As most people who talk me online know, when something is presented to me that makes me react with incredulity, or I find something so utterly stunning, the following message will usually appear in their messageing clientdizzy smashes his head against the keyboardRight now my keyboard is in pieces and I am typing this out on a new one as I not only smashed my head into it, but picked it up and threw it out of the window in a fit of rage. OK, I'm lying, that is just what happened in my head.
You see, if you were unaware there is anniversary going on right now. It is 30 years since Elvis Presley - for some the "King of Rock n Roll" - died after becoming a cheeseburger eating fatty.
At the same time, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport has decided that it is going to list the 'Man-Carrying Centrifuge Facility' at Farnborough in Hampshire, this building is also called "Building F49A" and is basically one of those crazy rides that puts up to 9G on a persons body and is generally used by jet pilots and crazy basatrds who want to show the world how hard they really are.
What, you may be asking is the link between this decision to list a building and Elvis Presley? Sod all, that's what. That didn't stop the DCMS having a press release titled "All shook up - Department for Culture lists 'man carrying centrifuge facility' at Farnborough, Hants". Honestly.
Seriously... come on now. It's the "Government News Network", not the bloody Sun.
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Gordon flaming Bennett!! They can't even get a joke(?) right. Centrifuges don't, repeat don't, shake things. Morons! Cretins! Idiots!
It's terrible yet brilliant. Just because they have a shit job albeit with a good pension doesn't mean they cannot make horrendous and at best vaguely relevant puns in press releases and headlines.
Considering Kafka's very accurate point there is of course that classic moment in the folk memory and TV canon of loading a centrifuge when samples get shook up with an expert flick of the wrist ... before being very much unshook and disaggregated.
"It's terrible yet brilliant."
Fuck off
at best vaguely relevant puns
it's not even vaguely relevant. It's pathetic like you're constant desire to defend everything they ever do or say.
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