

I had this tofday, promoting vaping:

With Stoptober well and truly done with, 80% of smokers will have failed at their attempts to cut out tobacco from their lifestyles, despite the various attempts to make smoking unattractive. Worldwide, 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are thrown away each year, ruining high streets and costing local councils millions. Cigarette litter costs £3.8 million to clear in London alone and the fine for smoking related litter starts at £80, but can be as much as £2,500. With cigarettes being the world's most common litter, Vapemate, one of the UK’s leading eliquid retailers, has commissioned a nationally representative study of over 2000 UK adults to find out the worst habits of the nation, as well national sentiment towards cigarettes and e-cigarettes. If you would be interested in this research, please let me know as I would be happy to provide further information.

Please find below Vapemate’s league of the UK’s top unsavoury habits:

1. Smoking
2. Not flushing the toilet
3. Picking your nose
4. Flatulence
5. Scratching your genitals in public
6. Burping
7. Biting your nails
8. Weeing in the shower
9. Coughing or sneezing without covering your face
10. Not washing hands after using the toilet

Smoking leads the way as Britain’s worst habit, 55% of Brits believing it to be worse than weeing in the shower and even scratching your genitals in public. Without Stoptober's incentive, this league comes at just the right time to give a much-needed boost to strengthen the resolve of quitters. Vapemate’s latest research investigates the social attitudes towards smoking, finding conclusively that smoking really isn’t cool.

I won't share my score out of 10...

Neil

What goes on in your workshop stays in the workshop

Some of the results might not be solid enough for that.......

**LINK**

SRV manages to get at least a few off the list in the first couple of minutes of this clip, doesn’t seem to have an adverse effect on his guitar playing though.

Mike

Well that means my car is for the scrapyard

Well that means my car is for the scrapyard

Check out that Texas bogey, err boogie....

Since we can assume smokers do not put smoking at the top of their list do the scratching smokers outside your office door start peeing when it rains? Maybe that's why they put a bus shelter in our car park for them which of course absolutely nobody ever uses.

I gave up smoking in 2002 after 30 years of it. So I only score 9 out of 10.

It's reassuring to know that if I accidentally swallow my chewing gum, it won't solidify.

Sam

17 mil views. For a sound check. That is how great SRV was.

I saw him at Reading festival on his first visit to the UK. The BBC recorded the whole festival and many of the sets are available, so I have a recording of it