It appears the Government has started using MySpace and eBay as a means of promoting it's policy. The Health and Safety Executive have set up a monstrosity of a website to promote its Better Backs campaign, which is all about a presumably made-up band called "Baackpain". The band has also had a MySpace site set up and the Government is auctioning the drummer's spandex outfit on eBay here. As a noted journalist once put it, the world needs a typographical symbol for "I'm not making this up"
Monday, October 09, 2006
Government auctions spandex outfit on eBay
It appears the Government has started using MySpace and eBay as a means of promoting it's policy. The Health and Safety Executive have set up a monstrosity of a website to promote its Better Backs campaign, which is all about a presumably made-up band called "Baackpain". The band has also had a MySpace site set up and the Government is auctioning the drummer's spandex outfit on eBay here. As a noted journalist once put it, the world needs a typographical symbol for "I'm not making this up"
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Dizzy, the Better Backs link isn't working. I'm not a tekkie like you, I would never have guessed that the MySpace site was by the HSE, you must be permenantly plugged in to some extraordinary antennae to always come up so many interesting sites.
I like the drummer's hair do, btw, he wast have had quite a shock!
Fixed. Looks like I made a typo which is very unusual for me huh?
If my vintage German O level is standing me in good stead, Bäackpain would be pronounced something Bay-ackpain. Sounds a bit Texan to me.
Anyway, truly hideous and where does the govt find the muppets who cook up these ideas, authorise them, create them and fund them?
There are currently 4 bidders for the spandex outfit the Government is aucitoning on eBay.
The description of it states among other things: "UK rock band Bäackpain’s Ben Yorney is selling the outfit he wore on the 1989 Backbreaker Tour."
Now, as this is a fake band, how does the Government square that with the following:
"Trade Descriptions Act 1968 makes it a criminal offence to give certain false descriptions concerning goods, for instance as to their geographic origin, composition or age."
If this kind of dishonesty is allowed to get out of hand, the Government will soon be making up stories about more grave matters such as WMDs or even war! Now that would be a hideous state of affairs, and we must not let that happen!
If any government department began respecting (a) the truth or (b) the law, we would have to assume there had been a coup d'etat.
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